Giraffes African Palm Trees Mixed Media Painting

Giraffes African Palm Trees, 8 x 8 inches, mixed media oncanvasboard,
©2015 Angeline Marie $100

This painting began with a coloring page I made on a page of an old chemistry book. This page is still in black and white...but it became this design. The giraffes kept loping across the plains of Africa on this page. 

Would you like to see the original coloring page I made? Would you want to color on it? 

Smiles!!!!

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I Bite - Mixed Media Art

I Bite! 14 x 11 inches, mixed media on canvasboard, 2015

This little monster has been living in my sketchbook for a couple of weeks, lol. He could look very different, but he did make Andy laugh out loud last night when I shared him. I won't call him a dragon...but he does has some traits of a dragon, lol.

This is another blister package artwork. 

This little monster comes with a big warning: I Bite! He bites by making you laugh, he and I hope, lol!

Have a wonderful day and...NINE DAYS left of the 30 Paintings in 30 Days Challenge!!! 

Smiles,

Angeline Marie

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Cats Meow

Cats Meow, ~4 x 6 inches, mixed media on paper, copyright 2013
by Angeline Marie 

Remember those little paintings all lined up in a grid row? The ones I use up extra paint instead of wasting paint? 

Cats Meow has paint, ink, and stencil experimentation. Simon, my studio sentinel, is often in my studio. Well, Simon insisted in appearing in this little card. Just like Simon insists I stop painting, sit on the floor, and give him love. Spoiled little cat...but I love him. 

If you are wondering about the missing white border on the left side...yep. Lesson learned from sheet one was to make sure I have blue tape along all sides of the paper before adding blue tape to the center. It will still frame out quite nicely. It's my attempt to include a mat with the little painting. 

If you love Cats Meow, it is available for $28 unframed and $48 framed. Shipping is included in both prices. There is only one of Cats Meow because there are too many textures in it to look good in reproductions of any kind. 

If you would like to see more paintings in person, please visit one of my favorite restaurants, Chefs on the Run Assorted Cuisine. 

If you would like to see more paintings online, please visit my website. 

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Bailey - Seeing a Dog

Bailey, 8x8 inches, acrylics on canvasboard ©2012 Angeline Marie

Sample photo of Bailey

Sketches and preps

Working...

How I see a dog? With lines, sketches, and lots of practice. 

Just a quick series of photos of only some of the sketches and photos used while painting Bailey.

You are invited to share more art at my exhibit of my palm tree series Absence of Green at Chefs on the Run Restaurant in Homestead, Florida. You just may catch my husband and I dining there, as it is one of our favorite restaurants! 

Smiles!!!!
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Notes on what I want to do next....

Comparing photo to painting for final touches.

Summer Coming with Cocuyos

Cocuyos with a Machine ©2012 Angeline Marie
origami, watercolors, markers, 10 x 8 inches.

Cocuyos is a Spanish word for firefly, or glowfly. 

First time I ever saw their glowing green eyes and slick black bodies was in Kendall, Florida. Don't remember them in North Miami Beach.

I hope our new home has them. We will soon learn if we do during this slowly arriving spring and summer!

This sketch Cocuyos with a Machine is just a fancy whimsical combination of a window view and a small origami cricket. Not the same insect, not the right colors, but definitely some fun.

What does your imagination invent: color? stories? memories? How do you catch your firefly cocuyo thoughts?

Smiles!!!!

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Homestead, Florida City, Extreme South Miami-Dade Has LOTS to Do and See

Comments often heard include What do you do in Homestead? There is nothing there! and I don't want to drive to Homestead. I only work there and last but not least Homestead is a short stop on the way to Key West. There is nothing there but chain restaurants and gas stations. 

After living in Homestead for two years, there are LOTS of things to do south of Miami Zoo. Here are some ideas! 

To learn more about any of these places, please click on the place names. 

Follow the Historic Redland Tropical Trail. 

Fruit and Spice Park shares local fruit, history, and teas. 

Go wild for orchids at R.F. Orchids. 

Enjoy local fruit wines at Schnebly Redland's Winery in their garden areas. 

Visit the Everglades and photo shoot egrets, gators, and the river of grass at the Tropical Everglades Visitor Association. Local photographer Jason Eldridge gets inspired here. 

For one of the best fruit milkshakes in this world, visit Robert Is Here.

See alligator and snake shows at the Alligator Farm. 

The Everglades Outpost rescues abandoned and abused exotic animals of all kinds, including lions, tigers, and bears. This is where local photographer Mike Downs captures animal characters here. 

See alligator and snake shows at the Alligator Farm. 

Get a steal of a deal on antiques at Jacobsen's Antique Mall.

Visit the Children's Gallery and Art Center for an adult and child styled art experience.

Andy, Morgan, and Brad at the entrance of the park, ©2009.

