Angel's Flight~Celestial Skyscape Oil Painting by Marina Petro

Artist~Marina Petro, Saratoga Springs, NY USA

"Angel's Flight"

6x8 

Original oil painting on canvas-painted around all sides.

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Angel's Flight is a repost and I'll probably repost a few paintings this week.  I've reduced the price for this painting from $125 to $100. The frame is $29 if you would like it framed. Framed photo doesn't look as good as it does in real life...I've had a very busy week so far and haven't been able to play in my studio.

Angel's Flight is another example of intuitive painting straight from my very fertile imagination and ever growing skilled hands. Painting these small paintings has been such a wonderful opportunity to hone my skills...along with the classes I've been taking from master painter, Tom Vincent, for the past couple of years. Until then, I was primarily self taught, with the exception of a semester at Skidmore College and a few other workshops. 

So, this week has been busy. I had to prepare for a talk Monday night for SIMEN (Saratoga Integrative Medical Educational Network) on "Intuition-The Hidden Genius Within" I was delighted when 140 wonderful and highly receptive people showed up. I was told it was the largest group attending ever. Yesterday was full with many details needing to be taken care of and today was much of the same, including visiting the Saratoga Visitors Center to diagram their exhibit space for a one person show I am having there for the month of May...and on and on...Tomorrow I'll be going to Clifton Park to diagram another venue later this year...I'll keep you posted on both....and I'm heading to my studio as soon as I've finished posting here. What a relief that will be...

Today's Quotation:  "Since long I've held silence a remedy for harm." 

~Aeschylus

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Marina Petro Featured at Touchstones Of The Sacred

"The Oracle"

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I have been invited become a charter member and display a selection of my visionary art in the Sacred Art category at Touchstones Of The Sacred.

My work is just underneath the jewelry. "The Oracle" is available as a print from their website as well as from Imagekind in a variety of sizes on paper or canvas. Greeting cards of this image are also available directly from me at $5.00 each. Email me for purchasing information.

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Cosmic Light 1- Oil Painting of Outer Space, Clouds, Sky Original by Marina Petro

Artist~Marina Petro, Saratoga Springs, NY USA

"Cosmic Light 1"

Original oil painting on archival Raymar Canvas Panel

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I have had experiences, in dreams and light meditative states, of being engulfed in the most beautiful light that permeated every fiber of my being. When these experiences took place, they were in conjunction with a feeling of pure love that I regrettably haven't been able to duplicate in my ordinary life. I wish I could stay in that state forever. It contains everything and is pure bliss. As much as I'd try to hold on to the experience, it would dim as ongoing life galloped on and on and on. Nothing particularly eventful happened prior to these experiences to catalyze them...just life as it is and was at the time. My wish for all of you is to experience this light...you will then know what pure love is...

Today's Quotation: "Where there is great love there are always miracles." 

~Willa Cather

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Solar Flames-Celestial Skyscape Oil Painting 6x12 by Marina Petro

Artist~Marina Petro, Saratoga Springs, NY USA

"Solar Flames"

6x12 

Original oil on 1 1/2" gallery wrapped stretched canvas.

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Another painting that just flowed from my brush effortlessly. God, I wish this were the case with each creation. It is usually the case when I paint a celestial theme or a painting from "The Zone" series. It happens when I surrender everything and work from pure spontaneity. Everything else, with the more realistic themes,  employs my analytical faculties, along with the intuitive faculties and is often quite a struggle. You might ask why I would choose to struggle....?  It's because I am driven to develop my artistic skills to the highest level that I can and that involves struggle.

Today's quotation: " Energy is eternal delight; and from the earliest times human beings have tried to imprison it in some durable hieroglyphic. It is perhaps the first of all the subjects of art."
-Kenneth Clark

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Kissed By The Sun-Still Life Realism Fruit and Floral Original Oil Painting by Marina Petro

 Artist~Marina Petro, Saratoga Springs, NY USA

"Kissed By The Sun"

8x8

Original oil painting on 1 1/2" gallery wrapped stretched canvas.

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Painting this piece was a bit easier than I thought it would be. The areas I anticipated might be problematic weren't. Painting these still life and more realistic pieces are truly an exercise in using both the analytical and intuitive faculties of the brain...a lot of the analytical though. The photo here does not do this piece justice. It was difficult to capture the exact colors with my camera...not sure why, but you get the idea. It really glows in person.

Today's Quotation: "As artists we are manifesting thought into reality every time we create." 

~Cristina Acosta

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One Big Apple-Still Life Oil Painting of Fruit on Decorative Fabric

Artist~Marina Petro, Saratoga Springs, NY USA

"One Big Apple"

6x8

Original oil painting on archival Raymar canvas panel

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This is one of my earlier paintings on decorative fabric. A blank mind is not my usual state but today...for today's post...my mind is blank. I really have nothing of any interest to communicate so I will just include a few quotes about apples...how's that?

