Humboldt Artisans Crafts & Music Festival

Well another year at the Artisans Crafts & Music Festival has come and gone. It was a great year for me. I sold several original paintings along with lots of prints and greeting cards. I got to spend some time with several friends that I don't see often and I met some new ones as well. It is a great opportunity to get out into the community and share what I love to do best. Thank you to everyone who came out to support me and thank you for all the wonderful compliments. I hope everyone has a great holiday season and I hope to see you all in the community soon.

My brothers poem

Why I finally saw the waters heaving there

Alone

I’ll never know

Crashing against the rocky foundations

Of my soul

An old light house

Forgotten

Her red doors gently swinging open and closed

Flirting with me and the gentle blue breezes of her waning tide

A battered silence weeping

From the unrelenting ways of fortitude fallen

And hope’s journey betrayed

Had I known my blood would want to run

Even boil there in the fading light of her setting sun,

To flee and be free from her pain

I might not have looked her way

Away from the sanctuary of my tired sea worthy hands

And nets full of life

But my heart held like an anchor

To bearings beyond my reach

And the ship that had brought me here

Was no longer sea born

But beached

And I knew the truth of it then

Of the empty misery that does not know us all at once

Or let us sail away

But carves our faces day by day

Into beautiful masks

Into the light houses of our fate

Watched by crows too black to have eyes

Leering from the safety of flotsam fowled trees of fallen life

Jeering at us like a crab on its back dying

Breathlessly

My hands relaxed, my nets released

And I heard the siren songs of death and love like chains

Rattle wet against my wincing ear

And kiss me dear

As if her foundations would not crumble with my embrace

Do not close your eyes on me

She said

And it came again through the briny air

And sandy sea

Do not close your eyes on me just yet

Like the whispery voice of a lover dying in my arms

Damp with salty sweat

Her sweet stench of life and death beneath the sand

Bubbled up beneath my toes

And filled my nose with the scent of sex

And dying gods

And I tried to stand but could only plead

As crows plucked grains of sand from my soul

Like ransomed jetsom

Returning to the darkness

Of an all swallowing mother

The Father of Lights sailing away

Divorced

And no one yearning

To save me

Or the child of our unspeakable love

Oh how the darkness devoutly carries

And calls our crows away

Revelation by revelation

Into the infinitesimally small oblivions of our heavens never found

Into the shadows lost at the font of our crashing seas

Until the brazen sand of our soul’s life is not but reflection

And my eyes are not but thee

My unsavable love

I do not know why I saw your waters heaving there

Where I stood

Alone

Or how my soul became a light house forgotten

Anchored by my heart

To lonely nets

And empty hands

And crows

New Painting, "Blue Heron & Magnolias"

Here is my most recent painting. There are a lot of Great Blue Herons in my town, they are beautiful graceful and grand birds. I coupled them with one of my favorite flowers, magnolia. I've always wanted to plant a magnolia tree and just did recently. I hope it grows to be a large beautiful tree someday covered in magnolia blossoms.

The painting measures 18" by 18" and is acrylic on canvas. I hope you enjoy!

Renée

"Foxy" new painting

Hello everyone,

There have been a lot of foxes running about my neighborhood lately and the foxgloves are also in bloom. I've always loved foxes. The species we have here in northern California are small brown foxes, but my female fox is a red fox. I love the coral color and it complements the tangerine foxgloves. Hope you enjoy!

 

This painting measures 12" by 16" and is for sale. It is acrylic on canvas. Please contact me at contact@reneethompsondesigns.com if you are interested.

"Flight" new painting!

It has been 4 months since I've finished a painting. The reason being is that I've been painting the inside of my entire house and every spare moment has been taken up by that. Alas, I hope to get back to the fun creative painting that I love so much. Here is my new painting, "Flight" inspired by the beautiful barn owl and one of my favorite garden flowers Bee Balm.

Hope you enjoy!
Renee

This painting measures 1.5" by 22" by 28" and is acrylic on canvas. Please contact me at contact@reneethompsondesigns.com if you are interested in purchasing it.

"Golden Angel", new painting

Here is the last painting in my angel series for now. I love painting portraits of women and children.

This painting is for sale. It is a 10" by 10" mixed media on canvas. If you are interested in purchasing it, please contact me. reneethompsondesigns.com/OriginalPaintingsForSale

"Pink Angel", new painting

Here is my second angel painting. This one is called "Pink Angel". I'm loving the endless mandala possibilities.

 

This canvas measures 10" by 10" and is a mixed media painting on canvas. It is for sale. Contact me at contact@reneethompsondesigns.com if you are interested in purchasing it.

Thanks!

Angel paintings

This is the first painting in a new series I'm trying out.

I've always been fascinated with old medieval and Renaissance paintings of angels and the Madonna with the golden halo's behind their head. Their beautiful, peaceful and serene energy emanating from them. I've also always been drawn towards mandalas with their cyclical and mesmerizing patterns. In this series I wanted to combine these two elements.

In my mind they are my personal reflection of angels, goddesses and saints. This one is called the "blue angel". I hope you enjoy!

Please visit my website www.reneethompsondesigns.com for size, price and medium. Thanks!
Renée

Humboldt Artisans Crafts & Music Festival

This was my third year back to the Humboldt Artisans Crafts & Music Festival. It's a great end of the year holiday festival with many talented artists and musicians.

For the last two years I've also displayed Poppy Apparel Designs and this year was my first year with just fine art, greeting cards and prints. I was really pleased with the turn out and hope to do the fair again next year.

My Art Booth

Fine Art Journals

wood block prints

My New Booth Sign