" Decent " Horse falling into waves by Cinnamon Cooney

" Decent " The final state in the Bucephalus series. The unnerving image of a horse falling into waves. At the end of the heroic journey or quest our hero faces the final test giving all and becoming purified. The central figure surrenders and the polarities are resolved. Even though my subject's  greatest fear is faced it is through the fall that rebirth is possible. In the way our falls and tribulations when survived lift us back up to a greater calling. One of the elements I looked for in this piece was how to convey this dichotomy but show the viewer the hope of uncertain future redemption.  It is from the ocean that life and hope will spring.The water that flows here has been here as witness to the legends of earth.  I have left the viewer the freedom to resolve the events.  While the painting remains in a state of unknown conclusion. That way the place the onlooker is currently living creates a new experience of the painting.               Sold

Hey whats with all the Horses? A tesimony for Bucephalus

Hey whats with all the Horses? Here is the deal and why you will be seeing an equine subject matter. BUCEPHALUS! Growing up a pigtail flying, oat eating, galloping girl I lived horses. The legend of all legends was of course the great and first heroic horse Bucephalus. As amazing as his rider Alexander the great and the beginning of both their legends are entwined in each other. He is as legendary as Excaliber is to Aurther. Horse as legend and hero has been a long subject in human history. They are our more noble nature. A horse will race so determined to win that its heart will explode in its chest. They fight our wars with us and die along side us. 8 million died in WWI alone. 3000 died in Gettysburg.
There have been legendary horses throughout the west. The hero's of our past had amazing steads as brave and sternly made. The Race track is full of legends. The sport of kings is actually ruled by horses bigger than the sport itself. Horses care about the game. Watch the line up out the gate and see them stare each other down. I plan to take the next year and do several pieces about this. I am thinking to do at least 10 very large scale and powerful works. I will also continue to enter shows locally and nationally. I will be keeping you up on this subject. All the work will be for sale. Also I will be filming and posting speed paints of my larger works. It is going to be an exciting time. The year of the Horse!

Schrodingers Breasts and deep fried Art Twinkies Horse swimming and running in the crashing waves by Cinnamon Cooney

 A beautiful crashing wave crest above a horse dancing in the water."Surge" 60X60 acrylic. This is painting number 60 too. Painting #60 so at least I can say its been a productive few months. I am knee deep in due paying. Knee deep, possibly hip deep. Do I want to pull the rip cord and start churning out rainbow colored paths with umbrella covered lovers kissing???? they will sell yesss... should I ......maybe?!! NOT. Mostly because I am stubborn as hell. Also because I am honest in my life and my art. So have I taken the two MOST passe' subjects in art and dug in my heals???? Yea I might have done. I mean its horses and oceans. Art wise its is like frying a Twinkie. However if you look, its more its a lot more. Will I cave and start toning down the colors and deliver something more packaged for the audience. Hahaha HELL NO. I am going to paint more. I do this because there is something meaningful and transcendent for me here.
This piece with a subject full of conflict still remains peaceful and even restful. In real life the only way you might see a horse in waves this big is if he fell of the boat and swam in. Even then he is a wet angry super pissed off horse . Horse people feel free to laugh now.
This is about the balancing act of life. How riding the tidal surges, the forces out of my control, is the beauty in the experience. I just recently found a lump in my breast and wow what a implosion that was. I had to exist in this place of being and not being. Cancer limbo waiting for tests So I could go about being normal again or get about the business of being sick. Until my tests I was neither well or sick. My breasts were in Schrodingers box now. I feel real happiness is being safe and sheltered. Having the ones you love safe and sheltered the rest is just decor. Now my real fundamental happiness got threatened. 
The idea for this next series of paintings and in particular this one came out of that moment. Finding the lump to discovering the nature of the lump was all put into this piece. I believe that happiness is a practice and a choice. Through this that belief was sorely tested. I am happy to say I am cancer free. The lump was just a lump.  I am back to blissful ignorance about my own mortality. Out of that came "Surge" which sums it all up for me. It informs my direction artistically. Life is beautiful. It is a privilege to be here. To tell my little stories in paint and to share them here. So I pay me dues and carry on because I am blessed to do so. Love you.

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" Forces" 30 minute study #59

" Forces" This is a study. A 30 minute paint sketch for a large piece I am thinking about doing. Almost as big as the Stallions called Spectacle. Now that I am pulling the studio and myself into working order its important to be a professional about the work. That means research and gesture sketching. It means doing studies in paint so I may make adjustments to the final piece. This will be entered into another upcoming Juried show with the VAA. Here is the thing with juried shows. The people judging them are movers and shakers in the art world. Even if they do not put you in a show they have SEEN your work. I want to be seen and then seen again. OH sure I want to get in. But I know I have to be entering shows monthly. It will be the averages of the shows entered and then there you will be. Your galleries will find you, your buyers will find you, and your patrons will find you. You need all three. The only way to get in front of them is put yourself out there... Often. To be exposed and EXPOSED. Sometimes if you are artists telling a strange little story people have to see you a bunch of times to know they you like possibly  even LOVE you. You have to become an acquired taste to be ACQUIRED into someones collection. Right now I am paying dues in Houston then I will pay dues out of state. Then I will go to Expo NY and pay some dues (and some union dues to the guys at the loading docks of the Javits) There are miles to go before the next checkpoint. However this is ART and I know this beast. Now look at the painting. Makes a little more sense what its about now right?!!!!!???