Monique Sevenans
Art In Progress
Abstraction 46 – “Rolling”
ABSTRACTIONS 03_4-11-2012_046 | "Rolling" | 18″X24″ | TEMPERA, GESSO on PAPER | $400
Sometimes I think, “Oh this sucks! What am I doing?!” But then I realize it doesn’t matter because I don’t have to be in love with them all.
Possibly the start of a new series, also.
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Abstraction 44 – “Absolve”
Letting subtle variance speak for itself.
ABSTRACTIONS 03_4-10-2012_044 | "ABSOLVE" | 18″X24″ | TEMPERA, GESSO, PASTEL & CHARCOAL ON PAPER | $400
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Abstraction 43 – “Sulky and Sultry”
I notice a lot of this life is about waiting …
ABSTRACTIONS 03_4-07-2012_042 | "Sulky and Sultry" | 24″X18″ | TEMPERA, GESSO, PASTEL & CHARCOAL ON PAPER | $400
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New and Exciting
First … I took some nice pictures of flowers, blooming in the trees. Yes, I find it very enchanting. There is a chance after that bit of snow earlier this week that Spring is finally here. The photos I took today have been updated in Nature Photography.
Next … The Art Gallery has been updated with the latest Abstractions Series 5.3 paintings. I retook several photos outside in natural light which shows a closer representation of the work. Will make an effort going forward to take them in this light from the start. Most paintings are very available and eager to find proper homes.
Note: My goal on this series is 50 and I’m almost there!
Finally … I changed the name of an older blog to The All of Me - A completely self-indulgent project where I document my journey or process towards self-actualization and love. Self-love. Daily posts will be a dissection/deconstruction / self awareness exercises of my life, basically. I don’t expect it will gain much attention, but if you’re interested, there it is.
Thanks for following along followers and likers alike. I very much appreciate and welcome you.
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Abstraction 42 – “Burning Horizon”
With this one I feel a strong kinship… I’ve looked at artists who do very flat landscapes, where the reliance is on color, mainly I believe. The subtleties and nuances of hue, tone, contrast, intensity, etc. These feels like a direction I may be interested in exploring… at the same time of playing around with other things. I have fun making messes still.
ABSTRACTIONS 03_3-29-2012_042 | "Burning Horizon" | 18″X24″ | TEMPERA, GESSO, PASTEL & CHARCOAL ON PAPER | $400
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Abstraction 41 – “Wicked Garden”
Yep, pretty cheesed out on that title. How does that nursery rhyme go?
Mistress Mary, Quite contrary,
How does your garden grow?
With Silver Bells, And Cockle Shells,
Sing cuckolds all in a row
Looks like there are a few versions with different endings. This one amused me the most.
ABSTRACTIONS 03_3-29-2012_041 | "WICKED GARDEN" | 18″X24″ | TEMPERA, GESSO, PASTEL & CHARCOAL ON PAPER | $350
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Abstraction 40 – “Infertility”
ABSTRACTIONS 03_3-29-2012_040 | "INFERTILITY" | 24″X18″ | TEMPERA, GESSO, PASTEL & CHARCOAL ON PAPER | $300
Am I? I don’t know, however, considering how I am 41, celibate, malnourished (per Dr.) though overweight and very single.. I’m thinking the chances of fertility are a bit slim. Oh well, it was fun to work on this, although I have mixed reactions on the outcome.
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Abstraction 38 – “Watcher”
Fitting, I suppose, that I listened to a new-to-me band called Sleep Chamber. It is perhaps one of the most far out groups I’ve ever heard. Excellent to paint along to/with, however.
I did this thinking it was a landscapey orientation with with a dead tree smack in the center.. though in editing I liked it better sideways. The highlighted forms somehow then became a watcher …
ABSTRACTIONS 03_3-28-2012_038 | "WATCHER" | 24″X18″ | TEMPERA, GESSO, PASTEL & CHARCOAL ON PAPER | $400
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Abstraction 37 – “From the Inside”
The last thing I remember saying is, “Things are getting funky.” I woke up nearly two hours later in another room. Don’t remember a single thing, although since I have slept like a baby and experienced a plethora of wildly sordid dreams.
