Original Abstract Painting Sold 'Emerald Lake'

A word of appreciation for the art collector

Thank you so much to Cardinal Coaching in Paris, France for their second original painting purchase, the one-of-a-kind original painting ‘Emerald Lake’. This unique mixed media, textured, and spiritually inspired abstract painting on canvas was created after spending the summer hiking and camping outdoors along the west coast of British Columbia, specifically around the Vancouver Island region. Emerald Lake is one of our favourite stops!

The painting is part of my Little Gems Series which is inspired by practice, play, and experimentation. I am grateful for positive, life-affirming, and uplifting business owners such as Cardinal Coaching who understand the power and value of adding beautiful artwork paintings to their offices! By the way, if you are looking for an inspirational boost, check out Cardinal Coaching’s website and/or Facebook page.

The collector has also been kind enough to share a photo of the painting hanging in their office, alongside other original abstract artwork they have collected.

Emerald Lake by Deb Chaney (9” x 12”)

Using Feng Shui for a more productive office space

In terms of leveraging this predominantly purple-coloured painting in your new office space, using Feng Shui, the following is some gentle guidance to make this painting work for your company. To start, purple, sometimes known as violet, lavender, lilac, mauve, periwinkle, plum, amethyst, indigo, or magenta, is a colour that resonates with wealth, opportunity, and royalty. 

Using the Bagua from Feng Shui, if you consciously place this painting in the back left-hand corner of your office, it will accentuate the energies around wealth, prosperity, and blessings. See the illustration below. The bottom line is that if you’re looking to increase the cash flow of your business, by hanging a purple painting in your workspace, you are telling The Universe that you are ready to receive financial flow!

The power of the colour purple

Purple is a powerful colour and often associated with royalty and nobility. A colour that “demands respect’ and can often be associate with an ambitious self-assured leader. This colour is synergistic with luxury and wealth. On a spiritual note, violet and purple are known to support in the practice of meditation, contributing to mental balance and stability, supporting the creation of peace of mind, and aiding in providing a link between the spiritual and the physical worlds. Often artists, musicians, writers, poets and psychics are all inspired by violet and its magic and mystery.

Featured above and below this text, Nature is the Way and Fragments of Life # 30 a couple of other paintings with purple as their predominant colours that are in inventory and available for your art collection as originals (date of this post) and as print reproductions on fine art paper or giclee (print on canvas) to your specified custom size requirements. Any of these would make wonderful and vibrant additions to the interior design of your home, office, hotel or restaurant.

Original Artwork and Prints for Sale

In addition to ordering prints of Emerald Lake, you can browse through my collection on Saatchi Art’s online gallery.

Saatchi Art offers multiple options to suit your personal tastes or needs. Prints can be on paper or canvas and are usually available in 4 sizes – to better fit your room. So, even though the original Emerald Lake is 9” x 12”, your print can be the same size as the original or bigger – at sizes of 15” x 20”, 24” x 32”, or 30” x 40”. You have the further option to have it framed in white, black, or natural wood.

The “View In A Room” image on Saatchi Art should give you an idea of its size and let you see what it looks like on a wall.

New work off to AYR Gallery Ontario

New work off to AYR Gallery Ontario

I'm both excited and honored to be shipping Fragments Of Life # 32 (and 2 others!) to AYR Space Gallery (http://www.ayrspace.ca/) in Ontario. Painting is 23" x 30" x 1.5" Acrylics & Mixed Media on 300 pound paper mounted on wood panel. Full series for view here: http://www.debchaney.com/collections/fragments-of-life/

Art traveling this summer to Toronto, Ontario for exhibit.

Art traveling this summer to Toronto, Ontario for exhibit.

Fragments Of Life # 24. 23 x 30 x 1.5" Acrylics & Mixed Media on 300 pound paper mounted on wood panel (c) 2014 Deb Chaney will be exhibited at the Society of Canadian Artist’s Elected Members Exhibition Etobicoke Art Gallery in Toronto, Ontario from July 23rd, to Aug 27th, 2014.

Travelling Art

Travelling Art

This little painting is taking the ferry to Vancouver Island tomorrow and joining the exhibit in Sooke with the Fine Arts Society. My daughter and I stopped by the show a couple of years back and were blown away. If you can make it this summer, do. http://www.sookefinearts.com/ . Untitled Turquoise Abstract, Pure Abstraction Series, 10" x 10: x 3" Mixed Media & Acrylics on Canvas, Deb Chaney 2014. Two more originals very similar to this, this size and also 5" x 5" are available at the date of this post: info@debchaney.com

Turning your painting practice pieces into sellable art


This blog is dedicated to every single one of my students who  have taken my foundation workshop in abstract painting in acrylics and mixed media, particularly those of you who were with me this last month - thank you. Thank you for having the courage to show up. Thank you for having the courage to take risks and play. And most of all, thank you for trusting me and allowing yourself to make crap art. To allow yourself to practice, to play, to make shit art and be OK with is. Knowing that getting in the painting groove, into your own process, and re-igniting your creative fire - for this weekend experience at least - was  more important than coming out with  perfectly finished art pieces.

So, here's a few ideas of what you can do with some of those little paintings you might have done on canvas pads or thick water color paper or acrylic mixed media paper. The paintings that perhaps didn't turn out, the ones that you've lost interest in, the pieces whose composition fell short but who you do no feel like going back to and working and re-working. We all have them. Now it's time to turn them into something functional and have fun doing it!

Turning your painting practice pieces into sellable art, a few ideas, but really the only limit is YOUR creativity:

NOTE: For all the following craft projects use YES! Paste because it's made to dry flat. Put a layer of plastic over it once you've glued it down and then put a brick or a few heavy books to glue it down nice and flat.
  1. Art cards ( buy the blank ones at a craft store such as Michael's and then glue on covers from your practice piece. Ahhh yes, now you know why I had the paper cutter at the back of the workshop room! I was cutting up my practice pieces and making gift cards while you were painting yours!!!)
  2. Book marks ( cut the art piece in a long rectangle and get it laminited)
  3. Artist trading cards ( I wrote a blog about that last year or the year before, check it out for all the details)
  4. Blank notepads with your art on the cover ( Last year I took all the old programs from the Culture Crawl and had them bound at a printer into little blank recycled paper note pads and then used my old art canvas pieces make excellent covers - especially when you use Kroma Crackle Paste, it looks like leather!!! Use a view finder on the art piece you're done with and find the sweet spot for the art on the cover of your card.  People Love to buy these that want a piece of art but are not ready to commit to a big piece)
  5. Collage - cut up the old art and collage it into other new paintings (recycle!)
  6. Magnets (cut the canvas pad piece into any shape. Re-in force it with cardboard. Glue a magnet to the back of it. Optional: Pour resin over it to give it gloss and depth!! On  a personal note I was soooo wanting to do this and make a bunch of magnets for the upcoming culture crawl open studio show but at this point I just don't think I"ll have time :-( )
  7. Homemade journals (cut out the best picture from the practice art piece on loose canvas and glue it to a blank journal. I like to put a sticker or my biz card on the back to give it a signature feel.)


Hate reading? Yeah, I have those days...Wanna see me talk about this live and see some pictures of what I'm talking about? 

Here you go... YouTube video link:

Turning your painting practice pieces into sellable art

This is a short video from a workshop whereby I am showing my practice art pieces and the things I 
have made from them and sold at art shows and fairs: