A Bright New Year!!

[marybu...@juno.com]

 Greetings one and all!

     I hope that everyone truly enjoyed their holidays - it was wonderful to spend time with family and friends but it can be quite exhausting, can't it!

    The New Year holds so much promise for each of us - new beginnings in our spiritual, personal and professional lives.  There is a lot of plans in the works for a revamp of my website, Etsy store, eBay and even this newsletter.  I have been waiting for sales to pick up so that I could afford some major overhauls and fortunately December proved to be a good month.  The chatter that I hear over the internet about sales in the art field increasing seems to be the case.  Yippee!!

    Anyway - I did want to post this painting that I just finished a few days ago.  It was done entirely from my imagination.  I had just finished reading a biography of N.C. Wyeth and as he is one of my favorite artists and was really big on imagination - I thought I would try to exercise mine and maybe give a nod to his style.  His style is semi-loose, with lots of brushstrokes, wonderful shadows and great composition.  Composition is one of my bugaboos - so very hard for me.  I also tried to reduce my palette to just a few colors - mainly burnt sienna, sap green, naples yellow and raw umber.  Burnt sienna and sap green go so well together, I think, and since they are both transparent colors, they make nice glazes over each other.

    I highly recommend reading N.C. Wyeth's biography - it certainly gave great insight into the man and his methods.  But, you know, whenever I read a biography about someone I admire, I always come away a little disappointed.  Could be just that I discover that they are all too human with all the flaws that entails.

 

Please check out my blog at http://mainelymary.blogspot.com where I discuss the heavy metal maiden of the 14th century.  Also my blog at http://thehavenofrest.blogspot.com where the first havens for involuntary killers were established.

 

My many, many thanks to all my collectors this past year - I am grateful to each and every one of you!

 

May life treat you gently, 

Mary 

 

Yes, please forward on to your friends and please, please invite them to join -  
http://groups.google.com/group/The-Figurative-Realm-of-Mary-Bullock

Here is the link for my etsy store:
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=6791195

T-shirts, note cards, prints and other gifts with my paintings on
them are available at http://www.cafepress.com/marybullock

DON'T FORGET MY EBAY AUCTIONS!!! -  I have posted quite a few paintings this week
- just go to ebay.com and type in "Bullock Original Art" (I will try to get this link fixed soon)

 

http://www.marybullock.com
http://thehavenofrest.blogspot.com
http://mainelymary.blogspot.com

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