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Sunday, January 30, 2011

Floral Still Life Oil Painting, In The Pink by Marina Petro

In The Pink
16: x 20"
Oil painting on stretched canvas

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I painted this beautiful (and quite difficult) painting prior to my teachers death. I thought it was going to be a quick paint but, as usual, he began by saying....."Be patient, Marina and...be very very careful..." I thought,  oh, God....not again...patience and careful....very difficult for an Aries. 

Not sure why I've waited so long to actually post it here. When I heard that 48 states were going to be hit with another snowstorm this week, I decided this is the time to bring a bit of warmth and memories of sunny days to my subscribers. The inspiration for this painting was a photograph that my daughter, Andrea, took of the Echinacea/Coneflowers in her garden. Incidentally, the color pink is said to denote, love, a childlike nature, innocence, friendship...and other sweet things...Can you feel it?

Today's Quotation:  "Your love should never be offered to the mouth of a stranger...Only to someone who has the valor and daring to cut pieces of their soul off with a knife, then weave them into a blanket to protect you."
-Hafiz

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Saturday, January 22, 2011

Winter Barns-Landscape Farm Print, Marina Petro

Winter Barns
Original oil painting on stretched canvas
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This painting was completed many years ago when I lived in Connecticut. It was a scene just down the road from me. I particularly like the way I captured the snow coming down. I can also provide matted prints and prints on paper up to 13" x 19". All printing is done on my nifty Epson 1400 printer with archival Claria inks.  EMAIL ME for more information


Ann Larsen, an accomplished painter, will be sharing the downstairs studio space with me beginning in February. I am meeting her at the studio at 79 Beekman Street tomorrow morning to repaint the walls and get things ship shape. We are planning to keep the studio open more hours as things progress...

Today's Quotation: "As a suffering creature, I cannot do without something greater than I--something that is my life--the power to create."
-Vincent van Gogh

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Friday, January 21, 2011

Pear And Floral Oil Painting, Sunny Side Up, Marina Petro

Sunny Side Up
10x10 inches
Original oil painting on 1-1/2 inch gallery wrapped canvas.
Painted black around all sides, ready to hang without framing.
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I wanted to post this painting a while back when I'd finished it but for some reason struggled with a title. I mean...how many pears on fabric can you paint before it starts getting tough to come up with a catchy title? Earlier today, "Sunny Side Up" popped into my head. The title came first ... then I made the association with eggs... It is the perfect day here to post something related to the sun. We have been getting snow all week and it's freezing here in upstate New York. Predictions are that it will get colder and colder for the next few days. 

 Today's Quotation: "One should either be a work of art, Or wear a work of art"

- Oscar Wilde
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Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Healing Art Book-Heaven's Bridge, Marina Petro

Heaven's Bridge
11" x 14"
Oil painting on stretched canvas
I was notified yesterday that the Bridging Heaven And Earth Art Project    has chosen my painting, Heaven's Bridge, from hundreds of submissions to be included in their Healing Art Book entitled Bridging Heaven And Earth International Healing Art Project, featuring the paintings of 124 other artists. I am grateful to be recognized in this international community of healing artists.

CLICK HERE for more information and a larger view of the painting at my website. If you would like to purchase this painting, EMAIL ME HERE for details.
The book can be previewed and purchased at AMAZON.COM 


Today's Quotation:  "The pursuit of art on a regular basis may be the key to healing our minds and bodies." 
-Kim Blair

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Thursday, January 13, 2011

Solar Fire-Night Skyscape Celestial Oil Painting, Marina Petro

Solar Fire
6x8 
Oil painting on stretched canvas-painted around all sides-can be displayed without a frame.
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Solar Fire is one of my very favorite small celestial paintings. Can you envision it on a very large canvas? I can...and it excites me to think about it. That's a lot of what I'm doing of late.....thinking a lot and getting excited a lot ....and then the reality hits that there is only one of me and it would be humanly impossible to do everything I want to creatively...oh well...That's the blessing and curse of the constant inflow of creative ideas...most of the time I feel blessed. That's why I love teaching my Intuitive Painting Workshop...Painting From "The Zone." It enables me to introduce others to paint and experience the wonders of creative expression.

If you are interested in attending one of these workshops, please EMAIL ME. Depending on the response, I'll set a date for this spring. 

