This location is Seaside Beach, Mendocino Coast, CA.
It’s a little North of Fort Bragg. The parking lot is along Highway 1 and the beach.
It was a fabulous morning, all was sparkling.
Walking in a fresh air is precious.
It makes my heart warm and body skip with joy.
Happy morning😊💞,
Mariko
I painted this in oil.
It was cold and windy.
This painting made me feel nice and warm with good energy.
What do you feel?
This location is Jug Handle State park, CA.
After sunny, hot and windy days, fog dims the light, releases the tension, and relaxes our body and mind. It’s soothing.
And it take us to wonderland, doesn’t it?
A customer who purchased my painting “545. Peace at Jug Handle Beachâ€, sent his photo with “I was driving from Mendocino to Fort Bragg in November 2018 and out of nowhere fog started to rush in. I pulled into the parking lot at Jug Handle, ran down the steps to the beach and captured this on my cell phone. It was not a peaceful fog—actually tumultuous—but it left peace in its wake. We think alike.â€
It inspired me to paint this painting. It’s not gloomy fog. This fog atmosphere helps release our stresses and strains. Sparkles dancing on waves makes us smile sweetly.
Thank you Larry for sharing the nice moment.
Happy vast Love Day!!
This painting location is Mendocino Headlands CA.
I painted another oil painting of heart shape puddle at same location in 2007.
Deirdre Lamb posted her beautiful photo of the heart puddle at same location recently in her Facebook.
I’m so happy to see this heart puddle still appears in winter.
Hope to see nice smiles with vast love all over the world.
This location is at Mendocino Headlands, CA.
Every time I see beautiful sunset, I get exited. It gives me a big smile and sparkling eyes.
I feel I can expect a marvelous day tomorrow keeping this colorful world in my mind.
What a wonderful world we are living in😊❤️
After I wrote this we watched Joe Biden’s inauguration on TV.
A virtual “Parade Across America†on inauguration afternoon, hosted by actor Tony Goldwyn.
While watching all ethnicities in this country, including native americans, blacks, hispanics, and more, are dancing, performing, happily celebrating Joe Biden’s inauguration, my heart was warming, smile on my face with the Earth Wind & Fire and the New Radicals were singing, my body started dancing.
I didn’t have this feeling for long time.
I’m so happy, from the bottom of my heart, to be in this country which is a leader of Democracy.
Mariko
Happy New year 2021!!
What a strange year 2020 was.
Luckily nothing was harmful to me and around me.
Now year 2021, it was horrible event happened at the Capitol, but it
sounds like it’s going in a good direction, I hope.
I have good news to share with you.
I’m going to have a solo show at the Northcoast Artists Gallery in May.
Date: May 5 – 31, 2021
Artist Reception: Uncertain, because how long Covid-19 will impact us.
Place: Northcoast Artists Gallery, 362 N. Main St. Fort Bragg CA 95437
I will let you know when closer to show’s opening.
I am participating in an Annual Sale through February 1 at the Northcoast Artists
Gallery.
Still under Coved-19, the gallery opens Friday through Monday, 11am-4pm.
If you are interested in a purchase, you may contact me at mariko@mariko-irie.com as well.
I discounted my original oil & watercolor painting a lot, almost half to half price. Please visit at Sale 2021 http://www.mariko-irie.com/sale2021.html, and
hope you enjoy them and find your favor paintings, I painted some of
them long time ago.
One day I did my shift at the Northcoast Artists Gallery, it was foggy
and cold all day. Not many people came in the gallery. After I closed a
gallery I felt so tired.
Along the way going back home, toward Mendocino, I was so surprised it was
sunny!! So I decided to stop by the Mendocino Headlands.
There was a gorgeous blue sky and exciting blue ocean. I stared at ocean for a
while. I felt nice energy coming from ocean to my body. What a wonderful
feeling and time I had.
I love to have a great energy from universe so I’m trying to get closer to
nature more this year.
Let’s look forward to having a marvelous year 2021.
Mariko