Take a moment and paint it

This moment is full of blossoming outdoors and still takes our breath away. Endless cloud of fragrances and all colors of the rainbow: how not to love this spring time? I think, I only live in spring. Summer brings its pleasure, too, but I’m already concerned in the fall because that means the dreadful winter is not far away. That’s just how I am, a spring and sun person.

I was so upset that my health decided to give me hard times exactly when everything just asks to be painted. Well, up to today, I didn’t get done much and kept everything to minimum, that unfortunately included posting, as well. Things seem to be easing up, so, I’m quite hopeful that the improvement will finally start. I’m using that expensive pills at the moment that I pretty much should be skipping other stuff like the daily bread.

Even though struggles were inevitable, we managed to get done something very useful in the studio. The regular Wednesday class was painting wildflowers and so did the Saturday Fun and Pleasure acrylic painting event participants.

Moment in art, spring
Behind the ben: acrylic painting of spring road is 20 x 16 in or 51 x 41 cm art on canvas

I had big difficulties with picture-taking because I don’t have filters that make a photographed acrylic or oil painting look nice, but nevertheless, I took quite a few. I will let these pictures speak for me this time. Nothing makes me happier than somebody admitting they like my paintings.

Spring birch trees, acrylic painting
Some of my paintings at the studio. Birches are sold.
Summer flower fields, acrylic painting, abstract
I hope people, who bought this painting, enjoy it!
Spring, acrylic painting
Road to spring was created during art class as a demo for group.

Thanks for reading!

30 Replies to “Take a moment and paint it”

  1. They are all beautiful…. I think you must be a wonderful teacher and I mean that sincerely. The pictures I see that your students do are so good, and as you say for some it is the first time. I have been trying to learn to paint clouds lately… and watching videos etc. I’m getting a bit better but still need to practice a lot more…. I hope you start to feel stronger soon, and can enjoy the summer… Diane

    1. Oh thank you! I believe, it’s simply experience because I know how to teach, it’s been my whole life in teaching. There are subjects which nobody can paint well or views which are hard to manage, therefore, half of the teaching is to figure out how everybody can do that. Some people are naturally very courageous and open to anything new, some take time to develop their skills and achieve what they were aiming for, but the main thing is we have fantastic time. I don’t think the result should ever be the only objective because the process matters, too. I can only feel sorry for artists, who say they have hard times getting painted what they wanted. We just let it go the natural way: we try and see what happens.

  2. I wish I have more time to paint. I will try my best given work commitments. Painting makes me happy too, no matter how novice my attempts are. I wish you good better health lnese!

    1. Thanks Monica! I think time is one factor we all struggle with. I would love to do something more, as well. I hope I will be better soon, my new medication might help. I was wondering yesterday how I got done so much, and I realized at night, I hadn’t pain, in fact, I didn’t have it all day long. As soon as I get more days like that I will finish up more sketches and paintings.
      Your attempts are completely fine and I love how you find a way to do what you love. I can often see how good some paintings are, and then I take a picture, and they don’t look any good. Like I said, people were advising to use filters. If watercolor is small, it is much better to scan it, that keeps all colors as they are.

  3. Glad to hear you keep painting in spite of poor health. I hope you feel better soon and can get out in that sunshine and warmth. Love your work. Thank you for posting. 🙂

  4. Here’s hoping you continue to get your health back, I know the feeling. Great art work as usual. It’s alway nice to see and read your posts.

    1. Thanks Brenda! I’m so tired of all these health issues, I start to blame lack of sufficient treatment here, impossibility to timely get to a specialist, lack of normal medications and also simple human dumbness of some physicians. I really really hope this summer will bring some improvement. Thanks for your visit!

    2. My cousin lived in Canada for years but always came back here for medical care. She said the health system was overburdened and understaffed. I hope you get what you need soon. XOXO

    3. I couldn’t agree with you more! My troubles are a result of mistreatment and negligence. Or was it lack of common sense and extremely outdated medical knowledge? Plus, I have no suitable medications, and I’m prescribed some stuff which costs me about $50 every single day plus my regular care. I will wait for a while yet since this has been lasting for 1.5 years, and has been all at the cost of unbearable pain and crazy decrease in life quality, and then I probably have to go to Latvia again. I did so in 2006 and in 2008 because the Canadian doctors which are available to me could never cure anything. Drives me nuts, I would say. I had no idea before I moved here that the medical treatment can be so abnormally bad. The only thing they are good at is testing, therefore, they just test and test, and as you can imagine testing won’t cure anything.

    4. Exactly. It’s not only CT or MRI scans, etc., it’s all kinds of tests. It looks promising at the moment. Quite honestly, if I didn’t have any medical knowledge on my own, I am not sure I would be getting any better. With very long lineups for specialists, one basically is on his or her own for 2, 3 and sometimes 4-5 months. Thanks for encouragement!

    5. That’s true, if help is received right away, everything will cure faster and with fewer complications. I don’t even want to talk about how for more than a year I practically had no medications at all, so I got some here and there from Europe, but regulations are strict, and that’s not easy, it’s not every day some friend flies over to Europe. My problem was that I did not tolerate the very few medications available here, it made things much worse. I don’t even want to think about the cost of all this. Basically, wasted money, time and efforts. I was always so hopeful when I tried something new and upset when it turned out the same old way. Oh, I am praying this would be healed and forgotten and I could finally start to do something else than spend all day worrying and fighting pain.

    6. I am on prescription medications right now, they make me abnormally tired, but at least it seems they do something. Ok, Brenda, my eyes are literally shutting down. Thank you so much for all your kind support! Talk to you soon, good night at the moment!

    1. Thanks Wendy! The reason for that was a total darkness indoors, and I agree these simple paintings looked nice in natural settings. It was a small bit of light left, but still, outdoors were way better. Paintings look more like they really are when they are not cropped, cut out and placed separately, I think the context of environment is a nice addition to them.

  5. The fields upon fields of wildflowers speak for themselves and I like every single one of them. So full of texture and color! You are such a good teacher! Your students render beautiful greens, by the way. No easy task!

    1. Thanks Leslie! Well, mixing colors is a big part of any painting. We pretty much use only mixed up greens like raw umber and some yellows, ultramarine, cadmium yellow medium and primary magenta in different proportions, so on. I think they love to be creative with colors they use, and that’s just great!

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