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Celebrating Women with a Collab piece with 10 artists for Women’s History Month

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🌟 Here’s a collab within a collab:

Co-painted with my 5yo daughter, who was so happy to be a woman celebrating herself on Women’s month 💃

🌈 The 7th update to this piece shows mothers in all shapes and forms on the rainbow sleeves of Mother Earth.

Open Edition
Price updates with every artist update
Minting til Mar 31 👇

🙏Thankful to be 1 of 10 Artists in this co-creation project for Women’s History Month:
✅ @melarif.eth
✅@amber_umber
✅@anne_zanne_silver
✅@morvixity
✅@katiesdesignstudio
✅@ixorabloom.art
✅@montalut_
⚪️@luckyst_ar
⚪️@antwomanart
⚪️@carolineharroearts

Minting is live on @manifoldxyz
https://app.manifold.xyz/c/WHM24

📆 17 days left to get yours!

#women #womenempowerment #womensupportingwomen #womenartists #womenshistorymonth #mother #motherearth #rainbow #collab

Enter the Montalutverse!

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Finally put together an immersive experience of Montalut doodles and videos, yay. 🙂

Take a look around, walk, run, jump, and feel free to dance. This one’s all about Leadia and the Why behind it.

As shared on @montalut_ right before the Awedacity 2024 Summit:

So proud of this “museum” as I explained it to our 5yo, who was co-curator for this collection introducing Leadia and Leadia Festivals as business innovations.🌟

It was so fun doing this! Thank you Nathania and Stephanie for sharing such a cool toy with us, can’t wait to meet all the awedacious women citizens of Awedacity in a few hours.

More awesome feels starting at 9am EST today. Come hang out with us. 💃🎊
Tickets here ➡️@teamawedacity

Enter the Montalutverse

Clicking on the link will take you through a wormhole to a digital 3D Gallery of good vibes. Good for viewing on desktop or mobile.

Let me know what your Montalutverse experience is like!

New collections: Community Doodles + Everyday in 7 Colors

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What Happens When You Find Your Tribe?

Just put together recent Montalut art into collections. ✨️ Check them out here:
Doodles dedicated to community-building + Daily photographs for inspiration based on the color of the day
🤍 White Sundays – Discover Yourself
💜 Purple Mondays – Empower
❤ Red Tuesdays – Reflect
💛 Yellow Wednesdays – Create
🧡 Orange Thursdays – Connect
💚 Green Fridays – Serve others with love
💙 Blue Saturdays – Embrace Nature and Body

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Painting again!

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Today’s fun activity: painting with my 5yo! I’m very happy and thankful she enjoys painting so much.

✨ I Built a Moat ✨

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“You, sent out beyond your recall,
go to the limits of your longing.
Embody me.

Flare up like a flame
and make big shadows I can move in.”

Book of Hours

Rilke has always been home for me. The longing, vastness of our inner world, waiting to be set aflame.

✨ I Built a Moat ✨

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What moats do we build around us? Do they make us feel safe and whole, or bound and lonely?

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Painted from life with acrylic on board, now updated to find its home on-chain.

“I love My Body” series celebrates our bodies in quick gestures–passing moments that say “This is me, I am. “

This work is part of the Everything Passes Collection: Paintings exploring passing moments in life, the big and small of the everyday: our bodies, quiet victories, relationships up close, beauty around us.

Buy “I Built A Moat”

✨ I am Home ✨

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I painted this from a live nude session with a rock band playing in the back, over 100 artists sketching in the space. Was amazing to capture that energy with paint. Good times! Still remember it when I look at these nudes.

✨ I am Home ✨

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What does it mean to feel at home in our bodies? To regard our hands, arms, chest, legs and feet, our head, face, hair, nails and skin as safe spaces to Be?

Is your body a warm and cozy place to hang out, to renew and nurture You?

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This is my @withfoundation Genesis piece, so happy to finally have Montaluts on FND! And milestone too to mint on my own smart contract, thank you @manifoldxyz 🙌

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Painted from life with acrylic on tarpaulin, now updated to find its home on-chain.

“I love My Body” series celebrates our bodies in quick gestures–passing moments that say “This is me, I am. “

This work is part of the Everything Passes Collection: Paintings exploring passing moments in life, the big and small of the everyday: our bodies, quiet victories, relationships up close, beauty around us.

Buy “I am Home”

Have you heard of AR (Augmented Reality) Art?

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I’ve always been a fan of open-ended art, or art that invites the viewer to linger and participate in the creative mood, and Augmented Reality (AR) + art does just that. Beyond creating an animated version of an artwork, it asks something from its audience because it needs activation. It says, “Hello, I need and invite you to engage,” so you’re no longer just a viewer, but a participant in the joy and delight of the whole experience. Think modern day trompe l’oeil art, which has been used for centuries to create optical illusions that “makes us question the boundary between the painted world and ours.”

