INSPIRATION

a little bit of me and my artwork :)

Hiya sistahs!

So if you ever ask yourselves what I do to unwind (cuz I am SURE that’s what you ALL ask yourselves LOL).. I will answer that question here 🙂

I Paint.

I collage.

I get messy.

I splatter

I splootch

and then I try to make sense of it all.  LOL

I started painting about 4 years ago.. I have always wanted to paint and draw and never had the guts to try.. whenever I drew as a kid I was shot down.. I think it became a part of my subconscious and I always pushed that voice away.  My great aunt was an artist.. I remember going to her house as a kid and saw her drawing table.. her bottles of watercolors.. her brushes and would ALWAYS want to be in that room.  When she asked where I would like to go, I remember always saying the art supply store.. LOL.. not much has changed 35 years later.

4 years ago I decided, that’s IT.  I cannot squash this voice anymore.. this pull.. this tug.  So I went for it.  HEAD FIRST.  KNEE DEEP.  And have never looked back.  I have taken many online classes.. have studied books.. but really I have followed my heart and my own intuition.

Now me displaying my work is hard for me.. i feel naked so to speak.. exposed.  I don’t know if anyone will like it…. or understand it.. or understand how I FELT while painting it..  But I have shown my work to a few people and they urged me to sell my work.  SELL MY WORK?  what ?  are they INSANE?  and then I continued to work in my little messy room and found myself with many unfinished pieces.. so I decided.. with MUCH prodding that I will start selling my work.. whether people like it or not?  I don’t know.  Would they actually hang it in their homes?  who knows.. but the thought of a little piece of me somewhere else to be loved and cherished makes me happy (shhh don’t tell anybody).  I have two pieces hanging at my best friends house.. and every time I see her looking at them, I see how much she loves them.. and THAT, my sistahs, makes me happy.

I am not saying that my stamps don’t make me happy.. cuz they DOO!!! And I still work on other people’s artwork all day for the stamps.. but sometimes, I need to work on me too.. does that make any sense at all?

So I will be updating this website Under ORIGINAL ARTWORK and will post new paintings all the time :). Obviously it all looks better in real life 🙂

so hope you enjoy a little piece of me displayed on your monitor 🙂

"BE TRUE".. an abstract landscape .. collage, acrylics, graphite..

“BE TRUE”.. an abstract landscape .. collage, acrylics, graphite..

the sides.. a bit "graffiti style"

the sides.. a bit “graffiti style”

closeup of the trees and the little collage part "be true"

closeup of the trees and the little collage part “be true”

"Every Woman Has a STORY"... All my "girls" look sad... or not so much sad but Thoughtful.. a little quirky and a bit odd :).. sounds a bit like me!  All mixed media.. including collage, acrylics, and oils

“Every Woman Has a STORY”... All my “girls” look sad… or not so much sad but Thoughtful.. a little quirky and a bit odd :).. sounds a bit like me! All mixed media.. including collage, acrylics, and oil.  An original 1940 letter to a woman is collaged in there.. and my little story on bottom in graphite.

and the sides..  I left them cracked and "exposed" showing how our stories always try to come out somehow or another....

and the sides.. I left them cracked and “exposed” showing how our stories always try to come out somehow or another….

"the Line"... Also mixed media using acrylics, oils, collage.  I love how the collage from underneath prompted the whole painting and is incorporated into it..

“the Line”... Also mixed media using acrylics, oils, collage. I love how the collage from underneath prompted the whole painting and is incorporated into it..

and the finished sides

and the finished sides

 

and there you have it.. a little bit of me… A little bit of VULNERABLE me…

mwah to da sistahs who took a look and smiled 🙂
Em
 

 

 

 

 

 

4 Comments

  1. mary says:

    for the record i think you and all your ART is awesome. You are brave and wonderful for taking this next step. You won’t regret it – we all LOVE YOU. And we get it too Em. If it were not for this world of support I would not be sane (or at least functioning LOL). Your honesty and openness is so refreshing in this world. Congrats Missy!

  2. I know how you feel! My ex-husband used to put down all my art work and creations…constantly. I vividly remember spending all day with my girls helping them make ceramic pieces as hand-crafted gifts for family members and him coming in and saying “Aren’t you also going to buy them something decent?” Deflated at once. However, my current husband of 25 years thinks completely differently and supports me in all my artistic adventures – card making, scrapbooking, quilting, mixed media, painting and more. What a difference. My confidence finally went up high enough that I started a blog – http://www.craftyviolet.blogspot.com.

    Your art work is great Emily! Glad you too broke free!

  3. Christine says:

    Emily, your artwork is really amazing! You have always told us to just go with the flow and just create….you have done just that and it looks great!

  4. pinky uk says:

    I so admire anyone who can put their hands to this type of art Em. Its a window to the soul in my opinion. Love what you have created.

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