I've just been informed that The Art Channel is broadcasting two of my videos...you can view them by clicking on the links below. You might have to scroll down one or two videos when you get there. Enjoy!
Angels, Guardians From Heaven in their Spiritual Art section and
Intuitive Painting From "The Zone in their Intuitive Art section

"ANGELS" Guardians From Heaven And Their Habitats by Marina Petro
A book to inspire and lift your spirit...

Today's Quotation:  That's the artist's role - to strike out always for something new, to break away, to defy, to... grapple with the unfamiliar. (Brian Aldiss)

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Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Countryside-Acrylic Landscape Painting by Marina Petro

Countryside
8x10 inches
Original acrylic painting on stretched canvas
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This is one of the rare paintings I've created with acrylic paint. I 'kind of' liked it and will most likely paint with acrylics again... but...I do prefer oil. There's just something more 'genuine' or 'authentic' painting with oil. Acrylic does have it's advantages, though. In this particular piece, the fast drying time was one advantage because it allowed me paint over areas I'd just painted without getting muddy. In fact, this painting began as an experimental painting of a cup on fabric which I was not making much progress with and decided on a different painting altogether. 

Many of my abstract intuitive  Paintings From "The Zone"  are rendered with acrylic, at least in part. It wouldn't be possible for me to get the effects I do with them if I tried painting them with oil.

 I don't particularly like the title I've given this painting. If you come up with something else, EMAIL ME  with yours. It's not too late for me to change it.

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Today's Quotation:  "So let us go forward, quietly, each on his own path, forever making for the light."
-Vincent Van Gogh


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Monday, January 10, 2011

FIREBIRD-Phoenix Rising Oil Painting, Marina Petro

"Firebird"
30" x 40"
Original oil painting on stretched canvas
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 Firebird is getting quite a bit of attention at my downtown studio of late. She had been hiding in my country studio for some time and reluctantly agreed to go on exhibit only twice. So, she's in full view now. If you're around the Arts District in Saratoga Springs some afternoon, stop in and visit. 

The photo above does not do justice to Firebird. I've tried photographing her many times. It's rare that I can't get a good representation of the original painting. I'll be taking her to visit a professional photographer soon...hopefully he will be able to capture her elusive beauty.

The Roman poet Ovid wrote the following about the phoenix:
Most beings spring from other individuals; but there is a certain kind which reproduces itself. The Assyrians call it the Phoenix. It does not live on fruit or flowers, but on frankincense and odoriferous gums. When it has lived five hundred years, it builds itself a nest in the branches of an oak, or on the top of a palm tree. In this it collects cinnamon, and spikenard, and myrrh, and of these materials builds a pile on which it deposits itself, and dying, breathes out its last breath amidst odors. From the body of the parent bird, a young Phoenix issues forth, destined to live as long a life as its predecessor. When this has grown up and gained sufficient strength, it lifts its nest from the tree (its own cradle and its parent's sepulchre), and carries it to the city of Heliopolis in Egypt, and deposits it in the temple of the Sun.  READ MORE HERE...

Today's Quotation: "Learn something new. Try something different. Convince yourself that you have no limits."
-Brian Tracy

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Sunday, January 9, 2011

Garden Landscape Oil Painting, Illumined Garden, Marina Petro


Illumined Garden
11" x 14"
Oil painting on stretched canvas
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Illumined Garden was painted spontaneously and intuitively from my imagination. I love painting in this way. This painting invokes such a sense of peace. Viewers have told me that it seems to pull them right into the light. I began this painting at my home studio and then brought it to my downtown studio and had it on the wall intending to finish it. People would comment on how much they liked it and when i'd say "it isn't finished yet..." the consistent response was "don't do anything more to it."....so, I haven't.

Today's Quotation: "Light gives of itself freely, filling all available space.  It does not seek anything in return; it asks not whether you are friend or foe.  It gives of itself and is not thereby diminished."  ~Michael Strassfeld

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Friday, January 7, 2011

Sacred Mountains, Mountains, Waterfall, Clouds Oil Painting, Marina Petro

Sacred Mountains
20" x 24"
Oil on canvas
$295
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Sacred Mountains is an older painting...hiding around my studio. I might have exhibited it once or twice over the years....it happens sometimes. I guess it is waiting for the right person to give it a good home. This piece is another example of spontaneous, visionary, intuitive painting. I had nothing in mind and just began to paint, following impressions as they arose.  These paintings almost paint themselves...always a surprise...

Here is the link to my latest ART & INTUITION NEWSLETTER...there's a link to the line of sterling silver angel necklaces I've created from my angel paintings at Zazzle.Com, an Intuition Test and more...
 
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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