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My Latest Work And A Work In Progress And The Story Behind Them

                                                                          Koi

Koi is a painting I completed about a month ago.  She is part of a long series over many years and is #10  .  I just love painting the fantasy concept of fish swimming through a woman's hair.  Some may think she is a mermaid.  I love painting portraits but always like to add a twist with them.  The original is 30x24x1.5 oil and the original is still for sale.

                                                               "Fractured Identity"

I finished "Fractured Identity " a few weeks a go . My husband had a stroke a few months ago and I feel when he mention a few weeks ago that a good name for a band would be "Fractured Identity" it was stating what he was feeling. This image popped in my mind. It seems it can reflect many people's emotions with different obstacles they might be going through.  The painting is 24x18x1.5 oil

                                                   The Coffee Addict work in progress

I am working on this painting right now and hopefully should be done sometime today. Sorry for the bad photo, that's generally how I take my work in progress photo's with my phone till completed by my photo editor.   This painting was an idea I had of someone obsessed with coffee, like she can't get enough of it!  She is a bit messy also that's why she has a whip cream mustache.  Hmm I would say it's time for a coffee break. Follow me here or sign up for my by monthly news letter to see the finished results!
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www.paintingmaniac.com


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Art: Discouragement Turned Into Determination!

       Recently I have been reflecting on what I do in Life and for a living;  Painting Humor/Surrealistic Art In Oil.  I have been reflecting on it more recently since my husband had a stroke 3 months ago and I now am the main supporter of him,our minor child,me and the whole household. Wondering how I am going to do it just painting and being his full time caregiver. I was thinking to myself in our economic times if I could really do that?  Then was thinking how did I get where I am today with my work,  I have been painting full time now about 7 years, but taught myself to paint starting in 1997 when my fascination with it and my drive for it started and couldn't stop.  I was realizing I still feel as passionate about painting today as I did 16 years ago when I started and get such a natural high from it.  I love to create new works from dreams, nightmares, and strange thoughts that pass through my mind.   I am a very determined artist to make it in the art world.   I even lost my last gallery because I wouldn't be formed into painting cookie cutter art just to make a buck like painting dogs or more cars. Don't get me wrong I paint cars and dogs but I paint them when I want to paint them not just because they would be a big seller. I like to paint what comes to my mind and change often from humor ,surrealism, realism,animals,portraits, crude, just about anything when I feel like it and won't be painted in a corner with the same thing the rest of my life. That would make me PUKE! 
                    I get discouraged when I don't make sales consistently but it turns into determination to make a great painting to get my work noticed even more.   I am obsessed and sooo determined after all these years I sometimes don't know where it comes from! But glad I have it.  It has gave me so much meaning in life, a reason for being here, a mark with my name and I always have believed In what I do with sincere emotion,thought and love for the arts .  I will probably write another blog soon elaborating on all this since I have been going through a tremendous amount with my situation. Oh, my cat died today .  I did a painting of her about 6 months ago I will post also.   Art supporters out there wish me luck and I hope I had some words of wisdom with discouragement turned into Determination. I would love to see your feedback and any help I can offer with finding your own path.   I wish I could share my determination with other artist's that always seemed to be discouraged.  Here are some recent works of mine below and the painting of my cat that passed away today which is called "My Cat's Worst Nightmare"   Thanks for reading my Blog. Here is my website also www.paintingmaniac.com

'My Cat's Worst Nightmare" RIP Tehlula !

"The Bacon Shortage"   I finished this one about 2 weeks ago

"Sea Lion" I finished this one about a month ago

"Weeping Willow"  I am working on this one right now, a work in progress as we call it. Should be done in a few days.

