Sunday, June 22, 2014

"Unspoken" painting # 58

"Unspoken" painting # 58 30X24  on a beveled edge canvas. So this is  complicated. Yet it is very direct. I have been drilling down on  an idea creatively.  Pieces that support and explain each other while, still standing alone. I am really hoping they stand out inform each other. Thats the thing when you build a body. It builds itself like a trail of bread crumbs one leading to the next until the meaning of the whole reveals itself. In the obvious element the subjects are equine but in fact like riders they carry their true meaning. It is a saturated group. But I am  a highly saturated person. It is was always color for me. Big color and little color. During my time in the commercial world of art I spent my time in neutral chains. Never confronting the buyer with anything that might clash with their mind or their home. Subjects should be bold but unobtrusive so as to not overwhelm the sofa cushions or the residents. I remember the agent over the phone urging a lack of pink or orange. "I can't sell orange" "pink will drive away money...is it red or that horrific pink?!!!" I remember looking over the isle at Art Exo new york at the bright colors from the Israeli and Persian artist thinking wow they are living their art. Mostly east coast collectors there will concrete lofts full of light.
BUT THIS...is not that. This is a subject that is bold and meaningful to me. It may be uncomfortable and it does not fade into a background politely. In fact I have no intention about being polite about any of it. I will not be bridled or muzzled. I will do my best to create work that is meaningful and true. That is free and does what it must.

Painting is for sale $375.00 I do ship

Saturday, June 21, 2014

"Spectacle" painting #57

"Spectacle" painting #57 gallery wrap 60X72 This was a physically. mentally, and emotionally demanding painting. In a very large space I am putting myself completely on display and to do that I have to paint authentically. Honestly I am proud of it. Stallions fighting if you have never seen it,  is amazing and horrifying. There is this moment when you know that you no longer factor in to what is happening. Thats you are powerless and defenseless to nature. There are things in play that have so much natural order in them that they are immutable. This painting was all of my art leading up to this moment. I chose such a large scale because I wanted to fill up the eyes and space with the moment. No small event just constructing this piece. The entire surface and side had to be prepped with absorbent ground. Studies and sketches for planning. Fluids and flows to get the dramatic water color effect. The over sketching to keep that effortless feeling of paperworks. White lining.....so much white lining. Picking the piece up on and off the easel to control drips and blown paint. Nearly passing our from blowing paint. So you see I had my own battle. It was glorious and the echo is now on canvas.
Price 1,200.00 I do ship



Friday, June 20, 2014

"Exquisite" painting #56

"Exquisite" painting #56 is a 30X40 inch on a gallery wrap canvas with 2 inch stretchers.  I used to watch my horses for hours as a girl. Just observing every twitch and step. Horse people know that horses play and talk smack with each other. They dance and toss their heads celebrating the sheer awesomeness of being Equine. They know they are powerful. They believe they are faster than wind. I have seen a horse race a gust of leaves and then celebrate his victory over his unseen rival. This piece is about capturing the pure joy horses feel in being themselves!

price $550.00 we do ship





Tuesday, June 17, 2014

"Synopsis" painting #55

"Synopsis" painting #55 Today it was my MIL Linda who created the topic. Truth being told I was not a good commercial artist. She was looking for a cross with sunflowers and long story short that did not work out. It happens to me from time to time that I go completely off the reservation. This was my Achilles heal as a young hopeful money making  artist. When I was fancying myself a commercial artist I would be brilliant for period of time and then the tangent would happen. You have to be honest with yourself in art. Who am I? Why do I paint and who do I paint for? WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?!!!!
It is the singularity of art which is both everything and nothing. I do not cure illness,  build roads, map stars, or produce food for a hungry world. I do however address a hunger that is intangible and profane.
So it was sunflowers and a butterfly. We have been to the butterfly exhibit and that really went deep for me. Seeing my kids react as if they were seeing fairies. At one point my son reacted as if he was being attacked by a fierce beast when a delicate white one drifted down to land on him. It was a wonderful day and that was a residue I was still feeling. It all steeps in!



Monday, June 16, 2014

"Sherpa" painting #54 My self Portrait

"Sherpa" painting #54 well she's done...or I am done. This was my self portrait or art Selfie. Artists, we have to do these. Its a rule unwritten, but everyone knows along the way you have to paint yourself. Everything I paint is a self portrait because my viewpoint effects the outcome so deeply. I am not one of those artists that takes myself out of the work. In fact I tend to get more rooted into it each passing piece. This particular painting is very personal. How I feel about sharing art with others, how I feel about the process of painting, and how I love the world around me is totally exposed here. Which to me is a success. I pulled together everything I have been looking at the previous 53 paintings. The things that have been important to me in the creative process are here. In fact I feel a little bled out from it. The internal space I have of finishing the piece and putting the brush in water had strong shades of how I felt after labor. It is relief and happiness all stirred up. It helped me with my artist statement and It is it's canvas sister. They reflect well of each other. I hope you love it as much as I do....however thats not the point anymore because I love her. I really do.





