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September 25, 2018

The Controlled Pour Report- WA is in the studio & I got it on video!

Hey everyone! WA got to spend some time this weekend doing his thing. It was awesome and I have the video to prove it. Check it out!

Painting Big Sky & mountains – fluid acrylic artist WA-AlleyVision

Watch this video on YouTube.

Have a wonderful day everyone, I have to scoot to the day job. Love you! <3 HA!

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Controlled Pour Report- New 3D painting is finished! Woot!-Mt. Hood- AlleyVision

3D series Mt. Hood #1 – HAWA 2018- fluid acrylic painting

15″ x 39″ (outside dimensions of framed unit)

Hey Everyone! I’ve been working…I mean WE have worked our fool heads off in this gosh durn heat wave…(the words in my head are much more sailor mouthed) more like a lake of hot air parked itself over the PNW and decided to stay…for weeks! Ugh, I am a baby when it’s too hot or too cold. It messes with this old bag of bones and makes me grumpy and surly. I’m not even cute enough for that to work, so to keep myself tame I’ve been working on this painting. It’s been fun and took all week! WA built the “frame tray” (our new product line! Toot- Toot! That may not end up its name, for now its just a working title. ) We drew out the outline of the layers on Birchwood panels (so yummy to paint on in any medium, my favorite substrate)

Then, we cut those out and prepped everything…assembled at the end and BAM! This happened! ——–>

We painted the whole thing in our favorite deep gray and threw in some gold accents for that special touch. It’s super fun!!!! It’s also a 3D painting, it throws natural shadows and plays with the light it’s exposed to. I took the photos outside, no filters and under the covered patio. I love it! It’s gonna be a hard one to part with, I love first times, they are my favorite times! Ok, I’ll chill on the exclamation points, but in case you missed it, I’m excited and happy.

It’ll be going over to the shop floor here in a minute and become available for purchase. These tray frames are made of wood, but even better, recycled wood headed for the dump. These began life as a false wall somewhere and were going to be thrown away. The birch was bought new. WA tries to reuse everything he can find, I cheer him on in his in efforts to love the planet. (and my over the top requirements for substrate to paint, paint, paint) We spent a few days just getting the lines right…it looks so simple, I love that, trust me this was hard. Once we had the shapes right I started painting. These are all controlled pours, the mountain was done with laying in colors via stick and trowel…the background was a flip cup or two and the foreground was two dirty ribbons.

The whole thing weighs about 13 pounds…we are looking into materials now that will be lighter in the future, the smaller version WA just finished for our Saturday event look like this:

These are 12′ x 12″ x 1.5″ Made from a recycled wooden futon! I love these, we will be offering the visitors at the event to use our professional paints and paint one of these pre-framed pour trays! When they are dry, you can dress of the frames with paints or anything you can dream of. Then flip it over….and do it again! It’s a double-sided wood frame tray. The picture is one facing “front” and the other one is the “back”. Cool right?

These ended being lighter and taught us to look for a slightly different resource. 🙂 learning all the way, yup, that’s how we roll. We have 15 opportunities to paint at the Red Barn Art Fair, in Gresham. We think this will be a popular event so come early if ya wanna paint, once they are gone, they are gone!

Look at this beauty:

it’s just so awesome and I am sooooo ready to make another one…I have new ideas. This series is gonna be so much fun. Stay tuned!

Big love, HA! <3

July 10, 2018

Tuesday in the studio-content creation

Hey there art fans! We had a little break and took a few days off last week. We have been working 7 days a week for a few months now and needed to stop for a second. Good times were had by all. We came back home, and said what do you want to do with our day? We both wanted to work, lol…sheesh. So, WA had this idea on how to recycle the old box springs I’ve been after him to throw away…and we did it. I present the box spring planter. You are welcome. 🙂 Big love always, HA!

May 16, 2017

Why Aliens? To that I say…

Hello everyone, I hope this post finds you well and good.
I have been working, as you know, on the “alien encounters” series recently. The idea forced it’s way into my brain pan, like a wildfire eats fir trees. The first encounter was a mad-cap, running with scissors, kind of deal. The idea itself had to be born and come to an initial fruition. It was like drinking gin on an empty stomach, she just happened. 🙂
We were both left breathless and excited. She was dreamy to work with. You can see her creation story here.

