Warrior – New Painting

The next painting in the Arizona Series is now completed!  Here’s the image that I “found” the warrior in…

If you look inside the cave on the wall right above the ruins you can see the warrior.

And today I finished the painting of the Warrior, here he is:

Let me know what  you think of him!

Fairies Do Exist…

Fairies do exist and I have one in my front garden.  Here’s her picture:

Isn’t she pretty?  I like her little crown and I think her dress is nice, too.  I’m really glad that she decided to grace my garden!

Comments About My Art

Comments …

I do think that you have a special quality to your paintings, I love them and know that you could do justice to anything you paint. L.C.

Your paintings are magnificent!!!! Love the dragon! K.C.

I loved your sites! Wonderful! I loved both your paintings and your poetry. I am proud indeed to be your friend! R.E.G.

I think that I could pick your paintings out of the “crowd” because of the soft colors and the light flow of your brush, I LOVE it. You have a lot of peace in your work, like love in pastels. L.C.

This is a very nice work of art. You are quite talented. A.T.

By the way, I LOVE YOUR WEBSITE! You have done some amazing pieces. R.W.

wow very nice!!! its very pretty I like the colours you used in it. K.L.

Beautiful! It’s soooo light. I love it. E.S.

OOH! I love that one, too. The colors are wonderful. E.S.

LOOOOVE the colors, nature at it best. As always, I love the gentle flow of your art. L.C.

This is lovely and very appropriate to view in the early morning that it is here. Gorgeous! G.A.

Wow! Your art is amazing!!! A.A.

I looked at your art and found it amazing and that’s a large understatement. J.R.C.

Your art is beautiful!! Thanks for sharing it with the world!! B.C.

Thanks for sharing your beautiful art work! I also visited your website and enjoyed seeing your creative products. It was also very inspiring as I am working on getting an artistic career going with both painting and writing. R.H.

I visited your web site. You are truly a talent. All I can add is “WoW”. Fondly, M. Dignard.(Lakeside Creations Publishing)

“It has been my privilege to have followed ILIA’s career for more than fourteen years now. I have never – in any field – seen anyone grow so fast or so much as she has done. Each painting she creates surpasses all the other ones which she has done before. I consider this phenomenal.

‘I have shown her work to two other professional artists, one of whom has exhibited in many major museums around the world. Each admired her work. One of them remarked that she has “a wonderful eye.”

“It is not merely that her paintings have beauty and power, although they surely do. It is more that they are filled with new and valid perceptions of reality which cause the viewer to cognite.

‘Her work is bold, imaginative, creative, powerful. These are much more than pretty pictures skillfully done. It is clear that she has something new and valuable to contribute to the world.

‘It is an honor to have followed her career.” R.E.G. Master of Arts Columbia University

You do beautiful work! M. B.
Love your website. You are a very good artist. Your style is very unique and diverse. Rosi
LOVE this site. Beautiful ! Beautiful !
I see a lot of you in your paintings, a soft, gentle free spirit, they are so easy on the senses. M.

Wow!!!!!!!!!! This is very cool!! Very Impressive – really!!
W.M.
Dear Ilia,
Have been checking out your new web page and LOVE it.
Got a few laughs from the Hudini story, reminded me of all our trials with the dissappearing e-mails.  I especially love the Max picture and story, he is quite a cat. keep up the beautiful work. L. C.

Warrior – Next Painting in the Series

I’m presently working on the next painting in the Arizona Series – it’s an Indian Warrior.  I “found” him in the ruins in this image:

If you look at the cave wall directly over the ruins you will see two “eyes.”  On closer inspection, you can see an Indian Warrior wearing a mask.

I drew this Indian and his mask – while looking at the cave.  I was thinking that I wanted to get brightness and the earthy colors while also accenting the mask.

I was very careful to follow the image closely to create the design of the mask.  I finished my take on what I saw, mask included – then labeled the different areas for the colors that I wanted to use.

I had a bright idea to go ahead and search online to find Indian masks, especially the Anasazi so entered the search in Google to find images.  What I saw blew me away because I designed a mask nearly exactly like the images that I found on Google!

I’m making this painting bright like the sunshine of the summer day that it was taken on.

I’ll be adding some in-progress shots so that you can see how the Warrior is coming along.

Best,

ILIA

Timeless

Timeless is the name of my newest painting in the Arizona Series that I’m working on.

When you look at this painting, you get the feeling of timelessness.  It’s very fitting for the series of paintings as this painting honors Arizona, Native American Indians and also represents the messages of the ages of how to care for our “home” – Planet Earth.

Here in Arizona, we have a long history of Indians – for instance, there’s the Anasazi.

This painting is a composite of different photographs of Native American Indians from the past and present – plus, the sky and clouds are a skyline that I recently saw.

Next Painting in the Arizona Series

Here’s the next painting in the Arizona Series that I’m working on.  I don’t have a name for this Indian Brave yet – so if you have a suggestion, feel free to let me know.

‘Tis the Season for Sparkling Trees

Well, this is the season for sparkling trees and pretty light displays.  Driving through the neighborhood and local area you can see the wondrous creations.

It rained last night and was still raining this  morning.  I looked outside to see a marvelous sight: the Lysiloma tree “decorated” for the season with raindrops that were sparkling!

I braved the rain to go snap shots of this marvel!  What do you think of the decorating that Mother Nature did?

Recent Newsletters

You can read the latest newsletters by going to:

December 6th 2011 Newsletter

Thanksgiving 2011 Newsletter

The Three Faces of Mother Earth

I’ve been continuing with my Arizona Series.  I find this series very rewarding to create because I have been “finding” the images in the most interesting places.

This new painting is from wood grain.  Here’s the wood grain that inspired me:

Perhaps it doesn’t look like much, but here’s who was hiding in amongst the woodgrain:

The painting is named The 3 Faces of Mother Earth for a particular reason – from halfway across the room she looks pleasant, when you get a little closer, she looks contemplative and from up-close, she looks sad.

It is very fitting for Mother Earth to have all three visages, don’t you think?

The shot above is the “Pleasant” face, below you can see “Contemplative” and “Sad”…

Here’s “Sad” – it’s a little blurry up so close but you can still see the sadness.  Honestly, up close she looks like she is about to cry.

I think it’s interesting that she has three visages as I didn’t really plan it that way but it is so fitting!

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Quotes from The Miracle on 34th Street

Here’s some great quotes from the classic movie: The Miracle on 34th Street…

Kris Kringle (played by Edmund Gwenn) said:

“Imagination is a place by itself.  There’s the British Nation and the French Nation – well, this is Imagi-Nation.”

The Lawyer Frederick M. Gailey (played by John Payne) said:

“Faith is believing in things even when common sense tells you not to.”

The little girl named Susan (played by Natalie Wood) said:

“If things don’t turn out right the first time, you’ve still got to believe.”

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