"Crush" 4-11-2014 daily painting #16

"Crush" 4-11-2014 daily painting #16 I watched Chasing Mavericks last night. Got to thinking about the ocean again. The way the water changes with the seasons and the weather. How you knew how the ocean was feeling by looking at it. By listening to it. When its feeling peaceful, playful, and angry. What we have done spilling oil into the gulf again and again goes beyond mere clean up. Beneath the waves the story is changing. Because people consider themselves separate from the tides we do not react as we should. The ocean is our life blood and if we fail it we fail ourselves.

Unwavering" 4-10-2014 daily painting #15.

 Unwavering" 4-10-2014 daily painting #15. I have a lot of feeling about water. It is an anchor for me taking me to a place of calm. I grew up in San Diego and for a red head with skin made for a moon burn I spent so much time at the beach. I met one of my favorite people on earth at the beach Miss Andrea . I came there to cheer, to scream, and to cry. There were boogie boards and surf reports. There were coolers with sandwiches and fruit. You can hear your soul taking by the sea. I believe that is why all surfers are part Peter Pan part philosopher. I saw my dad play at the beach and my mom shine. Long bunch of thought but you can imagine the amount of spiritual information I would want to convey when paint a wave. The curl,lip, and spray. Little fact its my first like this and there may be more. My plan is now to just meander and paint for while and as I near the end of my journey the last month or so I will pick something. So my show should have a fairly exciting finally. A type of master thesis that will take me and the viewer to a destination.

" Aurther" 4-9-2014 daily painting challenge #14.

" Aurther" 4-9-2014 daily painting challenge #14. I am going to start numbering them now. Today I filmed and still got this guy done. I have been thinking about this piece for a while. I have been gathering tons of color story pics, Arctic Owls, and beaches. Believe it or not even though he is an imagination piece (not from life or a photo) there are owls on the beach. It happens which is awesome. Just pushing forward. I wonder what it will feel like when I get into the triple digits. I am thinking of Dominick who told me about a writers challenge. NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month, is a competition to write a 50,000-word novel entirely in November. I think how?!!! But here I am plugging in a daily painting. Its hard but its NOT a Novel in a month. So plug, paint, Plug, Paint.

" Heart" 4-8-2014 Daily painting challenge.

" Heart" 4-8-2014 Daily painting challenge. Wow the last couple days have sucked a rotten egg on a hot day. Nothing terrible has happened. Kids are fine, family is ok. But personally Murphy has moved in, set up on my Sofa and wreaked havoc. It has been nearly impossible to paint. But I have made sure I went in and did something, anything. The statement it was hard does not cover the get up off your butt speech I needed to even put paint out on the pallete. On the Good side this is paint #13.

"" Melancholy" 4-7-2014 Daily painting challenge #12.

" Melancholy" 4-7-2014 Daily painting challenge #12. Touching back on owls today. Riding the waves of life and art. Just trying to process, refine, and distill out whatever is clouding up the mechanism. I am really hoping that somewhere along the way I will find absolute clarity. No pressure or anything. Just life defining clarity.

"Honey"4-6-2014 Daily Painting challenge #11.

"Honey"4-6-2014 Daily Painting challenge #11. Little known thing about me unless you have known me awhile is that I enjoy portraits. You can capture things that you feel as well as what you see. The eyes are my favorite! There are a few photographers that do this but I think there is a magic we get in the act of painting. I really enjoy the fact that right we are close to family, that my daughter is so happy in school, and that I am really, really, really, grateful for all of it.

"Strange" 4-5-2014 Daily painting # 10

"Strange" 4-5-2014 Daily painting # 10 I am in a bizarre mood today for daily painting. I had a few minutes so I doodled. Paint doodles are like little bubbles of thought that surface and do not explain themselves. I think it counts though.?!!!

Little Brushes at play

Art and kids go hand in hand likes finger and paint so If I paint they paint! While I am drying a layer or working out a design solution they have a bit of fun with paint. We get in stuff that can be dirty, turn on a hose for later, and go at it. Spyder has been in a long green period. Which means I know its him he paints ONLY in green. Lunabella who is 2 has really blown my mind she Often when working holds the brush in the correct hand position and VERY deliberately makes organized marks. All my kids are very different artists but I know they are artists. I look for the point they are trying to make not just a well executed drawing. I love that we all have art. My driveway is covered in it. My yard is littered with it. Its everywhere and I love it I never ever make to big of a deal about objective realism. There are many types of artists and not all of them work in high realism. I make sure I celebrate their intentions as an artist. Their personal creativity and voice. Does not mean we don't have lots of teachable moments. So many little spots to stop and explain the higher fundamentals about art. The trick is to teach without criticism. As long as I don't break there hearts they will always have their art!

Daily Painting #9

"Reserve" 4-4-2014 Daily Painting .There are special places that the birds find on the open road. Limited seating for a select few with nomad blood. Its a wander lust that only a secluded paradise can relieve. A rest stop this side of Heaven. In my studio I am doing just that. I know where my sweet spot is in art. An art selfie so to speak where I only show my good side. Landscapes, still lives, and of course outsider commentary art. But in this trip my inner Gypsy is saying lean into what makes the journey more interesting. We may be Glamping for a while!

