Moonlit Evening, "Landscape with Moon Painting" by Marina Petro

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Moonlit Evening

11" x 14"

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"Moonlit Evening" is a partial paint over of a painting I began and thought I'd completed outdoors in one of my recent painting excursions at Saratoga National Park. It was a cold and windy day...too windy. It looked good at the time but when I brought it back into my studio, I wasn't happy with it so began to 'fix' some things. I kept painting and it began to look more like an evening landscape so I painted in the moon and it went from there...

Today's Quotation: "Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy."

-Henri Frederic Amiel

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Fishin'Around, "Still Life Fruit and Fish Painting" by Marina Petro

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Fishin' Around

6" x 8"

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I love the play of color between the red-orange and the turquoise background. The background of this painting was inspired by a fabric I found at a local fabric shop. I've been considering painting fruit and creating the background from my imagination...but, this will have to wait until sometime after the holidays. This is an older painting I've had hiding in my studio...

Today's Quotation: "Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames."

Note: I usually rely on myself to fan my own flames...I suppose being an Aries helps...

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"Autumn Landscape-Saratoga National Park" Oil Painting by Marina Petro

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Late Autumn Landscape- Saratoga National Park

11" x 14"
$200

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This painting is the result of another beautiful afternoon of painting outdoors at the Saratoga National Park. I think this is the only place I want to paint en plein air from now on. There is so much beauty. I can't wait for spring when there will be lots of wild flowers. 

As you can see by photograph of the actual scene below, I took a lot of creative liberties with representing this landscape. I find it difficult to 'get back' to where I was looking and...what I've noticed is that I jump around (not physically) and begin painting things I see at random and not where they actually are...colors included. I'm so happy to have found a great painting buddy to go out on these excursions with. 

We are trying to come up with a way to paint landscapes in the winter without freezing to death outside. Thinking about the possibility of restaurants or hotels with a view that might let us set up indoors by a window...we'll see...

Late Autumn-On my easel at the park

Photo of scene I was working from

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"Autumn Landscape-Saratoga National Park" by Marina Petro

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Late Autumn Landscape- Saratoga National Park

11" x 14"
$200

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This painting is the result of another beautiful afternoon of painting outdoors at the Saratoga National Park. I think this is the only place I want to paint en plein air from now on. There is so much beauty. I can't wait for spring when there will be lots of wild flowers. 

As you can see by photograph of the actual scene below, I took a lot of creative liberties with representing this landscape. I find it difficult to 'get back' to where I was looking and...what I've noticed is that I jump around (not physically) and begin painting things I see at random and not where they actually are...colors included. I'm so happy to have found a great painting buddy to go out on these excursions with. 

We are trying to come up with a way to paint landscapes in the winter without freezing to death outside. Thinking about the possibility of restaurants or hotels with a view that might let us set up indoors by a window...we'll see...

Late Autumn-On my easel at the park

Photo of scene I was working from

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Psychedelic Pear, "Abstract Still Life Painting" by Marina Petro

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Psychedelic Pear

20"x 20"

Original oil painting on canvas

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$475

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I love this painting and the pattern of the fabric. It cheers me up when I look at it. The pear looks pretty happy too. I will be getting around to painting more still life pieces with this fabric and hopefully finding some others that strike me this strongly. Lemons and oranges might be the next models...

I've been hard at work...a little bit here and a little bit there...reorganizing the PORTFOLIO at my website. ...Click the link and take a look. It has been a daunting project, but I've finally gotten it into a more organized state with galleries for each category of my paintings. One of the most difficult things I encounter with representing myself and my artwork is the wide variety of work I produce. Artists who work in one recognizable style have it much much much easier...It makes me crazy...

Today's Quotation: "Let yourself be drawn by the silent pull of what you really love."

-Rumi

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Starlight, "Skyscape Celestial Original Oil Painting" by Marina Petro

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Starlight

6" x  8"
$100

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Another painting from memory one of my frequent trips out there...

Today's Quotation:  "Don't fight darkness. Bring the light, and darkness will disappear."

-Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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Cosmic Journey, "Skyscape, Night Sky Painting" by Marina Petro

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Cosmic Journey

12" x 24"
$295

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I painted this piece spontaneously from my imagination. It's always such a surprise to see what I have created in this fashion as I try to keep my mind clear of structuring the work and let my intuition guide the process. 

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

-Fin

Hafiz of Persia 

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Lemons On Persimmon, "Still Life Fruit Painting" by Marina Petro

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Lemons On Persimmon

20"x 20"

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Can you imagine this striking painting in your dining area? The background for this piece is a sheet of decorative paper I found in my local craft store. I saw it and immediately thought ...what a wonderful painting some bright yellow lemons placed on it would make. I originally painted this piece in a small 6x6 inch format which sold quite quickly. I was curious to see how it would look as a large painting. I am happy with it...