Today's Quotations:

"And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it."

~Neil Gaiman 

“Adam was but human-this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden.”
~ Mark Twain

“If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.”
 ~Dr. Carl Sagan quotes 

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Birch Grove-Landscape Oil Painting of Birch Trees by Marina Petro

Artist~Marina Petro, Saratoga Springs, NY USA

"Birch Grove"

16x20

$395

Original oil painting on stretched canvas

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This painting was a moderate struggle. Every more realistic style painting I work on, other than my spontaneous pieces,  are either a great or moderate struggle. In these more structured pieces, it is necessary to discipline myself to achieve the specific effects I want, in contrast to the freedom of spontaneity. 

Today's Quotation:  "Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be Revelation." 

-Eileen Caddy

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Sun Kissed-Still Life Fruit and Floral Oil Painting 8x8 by Marina Petro

Artist~Marina Petro, Saratoga Springs, NY USA

"Sun Kissed"

8x8

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Sun Kissed was a joy to paint. I used one of my new favorite fabrics as the backdrop. This time I decided to create the painting on a little larger gallery wrapped canvas and painted around all the sides,  which eliminates the need for a frame. 

It lifts my spirit when I look at this piece.  Sun Kissed contains all of the life giving colors...yellow for the rays of the sun, green for health, well being and prosperity, red and orange for energy, blue for a bit of serenity and black, for the 'void' which I perceive as the source of creativity.

Today's Quotation:  "We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls." 

~Mother Teresa

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Shadows-Apple and Pear Still Life Oil Painting by Marina Petro

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Artist, Marina Petro, Saratoga Springs, NY USA

"Shadows"

5x7 

Original oil painting on archival Raymar canvas panel

I moved my little models around and around until the shadows appeared as pictured and decided to give them a rest while I painted them...and before they met their fate of being eaten. They were delicious. The little apple was a genuine 'find' with the short thick stem and multiple leaves. I'm always so happy when I find leaves on fruit...

Today's Quotation:  "Take away love and our earth is a tomb." 

~Robert Browning

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Scarecrow Garden~Landscape Flower Garden with Scare Crows Oil Painting by Marina Petro

Artist~Marina Petro, Saratoga Springs, NY USA

"Scarecrow Garden"

16x20

Original oil on stretched canvas

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This was painted a while ago. I thought I'd re-post it now with the coming of Spring and looking forward to creating another garden. I was so happy to have found these scarecrows. Since then, I haven't been able to locate any more like this anywhere. All I could find are those silly looking things they call scarecrows on poles that you see everywhere. I still have two fairly new ones in my garage for this year's creation. They get pretty battered up in the elements. 

This painting always manages to bring a smile to whoever views it. Hope you're smiling too...

I've just written my latest NEWSLETTER and will be emailing it out as soon as I finish posting here today.  Check out the details...I'm giving a free presentation on 'Intuition-The Hidden Genius Within, a radio show with author and acupuncturist, Michael Wayne, a presentation at "Girlfriend's Getaway" in Bolton Landing, NY and last but not least, my weekend workshop, "Master Your Intuition". Also, you can order my book ANGELS-Guardians From Heaven & Their Habitats thru Blurb.Com with FREE SHIPPING through March 22. All the pertinent information and convenient links are in the NEWSLETTER.

Today's Quotation: "It's easy to get bogged down in the circumstantial and mundane, but if we connect to our passion, that in itself will be regenerative; we won't have to wait for the energy, it will be there." ~Nina Simons

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Poppy Patch-Floral Landscape Oil Painting by Marina Petro

Artist~Marina Petro, Saratoga Springs, NY USA

"Poppy Patch"

22x28

Original oil painting on stretched canvas

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The last two postings of lily pond paintings had a meditative, calming quality.  This one speaks more to  energy, growth, lifting of the mood. The red and bright open yellow flowers are one contributing factor to this difference, as is the general direction of the main part of the painting...it is more vertical than horizontal. Yellow is the color of happiness, joy, clear thinking, the intellect. Red is the color of life force, energy, passion, excitability. It is a color of action. 

I began this painting outdoors in the summer along the side of the road and finished it from memory in my studio. 

I couldn't resist posting the two very different perspectives in the flower quotes below. Who would have known Georgia O'Keefe hated flowers?

Two Quotes For Today:

"Flowers always make people better,
 happier and more helpful; they are sunshine, 
food and medicine to the soul." 


~Luther Burbank 


"I hate flowers -- I paint them 
because they're cheaper than 
models and they don't move."


~Georgia O'Keeffe 


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FROM THE DEEP-Water Lily Pond Floral Landscape Oil Painting by Marina Petro

Artist~Marina Petro, Saratoga Springs, NY USA

"From The Deep"

16x20 

Original oil painting on stretched canvas

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Here is another painting I would consider 'Healing Art." The colors and atmosphere convey a sense of peace. The greens I chose are the shades that are considered healing. There's also a lot of white which suggests spirituality and the higher mind. The violet/pink lily on the green stem combines spirituality, love, a mystical sense and is rising from the depths in its full beauty. I wish you could see the light coming through the larger leaf in the center that is rising up. There's no way my camera can capture it. If you click on the image, it should bring you to a larger version.

