tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51555559153351704402024-03-13T08:19:43.312-07:00MikeMeniusStudioMike Meniushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05806335663425155053noreply@blogger.comBlogger203125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5155555915335170440.post-51547457540054720562017-05-18T16:26:00.001-07:002017-05-18T16:26:17.833-07:00Work in progress (bearded iris) image<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Mike Meniushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05806335663425155053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5155555915335170440.post-82113450866011399982017-05-18T16:23:00.005-07:002017-05-18T16:23:53.242-07:00work in progress: bearded iris blooms<span style="color: #e69138;">Using a grid of 1/2 inch squares, I transfer the photo's details onto the art paper, from the reference photo (taken by me). This is the tedious part; then comes the fun of working with color. Being precise at this stage makes a big difference in the quality of the final work.</span>Mike Meniushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05806335663425155053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5155555915335170440.post-30031881731139764422016-12-07T19:00:00.002-08:002016-12-07T19:05:08.179-08:00"Glorious Morn" image<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #e69138;">Early morning, the morning glories at the top of the fence reach for the sun light. Color pencil on Bristol vellum art paper. The large blossom opens dramatically. In the back ground is the tangle of leaves and tendrils. After all, morning glories are vines.</span>Mike Meniushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05806335663425155053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5155555915335170440.post-78318504356453433662016-08-11T11:08:00.002-07:002016-08-11T11:08:22.781-07:00"Mission Impossible" for Artists<span style="color: #b45f06;">Good morning, fellow artist. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to create a lifetime body of work, which is a personal statement about you and your journey through life.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">This message will self-destruct in 30 seconds, so listen carefully.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">You may be one of the artists who receives fame, awards, and critical acclaim. Be aware that there will be times when your work stops receiving such rewards. You may be viewed as a yesterday artist. Your may return later to the spot light, and people will think you are back on track. All of this counts for nothing. Your mission is the same: keep creating your lifetime body of work, and keep challenging your limits along the way.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">You may be one of the artists who rarely, if ever, receives public recognition. Your mission remains the same. Do not be surprised if, through the years, your work matures more and more, far beyond what you earlier imagined. No back patting. Challenge yourself even more. How can you make your work even more of a uniquely personal statement by you? Study your past work, ask yourself where you may have slightly missed the mark of what you truly wanted to say?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">You may have to take a job-job, to pay the bills, do commission work which is not your heart's desire. Your mission remains the same: find a bit of time every day, to do some small task that is devoted to your lifetime body of work. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">Art is not a young person's sport, so your opportunities remain wide open, regardless of age. For many people, they do their best work in their mature years. No excuses, no self-pity. Your mission remains the same.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">One final instruction: have fun, but let your sense of fun grow. Move beyond the phase of "This is so much fun and relaxing," to the deeper pleasure of making that extra effort to be better and better each time. That's where the real fun kicks in.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">It is your life, your statement of who you are, and for what you stand.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">Good luck, fellow artist! </span>Mike Meniushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05806335663425155053noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5155555915335170440.post-56303044340889630562016-06-09T09:22:00.001-07:002016-06-09T09:22:26.070-07:00"Promise of Spring" image<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Mike Meniushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05806335663425155053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5155555915335170440.post-44053321453326994932016-06-09T09:21:00.001-07:002016-06-09T09:21:26.156-07:00"Promise of Spring"<span style="color: #e69138;">Dogwood blossoms in the Spring. colored pencil painting, based on a photo taken by a friend in North Carolina. Reference photo used with his permission. The challenge of this piece was to capture each petal's folds, ruffles, light, and shadow patterns. The fun part was to play with so many colors and lighting effects.