My Creative Space - Expanding

IT HAPPENED! THE FIRST EVER EXHIBITION WITH ONE OF MY PAINTINGS AND 3 STUDIES WAS OPENED ON APRIL 3 IN MY HOMETOWN LIEPAJA IN LATVIA!

And this is near to how "we" looked right before The Moment! Sorry for the bad quality of the image, but this was the best that could be edited out of my daughter's snapshot under those circumstances :)

I had 3 guests there in addition to my daughter: my sister, my nephew, and one of my ex-MILs :) It felt good, although I didn't know most of the people in the room personally, as I am a complete newbie in the public studio the artists share twice a week. But it totally felt like everything was happening the way it was supposed to. Although, it's really hard to feel back into that moment, as this one is completely different: my body is fighting what's called a virus and a FM flair.

During the last week, a whole bunch of new images have started or continued to evolve under my hands. Most of them - pretty dark, although they don't present as sad or painful to "me". These could be the closest to being finished.

The last one is emerging in the Evening Studio, and it's a real challenge for me, as it's hard to know, what will want to be added to it, when me and my son leave the house and take the supplies with us.

An exception form the dark series is this painting on a 20x30 inch canvas, which emerged very quickly and spontaneously around midnight inspired by the sound of this video. Interestingly enough, it doesn't let to depict it exactly as it is even with the perfect light. It is actually phthalo/sky blue and turquoise, and the white lines are more distinctive, but it doesn't look like this, no matter what I do, at least - not on this screen :)

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Finished Mixed Media Pieces and Some Super Exciting News

After the huge boost to my artist confidence, I have painted more or less every day last week. 2 mixed media pieces are, most probably, finished.  And 7 new creations were started and are in various stages of completion now: 6 at home and 1 in the Evening Studio.

This one was created using a piece of corrugated card board from a repurposed box, paper scraps and acrylics in many layers.

The result is pretty much a surprise to me considering the stages it went through :)

This one was created on a canvas of a slightly irregular shape.

Another surprise as well after all these stages :)

And, now, to the super exciting news my Facebook friends have heard already. On Wednesday, I showed best of my small works to the mentor of the Evening Studio just to illustrate, where I am in my development as an artist. He seemed pleased and surprised by quite a number of them and CHOSE THESE 4 TO BE EXHIBITED IN A SHOW THE STUDIO IS PUTTING UP NEXT WEEK IN THE COMMUNITY CENTER OF MY HOME TOWN!

Honestly, I still can't believe it completely :) The feelings are just overwhelming! It feels like a miracle! So many pieces are starting to fall in place at once! As both my youngest kids want to continue their education in the town as well, I hope we can move there this or next summer to make the practical and financial side of this development a bit easier.

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