MORE THAN JUST THE PAINTING:

There has been a calling for me to sell my palettes for a hot minute now. I give my palette that I use for wedding paintings to the client. It represents how life really is super messy and the only way that we make it beautiful is by pulling from the in between moments. Every fight, every long night, every birthday party, every boring night spent on the couch adds up to something bigger.

we are more than just a beautiful painting, we are the palette too!

it wasn’t sitting well with me to just paint on pallets though, I wanted there to be more meaning. So when I began this challenge I made the choice to paint from my actual life and sell the coinciding palettes with each piece.

NOT A PINTEREST WORLD:

we see a lot of artists pulling from references online. People who have never seen an octopus, are whipping out a masterpiece of an octopus on someone’s head.

I also have done this in the past, and I cannot say that I won’t do it again in the future. With my art history degree though I understand that experiences were much more limited in the past, the journey of an artist finding their voice took a lot of time and effort.

Now we can access so much on the Internet, and be inspired fairly quickly. I wanted to find the beauty in my own world though.

So for every prompt I searched my photos for something that inspired me in my walking life.

It adds another layer to this idea that we are more than just the painting, we are the palette, and we are also the moments. These are all moments from my world that shaped me in small ways. And I tried to paint the way those moments made me feel. Or access what I was going through at the time when I took the photo.

The shop update:

I plan to delve into each art piece in some profound way for all of you who decide to purchase an original. Whether that is me printing out the stories and sending them with the palettes and the paintings, or me writing a more detailed blog I don’t know yet. Either way I hope that these stories and this message resonate with you and make you think in someway! The drop will be on September 3rd at 6 pm and the secret code is PALLETTE10 for 10% off the total, valid that day only.