New Art- Feeling Carpy

‘Feeling Carpy’

16″ x 20″

oils and mixed media on gallery wrapped canvas

Needs no frame, painting extends around edges of painting, comes ready to hang

Will be available for sale on the web site www.badkittyartstudio.com

Hello world, just stopping in and sharing some of the new work that is finished (finally) in the studio. The one above is the one I got the best picture of, my camera is dead! How will I get along without my trusty camera!! *wailing and tearing of hair* Okay…how about if anyone out there…tap, tap, tap; is this thing on?…has a good digital camera they want to trade for art of equal value, if that sounds like you, hit me up here. 

The carp was one of those paintings that just found its own way out. I’ve been feeling under the weather of late and dealing with feeling pretty crappy on a sometimes overwhelming scale for a while now. It sucks big time. So, when I feel bad I try to work and it for the most part doesn’t work…sometimes its because of mechanical failure, like my hands won’t work, or its a: we are doing everything from bed today day,  that’s life some days. Some days its just not possible to work in the studio and work the day job too. And I’ve taken on a big commission, a really fun pin-up girl. I have spent the last three weeks of studio time working on that painting. Carpy was a doodle with charcoal and gesso while resting. I thought it was a little funny that I was laying, in bed,  feeling really crappy and I drew a fugly carp splashing around. I spent a week, just messing around with it little snatches of time and then I spent three weeks just looking at it and hating it, and then I woke up one morning and finished three paintings in one day. It happens like that, when it happens. I ended up really liking the crusty old carp…he makes me smile at the ugly, he makes me grin at the feelings that threaten to rock my world. Just keep swimming, eat off the bottom if you have too, to survive, but just know when you can surface again…you still sparkle and shine in the sun like the living tapestry you are, but I wouldn’t suggest trying to catch or eat that tough old carp…I hear they have a lot of sharp, tiny bones…that will stick in your throat…all bones those fish are.

If this fish belongs to you…let me know and we will get it swimming your way. (couldn’t resist)

Hardy ha-ha.

Raw & Radiant,

Heather

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New Ebay Store Art Auctions and Collectables now on sale!

New Ebay store now open for BAD! Kitty Art Studio, art and collectables now on sale and auction

 http://stores.ebay.com/badkittyartstudio

 

BAD! Kitty Art Studio has decided to open an eBay storefront to offer art and collectables at auction and fixed priced sales. This is where you will be able to find very cool collectables, vintage items and kick-ass art on sale. Auctions will change weekly so come by often and see whats on the block for the week! We are adding  new vintage coolness and collectables and art daily so come on by and see what grabs you! We even offer the option to make offers so just do it!

New Ebay store now open for BAD! Kitty Art Studio, art and collectables now on sale and auction:

 http://stores.ebay.com/badkittyartstudio

Some of the things offered currently:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Maggie-May-art-original-BAD-Kitty-Art-/200574366049?pt=Art_Paintings&hash=item2eb329f161

http://cgi.ebay.com/Set-Free-art-original-BAD-Kitty-Art-/200574661024?pt=Art_Paintings&hash=item2eb32e71a0

http://cgi.ebay.com/Lot-2-collectable-Garfield-tins-MINT-Condition-/200576485724?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2eb34a495c

http://cgi.ebay.com/Garfield-Candle-Vintage-1978-81-/200576927468?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2eb35106ec

http://cgi.ebay.com/Pretty-Pink-original-oil-painting-BAD-Kitty-Art-/200577172663?pt=Art_Paintings&hash=item2eb354c4b7

http://cgi.ebay.com/Collectable-tin-Crayola-crayons-1992-/200577178148?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2eb354da24

With much more to come, trust me folks! We have cookbooks, vintage cameras, more Garfield, vintage clothing and fabrics, easter collectables and housewares and of course more ART!

Hope all is well in everyone’s world…love to all!

Heather

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New Work- Transition with Song

New Work…let  me know what you think, I am a starving for attention artists dontcha know…and its been 4.5 months for new, I mean really new work so revel or throw money…either one works.

‘Transition with Song’

24″  X  18″ x 1″

Oils/Mixed Media

$475.00 USD with free shipping to anywhere in the world.

Here is the quote that helped the work along:

 ”I strew flowers. Not one shall I find without scattering its petals before thee…and I will sing… I will sing always, even if my roses must be gathered amidst thorns: and the longer and sharper the thorns; the sweeter shall be my song.”

~St. Teresa of Lisieux

Raw & Radiant,

Heather

buy this new work today at: www.badkittyartstudio.com

You will find it in the 2011 Gallery….it’s the first of the year….you know you want it.

 

New Art- Killer

‘Killer’

Mixed Media

20″ x 16″

Gallery wrapped canvas, needs no frame

This is today’s artwork.

I am. I continue.

So, it must be true.

I still have a job to do here. 

I am.

I continue.

I am.

Just keep going, it has to get better from here, coz it sure can’t get much worse. Molly get the mop.

That is all.

