A few weeks back I was asked to submit a painting for use in the promoting of the cancer awareness "Pink Show" benefit concert at the Tower Theater in October.   Initially I was going to be providing the artwork for the postcards.

Recently I found out that my piece was selected for ALL printed promotions of the Pink Show, as well as the front page of the Pink Show Website!  Postcards, all the posters that will be hung around town, AWESOME.  The print copy will be a digitally altered version of my original artwork.

The original piece is a reverse on glass painting, all in various tones of pink, purple, a few shades of skin tone, and black...along with my usual bits of metallics.  The frame was custom built by my husband, which I then distressed (always fun :)) and then painting in matching tones to flow into the painting.  The glass was a repurposed window pane.  Most of my reverse glass paintings make use of used glass panels.  Recycle!

This piece has many shimmery details that come in and out of view depending on what side or angle you are viewing the piece, and also changes with the lighting conditions.  Unfortunately, photos do not show how these details change.  All the reverse glass paintings need to be seen in person!

This piece is called "Waiting For The Tender".  It is part of my abstract nude glass series.  Though most of my paintings are very emotion driven, reflecting mental, emotional, and even physical struggles that I am working through-this one actually got me tearing up a few times when I was in the process of painting it.  That doesn't happen too often.  I was actually a little surprised by it.

"Waiting For The Tender" expresses how we can be so full of love, passion, desire, affection... wanting nothing more than to give of ourselves to someone important to us.  But for whatever reason, those passions and desires are not reciprocated.  You give and you give of yourself, giving all your tenderness- only to never receive it in return.  As women, we can't help but give of our hearts and often our bodies.  And we cling to our hopes.  Waiting.  Waiting for that tenderness to come.  Our hearts, our minds, our very skin - waits for that touch, those words  of love, that tender return.  The wait can turn us inside out.  Our heart, our very skin reflects that other tender. The raw, exposed, tender.  So our raw emotional selves lie in wait, waiting for the tender.

I am looking forward to seeing the digitally color-altered version of this piece come out in print and seeing the posters around town.  And I am honored that the organizers of the Pink Show felt that my piece would be the right image to promote the cancer benefit concert October 22nd.  I cannot wait participate in the event that night.  I will post more about the event itself as we get closer to the date.

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For those of you who have been following my blog on Xanga...you may have thought I left it.  Due to the type of internet connection I have at home I have been unabe to post to my actual blog.  But I have a shiny new netbook that will allow me to get access to Xanga again.  So I will be posting more material, like work in progress photos, and notes about art shows I've attended or been a part of.

So look for new photos soon!  Thanks for hanging in there!

In the course of the last few weeks I've been "tagged" to post some random facts about me.  I was too busy with the move at the time and now cannot remember the rules... so I am just gonna let it rip.

My artfully random randomness..............................

1)  I don't really like to over explain my work.  I may explain part of what inspired a piece or what some aspect of it pertains to, but mostly, I leave it open to interpretation.

2)  I paint because I desperately need to express some feeling or emotion.  But I always worry that I am showing too much of myself.  I often feel too exposed during some pieces...and yet I feel like I will break open if I don't express it.  Its a catch 22 that adds to my layer of nutty goodness.

3)  I leave little hidden messages or surprised in many of my pieces.  Words, images within an image.  Or glow in the dark paint that reveals something else once the lights go out.  Sometimes I tell you its there, sometimes you have to find it yourself.

4)  I get a giddy little thrill at seeing my fingers covered in paint.  It makes me feel like a kid again.

5)  I like to use recycled materials when I can.  Used frames, wood or glass from remodel or demolition projects, ect.

6)  I desperately miss having my own room to work in.

7)  My self portraits always look sad, even when I have tried to look happy.   Oddly enough I was the only person who didn't see this for the longest time until a friend kept pointing it out to me.  Art knows the truth.

8)  I have several singers/musicians that can take me to that creative place darn near EVERY time.  I think I've blogged a list of them before. 

9)  I really truly need more working easels.  I am constantly trying to prop paintings up on a chair because I have another one already in progress on my one and only easel.

10)  I LOOOVE to sculpt (with clay) but being a poor artist...I cannot afford the kiln firing fees and sadly, have no kiln of my own.  Its tragic.  If I had my hands covered in mud ALL the time, I would be all sorts of happiness.

11)  I feel like a fraud each and everytime I have my work hanging up with other artist I respect and admire.

12)  I like to paint alone.  I am extremely self conscious when others watch me work.

13)  If I don't figure out a way to take decent photos of my glass paintings... I am actually going to lose my mind.  The rest of it.

14)  i take donations in the form of gift certificates, supplies, and food.  : )

15)  No, really....

16)  I am absolutely fascinated with watching other artist work. and I LOOVE to see WHERE other artist work, their studios, are they neat, are they chaotic, do they have tons of room, or a tiny little corner in the kitchen, are they organized or have 13 bottles of BLACK because they can never find it.... fascinating stuff, that.

17)  I work in acrylics because I am just too freakin' impatient to wait on oils.  And I'm poor.

18)  Charcoal is one of the best things ever.  again, messy finger fetish.

19)  I would really love to sell a piece but am NOT looking forward to the separation anxiety I will suffer when I have to give it up.  My heart is in everyone one of them.

20)  Those who support my journey in art, by means of their comments, showing UP to my shows, the donations of supplies, and "you can do its"... will NEVER know what it means to me.  Everytime I have those moments of doubt and think that my work is crap and I am crap and everything is crap ...... you keep me going.

And that is my list.  I always appreciate your comments! 

Will post some pics in the next week or so of some of the new stuff I have been working on for the upcoming show in March.  Thanks for following, Tell your friends and THANK YOU for your support.

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All blog content and images are the copyright of the artist, Christina R. Martinez (aka JadedWolfStudios).