When is a good time to commission a piece of Diamond Dotz?

A collector recently contacted me with a request for a commissioned painting on canvas based on an experience she had meditating. She wanted the piece for her living room, so that it would be the first thing she saw when she came home.

“I want to be inspired, and to practice awareness each time I enter my home.” She said.

During the consultation my client and I felt the aspiration she has to bring awareness into every moment of her life. After listening carefully to the experience, and asking some questions, the image and colors for the piece began to emerge.

Funnily enough on a trip to the video store a few days before, the person working behind the counter offered me a small canvas that had been left there by someone and not claimed for over two months. I don’t usually paint on small canvases, and almost did not take it, thinking it would just end up sitting in the corner of my studio. At the last moment, I chose to take the canvas.

On a whim I brought the canvas over to the collectors house for the consultation, and it was the perfect size!

The painting was done quickly as I wanted to capture the expression of the experience while it was still fresh. I was able to get it to my client by the end of the week.

Commissioning a piece of art with an intention can be a powerful declarative act.The benefits include having a physical reminder of your desired intention, surrounding yourself with inspiration, and a momentum towards your goal generated by a creative act.

When is a good time to commission a piece of Diamond Dotz?

Transitional times mark the thresholds of life. Changes and thresholds are significant as they are often opportunities to step out of the normal routines of life. Changes often afford us the chance to see ourselves, others, and our life journey from a different perspective.

Below are some examples of transitional phases:

Birth

Death

Marriage

Divorce

Career change

Birth of a child

New life phase

To commemorate an event

Relocation

Personally what I love about transitional phases is the opportunity to envision the new phase from a different aspect of myself. I often find that the times of the greatest uncertainty have massive creative potential.

“As I looked at the piece for the first time, I felt quiet and OPEN. Like my insides got turned out and I felt a soft, vulnerable and beautiful place in me. It was so intimate. Yohanna got to a very deep part of me. And yes it helps me to focus my awareness!”

Have you ever wanted to have a work of art created just for you or for a special place in your home or at work?

What do you think the benefits could be, if any of commissioning a piece of art?

I’d love to know what you think!

Modern Abstract At It’s Best

Hello all, like what you see? Like abstract style with vibrant colors? Well I do, I love it. This is what I call examples of modern abstract art at its best! And this is only a preview painting that will be display at his NYC Chelsea Show 2011 to come. Wondering who the artist is? He is non than the artist who loves classical music and Rioja wine, Dr Marko Stout. I wrote Dr as he really is one. Besides being a contemporary New York City artist he also holds a degree in medicine, biology and psychology with undergraduate studies in fine art. To see more of his abstract work, know more about him and to contact him you can visit the artist at Marko Stout website or better still if you could attend his show and meet him in person.

Back to the abstract painting, to me it’s not just the vibrant colors but it’s also the tone and lines that seems to be taking his abstract paintings to a new minimalist direction but still with a strikingly contemporary look. Maybe this is also due to the artist living in New Your and being influenced by its surroundings and energy. But most of all I love his abstract as they all seem to be rather very symbolic in nature like the above painting