Friday, June 29, 2012

Such Parting

Self-portrait
Copyright 2012 Addie Hirschten
Watercolor on Paper
8 1/2" x 11"


Such parting break the heart they fondly hope to heal.
-Lord Byron


Thursday, June 28, 2012

By the Light of the Moon


By the Light of the Moon
Copyright 2012 Addie Hirschten
Oil on Canvas
16" x 20"
Prints available on Fine Art America


You can't stand up to the night until you understand what is hiding in its shadows.
-Charles De Lint

If we play the ink blot test on this painting...
I see a woman flying through the clouds in front of the moon. 
And our "real" woman she wishes she could do the same.

What do you see?


Wednesday, June 27, 2012

The Divide

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


I hate the divide.
When it feels like there is no bridging the gap.
I am at that point again where I feel that...

You are the dark night and I am a single candle,
my life is upside down because of you.

Then the friend whispers, 
"but I am your deepest being, Quit talking about wanting me."
-Rumi



Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Is there Symmetry?

Symmetry of the Jungle
Copyright 2012 Addie Hirschten
Gouche on Paper

Of all of the paintings I've ever done, my daughter said she wants this sketch inspired by a William Morris design.  "Why?" I asked.  "Because it is like the jungle!" she said.

Then...
she said that it is not finished and she wants to keep coloring it in.

I give up.

Symmetry is what we see at a glance.
-Blaise Pascal



Monday, June 25, 2012

Burning Daylight

Burning Daylight
Copyright 2012 Addie Hirschten
Oil on Canvas
9" x 12"
Original available on Etsy


 We burn daylight.
-Shakespeare



Friday, June 22, 2012

Thinking

Thinking
Copyright 2012 Addie Hirschten
Oil on Canvas
9" x 12"
Original available on Etsy


I have immortal longings in me.
-Shakespeare

I feel like I need to think, but everything is moving so fast.
All I have wanted to do lately is stare at the wall... nestled down in my cocoon. 
And then maybe when I wake I will know what to do?
Maybe the answers will become clear?

Our doubts are our traitors and make us loose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
-Shakespeare



Thursday, June 21, 2012

Who dunnit!


Someone stepped on my painting the other day!  Could it have been my geriatric cat? 

Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable must be the truth.
-Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Luckily the painting was not warped by the process...
our lady has a foot print on the neck.  You can barely see it.
Portrait of a Woman
Copyright 2012 Addie Hirschten
Print available on Fine Art America


Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Portrait of a Woman


Portrait of a Woman
Copyright 2012 Addie Hirschten
Oil on Canvas
16" x 20"
Prints available on Fine Art America

When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait.
-Pablo Picasso


Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Eve in the Garden of Eden

Eve in the Garden of Eden
Copyright 2012 Addie Hirschten
Oil on Canvas
16" x 20"
Prints available on Fine Art America

Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden
- it's something you have to make.
And you must use your imagination too.
-Joyce Cary

After I created this painting I remembered that I also made another Garden of Eden drawing last fall....

The Garden of Eden
Copyright 2011 Addie Hirschten
and something about the colors... 
the difference between the two paintings reflect how much happier I have been in lately.


Monday, June 18, 2012

Perfection

It is not the perfect but the imperfect who have need of love. 
It is when we are wounded that love should come to cure us- what else is love after all? 
All sins love should forgive. 
All lives, save loveless lives, true love should pardon.
-Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

Friday, June 15, 2012

Save the Wind

Save the Wind
Copyright 2012 Addie Hirschten
Oil on Canvas
9" x 12"
Original Available on Etsy


Madame, bear in mind that princes govern all things, save the wind.
-Victor Hugo


Thursday, June 14, 2012

Man and Woman


Man and Woman
Copyright 2012 Addie Hirschten
Oil on Canvas
11" x 14"
Original Painting available on Etsy

It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.
-Miguel de Unamuno

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

My Art Board

My Art Board in my painting Studio

It occured to me the other day that the art board that I have use for 13+ years has become a work of art in itself.  It is a layered thing of beauty, the patterns on it having been formed naturally over the years. 

Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.
-William Morris


Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Fixtures

A Child's Toy
Copyright 2012 Addie Hirschten
Oil on Canvas
9" x 12"
Original Available on Etsy


There are no fixtures in nature.
The universe is fluid and volatile.
Permanence is but a word of degrees.  
-Emerson


Monday, June 11, 2012

Moonlight on the Ocean

Moonlight on the Ocean
Copyright 1999 Addie Hirschten
Acrylic on Paper

If the infinity of the sea may call out thus, 
perhaps when a man is growing old, 
calls come to him, too,
 from another infinity still darker and more deeply mysterious; 
and the more he is wearied by life the dearer are those calls to him.
-Henryk Sienkiewicz


Friday, June 8, 2012

Life Is Action

Life Is Action
Copyright 2012 Addie Hirschten
Oil on Canvas
9" x 12"
Original Available on Etsy



As life is action and passion, 
it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time
at peril of being judged not to have lived.  
-Oliver Wendell Holmes


Thursday, June 7, 2012

My Soul

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



My soul is in your body.
-Napoleon to Josephine



Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Gardening


My Garden

I try, try, try to depict all of this marvelous beauty around me with paint but sometimes it is just better to look a reality.  I will often see a tree or flower and think it is so perfectly balanced... it must be the most graceful thing on the planet... and then I turn the corner and see another.  I am so grateful for all of this beauty.

Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Woman in the Wind

Woman in the Wind
Copyright 2012 Addie Hirschten
Oil on Canvas
16" x 20"
Prints available on Fine Art America







The river is within us, the sea is all about us.
-T.S. Elliot


Monday, June 4, 2012

The Kiss

The Kiss
Copyright 2012 Addie Hirschten
Oil on Canvas
18" x 24"
Prints available on Fine Art America



Falling in love is not an extension of one's limits or boundaries;
it is a partial and temporary collapse of them.
-M. Scott Peck



Friday, June 1, 2012

Women Embracing

Women Embracing
Copyright 2012 Addie Hirschten
Oil on Canvas
9" x 12"
Original Painting available on Etsy


Who would give a law to lovers?
Love is unto itself a higher law
- Boethius