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

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

 

New Art -Set Free- original oil painting, urban art, outsider art

‘Set Free’

18″ x 24″ x 1″

Oils on gallery wrapped canvas, finished sides, needs no frame and is ready to hang

Will be available on my web site in the 2010 gallery

Here is the quote that helped this work along it’s way:

“I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing,

still of nothing am I in want. “

Terence (185 BC – 159 BC), Eunuchus

*and*

“I love stuff as much as the next guy, but I’ve come to understand that, regardless of the cost of acquiring it, the price of having it is freedom. “

Colleen Wainwright, Communicatrix

 

Set Free, I want to be, I am set free. This original oil painting, done in an outsider/urban art style is representative of the act of letting go. Letting go of dogma, tyranny, slavery, and the need to be accepted. Letting all of the anger, fear, worry, and pain, go. Letting go of  wanting, letting go of the need to please. I am letting my work do it’s thing. I am letting the world influence my imagery. I am letting go of fear. I am setting free my inner child to play and create a world I want to live in. I am letting go of the need to express myself in acceptable ways. I am letting go of pretty. I am in free fall, I will learn to fly or bloom where I am planted. I forgive myself for not being, right now, in this moment, perfect.

I am loving. I am free. I am. I choose happy. I choose freedom. I choose to allow. I choose to accept choice and self-control. I choose risk. I choose not knowing. I choose life. I am willing. I am willing to fail. I am willing to succeed. I am willing to be brave. I am willing to love. I am willing to risk. I am willing to be imperfect and grateful. I am willing to be wise. I am not sorry. I am not sorry for living the life that I have. I am not sorry for what I do not have. I am not sorry for being true to me even if that sometimes disappoints people I care about. I am not sorry for being honest, alive and awake. I am not sorry that I am here today with all the trials and tribulations and the moments of darkness and uncertainty. I am not sorry that I am a soul that happens to have a body. I am not sorry that I am free. I am. I am. I am. That is always enough, if I let it be.

Can you see? I have been set free.

I hope you enjoy the work, and thanks for being here today.

Pray for peace,

Heather

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In the event of a real art emergency, this message will be followed by holiday art sales, you will be directed to the BAD! Kitty Web Site, where you can find soulful, original artworks to heal the spirit, and sooth your worried mind.

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New Art- Watch Tower

 

  

Close up view

‘Watch Tower’

20″ x 24″ x 1.5″

Oils

Gallery wrapped canvas, painted sides, ready to hang

Available for purchase at the BAD! Kitty Art Studio Web Site

Here is the quote that goes along with this work:

“Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.”

 

Anne Lamott

  

Watch Tower is a self challenge work for me. I’ve had this tower in my head for a long time, and I never really knew how to accomplish it…then I woke up one morning last week and knew that it was tower painting day. This work took over a week to create; as it is heavily glazed to create depth and drama. The colors sing and the tower glows, even in the dark side, the details of the building are visible, but they are in deep shade. I had some Ah-HA! moments with this work and I feel really great about sharing it with you all. I hope you enjoy it.

 

I also got all fired up and created three new calendars for 2010! To see them all click here! Or you can see them one at a time:

#1

 http://www.redbubble.com/people/hmbt/calendars/4096665-1-bad-kittys-2010-calendar

 

#2 http://www.redbubble.com/people/hmbt/calendars/4096689-1-change-is-good-2010-calendar

 

#3 http://www.redbubble.com/people/hmbt/calendars/4097015-1-something-old-something-new-2010-calendar

 

Have a great day and thanks for being here today!

Heather

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New Art- Languish

  ‘Languish’

20″ x 24″Gallery wrapped canvas, painted sides, ready to hang

Available for purchase on my web site

The quote that goes with this work:

For here the religion that languishes in crowded cities or steals shame-faced to hide itself in dim churches, flourishes greatly, filling the soul with a solemn joy. Face to face with Nature on the vast hills at eventide, who does not feel himself near to the Unseen?

