Metal Wall Art Decor: Paintings of African Women Turkana

I did this painting of an African woman from the Turkana tribe in Kenya as a commission for a friend. The Turkana people are renowned for their beautiful beaded African jewelry. I really enjoyed doing this embossed metal art piece and in particular painting over the beaded necklace. The paint colors came out particularly vibrant. I intend to do more paintings of women from tribes with interesting jewelry. If you would like to buy artwork please send an email to minjete@gmail.com.

African Art Painting of Woman

Turkana Girl (I) by Injete Chesoni

 Metal Wall Art Decor

Turkana Girl Painting by Injete Chesoni

 

 African Artwork

 Turkana Girl (I) by Injete Chesoni

 Metal Wall Art Decor

Painting of African Woman, (Turkana II) by Injete

Romantic Gifts: Love Art Collection by Injete

At this time of year those of us lucky enough to have a special someone in our lives are scrambling around looking for the perfect Valentines Day gift.   This year I decided to create a number of romantic art pieces which celebrate love. In honor of Valentines Day and all of those scrambling around for unique Valentines Gifts I am offering a Valentines Discount on all of my artwork through to February 28^th. While Valentines is a special day set aside for lovers, love in and of itself is everlasting and should be celebrated everyday. My art work and products focus on love and can be given as gifts to those you love on any day not just Valentines. Look out for more products in my Love Collection including more art work, canvas art prints, metal and wood prints, printable downloadable products such as greeting cards and love quote posters, and my Zazzle Romantic Gifts collection. You can also commission unique metal art pieces for your special someone or to give as Wedding or Anniversary gifts. To order artwork send an email with your request to minjete@gmail.com.  Here is some of my current artwork available for sale. These paintings are perfect decor for your office or home, framed and on your desk, shelves or table tops.

Lovers Embrace I: Abstract Art Paintings by Injete
Acrylic on Paper Painting (4 x 6"): Make an Offer

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Kiss IV: Abstract Art Paintings by Injete
Acrylic on Paper Painting (5 x 7"): Make an Offer

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Lovers Embrace II: Abstract Art Paintings by Injete
Acrylic on Paper Painting (5 x 7"): Make an Offer

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Nibusu (I) / Kiss Me (I): Abstract Art Paintings by Injete
Acrylic on Paper Painting (4 x 6"): Make an Offer

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Nibusu (II) / Kiss Me (II): Abstract Art Paintings by Injete
Acrylic on Paper Painting (4 x 6"): Make an Offer

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 Kiss III: Embossed Abstract Metal Art Paintings by Injete 

Metal Art Painting (6 x 8"): SOLD

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Love Collection Metal Wall Art: Valentines Day Sale

The season of love is here and to celebrate it I will be offering some of my art on sale for Valentines Day gifts. This includes new artwork made for Valentines as well as wedding and anniversary art gifts. Most of my artwork can be reproduced on metal and is available on order.  Due to the nature of the metal and embossing technique used each art piece is unique and has color variations. You can order the art piece with or without the decorative border. Free shipping is available on all orders of $500 or more. This includes a combination of art pieces or one art piece as long as the total order sums up to $500 or more. Prices for metal wall art pieces measuring 12 by 16 inches start at $500. The art pieces come framed and ready to hang. For all orders placed in February there will be a Valentines Discount.  Payment options include PayPal and Credit or Debit Card Payments via PayPal.  To place an order send an email to minjete@gmail.com with the title of the art piece. Here is a sample of available metal wall art pieces in my Love Collection.  Please note you can order any of my art pieces including those not in the collection. For smaller metal and acrylic on paper paintings see my Love Art Collection blog post.

LOVE COLLECTION: METAL WALL ART

Wedding Dance, Bump: Love Collection, African Metal Art by Injete
Media: Embossed Metal Wall Art Painting (Size: 12" x 16") 

Price: $500, Art piece Available on Order

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Kiss III: Love Collection, Abstract Metal Art by Injete
Media: Embossed, Metal Wall Art Painting (Size: 12" x 16") 

Price: $500, Art piece Available on Order

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Wedding Dance, Drumbeats: Love Collection, Metal Wall Art by Injete
Media: Embossed African Art Painting (Size: 16" x 20" with border)

Price: $650, Art piece Available on Order

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Live, Laugh, Love, Dance

After what turned out to be a rather lengthy hiatus I am back to blogging. Time flies by so quickly and before you know it one, two, three years.... a whole lifetime has gone by. I took what I thought was a short break from blogging and posting articles online turns out a whole two years have gone by. In the intervening period I slowed down on my creative pursuits but still did a few art commissions as well as gifts for family and friends. Now I am back to my creative ventures, my muse burst forth with a vengeance in December last year. Looks like she won’t be silenced anymore. I have notebooks and sketchpads full of ideas just waiting to be brought forth. I was hoping to catch the January wave but I missed it, so I will be starting with February the season of love. Here is a sketch I did in January to start off the New Year on a wave of inspiration. Wishing all of my readers a blessed New Year and a fulfilled life. Look out for the new Love Collection art pieces I am doing for February.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. 

