Day 155:Angela Pittenger

For me, painting is a way of creating life and exploring new horizons.

It makes me happy.

There’s something about a brush or knife in hand as it glides across a canvas.

Nothing has inspired me more than my grandma, who’s beautiful artwork connected its viewers to her heart and to the world around her.

When she died, I found an envelope of photos she took, but never got to paint. So, I decided to use them as inspiration for my own paintings. Using only palette knives, just like she would do, I created some of my most recent works.

Painting with knives has a carnal feeling to it. It takes the ability to let go of the control a brush offers and to embrace the wild, and sometimes messy, results as something beautiful.  

In a way, it serves as a metaphor for life — messy, wild and beautiful.

angelapittenger.com

Instagram: @angelapittenger

Always with Me

Avocado Green

Grandma

Beauty

Happy

Day 154: Sam Hodges

My love of people directs my figurative sculptures. The anomalies of human interaction with one another, and their respective environments, fuels my passion to tell a story.  This story is at times a reflection of my own “head-on” collision with life; at other times, it is my reaction to the irony-filled world around me. 

I like the intimate world of working small where my hidden thoughts can gently come forth without fuss. My use of color allows me to layer and direct the story these thoughts provoke. 

I love humor, use sadness as a stepping stone to a higher place and through beauty, leave hope.

samsceramics@yahoo.com
Facebook

Walls

Arise Shine

Played Etude

Politically Correct

Sozo

Day 153:Ryan Avery

My name is Ryan Avery. My grandmother has boxes of old photos in her house that have info about 
what/who is in the photos written on the back. I love them. One day when I was going through a box
I realized the photos just stop suddenly in the early 2000's. It makes sense I guess, everyone started
 buying digital cameras and then cell phones and now everything is online. Sometime in 2010 or 2011
 my friend Dave Driscoll (who is also an amazing photographer- https://davedriscoll.wordpress.com/) 
lost roughly 2 years of photos because his computer crashed or his camera broke or something. Since 
that point I have felt a real state of urgency to take photos on disposable cameras that I keep with me all 
the time. When I finish a roll (which usually takes a few months) I get it developed, scan the photos and
 put the prints in a big box. I take photos of things, animals, people and places that feel important to 
me at the time. I like taking candid photos the most. Sometimes I will hand my disposable camera to
 someone that I like and ask them to take photos of things that feel important to them too and I 
usually like the results.

Here is a link to my personal website - http://ryanavery.org/

Here is a link to a blog that I post a different disposable photo to almost every day - 
http://disposablebabies.tumblr.com/

know me - http://www.ryanavery.org
linkedin - http://www.linkedin.com/in/himynameisryan
tumblr - http://didntyouhear.tumblr.com
facebook - http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ryan-Avery/23852579791
twitter - https://twitter.com/#!/MajesticRyan
youtube - http://www.youtube.com/majesticryan

instagram - http://instagram.com/majesticryan

db-Andy's ghost

db-phoenix city bus stop

db-morgan evans

db-lasttrunksapacedoorflyer

db-spacealiendonald

Day 152: Nancy Troupe

My early memories are filled with images of being sprawled out on my bedroom floor surrounded with crayons and coloring books.  School years were filled with art competitions, local and state-wide.  As a young adult, I sold my work on La Cienega and Melrose 

in Los Angeles, I taught after school programs for kids, and adult classes at a local art studio in the San Fernando Valley.

During the "family" years, while raising 3 kids in Oregon, I stayed home to do t-shirt designs (some for the World Wildlife Fund), business logos, and free-lance design work for various companies.  Throughout my childrens' school years, I was active in their school art adventures, and enjoyed painting the backdrop scenery for many a school play.  My love for painting large grew from  that, and I eventually started my own mural business when we moved to Arizona.

http://www.nancytroupe.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AOyhG0m7no
https://www.etsy.com/shop/PaintBoxArtWorks?ref=hdr_shop_menu

Majestic Solitude

Tuscany

Coming Home

Harmony

Grand Canyon Christmas

Day 151: Ruth Kyanite

Ruth "Truth" Kyanite 

      

        Born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1980 as Caitlin T. Petre. Truth has been creating art since she was a young child. Winning her first Art Award at the age of 8 at Hyde Park Elementary in 1988. Winning a city wide art award in 1992 with a pencil drawing of a classmate. In 1996 Truth started to concentrate on still life pencil drawings as well as attending various art classes through her teenage years.

