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Here is last painting of four that I did on small format 20 x 20 cm (8″x8″), 10 cm (4″) deep canvas, so they look like boxes. 3D feeling and working around the canvas was fun and visually, story goes on to tell us more than regular canvas. If you focus on these boxes it seems somebody is leading you by hand to explore more and understand better scenery depicted. I found that, because you can’t see whole image, because you have to look around the canvas, you get more involved and you have to remember how the side you can’t see looks like. It is similar feeling to experiencing sculpture, mobile or installation art. Being able to display canvas boxes freestanding, not just on the wall, brings more functional application as well.

Don’t forget creative thoughts, complimenting others, sharing ideas and inspiring others all  contribute to changed world that we want to live in. Every person makes a difference and could lead this world into amazing future. Just feel the moment (of creation) and stay within for a while.

Love,

Atza

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Dundarave Beach 1, Acrylic on canvas, 20 x 20 x 10 cm (8"x8"x4")

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Dundarave Beach Box Left

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Dundarave Beach Box Right

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Canvas Boxes 4

During Harmony Arts Festival I did plein air (painted outside on location) painting of Ferry Building Gallery. It was pouring rain, I had two umbrellas mounted on the easel and still got water behind my neck and drips of water on the canvas. Fortunately I work in acrylics and it worked out great at the end. It was good experience to feel all the elements of nature while focused on canvas. Actually I was so focused on painting that I did not even notice water dripping down my back, until the end. I think these are precious moments when you lose a track of time and you exist only in your chosen world. We often (or all the time) forget that our world of creation is the only one that is real and from which everything comes into the existence. Like painting, everything else, in our life, could be created with same effort and painted as we wish.

There is a few photos from the festival and one is with Raymond Chow, great artist that visited my booth and had few questions. It was a great show with lots of interest, great chats and good sales. Thank you all for your support and love of art.

Atza

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Plein Air Ferry Building, Acrylic on canvas, 12"x10" (30x25cm)

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Harmony Arts 2010

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Harmony Arts 2010 with Raymond Chow

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Harmony Arts 2010, Nadja and Me

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Harmony Arts 2010

Dundarave Village in West Vancouver, BC is on the favourite list of mine for spending time on the beach, café or restaurant surrounded with warmth in a cute colourful community. This first painting depicts the scene with bench, street lamp, fire hydrant and Canada Post mailbox where discreet Canada flag overlooks the scenery. Vancouver’s North Shore is so rich with scenes of serenity, places to meet friends and loved ones, which combine my necessary topics: people, architecture and nature, that discovering new corners to paint on canvas, brings real joy and peace.

Thanks Vancouver,

Still discovering, Atza.

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Dundarave Village 1, acrylic on canvas, 8"x8" (20x20cm)

Here is third painting of Ferry Building Gallery in vibrant red. Today is last day of first weekend at Harmony Arts Festival and it was success in many ways. As first big public exposure of my art pieces, tremendous amount of people had positive feedback and great interest  in technique and art process. I would like to thank all the buyers and visitors for their passionate curiosity and thirst for knowledge they expressed. People recognized in paintings places where they work and live, where their friends and relatives live, cars their friends drive, signs and details they pass by every day. I learned about history of our neighbourhood as well. I heard that Ferry Building Gallery after Ferries stopped operating was a bus depot and that drivers took they break inside the future gallery where they ate their lunch and rested.

Huge thank you to all that came to see me at the Harmony Arts, to have a chat, to enjoy the art, to buy the art, it was amazing experience for me.

Love you all,

Atza

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Ferry Building Gallery 3, acrylic on canvas, 8"x8" (20x20cm)

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Harmony Arts Festival 2010 2

I will post new painting every day next four days and photographs from Harmony Arts Festival 2010 in West Vancouver, BC. Festival takes place near Ambleside Beach by Ferry Building Gallery. Beautiful spot by Pacific Ocean which I painted three times so far. Tomorrow I will post third painting with Ferry building Gallery as feature.

This time here is third painting of Edgemont Village and my favourite place to sit with friends, have a chat (philosophical topic or two) and a good cup of coffee. Festival is starting in one hour, I better wake up Nadja and get ready!

All my love,

Atza

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Edgemont Village 3, 8"x 8"(20x20cm) Acrylic on canvas

Harmony Arts Festival 2010

This is new Logo for Urban Landscape. Hope you like it or else… It took time, a thought or two, research and analysis to complete the design and feel good, so don’t take your chances with criticism. Or maybe I am joking, you never know.

This process is part of opening my web store that will be activated on Etsy.com in next few days. Hope you eagerly wait for that moment to come because I will give away two unique prints worth $40 each to first two people who contact me through Facebook at that time.

At the moment I am very active with photography and the setup on Etsy. Lots of details to cover and make it smoothly working.

All that involves lots of thinking as well and to stay on the path of light I have to focus on present moment and my heart as well (loose thoughts), where I find peace and strength to go on with belief in positive outcome.

With Light, Atza

Urban Landscape Sign

Yes I think sooo…I care… and I also think that we are not here to change the world, change others, change life…we are here to change what we think, feel, what we are, consciously. Change ourselves in a conscious meaningful way with heart full of love and mind filled with creative thoughts. Then every situation, we are in, becomes creative process and synchronistic event that we enjoy immensely.

Hey, after all this is another finished painting that is not perfect, like all of us, but ready for enjoyment. Tell me what you think…

Ferry Building Gallery Final, 61x46cm (24"x18") Acrylic on canvas

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Ferry Building Gallery Final detail

Imagination could be real thing if believe in it. Could you expect the outcome of the art process and see in your mind how artwork in progress would look like at the end. If you imagine it with conviction and belief are you influencing the outcome, modern science ( quantum physics ) says, yes. Artists while working and in deep focus on his art piece is connected with higher realms of creation and inspiration, who says you are not in communication, through that portal, with the artist himself. Reality is much more sublime and infinitely creative than we think.

Do not limit your abilities, possibilities, thoughts, feelings…Stay open for new, every moment, that is coming, is new anyway.

Everyday think one thought that is new for you and watch magic unfolding.

What about experimenting with this art piece, I am up for it!

Ferry Building Gallery 2 Stage

Dear Friends,

Here is the first stage of  work in progress, Ferry Building Gallery acrylic painting on canvas. For deeper insight on what is happening around painting in creation, read bellow, please.

Sometimes world around us seems hostile and harsh for our creation to surface out of the cherished and protected world of our dreams. They seem not to match and we have to choose which world is real. For me, dreams are always right choice. Why? Because creation originates in mind, soul and heart and then is realized and materialized in outside world-world of our creation. So, which world is real? They both are, it’s just that we have it backwards. Mostly we regard world around us as only value in our lives, but story of that world always starts in someone’s mind, thus it is art piece created and painted on a canvas called life.

Please pay attention to your dreams, wants, desires and choose what inhabits your mind because that is only true value we hold. We always share it, but the best is when we share it consciously, by choice.

Choose well and enjoy,

Love & Light,

Atza

Ferry Building Gallery

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Ferry Building Gallery detail

Here is a red background painting for my dear friends. They love to ride bicycles and I placed them here in St Remy (France) in a sketchy style with lots of freedom all riders love.

Just starting on a new Ambleside (West Vancouver, BC) painting that will be presented through couple stages as of tomorrow.

Back in the saddle,

Cheers,

Atza

St Remy Riders