Artist Renee Mak

Dreaming...  always one of my favorite things to do! I recently had the chance to put a show together  and I decided this piece was to be my  inspiration piece for the whole show. Interestingly enough, it was not finished at the time.   If you remember, I've been working on this and showing bits  and pieces of this for quite some time...  unfinished as it was. I've sold cards and prints, even had offers for the painting.   But deep down inside, like only an artist knows, it wasn't yet  time for us to part ways.   Something told me I still had work to do! This is the way it's looked for a little over a year.  I loved it... but still wanted it to say more. So while planning the show, it made perfect sense  to end with and build the show around this painting.    The name of my show is called "Evolution of a Dream", and it takes the viewer along a 5 year journe...

Happy Friday!  After what seems like and eternity, I'm once again linking up with the fabulous group of artists over at Paint Party Friday !    xoxo I  discovered long ago that the process is what's so amazing about painting. All of it... together.  It's the choosing of the palette. The choice of tools. And the blurred idea  of what the outcome may be. Changing directions during the process is part of it... although that's sometimes very frustrating. Even in a small mixed media collage project,  in preparation  for a larger painting, the end result is often nothing  like the painting began...  which is part of what makes the process  so amazing! Although this painting is not finished, the process  has taken me far from how it began. Here are some amazing links to see more posts about the process! http://fussitup.blogspot.com/2012/04/paint-party-friday_20.h...

Paint Party Friday & Sneak Peek Friday is here again! I only got to paint once so far this week and went a little crazy with dots! But I also got to spend time painting with two fabulous sisters and  working  a bit more on my happy garden painting . I'll post about the sisters another time but share my happy garden today. I don't think I've shown the textural elements of this  painting yet… but it really shows up with the bright colors I just added. The letters and numbers are made with molding paste and one of my favorite stencils.  I just put the  stencil down on the canvas, used a putty knife to layer a coat of molding paste over the stencil and then lifted off the stencil… leaving the raised images! They run along the top of the painting above the flowers. There is also a fleur de lis on the upper right hand corner made the same way. I like the progress of this happy garden so far and am looking...