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AB Paintng 2011:  “The Choice”
Author: ANNAmain • Date: 19 October 2011 at 03:16 PM Comments(1)

What is a choice? One or two options is not, may be three, four?.. A choice construct a bridge from past (may be loveless) to future hopefully better. A choice isn`t a moment but a PROCESS.

Sometimes it`s sweet, but more frequently it`s a hardest work to change own past, own old habits and probably a sosiety`s customs too, and then to hold the position, making step by step from troubles to fresh new progressive world. A choice contains both revolution and evolution processes, both for persons and groups. Could you ever think what is it - to adopt a child with desease such as Down syndrome? It`s a hard evolutin for both parents. They take to their shoulders the evolution process from ignorance to development, from Sparta`s  customs to abandon a weak baby - to higher humanity of modern West.

Making the bridge from desease limitations to development they pays for everything increasing own limitations. Protecting a child from darkness they collides with darkness in a sosiety and also inside own souls. By many reasond, with many faces darkness is producing by tiredness, desperation, low resourses and low results, with impatience, and more, more, more… The only thing could help to go out from fire is love. Great humanity forges from tears and tension. LIke a Japanese sword   burying in ground to make steel flexible and strong, people who choice to create the Evolution Bridge turns to heart enlightenment and enlight a peace of world they concerns.

This is The Choice.

AB Paintng 2011:  “The Chance 1/700”
Author: ANNAmain • Date: 13 October 2011 at 11:09 PM No comments

Have you ever imagine what is it - to be locked inside own body?  It`s seems as if you are  sitting in a car strewed by snow or sand, even if you want to move it`s impossible.

Several illnesses make such effect. If you belive immortal soul use body to have life experience you can feel it more clear. This painting describes the chance which made people be pented inside own bodies because of accident or desease and also borned with a genetic desease (Down syndrome). Although they can`t understand the tragedy of own position this is a hard tax for people involved in care and development. If people could understand their condition it will be the hard work for themselves. Consrained to overcome their restrictions people could open something new about the life.

I think this is not only about deseases. When we growth elder we lost functions of our bodies. So this is the scream of souls and also an indicator of a path they have to follow and borders they have to get over, and also it`s the allusion to think about help and protection other people could do.

AB Paintng 2011: “Escape-I”
Author: ANNAmain • Date: 04 October 2011 at 11:18 PM No comments

To be in prison couses the state like a stretched bowstring. You energy accumulates to make a spurt to escape.

There are several possibilities to escape and one of it - to be free with a damage or hurt, without any planing and may be not in right time. Such Escape could put us from one prison into another, from ice to fire but as we feel the desire to be free we can`t calculate details. It`s the energy itself to rise us up.

 

AB Paintng 2011: “A Glass Prison”
Author: ANNAmain • Date: 03 October 2011 at 12:12 PM Comments(4)

It`s hard to explain what`s it: to feel a glass prison.

My normal state is the feeling of extantion as if my unvisible spirit-body let me to  touch clouds and stars, my ears can hear more then surrounding sounds, it hears the movement of galaxies higher, higher. In that state my mind contains knowledge how the world growth, and feel many things one time. Amazing state. And sometimes I lost it.

As it happens I feel how a glass prison separates me from all world. Invisible, sound-knowledge-proof prison, a glass box with so small size then my physical body feels pressure, and although I am healthy I started to choke. That time I want to fight with glass walls, but vainly, there is no solid walls. I feel myself in the bottom of deep narrow well. That time I have to control my breath and mind and restrict my thrist to return my original state, or to be out of that game and leave that flat narrow place of dingy colors and limitations.

Yoga and music helps me to relive it. After several  hours or several dayes the walls of the glass prison started to thin and disappired as a sugar candy. As Heavens opens my glass prison dissolves until it will be next time.

I`ve finished 4 Active Base paintings
Author: ANNAmain • Date: 25 September 2011 at 02:46 PM Comments(1)

Ok, after several dayes of cold weather and hard work I`ve finished 4 Active Base paintings. First two "A Glass Prison" and "Escape-I" was started in July but was a little bit unfinished till September.

  

Second two "The Chance 1/700" and "The Choice" was started and finished in September.

   

I`ll descrbe all next posts and now want only to note the moment. Actually all of it was finished that Wednesday 21 of September, the day of Equinox, but I was tired and lazy to note it intime *-)

 

To celebrate the Yoga Day I`ve started 2 new AB-Paintings
Author: ANNAmain • Date: 12 September 2011 at 12:07 AM Comments(2)

Today 11 of September 2011 is the Yoga Day. I`d celebrated it in Cultural Centre of Indian Embassy and when I`d returned back home I started with 2 new Active Base paintings I considered a long time. It represents 2 essential parts of life both physically and spiritually: a Choice and a Development process.

If you ask me why I have a twins painting so often I can only answer that my brain structure is ambidexter en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambidexter and generally I use both hands and at least 2 ideas are ready to be born one time. When it will be details and a long fine working I`ll do it separately but at the beginning of the creation (better to say "bearing") I need to keep balance of both body and mind to manage the whole process one time.  So yoga is the part of my creation process. Music helps me to make full concentration and pay all attention to paintings.

Although it is raining and I`ve a noisy headache at the left, the first stage of the process is nearly finish.  I did enough for the first stage, feel tired and one of ingredients for the painting is nearly finish. As I need it to wash my hands from black so it seems I`ll go to monday`s yoga with black fingers.

