Selling your Art.... Sold Painting

Heart Beat.  oil on canvas. 48 x 72 inches.  Sold

artist - Patrick John Mills 

 

 

Sold - Painting has New home
http://youtu.be/-HE_AMIgG98
video talks about the painting

 

The below are words from the owner of Heart Beat Painting

 

 part of an email from client .......
LOVE is a small word, but it is all I know that could approximate my connection to it...exactly the impact I was dreaming of.
Talking about dreams, parts of it are glowing in my living room in the dark...and this ain't a dream, I'd rather not sleep not to miss a Beat.
*Night

Annie

 

 

The poem was written by the owner of the painting... in her response to the painting

 

 

Titled: Heart Beats

 

My heart beats
eyes screaming
that's all I feel

a magic pill
skin breathing, still
mind whispering

words have no meaning
if I steal
your pain and suffering

is it real
lost souls wondering, but
what is real

time passes by
lower the bar
become substandard

and the sun rises
a hidden blue wall
revival.

poem written by Annie - 2013

www.PatrickJohnMills.com

 

 

 

 

Just In Time Art Show

Untitled by Patrick John Mills

Just in time for people in the market for some tasteful art.

Held today at the Orange Hall on Rosemount Ave. in Ottawa, there was a selection to suit everyone's taste and budget. In fact, budget was not even in the mix as of the hundred-odd pieces available, most were priced under $50 and the majority, $20 to $35.

The idea to do this art sale arose from art journalist, Mike Levin, and his family.








Money made was donated to the H'Art program for developmentally delayed people in an art program at the Bronson Centre.

The Silent Auction items had reserve bids on them but there was no frenzy so it you wanted the painting above by Patrick John Mills valued at $1,800, there was a reserve bid on it of $300 so you could have been very lucky.

My GUITARABESQUE acoustic guitar case below was valued at $700 with a reserve of $200.

Here is an overview of the Hall. Above, from the Silent Auction location on the stage and to the left, from the entrance.

Update on Art Donation

 I have added a picture of Marilyn Monroe from a 1982 cover of LIFE Magazine to the back of the decoupaged guitar case.

"Candy Tree" acrylic on canvas, 11" x 14"
by Florence Hannay

And Florence Hannay has substituted  "Candy Tree" for the canvas mentioned yesterday, "McNabb School.

Front of guitar case.

Donation of Art for Charity Sale

The deadline for donation to the Ottawa Hospice Charity Art Sale is Monday, September 30/13.
If you want to donate a piece, please see below for the criteria and email address.

I  live on a street in downtown Ottawa that runs from one of the main drags. There are at least five people living on this street who are artists and three of us have decided to donate art.

Here is what we are giving:

Guitarabesque "Audrey" 

by Shannon Lee Mannion

Decoupage on antique

guitar case.

McNabb School by Florence Hannay
11" x 14" acrylic on canvas

The Lynx by Stephen Lad Meszaros
18" x 24" framed acrylic on masonite

http://www.hospicecareottawa.ca

Call for Submissions: Hospice Care Ottawa

Hospice Care Ottawa is holding its annual fundraising Pop-up Shop at the Residence of the Irish Ambassador on November 15,16,17, 2013. The Organizing Committee is seeking affordable original works of visual art that would retail below $200.00. Artists will receive 50% of the revenue from sales, with 50% going to support Hospice Care. Interested artists are asked to apply by sending representative images of their work to cnymark@rogers.com by September 30, 2013. Selection will be juried in collaboration with Don Monette of Cube Gallery, Ottawa.

Feeling Color - Feeling Red

Feeling Color - Feeling Red



 

The Birth. oil on linen. 48 x 82 inches. 2003. Price: $8000

 

Robin Lynch worked in my gallery as part of her undergraduate internship. It was really a pleasure. Robin shared her incredible dance about love, passion, pain, naked soul, venerability, obsession, lose... She started the dance all in white. Clean. Innocent, Pure. She place a few liters of red tempera paint in a bowl. Robin proceeded to obsessively, tenderly explore her emotions in Red.

After that night I would ask Robin, “What color was she feeling today?”

As a painter her dance in Red helped me develop my relationship to color. In emails we would ask each other what color we were feeling on a particular day.

I am a pretty intense individual. These brief conversations rotated in my mind like a song on repeat. Day dreams. Visions. My dreams became more vivid. I would have waves of blue, wind of white, rays of yellow, falling shades of green in the night.

Sleeping, dreaming, inside my head, in my bed. The large window in my bedroom has no curtains. My bedroom is on the third floor and East facing. In the morning my window is open. I hear the morning start. I hear the birds welcome the break of day. The blue, black dark night dissolves. A spectrum of colors filter into my room. My eyes open the door to my soul. I inhale the palette of light.

My mind paints each color. I focus on where each color settles inside my body. Where is each ray of light marinates in my muscles of my mind and body. I would try to feel white in my mind. Bleach my mind. Mother's milk calming my cortex. Red in my heart. A fire. Warm source of inner heat and passion. The read has a contagious energy. A flame. It would dominate my inner being. It is not uncommon that I would feel like a tree on fire.... burning red. My house would go up in flames of red. It was been difficult to not be over powered and have red completely take over my mind, my heart, my palette, my paintings would be flooded in blood flood waves of red.

My relationship with red is most primary. Each color has a particular significance. And over the past many years I have spent much time thinking about each color and how and why I paint with each pigment.

A special thank you to Robin for inspiring me.

 

Live Love Art

Patrick John Mills

 

 

Heat Beat. oil on canvas. 48 x 72 inches. Summer - Winter 2012. Price: $3800.

 

 

Sunset Soul. Oil on canvas. 48 x 72 inches. 2013. Price: $3600