"Ecstasy" Mandala

wild exaltation
bliss delightfully calling
lifting me higher

acrylic on canvas
2 7/8" diameter
SOLD

"SMALLART BIGHEART"

This Friday evening is the 7th annual show to benefit "Aids Care Service" at Hampton House Gallery here in Winston-Salem.
Here are my two entries for the event:


"Clarity" Mandala

rest into the light
floating with your gentle tide
clarity of thought

acrylic on canvas
2 7/8" diameter



"Joy" Mandala

wisdom, knowledge, wealth
understanding self and soul
living joyfully

acrylic on canvas
2 7/8" diameter
SOLD

"Strength" Mandala

knowing source within
with well rooted confidence
achieving success

acrylic on canvas
2 7/8" diameter
SOLD

Two More Drawings in Mandala "Evolution"

Both of these were drawn in my sketch book with "Precise" pen.

"Evolution"

In my life there are many passages going on at the same time.  (Probably that's the same for all of us.)  I may be rendering a site specific commissioned abstract painting, a house portrait, or a landscape/garden painting for clients,  while in other blocks of time I'll sketch what is in front of me at the moment or care for a loved one or play with grandchildren or friends.  There is also the inner artist (I take great liberties using "artist") striving to make unique statements, testaments, profound illustrations conveying enlightenment, history, beauty, injustices, and/or every other idea know to humankind.

Here's what I have been doing the past few months as my musings have lead me into new areas of exploring line, form, color and contemplative spiritual content.  I am happily enjoying this new phase.

The drawings in sequence:

                                            "Beginning Trees"

                                                     "High Noon"


   

                                                          "Queenly"

                                                     "Hybrid"



                                                 
                                                      "First Mandalas"

                                          "Crown Mandala"

                                                   "Mandala on Coffee Filter"

"Soft Morning"

early light breaks forth
announcing new beginnings
with many choices

acrylic on canvas panel
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"Radiance"

penetrating light
citrine leaves brightly glow
luminous the morn

acrylic on canvas
36" x 36"
SOLD

New Home for Art

 It's been over a month since I've posted anything new (other than sketches) on this blog.  I've been busy while happily creating what I'm sharing tonight.  The largest painting required ordering new supplies (heavy canvas and stretcher braces), constructing stretchers with notched cross braces and stretching the canvas.  I must admit, I really do enjoy the process and Zen-like aspects of preparing my own substrates.  The next most wonderful joy of all this was knowing that my clients gave me freedom of expression with their only criteria being: "make them totally non-objective and use 'these' colors".  Well that was like saying here's the key to the universe, now go and have some fun!  So, I set about my adventure at hand and joyfully created!  The paintings were delivered and hung today with exuberant exclamations of pleasure from one of their owners (this would be the wife as the husband was on an airplane returning from New York).  So, in this exquisitely and lovingly refined older Southern home these two paintings have come to rest; or maybe perform! (click on images to enlarge)

As placed in Foyer:

"Primordial"

elements contract
light and mass unite in form
pristine beginnings

Acrylic on Canvas
58" X 58"

SOLD


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As placed in Music Room:

"Aria"

this sound from within
mystifying melody
alluring fable

Acrylic on Canvas
36"X 36"

SOLD

New Blog

I've started a new blog where I will show only my "from life on site" sketches.
Check it out : http://adrawingbysteven.blogspot.com/
I will continue to show my paintings and studio drawings on this blog.

"Summer's Peak"

crape myrtles in bloom
most days are hot and humid
porch swing to and fro

"Precise" pen
on sketchbook page