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January 27, 2008

Ocean Painting – 3.5 in x 2.5 in – Tales of a Different World

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Tales of a Different World , by Cricket Diane C. Phillips, 2008

January 24, 2008
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I have been lost in my computer today. First, there was painting and creating music. This was good. And, then – I crawled into my computer to fix it and if I’ve come back out again – it doesn’t seem like it. The painting posted here is one of two that was completed today.

It may not be completed – after stylizing the open mosaic feel of her, now I’m thinking – maybe not. I like the rainy, ocean look of her, though.  It has a nice strangeness to it.

As soon as this last bit of computering stuff is done – I’m going to z-into something telly – like junk tv maximus. That is really what I need – a little Nintendo, a little junk telly and maybe, everything I’ve listed on ebay will be sold by tomorrow. I doubt it will but I may as well enjoy dreaming it is so . . .

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- cricketdiane, 2008

from the CricketDiane Weblog at http://cricketdiane.wordpress.com/

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January 27, 2008

Thoughts of the Day – An ocean and a world away

Cricket Diane Quote of the Day – “An uncluttered mind is a loss of space.”


My Note from today -

For awhile on the cricketdiane blog - I would create a quote of the day and post it with one of the new ocean paintings, in art card size.

Then the paintings would get scanned into the computer or photographed (or both) - named, with the title written on the backs, and signed by hand on the back. Each one of the original ocean cards had a hand-written certificate of authenticity in the same size as the cards that I wrote myself until my hands were nearly worthless. These were sold on Ebay for a year with enough success to do it, but I went in the hole for $300 after it was all tallied (after working a year every day on it.)

However, the images that I created during the experience as a result of trying to do it to put into the public on Ebay were well worth it. Amazing and wondrous images were created that I would've never even tried otherwise. And, it helped me to learn the words to talk about them. There was a point at which friends and family kept telling me that the only thing I could expect from doing art and trying to sell it was to have some satisfaction and enjoyment from the painting of it and to expect any money from any of it was unreasonable.

Right then, I decided that I had been painting the wrong things if all I could expect get was some personal feeling of "satisfaction" - it reminded me of the stories of people who lay concrete. Nobody tells them to go pour some concrete for the next twenty years and then if somebody likes some it maybe they'll buy it or have them do some (for pay.) But, there I was painting things that weren't fun and didn't really interest me and everyone said it was unreasonable to expect any pay from it even after twenty plus years. So I started painting the ocean waves pictures. At least I could wander into my mind and be at the beach, paint what I saw in my mind and never have to leave home. Then, at least it was fun. I have spent many years painting things that were not fun and to be honest, they were done very well, but it was not satisfying nor enjoyable.

- cricketdiane (added, today 04-12-11)


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- cricketdiane from wordpress blog, 2008

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February 3, 2008

Magic Deep Blue Sea by Cricket Diane C. Phillips 2008

Painted in 2008 by cricketdiane and was a favorite online.


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January 30, 2008

New paintings done today -

"Sea of Hope" - by cricketdiane, 2008

from cricketdiane weblog at wordpress

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These little paintings including the one at the left were created with various materials from acrylic artist paints and oils to pencils and watercolors. This one is done in acrylics without a medium to make it smoother or more flowing which means it drives as it is being painted.

They were painted in the size of art trading cards called ACEO on Ebay by artists that were posting them there. Whoever came up with the term, should've put more thought into it, since it made the name and concept ridiculously difficult to explain to anyone.

However, these art cards are sized, 2.5 inches by 3.5 inches which was not the size that I was used to painting. The paintings done in that size make a tiny pin sized dot of color into a scale of a rock or boulder. And I found that any little intrusion into the space of the painting in that size gave quite a dramatic look to the final piece merely because of its size that would be noticeably different in a much larger painting.

In a way, it allows richer colors to be used in high contrast to one another with the ebbs and flows of the paint helping to define and create the waves, the sky, the clouds and the features of its impact mapping - the up close elements of waves, surf and foam against the sky in the distance and deep waters of the ocean as it recedes toward the horizon.

