Pink Painting 3 Auction Fundraiser for National Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Details... October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month

My goal is to raise $1,000, enough for 10 free mammograms for women in need. I intend to raise this amount by auctioning my paintings that have a dominant color theme of Pink. If you win the bid, I will donate, either in my name or yours, 25 percent of the winning bid amount to the National Breast Cancer Foundation. It gives me great pleasure to place my art in service to helping women.

About the Current Fine Art Painting

Today's painting, the 3rd one so far, is from my Numbers mixed media series - Number 7: Seventh Heaven, 24 x 24 inches, mixed media on wood, framed in a wood frame. Copyright 2009 Mary Rush Gravelle.

Layers of swirled acrylic paints in pinks, gold, and silver depict the synthesized meaning of number seven. Alternating layers of transparent acrylic mediums add depth in beautiful texture. Pink glassy domes accent the painting giving it dimension. Number seven is about higher realms lifting thoughts Heavenly bound in pure loving blissful energy that defies definition. Art merges with spirituality in this sensuous acrylic mixed media painting.

Imagine Seventh Heaven hanging in the perfect place in your home or office. Which room would be best served by its soft-spoken strength, spirit, and beauty?

The retail value of this painting is $1,100. The starting bid is $500. The deadline for bidding is Sunday, October 27, 2013. Good luck.

To place your bid, comment below, comment on my facebook page,  email me at mary@maryfineart.com, or call me 575-956-7315 leave a message.

Pink Painting Number Two -- Auction Fundraiser for Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Lush 2, Acrylic on Canvas, 12 x 16 x .75 inches
Copyright Mary A. Gravelle
Value: $385.00 Opening bid:  $150.00

Details

From now through October 31, 2013, I will be auctioning some of my original paintings that have a dominant color pink in them. 25 percent of the proceeds will be donated to the National Breast Cancer Foundation. My goal is to raise $1,000.00, enough to help 10 women in need receive free mammograms.

So, for example, if you pay $1,000 for a painting, you receive an original painting that will deliver beauty for your eyes and joy for your heart that will last beyond your lifetime. And I get to donate $250, enough for 2.5 mammograms. Or, I can donate the $250 in your name so you get the deduction! Good deal? Yes.

Current Painting up for Auction

The second painting is shown here, Lush 2, 12 x 16 x .75 inches, Acrylic on Canvas, Copyright 2008 Mary A. Gravelle. The retail value is $385.00. Starting bid is $150.00. Shipping cost is additional, estimated at $50, you will pay actual shipping cost. Bid deadline is 7:00 pm PST, Tuesday, October 22, 2013.

Three ways to a bid,

1. Place a comment below on this blog article to place your bid.

2. Or place your bid on my facebook page.

3. Or send me an email to mary@maryfineart.com.

Highest bid wins. Winner will be notified by Wednesday, October 23, before Noon.

My Early Southwest Landscape Paintings



Simplicity, 48 x 48 Dyptych, Oil on Wood.
This was my first landscape painting of Oracle, AZ.
Copyright 2006, Mary A. Gravelle

Today, I wanted to share two of my early landscape paintings I did when I first moved to the Southwest in 2006. The landscape blew me away. It was expansive and breathtaking. I had never painted a landscape painting before, nor had ever wanted to. But, I had to paint this beautiful landscape that I was excitedly photographing everyday in my awe of it.

It was a scary venture because I had just completed my fourth semester of painting at Manchester Community College in Manchester, Connecticut. My dear and awesomely talented painting professor, Rick Harden, dissuaded his students from painting landscape paintings. He said that one had to be really good at it because there are so many landscape painters already out there, not to mention the masters that we had studied.

As luck would have it, during many coffee shop visits, I befriended and enlisted the critique help of an art professor from Western New Mexico University, Dan Davidson. Anyone who knows Dan, knows he knows how to critique. It's his middle name. After several of his critiques, I decided I was good to go. One of his best comments to me was, "Well, at least you have some raw talent." Ha. Thanks, Dan! He helped me a lot, though. So, here we go...