This artwork is available for the low, low price of $100.00 USA bucks. It’s because I love you and you are special. Would you liked that gift wrapped?

 Let me know if it belongs to you.

Have a great day,

Heather

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New Art- Courage number two

 

‘Courage #2″

8″x 10″

Gallery wrapped mixed media on canvas, needs no frame

This is today’s work, I am working on smaller things that I can do in one or two days for my own therapy.  My life is a hot mess, and the art seems to pour out in times like this.  So I am going with the flow and making what makes me feel good, I mean good, really good inside.

This one is now available for purchase, it needs a new home, it’s yours for 100.00 USD. Let me know if it belongs to you.

Have a great day,

Heather

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New Art- Secret Fire

‘Secret Fire’ SOLD Thank you!!!

8″x 10″

Gallery wrapped sides, needs no frame, ready to hang

I am still working through the changes in my life, they are coming so fast now. 6 days into the crisis and it feels like month 3. I made this work  out of the recycled stuff in my studio. I felt better when I was done. That is all. Carry on.

I am willing to part with it for 100.00 US bucks.

Let  me know if it belongs to you.

Raw & Radiant,

Heather

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New Art- Hand that Feeds – oil painting

Hand that Feeds

‘The Hand That Feeds’ – Newest artwork!

oils

18” x 24” x 1”

Finished sides needs no frame and ready to hang

(any shiny spots in the picture are just wet paint reflections, it’s seamless, I promise you. It also looks waaay better in person, because I ain’t a photographer, I’m just a humble painter. )

Here is the quote that inspired the work:

“I think I’ll be a clown when I get grown,” said Dill.  “Yes, sir, a clown…. There ain’t one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I’m gonna join the circus and laugh my head off.”  “You got it backwards, Dill,” said Jem.  “Clowns are sad, it’s folks that laugh at them.”  “Well, I’m gonna be a new kind of clown.  I’m gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks.”  ~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapter 22

 This work was such a struggle at times and at others a gift. I am realizing an episode of growth, a growth experience and it feels fine. I know I’m on to something when I dream about the work, when I can’t stop thinking about the work, and yet when I work on the painting, I fall into the hole of “I don’t know what I am doing!” Yeah…I tell ya, that’s the good stuff.

I am letting whatever happens…happen.  I am trusting the flow and going blind. I am forgetting everything I thought I knew and learning all these things I didn’t know – that I didn’t know. Sometimes it feels like my studio is in another slice of time, just like this one, only much, much better.

I think I am telling myself stories. New stories. I just might start believing in them too.

What story are you telling yourself? Do you believe it?

Magic lives in the answer.

I think I’m channeling hippies now. Groovy.

This work will be made available on my web site for purchase first, (where it’ll be less expensive) then off to the gallery. Thanks for being here today!

Heather

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New Art- Positive Reduction

‘Positive Reduction’

18″ x 24″ x 2″

oils on canvas

Will be available for purchase on my web site in the 2010 gallery.

Here is the quote that helped inspire the work:

The work was like peeling an onion. The outer skin came off with difficulty… but in no time you’d be down to its innards, tears streaming from your eyes as more and more beautiful reductions became possible.
-Edward Blishen

This abstract, mixed media oil painting took a year to complete. You’ll be saying…”no way BAD! Kitty, really?” (maybe not but I like to think about you all reading this and in my head you talk back, sometimes…no I’m not crazy, ok maybe a little bit) The simple answer is yes. I have painted this canvas 5 times. I hated each painting, and it would get thrown in the corner to wait until I had run out of supplies again. Well, I ran out of supplies. I picked up the cursed canvas and plopped it down on the easel. Then I stared reducing the very abstract color riot that was there. It started working! I felt something give inside my head and I finished this work over the last week. I had to wait for the paint to dry each time, because…like I said I’m outta supplies and therefore no drying alkids. OMG! I hate waiting for paint to dry, but nothing but oils give the depth of color and texture, IMHO, of course.

The picture of the wooden dressmakers dummy is one that I have had in my special pile for years, he had to become an enlightened fairy with dusty butterfly wings for this world. Dontcha’ think? Yeah, me too. Prepped and glued and textured him in there and bam! it feels good and done now. The background is a sunny orange/yellow, but very soft. I really liked how free this one made me feel…I think the whimsy may be returning on its own. Isn’t that nice?

Have a great day and thanks for being here.

Heather

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New Art- Impersonal Divinity -it’s what you make of it.