"Mississippi Sam"  aka Mark Twain or should I say Sam Clemmens lol, I painted this a few months ago


If you want to see my portfolio of more unusual art visit my website where originals and prints are available at www.paintingmaniac.com   and share my work if you like!   Thanks everyone!   Leah Saulnier

Help My Family By Spreading My Art

My Husband had a stroke 2 weeks ago at age 44 ,   this is very difficult times now for my daughter and me.   I now need to rely solely on income from my art to keep us going and keep our house. Help support my family in this crisis by spreading my website around. It is really appreciated! Thanks, Leah Saulnier  www.paintingmaniac.com

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What do Kinkade ,sock Monkeys and Mark Twain Have In Common?

Well I painted them in the past month. I will tell you why. I love authors especially Mark twain and Poe. I Love Sock monkeys it was one of my few toys as a child.   I LOVE making fun of Thomas Kinkade just because I love parodies. I would love to see what people think of my latest work!

"Mississippi Sam Aka Mark Twain" 24x30 oil

"Kinkade's Worst Nightmare 2" 24x30 oil

"Preserving Childhood 5 The Baby Sock Monkey"
So there it is my work for the last 3 to4 weeks. Prints and originals available on my website at www.paintingmaniac.com if you have an questions or want a commission email me whitebantam@msn.com

Thanks for looking at my work!   Leah Saulnier

Kinkade's Worst Nightmare Print Special + Dirty Socks and Edgar Allan Poe

The Holidays are approaching fast!  I just started a limited time promotion on 3 of my most popular prints on FineArtAmerica.com. They are located on the front page of the limited time promotion area.  I posted a link below, not sure if I got it right.

http://fineartamerica.com/weeklypromotion.html?promotionid=93793

If it doesn't work just go to my website www.paintingmaniac.com and the limited time promotion button is at the top of the page. 

                            "Kinkade's Worst Nightmare"
The images below and the one above are the print's that are on sale till Oct.24th ONLY,   There are also cards available, so if you want to send humorous Christmas Cards I have many varieties, "Kinkade's Worst Nightmare" is a popular one.

                                                         "Edgar Allan Poe"

                                       "Dirty Socks"

Again here is my website to view all my other work and links to the promotions www.paintingmaniac.com

Alfred Hitchcock and Ronald McDonald?

What Do Alfred Hitchcock and Ronald McDonald Have in common?   Well they are 2 of my recent paintings for the Month of September and October so far.   I guess with winter approaching my sense of humor has been coming out more to brighten cloudy days.  So here are some examples of my recent works.  Originals are available through me and prints available on my website at www.paintingmaniac.com where you can view many more works of mine, Thanks for looking! I would love to hear comments.  Leah

                                                             Alfred Hitchcock

                                                   Fast Food Nightmare- The Happy Meal

                                                                            WTF?!

                                                              The Pretender

                                                                    Soap Box Derby

Sunday Morning A Story Telling Painting

"Sunday Morning" A story telling commission painting I started a fer weeks ago for a local couple. He owns his own house painting business and she helps in his office. She does quilting ,so I added a partial part of her quilt to her overalls. She was also raised on a dairy farm so I gave her a cow necklace. They have chickens ,this parrot and 4 long haired chihuahua's which I only added 2 and got bit 3 times by them during the photo shoot.They garden is why the tomato plant and sunflower. He is wearing an Army hat in honor of his son that is in special forces in the Army.. I will be delivering this to them in a few days once it dries. Hope they like it! If anyone is interested in a story telling painting down the line keep me in mind! This is 36x48x1.5 oil
Here is a link below for prints , to view it larger and to see my body of quirky work!
www.paintingmaniac.com

Human Milkshake and Bright Ideas New Art By Leah Saulnier

I have been on a roll these past few month's!  Lets say I have earned my nickname the "Painting Maniac" , New works with my Bizarre sense of humor and twisted look at life .  Sometimes I feel like a Mad scientist at work lol.  Hope anyone who see's my blog enjoys my new work, to see more please visit my website at www.paintingmaniac.com

Uh Oh !!