 W. H. Hudson

 

Languish is a painting for my tired mind. I needed a quite place to think and feel and process all that is happening in the world at large and in my own inner world. This is what happened when that need went unfulfilled. I like it. It’s working for me.

I hope you enjoy it too.

Blue is a very hard color to get correct pictures of, so bear in mind…this is a deep, velvet study of the color blue. My favorite color when thinking it seems.

  

Have a great day and thanks for being here.

Heather

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New Art- Maggie May

Maggie original oil painting by HMBT copyright 209

 

‘Maggie May’

oils

18″ x 24″

Finished sides, painting on back stapled gallery canvas, needs no frame and is ready to hang

The quote that inspired the work:

We women, when we’re searching for a meaning to our lives or for the path of knowledge, always identify with one of four classic archetypes.

The Virgin (and I’m not speaking here of a sexual virgin) is the one whose search springs from her complete independence, and everything she learns is the fruit of her ability to face challenges alone.

The Martyr finds her way to self-knowledge through pain, suffering, and surrender.

The Saint finds her true reason for living in unconditional love and in her ability to give without asking anything in return.

Finally, the Witch justifies her existence by going in search of complete and limitless pleasure.

~Paulo Coelho

It’s hard to see in the picture, but she has rich sparkling green eyes. She really is a very pretty girl, with a warm and loving heart. I hope you enjoy my newest work. Thanks for being here today.

Heather

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The Daily Art- Surrender from the choir series

Surrender from The Choir series #8 oils

 

close up

‘Surrender’ From the choir series #8

24″ X 36″

oils

ready to hang, needs no frame

Gallery wrapped/back stapled

To see more about this work please click Here

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Here are the two quotes for this work.

(it’s a big work, it needed more words before

it would shape up and fly right):
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Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us.
Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 – 1881)
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Everything is on its way to becoming something else, and therefore, nothing can be held onto. If you see this clearly, if you consider and examine this deeply and fully, then letting go is the only thing left to do. How can you hold on? What is there to hold onto? So the art of spiritual surrender is really the art of not knowing. Then it doesn’t make any difference at all whether you are walking down the street or eating lunch or responding to your email or making love or sitting alone on your couch. This is the first and last time you will ever be doing this. If you truly understand that, it changes everything.

 

Scott Morrison

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Good Friday all!

I have been so crazy busy this last week. I do have a new work that is coming along. I hope to finish it this loooong weekend, so maybe I can show it to you all by early next week. It’s supposed to be nice weather here in the Bluegrass, so we will be gardening, playing with the kids, and taking siestas on the back porch.

Heather

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Daily Art-New Work- Name your Poison

‘Name your Poison’

8.5″ x 11.5″

Laminated paper collage

Will need a standard frame to display

Now available at the Artists Challenge site as a ACEO, limited edition only three to go around, now only 7 bucks! See  all the art HERE.

Also available (full size) on my web site in the art under 100 bucks gallery, check it out. (link to web site at the bottom of post too)

Here is the quote that helped the inspiration:

“People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.”

James Baldwin (1924 – 1987)

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This work is paper on heavy card stock then laminated. I am working on a large canvas mixed media work, have been for a week or more now. I also was finally able to unpack all of the studio boxes full of the paper I hauled across the country. Gave up space in the trailer to make room for a few boxes of paper, vintage pictures, collected fine hand made paper, vintage magazines, snips of pictures, pages ripped out of books because I could only afford so much weight in the trailer for my enormous book collection. In sorting, and sorting I have been collage/mixed media crazy. It’s so fun to pull out the bags and tins that I carefully sorted and packed so many moons ago. This one small collage came from the sorting effort. I needed to create, had little time, and a small box of pr-cut images. The laminator got unpacked…and that’s all she wrote folks. It came together pretty quick and in the moment.

This work is a little about anger, a little about family life, a little about humanity, a little about not enough love, a little about fire in the belly, a little about fear, a little about personal power…a little about me.

I love collage and mixed media for the effect that it has on my brain. I can’t think beyond does this fit? Is that right? Is this what I want to say? Ohhh, can I fit that in? I love it.