Then, out of now where…another encounter. This one, she didn’t sneak up on me, she flew into my life on a magic carpet, drinking a blue martini! She is such a cutie-pie, pin-up girl. (side note, full disclosure, I had a short run in the past being a pin-up girl painter) All though, she is still a WIP, because she can’t make up her mind on what color her bikini bottom is. Sheesh! 🙂

I am thinking about the why of these girls, because now there are three…

I know I am painting from my inner voice when things like this pop into my world. I am painting the “alien” in myself, in you, in “other”, in them, in us. I am talking to the part of myself that is screaming…and won’t stop, btw, about how there are no “illegal” humans. That our earth is HOME. That we share space and no human being should be homeless, hungry or alone. I am painting the “alien” on the other side of some skin color, or wall or religion. I am painting the “alien” opinions, information, new thoughts on a social experience, that currently, is on full-tilt boogie. ( exhausting) I am painting the “alien” that lives inside ourselves, the shadow, the story no longer told, the experiences survived and the ghost stories. I am painting the “alien” experience of a world awakening and empires dying, right before my stunned, amazed eyes and sturdy but tired, soul. I am painting the “alien” idea of immersion, resonance and humor that does no harm. I am painting the “alien” idea that a white woman can paint any other skin tone of people; that she is free to explore the wonderful world of human “shades” without ridicule or judgement. I am painting the “alien” idea that I always could paint anything I want too and that I am scared to paint outside myself and what I know and am!!! Wow! Awesome! I get another chance to be brave and go for it and possibly fail and make an ass of myself? OK! I’m in. I only get one shot at the being alive thing…so yeah, I’m gonna do it.

Watch me now…werk!

<3 HA!

January 31, 2017

20 days & Counting-RAW Portland Show

Hey everyone! *waves* we are getting so excited about the show, it’s a flurry of work going on in studio, it’s a hot mess up in here, right now. lol It’s all good, we are happy to be working so hard. We feel blessed. This will be Bill’s (WA) first show experience and AlleyVisions debut, so to speak, on the local scene. We finally have enough really good work completed to open the doors (by appointment only). I LOVE first times! As we get older they get more rare in a life so I soak that good stuff up when it is available.

We have a commitment to sell 20 tickets to the show, it off-sets the costs of producing such a large show in a expensive venue. If we are blessed enough to make sales at the show, the producers of RAW Portland take no commissions from our night. We are excited to bring our new product line out to share with the locals! We are being a little provocative. We are being a little outspoken. We are transmuting our existence with artwork. It rocks. Right now we are making a bunch of top hats…yup you read that right, top hats. Why, you ask? You will have to come to the show and find out!

If you hit the flyer image you will be whisked over to our RAW Page and on the left hand side of the page about half-way down is a link box that says Buy Tickets. We have sold 4 tickets so far. All ticket buyers will receive 25% off any artwork they desire, either at the show, or in the future. They will not expire until used. We just want to say thank you for your support, encouragement and love these last three years. Building AlleyVision has been one of the most fun experiences I have ever had as an artist.

Here is a sneak peek at the things we are working on….the steampunk hat is one of my personal favorite projects right now…it’s still in process, so the reveal will be at the show. Oh, anyway…take a look and please, come to the show and celebrate with us! All the love, always, HA! <3 http://www.rawartists.org/alleyvision

WA modeling the latest in political art…the top hat. 🙂 The hats will have words on them, on the ribbon band that say stuff like…”Resist” “We the People” “This is my protest hat” (I think that one is funny) “top hat resistance” “POTUS Mad Hatter” “not my president” “alternative hats”( knee slapper) “People are the Power” “eat the rich” maybe…maybe not, we are still tossing ideas around on that. Regardless…the bands will be reversible, so you can hide the message or not. 🙂 I guess we will see…

Come to the show! <3

September 5, 2016

Day 7-10 day ups cycle challenge

Hello all. It’s day 7, I skipped day 6 because Sunday, high pain and being worn out. It’s Labor Day Monday and I am here, bright and bushy and ready to share the update. I finished the lazy-susan. Here it it:

Here is a little 15 second movie of it in action, because…it’s cool, duh.