        Truth attended classes for Ceramics, Pottery, Bead-Working, Wire-wrapping, Quilting and Doll making in Cincinnati. Truth also studied Art through The Strattford Career Institute in 2002 and 2003, taking classes in Drawing, Pastels, Watercolors and Acrylics.  At the age of 26, Truth started to concentrate on figure drawing and Pin-up Art and soon moved to creating her own style of pin-up fairy art.

        In 2010 Truth moved out of Cincinnati and began to travel while working on her Art and Jewelry full time. Visiting 30 states in 5 years with her two young boys who love Art almost as much as she does.

        Finally making Yuma, AZ her home and creating Fairy Happy Jewelry and Art in 2016. Truth has paintings in private collections in multiple states, The Millet House Art Gallery in Mesa, AZ and The Yuma Art Center in Yuma, AZ             

art.fairyhappy.com               facebook@FAIRYHAPPYART

  I Have been drawing for years, My Mother and Grandmother are Multimedia artists and Photographers. So I have a wide range of unofficial Art instruction.

I have been traveling for 6 years making jewelry and art, but Have Started a NEW life in Yuma, AZ in 2016 after leaving a very abusive relationship.

     My new partner Mitzvah is helping me in creating and developing Fairy Happy as well as using our art to bring domestic violence awareness and Womens Empowerment to anyone who wants to make the future brighter.

Earth Dance Painting

Inside Joke 2

Tripping Nonsense 2

Cheeseburger

Day 150: Aaron Fink

My name is Aaron Fink, and I love photography. My passion for photography came as 
somewhat of a surprise. I started out simply wanting to take better pictures. I ended up spending years
studying photography in every way I could. I took ALL the community college courses relating to 
photography, including the history of photography, I took the advanced levels of photo classes
 multiple times. I even built my own darkroom, quickly my simple hobby was more than an obsession.
  I work in both digital and film photography, I am not particular as to what I am shooting, I just enjoy 
the photographic work. Photography gives the artist a lot of freedom, there is always another technique, 
composition tool, color theory, or process that can be used to make a photograph more interesting.
 These days my photography is limited by the amount of time I have, but I still make time to schedule 
shoots. You can follow my work on instagram @FinkStylePhotography or my facebook page
 Facebook.com/FinkStylePhoto
Private photo-shoot sessions start at $60 and you can schedule a shoot by sending an email to 
FinkStylePhoto@gmail.com
Instagram: @FinkStylePhotography Facebook.com/FinkStylePhoto

Day 149: Rhonda Hitchcock-Mast

Rhonda Hitchcock-Mast is an artist, singer / songwriter, and graphic designer. She is also the 
Vice President of Chicks With Picks Foundation (chickswithpicks.org) — which helps female 
singer/songwriters with their music/craft and then in turn "the chicks”, help those in need through
 music. Creativity doesn’t stop there, within the last few years she helped pen a self published children’s 
book with her husband. Being creative and helping people — makes her happy. Mrs. Hitchcock-Mast
 received her degree in visual communicationsand has been doing art, art directing, designing, performing,
 fundraising and consulting for many years. Recently some of her repurposed artwork has been lucky 
enough to be featured in several local businesses,art shows, galleries and it got a mention in the 
Phoenix New Times (repurposemepretty.com). She is now owner and instructor for Easel For You To
Paint Party (easelforyoutopaint.com) that is hosted regularly at the Farm at South Mountain
and private parties! Mrs. Hitchcock-Mast really loves helping and creating with everyone!

HelpMeRhondaCreative.com