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marla baggetta studio marla baggetta studio embracing a creative life pages home website videos what s happening contact classes workshops friday december 26 2014 recovering this older blog if you are receiving this my apologies i m trying to recover my old blog site thanks marla posted by marla baggetta at 9 54 am 1 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday december 10 2012 the melee of the middle often i think about the hardest part of most endeavors is getting started in painting it s often difficult to know when one is finished and just when to call enough enough to just put that brush or pastel away and be satisfied but this past week has been a scuffle in the middle a confused fight a skirmish in paint and sweat lots of time spent pondering looking accessing considering what moves will bring the pieces to fruition i have about a dozen pieces in various stages mostly they are in the middle i see something in each one something of merit but i m unsure of how to make my way to the end it makes me wonder a bit about the end what is that exactly ending finishing means you get to start anew with the next blank canvas the next chapter this is the exciting part and the scary part i ll go with exciting in the meantime i ll be scuffling in the middle wish me luck posted by marla baggetta at 5 33 pm 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday november 20 2012 what andrew said i dream a lot i do more painting when i m not painting it s in the subconscious andr ew wyeth yesterday morning i rolled into the studio a 5 00 am a l itt le early for me even for the ea rly riser that i am i have several new canvases going t hat i m working on i m trying to put some of my landscape into my figures and some of my figure into my landscapes if that makes any sen se a different and challenging color palette is percolating to the surface so it s hard work a layer then another over it wiping one layer off leaving the residue of a layer and the edges of another back and forth back and forth adding and subtracting thinking you ve learned something only to have to learn it anew on each new piece ahh kinda like life painting is a metaphor once a gain through the mechanics of painting getting up going to the studio opening the jars of paint mixing listening to the brush hit the c anvas and the tools scratch into the paint the water being agitated by the cleaning of the brushes i m finding a new stillne ss i ve turned off the music for a change to see what happens to my painting in a quiet space this is good work new but familiar work i painted until 8 00am then headed out to dance with my friends i m so fortunate to have such a lovely community of people to dance with back to the studio for more painting computer tasks and a meeting with videographers this day was a good day o f the familiar made unusual w yeth s quote resonat es stron gly with me these new paintings are definitely conc eived in a dream and brought forth through a process that surely involves the subconscious a process that i don t pretend to understand i just know it s real in progress a goddess with cloths and flowers posted by marla baggetta at 3 52 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday november 15 2012 unstuck one of the wonderful things about being an artist is having so many choices and directions possibilities i m interested in a lot of things and painting in lots of ways pastel oil acrylic encaustic there are so many wonderful mediums to explore and experiment with and subject matter to tackle problem is when you have had a little success in one media and or genre of painting peoples expectations arise whether they mean to or not people label you the marketplace loves consistency predictability galleries and publishers want to establish a brand although this can make financial sense eventually this can be stiffling creatively and in turn lead to less than inspired work we humans like to label and seek conformity it makes it easy for us we don t have to really pay attention for very long if we get to say oh she s a landscape painter done we don t have to think about it any more we do this all the time oh he s a yuppie or she s an old lady or he s a republican it makes it simple and we don t have to spend any more time thinking about it we can label ourselves too then we can act out that role and don t have to consider any other possibilities staying creatively vibrant is important to me i want to paint the landscape but i also want to paint the figure and explore abstraction i d love to learn about sculpture and have ideas for installations choosing joy in painting has helped me navigate my way for me the process of painting in much more important than the end result staying unstuck more important than staying consistent and for me painting is always a metaphor for life and i love that both of these pieces are the same posted by marla baggetta at 6 53 am 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest friday november 9 2012 a tree is not a tree learning to see to paint a thing i have to see it with innocent eyes eyes like a baby no labels no bias no preconceived notions no judgements no preferences i can t paint a tree i have to paint a combination of shapes and assign value and color to them i m creating an illusion of a tree not a tree i can t paint an apple i can only paint a shape that takes on a particular contour and has an overall value and an overall color it might sit in the light in a certain way and i really can t even make a judgment about the light either i have to take all notions and language out of the process i have to see the thing as though i ve never seen anything like it ever before and i have