My Cats Worst Nightmare

Light Headed

Playroom Nightmare 2

Motor Head

Frogland a painting that almost wasn't!

I just finished a new painting called "Frogland " which almost didn't make it since I didn't like the first day I sketched it and was going to erase the whole thing till my husband remarked that it had a lot of potential and I should keep working on it. Well he was right! I am so glad I stuck to it. the link with the photo is where prints are available along with a detailed part of the painting. Press photo's to see larger.

A Frog ,Trees And A Giant Lemon

Last week I finished 2 paintings. The frog which I call "Frog Boy" I painted when I was teaching my first student, it's based on a stuffed toy I have and we both were working on our own, I wanted her to get the feel of the paint for the first time.

This second painting "The Fruit Orchard" Was a painting I had been working off and on for many weeks, it is part of my surreal fruit tree series and this is the largest so far 36x48 oil. To see other surreal fruit trees that go with this piece which include Cherry,Lemon,Orange,Dragon Fruit, Horned melon, Pear, Mango, I will add a link to my website.

Kinkade's Worst Nightmare

"Kinkade's Worst Nightmare" My new painting I finished today! If you don't know who Kinkade is look him up on google and read about what he is about and this will be funnier to you. He is really know for his cutesy lit cottages, that's where my idea came from, I made up my own cottage though . I hope you get it and have a laugh

My Surreal Life and My Wacky Art World

I decided last week to my first self portrait. I thought I could do just a regular portrait but that sounded boring to me, so I thought putting my image on a dress mannequin was more suitable to my personality and my wacky world. I love and live in the desert so that suited me also for this piece and is also a good back drop to Items and characters I used that were in previous paintings of mine like Crash my Dog, misfit potato head, My sock monkey doll,my stick figure to the back right, The Lemon Blimp, and my protecting baby series with the pears. I own an antique dress mannequin from 1910 so this just felt like my art world bringing everything together. The original is 30x24x1.5 oil and won't be for sale. I will add a link where prints will be available of this one and all my other work.

Welcome To The Nut House!

It feels like a party at my house 24/7 with all the people and character's staring at me from my walls. I never feel like I am totally alone let's put it that way,it like being surrounded by friends all the time.

Lemon Head My New Love!

I think I fell in love this evening! Shhhh Don't tell my husband! Lemon Head it has a flavor of Magritte, here's a unique thing I found out AFTER I posted the painting tonight, that the creator of lemon heads candy passed away this week at 93. I had no clue! which makes me think I channeled it or something. Still on my lemon surrealism. stay tuned for the next one!

Surrealism And Lemon Drops

Hello all artist's and art lovers! Happy Valentine's Day! I went from my humorous mood in my work to my surrealistic mood this week and have a series of Lemon paintings I have been working on. This one is called "Lemon Drops" Surrealism is such an interesting genre and stretches the imagination. I was told once by one of my followers that there aren't many females that paint surrealism. I find that interesting and wonder why. Any input by anyone with that?

Love And Alien Tourists

I finished my painting "Welcome To Roswell" yesterday. I love how it feels like alien lovers arriving to the city of Roswell to take a tour. The Pink alien is named Zoe and The Green one is named Roger. I would have to say it's one of my favorite alien piece's I have done so far. I want to have them continue touring Roswell in future paintings. This one will also go into my future New Mexico book of twists and tales

Welcome To Roswell !

I am working on my first painting "Welcome To Roswell" in a series for a future book I want to do that will be called "New Mexico Twist's And Tales", which will be funny twists on myths,facts and folk lore from different cities around my state. New Mexico is great subject matter for this, since I live here, love it here and am an artist this seems to be a great idea. Hopefully I will done soon with the first painting.

My Bizarre Contortionist Painting

I have been making products with my bizarre contortionist painting all morning. Thought I would post my favorite products so far.

The Contortionist by paintingmaniac
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The Contortionist by paintingmaniac
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The Contortionist by paintingmaniac
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