Guide, Brenda, and Charlie with a snake at the Alligator Farm.
©2009

Angeline's caveats on this tour she created:

Recommendation: wear bug spray and sunblock, and have water. Casual clothing style is allowed at all stops. This tour I created will take you from overheating to cooling off stops. Most stops have a free experience, but allow $100 per adult for the day. Not all stops can be incorporated in one day. Please check each link for the hours they are open to the public. Food recommendations will be created in a different blog post. This tour ends with a visit at the Children's Gallery and Art Center, where you can cool off and get an art experience! 

Save the date! You are invited to share more art at my exhibit opening Once Drove Through Florida on Saturday, August 20th, at the Children's Gallery and Art Center that runs through September 13th, 2011. 

Remember, too, to explore Paris, France with me during my Fridays in France posts which began Friday, May 6th. Interested in original art from Paris? Check out my Send Paris to You Project!

Smiles!!!!

Angeline Marie of

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Cleaning Art Studio Ritual

This little video shows how messy an artist can be...and how picked up an artist can be, too. 


Simon, our little studio sentinel cat, also makes an appearance in this little video.


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Angeline Marie of 
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Simon - My Art Studio Sentinel Cat

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Have a great weekend!

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Painting Driftwood: Pelican Dreams and False Moray Eels

Story Behind the Driftwood
Driftwood was found on the beach by an art fan who has sweet memories attached to it. This piece was beautifully weathered with rust stains, discolorations, and rough textures. Instead of leaving it plain, he wanted a painting with ocean themes. 

Pelican Dreams ©Angeline Marie, 2011, acrylics on driftwood, approximately 8 x 36 inches

False Moray Eels ©Angeline Marie, 2011, acrylics on driftwood, approximate 8 x 36 inches

Preparing the Driftwood
Salt and paint make for great textures, but not for an archival support. Both sides of the driftwood were splashed with fresh water to remove as much of the salt and sand as possible without removing the wonderful aged qualities. After gently brushing, the wood was allowed to air dry. The wood was prepped with a clear acrylic medium instead of gesso, to allow the colors and textures to show through the coat. 


The driftwood was staged in a prominent place in my studio, where my eyes had to catch and study. This allows my imagination to create what the driftwood patterns would hold for an image. 


Pelican Dreams
Since this is a more realistic painting, reference photos of pelicans were studied, but the fish were a more abstract idea. Other than clown fish, dead fish are the only ones that might have orange scales. Why orange? The rust stains on the driftwood were integrated into the fish. 


Viola! A sleeping pelican, sweeping fish, the ocean blending into the night sky!

False Moray Eels
This side of the driftwood was not intended for paint, even though both sides were treated just as a precaution. However, when I was about to sign the back of the painting, the false moray eels slipped into my eyes! 


Abracadabra! Two false moray eels and a cave covered with coral. 

Delivery
Last step, after photographing to avoid glare, is to spray an acrylic gloss to protect the paint and make the paint look shiny. 


Interesting facts learned: 1. the Atlantic Ocean does not have any truly orange fish that like to swim in schools and 2. those yellow eels that may spotted during a snorkel trip are false moray eels. So far, it is great being under the influence of Oceanography. 


Smiles, 
Angeline Marie of 
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Why Oceanography?

Spilt Oil with Sheen ©2010 by Angeline Marie encaustic techniques 5 x 8 inches

Why take Oceanography? Here is the quick list, from the artistic side:


1. love of ocean means learning something that should already be interesting
2. flexibility of choosing ANY college credit course but
3. limited to what is provided by the local college online (no art history)
4. extra credit involves snorkeling and I adore swimming
5. textbook has cool photos and graphics
6. influence next art works 
7. local college does not have JJ as a professor (he teaches writing)


As for why take college courses at all, well, it is a requirement to maintain a teaching certificate in Florida while not working in any school system. My mantra: "It is easier to maintain the certificate than later regret allowing it to lapse." 

First week of college credit course Oceanography is done! One chapter of a dozen completed. Goal is to pass with at least a C. I used to go always for the A and be hugely disappointed without it...but my life is not about pursuing another degree.

If my life were about pursuing another degree, this classes would not be taken at the local college!  

There you have it - all the reasons to take Oceanography. 


Smiles, 
Angeline Marie of 
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Happy Thanksgiving with Leftovers

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving, everyone! 

Quick list of why I am thankful:

1. Loved ones are healthy and happy, including those in heaven smiling.

2. Everyone loved one has small problems, in the grand scheme of things.

3. I believe the first two cover just about all! 

Just to keep in the holiday spirit, with Black Friday and all, please visit some of my previous blog posts....


Also, please support your local businesses (and artists) this Saturday in spirit of Small Business Saturday. 

Wolves Cry - 2010 - acrylics on paper -

33 x 23 inches -

©Angeline Marie Martinez 

This is where the "leftovers" come in on this blog post title:


For how to give an artist the gift of classes, no matter where in the world they live: Want to Give Artist a Gift of Classes? 


Gift of drawing supplies: Drawing Materials Basics.


Gift ideas for a traveling artist: Travelers Dozen.


