Bamboo Daily Painting #32

This is available at My Etsy Store

February 3, 2008

“Bamboo” Daily Painting #32

This is an acrylic painting on a 6”x6” canvas. I love bamboo. I have a few different photographs of bamboo and thought it would make a nice little painting. This one is really sweet. Did you know that bamboo comes from the grass family? It’s obviously the largest of the grass family. At one point in my college career, I was a Biology major, and science was always a passion of mine. So the geek in me gets excited over the techie information – I’ll be a super geek and give you some now ;)

Did you know that there are about 1,000 kinds of bamboo and varying types grow in cold mountains regions to hot tropical regions. Bamboo is used in gardens, for building materials and as a food source.

Okay, enough of my goofy facts.

I’ve been working on some old paintings this week and trying to finish them up, so stay tuned, they’ll soon be in my Etsy store for sale. I will include photographs of them in some future emails as they are finished.

Well it is Super Bowl Sunday, and I should be watching the commercials. Good thing they have a myspace account, so I can just go watch them there. (For those of you who don’t have myspace accounts/or ones like them step up to the 21st century! Heck even the Super Bowl has one! He he he just kidding!)

Happy Sunday!

Peace & blessings,
Gayle Etcheverry

My website:
http://www.GaylesPaintings.com

My Etsy Store:
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Buddha 1 Daily Painting #27

This painting is available at my eBay Store

Daily Painting #27

“Buddha 1”

January 15, 2008

“Buddha 1” is an acrylic painting on a 6”x8” canvas. I was inspired to paint this image from a photograph I took at my friend Elizabeth’s studio. (Elizabeth Golden owns Golden Earth products… you don’t know body lotions and bath essential oils/washes until you’ve tried her products! http://www.GoldenEarth.net)

I love all statues of Buddha. This one is carved out of some kind of wood and it is beautiful! I decided to paint him in the same tones, but not to look like a wood grain though.

With the help of a bunch of Dolphin friends (you know who you are… and BIG Thank you’s!) I have decided to change the way I sell and charge for my paintings. For now, all new Daily Paintings will still go to auction at my eBay store. Any paintings that do not sell will automatically become available in my new SHOP on my web page
(GaylesPaintings.com) And the prices are going up. So if there is an active painting in my eBay store you’ve had your eye on… well now is the time to buy them. I also added a section in the SHOP on my site where I will list larger paintings for sale in the future, so stay tuned!

As usual I made a youtube video of this painting. Please feel free to watch it and also please feel free to send my little painting adventure out there to your friends and family. I don’t mind my info being circulated out there.

Some people have asked about commissioned artwork and I was booked with other projects. I will soon become available for new commissioned pieces, so if you are still interested please send me an email and we can talk!

Thanks so much and have a blessed day!

☺
Gayle Etcheverry

My web site:
http://www.GaylesPaintings.com

My eBay Store:
http://stores.ebay.com/Gayles-Paintings

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Blue Lao-Tzu Daily Painting #2

This Painting is SOLD.

Daily Painting #2

September 2, 2007

I thought it would be fitting to create a painting inspired from the book I am currently reading called, ‘Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life. Living the Wisdom of the Tao’ by Wayne Dyer. It’s a modern day translation of the Tao and everyday I read a verse and try to think about it during my day. It really is fantastic and I highly recommend it.

Last night as I read through the book I found this at the beginning and thought what a coincidence with yesterdays dragonfly painting…

Of birds, I know that they Have wings to fly with, Of fish that they have fins to Swim with, of wild beasts that they Have feet to run with. For feet there are traps, For fins nets, for wings arrows. But who knows how dragons Surmount wind and cloud Into heaven? This day I have seen [Lao-tzu] and he is a dragon. -from The Way of Life According to Lao Tzu, Translated by Witter Bynner. (This quote is attributed to Confucius, after he visited the elder Lao-tzu to seek advice on points of ceremonial etiquette.) Incredible huh? ☺

Okay so on to the painting.

It is 10”x10” unframed canvas. Actually is a museum thickness canvas. I painted it with acrylic paints, inks, and paint pens. This type of painting is very difficult to capture in a photograph so I took a few different shot of it including a couple of close up shots to give you an idea of exactly how it looks. If you’d like a larger format just send me an email and I’ll send you one gayleetcheverry@sbcglobal.net

This type of painting is REALLY fun to create. You have ZERO control of the medium. I use a ‘pouring medium’ by Liquitex and add Soft Bodied Acrylics to the medium. You just pour it on the canvas and let it do its thing. Plus I will put drops of ink in it and it really goes crazy. It’s fun to watch. One day when I get my video camera I will tape the process and speed it up so you can watch it come to life. Kind of like watching a flower open up on film in high speed. This is a perfect example of how important it is to just let go, and let God (as they say so beautifully in the recovery movement). Another favorite quote I once heard is, ‘Want to make God laugh? Tell her your plans!’.

So I decided the perfect quote to put on the first of my quote Daily Paintings is a Lao-tzu quote, ‘A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step’. Or in my case a single painting. What single step could you take in the direction you’d like your life to be heading? Think about that one for a few minutes…

Link to eBay auction is http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180155970631

Enough for today and back up to the loft.

Peace & Blessings,
Gayle Etcheverry

http://www.gaylespaintings.com