Art Update

🎶 “After mid-niiiiiggghhht, we gonna let it…” 🎶

Can you finish these lyrics? Oh Eric Clapton, I can hear you singing my name.

Here I am, a night fox, writing after midnight on yet another weekend. I tend to feel most creative at night, in the quiet, peaceful hours. Crickets chirp, fireflies glow, and I howl at the moon. Yeah, that’s a wolf’s thing, but it’s my thing too, m’kay? Aaahhhwwwwooooooohhhhhhh!!! 🦊🌙

Nighttime is great for art and for writing. But it’s not so great for photography. And man oh man, photographing art is challenging, even in the best of lighting.

I took some photos of my new paintings this week during my coffee hours (AKA daytime), but had a hard time capturing them the way I imagined. I have plans for more photos, but alas my photography skills are still in the novice stage. However, as discussed in previous newsletters, I’m not going to stand in my own way and stop sharing just because I don’t feel that I have a finished work. Instead, I’m going to share with you, and document my artistic journey.

Here are my first ever mountain paintings. You are the first foxes to see them! I used palette knives to paint with acrylic on 16x20 inch canvas. Who knew I would wield knives for work?! 😂

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first mountains

second mountains

third mountains

fourth mountains

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This is only the beginning. There’s more foxy content on the way to your inbox soon! You’ll see new paintings in this newsletter next weekend, and more photos of my work and behind the scenes soon to come on my Instagram (@merrifoxdesigns). These first four paintings (and limited edition prints) will be listed for sale in my shop on Monday, August 5th at 8:00am PST.

While we’re talking art talk, I want to let you know that it’s totally cool if you’re not into my art…because you’re into my writing! Muah ha ha ha ha. Seriously though, art is subjective, and not everyone is into purple mountains and their foxy majesty. 🏔 If you like my art, awesome! Let me know what you think of my paintings, and what you’d like to see more of. Either way, it’s all good. I’m sharing my new work with you because I want to document the power of perseverance…which is the topic of next weekend’s newsletter.

Until then, I’ll let you simmer on this weekend’s quote (see below) and check out my mountains. Look at my mountains? Gaze at my mountains? Is there a way to say “my mountains” and have it sound innocent? They’re my mountains - I painted them! Well, there’s that. Enjoy my mountains, send me an email, follow me on instagram, …you do you, my foxy friends. Have a beautiful week!

Three cheers for my lovely foxes,

““…Je sens qu’il n’y a rien de plus réellement artistique que d’aimer les gens.”

“…I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.””

— Vincent Van Gogh

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