For Christmas 2022, I’m so happy to be part of a collective of artists bringing together a curated AR Art experience for 25 days leading up to Christmas on December 25. You get a calendar with 25 activations, each one leading to an AR experience especially created by an artist, alll in all for 25 days of fun.

The calendar itself is an NFT that you can buy starting November 17th, and registration (it’s free to register!) for premint prices is open until November 16. Details below👇

HOLIDAZE 2022: 25 Days of AR Art

Join HOLIDAZE Premint Allowlist by November 16th

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Premint Sale 0.09 ETH / Public Sale 0.2 ETH

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Premint Sale through 11/16 #cryptogift #holidaygiftguide #nftcollectors #HOLIDAZE

A collaborative AR experience from the Inaugural HOLIDAZE Collective Artists:

@XXIMIW3L, @GlitchVisceral, @monicaseggos, @anim8dead and @montalut

Join the Premint here: https://forms.bueno.art/holidaze

Painting in delight: nudes from life

Portraits and Plein Air Works

Montalut Life Nude Session Nov 2016 (1)

Last Saturday a lot of people were downcast and angry from the sneaky Marcos burial, but I’m thankful I still got to end the day in delight. Saw the Nutcracker ballet for the first time (happy music and smiling dancers–sure to uplift!), and went to a live nude drawing/painting session that lasted til 11pm…the kind of geeky thing that makes me super happy!

I painted over 10 works, in full appreciation of the human body. This is a great hangover from reading Big Magic earlier this week, which really brought me back to making delight a part of my daily life. I think it is possible to fully engage the difficult (ie climate change, politics, economic strife, uncertainty), and yet find joy in the everyday. It is not self-serving escapism when seeking joy is done consciously, and it can even be considered a radical response or protest to the difficult.

Montalut Life Nude Session Nov 2016 (23)

In college I came across an interview with Pope John Paul II which asked him how he remained joyful amidst so much suffering and hate in this world. He said that the worst has already happened–we killed God–and yet something beautiful came out of it–we were saved.

Montalut Life Nude Session Nov 2016 (25)

Even if you frame that in different words, the message is the same. Joy and delight are powerful ways to actually engage fear and helplessness. We don’t forget or cast aside the difficult, but we go to battle, all in, and with an armor built from within.

Nude drawings and paintings from this session are available for purchase. 

Here’s a slideshow of the rest of my loot (click on the arrows to view next):

Life Drawing/Painting

We all need extra hugs these days.

Studio Works

I don’t think I’ll ever tire of giving hugs. Here’s a baby hug and restful sleep to go with it… The world surely needs it especially after the crazy turn of events this week.

Baby hug and sleep
Oil pastel on board
9 x 11.5 inches
November 2016

#drawing #oil #sleeping #baby #rest #hug

WIP: Revisiting Rembrandt

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Yellow really makes me happy! When the kids left I picked up my fattest palette knife and just went crazy with this new piece. #wip #acrylic #painting #women #yellow

Yellow really makes me happy! When the kids left I picked up my fattest palette knife and just went crazy with this new piece.

#wip #acrylic #painting #women #yellow

It's happening more or more these days that the title of a piece comes to me in the middle of painting it.

It’s happening more or more these days that the title of a piece comes to me in the middle of painting it. I think it helps complete the work or bring it to where it should go. Photo is from a trip with two of my dearest friends some years back…and even if one of them is not in the picture (he took it), he still is very much part of this poignant moment of friendship.

Friends
Acrylic on tarpaulin
24×36 inches
Work in progress

Retiring it for the day. Excited to pick it up again with fresh eyes tomorrow. ????

#wip #acrylic #painting #women #yellow #friends #friendship

Started this with the intention of sticking to the Dutch palette of browns, reds, yellows and black. I even put my Rembrandt drawing next to it for inspiration...but what kept showing up were blues, greens and grays. I realize I'm still wishywashy when it comes to shadows and darks! Got to work on allowing the darkness to come and set in, in order to bring out the light. Will be interesting to see how this turns out. ????#figurative #painting #acrylic #women #rembrandt #wip

Started this with the intention of sticking to the Dutch palette of browns, reds, yellows and black. I even put my Rembrandt drawing next to it for inspiration…but what kept showing up were blues, greens and grays. I realize I’m still wishywashy when it comes to shadows and darks! Got to work on allowing the darkness to come and set in, in order to bring out the light. Will be interesting to see how this turns out. ????

#figurative #painting #acrylic #women #rembrandt #wip