ABSTRACTIONS 03_3-28-2012_037 | "FROM THE INSIDE" | 18″X24″ | TEMPERA, GESSO, PASTEL & CHARCOAL ON PAPER | $350
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mixed bag of tricks
That in which I’ve been searching for the past while came to fruition yesterday. I found a j-o-b. On the onset I was very happy and grateful about it..
Well, I will miss the lackadaisical rhythm of life I’ve come to know and love and hate.
Things happen in life to shake you up, on purpose no doubt, and resistance? Resistance is my great educator.
Surely life would be boring if it were all a cakewalk, no?
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Abstraction 35 – “Shadow Self”
ABSTRACTIONS 03_3-17-2012_035 | "Shadow Self" | 18″X24″ | TEMPERA, GESSO, PASTEL & CHARCOAL ON PAPER | $350
After listening to industrial techno The Soft Moon most of the day, the art is flowing nicely. Feels good. While doing these I sometimes have flashes of another life, another me.
Early this morning when I wasn’t sleeping again, I was browsing the FaceBook. It was a new artist friend’s work.. or it could have been the other morning. I can’t remember exactly when but I remember what. It was this woman’s work and how I felt her aura by looking at her and the paintings.
Is there a feminine energy to the work I now do? Coincidentally, it’s only women who’ve made the investment so far. The mark making may be interpreted as being very closely tied emotions and expression. These types of marks I’ve made in the past are what I saw in her work as well, only her’s were much much MORE. I got the impression she’d mastered her creative language.. and there were so many works! My goodness.. hundreds and hundreds as though her well were bottomless. Crazy. Awesome.
It inspired me to incorporate such mark making a bit more today and I like result.. pretty cool, pretty neat …
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Gratuitous #Gratitude
A bit overdue with some and it may go without saying, though I say it anyway…
I am very grateful to you!
Tweeters, Facebook Likers, Commenters & Sharers and Google+ Commenters, Sharers & +1′s – So many awesome friends, artists and acquaintances alike who I ‘work with’ and who ‘work with’ me. Thanks so much for spreading the word and providing your feedback.
Visitors, Likers, Commenters, Subscribers and reBloggers – Thank you so much.. It’s so great to know that some one is paying attention.
Collectors! Yes, I have sold some of this work and these ladies are the best!
Heather Anderson ’09 – Series 1 Abstraction 31
Shauntelle Twilliger ’09 – Series 1 Abstraction 32
Kat Monaghan ’11 – Series 2 Abstraction 22
Daneen Reynoso-Kirkeminde ’11 – Series 1 Abstraction 006
Miriam Climenhaga ’11 – Series 3 Abstraction 1
Liz Ruest ’11 – Series 1 Abstraction 24
And finally.. Inspiration to which and whom are wide and varied and certainly, invaluable.
Being an artist is a pretty self indulgent job, yet important none-the-less because we get to communicate with others in ways that only art can. It is a relatively priceless and undefinable language. I am honored to be a ‘transient conduit’ of such knowledge. The work itself that’s done day to day is the ‘cake’ so to speak. It sustains and nourishes the spirit, while everything else such as acknowledgement from others is the icing on the cake. You can have one without the other, but it’s sure is sweeter to receive both at the same time.
Looking very forward to lots and lots more artwork the remainder of the year!
Thank YOU!
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Abstraction 34 – “Breached”
I smell bbq. They do it in this neighbor nightly. Makes me feel hungry. Tonight smells like hot dongs.. lol.. lips and assholes. Oh boy!
On a weird sleep schedule lately. Seems I had this thought about having a normal sleep pattern a few days ago and then? Poof! It’s gone. I jinxed myself.. though I’m not super-superstitious, knock on wood. Things always seem a little stranger when your sleep deprived. Crazy thing about it is that it wouldn’t matter if my situation (as it were) was on stable ground or not. I am ‘blessed’ with these sleepless phases. Lucky me.
Not sure what it is about these warm colors lately.. orange, yellow, pink, red.. they keep showing up in the form of flame and in a similar composition. A bit dramatic? Who knows, perhaps it’s a warning of some sort to stay away from processed meat.
