WHITE LILIES

 Happy to have finished this special order that I've been working on the past few weeks for a super beautiful client in Germany, who is also Mexican like me. This painting is almost ready to go to a new house. 

NOCTURNAL FLOWER

 

“Nocturnal flower” I have finished something 🖊 🎨.

After doing experimentation with a selfie and mixing a lot of colors and shapes, I have finished this self portrait. You can find some prints or mix media canvas embellishments. 🖊🎨

PRACTICING SMALL OIL PAINTINGS

 

Trees at sunset, oil 8x10”
Finally I have painted these trees with that special light from the sunset.🌳 ✨.

Red Gerberas oil 8x10”.
I have been spending these days painting small canvases, after being hooked with this style of brushstrokes I can say I can feel it so natural, organic, like just flowing from my hands like energy passing through my fingers to the canvas. I can’t wait to explore many subjects! Meanwhile today I have made this floral still life. 🎨👩🏻‍🎨❤️.

Ice tea, oil 8x10”

This one is very special, it took me a nice amount of time exploring with colors and doing color extraction. This style of painting brings me a lot of joy and I just want to turn everything like this 😁 once you start with color extraction nothing is the same and you start looking all around like a crazy color explorer. Like if your pupils were dilated and the colors just changes. I could explain this better in Spanish and in person 😂 so I will stop now. 🙏🏻🎨.

Jar with flowers 💐.
Oil on canvas 8x11” .
Painting from last night. It’s funny to be at the studio just with a tiny light and all the colors, I’m used to work during the day but I have found a lot of joy by painting during nights lately. It’s funny too because my sight is not perfect and during night the colors looks different. It’s cool to wake up and see how it looks actually under daylight. 😄🎨👩🏻‍🎨.

Chamomile tea
Oil 8x10”
A quick morning painting 🫖 🎨

Agaves from Red Rocks.
Oil 8x10”
Happy with this landscape, I painted it during nighttime and I finished in the morning, this one has been so fluent and joyful to do. I still have a bunch of 8x10” canvases and I can’t wait to paint the next one 😀👩🏻‍🎨🎨.
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PAINTING FLOWERS WITH PROCREATE

 

Daisies! I have painted the daisies from a picture that I have and I like so much. ✨

Echinaceas. These flowers are so pretty and so good for our health. I have been using them as tea to boos my immune system. Did you know echinacea means Strength and Health? I took the photo of reference about 6 years ago.💜💗 I will have embellished oil paintings from my echinaceas in a couple of days.

Purple irises. 💜 the first time I saw them was in Des Moines, the first time I have painted them was probably when I was 16 inspired by Van Gogh. Irises are beautiful because they have some kind of flow effect every time when I see them. I took these pictures in Des Moines and I made the painting yesterday. Now I have the embellishments with oils for those who wants to have Irises. 💜.

So glad I made this digital painting from my Chicago Peace Rose, I bought a small bush last year and I took a few pictures, this winter I put them indoors, on my laundry room to keep them safe from the ice. I have been taking care of them since a month ago and I am happy and surprised to see how they are growing, today I discovered the first rosebud, I can’t wait to see them all blooming 🤗😍💐 .

DIGITAL SELFIES

Do we have magick? ✨We like to seek for magick because we are already. We enjoy it because is already inside us but it has to be manifested. It can reveal to ourselves as a sound, a color, a thought, a smell and eventually all connects in wholeness, all, everyone in one. Magick is key, maybe is why we add the “k” at the end. 💛

💚🌿I’m a Mother’s Nature child and I have made this digital painting to cover my head with leaves.
I took this picture a couple of years ago and I just found it,so I have turned it into a painting. I think was a good picture to see during February when I wish for spring or summer the most. I think this is a perfect time for prepare the mind and soul for the coming months, I miss the warmth, or the cold water during a hot day, to grow more childish along nature because at the end is where we all are going to end to start again. 💚🌿

 💖 Here a self portrait that I have painted with procreate. 🙂

I hope everyone knows how special you are, and that you have the blessing of having someone with you to tell this. If you don’t, then know that you are the biggest blessing. 💖 

PINTA CONMIGO/PAINT WITH ME

 Hello Friends!

I am super happy to announce that I am starting a new project called Pinta Conmigo, which means Paint with me.

The purpose of this project is to teach people how to paint and to enjoy the process.

I will be doing events and some workshops in my little studio in St. Luis and around the world, also via online!

So if you are interested in hosting a Pinta Conmigo party please let me know.

You can learn more here: PINTA CONMIGO

COLORES PRIMARIOS...CUÁLES SON?

 

Es increíble cuantos colores se pueden crear con solo unos cuantos, pero aún hay muchas dudas sobre como mezclar el color, especialmente en el mundo de las artes ya que los colores primarios de dividen en dos círculos cromáticos básicos.

El círculo tradicional con ROJO, AMARILLO Y AZUL

El círculo moderno con CYAN, MAGENTA Y AMARILLO

Actualmente se sabe que el rojo, amarillo y azul no son los colores mas adecuados para crear todos los demás colores, así que detallemos un poco sobre estos dos círculos cromáticos y su función.

CORRECTO O INCORRECTO?

En sí no hay respuesta para esto, pero lo que es un hecho es que no se puede crear un rosa brillante o magenta con los colores de la paleta tradicional. no puedes crear verdes brillantes al mezclar con azul tradicional, la mezcla de rojo, amarillo y azul hoy en día no es la mejor forma de crear una gama más amplia de colores.

PROPÓSITO DE LOS CIRCULOS CRÓMATICOS.