Nevetherless I feel satisfaction with the day and prepare to continue tomorrow morning.

“The Face of Angel” on my big pad
Author: ANNAmain • Date: 04 September 2011 at 12:53 AM Comments(1)

The second painting placed on my big pad was born of itself. I started with vague understanding what it will be but it was a strong feeling something was ready to manifest so I started to do it. As I did the backgroung of the picture with bronze,  copper, 2 shadows of brown and a little bit royal gold I perceived it more and more, until my hands was ready to start with stokes.

It was the face of an Angel, during the work I felt it more personal so it is correct to say this is my own Angel. This is the back of the pad with shaggy surface so it  tooks from me enough of strength to chafe colours in it (and two of my brushes loose everything during the pocess). That time I choose my zen-balcony fo painting. It`s narrow place, no easel, no seats - everything turned me to be more concentrated, it was amazing, productive and I like it.

Can we see Angels clearly? I think no. It`s a vision through blur, shining, changing colours, it is a kind of a strong feeling as you practice it but the image itself is not so clear as things near you. This is the differencies between matherial life and something spiritual covered by veil. So I covered the face of Angel with gold.

More bronze and special persiliber colours I rubed with my fingers, and then I used a fan-brush to make several soft gold strokes over the picture.

Finally I wrote 2 mantras in Sanskrit with gold. The final picture recalled both an old icon of ortodoxal Greec church and an ancient fresco in cavate temples of India and China.

In the end I covered the painting with 6 layers of varnish. It`s difficult to make a true picture: in soft day light it looks softer like previous picture, and with direct sun light it looks another. So this is the view with light. When sun comes the picture started to shine, gold strokes produced a mystic effect of movement inside and all colours seemed deeper.

Well, this is the back of the pad. I painted it so because such big pad had never been put on the ground during I do painting on it. The work side of the pad still have no painting. I guess it will be something modest and simple because the main messege is the face of Angel and mantras on the back.

My new pad-painting “Gold OLive Tree”
Author: ANNAmain • Date: 29 August 2011 at 12:48 AM Comments(2)

I`ve finished several new painting on my pads to make it individually designed. Acrylic painting, gold and varnish creates beautiful suite of lines, shine and matted surface so it looks really nice, actually more then I expected at the beginning. I started with A3 pad and use close place on my zen-balcony to make concentration more.

 Olive trees ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olive_tree ) is amazing, it`s shape seemed as if it comes from a fantasy story of film. The main idea and colours of the picture belongs to my sketch I did last year just after I leaved Corfu. Olive trees also associated with historical symbol gold olive chaplet and also with a symbol of peace. All of it mixed in my hands and this is the result - the base sketch.

I use Royal Gold, yellow and several shadows of brown painted the Olive Tree on the pad. It was something like Japanese style of painting on traditional boxes and other things because I used gentle strokes and the tree seemed half-hidden by fine gold strokes over it.

In Chinece tradition I love paintings accompanies with a text concerns the main mood and describes the main idea of a painting. So I decided to make inscription.

As olives associates with peace I also wanted to link it with my favourite Indian tradition. Greece and India connected by Alexander the Macedonian so it was corect. My favourite praer "Om Shanti" ("Shanti" means "peace") was the best to put here so I paint the word "Shanti" on Sanskrit triplicately.

When it was finished I varnished it 3 times to make a good protection for the painting and the pad itself. The result is really nice, during I did it I realized how to use small lamp for e-book to work with pad tonight if I want to sketch outside.

On the back of the pad I wrote the text of appropriate Sanskrit praer with the translation into English below. I`ve always inspired with enlightening meanings of Sanskrit so it was a good idea to write it. Then I made varnish 3 times.

When the work was finished I couldn`t stop and made the box for my tools the same way… Look at it… Ah, and my feets`s here!..

So now I am really satisfied with the result of that work. I will use my tools with more pleasure and care as it becomes so beautiful and full of meanings I like. Besides all tools will  save if I spill something smile

Surf artist`s feelings from a witness inside
Author: ANNAmain • Date: 17 May 2011 at 07:37 PM Comments(4)

The way of art is misterious stream from infinity possibilities into facts. This is no words, no doubts, and no interrupts. Even if an artist stops the process don`t, it is breathing, moving… borning.

*more pictures below…

I feel the seed idea itself, but this is no words to describe it. From one source it flows, it contains colors, movement and sound one time; and this is no differencies between it. We have no true words to describe it in common language, because it needs a special words and language such as Sanscrit. And even in Sanscrit this is no 100% congruence between a word and a heart of idea itself. Light, sound, color and movement exists without a time, without a reason as waves of an ocean. It go on and go on. And then it breaks into small ideas as waves breaks on underwater stones. And it covers me the same way ocean waters covers seashore.

And then I transmit it into different objects. You can see several here:

 Feeling it I can understand many things the same tims, this is my base all time I work. As it floats sometimes I can`t breath and must stop breathing to feel and transmit it better, even to control my body and mind. But this is the moments of soul breathing as I jumpe from a stone into green clear waters of corfian sea… And next moment I can breath and paint, and then the cycle repeats.

That thing made VanGogh and many painters crazy. They was poor guys… and they drowned. In contradistinction from them I use Yoga, Pranayama and logical discipline to keep my mind healthy and live human life… and feel the Universal Source, and then paint. Trying to fix such fine quality, the identity of movement, colors, sounds and light, I invented my style and my new technigue.

After several hours, sometimes 10-16, I can stop and see the result.

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