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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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.
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Fine Art Haiku - Must Have For All Serious Art Collectors

Old Yeller 2015 - Mitro  11" by 14"   

Tell the dog

the butterfly

is on his head

Fine Art Haiku is fine art in miniature form. 
A perfect pop of brilliant color telling a tiny tale.
It's tiny size makes it easy to collect myriad exquisite tiny canvases with no worry about space requirements.
Fine art haiku a new way to collect fine art also comes in at a much lower price due to it's small size.
As it typically measures only 11" by 14" it's small size  allows collectors to display many different paintings at one time that normally could not be displayed due to space and price constraints.
For those collectors who simply must have a new and upcoming artist whose price tags are in  the stratosphere, a small visual haiku of a painting it the perfect way to collect art.
As fun to collect as postage stamps and coins.
Katheleen Mitro is an artist whose upper price range of paintings top the $2,000,000 dollar mark.
Mitro Mitro is a must have artist for all serious collectors of fine art working in a brand new art genre of Soft Abstract Expressionism.
Mitro paints tiny size haiku allowing  the collector to come in at a much smaller price tag of $50,000 compared to her large works selling for millions.
  

Kitten with a Blue Scarf on the Road to Nirvana - Mitro 11' by 14" 

Painting haiku haiku is a mirror of American poetry haiku made famous by author Jack Kerouac Jack Kerouac 

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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.

Is the Naked Female Form in Art a Terrible Cliche?

Is the naked female form in art a terrible cliche?
Every time I look at another artist's work and see paintings of naked women I groan.
Where are the naked men?
Perhaps this is why Michelangelo's David is so well received. He's one of a kind.

Michelangelo's David

But I digress I don't want to look at naked men either.
What I want to look at, is the soul and the spirit of the thing.
Perhaps that is why expressionism in art so appeals to to me.
What is the fascination with the naked body.
We all have one.
We have all seen many (most of us anyway).
There are only two phases to our existence.
One is life, where we possess a body that we can look at anytime we wish.
The other is our spiritual life after we pass when we have no physical body.
It makes more sense to admire the spiritual when we have a body.
And to admire naked paintings of bodies when we are in Heaven and don't have one.
Just sayin.
-Mitro
 www.mitrofineart.com 
 
PS:If your looking for naked pictures this is not your site (Smile) I only paint the spirit and soul of the thing. I'm waiting till I get to Heaven to start painting the naked bodies.

Man - Mitro

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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Art Like Life is Too Big To Be Small - Mitro
Painting "Kathy" 
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Beautiful.

 

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Is Artistic Talent in The Genes? Or Brothers and Sisters From Another Mother

Andy Warhol

Reading an article in the Pittsburgh City Paper by By Bill O'Driscoll  about a young woman Betty RockwellRockwell who founded  Pittsburgh's first gallery of modern art  called Outlines in 1941,
some things jumped out at me as very cool indeed
The article stated over a six year period , Rockwell showed work in Outlines of an avant-garde who's-who of artists , ranging from the famous (Picasso)Picasso to such then-obscure future icons as Jackson PollockPollock, Alexander CalderCalder, Joseph CornellCornell and Georgia O'KeefeO'Keeffe. Others on the list: Francis BaconBacon, Henry MooreMoore, Ashile GorkyGorky, DaliDali, MagritteMagritte, MondrianMondrian Mondriaan 2, Klee.Klee.
Then for me like a cyclic unfolding, it stated Andy Warhol was an Outlines devotee, an art student himself at that time, and speculation is that Rockwell's venue was where Warhol got the idea to do silkscreen as painting.
I am then  reminded of my father telling me  that Andy Warhol  Warhol was a distant cousin of mine.
This make sense as his parents and my father's parents both emigrated from Czechoslovakia around the same time.
Both  families settled in Pittsburgh Pa., and Warhol is around the same age as my father who was born in 1918.
Now this is where it gets cool.
Upon closing Outlines in Pittsburgh Betty founded the Society for Contemporary Craft ,which to this day still lives on in the Strip District in Pittsburgh
Opening my own retail store and art gallery in this very same Strip District in Pittsburgh, within my store that was literally within shouting distance of this same Society.
 I painted my very first painting.
I also sold my first painting in that same store.
I do feel Warhol's presence in my room and after all, why not?
We're cousins aren't we.
And yes, I do believe it's in the genes.
 - Mitro