El propósito de estos círculos cromáticos es ayudarnos a seleccionar o crear los colores que vayan bien entre sí dentro del esquema de las paletas ya sea para las artes plásticas, gráficas o medios digitales, además de que son auxiliares en la creación de nuevos colores, en pocas palabras nos ayudan a tener mas opciones en la gama del color.

ENTONCES CUÁL ES LA DIFERENCIA?

Ambos círculos cromáticos son importantes, el tradicional que nos enseñaron en la escuela con los colores rojo, amarillo y azul al mezclarlos obtenemos los colores secundarios: verde, naranja y morado pero con el tiempo y la modernidad se ha determinado que científicamente no está adecuado a nuestras necesidades.

Isaac Newton fue el primero en realizar teorías del color y experimentar con los colores prismas y la luz demostrando un gran rango de color, pero su paleta se basa EN LA LUZ, no en la pintura, pero obviamente fuimos adaptando estos colores a nuestro mundo del arte y nos han ayudado a entender como funcionan los colores al mezclarse. 

Este circulo cromático tradicional ha cambiado con el tiempo, por lo cual el rojo, amarillo y azul ya no se consideran los colores primarios ideales para crear un rango mas amplio de colores brillantes, ya sea en luz, pintura o tintas, pero aún así se siguen enseñando como colores principales en algunas escuelas.

Los círculos cromáticos se conocen con las siglas en inglés como CMY (Cyan, Magenta y Yellow) Cyan, magenta y amarillo, también el círculo con las siglas en inglés RGB (Red, Green y Blue) Rojo, verde y azul se siguen empleando y los dos son adecuados según nuestras necesidades.

El RGB es un modelo aditivo que se usa para mezclar la luz de las computadoras y televisiones mientras el CMY es un modelo sustractivo que se usa para mezclar pigmentos y pinturas, básicamente son opuestos, los colores primarios de un círculo cromático son los secundarios del otro.

Si el término RGB y CMYK te suena familiar es por que las computadoras y televisiones usan el color verde y azul en forma de luz para mostrar la gama de colores totales que ves en la pantalla, y los CMYK los encuentras en impresoras junto al color negro etiquetado en ingles con la letra K.

El color magenta y el azul cyan son imposibles de crear con las combinaciones rojo, amarillo y azul, pero sí podemos crear rojo y azul con magenta y cyan,

Aún no existe un sistema perfecto para catalogar el color por que el color es bastante complejo y nuestro ojo y cerebro procesan diferente el color, matemáticamente y científicamente hay colores que no alcanzamos a ver, que nunca hemos visto, puedes creerlo? En el espectro de la luz no existe el color rosa pastel, pero nuestros ojos pueden verlo!

ENTONCES CUÁL CÍRCULO CROMÁTICO SELECCIONAR?

Si prefieres colores más brillantes usa el CMY ya que tienen más brillo/luz o si prefieres tonos más oscuros usa el RBY también conocidos como Colores Tierra.  (ojo! RBY es diferente de RGB).

La respuesta es simple, elige el que se adapte a tus necesidades y gustos, de ahí partes para seguir creando más ruedas de color, así que no descartemos ninguna. Los colores son increíbles si aprovechas en crearlos, disfrútalos, úsalos, experimenta con ellos!

Para finalizar les quiero recomendar el libro Principios del diseño del color de Wucius Wong, este libro para mi fue básico cuando estudié diseño.

Te dejo toda la información en un video que elaboré.

SINGING WITH FIRE

 

Has been so cold! But I can stay warm next to the chimney just by looking and listening the fire. So I thought about blending the sound of the log with my voice and a repetitive tune as a relaxing activity and to experiment with the fire sound.

We have had two cold fronts with snow and sleet, so as part of my therapy I began to record the sounds of the fire in my fireplace, then I was singing in the bathroom. yes, typical cliché but it is true, the bathroom has good acoustics and there is less noise, then this happened.

You can follow Youtube channel and instagram to see more about my sound therapy project, click HERE

EXPLORATION OF SOUND

 

Hello everyone!

Today I want to share something new because as always…trying new things, 2 years ago I started singing more as therapy than anything else thanks to the pandemic lockdown, now I focus more on the sound of the voice, silence and nature because it relaxes me, so sporadically I will be uploading videos collecting natural sounds and with a bit of singing. Everything is experimental but so healing for me and maybe for you. I opened a channel and account exclusively to collect them. I invite you to watch and follow EXPLORATION OF SOUND and via instagram too @valeria_explorationofsound

Winter usually gives me SAD~ (Seasonal Affective Disorder).

And during that time I try to find comfort and be in touch with myself to try to maintain a balance, sometimes it's difficult but I love it when I find methods, practices or therapies through experimentation, and always related to nature or creativity. , because for me this is the best way to heal.

Since COVID began, she began to sing for me and I loved it, in this way it helped me release stress, but I am not a professional singer, I only let my inner child sing.

Then I discovered how important the sound of our own voice is and how powerful it is for us.

Yes! Your voice is powerful to you and you can find calm by listening to your voice humming a little or just whispering to yourself and listening.

Or at least found that this has worked for me.

I don't like to sing in public as a soloist, I'm super shy for this and I don't see myself as a singer but as a person who likes to play because I play with my voice and I enjoy my voice. , our voices are amazing instruments to play and maybe some are born with this ability or maybe we just need to educate our voice.

But I don't think too much about this topic, I just let myself flow, sing and enjoy.

There are many ways to sing, but what resonates with me is just making sounds, no logical words, not even a language, it just sounds through the voice.

And since I am not a musician but I find beautiful sounds of nature, I decided to record nature and make it my music.

Has silence heard? Silence also has a sound and I love it.

I hope that with my videos you can find something special through sound export.

Follow my Youtube videos HERE