I hope everyone is enjoying their day in the world today,

Heather

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Daily Art- Seasons of Love

 ‘Seasons of Love’

36″ x 24″ x 2″

Oils

Sold

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Here is the quote for this work:

All that is required for you to live the freedom of your divinity is to again become familiar with returning back to your true nature. Being it and sinking deeply into living as it.

 ~julie sarah powell

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It’s been a busy few weeks, but just so you know, I am still out here, painting and creating beauty, passion and freedom.

This list was sent to me by my loving and wonderful friend Dina @ http://www.deepwaterjournal.blogspot.com/, and I thought it would be nice to share the info here with you all today too. Be well, eat well, and love, love, love everyone you can, make sure you remember to love you too now…we can’t take care of everyone else if we forget ourselves in the process.  Here you go:

A growing body of research proves that fruits and vegetables are critical to promoting good health. In fact, fruits and vegetables should be the foundation of a healthy diet.

 

apples Protects your heart prevents constipation Blocks diarrhea Improves lung capacity Cushions joints apricots Combats cancer Controls blood pressure Saves your eyesight Shields against Alzheimer’s Slows aging process artichokes Aids digestion Lowers cholesterol Protects your heart Stabilizes blood sugar Guards against liver disease avocados Battles diabetes Lowers cholesterol Helps stops strokes Controls blood pressure Smoothes skin bananas Protects your heart Quiets a cough Strengthens bones Controls blood pressure Blocks diarrhea beans Prevents constipation Helps hemorrhoids Lowers cholesterol Combats cancer Stabilizes blood sugar beets Controls blood pressure Combats cancer Strengthens bones Protects your heart Aids weight loss blueberries Combats cancer Protects your heart Stabilizes blood sugar Boosts memory Prevents constipation broccoli Strengthens bones Saves eyesight Combats cancer Protects your heart Controls blood pressure cabbage Combats cancer Prevents constipation Promotes weight loss Protects your heart Helps hemorrhoids cantaloupe Saves eyesight Controls blood pressure Lowers cholesterol Combats cancer Supports immune system carrots Saves eyesight Protects your heart Prevents constipation Combats cancer Promotes weight loss cauliflower Protects against Prostate Cancer Combats Breast Cancer Strengthens bones Banishes bruises Guards against heart disease cherries Protects your heart Combats Cancer Ends insomnia Slows aging process Shields against Alzheimer’s chestnuts Promotes weight loss Protects your heart Lowers cholesterol Combats Cancer Controls blood pressure chili peppers Aids digestion Soothes sore throat Clears sinuses Combats Cancer Boosts immune system figs Promotes weight loss Helps stops strokes Lowers cholesterol Combats Cancer Controls blood pressure fish Protects your heart Boosts memory Protects your heart Combats Cancer Supports immune system flax Aids digestion Battles diabetes Protects your heart Improves mental health Boosts immune system garlic Lowers cholesterol Controls blood pressure Combats cancer kills bacteria Fights fungus grapefruit Protects against heart attacks Promotes Weight loss Helps stops strokes Combats Prostate Cancer Lowers cholesterol grapes saves eyesight Conquers kidney stones Combats cancer Enhances blood flow Protects your heart green tea Combats cancer Protects your heart Helps stops strokes Promotes Weight loss Kills bacteria honey Heals wounds Aids digestion Guards against ulcers Increases energy Fights allergies lemons Combats cancer Protects your heart Controls blood pressure Smoothes skin Stops scurvy limes Combats cancer Protects your heart Controls blood pressure Smoothes skin Stops scurvy mangoes Combats cancer Boosts memory Regulates thyroid aids digestion Shields against Alzheimer’s mushrooms Controls blood pressure Lowers cholesterol Kills bacteria Combats cancer Strengthens bones oats Lowers cholesterol Combats cancer Battles diabetes prevents constipation Smoothes skin olive oil Protects your heart Promotes Weight loss Combats cancer Battles diabetes Smoothes skin onions Reduce risk of heart attack Combats cancer Kills bacteria Lowers cholesterol Fights fungus oranges Supports immune systems Combats cancer Protects your heart Straightens respiration   peaches prevents constipation Combats cancer Helps stops strokes aids digestion Helps hemorrhoids peanuts Protects against heart disease Promotes Weight loss Combats Prostate Cancer Lowers cholesterol Aggravates diverticulitis pineapple Strengthens bones Relieves colds Aids digestion Dissolves warts Blocks diarrhea prunes Slows aging process prevents constipation boosts memory Lowers cholesterol Protects against heart disease rice Protects your heart Battles diabetes Conquers kidney stones Combats cancer Helps stops strokes strawberries Combats cancer Protects your heart boosts memory Calms stress   sweet potatoes Saves your eyesight Lifts mood Combats cancer Strengthens bones   tomatoes Protects prostate Combats cancer Lowers cholesterol Protects your heart   walnuts Lowers cholesterol Combats cancer boosts memory Lifts mood Protects against heart disease water Promotes Weight loss Combats cancer Conquers kidney stones Smoothes skin   watermelon Protects prostate Promotes Weight loss Lowers cholesterol Helps stops strokes Controls blood pressure wheat germ Combats Colon Cancer prevents constipation Lowers cholesterol Helps stops strokes improves digestion wheat bran Combats Colon Cancer prevents constipation Lowers cholesterol Helps stops strokes improves digestion yogurt Guards against ulcers Strengthens bones Lowers cholesterol Supports immune systems Aids digestion

