My Method of Painting Comes From My Fascination With Psychic Phenomena and The Future

The Color Purple  18" by 24"

I am a metaphysical painter who has studied spirituality for much of my life.

By metaphysical I mean seeing and knowing things beyond the reach of our ordinary senses.

My method of painting comes from my fascination with psychic phenomena and the future.

I have always since early childhood felt the future will unveil not only fantastic new technologies but also undreamed of spiritual awakenings.

I believe that thought is subtle electrical energy and that energy from the resultant thought can actually travel from the subconscious where it is  picked up as prescience to a blank canvas.

This creates scenes that are either;

    Important for me to capture.
    Important for the eventual buyer of the piece  to capture.
    Important to the world to capture. 

Encapsulated, my painting are drawn from inner scenes existing as vibrational energy in my subconscious and are not drawn on the canvas, but actually pulled from the canvas.

I call my art, "Art Purely From the Soul With No Filter ."

It's genre is soft abstract expressionism art, but  it is the way that it is created that makes it much more unique than it's actual genre.

Faced with a blank canvas I do not plan what to paint, I merely swipe paint on the canvas and let whatever picture wants to come up, come up.
I then read the canvas by rotating it 4 ways and seeing what picture has come up.
Once I see the picture I enhance by still only swiping paint and oil pastels with no intent other than to add more color and more shape.
I have never been disappointed, a clearly readable image ALWAYS appears.
It is very akin to reading tea leaves I suppose.

I rarely use a paint brush.

My subconscious sees the invisible energy of a scene, impregnates the canvas with this invisible energy and when I wipe paint on the canvas it adheres only to the energy of the impregnated scene creating a picture. 

It is energy from my subconscious that creates the picture and this is why I say it comes straight from the soul. 

When I say no filter I mean I do not filter or change any images that come up.

It is also for this reason that the paint on all my canvas is very lightly applied.

This is so it does not cover up, but actually uncovers the painting theme.
What my art means.

My art is about a move to a gentler more peaceful society which is portrayed by gently flowing cartoon like shapes and beautiful bright flowing color.

My work is always about the good in man and in society and it's meaning is always upbeat and positive.

Nothing dark always brilliant light and softness.

By putting out such light in my art I believe I am contributing to peace and happiness, for who can be dark or sad when viewing such brightly colored gentle creatures.

Sisters   3 Feet by 4 Feet

As the subconscious is ones soul I am delighted that my soul appears to be a happy one as my art comes out in playful happy cartoonish like characters and beautiful colors.

The Queen   3 Feet by 4 Feet

Gratitude towards the courage of individual spirit is the main theme that runs through most of  my painting and a knowing that we are moving slowly and steadily towards a kinder and more gentle society and world

I believe that good energy embedded in a picture is good energy added to a household.

I believe the most important character a person can possess, is kindness.

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Getting In on The Ground Level By Buying an Artist Poised To Emerge As Very Valuable

Desert Sunset Vanquished Sun - Mitro  16" by 20"   

Getting in on the ground level of an artist's art before it's value skyrockets is essential to making a huge profit in the art market.
Like stocks and bonds it is essential to keep one's ear to the ground to buy that art before it's price goes through the roof.
The biggest money pay off goes to the one who see's the value in the little known name. Much like the movie star who starts an ingenue and salary price is cheap, only to explode into a super star with a salary in the 8 digits.
To buy a known name is good and safe but the price you pay will reflect that that one is already known.
To buy a name, that one says who is that, and to have that art explode in value, well that is the thrill that is the adrenalin rush.
That is the most profitable investment  you can ever make.

The Universe Talks to the World Though My Art or Things That Go Bump in the Night

As a firm believer in many planes of spiritual existence occurring simultaneously.
I am delighted to see images come up unbidden on each blank canvas I start.
Akin to automatic writing it is automatic painting.
I never know what image will come up until it comes up.
If one buys the theory that anything and everything is electrical vibration which I truly do, it stands to reason that a canvas magnetized with electrical energy for a specific painting would not only be possible but very probable.
For the canvas since it is physical, has to be vibrating electrical energy also.
Add into the mix a artist like myself that  truly believes and so truly allows, and you get psychic images every time you paint.
My work consists of smearing swiping and brushing various colors onto a white canvas and then inserting random slashes of lines with an oil stick, and then as the smears and swipes turn into identifiable images I can only conclude that the canvas is magnetized and holds onto paint in a pixel like way.
Some might say I am cheating that I am drawing, but I assure you I am absolutely not. 
I believe that it is my release of control that allows chance.
By not purposely creating I am allowing the universe to paint the painting and with it's divine wisdom it creates exactly what it needs to create for ultimate meaning.
It is akin to the shuffling of tarot cards picked randomly and read but my paintings are more precise because the pictorial aspects are tailor made and each one unique.
I am always amazed myself when the images come up.

