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Thursday, April 29, 2010

MUSING OF AN ARTIST




I started out with paint by numbers in the hospital when I had my tonsils removed at the age of five.
Every year after that my Mom would buy different art mediums charcoal, oils, pastels watercolor.
I painted up to the age of twenty two after losing my maternal Grandfather to lung cancer I no longer had joy in painting. He was the one who encouraged me in my endeavor as an artist. I set aside all my supplies and put all my energy into motherhood.

In my late thirties I found myself in a depressed state of mind, never having a career and free time on my hands , I began doodling which in turn became sketch's. I had rediscovered my creative side. Wanting to do more I went out and bought watercolors dappling in those for awhile. When one day after rummaging through my closet I found my Rembrandt pastels that my Mom bought me when I was twelve.
I fell in love with the soft buttery texture and the feathery effects you make by using your hand as a tool, much like finger painting.I was on a roll creating landscape to portraits using the pastels, entering art contest and winning ribbons and getting articles published about my work.
I started my professional pet portrait business Heartstrings after losing my beloved pet Kinney. After many years of commissioned works I began to feel stifled and very uncreative.

I challenged myself into making abstract works for the life of me I could not understand until I began to play with color and found movement in the formation of colors touching color. I was hooked. I found a liberating form of creativity, a mindless joy of working with color.


I rarely have preconceived ideas. I just start painting and my mind eye see
something that I just follow.
I have no training nor am I interested in learning.
I just paint for me.
When am happy,sad,lonely or confused art helps me become focused.
I am able to clear my mind of unwanted thoughts
Art is a creative force which frees the spirit, we make our own world when we paint I like to think mine is a world of color and feeling.

14 comments:

  1. Thanks for sharing your creative process and thoughts. I'm happy that you were able to once again access art as a healing modality in your life. I enjoy seeing your work !

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  2. I really enjoyed reading about how you've arrived at where you are now with your artwork. Your creations are beautiful & unique. Jx

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  3. oh so nice johnnie
    very well done and great pieces
    donnarose

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  4. This is so true,no matter what we work with. Creativity works wonders for the mind, soul, and body! Everyone should enjoy making something!

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  5. You inspire me, Johnnie. Now I want to go find my dad's pastels! I've done a few pet portraits myself, but prefer still life or landscapes in pastels.

    So nice to learn your artistic journey, ups and downs and all. Thanks for sharing a bit more of yourself. And your blog music ROCKS!

    Donna

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  6. I love your paintings and your story! Thanks for sharing.

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  7. I can totally relate to just starting and going from there. I do that a lot! Your work is so beautiful and bright! I love the turtle above!

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  8. I love your art!! I's so beautiful. It's a wonderful story as well.

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  9. It's a joy to return to something you love and I bet your grandfather's spirit smiled when you did :>)

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  10. I enjoyed reading this very much. You are very talented.

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  11. I love your work! Your story is great too.

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  12. Thanks for sharing. You do have talent glad you are not wasting it.

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  13. great post - wonderful variety of work

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  14. That is the way I paint too, Johnnie...I never know what will turn out. Your work is fabulous.

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Johnnie Belinda creating unique art works out of melted pigmented bees wax. My unique encuastic abstracts I use a technique of melting, tilting, and swirling that creates the vivid abstracts of spirit beings and florals. I have no thought to what may appear on the hardboard surface. Allowing a force not of my own to guide my hand into creating exquisite one of a kind abstracts. Not only do I create abstracts in encaustic, I also use acrylics and watercolors. I am self taught. I'm constantly drawing on things, from scraps of paper to canvas, to big pieces or bed sheets. I truly must create the images my mind sees.

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