Have a great day,

Heather

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The Daily Art- The Urban OM

 

 Quiet place series #3 ‘The Urban OM’

24″ x 30″

Acrylics and Metal Powders

Finished sides, needs no frame 

Available on my web site (pssst, it’s on sale too)

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The quote that inspired the work:

” We put thirty spokes to make a wheel: But it is on the hole in the center that the use of the cart hinges. We make a vessel from a lump of clay; But it is the empty space within the vessel that makes it useful. We make doors and windows for a room; But it is the empty spaces that make the room livable. Thus, while existence has advantages, It is the emptiness that makes it useful.”

~Lao Tzu

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Painting an empty spot…I have this series of quiet place paintings…they are a place internally that I visit and sit and listen to nothing, feel nothing, want nothing…just really quiet places…lately when the world gets too fast, and dirty I have been going to this little spot in my mind’s eye…a slightly beat up, warm and almost grimy urban spot where I can look at a bare patch of wall space and think of nothing. For some reason I have been picking this place in my head…and to me… is welcoming because of this vibration of the world and it’s spinning and moving and grooving…all except in this little spot in the sun. It’s a really magic spot…I can hear the world spinning, but in this little corner, this bare patch on a side street in my mind…it’s quiet, imperfect and full of peace. I don’t know I just really have been digging it, so I painted it out with my own favorite graffiti too…I need a peaceful place sometimes.

Today is Mate Man’s Birthday…so, Happy Birthday to the greatest guy in the world! I know we are waiting until Saturday morning to celebrate, but I wanted to shout out to my Man on his special day. I love you Mate Man, you continue to rock my world 13 years later!  And later when you get home from work…”I’m going to make you anything you want in there {kitchen, yes I’m making homemade Cheesecake} and do anything you want in there!{bedroom} *Wicked Monkey Grins*

In other news…I’ve been uninspired over the last week or so as far as the studio work goes, I worried about it for a few days and then I just let it go. I know that sometimes I go through quiet times inside my head, so I am not going to push too hard. When the art comes back on-line, I’ll be impatient to get all the new art out of my brain pan, and be painting 12 hours a day again. For now, I am just relaxing and waiting for the calm before the internal storm. I have been having crazy wild dreams the last two nights, and that usually means I’m coming back into the world of imagination and fearlessness. So, watch this space and soon there will be new art. The artist challenge is going live with the “Unrequited Love” showing on the 15th, don’t miss that, it looks to be incredible fun.

Hope everyone is fit and fine,

Heather

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