Donna L. Martin Fine Art

"Free to Dream"   Thought I'd give you a sneak peak into the process of creating this piece.  It was so much fun and so much heart and soul went into it.  I hope you enjoy!    This is the beginning of this painting...just an ol' gray background on a cradle board. Stenciled some turquois paint on to the gray background...'cause I just love turquois! Adding some paper.  Don't they just have the most gorgeous papers out there these days!   Adding more blue and some white paint just to tone it down a bit. I got this cool stencil from Etsy and just had to try it.  I used patching paste...the kind you use to patch holes in your wall.  (tip ~ clean it off of your stencils right away and clean it in a bucket of water you can dump outside ~ you don't want that stuff clogging up your pipes)  Both sides of the painting in progress.    Here is a close-up of one of the wings in progress.  I added som...

Traveling and Dreaming of Far Away Places...        Anyone who know me knows that one of my favorite things in life is to travel and have adventures!  One of my best friends, Rena (Renaisy Daisy, as I call her) used to call me "Kentucky" ~ back when I was much younger, I used to say I was going to run away to Kentucky where nobody knew my name and I could disappear in the Appalachian Mountains .  I dreamed about being a "mountain" person and living in the wilderness, living off the land.  Then reality sort of creeps in and time makes you a little older and wiser and I begin wondering if I could even start a fire.  Plus, I really don't enjoy being cold, so this little fantasy just isn't going to work for me.   Then last year we were blessed to be able to take a trip to Mexico with my sweet, sassy adventurous cousin and her husband.      I can't even tell you how much fun we had and how many memories...

Fly     Flying away and wings seem to be my "thing" lately....hmmm....wonder what that means!       This is my latest finished mixed media piece.  I started it during a recent workshop that I gave in which I wanted people to create a piece based on one "word".  If you had to think of your mantra for the year, day, moment, what would that word be and what would that mean to you ?    This was created with paint, stencils, molding paste, and paper.  The middle piece is a glass drawer pull.  The word "Fly" resides in the upper right-hand corner.  It measures 12X12X1.5 and will be finished with a resin coating, so there is no need for framing!   If you are interested in purchasing or have any comments, please feel free to email me at:  saltlightwatercolors@yahoo.com .   http://donnamartinfineart.com/ 

  This is a special little mixed media piece that I did for my husband.  It has a very cool story behind it, so if you have a moment...   A few years ago, my husband's mother passed away.  She was a beautiful woman with a fiesty Italian spirit and a love for her children and grandchildren that knew no end.  She was actually a watercolor artist and her paintings are gorgeous.  We didn't expect her to go as quick as she did.  She had just fallen and hit her head, but we were all expecting her to recover and be ok.  She wasn't.  She ended up having some bleeding in her brain and the situation just deteriorated very quickly.  She passed away the day after they transferred her to Hospice, one day before my husband's Birthday.   She had always told us that if anything ever happened to her, she wanted us to scatter her ashes at sea, she loved it so much and that is where she always felt at home.  Life has a way of ge...