There's a Whole Lot of Rhythm Going Round

There's a Whole Lot of Rhythm Going Round

United States Bicentennial, Jimmy Carter was elected president, bad shoes &  Parliament Funk released 'Give up the Funk', thats how I remember 1976. 

Funny the things we remember.

Give up the Funk  was playing in my head while I was painting this. Not surprising,  I have been sequenced to 1970's music for thirty nine years. 

I do not possess rhythm in the usual way but I can feel it when I'm painting. 

"Theres a Whole Lot of Rhythm Going Round", 2014

acrylic on board, 24" x 24" 

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#AwesomeArt #GiveuptheFunk #Artist

There's a Whole Lot of Rhythm Going Round

AND THE WINNER IS.........

First Things First

Thank You to everyone who put their thinking caps on and entered a title ! 

I went from struggling to name this painting to forty-four awesome choices !

And The Winner is....

'One Pill Makes You Larger' by Jeffrey Gillis

#White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane immediately played in my head and made me laugh a belly laugh. I instantly saw and heard the painting in action. A very clever song written by Grace Slick and released by Jefferson Airplane a year after I was born.

The elephant guru is handing out pills, the duck/bug is smoking something, logic and proportion have fallen sloppy dead, the mouse is saying something and based on 'Alice's' foot size she is at least ten feet tall.

The song is now on a loop in my head , thank you Jeffrey !! 
Jeffrey wins a 15" x 15" giclee on paper of 'One Pill Makes You Larger'

While there is no prize for runners up I do want to mention them

because they made me laugh

'Adagio Devant' by Karla Walter

Everyone does appear to be at ease in front, perhaps too at ease and such an elegant term for this mishegoss !

'Trippy Toes' by Debbie Alcala Albrecht

Tippy Toes, Twinkle Toes but never Trippy Toes....not entirely graceful but funny

and 'Just.Keep.Dancing'  by Paul Fisher

I can hear the rabbit muttering sharp direction 'Just.Keep. Dancing' to the others, under her breath, hoping that if she just keeps dancing nobody will notice the the crazy hubbub kerfuffle 

It was interesting to do this and I learned a little bit about how the work is perceived. #Fantasy popped up a lot. Many titles were #ballet witty and best of all they were all positive.

I don't know exactly what I expected but I'm very happy with the responses

Once again, Thank You !

'One Pill Makes You Larger' will be on exhibit Friday March 28th, 6pm-9pm at Paul Fisher Gallery, 433 Flamingo Drive, West Palm Beach, Fl

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See full list of entries below

http://www.saatchiart.com/art/Painting-One-Pill-Makes-You-Lager/651954/1957957/view

Titles Entered
Adiago Diva

Adagio Devant 

Veronica's Passage

Balletto di Infantil

Trippy Toes

Magic Steps

The Fanciest Footwork

In Deep 

A Depth Retrospect

Dance Down the Rabbit Hole

Stepped in It

Fantasy Grounded by Golden Slippers

My Muses

Las Patitas Contentas

Dancers Fantasea

Pacific en Pointe

Fantasy Footwork

Dancerland

Pas de Fantasia

Danse Fantaisiste

Guache Devant

Happy Feet

Twinkle Toes Zapatos

Tutti Frutti al Rootie

Dancing Eyes

Let’s Dance with Miss Happy Feet

Arabesque Grotesque

New Rules Shoes…Dancin’ Sideways Upside Down on a Ceiling

Just. Keep. Dancing.

Dancing with the Sea

One Pill makes you Larger

Dancing Feet-ish

Just Ask Alice

Highly Interpretive Dance

What’s the Pointe

Underwater Ballet

Fancy and Free

Tiptoeing About

Dancing with Heart

Path in Life

The Life Dance

Pacific en Pointe

Let Your Imagination Dance

Dancing Eyes

A Gurls' Best Drink, Veuve Clicquot

I recently painted a statue for Polo America's 25th Anniversary.

I posted some pics on Facebook and made a video but for those of you who know me, you may have been wondering where the hell are The Dahls !?! 

