Grass Greener, Acrylic,Glass Marker, & Charcoal on Twelve Wood Panels, 48x48 $495 Price includes installation in your home by gallery. For inquiry of sales of individual pieces, please contact the artist. Here are eight of twelve pieces installed in the Dandelion Gallery currently. I will photograph and post the other four pieces tomorrow. I wanted this piece to only be about the strength of children and for the viewer to be unable to overlook each child's direct gaze. Grass Greener, installed Hanging on to the Wish Dress for Future Use, Acrylic & Mixed Media on WC Paper, 2012, $250 More Moderately Motivational Mask Mantras Some of these mask pieces are watercolor on special plaster and fabric slabs made by me, some are acrylic on canvas, and some are acrylic on wood. Dandelion Wine, Mixed Media on Watercolor Paper, 2012, Katrina Davis-Salazar, $200
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I again do not have words for these paintings. I feel like childhood can be a pleasant war. The children are figuring out so many things and battling obstacles, but they do it with such grace and even enjoyment. Each tear is a lesson, each fight an obstacle overcome, each giggle a gift. My own children deal with very serious things each day, and it amazes me how them come out of it fearlessly, stronger, and even laughing. These paintings show the honesty with which these strong children stare down the world. They may tossed around a bit by life, but they are unbroken. It would take a lot to break them. We need to (and DO) cherish all children. I wish we could somehow carry that boldness into adulthood, be we unfortunately do lose a lot of it. There are moments, though, that I do feel that childlike strength back.....I bet you do too. Watching my children move through life helps me re-learn how to approach obstacles. wading in the gentle storm, acrylic and charcoal pencil on canvas, 24" x 24", Katrina Davis-Salazar, 2012, $200 wading in the gentle storm, detail sister intuition, acrylic and charcoal pencil on canvas, 24" x 24", Katrina Davis-Salazar, 2012, $200 sister intuition, detail you won't believe what a wonder she will be, acrylic and charcoal pencil on canvas, 24" x 24", 2012, $200 you won't believe what a wonder she will be, detail how many different faces I will have, acrylic and charcoal pencil on canvas, 24" x 24", Katrina Davis-Salazar, 2012, $200 how many different faces I will have, detail 7 NEW Moderately Motivational Mask Mantras!
acrylic on wood panel, 12" x 12", 2012, Katrina Davis-Salazar, $27 each NOTE: I wrote this BEFORE I titled each piece. Writing to you helps! Usually when I create a painting, I know what it is about and have at least part of the title in mind BEFORE I begin. Sometimes, though rarely, I just want to paint something beautiful and knowledge of a title is vague. In these cases, I just stick on a title at the end. With these four new pieces, it was different entirely. (READ MORE BELOW) Without Words #1: her words 30" x 30", 2012, $300There has been so much going on with my children and their feelings of exclusion due to food. Beyond Celiac Disease and Eosinophilic Esophagitis, we have also become acutely aware of how every child-centered activity (both at school and beyond) seems to revolve around pizza, cupcakes, candy, or some other unhealthy food. This scares us because of the rise in childhood obesity. Though difficult, we do realize that this awareness is one of the gifts that have come from our "difference." When I initially started to paint I was really thinking about children, our culture of food and obesity, my own children's vulnerability, exclusionary food, etc. (READ MORE BELOW) Without Words #2: wrapped rabbit 18" x 26", 2012, $200I started by painting beautiful cakes with children stuck in them as cake toppers, some with glass cases around them. I prepared the paper in shades of gray, cut them to size, and began painting. The cakes WERE beautiful, but there was no "bite," no contrast, nothing to grip the viewer visually or emotionally. I repeatedly painted over them and started again. Finally they emerged into something very different. (READ MORE BELOW) Without Words #3: milagros 14" x 18", 2012, SOLDThese works are still about a child's vulnerability. . . . but they are also about a child's strength within the fragility. Really though, I have no words for these paintings. They touch me deeply. I don't know how to title them. My inability to title these paintings really goes along with my recent lack of words. (READ MORE BELOW) Without Words #4: their words silence her 22" x 30" 2012, $275Feeling blessed, overwhelmed, confused about the right path, the right course of action, on the edge of something powerful regarding advocacy for my children, but not there yet... there are no words. My children DO have words. I listen. Their words are so profound that they silence me. There are a few titles in here, somewhere. :) Writing this note to you has taken me all day, leaving it and coming back to it. I will now write the titles , which will likely contain words. There is both fault and good in that. Thank you for "listening."
