Mini Art Show

I just opened a Mini Art Show called "Finding My Balance" at the Institute of Optimum Balancing. The show officially opened the 27th of July and its undetermined how long it will be up. I have four original oil paintings hanging and two framed prints. The plan is to have this as a sample show for a larger show sometime next year. I was really pleased to find this venue to for the mini show as it is a place that embodies much of what I was hoping to say with this body of work. These paintings are all about different aspects of life and the situations in which we are faced that may cause us to be one sided or unbalanced. It is wonderful to know though, that no matter what situation we face there is always a way to experience it with dignity and grace and smoothly move through it with balance.

The Institute of Optimum Balancing is a wonderful place that offers many different forms of therapy. They have 8-10 different therapists that work there and provide all kinds of services such as Massage Therapy, Hypnotherapy, Reiki, Life and Spiritual Coaching, and many other forms of therapy to help one become whole and balanced.

If you are interested in seeing my show or in the Institute of Optimum Balancing, you can contact:

Rebecca Brown - 480-433-5744 or

Danielle Ohlund - 480-331-0191

www.spiritlightrising.com

1400 N Gilbert Rd. Suit P

Gilbert, AZ 85234

A sketch book should have sketches!

So for being a digital sketch book, I realized that I hadn't uploaded any sketches. These are a couple ballerina studies since I am into painting ballerinas right now. The top one was just a great composition and I was excited to draw it, and the bottom one is a study for a new painting I am getting ready to start!

Building an Art Gallery in Peppersauce Caves

I'm on the back row to the right and my husband A.J. is on the front row to the left.




Cave art masterpiece #1


Cave art masterpiece #2

Last Saturday my we (my husband and I) and four very awesome friends decided to take a trip down to Oracle to go explore Peppersause Cave. I've never been spelunking before, but I do have to say that it is one of the coolest things ever. From the pitch dark rooms to the rabbit holes and muddy slippery surfaces....I can't wait to go back. As we traversed the dungeonous rooms and tunnels we took note several times of many native cave drawing left behind by the ancient indigenous peoples of Oracle that when studied close seem to take on shockingly similar characterises to gang tagging. What talent these ancient peoples possessed. As I continued to explore I began to notice the large amount of clay with in the cave and decided to create my own art masterpieces for future generations of Oracle and Peppersauce Cave explorers to discover as depicted above. My real goal is going to be to try and find these tiny sculptures again when I go back to the caves.

New Painting

Music Rising, Marlene Tays Wellard

I just finished this painting and got it wired to hang in a small show I'm doing. The show will include five of my ballerina paintings and will be called "Finding my balance". After the paintings get hung I will post images of the show here as well.

I love Giraffes. I have included giraffes in a couple of the paintings I have done so, my husband gave me as a gift a giraffe beanie. Awesome! We therefore decided to take my new beanie on a field trip rock climbing. Me and my husband have been climbing now for two months and my new giraffe officially one day.

Inspired by my sister in law who is a dancer, I had her pose for a few pictures for me. She's so talented and does just about every kind of dance but tap. I've been very interested in ballet dancers and painting them of late and she has some very graceful lines that are perfect for some new paintings I've been considering. I think I even have in mind some other pictures I would like to ask her to pose for. I love too that she's excited to have me paint her. Now I've got to get the paintings I'm working on done so I can get started on these. My studio is kind of over run by unfinished paintings right now.

Up at 4am on the 4th of July

It's been two days now getting up at four in the morning to go work on a mural at the Learning Foundation and Performing Arts Charter School in Gilbert. Not my ideal time to rise and shine, but the heat is a definite deterrent to doing it later in the day. At 4:30 in the morning it was already 85 degrees outside and by 9am it was 95 out. It's been a while though since I've painted a mural and I had forgotten how much I enjoy it. The mural is on the side of a wooden shed that's right next to the school entrance. The pictures are of before I started painting and of the progress I have made thus far.

"In Memory of South Korea"


In going through my pictures on my computer, I realized that I finished this painting the end of last year and sold it the beginning of this year but never put the image on my web-site or on my artist Facebook. It just fell through the cracks. This was inspired by my dear friend who went to South Korea to teach the little kids english and had to leave early because she became sick with candita. I've never been to South Korea, but the images she sent home where beautiful.