The Marriage of the Old Masters With Futuristic Art - Mitro  

This particular painting I titled Marriage. 
It is the marriage of the old and the new in Art. 
The old a knight bridegroom with a Prince Valiant hair cut and a happy go lucky look on his face.
The new an alien bride with a pious sour look on her face as she appears to sacrifice herself to this     marriage. 
The preacher is a beautiful purple horse of some sort seen on the left hand side of the painting.
If you look beside the couple you will see a candle lit for the marriage ceremony throwing light on   the union.
You will also see a wedding guest at the very bottom of the left hand side of the painting.
Most important of all if you look carefully at the bottom right hand side of the painting, right below the couple, you will see the future child of the marriage an animal curled in sleep and waiting to be born. 
Look for his eye first and his shape should become apparent to you.
As it is set in a futuristic setting the future is absorbing the old and by the fusion of marriage, evolving into the now.

Sea Horse and Lion - Mitro   

Sea horse and Lion is a perfect example of my magnetized canvas. 
If you look at the bottom left of the painting you will see a very skillfully drawn lion complete with mane 
On the right you will see a sea horse and a man in the very bottom of the right side.
I did not draw any of these images they all appear as I swipe paint and crayons indiscriminately across the blank canvas.
There appears to be in my paintings a transference of the energy stream of the scene presented onto the canvas, so my painting vibrate with the actual energy of the scene they present for viewing.

Please Don't Leave Your Head Behind, Take it With You

Please Don't Leave Your Head Behind, Take it With You - Mitro  36" by 48"  $2,000,000

Don't leave your head is about the fact that although we might dance through our lives in complete ignorance of our true spiritual nature, as mind creates reality only through our thoughts we cannot leave our head behind it is forever and irrevocably attached to our reality.

This is truly an illusionistic painting.
By this I mean the image in the painting changes whenever the viewer changes their distance from the canvas or the angle they are viewing the painting from, even the height on the wall they view the painting at.
The basic painting is a man' s head separated from his torso in his hurry in life to get where he is going.
The head is tethered to the body with a fine string and encased in a balloon.
The head can be seen as a chipmunk head, a sugar glider head (viewed forward), or of  a Frenchman with a beret on or a Arabic man wearing a Keffiyeh (viewed backward)
The body can be seen as running with a tray, or from a different viewing perspective, as dancing.
From another perspective you can also see the body turn into a dancing Tasmanian Devil. Taz
When the size of the picture is shrunk small the leaf in the right top becomes 3D.
The symbol Om can be seen clearly in the head
Truly a very cool painting, if I do say so myself. And I do,smile 


Title : Please Don't Leave Your Head Behind
Size : 36" by 48"
Materials : Acrylic and Oil Stick on Canvas
Price : $2,000,000
Artist : Katheleen Mitro
Signed top left : Mitro

• Artist
  Katheleen Mitro 1953 - American
• Creation Year
  2016
• Medium
  Acrylic

  Oil Stick

  Canvas
• Movement & Style
  Soft Abstract Expressionism
• Condition
  Excellent 

  Dimensions

  48 in.High x 36 in.Wide

Gallery Location

Daytona Beach, Florida 

• Number of Items
  1
• Reference Number
  SAE769055

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How van Gogh Would Have Painted In 2016

van Gogh, arguably one of the greatest artists of all time lived in the last century.
 If he had lived today even though his brilliant colors would probably have remained, his subject matter would have to be up to date with the 21st century.
Below are some examples of how he might have painted.

Instead of a sleeping farm couple he probably would have painted a couple comprised of sleeping mystical beings.

Rest from Work - van Gogh 1880

Sleeping Beauty And Her Prince 2015 - Mitro

 Instead of crows flying he probably would have painted flying aircraft like ghost war planes.

Phantom Spitfire Airplane 2015 - Mitro

Wheat Field with Crows - van Gogh 1889

 Instead of his own placid bedroom in Arles he probably would have painted the red hot excitement of a rock and roll concert.

