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February 25, 2019October 17, 2024

Love and memories stay with us forever

I have accepted the inevitable. It took my entire strength. 4 days without my mom. 4 days, so full of pain and feeling of irreplaceable loss.

I have certainly been everywhere in my thoughts. I have visited every spot where we used to live, where we used to go, where we used to be happy.

My mom always adored all of my art; she adored the idea of creating beauty because she was a person who made admiration of beauty a big part of her life. She loved nature, and especially flowers and plants. She had seeded, planted and grown so many of them.

I had a chance to still show her the most recent pink flower collection and my mom was very delighted by it, but I have published it in all 3 previous posts.

I am posting the mom’s most favorite paintings this time. Some of them she kept very close to her.

Roses for my mom, will she them? In the heaven?

The spring orchard painting was always in mom’s room. Love stays with us forever.

This painting forever belongs to my mom.

The path we take, it ends at some point. Sometimes unexpedly so.

Blue spring anemones which my mom won’t see this spring, never again.

This rose was painted for my mom a few years ago. She loved it and I sent a card with this painting, too.

This sad time will pass, as well.

Please, no more sorry messages and condolences. I know it feels the right thing to do, but when I will look at this post and at the post in lifeschool blog, I hope I will be in the future already. I am very thankful for numerous support messages on my Facebook profile. I appreciate them a lot. Thank you all!

I want to take with me to the future only the good memories and memories about the pleasant things we once had.

I will be traveling to Europe for quite many hours and then there will be the really important last things to do, and I hope I can check out the responses sometime later.

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Lifeschool blog: Flowers for my mom

It is amazing how things always survive people. That’s so unfair, actually.

February 14, 2019October 17, 2024

A little bit of love: from me to you

To celebrate love, I painted roses.

Soft as whisper and gentle as breeze.

To celebrate us, I painted a heart.

Deep as and ocean and large as sky.

To celebrate miracle, I painted a smile

And wrote underneath:

From me to you.

This was a moment when I still hoped my mom would recover. I was so full of hope. The miracle did not happen. Yet, this small poem will always remind me that we hope even in hopeless moments and we keep going even when it feels impossible.

The power of pink and coral colors in watercolor painting

Roses that last for years and lifetime are the painted ones.

I sometimes feel sorry that things can exist longer than we.

Nothing says better what I feel than my art. I am glad that time heals all wounds.

More of pink watercolor flowers: Pink is lovely

More of floral art, this time, pen and watercolor: Floral art

More of everything:

Art collections by Inese Poga

April 24, 2017October 17, 2024

White and pink flowers – enjoy spring

White orchids, acrylic painting, orchid painting

The best part of being able to create art is depending on our intentions and goals. There are no limitations in subjects or ways to create something. It is almost an absolute freedom, and pretty much nothing but only our personal attitude or situation can set us back.

Freedom in creation means doing what one wants and prefers. If it is technique that doesn’t work for you yet, you will just have to practice more. In this post: white and pink flowers in acrylic.

I sometimes meet people who think creating a painting is extremely easy. Most likely, instructions that say: paint like a master in one hour or time-lapse demos where a few hours of work are squeezed in just 1 minute, make one believe that a decent size art takes only a few minutes. Well, try to paint just a wall or better start with smaller surfaces like a door. Even that takes time, not to mention creating art layer upon layer with targeted and fine-tuned brushstroke.

Creation takes time and efforts. When somebody looks at painting they sometimes doubt how that can possibly take 2 or 3 weeks working every day for about 6 hours. It depends on medium, definitely. Acrylic is much slower medium than watercolor. Whenever some part is dry, it is almost as if starting everything from new. Acrylic is much slower than oils also. That is why it takes a lot of layers and building up color and value.

When somebody tries painting on their own, they can feel how everything takes work. Some believe that the messy first layers are a sign of a hopeless art. That is simply wrong. I sometimes demonstrate how we layer, change and improve any painting by just adding dark colors and highlights, or modifying perspective and number of details or elements. In that regard, acrylic is very forgiving and very user-friendly. The only limitation is time we spend on painting and time we are willing to spend on it. Our personal attitude and preferences change over time, as well. It’s no surprise that we might not like subject we adored a while ago or we like colors we hated before.

That is normal. That is progress or another direction.

Studio view: these paintings look amazing! Artist Inese Poga

Having flower paintings all around makes one feel fantastic. Even when my health is giving glitches, it’s a pleasure to be in the gallery and enjoy the elegant lines and uplifting colors.

If you never tried to create any art, it is a wonderful time to start. The sketching season will be on soon, and that is just a pure pleasure being outdoors and literally absorbing the surrounding life, nature and beauty.

I hope to get some followers back since I lost of all of them while migrating the blog. I don’t think I have set up even all buttons yet, so, everything will come, just give it some time.

Thanks for reading!

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