“Bread ‘n Butter” available to win in a drawing!

Bread ‘n Butter
8″ x 10″
oil on canvas
© 2013 Tracy Wall

I’ll be painting on Friday 5/17/2013, during Project Angel Heart’s 12th Annual “Art for Life”, at Abend Gallery.  (puppy painting on last post will be up for bidding!)  Stop by and join this wonderful event!

Or, you can win this one by joining Project Angel Heart’s Bread & Butter Club with regularly monthly donations, and enter the drawing to win a little “Bread ‘n Butter”.  For more info: call 303-830-0202 or 800-381-5612 or visit: http://www.projectangelheart.org/donate/bread-a-butter-club.html

“Love Nose All” available at Art for Life

Love Nose All
10″ x 10″
oil on gallery-wrapped canvas
©2013 Tracy Wall

This little painting will be available for bidding and purchase coming up soon!  I’m taking part again in the wonderful art auction benefit for Project Angel Heart called Art for Life.

The 12th annual Art for Life event on Friday, May 17 is a benefit art auction held at Abend Gallery in Denver. Join us for an evening of hors d’oeuvres, cocktails, wine, desserts, good company, and fine art. Guests will have the opportunity to view and bid on works of art from local and internationally recognized artists.

Project Angel Heart creates and delivers nutritious healthy meals to improve quality of life, at no cost, for those facing life-threatening illness.  In 2012, Project Angel Heart delivered over 445,581 meals to 1,950 clients, free of charge.

This is an amazing organization and I am both happy and honored to be even a small part of it.  I’ll be painting at the event along with a number of other artists, so please join us!  Look here to get tickets!

“Lime Glow” on exhibit at Spring Green and Tangerine

Lime Glow
12″ x 12″ (x 1.5″)
oil on gallery-wrapped canvas
©Tracy Wall

See this and others all green and orange at the “Spring Green and Tangerine” exhibit at Framed Image through May 18th!

Remodel Exhibit at Abend Gallery

Someday I imagine we’ll actually see leaves, but here in Denver we’re supposed to get up to 6″ of more snow today and tomorrow.

Catch these two pastel pieces with scenes from 17th Avenue Parkway in Park Hill (east Denver) and others at Abend Gallery‘s Remodel Sale through May 4th!

Children’s Hospital of Colorado paintings on the walls

I recently had the chance to visit Children’s Hospital Colorado to see all the amazing works of art hung there all fabulously curated by Heidi Huisjen, Arts Coordinator/Ponzio Creative Arts Therapy Program at Children’s Hospital Colorado.

My works are hanging on the 3rd and 6th floors.  Because of the security necessary in hospital visits, I had Heidi escort me with badge and ID in hand.

 

You’ve seen the works on this blog before (here, here, here, and here), but I loved seeing them in actual use so to speak, with patients and medical staff carrying on their normal everyday doings.

I am so delighted these pieces have found a home at a hospital for kids, I just can’t even put it into words.

The joy is seeing my works doing their thing, incorporated in everyday lives.  Art lives on!

“Early Stop” and Time Change

Early Stop
20″ x 20″ x 1.5″
oil on gallery-wrapped canvas
©2013 Tracy Wall

“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.”  ~Anatole Francei

I never get used to these time changes.

Ah, the first morning after the time change ahead to Daylight Saving Time.  Early mornings will once again be dark for a bit as we work our way towards summer.

I liked getting up early and getting things done before the sun and the rest of my world arose.  Now for a while, it’ll still be dark when I leave for work in the morning. Not good.

On the other hand, it’ll be nice to have the day seem longer because it’ll be staying light later in the day.  Good.

Changes can be a struggle, positives and negatives force us to make decisions.  Gulp.

Perhaps it’s a good time for changes.

“Fresh Tracks on Lookout”

Fresh Tracks on Lookout
12″ x 12″ x 1″
oil on gallery-wrapped canvas
©2013 Tracy Wall

A week ago, I hiked this short snowy trail on Lookout Mountain.

Mother Nature is now giving us a taste of spring this week, but those who have lived here in Colorado know that March can still deal us some heavy snow.

In order to fend off Spring Fever, though it best to pay tribute to those beautiful blue snow shadows.

“Looking Down on the Blues”

Looking Down on the Blues
16″ x 12″
oil on canvas panel
©2013 Tracy Wall

This month has been one of regrouping.  Yes I’ve been painting, but mostly my bedroom walls.

The past six months has been a non-stop painting frenzy for me.  Now it’s been a time to step away, rethink where I’m going, and get myself put together.

I’ve  done very little creating and turned my focus on getting my myself organized: got a physical (all systems “go!”), get bank accounts organized, create better systems of recording my finances, trash the accumulated junk, send the usable stuff to charitable organizations that could use them, and get rid of the clutter (the toughest of all for me!).

Cleaning, clearing, freshen up for the start of a new spring!  (ok, it’s still snowing a few times a week here in Denver, but it’s the concept of Spring I get excited about.

As I’m rounding the last turn and heading towards the finish line, I’m getting psyched to start painting again.  Here’s another one in the series of horse cast shadows ( a little larger) that I did last month. Still want to experiment more with these.  Putting it on ‘the list’!