pat.rota

, originally uploaded by pat.rota.

pat put this painting up on flickr. i had forgotten about it. i did it back when he and my sons were all busy playing a type of metal music. it was really something exciting to have all the musicians about playing.


this is one of my blogs, my new blog is on www.teckian.com

friend

friend, originally uploaded by Tobin Art.

so much is happening below the surface of things it is barely noticeable yet i am ready to burst, the summer activity is so exuberant.

i have 8 tadpole frogs on my porch and a baby canary almost two weeks old in my kitchen. Out fiddling three times this week!

hampstead fiddle jam and contest this saturday coming up at noon, center of town. look for the tents.

beanforest

beanforest, originally uploaded by Tobin Art.

the real title is "giraffe on a sailboat in a bird tea cup near the green bean forest"

soon to be available on my www.tobinart.etsy.com/ shop after i take a better photograph of it!

Practicing Art

The late Kurt Vonnegut wrote, "Practicing an art, no matter how well, is a way to make your soul grow."

I include music as an art.
Someone else said "art is something that comes out of refining the creative process and making a more finished type thing." i would call that 'professional' art, the kind one makes a living at!

the 'process of art' tho' is a healing journey. a purposeful one,

anyone can make a life a healing journey, tho' not everyone may have the clarity of mind to choose a life as that.

I know more of who i am because i have a chosen a life of art and a life of purpose.

2chickens

2chickens, originally uploaded by Tobin Art.

two of my ole gals, butterscotch and helga. i miss my chicken girls. I had an original brood for 9 years, Silver was the last to go at 10 years. tHERE IS NOTHING like having your friends walking around picking at bugs and sun bathing while working on the farm.

blackbirdoverchainlinkbridge

blackbirdoverchainlinkbridge, originally uploaded by Tobin Art.

the chain link bridge is my most favorite bridge in the world. Whenever it closes due to a barge or something running into it i miss it. and the time lost due to driving to route 1 and crossing the merrimac at the port of newburyport.

I feel included

Thanks InvisableFountain for including me in your etsy treasury!

http://www.etsy.com/treasury_list.php?room_id=66757

foxpendantfun

foxpendantfun, originally uploaded by Tobin Art.

while painting, inbetween the drying stages i amuze myself and somewhats aggravate too by making small wearable things from my original paintings. here is one of a red fox i painted last fall now a print on some plaster over re used cardboard.

i just listed it on etsy www.tobinart.etsy.com/

teaparty

teaparty, originally uploaded by Tobin Art.

Thanks Rose. was fun watching baby hummingbirds and baltimore orioles, ...tea chat.

sitting

sitting, originally uploaded by Tobin Art.

new painting. i went bigger than usual 3 by 5 feet.

on sale on my etsy shop www.tobinart.etsy.com for now, unless i get it into ....somewhere else.

little magnet i made today

little magnet i made today, originally uploaded by Tobin Art.

i did finish a HUmongous painting today too but too dim to take outside and photograph..so it will be coming soon.

i am being very brave, making stuff everyday even if it seems like a huge failure (alot of my experiments seem that way and then i have to do huge release for all the failures so that i can be grateful i can even be experimenting, and sending stuff to galleries and waiting to see whether they want my stuff or not....have to lift it out softly, i re discovered yesterday when i did this. and it really lifted! i felt so much better).

Singingland in the Summer

sl, originally uploaded by Tobin Art.

The greening has happened. Now things will continue to get more beautiful. It is damp and grey today. Tomorrow maybe i will plant zinneas, cosmos, butternut squash and beans.

tiles9 ( versa tiles)

tiles9, originally uploaded by Tobin Art.

here are some new tiles i made using old floppy's my theater friend gave me. they have multiple magnets on the back and a hanging thread too so they are very versatile. versa tile.

catsoft

catsoft, originally uploaded by Tobin Art.

One little hand painted soft cat.

redfoxredo

redfoxredo, originally uploaded by Tobin Art.

GOOD MORNING! this painting has undergone many repaints as well! hopefully it will be brought into chameleon gallery tomorrow.

re do of watchtower and bunny on chair

re do of watchtower and bunny on chair, originally uploaded by Tobin Art.

getting ready to bring three new paintings over to chameleon gallery in a couple days. this painting has been through 3 re-paintings.

redfoxpainting

redfoxpainting, originally uploaded by Tobin Art.

my newest painting. i like it! who knew a red fox was going to show up. It wasn't in the initial sketch at all.

taking it over to Chameleon gallery this saturday.

sheep

sheep, originally uploaded by Tobin Art.

Happy Sunday folks.

little tiny art.

second paint 'watching the watchtower"

second paint 'watching the watchtower", originally uploaded by Tobin Art.

I just reposted this and put up on Etsy today

In the original sketch and into the first painting there were some walls from newburyport, i thought this building was the firehouse! only come to find out i think it is somewhere near Sarasota, Fla.

long story.

a coastal painting.

As usual, payment plans are available

18 x24 inches $375

my dog

my dog, originally uploaded by Tobin Art.

after years of messing about with plaster i came back to making small plaster frames for my small works (usually watercolor and/or acrylics on heavy paper and heavy varnish to hang without glass).

I have been in the studio more than not lately, feels so great to be on painting track again after what seemed like endless experimentation and showing (7 shows since last october).... The shows promote more manic experimentation which has happened whenever i put out my work in a big way.

today i sold a portrait commission off of my etsy site. yay!

i have held off twittering, it was getting to my nerves.

Anyway, i think the cost for this is $100 measures 8 x 8

per usual payment plans are available as little as $20 a month (or even smaller if necessary).