Hunger Hurts But Has a Joyful Remedy to Cure

As we move into the season of plenty, bountiful food is ever present and is the centerpiece of all celebrations. At this time we see much talk of the hungry and all sorts of special Christmas dinners for those without means. Let us not forget the human body requires food approximately every 4 to 5 waking hours. It does not run on a holiday schedule. All food is good, and food should be allowed to be given freely without any kind of government restrictions. We must feed our hungry and feed them on a daily basis because hunger is painful and is the easiest and most pleasant remedy to cure. Kathy Mitro http://artbykathymitro.blogspot.com/

Painting Possum is a Nocturnal Animal Like It's Namesake.

Looking at my new painting Possum for the last couple of nights and I see that it comes alive at night. Now it is pretty viewed in daylight, but at night it glows like jewel with an inner radiance that compels the eye to it like a magnet. My painting are abstract and the feeling of the painting is what the painting is about, and even though I have never seen a possum in person,the painting was just, a possum. When I awaken this morning it dawns on (get it dawns on me) I think aren't possums nocturnal animals? I google it and yes indeed they are nocturnal animals. So once again I am amazed things, are much curiouser in this earthy life than most of us realize. When the painting feels to be a possum and that painting comes alive at night just like a possum, well that is too cool for words. I like it, I like it a lot. Kathy Mitro http://artbykathymitro.blogspot.com/

Invisible spirits and energy paint the picture, I am just a tool.

Sea Horse and Lion - Mitro

 As an avid student of the metaphysical and all things we cannot touch with our senses, but only feel with our souls, I love that my painting are created not by myself alone but seem to spring from universal energy.
Almost as if spirit or magical energy is in control of the canvas instead of myself, I see as I swipe paint onto the canvas, images appear.
It is almost as if the canvas is magnetized with a scene and when paint is swiped across it it sticks only to the pixels that create the scene.
 I choose Sea Horse and Lion to demonstrate this, as it is very apparent to see, but all my paintings emerge in this same way.
 I have no drawing skill of any kind, but you can clearly see in this picture a skillfully drawn lion complete with mouth, nose, eyes and mane.
You can also see the sea horse very clearly, and a man in the lower right hand corner of the painting The fascinating part of this is, I start painting with no intention of what I wish to paint.
I merely swipe on paint, scribble with oil crayons and voila a painting emerges.
 I rotate the canvas all 4 ways and there is always one right way but I do not know which way it is until I look at the painting in all four ways.
Boats emerge on water that I have no painted, as in Independence.
3D faces emerge looking at the cross in Cross, that I have no drawn.
The twin towers emerged in one of my first paintings one whole year before the actual 911 in a complete scene, probably because the energy of that scene was so intense.
As I view eternal energy as only good, these paintings are a beneficent gift to me from the non physical plane.
I know that the only real truth is love and that everything else exists only to compare itself to love, and to feel by this comparison the beauty of the true nature of reality.
Everyone who has ever known in their heart that good always trumps bad, has discovered the secret of the Universe and that is only Love and it's sister companions, kindness, empathy, goodness and compassion are real, bad fades away into nothingness as if it never existed, as indeed it is not real, when confronted with the light of good. 
Mitro

Abstraction Places Viewer Firmly Into Painting

Abstract Expressionism art suggests form instead of concrete reality to enable every viewer to put themselves squarely in the picture without reality interfering. For instance an abstract dog can be any dog, a shepherd a collie and on and on, whereas a picture of a collie is just that, a collie and if your dog is not a collie it can be hard to relate. An abstract form of a mother can be Chinese, Greek, Indian and is also not bound with reality constraints. Mother 16" by 20" $125,000