Today's Quotation: "The painter's mind is a copy of the divine mind, since it operates freely in creating the many kinds of animals, plants, fruits, landscapes, countrysides, ruins, and awe-inspiring places." -Leonardo da Vinci

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Evidence Of Angels, "Angel Art Oil Painting" Original Art by Marina Petro

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"Evidence Of Angels"

20" x 24"

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This beautiful painting depicting two graceful angels, descending from Heaven among the clouds, was painted from my imagination. I wasn't sure what I was going to paint when I began this piece. I simply dipped my brush in the first color that I was attracted to and it went from there...brush to canvas until the painting was completed...

Today's Quotation: There is an ancient Persian belief that the creation of art endows the maker with Divine powers that are transmitted to the viewer...

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"Angel Art Book" by Marina Petro

"Angels"

Guardians From Heaven and Their Habitats

From the original oil paintings by Marina Petro

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"Angels" Guardians From Heaven & Their Habitats is an 80 page book containing images of my angel paintings, gardens, and celestial paintings with a truly inspiring quotation on each page to correspond with the image. I don't like mushy quotes, I get queasy. These quotes are not mushy...

One of my favorites, by Ranier Maria Rilke, is the one I chose for the angel "Apparition 11" on page 18. No matter how many times I read it, it never fails to bring chills throughout my body. Here it is...

"God speaks to each of us as he makes us

then walks with us silently out of the night.

These are the words we dimly hear:

You, sent out beyond your recall, to go the

limits of your longing. Embody me, Flare up 

like flame and make big shadows I can

move in. Let everything happen to you:

beauty and terror.

Just keep going.

No feeling is final.

Don't let yourself lose me.

Nearby is the country they call life. You will

know it by its seriousness.

Give me your hand."

-Ranier Maria Rilke

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Angel Art Calendar 2013 by Marina Petro

Angel Art Calendar 2013

"Angels, Guardians From Heaven"

From the original oil paintings by Marina Petro

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You will love this calendar. Overall size is large...11.5" x 16.5". The angels are printed on high quality satin paper and all are suitable for framing. 

The quotation below has always brought a sense of peace when I have been troubled. It is from the 91st Psalm which is said to be the greatest psalm to dissolve fear...

Today's Quotation: "For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. On their hands they will bear you up, lest you dash your foot against a stone."

Psalm 91:10-1

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Fantasy Garden, "Landscape Garden Painting" by Marina Petro

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Fantasy Garden

6" x 12"

Original oil painting on canvas textured board

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Here is another garden painted spontaneously from my imagination. It is always fascinating to discover what surfaces to reveal itself from my subconscious when I paint in this manner. This one came from the pleasant chamber that contains images of beauty and peace. Perhaps tomorrow I'll post one that came from a darker, more tumultuous place...

Today's Quotation:"Art is a mystery and it is the artist's vocation to journey through that mystery, dwell in it, experience it, and express it."

-Claudio Ghirardo  

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Luscious, "Original Still Life Apple Painting" by Marina Petro

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Luscious

6"x6"

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From what I've read and been told, it is against the 'rules' of composition to place an object smack in the center of a painting. But....I happen to like placing lone pieces of fruit in the center of my paintings and will continue to do so as long as it looks good to me. 

Many years ago, I audited a studio painting semester at Skidmore College. During a critique, he announced that I had broken every rule in the book but the painting worked. I wasn't quite sure what the rules were and didn't know I'd broken them...still not sure what they are.  In some cases, ignorance is bliss...

Today's Quotation: "The person who says it cannot be done, should not interrupt the person doing it."

-Chinese Proverb

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Approaching Eden, "Landscape, Flower Garden Painting" by Marina Petro

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Approaching Eden

8"x10"

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This beautiful meditative landscape was painted directly from my imagination. I've painted this theme many times before and will most likely continue painting them.  I consider this piece 'Healing Art." My collectors love them! 

Today's Quotation: "Beauty...sometimes takes the form of a white cloud, and goes dancing over the green fields or the deep blue sea, where her misty form, marked out in a momentary darkness, looks like the passing shadow of an angel's wing."

-G.A.Sala, "Beauty of the Universe"

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Magical Pond, "Water Lily Pond Painting" by Marina Petro

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Magical Pond

16" x 20"

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"Magical Pond" is  a meditative, healing work of art....at least in my opinion.This painting is one of my favorites! It was painted from a photograph and yes, I made many of my own creative changes. It is quite impressive in 'real life.' Whenever I revisit this painting, I wonder whether I could actually paint the lily leaves so well again. They look so difficult! I'm not kidding either. I often think, 'Boy, did I get lucky with this one.' I'd recently purchased a new flat oil painting brush I wanted to try out. It turned out to be the perfect brush to render the leaves.

Today's Quotation: "I close my eyes in order to see..."

-Paul Gauguin

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Night Fire, "Abstract Landscape Oil Painting" by Marina Petro

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Night Fire

6" x 6"

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I didn't know where this painting was going when I first began. I painted the entire panel with indigo a while back and let it dry. The firey clouds were painted next and then on impulse, I put in the line of trees and all of a sudden, a body of water seemed to appear. Stars and planets were the finishing touches. 

Today's Quotation: "Art acts directly on our perception and our energy, and, by generating in us beneficial emotions, it produces healing and spiritual opening, which are two aspects of a same purification process."

-Pierre Wittman

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