Timeout for Art: Looking but not Seeing

Tags

Acrylic Painting, art by Lisa Brunetti, botanical paintings, how to see what's there, i can do this painting workshops, Learning how to see, painting flowers, Timeout for art looking but not seeing

All of us are watchers – of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway – but few are observers. Everyone is looking, not many are seeing. (Peter M. Leschak)

Look over my shoulder and see through my eyes!  The flowers in my friends’ Mindo (Ecuador) gardens were the inspiration for this 38 x 54″ painting in progress.  Drawing and painting from life forces us to examine what’s in front of us, and we learn to see instead of guessing what we see!

“You Can Do This!’

Tags

art instruction, i can do this painting workshops, Lisa Brunetti art, self confidence through painting, wp daily prompt Learning

Lise, visiting from France, paused while working on her first Ï Can Do This” painting!

Lise’s Hands – Costa Rica – “I Can Do This” Painting Workshop

This week’s WP Daily Prompts seem to be tailored for me!   “Tell us a moment or an incident that you treasure  — not necessarily because it brought you happiness, but because it taught you something about yourself.

Photographers, artists, poets: show us LEARNING.”

Helping Hands

Tags

Acrylic Painting, Creative Group Projects, Daily Post, Daily Prompt: Helping Hands, i can do this painting workshops, Images of Hands, Lisa Brunetti art

Today’s Daily Prompt states:  
Tell us about the most surprising helping hand you’ve ever received.
Photographers, show us HANDS.

Hands?  Do I ever have an assortment of images of hands!

Enjoy!

K for Kuna

Tags

fr, Frizztext story challenge k, Global Warming, i can do this painting workshops, Kuna Indians, kuna mola, Lisa Brunetti art, san blas islands

Late Afternoon Break-

Lo siento, (I’m sorry!)  I apologize in advance for veering a bit off course for this week’s story alphabet via Spanish words.  How can I not include Panama’s unique Kuna Indians in this challenge?

Mola Textiles made by the Kuna Indians of Panama

When I  lived in Costa Rica, I often visited my friend Barbara, who lives in the “Amador” area  of Panama where the Panama Canal merges into the Pacific Ocean.    The Kuna Indians’ unique ‘mola textiles’ colored the artisan markets in that area, and I always paused to admire the rich colors and finely-crafted works of art.

My interest at the time was on stained-glass windows, and I was preparing to capture the beauty of stained glass in watercolors.   The first ‘Mola” concept was a collective project to nudge Barbara out of a painting block.   I sketched the design, and she and her daughter Bobbe and I floated the colors with a relaxed ease.

INSPIRATION: Portrait of an Artist

Tags

Andes, Cuenca Tourist Police, Ecuador, Guaranda, i can do this painting workshops, memyblog, Portrait of an Artist, WordPress Daily Post INSPIRATION

Happily Immersed in the Andean city of Guaranda Ecuador, Lisa Brunetti critiques just-shot images of red-caped Indians. (Photo by Marie Groff)

WordPress hurled a curve ball today!   Thankfully the challenge works well with my life as an artist, naturalist and blogger.  Finding images for this challenge was an easy task!

“We want to know what inspires you. For this special mid-week photo challenge, we want to see portraits of you doing something that inspires you to blog  …  Show us photos of yourself doing things that inspire you to blog. Have a cooking blog? Let’s see you in the kitchen. Run a fitness blog? We want to see you in action. ” 

The above instructions used the words “portraits, photos’ and “doing THINGS,” so I jumped in with both feet and retrieved images that reflect those requests!

“Red Capes” in progress; Watercolor by Lisa Brunetti

What inspires me?  What doesn’t inspire me?!  The byline on my main blog states, “An Artist’s Eyes Never Rest.”  

A Lifetime of Memories – Bonding through Paint

Tags

art workshops, group art paintings, i can do this painting workshops, WEEKLY iMAGE OF LIFE: a Lifetime of Memories

We Did This!

This Man’s Journey shares his love and devotion for his family through sensitive writings.   In this week’s Image of Life post –  A Lifetime of Memories,  he shares stories about his family’s recent trip to Florida. I  had never heard of Legoland, but thanks to his post, I took a brief journey there through the magic of cyberspace!

Memories;  my friend Maruja and I have been painting this week.  I told her that years later she would look at her painting and recall details and events that happened while we were working on that art:

Weekly Photo Challenge: CREATE

Tags

Art in Ecuador, costa rica, Cruzita, Ecuador, El Matal, i can do this painting workshops, Jama, Lisa Brunetti, Post-Painting Competition, Weekly Photo Challenge, Weekly Photo Challenge: Creative, WordPress Post a Day

As I prepared to leave Cruzita for a long weekend at home (aka to build a goat-proof fence!) I saw this week’s Photo Challenge:  Create.

The query asked, “Have you snapped a picture of something you’ve created, or something someone else has created? ‘

I chuckled! What have I NOT photographed lately that wasn’t related to being creative?   I smiled, decided that the ‘next’ bus out of Cruzita would be just fine, and I began the arduous task of deciding which photos to share! (Or deciding which ones NOT to share!)

Precolumbian Mola Series (Watercolor)

Tags

i can do this painting workshops, kuna mola, precolumbian art, precolumbian mola series, watercolor

This new painting style startles me at times!  Inspired by the Mola textiles of Panama’s Kuna Indians, it was also influenced by my love of pre-Columbian artifacts.  This series continues to evolve, and the subject matter sometimes takes control and dictates the painting’s direction.

Traditional "Antigua" Design with Butterfly - Watercolor - 11" x 15"

"Museum Guardians" (Jama Coaque/Ecuador) Watercolor 11" x16"

(The series also inspired the “I CAN DO THIS” painting workshops.)

This PDF summary provides a retrospective summary of the first 14 paintings of series.

‘I CAN DO THIS!” Painting Workshops

Tags

acrlic, i can do this painting workshops, kuna mola, watercolor

This gallery contains 28 photos.

So many times people have watched me work or have looked at a painting and said wistfully, “I wish I …

Continue reading →