So, that’s all from me today. I put these ads out on social media, the web site and local craigslist ad’s. No takers, obvi. I am still hopeful that the challenge will end on a high note as we approach the end of it all here. I am going to make appointments with local high end consignment shops and see if I can place them, if I don’t end up getting any offers. Feel free to join the challenge by purchasing either of these completed works, or anything really.

Big love to all, I hope this note finds you happy and well in your world’s and having a lovely, well-earned day of rest. Thanks for being here today, Love, HA! <3

P.S. It’s my Birthday Month! Yay! I made it around the sun another year! Woot!

I wanna share the love so I made everything at the Etsy Shop on sale 25% off and Free Shipping inside the USA!

Use coupon code: ALLEYART25 at checkout.🙂 Your friend always, <3

July 27, 2016

Still standing, better than I ever did, looking like a true survior

Feeling like a little kid. lalalalala

Hello everyone, I’m back. Summer requires many long weekends, it’s a fact of life. Heat and sunshine makes a soul want to play. Being that this year we are a little more “restricted” in our physical activities, we are stay-cationing in the new homestead this summer. Last year saw us at the coast, hiking mountains, and hunting for crystals. This year finds us in the back yard oasis, next to the crystal filled pond alter, surrounded by lush tropical plants and overflowing barrels of bamboo. It’s kinda awesome, if I do say so myself. We had our first bloom open on the water hyacinth…

I know, cool beans right? 🙂

I have been painting too…wanna see? Ok…update in 3, 2, 1…

here is where we ended up on the up-side down lady…now titled…

“Marking the Days of Wildness”

I’ll get better pictures of her soon…and tell her story too. She has a poem. 🙂

16″ x 20″ x 2″ oils HA! 2016 she will go up in the etsy shop when she is cured. If you want her to come live with you, belly-up to the bar and buy me a beer…in other words, let’s talk. 🙂

I am still working on the monster size canvas with the working title of “dryad queen”. Her face has been my focus so these are shots from the daily changes…

the last shot is the most recent one from yesterday’s finish point…I think it’s fun to watch her face change so much as each layer of flesh and shadow are applied. Fascinating morphology…it’s very interesting to my mind anyway.

Well folks, that’s all on the art front for right now. I have been trying to rest more often and not push so hard, so things feel a little slow right now. I also, got caught up in the world…too much, way too much. Eh, I am tired and bone weary of the truth of this reality now. The world, really taps my reserves…man, I mean it really drains me. I do feel things pretty deeply, for sure, but shit boy howdy the world is burning…and it’s exciting to be alive for sure, being part of a huge shift in thinking and being in the world is fan-freaking-tastic….whew…it’s taxing on the body and heart. I pray for us all and the earth as a whole being daily. I love you and I hope you know that. I care about what happens to you and I hope you feel that. I will always be a friend you can count on to deliver the straight skinny, as I see it, I hope you trust in that. I will never be an enemy of life or spirit, I hope I convey that authentically, so you can feel it.

<3 the Revolution continues, one heart, mind and soul at a time…not to mention congressional seats…er, um, hit the link, we have work to do. Enough said. I’m gonna do my thing, keep on loving you, love myself and go make some good art. Because I’m awesome like that…you are too…let’s kick some ass, shall we? What should our theme song be, today? Leave me a link to the best choice of theme songs in the comments…let’s make a play list!

Be well and save the world today, love someone. <3

HA!

June 27, 2016

I don't know anything at all

It’s funny, being wise to

how I don’t know anything at all.

I mean, not really, checking-in totality,

nope, it’s nothing at all.

I know a little about a lot of things

modest consequences, humble nuggets

gems lost detail, apparently genius

is the attainment of trivial pursuits

connected by an enlivened rapport with

all things metaphysical.

transformation achieves slight of hand

with inventive metaphorical cliche.

I sometimes think I know

impossible truths

connections happen lightning

racing through magical membranes

spilling from my lips, over fingers

through my toes

observing inspired intelligence is

no guarantee for happiness.