Reasons to go local (within the USA) for affordable art: Go Local for Affordable Art.

For more about the painting in this post: Wolves Cry Original Art Painting. 


Smiles, 
Angeline Marie of 
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Wolves Cry - Original Art Painting

Wolves Cry - 2010 - acrylics on paper -
33 x 23 inches -
©Angeline Marie Martinez

While working on the original painting series inspired by the Deepwater Horizon 2010 event in the Gulf of Mexico, I sometimes had leftover paint and lots of extra paper. The paint and colors left over were not "moody" enough for how I felt about the event, so I would play. 


This sheet of paper received the obvious colors of purples, yellows, blues, and reds.  Utrecht's American Masters paper takes a LOT of abuse. This time I probably went to hard some where along the journey, and the surface of the paper ripped off. 


Well, when paper rips off, you already know that the texture of the paper changes. Remember the time before Post-It Notes and UPC bar codes existed? If you do, remember what happened when you pulled a price sticker off a book cover or a gift box? Remember how annoying it was to try to camouflage that "fuzzy" white spot that obviously looked as if a price sticker was ripped from it? Ugh. 


The "sticker ripped off" effect is what happened to this paper. I love how the paint applied to it! Do I rip the paper into different sizes and use them in something later? Sigh... 


Me being the cheap chick I can be (just ask Andy and my Mama), I kept thinking about what I could do to save the beautiful pattern of paint and the paper. I hang the painting on a safe studio wall and take a snapshot of it. After a few weeks of just studying the paper, voila!!!! I see wolves there!!!! With a few more areas of paper ripped off and some blue paint, there are the wolves in their full howling beauty, on a wonderfully rocky cliff with their muzzles pointed to the colors of the sky at dawn or sunset. 


Hope you like the wolves! In case you are wondering, they may not be alone....See anything else in the painting? Let me know!


Smiles, 
Angeline Marie of 
Angeline Marie Fine Art


PS: A percentage of profits from all my sales go towards a charity. Sales from anything created in 2010 go towards Mote Marine and/or National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in order to help with the aftermath of the oil spill. Thanks for your help!

Elephant Bull

“Elephant Bull,” acrylics on canvas, 24 x 20 in., 2007, $500

In 2007, I went on an adventure to South Africa. What a beautiful country! The people are determined, the landscapes full of light and color. Animals are everywhere but in the middle of downtown Johanesburg and Cape Town. The food is scrumptious. South Africa would be a place to return for a longer stay.

I also visited Victoria Falls. There is lodge there that has daily afternoon safari walks out to a blind overlooking a waterhole. A blind is like a hunter’s shack. The waterhole was visited by an elephant herd, carefully watched over by a huge elephant bulls. At one point, the closest bull stared right at us while we  held our breaths and snapped shutters. We knew elephants cannot see very well, especially at dusk, but they can certainly hear!

Incredible, fragile, and strong beauty, this bull’s photo is one of my best of those moments, and begged to be interpreted into a painting. Forgive me for not posting the photo, as it is one of 5000 shot during that trip (JOY)! Not easy to find...truly need to better organize my photos (or paint, but then you know what I choose).

  

Does “Elephant Bull” make you feel caught in the moment of hiding in a blind, hoping not to be discovered? No puns intended on the "bull!" LOL

Smiles!

Angeline Marie of

Angeline Marie Fine Art

PS: Remember, you are invited to the Deering Estate the weekend of April 17th and 18th for the "Affair en Plein Aire." For more details, please click on the words Deering Estate. Thanks! 

Simon at Window (with Blinds)

Simon at the Window (with Blinds), 2010, 11 x 14 inches, mixed media on canvas, $125.

This little piece started out as a palette (as usual) and ended up a fun mixed media piece. Paper, paint, cut outs from my job's roll of paper and my sketchpad all are on this piece. 

Simon (the cat) is one of my favorite characters to catch on paper. He runs around our home as if his tail was on fire, or you can find him on the sofa we call "mini-red" catching a nap. Simon has to be in the same room as either of his humans, Andy or me. He will whine until we are "with him." This sketch catches him in just that moment: has to be with us but not on us. One of his favorite places, like most cats, is in the sun, hence the blinds and the light.

Do you have a cat? It is alright to be a dog person, but there has to be at least one cool cat (no puns intended) that you have met! Does this cat have a favorite place, and if so, what is it?

Smiles!

Angeline Marie of 

Angeline Marie Fine Art

Audience Participation Requested! 2nd of 2...Horses

"Horse Play," 20x24 in., acrylics on canvas, 2010 copyright the artist

Thanks to some critiques from Santiago, Clif, and Blanca, this piece is finished.

The comments incorporated were:

1. because the landscape felt realistic, so the purple colored horse did not seem to fit.

2. the blue area at the top right was confusing because it could be sky or water, but not both.

Thank you to everyone who participated!

Smiles,

Angeline Marie of

Angeline Marie Fine Art

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