Room at Arles - van Gogh 1889

Christmas Rock Concert 2015 - Mitro

 And instead of his complex self portrait he probably would have painted a simple one.

Self Portrait - van Gogh  1889

Portrait of Kathy  2016

Hey maybe Mitro is van Gogh reincarnated (Smile)
And wait he was born in 1853 and Mitro was born in 1953.
Just sayin. 

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See Mitro Soft Abstract Art in Fun Flip Book

I have posted my own Mitro art along with my own personal interpretation of paintings in a fun flip style book. I like it a lot. I have also included prices and sizes for those interested in buying.Fun Flip Booklet

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Tweelip the Tulip Veering Down the Road to Perdition

Tweelip the Tulip Veering Down the Road to Perdition  11" by 14" $50,000

 Tweelip is about  the sealing of your fate after smoking the evil
weed. Just kidding of course.
If you look at the center of the painting you will see an inverted tulip. There is a cloud of purple haze above his head and you see him smoking it. He has not completely gone down the wrong path as the circle above his head in the universal symbol of no has just started forming and has no lettering yet.
The purple haze is a shout out to Jimi Hendrix.

A Canvas Full of Artist Worry and Angst is Not the Best Energy For a Collector to Have in His Personal Space

Rage - Mitro    Rage is never pretty to look at.

The angst I am talking about here is not only subject matter but the artist's own personal inner self feelings, and the  amount of worry and fret they put into their art
Just as the law of karma says we attract back what we mete out, so do we absorb energy from the objects that surround us.

As every person place and thing in the Universe consists solely of vibrating energy which is also magnetic, the vibration of the personal objects we place in our homes and environments cause us to sync and meld with them.
As it is said that people living in the same home come to resemble each other, so do we come to resemble the items we choose to place around us.
Subject matter is also very important.
If the matter is dark the viewer syncs with it and feels the darkness and by feeling the darkness becomes one with it.
So if you want to feel the joy of life and the higher vibrations of the spiritual plane, surround yourself with things that vibrate highly with joy.

Bright Day- Mitro

Exquisite beautiful colors, happy shapes and beautiful stories in a painting.
Collect artists with energy that vibrates with happiness and joy,
if happiness and joy is what you want in your life.
This is what soft abstract expressionism is all about.
The joy, the lightness and the color 
-Mitro
 

Everyone and Everything Constantly Emits the Energy Stream that Created It

Vatican or Will Pope Francis Change the World 2015 - Mitro

Everyone and everything is always emitting the energy stream that created it.

That is what is read by aura readers, by physics and by average people who say of someone they dislike "they have bad energy"

Change your energy stream and you change your life.

Change your  energy stream and you change you, and who you are.

-Mitro

Vatican 2015 Will Pope Francis Heal the World

Vatican 2015 Will Pope Francis Heal the World - Mitro
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Chaos A Crucial Element For Spiritual Growth

Chaos A Crucial Element For Spiritual Growth - Mitro  11" by 14"  $50,000

Chaos is about the absolute essential need for chaos in growing.

If one is never pushed out of complacency one never becomes larger.
So the next time you find yourself cursing some bad event that has befallen you remember without hardship there is no advancement.
Looking at this painting you will see a red orb of creation energy already expanding into creation mode.
In the beginning this painting shows you just clashing colors but if you look closely you can see the beautiful picture it is already starting to form.
-Mitro

The Wisdom of the Ages

The Wisdom of the Ages - Mitro 11" by 14"  $50,000

The wisdom of the ages passed from generation to generation, but  only heeded or absorbed by those eager to learn.

Wisdom can only be gained through experience whether that experience is gained in this lifetime or a previous life is moot.
In this painting we see a large older duck to the right of the painting talking to his pupil a small green dinosaur sitting on a rock at the bottom center of the painting.
They are separated by a thick black line.
In a aside to all of us who wish to impart wisdom to the next generation let us teach not dry facts but exciting revelations through experience. 
-Mitro

Jesus Preaches While Kittens Reign Down

Jesus Preaches While Kittens Reign Down  16" by 20"  $125,000

Jesus Preaches is about turning on the light to banish the darkness or soul staining of self flagellation, and by doing so being able to evolve spiritually to the next level.