I am a many fingered God

spells written on palms

pulse points flashing

invisible beams

prayers become food

for something mythical,

possibly deadly if ignored

we will not behave

valuable superstitions are

steeped

blessings that

lay waste to truth

simply,

while lessor evils

masquerade as choice.

The new normal

is a blood stained bully

coupled with

timelines filled with inspirational

excuses for not jumping

in front of moving buses

on the daily.

keeping everyone in-line

on-point, chasing down dreams

on our cheat days and ignoring the

daily depravity of man made rules

that enslave the spirit of loving,

protecting entitled freedom to

voyeuristic entertainments

that dehumanize,

distilling cash from a dying empire.

I know I am just a simple minister

I know art is my pulpit,

and from this ground

I say unto you:

My brothers and sisters

of the universal church of unapologetic sinners

we, the great unwashed, peanut gallery,

tired, naked and vulnerable,

we are all,

kneeling on the shells,

we are all,

witness to an attempted genocide on love,

we are all,

walking on broken glass

we are all,

eating crumbs calling it a meal,

we are all,

looking for meaning

in the territory fantasy went to die

and now…here, 13 million strong

and counting, here in this now…

painful clarity dawns

Now that I know…

now with all certainty,

I know that I know nothing,

not really, nope…

not a dammed thing at all.

HA! 2016

Thanks for being here today, I hope you enjoy being alive today, I really do, with all my heart. Remember you are Love, always. <3 HA!

p.s. Grand Opening Sale over at the etsy storefront ends July 5, 2016. Happy Shopping.

June 9, 2016

New Day

Mary’s song (sold) oils HA! 2013

Good Thursday to you, how you doing today? Has your week been as harried and wild as mine has? Can I get an Amen? whew…come on Friday. 🙂

I am not a big believer in the like, whoo-hoo of astrology…even though I love to read and learn about it but, I have to say, the reports leading up to this week were that the planet would see a wave of wild/angry energy pass over/thru it…I dunno about you but, umm…wow. It has been a week of shadow dancing. I am learning…oh, how I am learning to dance. Allowing all things…allthethings, and all the feelings without avoidance but with permission to feel the feelings is a rough road. Lordy Be.

I essentially am a performer everyday for my day job (of sorts, not like an actor but still, on point like that in the sense of performing) if I am off…wow, I am off. I can only create art or coach others (I am a professional intuitive life coach) after the storm passes…during the storms I can only report what I am experiencing. There is a difference for sure. I feel like I may have passed through another portal of understanding and I didn’t die or get on the bus to crazy town…so hey, all is Good! Shit boy howdy though…I’m tired and looking forward to Saturday, as that’s my morning off. 🙂

We are officially celebrating our first homeowner mini-disaster! There was a minor little leak happening after the appliances were installed and we discovered yesterday our kitchen floor will have to be replaced…including the sub-flooring. YAY! lol…not. Mild panic ensued….a new problem to add to the list…now this, this right here folks…this is what we call living! 🙂 What’s life without a problem to solve, eh?

When I was a kid my Grandfather would buy my Nana a new car every 2 years. Before we drove it off the lot, he would find a little rock somewhere and throw it at the car, usually leaving a tiny fleck or scratch in the new paint. This act would protect the vehicle and it’s occupants from future harm. 🙂 It always worked so…hey the Old Man was onto something! I should have remembered to have a controlled disaster on purpose! Lol…gotta laugh at the uncontrollable chaos folks, or it’s banana crackers time.

So…would now be the right time to remind you that we sell art round these parts? Too obvious? 🙂

I have to get to work, literally. I do hope that this note finds you well. Big love to everyone, thanks for being here, I so appreciate your presence.