 ∼ Henry David Thoreau ∼  

Inspirational Art by Injete Chesoni: Live Laugh Love Dance Series (1)

Inspirational Metal Art: Basket of Butterflies

Earlier this year I received a request to do a commission of three metal paintings featuring young women. The commission was for a young women's institution with a focus on leadership. So I wanted to do paintings which were inspirational and which at the same time captured the essence of young women. While working on the commission I created a few other paintings and this is one of them. The butterfly is symbolic of inspiration, flight and freedom.

Basket of Butterflies Portrait

Inspirational Metal Art by Injete Chesoni

Medium: Acrylic Painting on Embossed Metal

Size: 16.6" x 29.3"

SOLD

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Music Art Gifts

Last year my brother-in-law Ed, commissioned me to do a music art gift for his musician friend Steve Coleman. I modeled the art piece on some of my previous music art work including Sax Player and Guitar Player. I added a few personal touches based on what my brother-in-law told me about Steve such as the backward baseball cap and engraved astrological symbols on the border of the art piece. Here is a photograph of Steve's art gift and other pieces from my music art collection. All of the original art pieces are acrylic paintings on metal and have been sold however, they are available online as art prints and products at my FineArtAmerica gallery.

Sax Music Art: Sax Player II

Embossed Acrylic Metal Painting by Injete

Sax Music Art: Sax Player I

Handmade Metal Art Card by Injete Chesoni

Musical Art: Sax Player III

Metal Art Painting by Injete Chesoni

Abstract African Art Painting: Family Unity

Last year one of my clients requested an art piece based on the theme of family. Unlike most of my art pieces this particular piece is an acrylic painting on paper. The client requested a painting in earth tones and did not mind a medium other than metal. Because of the sheen I usually get on metal paintings and my temptation to emboss every metal art piece I do, I decided to stick to paper. This is the first art piece in my family art collection.

Family Unity: Abstract African Art Painting by Injete Chesoni

Media: Acrylic on Paper

Poetry Contest and Abstract Sunflower Painting

One of the websites I write for HubPages.com is running a prose and poetry contest this month (November). I submitted an entry titled, Sunshine Filled Yellow Rays an inspirational poem about depression. The poem is dedicated to a dear friend of mine who has been battling clinical depression for years, you can read the inspirational poem at Hubpages. Those of you who are artistically inclined may want to enter the contest the deadline is November 22nd, 12:00pm (PT). If you miss the contest it is still worth joining Hubpages.com you can earn money from articles you publish on any topic and it is a good way to generate income from your creative work. I created an abstract art painting to accompany my poetry contest entry. For the art piece I chose the subject matter of a sunflower for two reasons, I love the brilliant yellow color of sunflowers especially when contrasted against a blue sky and for me the sunflower represents happiness. Here is my abstract sunflower painting.

 Sunflower Painting: Abstract Art by Injete Chesoni

Acrylic Painting on Paper

Large Metal Art African Masks

Those of you who are familiar with my metal artwork may have noticed I tend to make smaller art pieces usually less than 12 by 16 inches. This is not due to a love for miniature art work but more due to the limitations of the metal I work with. Well that all changed in September when I got a commission for a larger art piece. The customer wanted a metal art piece that was at least 18 by 24 inches. So I had to stretch both my creative thinking and metal in order to come up with a piece that was 18 by 24 inches and still aesthetically pleasing. I joined a number of metal art pieces together and the end product was rather delightful. Best of all my customer was pleased with his new art piece. Here is a photo of the completed piece below. It is part of my African Masks collection and is based on my original Fathers Mask art piece.

African Mask: Embossed Metal Painting by Injete

 Fathers Mask (18.5 by 23.5 inches)

 African Mask: Embossed Metal Painting by Injete

Fathers Mask (18.5 by 23.5 inches)

Evolution of An Artist: from Shadows of Doubt to Fields of Dreams

Today I am celebrating my evolution as an artist. It is always good to examine one's growth over time. I started my creative journey back in 2004. I was working as a consultant back then and never defined myself as an artist. Throughout my high school and college years I leaned towards Economics and the sciences. I never even took art as a subject in high school even though I enjoyed painting and made some rather amateurish attempts back in my teenage years. Then one day in 2004 I just began drawing again I can't explain why or what moved me (see Shadows of Doubt drawing below). My mother loved the art piece which I stuck up on my bedroom wall and suggested I should pursue art more seriously.

