Still here

What can I say? The past few years have been, well…IYKYK. And you do. Collectively, we’ve been through the muck, haven’t we? The pandemic destroyed and good things were also created from it. Many artists and others have said what Pablo Picasso is credited with saying: “Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction”. I agree. Not that a pandemic is a wonderful thing.

I’m a deep thinker. Most creatives I know share that same quality. I could write all day about this and almost any subject. Though my mission is to become a great painter, so that’s what I’ll do today, instead.

I’ve committed myself to finishing up several works I started painting before 2020 even happened. Here are a couple of those works:

https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/53338126-within-reach?store_id=2947919

KODAK Digital Still Camera

https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/53959790-echoes-at-sundown

On love and beauty, peeling paint and my recent fame

Hello! I’m famous! This newly acquired fame should get me some invites to all my friend’s summer barbeques! Well…I’m famous on one website, anyway. It’s a site for photographers and we get little trophy icons on our profiles whenever we achieve a certain level of popularity. Drop my name anywhere else and people will give you strange looks and ask, “who’s that?”

This bottle of love potion is a remake of an older piece I did for Valentine’s day. That was done in red. I think I like the blue better. It’s like I took some of this love potion and poured it all over that photography site. (http://www.redbubble.com/people/mzzart/works/15686187-love-potion-2?ref=recent-owner)

To add a little contrast to this post, I’ll tell you that I’ve always found beauty in peeling paint. In fact, you can find this photo of peeling paint on my Redbubble account, available on skirts, notebooks, etc. Like..every woman wants this on a skirt, right?

(http://www.redbubble.com/people/mzzart/works/14918653-a-certain-appeal?c=389803-old-and-moldy)

This beholder finds beauty in everything, even peeling paint

True Confession:

I found peeling paint to be really irresistible when I was a girl. I loved peeling paint from anything I could find. I would paint my fingernails just so I could peel it off before the polish set in.

Well, now that you’ve read the words of a famous artist, you should go visit one of my online stores.

The art around us

It’s there. You just have to be willing to see it.

Playing With the Moon

That’s pretty much what I do. I play with the moon. I grab my camera and go looking for the moon. Then I try to get the perfect shot. When the mood is right, I run that thing through a digital art/photo-editing program and give it a little boost. Sometimes I leave it just as I shot it. Either way, I have fun playing. Here’s a little haiku to go with this one:

I chase phantom moons

Across empty parking lots.

Capturing bliss.

haiku and all artwork  ©Mel Bohrer 2014