Painting in a new style

This summer has been a busy one for me. I've been painting a lot of miniature paintings to get ready for the Holiday season. Added six new students to my class schedule. I created an art blog, check out this link http://1stangel.co.uk/aaw/daricemachel/ and I was interviewed on 1st Angel Arts Magazine. Here is that link http://1stangel.co.uk/art/darice-machel-mcguire-interview-with-the-artist/

On top of all that I started painting in a new style. One morning I was allowing myself to wake up slowly, sitting on the couch and staring at the floor. I started to see images in the pattern of the linoleum tiles. I laughed and grabbed a piece of paper and pencil to sketch what I saw. I'm now making paintings from these sketches. I'm having so much fun with it and laughing at each completed piece. I have lived in my house for three years and have never paid much attention to the floor other then to sweep and wash it. Now, every time I look at it I see images! I have six new paintings of this dancing figure and plan on creating more soon. I hope you get as big a laugh out of them as I do. Check out my gallery page here on FAA to see these new works.


Fall is coming with it's shorter days and cooler nights and I will be just as busy. I'm working on plans for our "Christmas Preview" event coming up in November in Downtown Chico. Last year's event was very successful. Four of my young students were the window display at Art Etc. They took turns painting two 16 x 20 paintings I set up in the window. This year we plan on having only one large painting for all of them to work on. We will be raffling off the painting to earn money for the classroom. Tickets will be available for $1 each or 6 for $5. If you want to see some of the amazing paintings these young ladies have created you can check them out on my facebook page; Darice Machel McGuire

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