Paints landscapes and portraits
Featured on Artist’s Showcase, Spring 2023. Completed on New Years Day of 2021, the same scene as Focus On The Light, below, but with brighter colors and gentle rippling waves flowing forward in the lower right corner to usher in a better 2021. Get Prints.
Focus on the Light
This version represents a weary world’s struggle to keep the focus on the light coming through the dark clouds of 2020. Options for Purchase or Prints
The Meditations have been moved to Leona’s new sister site, “Cousin Turtle.” To see them, you can click on the “Cousin Turtle” on the menu above, or click on Cousin Turtle’s drum below.
Check out Pat’s new Fine Art America Storefront. Enjoy browsing prints, canvases, framed prints, and a variety of other items featuring Pat’s art.
A new look with an enhanced theme that incorporates improvements to all the portfolios.
Under the Portfolios menu bar at the top and on the right-hand side, you’ll find a new page for “All My Art,” which showcases an image-grid of every last piece. You can click on each one to enlarge it, see the asking price, and, if you wish add on a mat and/or frame.
If you’re not in the market to buy, please take a peek and just enjoy. I appreciate every click I get.
My new site, Patricia Leone Fine Art, https://patricialeone.com, is now live. Since the new site does not feature a blog, I’ll still be posting to this site.
The patricialeone site focuses primarily on art and offers fine art and canvas prints of my work. Prices vary, depending on the sizes you choose and whether you choose to frame and/or mat them. Currently, not all of my work has passed their stringent requirements for prints. More will be offered as I work on preparing new photographs in higher resolution for upload.
Even if you are not in the market for works of art, please take a look at my site. I love an audience and cherish every click I can get! It shows up in the site statistics. Also, I want to thank all of you who have followed this site, and hope you will choose to follow my new site.
Quoted from chapter in PEACE IS EVERY STEP, by Thich Nhat Hanh,
If we just act with awareness and integrity, our art will flower, and we won’t have to talk about it at all. When we know how to be peace, we find that art is a wonderful way to share our peacefulness.
Artistic expression will take place in one way or another, but being is essential. So we must go back to ourselves, and when we have joy and peace in ourselves, our creations of art will be quite natural, and they will serve the world in a positive way.
Revised Version
Original Photograph
March Winds “March wind is a jolly fellow; He likes to joke and play. He turns umbrellas inside out, And blows men’s hats away. He calls the pussy willows And whispers in each ear, Wake up you lazy little seeds, Don’t you know that spring is here?” ~Anonymous
Earlier Draft Version
From the original photo taken in 2017
To enhance the original, I emphasized contrasts in shadow and color and made the eyebrows and hair thicker!
Returning to Thunderbolt, 2020
Won honorable mention in J. Maine Gallery’s Annual H20 contest. After you click on the link above, enjoy some fabulous work as you scroll down to this painting and Into the Greater light on the right side.
Into the Brighter Light, January 2021
Won honorable mention at the J. Mane Gallery’s H20 contest. Finished on January 1, 2021, as a lighter version of the darker one below. The gentle ripples in the lower right corner usher in a brighter light for 2021.
Focus on the Light, November 2020
symbolizes a weary world’s struggle to keep the focus on the light coming through the dark clouds of 2020.
A quick pick-me-up 1.23 minute guided meditation featuring Into the Light 2020, Into the Brighter Light 2021, the seven chakras, and a musical clip I created with the 4Beats app.
My painting of (left to right) my sisters, Sally and Laurie, and me at Tybee Island beach, won honorable mention in the Mind Body Spirit competition at the J. Main Gallery! For fine art prints and canvases of this and my other recent work, see the galleries page on my patricialeone.com site.
“The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man, and man’s destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man’s humanity to man and man’s reverence for the place in which he lives.”
Alan Paton
Note: The brass sculpture I created when I was twenty represents all forms of repression: negative emotions holding an individual back; one person holding another back; and racism, hatred, and indifference holding a group back.