Love always, HA! <3

****hit that image link below and check out the art, I added some new stuff to the selection…make an offer You can afford and get your new art! We don’t set the prices our patrons do, this way you always know you are getting the best value for your money. We just want our work on your walls…and are willing to do what that takes to make it happen…shipping costs might be an issue, in making a choice? We will gladly give you a free, no strings attached, shipping quote BEFORE you make an offer…see? easy-peasy, no stress…just ask for what you want and get it. 🙂 This is how we do it. With all the love and gratitude. <3 Here is a testimony from a happy Brave Heart Art patron…it gives me the grins, every time I read it. 🙂

Thank you! Have a great day. 🙂

May 23, 2016

it's Monday, your art called

to remind you to 1. don’t bite the dog

2. don’t forget that important thing you always forget and

3. buy some original art, because 9 out of 10 guru’s agree…that’s all just 9 out of 10 guru’s, agreeing.

Hey y’all, it’s Monday again and the gear’s they keep a grinding don’t they? Over here at the studio, things are really shaping up. Bill hung a lot of the WIP’s up in the studio and started setting up the music equipment. It’s totally fabulous up in here and it’s a wonderful space to dream new dreams in. Here are a few pictures, because…well, pictures!

This is everyone’s favorite room…the game room a must for a house full of men! 🙂

See? it’s coming right along. 🙂

We have been making art too, of course. Here’s a new one, almost finished… I think…I’m calling it “the Tempest” oils 16″ x 20″ (read the story after the pictures)

I was just minding my own business, painting pretty candy colored clouds and she appeared outta no where. With a wave of her hand she made seasons change and freed the wild woman trapped inside a good girl. Like a firefly, she poked all the sore spots. Like an angel she cut bonds that bind, freeing herself from the story of her past. The future all soft and full of pony-tailed potential, she breaths in the unknown and laughs at the fear in her belly. Sovereign woman free of her story, now savoring creative uncertainty not looking back anymore, knowing the beauty of what she learned, is what colors her hopeful future, in this now. She is on her way.

She doesn’t need approval, she has confidence in the fail, that’s where she keeps withdrawing all her wisdom from. It’s her secret weapon.

This next one…well she too has an origin story. I told you one of the secrets inside my work are the words I write on the canvas before I start the painting. This canvas has these words on it, as the work begins: I will not behave!, No Master, I Am Beast and Viva Fire Belly. 🙂

Drinking coffee and listening to monks chanting while contemplating what to do when the current retro-grade cycle ends and everything goes back to being your own fault…damn…looks peaceful at least…the struggle started as soon as the thought became clear…peaceful? “I am Beast,” she whispered from off the edge, “and I am coming to wake you up.”

Next morning I woke up full of get it done energy. She showed up before the coffee could get cold. She speaks in this soft whisper that reminds me of a Mother’s low warning growl. I felt the need to unburden myself of the fears, the worries, the past pain’s and share some of my story with her. She listened deeply as the hours flew by. I felt worn out from the unloading and uploading. That’s when she started talking….

She sang a timeless song called “I don’t know what I’m doing and I am compelled to keep doing it.” She told a fable of an Emperor with no clothes that said “fuck it, I like the wind on my bare butt”, painted himself blue and tattooed a large bulls-eye on his back with the words “I double dog dare you” under it.

She called the stars for lunch. Pulled out the prayer beads after she licked her fingers clean. We spent the afternoon with Cat Stevens and Jackson Brown. She has good taste in music, she demanded Joni Mitchell be played after Doctor Hook and we giggled over the silliness of modern day puritanical pursuits in clean living and enlightened paranoia. She finally wore me out and we called it a night. As she left for parts unknown, she pushed the wine across the table and sang “I will not behave, Viva fire belly” to the tune “I feel pretty….Oh so, pretty.” Next time we meet my star lady, we will finish this dance, strong. Until then…

I hope you enjoyed your Monday art call…now while you are all fired up, why not stop over on the Brave Heart Art Page and make me an offer you can afford for a painting you love. We will get it all professionally packed up for you and then I will skip to the art supply and spend whatever you gave me to get paint and brushes. It has actually reached a crisis point…we are out of white paint. The horror is real people. Bang a gong. I can’t keep rocking this universe without paint…dude(s) like, for real.

Here is a meme I liked: Be well. Be You. We need you out here. In case your mind is playing tricks on you…I love you, you are valuable and you really do have a super fine ass. 🙂

Big love to all, always,

HA!

Thank you for supporting living artists everywhere <3

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