Thought - Mitro

 

Vatican 2015 Will Pope Francis Help to Heal the World

Vatican 2015 Will Pope Francis Help to Heal the World - Mitro 16" by 20"  NA

Looking at a transparent Vatican we can clearly see the man in charge Pope Francis Pope Francis standing on the dome, on view for the entire world.
We can see the muddled colors of confusion and angst in the world  turn into crystal clear beauty when the newly transparent Vatican is overlaid on them. 
On the right hand side at the top we see a figure in a Greek toga Greek toga of green and blue smiling down at him.
Looking to the very bottom of the painting on the right hand side you see a Grecian Goddess Grecian Goddess with her head supplicated in prayer

Addendum April 13, 2016 - Second Hidden Secret in Vatican
Looking at a photo of the painting Vatican I can now clearly see a very large head of a child. 
Can you see it? 
First look for the large eye, it is black rimmed with white and see the curve of his cheek beside in the same back rimmed with white.
The face is resting it's cheek against the side of the Vatican  on the left hand side of the painting.
First hidden secret in Vatican

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Never Walk Away From Anything That Makes You Smile

While reading a tweet today I forget from whom, so I will say anonymous, this line jumped out at me
Never walk away from anything that makes you smile.
I love it.
It is just so simply put.
Look always to laughter and fun and your life will reflect back your focus.
It is the focus ah the focus that creates our individual lives.
So I will leave you with some of my art that really makes me smile.

Two Bunny Rabbits on a Amusement Park Ride - Mitro

Snoodle Me Poodle at Play - Mitro

Bunny Rabbit on a Mission - Mitro

PS. I guess Bunny Rabbits just make me smile

Smart Men Like HamadbinJassimbinJaberbinMuhammadAlhani Know Art Is The Best Investment

Reading an article yesterday on HamadbinJassimbinJaberbinMuhammadAlhani and his purchase of a Picasso, and  it is revealed that he is the mystery purchaser of the world's most expensive painting but will not display it because of it's nudity.
I then understand that this is a man who see's beyond the beauty of the art to it's actual intrinsic worth.
It's worth, like any fine art painting lies in the ability of it being one of a singular ability investment to pay back value with no ceiling.
I cannot think of another item other than art and collectibles that pay back such enormous dividends.
A smart man knows that the only real valuable is the one with a rarity quotient of one.
There may be other Picasso's but no one else can ever possess that particular Picasso until he buys it from the current owner.
For this reason art is for the smart investor.
Like any collectible it only appreciates with time.
The stock market, bonds and real estate all might lose their value and even if they do not, can only rise within certain parameters
But with art there is no ceiling .
That there is no limit to the price it can rise to is attested by the fact that this painting "Les Femmes d'Alger" sold initially for $31.9 million in Nov 1997 and a mere 18 years later sold at Christie's in New York on May 11, 2015   for $179,365,000 .
That is an appreciation of over $179 million dollars in only 18 years or almost $10 million dollars a year
There is no other investment in the world capable of that kind of appreciation other than fine art or fine collectibles. 
The appreciation of art makes it a winner for one of the biggest returns possible on investment capital.
Where stocks and bonds have a average top return of about 5%,
art can be bought for hundreds and  resold for  potential millions with capital gains in the  stratosphere, instead of single digits.
 No other investment has this capacity to return so much money for getting in with so little money.
A money investment that actually brings you joy every day of your life while the monetary value of your artwork goes up, up and up.
Expensive art the best investment of your life.

Baby Phantom Spitfire Airplane

Phantom Spitfire Airplane  - Mitro  16" by 20"  $125,000

This is a ghost of Spitfire World War Two airplane.
If you look at the lower right hand corner of the painting you will see the face of the airplane looking up and backwards. 
His face is yellow and very round,  he has two blue wings and you are viewing him from above.
He is a phantom because you can see directly through him to the ground. 
I refer to him as a baby as his face is very baby like with roundness and a orange snub nose.
 I believe this baby like quality is reflecting the tender age of the pilot who inevitably died with the crash of the plane. 
This painting is very compelling and actually gives you vertigo when you look upon it in it's original form.
 While looking at the painting I am struck by the incredible courage of our air military who protect us on a very scary battle ground.
I would like to dedicate this painting with much gratitude to every brave soul in our Air Force.

World War Two Spitfire Airplane