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This tiny GIANT Life of Mine!!!
I am Creating! In a wonderful whirlwind! Paint flying off brushes onto cement, metal, canvas and walls! Hot glue, super glue, elmers glue, whew!
My work feels urgent, and it has for a while…secretly I have been feeling that my time here is limited, so I must hurry-make my mark while I can! Is it health concerns? Physical ones? Is my breath being sucked out of my lungs from the past abuse I put them thru? Each day feels less like breathing and more like drowning. Each step feels less like walking on the ground, more like sinking in the mire and sediment…
I am urgent in my service to God, they need to know, they need to know! How good life can be, without the stone, the stick, the stem!! Do not drown that brain in pickling juice my young artist friend: FEEL IT, BREATH IT IN, PAINT IT, NAIL IT DOWN!!! NOWNOWNOW!!!!!!
The life I took from myself has to be accounted for! I will account for it in dreams, in images, in COLOR! I have to let someone KNOW WHO I AM before it evaporates, this little giant life of mine.
Did I tell you about being snake bitten twice? Did I tell you about riding the rails with the train tramps? Did I tell you about living in the Sonoran Desert? Did you read my poems, my blog? My instagram feed?
Do you know who I am?
Look at me, I have lived.
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Under Revision AGAIN!!!
Ok, I am frustrated. Really.
I have been at this for a while now, and I feel like it should not be this hard. I want to create a portfolio, a professional one, for my art. Or should I say of my art, I am not even sure. What that tells me is that I need to educate myself on what an Artist Portfolio really is. So, here goes.
” An Artist’s Portfolio is an edited collection of their best artwork intended to showcase an artist style or method of work. A portfolio is used by artists to show their employers their versatility by showing different samples of their current work”. …Hmmmm. show…by showing…hmmm…
Ok, so, there I have it. I must put together my very best, but current artwork that showcases my style, method and versatility in creating said artwork. And this collection is to be presented to an employer that I do not even know exists.
Easy, right?
Being that it is edited, do I wean out my very best artwork that does not showcase my versatility because it is in my own method? Is my style versatile enough to be showcased? In what method, and to whom? Or is it who? To who will I present my hypothetical portfolio in such a methodically versatile manner?
I’m sure you get my drift. It seems such a vaguely overwhelming task of such astronomically minute proportions. Mind you, only the very, very best….
My progress thus far has been to gather every sort of scrap of paper to which my dainty hand has left it’s deft mark. To gather these shreds thusly and cram them tenderly into a physically grotesque folder with lightly yet delicately dog-eared corners, which was then unceremoniously flopped in front of aforementioned only-dreamt-about future employer.
I dasn’t dare even dwell upon the vulgarity of such an act.
Me, Oh! My!
I think I am going to cry…
“Crossing the Delaware , Well Aware ” mixed media, Susan T. Martin 2017 
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Creative Process for “Reaching Out”
Reaching Out, acrylic on canvas, Work in Progress, Susan T. Martin 2017 
Reaching Out, Acrylic on Canvas, Beginning Stages, Susan T. Martin 2017 
Before Reaching Out, Landscape of St. Lucie River at River Park Marina,Acrylic on Canvas, Susan T. Martin, 2016 I wanted to share some of my creative processes, and this piece in a fine example. As it is a work in progress, I still have much pondering to do! It started out as a landscape, but after my Dad died in the middle of my painting this piece, I was shaken to my core, and felt that I was drowning in grief. Did I convey the crushing, suffocating pain of losing my father?
In the intermediate image I can see the black waves of pain pulling me down, all the negativity like a ball and chain pulling me into the depths. Also, I did not realize the blood in the water until I had left the painting for weeks. One can also discern the tiny people who seem oblivious to the swimmers plight.
Happily, I see some healing in my latest efforts…will she have a savior appear?
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Clockwork Multicolor
Clockwork Multicolor, recycled Wall Clock, mixed media, Susan T. Martin, 7/2017 
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Crossing the Delaware Well Aware
Crossing the Delaware, Well Aware, acrylic on canvas, Susan T. Martin, 8/11/17 Detail, Crossing…Well Aware…Susan T. Martin, 8/2017 
Detail, George from Crossing the Delaware WellAware, acrylic on Canvas, Susan T. Martin, 2017 -
The Acrylic Gallery
Acrylic Paint has been my most tried and true medium, as it is fairly inexpensive, very versatile and easily obtainable. It is the medium I was first introduced to as a child in elementary school, proceeding to my advanced art education in the I. E. P. Program for Exceptional Students during middle and high school. I have had many successes in this medium, and acrylic paint is excellent for showcasing my exuberance for living!
Detail, Crossing…Well Aware…Susan T. Martin, 8/2017
Crossing the Delaware, Well Aware, acrylic on canvas, Susan T. Martin, 8/11/17
My Fertility Garden, Acrylic and embellishment on canvas, Susan T. Martin, 2017
Detail of Lunar Rover, Mixed Media with Acrylic, Susan T. Martin, 2017
Munson, a Treasured Friend, mixed media sculpture, Award of Merit, Best of the Best Show at the A.E. Backus Museum, Susan T. Martin 2015
Intergallactic Dragonfly, mixed media sculpture,Susan T. Martin 2016, sold
Dysfunction Junction by Susan T. Martin,Best of the Best entry at the A. E. Backus Museum, soldd)
Portals to Peace (detail of Legacy of Lunacy)Acrylic on Canvas
Detail of Lunar Rover, assemblage, mixed media, Susan T. Martin, 2017
no one ever said I was “ordinary”!
‘Antelope Dance Mask’, Palm Bark & Acrylic
Just a Nibble, by Susan T. Martin
Legacy of Love and Lunacy, acrylic on canvas, Susan T.Martin
That Day, Acrylic and embellishment on canvas, Susan T. Martin, 2016
Palm Frond, Pine Cones
Grouchy Grouper, side view,Susan T. Martin2016I find acrylic very adaptable for my work on the wide variety of surfaces I enjoy painting, from more traditional stretched canvas to the veritable plethora of materials I scavenge from various sources. I used to say,
“If it is not nailed down, I will paint it!”
However, I have changed that statement to,
“Even if it is nailed down, I will paint it!”.
Crossing the Delaware, Well Aware, acrylic on canvas, Susan T. Martin, 8/11/17 -
Dysfunction Junction
2017 Best of the Best juried Art Competition at A. E Backus Museum entry. “Dysfunction Junction”, acrylic on board, Susan T. Martin. Sold 
Dysfunction Junction, acrylic on board, 8″x 8″, Susan T, Martin
Out of the Gutter Art 
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