</span>Mike Meniushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05806335663425155053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5155555915335170440.post-16443611760311334852016-05-15T01:07:00.001-07:002016-05-15T01:07:53.812-07:00"Morning Fog" image<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Mike Meniushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05806335663425155053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5155555915335170440.post-85572757994376572712016-05-15T01:06:00.001-07:002016-05-15T01:06:23.226-07:00poor photo, but good result<span style="color: #f6b26b;">This colored pencil art work is based on a disappointing day of photo shooting. I went to San Francisco's Golden Gate bridge, but the day was foggy and uninteresting - or so I thought. Back home, in reviewing the photos, I came across this view, which had real possibilities. It turned into a fun, challenging, and rewarding experience. Lots of mood created by the fog gave the whole scene an added effect.</span>Mike Meniushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05806335663425155053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5155555915335170440.post-87833388959108357132015-09-06T16:00:00.001-07:002015-09-06T16:00:29.014-07:00Image: Santa Rosa Court House<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Mike Meniushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05806335663425155053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5155555915335170440.post-43550564876742097912015-09-06T15:58:00.002-07:002015-09-06T15:58:27.745-07:00"Santa Rosa Court House"<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><b>This art piece is a landscape/architectural work, departing from the traditional landscape mode, but not so much that it is not grounded in realism. This is the old court house in Santa Rosa. Built of stone, it survived the 1904 San Francisco earth quake, which extended north to the Santa Rosa area. This work was done in colored pencil on grey tinted paper.</b></span>Mike Meniushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05806335663425155053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5155555915335170440.post-9271194090120549052015-06-07T18:10:00.001-07:002015-06-07T18:22:18.190-07:00Artist's post-partem depression<span style="color: #e69138;">Artists (at least this one) go through a cycle that is a bit like a pregnancy, then the delivery, then post-partem depression. The initial stage of the "pregnancy" is the joy: a new painting idea, bursting with creative excitement. Then comes the long haul of putting it all together. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #e69138;">It always turns out to be much more involved and challenging, more hours, more self-demanding attention. As it nears completion, the artist is quite glad it will soon be "delivered," not a moment too soon. And yet, those final stages require the utmost effort, not to become sloppy or too quick.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #e69138;">Eventually, the finished "baby" is here. There is a sense of tremendous accomplishment and satisfaction, with this new creation, with which we have already fallen in love, during the entire process.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #e69138;">So much energy, a quiet satisfaction, and mental exhaustion. a period of fatigue, while the batteries re-charge. In the meantime, the feeling can be like depression. The artist will recover; for the moment, however, it can be difficult, after delivering this beautiful "baby." </span><br />
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<br />Mike Meniushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05806335663425155053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5155555915335170440.post-87403704772693370042015-06-07T18:04:00.001-07:002015-06-07T18:04:27.602-07:00"Pyramid Lamp" <span style="color: #f6b26b;">Still life at night, of a pyramid-shaped stained glass lamp, on a table with a bowl of fruit. 22"W x 15"H, on Canson tinted paper. Colored pencil. Based on my reference photo, shown earlier in the blog. The theme is the play of light, in an ambiance of a quiet evening.</span><br />
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<br />Mike Meniushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05806335663425155053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5155555915335170440.post-58921489500811624612015-04-12T15:13:00.003-07:002015-04-12T15:13:48.487-07:00forced inactivity<span style="color: #e69138;">Shoulder injury. sore (!) tendons in the right shoulder. It is not possible to draw or paint. Ugghhh! Here is the next project (reference photo). Itching to work on it. </span><br />
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<br />Mike Meniushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05806335663425155053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5155555915335170440.post-15031264695144482702015-04-05T12:06:00.001-07:002015-04-05T12:06:14.651-07:00"Kettle Is On" (image)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Mike Meniushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05806335663425155053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5155555915335170440.post-14847712704624422642015-04-05T12:04:00.002-07:002015-04-05T12:04:53.874-07:00"Kettle Is On"<span style="color: #f6b26b;">A tarnished, old tea kettle sits on the stove, for the thousandth time, coming to steam, for a quiet cup of tea. Colored pencil on art paper. based on my photo reference. 8"H x 11"W.</span>Mike Meniushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05806335663425155053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5155555915335170440.post-68374588457679150092015-03-09T12:55:00.001-07:002015-03-09T12:55:33.093-07:00"Sources of Inspiration"<span style="color: #f6b26b;">Artists are often asked, "Where do you find your ideas? How do you decide what to paint/draw?" </span><br />
