SOLD Greenway Path

The Greenway Path
Copyright 2011 Addie Hirschten
Oil on Canvas
16" x 24"
SOLD

There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky,

which through the summer is not heard or seen, 

as if it could not be, as if it had not been!

-Percy Bysshe Shelley 

Yet another sold painting.  Thank you Art IN Hand Gallery!

SOLD "Awake" Painting

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

"Art Marketing 101" Class starts Thursday- Join us!

Give and Take
Oil on Canvas
18" x 24"
Prints available on Fine Art America

Art Marketing 101

Indianapolis Art Center

August 29- Sept.19, 2013
Thursday Evenings 6:30-9:30pm

Getting the word out about your art has never been easier than it is today. In this class we will learn about the many new options for marketing and promoting your work! We will cover website creation, blogs, facebook fan pages, photographing work, as well as "old-fashioned" methods. Get a fresh start by refining your goals and learning new methods of sharing your message with the world.

Join us!

Register here:

http://reg131.imperisoft.com/IndianapolisArtCenter/ProgramDetail/3133393732/Registration.aspx

Autumn on the Canal Painting

Autumn on the Canal
Copyright 2012 Addie Hirschten
Oil on Canvas
8" x 10"

Are you ready for fall?

Autumn is the second spring when every leaf is a flower.

-Albert Camus

This lovely landscape of the Broad Ripple Canal in Indianapolis has hung in my kitchen the last year and I am finally ready to let it go.

To everything there is a season! 

The Climbing Tree

The Climbing Tree
Copyright 2013 Addie Hirschten
Oil on Canvas
16" x 20"
SOLD
Prints available on Fine Art America

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

-William Blake

This painting depicts my daughter's favorite climbing tree in Broad Ripple Park, Indianapolis.  It is her favorite because she can climb it while it is my favorite because it is so oddly shaped.  It curves around like the interior of a shell hugging the ground.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

-Martin Luther

SOLD: "A Path in the Woods" Painting

Path in the Woods
Copyright 2012 Addie Hirschten
Oil on Canvas
9" x 12"
SOLD
Prints available on Fine Art America

Nature has her language, and she is not unveracious;

but we don't know all the intricacies of her syntax just yet,

and in a hasty reading we may happen to extract the very opposite of her real meaning.

-George Eliot

The Festival of Venus

The Festival of Venus

Oil on Canvas

12" x 16"

Are you ready to celebrate the "Festival of Venus" everyone?

September 26th was the ancient Roman holiday of the festival of Venus.  This marked the time when the summer cycle is at an end and the apples weigh heavy on the trees.

Cleaning the Slate and a Studio Makeover

My Studio BEFORE

My studio had finally reached the point where I couldn't work in it because it was so messy!  I reorganized, took out furniture, put in furniture and created a much more inviting space.

My Studio AFTER!

After my big art show at the Sanctuary I felt that that series of figurative work was complete.  It gave me a new sense of calm and I was ready to clear the slate for my next projects....

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT:  I have been working on illustrating my first picture book.  I am also starting a new shadow puppetry theater show in collaboration with a fellow musician.  I will be posting more on these projects on the blog soon!

My Studio AFTER (Note that I can now reach my sewing machine!)

 

My Studio AFTER

Some things never change!

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SOLD: "Work of the Soul" Painting

  The Work of the Soul
Copyright 2013 Addie Hirschten
Oil on Canvas
16" x 20"
SOLD
Prints available on Fine Art America

There are two ways of spreading light; to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

-Edith Wharton

This is the work of the soul- the work that all humans are meant to do.

To bring warm winds to cool places.

 Where there is darkness we bring light.

Open House Tonight!

 

Join me tonight for the 2013 Indianapolis Art Center's Open House!

Visit the Art Center's Annual Faculty Exhibition and create your own magnificent artworks in our open studios!  The painting below will be featured in the show which will be up through August.

Hope to see you there!

My Life Belongs
Copyright 2013 Addie Hirschten
Oil on Canvas
18" x 36"

Heaven and Earth

Heaven and Earth
Copyright 2013 Addie Hirschten
Ink on Paper
Original available on Etsy

 All Heaven and Earth
Flowered white obliterate...
Snow...unceasing snow.

-Hashin

Tulips

Tulips
Copyright 2013 Addie Hirschten
Oil on Canvas
9" x 12"

But I have always thought that these tulips must have had names. They were red, and orange and red, and red and orange and yellow, like the ember in a nursery fire of a winter's evening. I remember them.

-Neil Gaiman, Coraline

Sidewalk Sale this weekend!

Join us this weekend at the Art IN Hand Gallery!

Tonight there is a free wine tasting with live music from 6-8pm. Tomorrow is a sidewalk sale where you can pick up paintings like the one below for a steal!

The Dream
Copyright 2012 Addie Hirschten
Oil on Canvas

 Hope to see you there!

Art IN Hand Gallery

211 South Main St.  Zionsville, Indiana