Today's Quotation:  "The senses are a kind of reason. Taste, touch and smell, hearing and seeing, are not merely a means to sensation, enjoyable or otherwise, but they are also a means to knowledge – and are, indeed, your only actual means to knowledge. "

~St. Thomas Aquinas

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MAGICAL POND~Water Lily Pond Landscape Oil Painting by Marina Petro

 

Artist~Marina Petro, Saratoga Springs, NY USA

"Magical Pond"

16x20

Original oil painting on stretched canvas

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I finished this piece a while ago.  Click on the image to see more of the detail and infused light I captured. Funny, when I look at this painting I think to myself..."Would I be able to paint this again?" "How did I do it?" I actually don't remember the process I decided to use from A-Z.  I'd bought a new, quite expensive, Monarch No.10 flat brush which I used on most of the leaves in the foreground. The accordion like leaves came out far beyond my expectations and I do wonder...would I be able to do it again? ...not that I want to but...I still wonder...

This illustrates the beauty, discovery and adventure of 'being in the moment' in any creative pursuit...when the analytical and intuitive blend and create something that has never existed before on the planet...especially when you are surprised and like the result...

The colors I chose for Magical Pond are the primary colors that invoke a calm, meditative state, healing, prosperity (growth) and well being. Pay attention...how does it make you feel?

Today's Quotation: “I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.”
~ Hafiz

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VIOLET MIST~Landscape Oil Painting Winter Mist Fog by Marina Petro

 

Artist~Marina Petro, Saratoga Springs, NY USA

Violet Mist

20x24 

Original landscape oil painting on stretched canvas

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This ethereal piece was painted from a photograph I took early in the morning while driving to my painting class. The photo does not do it justice. It has beautiful shades of violet, blue grays, pinks. The trees in the foreground are a very deep green with a touch of purple. 

This painting invokes peace and tranquility...at least for me. The color purple is the combination of red and blue. It is often associated with royalty, nobility, ambition and luxury. Purple is also associated with spirituality, dignity, creativity, mystery and magic.  I painted one wall in the main part of my home a beautiful shade of purple. Purple is one of my favorite colors.

Today's Quotation:  A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.  

~Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Lemons On Talavera Pottery-Original still life fruit oil painting on pottery dish by Marina Petro

 

Artist~Marina Petro, Saratoga Springs, NY USA

Lemons On Talavera Pottery Dish

6x8

Original oil on archival Raymar canvas panel

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My daughter found this beautiful Mexican Talavera Pottery Plate at a garage sale. I scooped it up from her for a few days to create this painting.

Want to have a little creative fun?  Create your own abstract masterpiece here at JacksonPollock.Org.

They've upgraded the site so you can now change the background color and drips...be sure to read the easy instructions toward the bottom of the page before you enter. This site and a few other fun activities can be found at my Painting Blog. Just scroll down to the section on the right under JUST FOR FUN. Feel free to forward this to all your friends...they will thank you for the diversion...

Today's Quotation: "The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit – this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden." 

~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 

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Three Cherries-Still Life Impressionist Oil Painting of Cherries by Marina Petro

 

Artist~Marina Petro, Saratoga Springs, NY USA

"Three Cherries"

5x7

Original oil painting on archival Raymar canvas panel

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This little piece has been hanging around for a time so I've lowered the price from $100 to $75. Photo here does not do it justice. The cherries are really luscious. This was my first cherry painting. I'm moaning and groaning again. It's already 4:30, I've had a bunch projects I needed to work on and I'm getting tired of all the extraneous responsibilities outside of painting. I had to look for the image of a painting in my paintings folder and got so excited with so many new ideas that I cannot possibly implement. A friend of mine once said that I need 8 bodies to manifest all my creative ideas. Sooo frustrating!

Today's Quotation:  "A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul." ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Three Cherries-Still Life Impressionist Oil Painting of Cherries by Marina Petro

 

Artist~Marina Petro, Saratoga Springs, NY USA

"Three Cherries"

5x7

Original oil painting on archival Raymar canvas panel

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This little piece has been hanging around for a time so I've lowered the price from $100 to $75. Photo here does not do it justice. The cherries are really luscious. This was my first cherry painting. I'm moaning and groaning again. It's already 4:30, I've had a bunch projects I needed to work on and I'm getting tired of all the extraneous responsibilities outside of painting. I had to look for the image of a painting in my paintings folder and got so excited with so many new ideas that I cannot possibly implement. A friend of mine once said that I need 8 bodies to manifest all my creative ideas. Sooo frustrating!

Today's Quotation:  "A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul." ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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