Birthday Painting Giveaway!

Dreaming of Roses
Copyright 2012 Addie Hirschten
Oil on Canvas
8" x 10"
Prints available on Fine Art America

My birthday is coming up on August 8th.  I will be turning (cough, cough.)

To celebrate I am going to give away this "Dreaming of Roses" original painting to one lucky winner!  

Enter to win by:
Commenting on or "liking" any posts located on either...

artistaddie.com
or the
facebook fanpage
between July 31st and August 7th.  

Help me by commenting on your favorite posts and letting me know what you think.  The winner will be announced on August 8th and will be selected using random.org.  There is no limit to the number of comments or likes you post, this increases your odds. 

Good luck to you!

The Moon

The Moon
Copyright 2012 Addie Hirschten
Oil on Canvas
9" x 12"
Original for sale on Etsy 
Prints available on Fine Art America

There is nothing you can see that is not a flower;

there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.

-Basho

unless...

The bloom is gone, and with the bloom go I.
-Matthew Arnold

bah-humbug

Gazing Outside

Gazing Outside
Copyright 2012 Addie Hirschten
Oil on Canvas
16" x 20"

a summer shower-

a woman sits alone

gazing outside

-Kikaku

The Orange Blossom Special

The Orange Blossom Special
Copyright 2012 Addie Hirschten
Oil on Canvas
3'2" x 4'

 We see things as we are, not as they are.

-Jennifer Stone

Okay- I know that the oranges depicted in this painting are past blooming and into the fruiting stage.  But I couldn't help but name this large painting after one of my favorite songs.

It's the orange blossom special.

Bringing my baby back.

-Ervin T. Rouse

Here is a photo of the painting at layer two of paint:

The Orange Blossom Special at layer #2

Heavenly Bodies

Heavenly Bodies
Copyright 2012 Addie Hirschten
Watercolor and Ink on Paper
8 1/2" x 11"

I shall now recall to mind that the motion of the heavenly bodies is circular, since the motion appropriate to a sphere is rotation in a circle.

-Copernicus 

Making Waves

Waves on the Shores of Puerto Rico
Copyright 2001 Addie Hirschten
Oil on Canvas
24" x 36"

A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves. 

-Sivandanda


What is this restlessness?

Does a drop stay still in the ocean?

Move with the entirety and with the tiniest particular.
Be the moisture in the oyster that helps to form one pearl.
-Rumi

She Was Here on Earth

She Was Here on Earth
Copyright 2012 Addie Hirschten
Acrylic on Paper
11" x 14"

Lara walked along the tracks following a path worn by pilgrims and then turned into the fields. Here she stopped and, closing her eyes, took a deep breath of the flower-scented air of the broad expanse around her. It was dearer to her than her kin, better than a lover, wiser than a book. For a moment she rediscovered the purpose of her life. She was here on earth to grasp the meaning of its wild enchantment and to call each thing by its right name, or, if this were not within her power, to give birth out of love for life to successors who would do it in her place.

-Boris Pasternak

The Brim of Every Cup

The Brim of Every Cup
Copyright 2012 Addie Hirschten
Acrylic on Paper
8 1/2" x 11"

What is laid down, ordered, factual, is never enough to embrace the whole truth;

life always spills over the brim of every cup.

-Boris Pasternak

Comfort

Comfort
Copyright 2012 Addie Hirschten
Oil on Canvas
9" x 12"
Original Available on Etsy

There was so much to be said that no words were spoken.
-Bill Harley

The Tree's Fruit

The Tree's Fruit
Copyright 2012 Addie Hirschten
Oil on Canvas
16' x 20"
Print Available on Fine Art America

A tree is known by its fruit. 

A good deed is never lost; 

he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, 

and he who plants kindness gathers love. 

-Saint Basil

Listen to the Birds

Listen to the Birds
Copyright 2012 Addie Hirschten
Oil on Canvas
9" x 12"
Original Available on Etsy

Be grateful for luck.

Pay the thunder no mind.

Listen to the birds.

And don't hate nobody.

-Eubie Blake

Cotton

Cotton
Copyright 2012 Addie Hirschten
Oil on Canvas
16" x 20"
Prints available on Fine Art America

Yeah... I was in a good mood the day I painted this.

I had this song in my head...

My window faces the south

I'm almost halfway to heaven

The snow is falling still I can see

Fields of cotton smiling at me
-Livingston, Silver and Parish

For All the Water in the Ocean

For All the Water in the Ocean
Copyright 2012 Addie Hirschten
Pen on Paper
8 1/2" x 11"

For all the water in the ocean
Can never turn the swan's black legs to white,
Although she lave them hourly in the flood.

-Shakespeare

Accept the 'flaws'
...your flaws, other people's flaws and all the messy crap around you.

Let it go and allow yourself to be happy.

The Porch Swing

The Porch Swing
Copyright 2012 Addie Hirschten
Pen on Paper
8 1/2" x 11"

The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on the porch swing with, never say a word and then walk away feeling that it was the best conversation you ever had.

-Unknown

Thinking on It

Thinking On It
Copyright 2012 Addie Hirschten
Oil on Canvas
16" x 20"
SOLD
Print available on Fine Art America

Laetus in Praesens.
Happiness Now.
-Horace

Mistakes and Fauvism

July 28th 2012 on the Broad Ripple Canal
Copyright 2012 Addie Hirschten
Watercolor and Pen on Paper
8 1/2" x 11"

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our lives.

Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

-Cullen Hightower

The day I went out to the Broad Ripple Canal to create this painting I was feeling very hurt and distracted.  So much so that I FORGOT TO BRING BRUSHES TO PAINT WITH!

So... I laughed at myself then took the paint straight out of the tubes and smeared it on with my fingers.  Luckily I also had some pens to work with too.  It is not my best painting ever- but it was fun to do once I got over my 'great expectations.' 

It reminds me of those crazy bright Fauve paintings like Matisse and Derain...

This is one of my favorite Fauve paintings by George Braque.
It was stolen from the Paris Museum of Modern Art.

Filling the Well

Filling the Well
Copyright 2012 Addie Hirschten
Oil on Canvas
9" x 12"
Original available on Etsy

The empty vessel makes the greatest sound.

-Shakespeare

Fiddletales

Recorded below is a Fantastic Fables podcast in which I interviewed storyteller and musician Tom Cunningham!  Tom is an amazing... the wackiness he can do with the fiddle!  Wow. 

Enjoy!

Also available on iTunes.

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Awake

Awake
Copyright 2012 Addie Hirschten
Oil on Canvas
 9" x 12"
SOLD

All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: 

but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own. 

-Plutarch

Fruit

Fruit
Copyright 2012 Addie Hirschten
Oil on Canvas
16" x 20"
Print available on Fine Art America

Is there anything better than longing for something when you know it is within reach?

-Greta Garbo

Not that fireworks aren't dangerous.

I'm just saying.

A Midsummer Night's Dream?

Dreaming of Spring
Copyright 2012 Addie Hirschten
Oil on Canvas
9" x 12" 
SOLD 

Another fabulous Californian bought this painting from my Etsy Store! 

Reprints are available on Fine Art America.

 And sleep, that sometime shuts up sorrow's eye,

Steal me awhile from mine own company.

-Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

They Loved Each Other

They Loved Each Other
Copyright 2012 Addie Hirschten
Acrylic on Paper
14" x 11"

They loved each other, not driven by necessity, by the "blaze of passion" often falsely ascribed to love. They loved each other because everything around them willed it, the trees and the clouds and the sky over their heads and the hearth under their feet.

-Boris Pasternak

How quick bright things come to confusion.
-Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream