"MY BRAIN" by Marina Petro

"My Brain"
Original 22x28 inch Tempera on Paper-NFS

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This is another in the "Zone Series" but one which I gave a title to because there was a specific intention that motivated the painting. As I was about to begin painting, I got the clear impression to paint my brain...so here it is in all it's magnificent complexity! It is the 19th in the series. This was done a while back. I'll probably do another one....curious about what would manifest this time.

If you're curious about the process I used for this one here it is. I just focused on my brain and spontaneously reached for the colors that I was attracted to in the moment and began painting...and kept painting until I felt it was finished. That's it! Give it a whirl. You don't even need paint...even crayons will do.

I am seriously considering presenting a day long workshop in "Intuitive Painting From The Zone" Anyone out there interested?

Today's Quotation: "There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
-Anais Nin




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"THE ZONE" Series #5 by Marina Petro

From "The Zone" Series #5
Original tempera on 22x28 inch paper - NFS

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This is one of my favorites in the series. It is the fifth one I painted. The process of moment to moment expression was still a very new experience. I'd always painted intuitively prior to this but in an entirely different way. We never know what we are capable of until an opportunity presents itself to explore...

Today's Quotation: "People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun's out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is light within."
-Elizabeth Kubler-Ross


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"THE ZONE" Series #17 by Marina Petro

"The Zone" Series #17
Original Mixed Media on 24 x 30 inch canvas-NFS


How would you categorize these paintings from "The Zone?"
Abstract? Visionary? Outsider? Intuitive?
Whenever I ask no one seems to truly know. Any ideas out there? You can email me with them. (link is below) It's been suggested that I call them 'outsider art' as I am self taught and have had no formal training. What I do know is that they are very exciting and relaxing to paint. The relaxing element has to do with keeping focused solely on the process and not the outcome.

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Today's Quotation: "Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending."
-Carl Bard


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'"THE ZONE" Series #8 by Marina Petro

From "The Zone" Series #8
Original tempera on 22 x 28 inch paper-NFS

Here is another painting in my "Zone" series. This is the eighth one completed. I would encourage all painters to try a few paintings in this totally spontaneous and freeing way...so many surprises in store for you...

Original tempera on paper-NFS
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Today's Quotation: "Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure...than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."
-Theodore Roosevelt


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"THE ZONE" Series-1

From "The Zone" Series #1
Original tempera on paper-NFS
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I wanted to share some of my paintings from "The Zone" Series with you. These paintings are a radical departure from the work I usually do. I began experimenting with water based media on paper and canvas, painting spontaneously and intuitively from one moment to the next. When I begin these paintings I have 'nothing in mind'. I apply paint with the first color that attracts my attention...and continue to paint until I sense the painting is completed. This has been a thoroughly fascinating experience...enabling me to delve into deeper, more expansive levels of my creativity, imagery process and inner being......always in discovery...
I've decided to give these paintings numbers rather than titles. This one is the very first one I completed.

Today's Quotation: "Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."
-Carl Jung


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"MAGICAL HARVEST"

"Magical Harvest"
The original 22 x 28 inch painting is in a private collection.
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The backdrop for this painting is one of my favorite shawls. I grew the butternut squash in my garden. I am almost finished with my new website. I'll finally have a complete representation of my work there....and hopefully be able to put more time in at the easel.
It's been quite a project with many delays and endless 'events'impeding progress.

Today's Quotation: "Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change."
-Confucius


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"THE PHOENIX RISING" by Marina Petro

"The Phoenix Rising"
The original 30 x 40 inch oil painting is in a private collection.
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In Egyptian mythology, the phoenix is a beautiful bird that lives for 500 years. It builds its own funeral pyre with wood and spices, sets itself on fire and rises reborn again from the ashes more beautiful than ever to live for another 500 years. The Phoenix Rising is a symbol for resurrection, immortality, triumph over adversity and the indomitable power of the human spirit.

I painted this phoenix toward the end of a long period of illness. My energy and sense of well being miraculously began to return upon it's completion.

Today's Quotation: "The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."
William James


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"ONE BIG APPLE" by Marina Petro

"One Big Apple"
6x8 inches
Oil on Raymar Canvas Panel
$100
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I love the design on the fabric used as the background for my big apple which, by the way was very sweet and delicious. I'm very happy with how this painting turned out. I'll probably use another view of this fabric for future paintings.

Daily (or almost daily) painting has been a wonderful adventure for me so far. In the past I was always painting in my head when I wasn't at the easel but it was a bit different. With the commitment to paint and post at this blog it's almost like 'someone is watching' and I have to produce something new fairly often. This has spurred a different kind of 'looking' for subject matter that is appropriate for smaller works. It's opened up a whole new world for me and I love it!

Today's Quotation: "We have to overlook our obsession with the physical body to see what our surroundings really say about our souls."
-Ptolemy Tompkins


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"FISHIN AROUND" by Marina Petro

"Fishin Around"
6x8 inch
Oil on Raymar Canvas Panel
$100
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The more I look at this painting, the more I like it. It's a happy piece. I enjoy painting fruit and vegetables on fabric and am always on the lookout for fabrics with interesting patterns.


