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Sunday, February 27, 2011

Lime And Lemons-Still Life Fruit and Floral Oil Painting by Marina Petro


Lime And Lemons
20" x 20"
Oil painting on 1-1/2" gallery wrapped stretched canvas
Does not need a frame

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I continue to be very enthused painting these large still life paintings. I love it! I can be fairly compulsive...like just painting lemons and limes on and on and on....but.... I do discipline myself and rotate with pears, oranges and apples...any of which can also trigger this compulsion. At this point though...getting a bit older and caring close to zero about what critics say....I just might do lemons and limes for the next year....or pears...or....

Today's Quotation: It's three o'clock in the morning, your back hurts, your arm hurts, you've been in there for ten hours, and there are no sounds except for the occasional fire truck. Finally, you put the brush down and ask yourself, 'Man, what am I doing here?' 
-John Alexander

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Friday, February 25, 2011

Camouflage 11-Fruit Floral Still Life Oil Painting by Marina Petro


Camouflage 11
20" x 20"
Oil painting on gallery wrapped 1-1/2" stretched canvas
Painted around all sides...does not need a frame.
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Only one in the entire universe...and it could be yours!
  
I learned a new trick today! ...how to superimpose my paintings over furniture....how cool is that!  This is perfect to show the ratio of these larger still life paintings to their environment. This piece, Camouflage 11, and three others are currently gracing the bold and brightly colored walls of our local health food shop cafe...Four Seasons Natural Foods and Cafe. If you are in Saratoga Springs, stop in for a healthy lunch and take a look. They have a great buffet.

On another totally unrelated note...we were taken by surprise today with a snowstorm that is probably the worst we've had all year. They were predicting 3-4 inches and it may go up to 12 or more. I did more driving around in it than I'd like...I had two prints to ship out, a payment that I make in person that was due today, left my cell phone at the studio in town and other stuff....If not for all that I would have stayed home. Some roads weren't plowed, and of course I was one of the first to drive on them. It was blinding at times...all that white on the road and coming out of the heavens....difficult to stay on the road....but I'm back, safe and sound and looking forward to watching Fringe later tonight after I begin another painting here at my home studio.

Today's Quotation: "I do not pursue art. It pursues me. It dogs me throughout my day and never rests. It is the beast I must feed that is never content. I did not choose to be an artist, to create, to express what is in my head. It chose me and I am its slave."
~Toni Ciserella

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Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Lime And Lemon-Still Life Fruit and Floral Oil Painting by Marina Petro

Lime And Lemon
8x10 inches
Oil painting on stretched canvas
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Can you see this piece brightening up your kitchen or dining room? I thoroughly enjoy painting these bold and bright still life paintings. I've found a few new beautiful fabrics and will be setting up new paintings soon. I'm still working on one of my large still life pieces and have another drying which I will post soon.  

I am still trying to orchestrate my time and energy between my studio in town and my studio at home. It's coming down to painting large still life pieces at the studio in town and my other styles at the home studio...at least for the time being. I'm sure the better weather will warrant another rhythm and I'll go with the flow as things unfold. I suspect I'll be spending more time in town...

Today's Quotation: Painting requires the bravery of solitude. Painting requires disciplined labor. To be a painter is to search the world with a benevolent eye for every subtle beauty that the infinite world offers.
Charles Philip Brooks 


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Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Celestial Abstract Oil Painting, Cosmic Light 11, by Marina Petro

Cosmic Light 11
22" x 28"
Oil painting on stretched canvas

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This is what I remember from one of my more exciting celestial journeys...couldn't wait to record it with paint upon my descent...

Today's Quotation:  "Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Family Portrait-Still Life Oil Painting of Three Pears by Marina Petro

Family Portrait
20 x 20 inches
Oil on 1-1/2" gallery wrapped stretched canvas, painted black around all sides.

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Here is another of my favorites. I had painted a smaller 6x6 inch version of it some time ago which sold quckly. Recently, As I mentioned in my last post, I decided to paint larger versions of some of my favorite smaller pieces I'm painting these larger still life versions on 20" x 20" gallery wrapped canvas. They will not need framing. The original piece was 6" x 6" on canvas panel. I've now completed one more and am working on another. I'll post them soon.

If you would like a larger version of any still life painting I've done in the past, EMAIL ME. These larger versions are priced very reasonably.  CLICK HERE to see the smaller versions at my website. There are two pages. I'm limiting this offer to still life paintings because almost everything else has been born spontaneously from my imagination and would be extremely difficult to replicate...

Included in this issue is information about a film, being shown that takes a spiritual journey into the science behind psychic phenomena, news from the studio...paintings to inspire you, a really good laugh...and more...

Today's Quotation: "We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking.  We move along the surface of things...[but] there are times when we stop.  We sit still. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory.  We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.  --  James Carroll
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Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Lemons On Persimmon, Still Life Oil Painting, Marina Petro

Lemons On Persimmon
20 x 20 inches
Oil on 1-1/2" gallery wrapped stretched canvas, painted black around all sides.
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I love this painting. I had painted a smaller 6x6 inch version of it some time ago which sold quickly. Recently, I decided to paint larger versions of some of my favorite smaller pieces I'm painting these larger still life versions on 20" x 20" gallery wrapped canvas. They will not need framing. The original piece was 6" x 6" on canvas panel. I've completed one more which has also been sold and I'll post it next time around here.

If you would like a larger version of any still life painting I've done in the past, EMAIL ME. These larger versions are priced very reasonably.  CLICK HERE to see the smaller versions at my website. There are two pages. I'm limiting this offer to still life paintings because almost everything else has been born spontaneously from my imagination and would be extremely difficult to replicate...

Included in this issue is information about a film, being shown that takes a spiritual journey into the science behind psychic phenomena, news from the studio...paintings to inspire you, a really good laugh...and more...

Today's Quotation: "Courage isn't about the absence of fear. It's about demonstrating faith in the midst of fear."  
--Mary Manin Morrissey


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