ABSTRACTIONS 03_3-15-2012_034 | "BREACHED" | 18″X24″ | TEMPERA, GESSO, PASTEL & CHARCOAL ON PAPER" | $300
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Abstraction 32 – “Through Surfaces”
I think I’ve reached the point where all I’m trying to do is make a big mess. 
I could be finger painting before long … I wonder what would happen if I quit applying for work and amp up my painting … because I really am enjoying mess making. I am.
ABSTRACTIONS 03_3-14-2012_032 | "Through Surfaces" | 24″X18″ | TEMPERA, GESSO, PASTEL & CHARCOAL ON PAPER" | $350
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Abstraction 30 – “inflammation, the y-factor nation”
Over, through, out and under, around and down. Circling, trolling, mound utter rolling … inflammation, the y-factor nation.
I’m rambling. Brainstorming out loud. Seeing if something will come to mind, something that means something.. I was only really thinking of just doing art full time to the point of it comfortably supporting myself. As I sit here typing this, listening to beautiful music, I feel pretty comfortable, physically. I could fall asleep. Didn’t do much of it last night..
No actually, I was thinking, I keep thinking I can do a whole lot more…
ABSTRACTIONS 03_3-13-2012_030 | "inflammation, the y-factor nation" | 24″X18″ | GESSO, PASTEL & CHARCOAL ON PAPER" | $350
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Squirmer
Alright, prices aren’t all I’ve been squirming around. However, slowly but surely I am figuring this out. I am coming to the reminded realization that consistency is key.. consistency in work habits, style and prices.
I apologize for all my recent flitting about and I will make bold attempts to become more aware of this behavior. Not that it’s any excuse, though I suppose considering the somewhat unstable nature of artist, it comes with the territory.
Whatever. ok.
Yes, come hell or high water, as good ol Dad always used to say, the prices on the art are now where they are.. unless I have a sale once a year, which is possible .. never know.
Just a little clarification on that saying, “Hell” would likely equal me being a transient.. ”high water” being a natural disaster. I suspect on my more even keel days, I view these and just about everything else as temporary phases of life – live and learn.
Interestingly enough, with the possible exception of how I am very much in the category of trying to become an “emerging artist”, I was pretty close to pricing the work fairly accurately to market value. There is that aspect, plus what feels right to me. Striking a balance between these two issues is pretty important for a pro-artist I assume.. and I’m learning more and more.
So alright then.. that’s settled for the most part.
Still squirming in high-water hell with the rest of my life, though I’ve been advised and reminded that ‘everything is temporary, anyway‘.
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Abstraction 29 – “Tilted Axis”
ABSTRACTIONS 03_3-10-2012_029 | "Tilted Axis" | ~ 24″X18″ | GESSO, PASTEL & CHARCOAL ON PAPER
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Abstraction 28 – “Incantation”
Abstractions 03_3-10-2012_028 | "INCANTATION" | ~ 18″X24″ | GESSO, PASTEL & CHARCOAL ON PAPER
Seemed a little ‘sacred fire, sacred flame‘ like.. why not. There could be more about this one, but I’m not sure what it is at the moment.
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Series 6.4 – Abstraction 2 – “Anchored in Drift”
ABSTRACTIONS 04_3-6-2012_010 | "Anchored in Drift" | ~ 18″X24″ | TEMPERA, GESSO, CHARCOAL ON PAPER
“… you are like a vessel in a storm. It puts out a sheet anchor which helps the boat to weather the storm because it keeps its head to the wind, but it also gives it a feeling of comfort, to those aboard, to think that they’ve got a sheet anchor that’s not attached to the bottom but it’s a part of the sea, that enables them to survive, and then as long as they think they’re going survive as a boat then they can go through experiencing the storm.”
- sculptor Jessie Watkins, excerpt from account of his Ten-Day ‘Madness’ Voyage, Politics of Experience
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inBetween
Here I Am. Where Were You?
As a transient conduit of unconscious knowledge I seek to develop my creative genius and follow my path as an artist. The work I create documents various processes, studies and explorations of possibilities in which I’m most mystified ... When the work triggers a response or a reaction in you then I have done my job. MSevenans Art Prints
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