Daily Painting #8 "Retreat"

" Retreat" 4-3-2014 Daily painting. Wow I got in there by myself today. Kids were fairly great about it. I love RVing and the beach. Thats my nostalgia sweet spot. CB radios and talking to truckers while Willy Nelson croons out of the 8 track. My Handle was Bionic Butterfly and My dad was the Sting. I loved the giant Panorama through the windshield. I loved waking up in new places and taking the freshness of it all in. I love the gypsy part of me which I never really indulge that much anymore....hmmm

Daily Painting #7 "Rough"

"Rough" 4-2-2014 This is really intense! In general I do not paint cars. Because men have such strong emotional attachments to them. I am in the end avoiding criticism. I say to myself they are the domain of draftsmen, craftsmen and Illustrators. I realize its crazy I think that. Thats just fear talking. I mean I love images with cars. Old surf vehicles at the beach. Vintage campers in the desert. Really the only thing that keeps me from painting cars in that I AM NOT painting them. But its like my tree lesson. I know when people are learning to paint trees that as long as they hang in the tree will come. I know as long as I deal with the discomfort of an imperfect car, the car I am hoping to paint will come. In the end its my journey I should make the pit stops that make me happy. Take the scenic routes that fill of my soul. So on and off I may paint cars. Possible not all that well at first but eventually if I am brave I will paint them as I feel them in my heart.

"Fur" 4-1-2014 Daily painting entry #6

"Fur" 4-1-2014 Daily painting entry #6 Feeling tired but still painted. Feeling tired but still painted. Kids interrupting every two seconds. Painting in the war zone today. Spent way to long looking for what to paint. I finally just ad to say the next picture is it! I think this is a real blockage to an artist. When you are very creative what do you create?!! Coming from a commercial background I have tools to just muscle down and work. Thats something I am glad for!

Daily Paining #5 "Hush"

This is "Hush" 3-31-2014 #5 of my daily painting experience. I was talking today with another talented artist about the painting muse. Most creative people find it hard to be inspired when in fact they are not inspired. This is definitely about painting outside of the mood to do so. Challenges are at the moment what to paint and why to paint it. I felt since I painted most of the week all ready a daily practice would not be different BUT it is a whole new animal. A wild one and it is too soon to tell what that will mean. I am wondering if when I look at a years worth of these what that will feel like?!!! Right now they seem to me like strangers at a dinner party and we are getting aquatinted. Will we be friends, have anything in common, or when they leave will I feel a release of pressure. I LOVE IT.

"Grace" daily painting # 4

Get up go paint....So I did. This is " Grace" 3-30-2014.Daily painting #4 I am at odds here or war. Its a conflict for me to do florals. I am conflicted but I have to face the idea that the subject is not important its the intention that matters. The value, the color, the design, and the expression. So I am asking for grace in this piece. Searching for it. After all its just simple elegance or refinement of movement right? A divine inspiration. I am so outside my comfort zone here. Its amazing how frustration is entangled with coloring outside my own lines. I mean I keep saying is just a rose... Just breath. Make a choice and live with it DO NOT overwork it. I think I am though over working.

Today's Daily painting "Piglet Parade" 3-29-2014 daily painting # 3

Today's Daily painting "Piglet Parade" 3-29-2014 daily painting # 3 still on this pig meme. So all ready I have some feelings on this journey. The first and Biggest is I have changed my mind and I will not be selling the pieces but instead I will do some type of showing at the end of the year. I think the only real way to share the transformation I may or may not have as an artist is to see the whole collection together all 365 paintings. So all my joking about a hoard seems to be prophetic. #piglet #cinnamoncooney #art #painting #dailypainting #pig

"Royal Swine" 3-28-2014 daily painting #2

"Royal Swine" 3-28-2014 daily painting #2 this is todays doodle where in my studio its good to be a pig today. Obviously feeling strongly about pigs because of our game. I am enjoying the practice of a small daily painting and I am wondering where this will take me. Doing these quickly has been an interesting sprint and is challenging in its own right. I am liking this part where I make an artistic choice and lean into to it instead of mull over it. They are getting their own section in my Etsy store._update I ended up changing my mind about selling a few paintings later and though about having a show at the end of this process. #pigs #art #cinnamoncooney #painting #swine

"Spring Piglet" Daily Painting #1

" Spring Piglet" 3-27-2014 Daily Painting #1 I have been humming and hawing over doing a year of Daily Paintings. The idea being you paint at least one small canvass everyday. This is an 8x10 in acrylic. It is really personal to my life right now and I was surprised at how revealing it ended up being. I will be posting these on Etsy and Pinterest as well. Some of them may become Hart Party lessons but on the whole they will be their own thing. I hope to really grow from this personally. I recognize the transformative nature of a project of this size and I hope you enjoy me sharing it with you. If I end up on one of the hoarding shows buried under Canvas's you will know what happened.