Friday, June 13, 2014

Artist Statement Cinnamon Cooney

It is from an a highly emotional and sentimental space that my experience is fostered. I fabricate  from a whimsical inner narrative. As I observe my objective world  I overlay it with a visual subtext of the true meanings of things as I see them. This entertaining inner exposure is what I try to capture in my work. My themes focus on the essential complexion of the living world  rarely acknowledging the industrial dystopian nature of modern living. A persistent tapestry of fanciful elements that implies an undercurrent of hopefulness and optimism. Even when the pools of a darker nature is explored a presence of buoyant quirkiness  remains. The resilience of the natural world, its persistence to survive and overcome is explored. It is through my art that I share my fundamental optimism in the magical nature of living and  divine struggle toward joy.
My art DNA was developed in the cradle of the southwest. It is imbued with vista's and mesa's populated by natures greatest hits. As a child I soaked myself in horse drinking troughs marinating in the influence of an equine world. I spent thousand of miles on Americas most amazing horse trails. Around campfires my ears burned with songs and legends of the west, of native american spirits, and the battle of good and evil that is west. I cut my teeth on artists like Deigo Rivera, Freda Kahlo, R.C. Gorman, Pena, Pablita Concho, Fredrick Remington, and Beatrice Woods. In college I tempered and honed my vision with the influence of the flip side of American history. Attending  Prairie View A&M introduced me to another set of hero's and villains. I committed to preserving an eyes and heart wide open policy. There the histories of slave trade through the great African American poets, writers, and artist mixed with my romanticized view of the world. I was profoundly effect by the artwork of John T. Biggers, Jean-Micheal Basquiat, and Pearl Fryer. This influenced me to examine myself to the deepest level of my own meaning in a world capable of great injustice and beauty. I embraced the need for my own journey as an ordinary hero and purveyor of a beautiful truth. To tell stories that are moving and woven with all of the vigor I can muster. To shine a light into what was and what will be. To value as sacred the world around me and the beings living in its shelter.
I am a painter. My works are acrylic on canvas. I find that painting is a medium that has been thoroughly explored. Therefore I am driven to do my art with both craftsmanship and innovation. I avail myself of wide variety of tools, gels, mediums, and art techniques. I refer to this as my toy box. Sandbox time and embracing space outside of my comfort zone has been directing my paintings. Many of my techniques are experimental. I approach each piece as if it is a game and my tools are toys that I may explore  outside of the shadow of success and failure models. When approached as play what appears to be accidental is in fact an expression of a very intimate experience with my creation. I leave myself open to the possibilities of each creation but yet a participant in every element.  It is my goal to leave the viewer with the experience of having come across a moment of exposed truthful exploration from an internal anecdote.

Thursday, June 12, 2014

"Pippi" painting #53

So doing the daily Spit paints to get back into a daily groove. We are given a topic and 30 minutes. Todays topic was Pippi Longstocking. I thought alot how as a children character she is always young. However were she real the she would eventually succumb to time like the rest of us. But, she is Pippi after all so fading into the walls would not be her style. This is my Take on that story line

Wednesday, June 11, 2014

"Thunderstruck" painting #52 6-11-2014

"Thunderstruck" painting #52 this one also started out as a spit paint. It was super rough to get something in under my 30 minute wire. However I am getting things done. This little clown as written a check he can not cash. Its a pretty complicated piece to do small. I might have been more comfortable to focus on a smaller amount of the story or go bigger on my canvas. However I am sick today and pretty stressed so I think once again my inner world leaks out.

Tuesday, June 10, 2014

"Executioner" painting #51

"Executioner" painting #51 I went ahead and finished the idea I posted for SP. The topic today was Owl executioner. Lots of clever stuff went up and I think this fit right in. I was pretty tickled at the idea of the cat in the owls eyes. This narrative of something greater that what we see in the boundaries of the painting is one of my favorite things to get into. Fundamentally I am taking myself and the viewer on a little trip. I live and breathe emotion. How we feel about things and the story mortal eyes may not see behind it. I enjoyed the challenge of illuminating the owl sinking, horrified, and horrified experience but still leaving room for the humor in the moment. I mean we feel like he can just go. I want to make the viewer mentally sweat the owls escape. Of course their will always be a viewer or two who will cheer for the cat. This one is for my story tellers out there.

"Flying" painting #50

"Flying" painting #50 This was part of a Spit Paint you may or may not have seen posted. SP is getting back me to full daily and more status. However once I posted this at its 30 minute cutoff I went a head and finished it to my satisfaction. This was my sons hand holding a car up and making it fly. I wanted to give the painting a visible emotion of Spyder's experience with his cars. Really all boys experience with cars. The challenge today had a topic of Beetle in the air. I like how someone else picking the topic causes me to be more creative. to be honest posting next to professional artist at Pixar, Disney, and Henson. Not to mention big game studios lights a fore under ones butt NOT to phone it in. I think my first attempt was rocky but this here I am truly proud of. Also after gallery hopping with my friend Matt I because aware by osmosis there is not a lot of art for the male sensibility. It had gotten me to thinking about my son and husband and wondering how much of what I am doing here in my little art bubble reflects them. For me this is a success and has left me with a happy heart!

Sunday, June 8, 2014

" Orchid" painting #49

" Orchid" painting #49. This has become Do As Many As I Can challenge. I am painting daily and by that I mean I put brush to canvas every day. However to get some of what I am chasing down here it just is going out side my time frames. I have decided that that is what its about going outside the lines. I am trying to tell the story inside the narrative. Whats under the surface. While thats happening I am tweaking my method and process. I have just purchased some larger canvas which will not speed me up but I have an opportunity through the VAA to possibly maybe show it. Yes of course I show it here to all of you and I love that so much. But these are just not the same as live. Plus I need to push some of these babies into the world and see how they fair away from the shelter of the studio. Thats art purpose is to go out into the world and survive. They must find homes and advocates. They are seeds flung far into the world. To grow and thrive as time travelers.