Inspiration

Posting today In solidarity with Iranian women Her Mother Taught Her Prayers. Amazon Delivered Scissors. Oil on canvas 2013 My version of an empowered Rapunzel. She cut her own hair to escape her captivity. Freedom from oppression to women everywhere. #solidaritywithiranianwomen #MashaAmini

Used my sketchbook time this morning to draw a picture of my artist life hahaha BTW I think the rest of my life looks the same – just erase the studio part. The cloud is all just exaggerated imagination & fantasy #myartistlife #deborahscottart

My Essence Bubble paintings just keep flowing in the background among the commissions and other paintings in the works. They feel so completely inadequate, yet so deeply essential at the same time. #essencebubble #essencebubbles #oilpainting #beagles #representationalart #thenatureofthings #lifeaffirming #JohariWindow #Aristotle #deborahscottart

This painting is in a timeout (I feel bad for it) My go to strategies when I am struggling with a painting 1) take a break 2) change the music 3) turn the painting upside down 4) look at the painting in a mirror 5) power on (OK- that doesn’t really work haha) But when

Wieder zu Hause in den Schweizer Alpen (Susi) Home Again in the Swiss Alps (Susi) 12″x12″ Oil sketch on Panel Das Meisterwerk ist nicht die Malerei, sondern wie man das Leben lebt (please excuse my poor German/faulty grammar) A year ago this beautiful women allowed me to join her on what may be her last

Three – 4ft x 4ft perfect fresh canvases just delivered this morning for a European commission (and smaller one for my own work ) I’m so excited. Time to get to work!! Thank you HOLDstudios for beautiful canvas craftsmanship #deborahscottart #blankcanvas #gettowork

As I near the end of any painting, chaos takes over my palette. Colors fly from their freshly squeezed dollops, to my palette knife, to my brush, to my canvas. Every smudge here has a home in the final painting. This palette is the history of my most recent commission. This is where I see

So much inspiration in one place So much love from old friends So many old memories So many new memories So much generosity from kind and thoughtful friends So much in life to not take for granted So many paintings bouncing around in my head that have got to come out So excited to get