Serenity, 24 x 48 Dyptych, Oil on Wood.
This was my second landscape painting of Oracle, AZ.
Copyright 2006, Mary A. Gravelle

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Mary Rush Gravelle is an artist who resides in Prescott, Arizona with her beloved cat, Sir Kitty. Find her work and daily comments on her facebook page. Her art can be seen on her website, maryfineart.com. She can be contacted via email at: mary@maryfineart.com.

Pink Painting Auction Fundraiser for Breast Cancer Awareness Month

From now through October 31, 2013, I will be auctioning some of my original paintings that have a dominant color pink in them.

25 percent of the proceeds will be donated to the National Breast Cancer Foundation.

My goal is to raise $1,000.00, enough to help 10 women in need receive free mammograms.

So, for example, if you pay $1,000 for a painting, you receive an original painting that will deliver beauty for your eyes and joy for your heart that will last beyond your lifetime. And I get to donate $250, enough for 2.5 mammograms. Good deal? Yes.

The first painting is shown here, Purple Mountains Majesty, 36 x 30 (approximately), Acrylic on Canvas, Copyright 2008 Mary A. Gravelle. The retail value is $1,200. Starting bid is $500.00. Shipping cost is additional, estimated at $200, you will pay actual shipping cost. 

Bid deadline is 7:00 pm PST, Sunday, October 20, 2013. To bid, place a comment below on this blog article to place your bid. Highest bid wins. Winner will be notified by Monday, October 21, before Noon.

A Visit with Salusa Glassworks Inc

Artists Open Studio Tour Prescott AZ
Oct 4, 5, 6, 2013

On my way to the park to walk Sir Kitty, I saw a sign that led me to the first studio, one that I had planned to visit after our walk.

Salusa Glassworks, Inc.
A glass sphere that was shown
in a Will Smith movie, if my
memory serves me right.
Copyright Salusa Glassworks, Inc.

I stopped in, met and, visited with Emma and Bandhu S. Dunham at Salusa Glassworks, Inc.

Emma is what every artist needs: the marketer, organizer, and generally the brains, nuts, and bolts behind the art. I enjoyed chatting with her and getting to know what the artists were doing.

Salusa Glassworks, Inc.
Bandhu S. Dunham demonstrating glass blowing. His task-master, Emma, had him making 150 glass-blown pickles for a wholesale order.

Salusa Glassworks, Inc.
Emma, the brains behind the scene
keeping it all in order, sold, and shipped.

They were demonstrating their craft of glass-blowing. Bandhu was busy making pickles under strict orders from Emma. They were short 150 pickles for a wholesale order.

The other artist, which I am sorry to say, I never got his name, was busy explaining to a studio visitor on making glass beads.

Other favorite glass projects are the spheres and glass houses. See photos.

Salusa Glassworks, Inc.
Glass House. Everything is glass except a few of the
mechanisms for keeping the marbles in motion.
Copyright Salusa Glassworks, Inc.

Salusa Glassworks, Inc.
Bandhu S. Dunham has written many books on glass making.
This one is a textbook used by universities.

Salusa Glassworks, Inc.
A new Marble machine, manually turned.
Copyright Salusa Glassworks, Inc.

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Until Next Week

• Create art 
• Appreciate art 
• Buy art 

Mary Rush Gravelle is an artist who resides in Prescott, Arizona with her beloved cat, Sir Kitty. Find her work and daily comments on her facebook page. Her art can be seen on her website, maryfineart.com. She can be contacted via email at: mary@maryfineart.com.

Prescott Artists Open Studio Tour: Cathy Gibbons & Mary Schulte

Prescott Artist's Open Studio Tour
Oct 4, 5, 6, 2013

Cathy Gibbons and Mary Schulte
6th Street Studios
Prescott Arizona

Artist, Cathy Gibbons, and I share a common artistic inspiration. She, too, began painting the magnificent Arizona landscape after moving to Arizona.

I particularly liked her small landscapes, which were focused on smaller portions of the landscape, such as a flower or tree.

This makes sense since her favorite subject to paint is the portait. The mini landscapes are portraits of nature. Her love of the human portrait is apparent when viewing her paintings, examples surround her in the photo below.

Mary Schulte creates whimsical sculpture, mosaics, jewelry, and fiber arts. 

I was drawn to her hand-dyed wearables. Some of the necklines received hand sewn treatments which endeared them to me. 

I loved the pinks, browns, and beige toned items.