Todays Quotation: "I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities."
Theodor Geisel


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"BEAUTIFUL DREAMER" by Marina Petro

"Beautiful Dreamer"
16x20 inches
Oil on stretched canvas
NFS

I'd mentioned in previous posts that I was working on a portrait of my granddaughter, Dominique. I thought I'd completed it a couple of weeks ago but wasn't 100% comfortable. Last week I put it back on the easel and made a minor change. I'm very happy with it now. Initially, I'd wanted to paint her portrait in a hoodie. She looks fantastic-mysterious when she's wearing a hood. I took a few hooded pics and then she sat on her porch, reached over and picked a flower from one of the hanging baskets and placed it over her ear...I quickly took the photo and it was perfect. I still want to paint her in a hood...

Today's Quote: "Love is the beauty of the soul."
Saint Augustine

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"LUNAR ANGEL" by Marina Petro

"Lunar Angel"
I might be posting older work for a day or two. Today was interrupted by car trouble which took most of the day to resolve and I'm just too pooped!

Lunar Angel is one of my favorite paintings.
The 22x28 inch original oil on canvas has been sold. I have the image available in several formats and you can email me if you are interested. I am offering it on sale at my eBay store in a 16 x 20 double matted version for the very reasonable price of $35 + shipping.
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Today's Quotation: "When you flow like water you bring all of your talents and resources to your creative work... Flow around every obstacle you encounter, including any you've erected yourself."
-Eric Maisel




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"SUN AND MOON"

"Sun & Moon"
Sold
6x8 inches
Oil on Gallery Wrapped Canvas
$100

"Sun And Moon" is a re-post. I've been very busy painting and setting up my Imagekind.Com galleries and didn't want to get sidetracked with photographing new work and all that jazz today. Now you can purchase reproductions on canvas or paper...framed or unframed...of a large selection of my artwork online at Imagekind. Imagekind has a wonderful reputation for excellent quality reproductions and service with a 'no questions asked' return policy.

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Daily Quotation: "Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere."
-Carl Sagan

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"TIPSY" by Marina Petro

"Tipsy"

6x8 inches

Oil on Raymar Canvas Panel

$100

SOLD

It was a little tricky getting these little tipsy pears to stay put long enough to paint them. I must be a curious sight to other shoppers at the supermarket fruit bins as I thoughtfully pick up one piece of fruit after another...sometimes contemplating them in my outstretched palm...other times balancing them on the closest flat surface I can find...moving them around in different positions...It's fun!

I hope this painting displays it's rich colors on your computer screen. I am the very happy owner of a Macintosh computer but what I see may not be what you see if you have a Windows computer.

Today's Quote: "If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty."
-Rainer Maria Rilke


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"TIDAL MOON" by Marina Petro

"Tidal Moon"
22 x 28 inches
Oil on stretched canvas
$1,500
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"Tidal Moon" was painted spontaneously straight from my imagination. It was painted a while ago. I re-painted a few areas last week, signed it, and am now happy with it.

Now, about the contest. Many thanks to all who participated. There really wasn't a true winner because I am still keeping the title "Autumn Mist" at least for now. But...my dear friend and subscriber, Valerie Borfitz came the closest to it so she wins the print. Here's a partial excerpt of what she submitted.

"Regarding Autumn Mist - the setting happens to be an autumn landscape, but that is most relevant because it helps to evoke the eeriness and mystery of the scene. Autumn creates a dynamic landscape that is bare except for the beautiful leaves that create a blanket over the seeds and roots of next years potential growth. It is the time of tremendous change, with a hint of death and other things hidden. The mist conveys similiar feelings of change, and the unknown.

Mist always seems to me to be other-worldly (especially when I am alone in the woods), and I feel the presence of more than what clearly meets the eye. Like the mists I have experienced, your painting feels magical, a little bit scarey, and full of promise of the discovery of something unknown. I would think to name the painting "Mist(y) Presence", or something like that. It is a very wonderful painting, and I would be happy to buy a print of it!! Congratulations on another exceptional work."

Today's Quotation: "The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
-Socrates



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"CELESTIAL ANGEL" by Marina Petro

"Celestial Angel"
Acrylic on Gallery Wrap Canvas-Painted on all sides
5x7
$60
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Celestial Angel is actually one of the first daily paintings I completed but never posted.

I didn't paint much over this holiday weekend...kind of a lost weekend. We went to the Saratoga Racetrack yesterday.The track is not my favorite place but I caved to make my sweetheart of 13 years happy. Lucky day for me. I won $216 on a $4 bet and I didn't even know what I was doing! I would have won another $100 but the teller made a mistake with my ticket and there was nothing that could be done.

I haven't been painting as much as I'd like because I'm putting in a lot of time setting up galleries of my paintings at ImageKind.Com. Very soon, you will be able to order prints of a large selection of my work (including my paintings from "The Zone") online in a wide variety of sizes on paper AND canvas...framed or unframed. I'm very excited about this venture. ImageKind has an excellent reputation for excellent quality printing, reasonable prices and service. I'll keep you posted.

Daily Quotation: "I am in love with the beautiful in all its manifestations, from the life of man to that of nature and the infinite. I behold the sky; I think of the infinite. All my art is a metaphysical endeavor to overcome visible realities. I search for synthesis and strive to realize a pictorial poem, with as much lyrical content as possible. A painter is a poet who paints poems."
-Gerardo Dottori




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