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<span style="color: #f6b26b;">Years ago, I chose subjects which seemed to be grand and impressive. The paintings were beautiful, and they sold well. Gradually, things began to change.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f6b26b;">The real change was living life, and finding it necessary to look more critically at what I was creating. Does this subject move me, or do I simply think it is what appeals to certain individuals? </span><br />
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<span style="color: #f6b26b;">The answer came over time: if I listen carefully to what speaks to me instinctively, everything changes.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f6b26b;">The themes of my painting became simpler, more intimate. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #f6b26b;">There was also a second change: a growing awareness of the necessity to raise the level of the work itself.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f6b26b;">At this stage, I challenge myself to create at a much higher level of execution. The process is fun; it is also intense and demanding. It has also given me an increased appreciation of the amount of hard work, by the masters we all admire. They are not only supremely talented; they also do the blood, sweat, and tears that go into art, which is both personal and long lasting.</span>Mike Meniushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05806335663425155053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5155555915335170440.post-64427417533124703392015-03-09T12:24:00.000-07:002015-03-09T12:24:31.222-07:00"Autumn Bounty" image<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Mike Meniushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05806335663425155053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5155555915335170440.post-58504906326014333432015-03-09T12:22:00.004-07:002015-03-09T12:22:51.784-07:00"Autumn Bounty"<span style="color: #f6b26b;">"Autumn Bounty" captures the ripened persimmons, still on the tree. The leaves turn colors, echoing all the oranges, browns, and reds in the fruit. Colored pencil on archival art paper.</span>Mike Meniushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05806335663425155053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5155555915335170440.post-31423091294094734432014-10-23T14:16:00.001-07:002014-10-23T14:16:10.271-07:00"Sky After Rain" Image<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Mike Meniushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05806335663425155053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5155555915335170440.post-74486646394381772302014-10-23T14:14:00.002-07:002014-10-23T14:14:49.154-07:00"Sky After Rain"<span style="color: #f6b26b;">The sky cleared, after a dark, rainy morning. Here is the view, as the clouds rose in the sky.</span>Mike Meniushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05806335663425155053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5155555915335170440.post-13626611036496188932014-08-05T16:12:00.001-07:002014-08-05T16:12:44.851-07:00Image: "Cuppa Tea"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Mike Meniushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05806335663425155053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5155555915335170440.post-86859418495626746782014-08-05T16:11:00.003-07:002014-08-05T16:11:39.240-07:00"Cuppa Tea"<span style="color: #f6b26b;">This colored pencil art piece was based on a photo shoot, at home, involving a porcelain tea jar, a tea cup, and fruit. Multiple rearrangements of the items, to arrive at this particular composition. The shadow edges on the right are deliberately made to disappear into the back ground, so attention remains focused on the highlighted areas.</span>Mike Meniushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05806335663425155053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5155555915335170440.post-12122108608185236802014-06-16T16:34:00.003-07:002014-06-16T16:34:46.574-07:00"Glowing Memories" image<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Mike Meniushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05806335663425155053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5155555915335170440.post-91471739845340338332014-06-16T16:33:00.001-07:002014-06-16T16:33:23.672-07:00"Glowing Memories"<span style="color: #f6b26b;">"Glowing Memories" is a colored pencil painting on Canson Mi Teintes pink paper. !8"H x 14"W. It is based on a series of photos I took of the Tiffany lamp and other objects. The idea was to show the brilliance of stained glass work and the glow it creates. </span>Mike Meniushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05806335663425155053noreply@blogger.com0