Getting a straight line in your painting.

 "Top of the Morning"

This is from my abstract landscape series. It sold to a collector in Galway, Ireland and I love that this is where it is now and where it will always remain because I was inspired to paint it after one of my many trip to the Irish Isles. I really miss traveling and I really REALLY miss all my dear friends and acquaintances from Galway. Hope you are all well. 

It is a mixed media acrylic, pencil and china crayon. 20x20 on canvas

 Iceplant

9x12 oil on canvas

Available 

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2021! I am happy you are here!

 

Back in the studio for some Oil painting! I have been painting most days in this new year and I am thrilled about it! It has been wonderful to be back in the Studio. I organized my space, cleaned up my pallette and purchased some new brushes. I am rearranging my schedule on my calendar so that I can make space to "show up" and paint a ton! Here is a little painting I did and it has brought me so much joy. I am very happy with the brush strokes showing themselves confidently on my canvas. You see, I really do buy into the mindset that if you let go, then the painting comes alive. I was able to let go here and that is why I like this piece so much. Will be available for purchase on my website shortly after it drys. I will have reservations parting with it,  but my new philosophy is to share this happiness out into the world. 

Back on my Blog

I have been gone from my Blog for soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo long. 

I am now creating some fun art on my iPad in Procreate. This is an example of one of my new fun digital art works/prints that I have been making. The newest things I have been doing are some digital paintings, with watercolor and oils. stay tuned for those. 

Bitty Bay

My portrait in a digital illustration

I have done it! I made my very own portrait in Adobe Illustrator. I am very satisfied with the result  and I really looking forward to creating more. In Fact! I am going to make a bunch more!

these can be used on business cards, as logos, or for bios. If you are interested in me creating one for you, please contact me on my website

miahinchey.com

there is a place to leave your info 

A friend who is now an American

My dear friend has become an American Citizen! What an amazing story his wife told about his coming to America with his Scottish Mother and Father when he was 2 years old. and what they all went through to live here.  The opportunities for work and a different life for their family was their motivation. I was so touched by the passion they described in their story. I made this illustration as a gift to him to celebrate this impactful  and significant day. 

Learning Adobe Illustrator

Recently, I have learning how to draw and design graphics in Adobe Illustrator. Graphic design was my first priority in study at school in my college days. I could cut and paste, and there you have it, it was a long time ago. But over the years, though I finished school with a degree in Painting and drawing, I have never left my desire to design. SO an opportunity came up when I was surfing the web and found Minted.com. If you don't know about it, Minted is a stationery company that uses crowdsourcing to find artists for their designs. Artists display their digital work to be judged by their peers and anyone who will vote on the platform. I was overwhelmed with the idea that I too could possibly design cards for a company and/or for my own business. I went to a meet-up and met some other minted artists who shared with me their own journeys and how they learned to apply themselves in this field. A really nice person told me about Lynda.com. This led to me finding SKILLSHARE and CREATIVELIVE and numerous other sites. I have been taking classes though these sites and have become a member of the Adobe Creative Cloud. Here I have access on my computer to create design, illustrate and make graphics for print and production of other products, by using Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and other applications.

Madison is my daughter and I made this for her.

Here is an example of something I completed for a course I took over at SKILLSHARE. The class is called Learn to Draw Digitally, Create Cute Drawings using Basic Shapes. This class is taught by Shelley Sequinot. She has a company called Iminkpressed. This class is wonderful and teaches you great steps to drawing in Adobe Illustrator. 

I am so excited to share this with you. I have been waiting for years for this journey of mine in the arts to make sense. It feels right to be learning all this. I feel really lucky to have found that all this available online.

A Denver Duplex

Painted in Oil 

Lark Bunting

Here is the work I did today in the Studio. It is painted in acrylic on board. This is the Colorado State Bird.

Painting again, after some time spent reflecting

II have been painting again after a "taking time off" period. I fell into this sadness and loss of enthusiasm for my art. I was not "feeling it" and the doubt I was experiencing was enormous. I then experienced all this out pouring of support and love from people who intuitively knew I needed them. It was surreal, I would get random phone calls and emails/texts and invites to chat. That was the push (hug) I needed to get my act together. It has been so incredibly uplifting, (while weird in the best way possible), and so very very necessary. If you were one of these people who reached out to me, I thank you. My husband, Tim has especially given me his support. I am proud to call him my best friend and biggest fan, as I am his.

 Here are my latest works:

Type, old wooden type

I love wooden block type! I don't know how to articulate exactly why.  Perhaps in another life I was an apprentice to an owner of a printshop in England, or perhaps I just like the smell of old ink, or maybe it is just me today. I lean towards typography, and I like to see, hold and feel the letters. I bought a huge lot of wooden type form someone in England when I lived there for quite a lot of money. I have it in a box stored in the attic and I just like knowing that it is there for me to have access to when I want it. Here are some that I keep close, I have them on display and with the rest, what will I do? I am not sure yet, but it is a comfort for me to have them.