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ing ok with the outcome regardless of the outcome thats when i have to remember that great saying its about the journey not the destination a tough one for virgos posted by patti mollica at 2 55 pm 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday august 16 2016 posted by patti mollica at 6 15 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest old news new news lemons 8x8 acrylic sold in this day and age of so many social outlets blogging seems to have taken a back seat plus i have been travel teaching a lot lately somewhere along the line facebook edged to the front and i now post new paintings on my fb art page because its faster and easier if you want to stay in touch please friend me fb patti mollica art i created a new website with much better organization http www pattimollica com interested in upcoming events including a 9 day workshop in venice italy in june 2017 here are the details door county wi is one of the most beautiful places i have ever been to its a lovely peninsula that juts out into lake superior i had the pleasure of teaching a 4 day workshop there in july and enjoyed every minute of it the homes and gardens and marinas to die for the paintings were some of my demos during that time rye corner 12x12 acrylic sold door county there are so many beautiful barns and pastures route 42 wi 12x16 acrylic posted by patti mollica at 6 15 pm 6 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday april 9 2016 perseverance times square messenger 24x24 acrylic the all time worst piece of advice i ever got from a teacher was that at all stages of the painting it must look good that crazy idea stuck with me for years and so many paintings were trashed before they ever had a chance to develop there are ugly stages especially the start see below i m glad i eventually learned to persevere thru the uglies or i d have given up on art years ago that being said there are those paintings that never quite graduate out of the ugly stage but everytime i wrestle with one of those stubborn pieces i learn something new and if theres one thing in life i m completely sure of theres always more to learn this morning i saw a facebook video by a writer who described the struggles of growing into the artist you aspire to be i shared it on my facebook page patti mollicaart it s for real here s the video every artist struggles it s how we grow posted by patti mollica at 2 05 pm 14 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels architecture city new york nyc nyc painting times square urban monday april 4 2016 abstracting city shapes looking south on tenth ave 12x12 acrylic click for info sometimes i like to paint the same image more than once and push it in different ways this is the same intersection as gallery district nyc posted a few days ago but much more abstracted again i had to create people to give interest to the focal point but this time i left in the van and delivery truck i think they work in this version because they help lead your eye to the focal point plus i think they add some needed diagonal direction to balance out the strong vertical and horozontal shapes posted by patti mollica at 2 22 pm 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels abstracted architecture buildings citiscape city manhattan new york nyc street scene urban sunday april 3 2016 chelsea watertowers chelsea watertower 13 5x13 5 acrylic sold i m a pretty bad photographer which sometimes i think is a blessing in disguise it forces me to use my imagination a lot and design my paintings rather than rely on what is actually there since often i can t see what s there i guess it is the make lemonade from lemons approach i worked on this piece at the same time as it s sister piece below i wanted them to work together as a series maybe i will paint another one so that there are 3 in the series or 4 i have a lot of bad photos to choose from posted by patti mollica at 10 44 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday march 31 2016 gallery district nyc gallery district nyc acrylic 20x20 more info this is an intersection at 25th and tenth ave from where i was standing when i took the photo there was a delivery truck blocking the corner i took the photo because i liked the light cascading across the street but by the time i got halfway into the painting i realized i didn t have a very strong focal point so i decided to remove the truck and put people in its place i had no reference for people in the scene so i had to make them up i really don t like doing figures without reference altho it is a great exercise but not my idea of fun i think they turned out well considering i had to imagine their movement and the light shadow effect lesson learned again think before you paint pat on another note a friend of mine francesco fontana a very talented artist from italy is teaching a workshop in june july 2016 in giverny by monet s lily pond i hear there are only a couple of spots left if you are interested in more details click here posted by patti mollica at 5 54 pm 0 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday february 10 2016 cupcakes and candies sweet stuff 12x12 acrylic practicing some quick techniques on sweet delectables for my upcoming workshop this weekend in long island ny called how to paint fast loose and bold just in time for valentines day come join us if you can http theartguild org fast loose bold painting workshop wpatti mollica feb 13 14 2016 posted by patti mollica at 8 47 pm 9 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest friday january 29 2016 east side nyc view east side view of manhattan 60x60 acrylic sold this is a commission project i was hired for recently from a city couple who saw one of my paintings on a magazine cover and wanted their manhattan east side view painted for display in their florida apartment they gave me the exact size to paint it 60x60 a square altho the entire view was completely horozontal see below the first thing i had to do was figure out how to squish and stretch and cut and do whatever to turn the format into a square closeups are attached too it is signed sealed and headed for sunny florida posted by patti mollica at 8 53 pm 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday january 19 2016 work in progress i just fished this painting out of a pile of old flops that i have been storing forever knowing that there are problems i have to deal with someday or just trash it i had painted a largish figure on the left walking towards me and a smaller figure crossing the street i didn t like either of them for a number of reasons so time to paint over them and wrestle with now what do i do the first obvious idea was to cut the panel down to 18x24 now that both focal points are gone but panels are so hard to cut and jeez what a cop out so i stared at it and thought ah a biker i put one in and now the piece is feeling like it has some potential the reference looks like it was from 19th street and 6th ave where the old bed bath and beyond was or still is other than the biker the city reference is long gone so i will just keep staring at it keep wondering what do i do now try out