Posted: December 20, 2011, Last Updated: December 20, 2011
| Robin Wethe Altman
I recently finished a commission for a woman in my writing class. Connie is a person who is overflows with enthusiasm for people and life. She bubbles over when she is excited about a topic and she can cry in an instant at something that is sad. Well... She wanted me to create an oil painting of her sister and her sister's two daughters sitting on a bench in Laguna Beach. The mother lost her husband when the girls were just babies and has struggled to work and do her best at raising the girls alone in Taiwan. It turned out that the mother did quite well financially but in the stress ...
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Categories:
Laguna Beach,
seascape,
sisters,
mothers and daughters,
happy life,
Robin Wethe Altman,
oil painting,
contemporary art,
folk art,
California art,
American art,
Asian art
Posted: May 16, 2011, Last Updated: May 19, 2011
| Robin Wethe Altman
Definition of PERIL 1: exposure to the risk of being injured, destroyed, or lost. and this is the definition of the word "joy: a : the emotion evoked by well-being, success, or good fortune or by the prospect of possessing what one desires. As an artist, I have found that if I want to have a chance at success, good fortune or the prospect of possessing what I desire, I have to risk the possibility of being injured, destroyed or lost. An artist's life is not one of hiding in solitude and indulging in self expression. An artist's life demands that I must expose myself, my ...
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Categories:
Harbor,
seascape,
ocean,
boats,
Pavillion,
sunset,
Newport Beach,
Balboa Island,
dock,
American art,
arts & crafts,
contemporary art,
ethnographic & oceanic,
folk art,
maritime antiques & marine art,
other (or all categories)
Posted: May 16, 2011, Last Updated: May 19, 2011
| Robin Wethe Altman
Artists are capable of intense emotions. That's something I've had to navigate in life over and over. They say the "sensitive" in a herd of animals is the one who senses danger first and alerts the rest which is a good thing, but high sensitivity can also drive a person completely insane. What I finally learned to do after many years of suffering is, yes... be aware of my emotions because they inform me. I don't suppress emotion, but I let it serve as guidance. I'm careful to not indulge in negative thoughts for too long though, because that habbit almost destroyed my life at one time. When ...
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Categories:
Emotions,
Esther Hicks,
Abraham,
fear,
guilt,
anxiety,
anger,
guidence,
direction,
seascape,
Laguna Beach,
American art,
contemporary art,
folk art,
other (or all categories)