 Shadows of Doubt: Oil Pastel and Pencil Drawing by Injete

In December 2004 my sister Atsango and I were doing Christmas shopping at the museum art gallery and we came across two beautiful metal art pieces, she bought one for herself and one for my brother Solomon and his wife Ina. I fell in love with metal art on that day and I knew I had to learn how to do it. One day while strolling through a shopping centre I saw a sign on the notice board advertising classes in hand-embossed metal art. I excitedly copied down the information and called the artist a Kenyan Asian lady called Taruna. I was her first African student. I discovered that apparently embossed metal art is an ancient tradition in India. From her I learned how to emboss and create images on metal. However, I never did discover what we used to paint the metal because she didn't tell me and she got all her supplies in India. So I spent many years trying to find paint which I could use on the metal (last year after "Googling" I finally discovered it was gold rust liquid).  But in between I made a few fascinating discoveries of my own. So I don't use rust liquid to paint my metal art pieces and I have since developed my own metal art techniques. These are images of the first art piece I sold and of one of the new art forms I developed (handmade metal art cards) which are miniature 4 by 4 inch metal art pieces in a card format.

Two Mothers/Confusion: Metal Oil Painting by Injete

Sax Player: Handmade Metal Art Card by Injete

I also started out with a love for oil pastels so once in a while I use those and much as I love the look of oil paint I simply don't have the patience to use it anymore. Just the other day I discovered another new technique using acrylic paints. As they say "Necessity is the mother of invention," I would like to paraphrase that to, "Necessity is the mother of creation." Last week while working on a painting for my sister Laura which is based on my original "Shadows of Doubt," art piece I realized what a long way I have come as an artist. I have developed a variety of art techniques and people who are familiar with my earlier work have acknowledged my growth and best of all I have actually received commissions and praise from people other than my family members :-). Don't get me wrong, I appreciate my family's support especially because many of my family members have great taste in art but the praise of strangers and their art purchases really do make me think at least I can lay claim to been an artist.

Buy Art Prints by Injete at FineArtAmerica.com

I have also sold some of my art gifts on Zazzle and best of all I have actually sold some of my poetry! Now that I consider an accomplishment because poetry is not easy to sell. So I decided that I really must do a blog post celebrating my evolution as an artist and strangely enough when I checked the date I started this blog it was almost two years ago in June 2009. So hoorah for me and thank-you to all of the people who have supported my creative journey over the years. Here's to what I hope will be many more fruitful, creative years!

Wicked Thoughts

I wrote this poem a while back and did not post it since it falls into the category of one of my risque poems. I hope this seductive love poem inspires in the reader "Wicked Thoughts," of their own. I have chosen to post one of my favorite art pieces along with this poem. It is one of the first art pieces I did and unlike most of my current work which is on metal this nude art piece is oil pastel on paper.

 Nude Redhead: Female Nude Art by Injete Chesoni 

Description: Oil Pastel on Paper (11.6" x 15.6" with border) 

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WICKED THOUGHTS

(A Seductive Lovers Poem by Injete Chesoni)

If only you knew
The wicked thoughts
That I am having of you
Of limbs entangled
Yours and mine
Of lips locked in kisses
And bodies entwined
Of twisted sheets
Covered in sweat
Of moments so sweet
Unblemished by regrets
Of hours shared
In passion’s embrace
Of precious moments
Staring at your face
As you lie in my arms
Upon my chest
Satisfied after hours
in passion’s embrace
Then you loudly call my name
And I gently blush in shame
I smile secretly to myself
As I think of fantasies
Yet un-met
For now they are just my sweet escape
My getaway from a dreary day
“A penny for your thoughts,” you say
And I smile to myself
Perhaps another day.
 

Poetry Art: Shadows of Doubt By Injete Chesoni

Shadows of Doubt: Acrylic Painting
Abstract Art By Injete Chesoni

Shadows of Doubt
What is real
and what is an image
When we stand naked before the world
do we show our real selves
or is our true self
consistently hidden in shadows of doubt

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How can our true beauty be revealed
if it is cloaked in appearances
Perhaps when we go to the place of nothingness
our true beauty will emerge.

(Shadows of Doubt: Poetry by Injete Chesoni)

Poetry Art By Injete Chesoni: Shadows of Doubt in Sepia

Poetry Art By Injete Chesoni: Shadows of Doubt in Color