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

Upcoming Website and Change In Poetry Posts

I have finally began building my new website and I am really excited about it. However, due to Google's rules on duplicate content I will not be able to post any of my new poetry on this blog until after I have posted it on my new website. Consequently, for the next few months you will not be seeing any new poetry posts however, I will continue to post my art work on this blog. Once my new website is up and running I will post a few poems here. In the meantime I hope you will enjoy reading the poems available and viewing my artwork. Thanks for stopping by my poetry and art blog.

Be Bold: Inspirational Poetry

Another New Year is upon us and with it the usual New Year resolutions made only to be broken :-). This year I have centered my New Year Resolutions around just one simple pledge to "Be Bold." To all of you reading this blog post may you find inspiration in the words of my poem and live life boldly. Happy 2012 and blessings in the year ahead! Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it! - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe / W.H. Murray

 

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Be Bold
(An Inspirational Poem by Injete Chesoni)

Be BOLD
My child
Step out of your comfort zone
Go where you have never gone before

Be BOLD
My child
Be who you thought you never could be
Reach much further than your eyes can see

Be BOLD
My child
Do what you thought you never could do
You have nothing to lose
Except the you that you thought was you

Be BOLD
My child
You have so much to gain
Your struggles will not be in vain

Starting now
Starting here
Be BOLD
My child
And conquer fear

Be BOLD
My child
Be BOLD
So that when you
come to the end
of life’s road
You can proudly say
With no regrets
I lived my life well
I was BOLD

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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)