If you look at the bottom right hand side of the painting you will see Jesus with his back turned to the viewer with arm outstretched and long aqua colored hair with a white swirl on the back of his robe, preaching to a red man dancing on the the left
The white swirl I take to be the holy spirit.
Above in the sky you will see kittens reigning down from the sky.
In the hem of Jesus's robe you will see a tiny perfectly formed cat sitting in the grass.
If you look at the red man you will also see an eye underneath his arm.
If you look closely at the painting there are many more to see.
It is a very complex image.

Kathy

Kathy 16" by 20" 

Kathy is about the ephemeral reality of life.
In spiritual time so fleeting , but in moment of living, so permanent.
Kathy is a self portrait. 

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• Reference Number
  SAE2320944

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Crab

 Sitting on the beach sipping Orangeade
  I want to talk about politics but it seems to make the pounding
 waves feel small
  The sun beats on my shoulder and face
  and makes me feel warm and good
  I know things are good
  I follow a crab on a short dive down his crab home
  I feel for the guy
  who is the guy behind the crab mask
  when people look at him they see food
  the crab pops out again and looks at me
  trust takes time
  I carry on

The Crab Woman from Mars - Mitro

New Painting in Progress - Alien Creator As a Small Child

Painting in Progress - Mitro

New painting in progress tentatively called Alien Creator As a Small Child
To the right side of the painting you see a large alien.
I call him a child as what he is creating are garden plants that grow toys.
Looking to the left at the plants you see a small yellow car growing ready to be harvested.

April 1, 2016 still working on it

In a more complete state of growth you see a light green toy animal that needs a little more growth time before the child can pluck it.

Alien Creator As a Small Child - Mitro

I have decided to continue with the progress of the painting by adding photos of it as it develops. 

July 6, 2016  Painting still in progress

At this stage of the painting you can see a definite fish pop up in the center, a little girl or probably a doll all in yellow, and at the bottom left hand corner you see a face taking on more shape with what looks like a diving helmet with green rims around the eye.
Also at the top right of the painting you can see the Mama alien watching over her child with a purple face along with a red bodice and yellow skirt.

Ziggy in Progress

Ziggy's Final Voyage into the Bright White Tunnel A Tribute to David Bowie -Mitro

Just Starting

Started out looking like a Miro.
Ended up looking like a Mitro.
So I only added a T.
Smile.

Ziggy's Final Voyage Into the Bright White Tunnel, A Tribute to David Bowie

This painting is in tribute to David Bowie and a thanks for his song Changes which helped me through my college years.
Phenomenal song, phenomenal artist.

Ziggy's Final Voyage Into the Bright White Tunnel, A Tribute to David Bowie - Mitro  16" by 20"  $125,000

If you look at the painting you will see Ziggy with arms outstretched flying through the famous tunnel of light oft reported in near death experiences.
You see his brilliant orange hair and his famous star on his chest. 
You will also see the circle on his forehead duplicated 4 times.
As with all of my paintings I never intend subject matter it only makes itself apparent somewhere in the creation time.
I only realized this was David myself after I had an uncontrollable urge to paint the red star on his chest and I heard of his death hours later.

Who is the Greatest Art Dealer of All Time - Envelope Please

The greatest art dealer of all time was working against 3 major obstacles.
One she was a woman in a time when women had few rights.
Number two she lived in a time when there was no internet.
Number three she was single mother.
The greatest art dealer of all time was Johanna van Gogh, sister in law to Vincent van Gogh.
Taking possession of Vincents total cache of paintings at a time when only one had been sold, she managed to parlay him into one of the most famous and most expensive selling artists of all time.
To learn how she accomplished such a tremendous feat with all odds stacked against her read

 Johanna van Gogh-Bonger:Kunsthandelaar?
  Johanna van Gogh-Bonger:Kunsthandelaar?
 By Irene Meyjes


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Muddled Ingress

Muddled Ingress - Mitro  16" by 20"  $125,000

Muddled Ingress is self explanatory.
If you look at the top left hand portion of the painting you will see the face of a man.
Surrounding him are the myriad pathways he may choose to reach his desired life goal.
It is the confusion of paths that may or may not be taken in life, and the tremendous angst one feels before embarking on a new path by agonizing over which is the correct path to take.
One must embark into newness joyfully and  without trepidation instead of being drawn into muddy colored  pathways to reach desired financial security.
 It is and always has been, the joy of the journey for when you enjoy the journey it will always invariably have a great end.
By the way the path that feels good to your heart is always the correct one.
Feels good, is good.