some ideas and hope for the best posted by patti mollica at 8 53 pm 6 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday january 18 2016 look for the peppers in art stores near you pepper party 8x10 acrylic 295 click for info my recently posted pepper painting was commissioned by strathmore paper company for the front cover of their new product black canvas paper pads which you can find in retail art stores i could not reveal that information until they officially introduced the product on their website nor could i offer the painting for sale because they needed the actual artwork to photograph it arrived back today and is available for any would be collectors btw if you ve never worked on a black surface try it you ll like it the colors really pop click here to read more about strathmore 300 series black canvas paper posted by patti mollica at 4 45 pm 6 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels gold peppers red green still life painting vegetables saturday january 16 2016 chelsea building new york city chelsea fire escapes acrylic 14x14 click for info lately i am working with old paintings that were started but never finished in this case i barely got the painting going when apparently life got in the way and it got shuffled to some uncommon place not to be seen for years who knows what reference i was using a sketch a photo whatever it s gone it can be freeing to work out of my head when no reference is available and give myself permission to make fresh decisions about how to make the piece work i decided to work in a triad color scheme tried and true red yellow and blue posted by patti mollica at 8 44 pm 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels abstract building chelsea city fire escapes new york city painting sky urban thursday january 14 2016 times square intersection comings and goings 10x10 acrylic sold i ve painted this image many times it s from a photo i took at a times square intersection i like to experiment and use the same reference to take paintings to a new place try out new ideas here s a new place posted by patti mollica at 2 54 pm 1 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels buildings new york city painting people walking street times square urban landscape sunday january 10 2016 crosswalk at franklin street nyc crosswalk acrylic 10x10 click for info way back in august of 2000 i sat at franklin street in tribeca sketching the view thinking i might do a painting of it i never did but recently ran across the photo and sketches below i decided to give it a try and to my surprise the painting took on a colorful life of its own posted by patti mollica at 5 37 pm 0 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels abstracted buildings new york city tribeca urban landscape tuesday january 5 2016 23rd street watertowers nyc 23rd street watertowers mixed media 15x15 sold posted by patti mollica at 4 43 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels abstracted architecture art cityscape new york city urban landscape painting watertowers of nyc sunday january 3 2016 33rd street watertowers nyc 33rd street watertowers acrylic 15x15 sold posted by patti mollica at 7 10 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels midtown manhattan new york city urban landscape painting water towers tuesday december 29 2015 union square nyc sketch union square mixed media 16x20 350 click to buy i have so many sketches mostly figures lots of cityscapes layover at the airport sketches etc it can be interesting use them as starting point for a painting this sketch painting was from union square nyc just across from the subway station on broadway looking west i sat on the sidewalk curb and sketched using vine charcoal on an 18x24 pad the buildings are mostly red brick but the atmosphere was much more colorful louder and everything was so in my face busses people signage etc i didn t want to work from a photo that wouldn t have captured the excitement the zany energy was the real subject here posted by patti mollica at 8 31 pm 9 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels architecture buildings fire escapes new york city street scene signage union square water towers wednesday december 23 2015 playing with color notes jazzy nude acrylic on paper in early december i went to florida to attend a 5 day conference sponsored by golden paints the event included presentations by my colleagues on topics such as internet marketing how to plan travel workshops intuitive painting techniques mixed media and collage and much more i learned so much my head is exploding one of my favorite workshops had us start out in an abstract spontaneous manner using a variety of mark making dry and wet materials and gradually rein in the painting here is one of my paintings using that technique the reference i used was a traditional figure painting i did back in the 90s painted very realistically i started out with a quick sketch and explored from there it s an interesting approach that lends itself to abstraction intuition and imagination a very enjoyable process posted by patti mollica at 3 30 pm 10 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels abstract colorful figure painting friday december 11 2015 pepper fiesta pepper fiesta acrylic 10x10 i found the feather duster and have officially dusted off my poor neglected blog in the hopes that i can start posting again life has been busy with traveling workshops tradeshows and more my latest adventure was art basel where i showed at the projects gallery in miami while also attending a 5 day golden paints conference where i learned exciting new painting processes and techniques upon return i had several past due deadlines waiting for me including an illustration for the front cover of a new art product that will be sold in stores soon my client requested that this new product info stay confidential until it is formally announced till then keep an eye out for this painting in an art store near you posted by patti mollica at 1 31 pm 13 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels bell pepper green jalopeno pepper painterly peppers painting red still life turquoise background yellow monday october 12 2015 green bowl green bowl 8x8 acrylic sold posted by patti mollica at 8 15 pm 1 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels cherries green bowl red apple still life painting saturday october 10 2015 apples and cherries opposites attract 8x8 acrylic so ld i finally got my still life stand and lights functioning in the new studio it felt great to be back at the easel working from life with all my creature comforts nearby the picture below shows my acrylic corner and on the other side of the room are my oils and mixed media work areas if i get stuck on one project i just move a few feet to the next love it posted by patti mollica at 4 28 pm 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels acrylic apples cherries still life painting strawberries monday october 5 2015 nyack stroll nyack stroll 12x12 acrylic on canvas sold greece was great now i m back home sweet home but not for long heading to carmel ca to teach a 5 day workshop oct 19 23 here s the info come join...