Batship Crazy or Head-shaking Disbelief, 48” x 48”, mixed media on canvas, 2012, $350 There was recently a very sad loss in our extended family. I really have no words, and so many, and am shook to the core. These paintings show this dear person's mother, any mother's disbelief, my own guilt of being far away, and the way life takes hold of you---whether you allow it to or not. Nostalgic for Symmetry and Repetition, 48” x 48”, mixed media on canvas, 2012, $350 Nostalgic for the Present, 48” x 48”, mixed media on canvas, 2012, $350
My feeling as a mother.... hanging on to every moment, as it happens, sighing wistfully in the present moments, the irony of this. As I am writing this, I just realized how personal all of these paintings are to me. There has been much happening in our lives lately. I do believe that the more specific and detailed you are with imagery, the more people your work reaches. The more personal it is, the more universal it becomes. If you are not totally honest about the ins and outs of it all, you are not speaking to anyone. the caring and keeping of, 14” x 18”, acrylic, watercolor, gesso, wc paper, $110 framed (frame is a gift to you) This is a painting of my father when he was very young. He is now almost 80. He had just gone into the hospital the day before this was painted. Here, to me, he looks vulnerable, strong, creepy, beautiful. My dad was a carpenter and a shop teacher. When I was young, we were very close. This is me thinking of the incredible, huge arc any life takes on in the course of 80 years. CRECEN APARTE, CRECEN JUNTOS, 30" x 30", mixed media on watercolor paper, $300 framed (the frame is a gift) Siblings bound together always, but with different paths. I know even as they grow apart, they will grow together. It was not like that for my sisters and I, it was very different. But I know they are even stronger than we are. a hug, 12” x 18, acrylic, watercolor, gesso, wc paper, $110 framed (frame is a gift to you)
Here is a painting of a relationship, always many layered. My attempt to communicate.... I have been enjoying working on paper again. I almost completely abandoned working on paper (instead working on wood, masonite, canvas, and antique frames) many years ago and now I don't know why. Paper seems to come so much easier to me. In a way, it is less precious than wood, canvas, or masonite and therefor I am freer to just keep creating more and more work very quickly. In another way, it is more precious, delicate, and beautiful. Paper is like a little prayer that I can say over and over. It lends itself to my obsessive nature. I laboriously prepare a really long piece of paper with my texture background, then I cut it into many standard sized pieces of paper. I love even the act of cutting the paper. It is a surprise to me where the particular colors and patterns will land on each sheet. When I was a little girl, the first surface I worked on in my art studio class was paper. First pastel paper, then watercolor paper. I worked only on these papers until I was 18 and went to college. I had to go through this process, leaving materials and medium that I once loved, or order to come back to them. Thank God for colorful papers and the subjects that dance upon them: my children, dreams, struggles, living things, etc.
This is the beginning of a series of Loteria Cards, based on the many traditional and non-traditional Mexican Bingo game cards created over hundreds of years. I will be making prints from them for sale. These first six are hanging in Dandelion Gallery currently. The original of "El Venado" has already sold to a wonderful young artist. I will be making all 54 cards. Let me know if you have any suggestions of themes. Some of the cards are from the most common deck (like "El Venando" and "La Mano"), some are from my imagination. The original images are the property of the artist (me!). :)
Symbolism of Snails Resurrection, the Spiral, & Laziness In Christian symbolism the snail is a symbol of the lazy or sinful person. It appeared to feed upon the mire of this world, making no effort to hunt or provide decent food for itself. Some people thought that the mud itself gave birth to snails. The psalmist pleaded with God to let the wicked be like snails which, unlike the righteous, appeared to "melt" during droughts (Psa 58:8). To move "at a snail's pace" is to move very slowly indeed. The snail's shell was equated with its house. Since it carried its "house" with it, this mollusc also became a symbol of self-sufficiency. The shape of the snail's shell associated it with the symbolism of the spiral, the whirlwind, the labyrinth, coiled snakes, winding paths, the orbits of heavenly bodies, the ram's horn, and underground caverns. Spirals are symbols of continuity, evolution, devolution, involution, expansion, contraction, cycles, mysteries, and changes which are the natural result of all that has gone before. Beneficial spirals twirl to the right while destructive ones twirl to the left. Treasures, the self, wisdom, or Minotaurs, other beasts, and nightmares lie at the center of spirals. As lunar and solar symbols, snails symbolize death and rebirth. Because they seal themselves in their shells during the winter or dry periods and re-emerge in the spring, snails are symbols of the stone being rolled away from the tomb of Christ and of the Resurrection. Being linked to the cycles of the sun and the moon, the snail became a fertility symbol in many cultures. Its shell was likened to a womb. Its horns and its slimy body were symbols of both male and female sex organs and conception. Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_does_a_snail_symbolize#ixzz1a6NdDpTl This is your new blog post. Click here and start typing, or drag in elements from the top bar.
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