Not to worry, Gurl Dahl got in on the action, enjoying champagne, polo players and a fast ride. Gurl gets her pony on !!

For those of you who don't know me, I'm a artist/painter who enjoys champagne, polo players, a fast ride and photographing my anatomical Dahls.

More about The Dahls

#AwesomeArt 

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Put Your Funny Little Thinking Cap On & Get On It, Win That Print !

Name that Painting & Win a Print on Paper 

The Dealio: I’m stuck on naming this painting & think there is a good possibility that you can come up with a better name than I. After all I've spent most of my energy painting it. The winning name is the name I think is the most awesome & that person wins a 15" x 15" print on paper of this painting. 
Put your funny little thinking cap on & get on it !

I will announce the winner on this blog, Facebook & Twitter on March 26th

Please leave your title here or on Facebook or Twitter. 

My Facebook is Dana Donaty

My Twitter is Dana Donaty

Names entered so far

Adiago Diva

Adagio Devant 

Veronica's Passage

Balletto di Infantil

Trippy Toes

Magic Steps

The Fanciest Footwork

In Deep 

A Depth Retrospect

Dance Down the Rabbit Hole

Original painting by Dana Donaty 30" x 30" 


#FineArt #Painting #Artist #ContemporaryArt  #Ballerina #ElephantGuru #Pareidolia #SaatchiOnline 

Name That Painting, Win a Print on Paper & Psychological Evaluations

I'm always surprised when there is a name for what I am doing (or a disorder I have) but I am happy when I learn it. Sometimes it feels like the name was just newly invented & I caught it on a cosmic wave. 

My new word is Pareidolia as it relates to art ;  In his notebooks, Leonardo da Vinci wrote of pareidolia as a device for painters, writing "if you look at any walls spotted with various stains or with a mixture of different kinds of stones, if you are about to invent some scene you will be able to see in it a resemblance to various different landscapes adorned with mountains, rivers, rocks, trees, plains, wide valleys, and various groups of hills. You will also be able to see divers combats and figures in quick movement, and strange expressions of faces, and outlandish costumes, and an infinite number of things which you can then reduce into separate and well conceived forms."

( like finding shapes in clouds) 

My canvases begin with drips of paint, swipes of a palette knife and many wipes of a brush, all the remnants of the previous painting (see below)  Prior to learning my new word I was describing my process as creating and taking my own Rorschach tests. The only part that was missing was the psychological evaluation and like cooking, I think thats best left to the professionals. 

I recently completed the painting below and am a bit stuck on a title. I thought about calling it "Take A Pill" but thought it would be more interesting to hear what you think !

Name That Painting

Please leave you title here or on Facebook or twitter. 

My Facebook is Dana Donaty

My Twitter is Dana Donaty

The winning name will win a 15" x 15" print on paper. 

I will announce the winner on this blog, Facebook & twitter on March 26th

I  can't wait to hear what you think

:-D 

30" x 30" acrylic & gold leaf on canvas

my homemade rorschach test ( the beginning of the above painting)

Champagne, Ponies & an 1:58 Epic Video Thriller

Sometimes a project comes along, your flat out busy, you've got very little time 

but you squeak it in and crack it out because it will be fun to do.

The Polo America statue was that project.

As soon as I heard about it I thought,

 "How AWESOME would it be for champagne to explode from the horses hindquarters " !

Of course I had to have a bottle or two of Veuve Clicquot to get the colors just right

......any excuse for champagne.....not that one needs an excuse

My polo pony's name is "Champagne Divot Stomp" & he was painted for an original polo art 

exhibition to celebrate Polo America's 25th Anniversary.

On April 19, 2014 the statues will be sold in a charity auction at the Gulfstream Polo Club

 to benefit the the injured Marine Semper Fi Fund

checkout my youtube video.......a one minute & fifty eight second epic thriller

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLXquN3-tbU

The statue arrives in my studio !!

Veuve Clicquot Champagne cork popping