to be enchanted by this interaction otherwise why would i paint it as we move through our everyday lives we seldom let ourselves look through an unfiltered view of things we filter everything we see do and say through a lens of past experience and what we think we know we often look through a lens of fear and insecurity that holds us back from seeing things as they truly are as painters this can make us muddled and confused we think we have to paint in a certain way and then we tend to make rules of thumb into rules taking too many workshops or listening too intently to the thousand voices telling us how to paint can keep us from listening to our own true voice as a painter we make hay with the shoulds and the nevers and push away the what if s at one point or another one must try to see clearly and then be brave there are many many things that are much scarier than painting there are many things worse than wasting an expensive piece of paper or canvas what is very scary is to go through ones life as an artist and never have put down an authentic mark your own mark posted by marla baggetta at 6 19 am 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday november 6 2012 simultaneous contrast simultaneous contrast is the idea that everything shares a relationship an object is only dark by comparison to a lighter object next to it this is really the foundation of painting and by extension the yin and yang of life light only exists with darkness so it s easy to think about painting as a metaphor for life having a clear understanding of the concept of simultaneous contrast can help make us better painters and maybe better humans too the yellow square in the middle never changes only what surrounds it something is only bright in relationship to something dull only dull in relation to something bright last but not least check out this link on color perception http www youtube com watch nr 1 feature endscreen v oossmgbpl7k posted by marla baggetta at 7 01 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday october 25 2012 why i paint back to work it feels so great to be painting again and i m not talking about the walls having just spent a whirlwind couple of months teaching in cape cod bend oregon and managing to just about complete my new studio workshop space has made me look a little deeper into the why these lists are roughly in order of their importance to me i believe that making a living and doing something you love are not mutually exclusive although i know i am most fortunate to have the opportunity both painting and teaching painting are part of this equation for me here are my lists i d love to see yours why i paint to be enlightened to have my breathe taken away to feel human to see the world in no particular way to learn how strong or weak i can be on a given day to get messy to be in wonderment to master a medium or not to feel at home i ve always painted since i can remember to make a living why i teach painting to share the above with people that are interested in the same to talk with other artists to verbalize and put into language something for which is very difficult to do this for to get more people doing art to make a living happy painting all posted by marla baggetta at 4 17 pm 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest older posts home subscribe to posts atom follow me on twitter follow marlabaggetta about marla marla baggetta i ve always been an artist and watched the world through curious eyes i think painting is the most challenging endeavor i ve ever engaged in and hope to grow old in front of a canvas when you paint you can t be judgmental prejudice or self righteous you just have to be and stand there and paint view my complete profile my website please visit my website to view my latest work email subscription enter your email address delivered by feedburner upcoming events loosen up intensive bend or oct 19 21 weekly painting at se atelier starting oct 25th cold wax portland with judy wise se atelier nov 10 11 jackie hurlbert open house se atelier nov 30 dec 2 loosen up intensive se atelier feb 100 variations book one hundred va by marla baggetta book preview followers popular posts plein air rig yesterday i spent some time organizing my plein air gear thinking i won t be using it nearly as much now that fall is really setting in time to be captivated i have some time to let myself be captivated and it feels like such a luxury i ve found quite a lot lately that seems totally enchantin recovering this older blog if you are receiving this my apologies i m trying to recover my old blog site thanks marla it s official ok it s official after returning from denver i signed the lease on a 2500 square foot space in milwaukie oregon i m opening why do people buy art none of us need to own art to survive it s not like food or shelter or even insurance or a car but even in a poor economy there ar photographing pastels getting accurate digital photographs of paintings is so important for any artist wishing to share his or her work on almost any level wheth hitting a painting rut this got a beautiful coat of white gesso yesterday i was chatting with one of my students he s a really good painter who hasn cherry creek and lots of water we found out the hard way today that art festivals and massive amounts of water don t really mix a flash flood hit the show around 4 0 the melee of the middle often i think about the hardest part of most endeavors is getting started in painting it s often difficult to know when one is finishe do you really need to know how to draw to paint well yes duh sorry but i hear this quite a bit that thing that you don t really need to know how to draw to be a lands marla baggetta 2010 simple theme powered by blogger