Feminine Energy Power!

Artist's Self- Portrait, Mixed Media on canvas

Dear Beautiful Art Friends,

Happy to announce that my painting “Artist's Self-Portrait” was juried into The Power of Feminine Energy group show. Exhibition Curator: Leticia Gomez Franco.

I will be at the art reception at the Centro Cultural De La Raza, located at  2004 Park Blvd, San Diego, California 92101, on March 19, 2016. The reception starts at 6:00pm but due to the fact that I have another art reception on that same date I will be there from 8:0 to 10:00 pm.

Show will end April 3, 2016. Hope to see you there.

With Love,
Glad

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2016 Panache Event

Gladys at Panache, Escondido

Dear Beautiful Art Friends,

The Escondido Municipal Art Gallery will have it's annual fundraising event on March 19, 2016.
I will be at there from 5:30 to 7:30 pm, as I need to leave early to go to another art reception.

I had the privilege of being invited to participate in Panache 2016 as only award-winning artist are invited to donate to artwork for this upscale event. I donated my mixed media painting "Giverny". The event is from 5:30pm to 9:00pm. 

You may also preview the artwalk during the 2nd Saturday artwork on March 12, 2016 from 5:30 - 8:00 pm. If you are local, this is a great venue to get great art at auction prices.

With Love,

Glad

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Failed!

Photo by Gladys Jimenez, Tallahassee FL

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly". — Robert Kennedy


Hello Beautiful Art Friends,

I began a new painting based on the photograph above, which I took while in Tallahassee FL. I was so excited about capturing it's essence but I failed. You may not believe this but this is the first time I attempted to do a painting that I just couldn't get it to work. In the past I had talked to other artist who used to say their painting was not working and I couldn't understand what they meant but now I do.  Perhaps I was not challenging myself enough.

I worked on this painting for three days using oil on canvas and today I just wiped the entire canvas, smudging all the paint I had applied on it for the last three days. I was just not working. Too many trees and detailed branches, so much texture to capture and I just couldn't really see the entire image.  For some strange reason it didn't click for me. You see, usually I see an image and it's like jigsaw puzzle in my mind, I know which piece I'm going to paint first and then the next one, until it all falls into place, but I couldn't see the pieces on this photograph. One of my art teachers used to comment on how I see things because my paintings were always different than the rest of the class. But this is how I did and continue to see things.

I did learn during the process, and though I failed at my first attempt on an 18"x24" canvas, I am not giving up.  I am going to attempt doing it on an 8"x10" canvas tomorrow. You are probably thinking that it will be harder on a smaller canvas but I'm going to work with the shapes first, then the details, the  way I was taught in school where you cut in the dark, medium, and light shapes first.

So I'm off to the art supply store to get gesso so I can gesso the entire canvas I originally used for this painting and this way I can use it for another painting. Or may be even the same painting, after I do the smaller version.

And what if I can't make it work still? Well, at least I took a photograph that I absolutely love, that captured the essence of the place :)


With Love,
Glad

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