“Impersonal Divinity”

18″ x 24″

Oils on gallery wrapped canvas, needs no frame, painted sides and comes ready to hang

Available for purchase on my web site in the 2010 Gallery

Here are the quotes that helped this work along its path:

“If therefore my work is negative, irreligious, atheistic, let it be remembered that atheism — at least in the sense of this work — is the secret of religion itself; that religion itself, not indeed on the surface, but fundamentally, not in intention or according to its own supposition, but in its heart, in its essence, believes in nothing else than the truth and divinity of human nature.”
-Ludwig Feuerbach

AND

“Not necessity, not desire –no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything –health, food, a place to live, entertainment –they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.”
 -Friedrich Nietzsche

Many cultures worldwide, have mythology about Gods, Goddesses, and people who sport horns. The overall history for horned people is, (with the exception of some forms of Christianity, who demonized ancient mythology to created the Devil, and to help convert pagans (witches) into their belief system) that horns represent a connection with a higher power, the God-head, the Creator. In most circles of world study, this is commonly is refered to as the Horned God Myth.

I use horns to represent the animal/divine earth nature, the connection to higher-power wisdom, and to the feelings of rebellious freedom. I take back the history and reinterpret it with a modern twist.

This painting is a work about you, the viewer. Depending upon your internal dialogue, your systems of belief and faith, your systems of fear and self-awareness, your reaction to this work is revealing of your nature at this time. Do you see a picture of the devil? A shaman? A mythological creature? Evil? Good? Provocation on your belief system? It all depends on your mental state and state of awareness, personal history and levels of judgement. I think that is interesting.

This work is about the act of demonization that seems to be running rampant in our modern culture. Don’t understand something, someone, some other religion, culture, lifestyle? Well, then fear, hate and demonization are the order of the day. I don’t agree with that stance, I know there is a middle ground, a gray area if you will.

That is why he is painted in gray-scale, to represent that middle ground. You might think this work is of a certain race of human, but is he? His wide nose, large lips, broad forehead, may define him to you as being of one race or another. It’s not clear and that’s the point. That is my point. You don’t know, but your gut reaction to this simple work, should tell you a little more about yourself. Are you happy? Mad? Interested in the history? What are you feeling? Please feel free to share that feeling or to not share it as you see fit. Just don’t ignore that feeling, live with it and let it help you sort out what you really believe is true for you. It’s important that we discover our own truths, so that we might better facilitate understanding and peace amongst ourselves.

I want to convey my thoughts on the unknown, the different, the sacred. Those thoughts are simply this, demonization of the different is an act of violence and hatred. It never elevates it only destroys what is possible. It is evil. It is destructive and immoral. It is an act of hate and fear. It is useless to human beings, unless…it is being used to enslave, subordinate and control.

The most glorious thing about being human is that under everything, the skin, the religion, the cultures, the rules…we are all human. Blood, bone, organs, hearts, spirit and mind. Under our skin, and clothing we are truly a family of human. The differenced between us are our greatest gifts to each other. Diversity is freedom. We can reach a place where we are all on the same level…that of being human. I don’t have to agree with you, to love you, to learn from you or to protect your freedom ( or my own) to be or become what you (or I) desire to be.

It’s  true.

We don’t have to draw lines in the sand over difference, we could choose to see that we are all one family, the family of man. We could stop the desire to control, to rule, to over protect the ideas of self, to have the most of anything or everything in order to have more power. We could choose to embrace the differences and stop trying to rule over each other. We could choose love, peace and understanding…we really could.  

This work is a celebration of the art of evolution. The evolution of wisdom, peace, understanding and virtue that I know humanity could one day reach. I pray everyday for this to be so. I pray for peace, and I know it begins within me and you….one heart and soul at a time.

Thanks for being here today, I sure appreciate you all.

Heather

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New Art- Lucinda- #3 from the pin-up girls series

‘Lucinda’ #3 from the Pin-up Girl Series

16″ x 20″

Oils on flat canvas panel, this will need mounting and/or framing to hang

Available for purchase (with FREE shipping to everywhere in the world) on my web site in the 2010 Gallery.

Here is the quote that helped this work along:

“All women do have a different sense of sexuality, or sense of fun, or sense of like what’s sexy or cool or tough.”

Angelina Jolie Lucinda is…well she’s a bunch of fun. She loves to fish, go camping, drink beer, tell tawdry jokes and drive real fast. She is a rebel, a lover, a friend. I found an image very close to this painting in an old 40′s calendar, and I knew that one day I would paint her. After making a few changes to the background and to her figure, I got to work. It has taken me over a week of daily work to get her finished. The colors are 1950′s bright and fun but not garish like they tended to be back then. A much more modern color palette has been used to better compliment todays colors and styles, but all that old-time feeling is there. I love painting the vintage pin-up girls…why you ask? Well, because they were shaped much more, lets say round back then, the bodies were curvy, sexy, strong and honest. I was born with a 1950′s body myself, round, curvy and made for comfort and fun, not speed and hard edges. I really love to bring these lovely ladies back into the world, with just a hint of a modern twist. Let’s celebrate the sexy, let’s worship the honest. Let’s praise the strong. Let’s be free in our bodies and honor what makes us each so special as a woman. Whatever brand of woman who is today…let’s just be happy with who we are, doing what we are doing and loving every damn minute of it all. Have a great day, and thanks so much for being here today. Pray for peace, it begins within. Heather http://www.badkittyartstudio.com Support Living Artists, buy some art today