Best of all, they were fun to paint and could be done quickly or in stages without taking up as great of an investment in time and effort, if they didn't work out well. Each piece could be changed, or I could start over and simply save a piece for something else, if I didn't like it. This was the best way to explore new concepts of color, form, contrast and flow. My paints were normally being hit with an overhead fan which made them dry almost as fast as they were being place on the canvas, matboard, cardstock or bristol board. I tried a number of different surfaces, different paints and different styles - it was fun exploring and discovering things that worked. And, it was nice to be able to save things that didn't work and use them for a part of a different painting or image or design without having $500 in paint and materials invested in any one individual piece.

(added 2011, cricketdiane)

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February 5, 2008

Call of the Ocean


A cricketdiane note (2011) - just now in fact,

This is my favorite out of all the ones I painted. I don't know why that is but it is. I love the way the sky is flowy and the movement of color in the ocean waves most of all. It is like standing at the ocean.

Out of all the ones that were done - this really is my favorite. And, I know I'll come upon another and say it is my favorite but then I come back to this one and fall in love with it all over again. It is partly because of the way the little streaks of white foam flow down the breaking wave to the left of the center and parts of the wave is in different places of its crash into the surface of the sea. It is more like nature is where the ocean is near rocks and jetties or like the undersea bed is where I grew up in California that makes the ocean waves dancing in different directions in the sunlight rather than in a small neat row of waves. I like it.

(written today, 04-12-11, by cricketdiane to go with the How to Paint Ocean Waves Materials for cricketdiane.com)

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February 4, 2008

Forever Ocean

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February 6, 2008

Deep Sea – 1st Baby Crickets – Sold Feb. 2008

Cricket Diane Quote of the Day –

“Happiness either is or isn’t – might as well be today as anytime.” – Cricket Diane C. Phillips, February 5, 2008.




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February 6, 2008

Ocean Symphony – cricket diane c phillips – crickethousestudios 2008


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February 7, 2008

For The Love of the Ocean

My friends over time, convinced me that the only rewards in painting are those derived from doing it. I realized if that is the case, then I was painting the wrong things.

I love the ocean, the sky, the clouds, the waves and the misty haze of the distant horizon against the depth of the sea.  To get that from the paint is fascinating and I do genuinely enjoy it.

The ocean in all her glory and power tugs at me. It fills my mind as I play music and I feel it is right in front of me when I paint it.

I place myself at a moment standing on the shore of the ocean in my mind’s realm. Then, I paint what I see with all the emotions of that moment and this one. It is a very right now sort of thing.

Although my art hangs in collections across the country and in people’s homes throughout the world,  there are a variety of subjects conveyed in these artworks. Very few of them show the love and deep admiration I have for the sea that shows up in my current works.

I want to capture the essence of that moment standing at the ocean in all the complexities of color and motion found in the waves and sky.

To communicate the awe, the mystery and the wonder of the ocean that awakened my spirit in that moment is the goal of each painting.

Anyone who is fascinated by the many moods of the ocean will love these. Just as the ocean is always different anywhere it is seen and anytime – each artwork conveys a unique moment of the ocean’s character.

They are a perfect place for the mind to wander and be healed of worldly worries and stress. I love to let my imagination play in the paintings I create. I do when creating them and each time I see them. I love having art that I can hold in my hands.

The paintings I’m doing right now are small, trading card sized originals – slightly larger than a credit card. They are real art that I can hold in my hands and let my mind loose to play in the spaces created there.

The ocean holds mystery in its power and awe-inspiring captivation of the senses when I am there. When I paint it from my mind, there is an intimacy with that moment and an admiration of the sea that I feel as I move the paint around to form what I see.

This process has created the most visually rich and tangibly rewarding work I’ve ever accomplished. It truly is real art that I can hold in my hands and enjoy.

- cricketdiane, 2008

(from cricketdiane blog 2008)



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February 8, 2008

Quest of the Sun

“Paint first.

Do music -

Create.

Leave the mundane to do later.”

Cricket Diane Quote – from the note I made for myself that rests on the bathroom mirror.

- cricketdiane, 2008

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