Fun on the high seas

Oh no. They put my class in the Princess Patter – a lot of people will line up, but sadly I can only teach 30 folks at a time. However, I noticed they created another art class to catch my over flow. (Note to self: think about how I could teach more folks at once)

I’m Already get to meetsome awesome folks!

A gal spotted me in the casino last night and said “I’m sad i missed your duck give away at the sail away party.”

I said “I have one left would you liked it? It’s a sun and moon design”

She lit up! lifted up her shirt and turned around and on her back where she had a tiny scar from a spin surgery where she placed a tiny tattoo of a sun and moon.

What are the odds on that ever in a billion years happening? Thats a “God is good” moment!

Her tattoo and my duck were like mirror images – even the art was near the same size and color … now that’s amazing!?!

Update: There is more to story – Only 19 showed up to the event. That one was left in my pocket. And she just happened to find me. This is a huge 3500 passager boat. And usually the line is too long. Oh wait. That’s not true I forgot a very important fact – there were 20th in line, now that I think about it, three brothers were in line – number 18, 19 and 20 – one of the boys handed this duck back to me saying that he wanted a duck with a black hat. I said I didn’t have any left for today in black, but he handed it back anyway – Stating He’ll try to find one on one of the other days.

I love that I get to do this!

Jan 16th day 2 of cruise update! he found me and got his black hatted duck.

All now all three brothers have their duck.

Eye to Eye

Be sure to go see my show over at Lost Pines Art Center – Bastrop TX.

I got to be featured artist for months of September and October. What an honor!

I created 9 super realistic animal eyes – with my animated self portraits in each eye.

I’m happy to paint me out and paint you in. Please Go see.

It’s egg tempera and I get to speak on this, a nearly lost medium on Saturday Oct 7 at 6 pm – in fact I’m doing a demo.

Hope to see you there.

Alligator with me motioning to come no closer.

EYE TO EYE

I can custom this art with your image in them instead of mine:

Please go see my solo show at Bastrop Public Library.

These painting are in egg tempura and photos do not do this luscious medium justice.

June and July – it’s show title is “Eye to Eye” and it’s a self portrait show.

If you buy an original I’ll be more than happy to take me out and put you in for an additional fee. Fee depends on if it’s a silhouette of you or full color caricature of you and that depends on which painting you buy.

If you can’t afford an original we can print to canvas and I can paint on top on there as well.

Anyway. Just go see the show. Please.

It took me 25 hours to complete each painting.

Near most art of Egg tempera by Jana Lynch -4 months to complete.
Close up of eagle art above.
Close up of bee art above.
Close up of nautilus art above.
Close up of alligator art above.

Eye to Eye

I’m glad I get more time with them as I feel that none are complete. However, I’m pleased, meaning I would show these as is, if I had to.

But I am so grateful I don’t have to as they all need work and I need more time with them, especially the octopus and the goat.

For now, I’m on vacation and I’ll get back to it April 1. I’ll paint as I always do on vacation, but it’s easy, fun stuff, like ducks, butterflies, and Apple watch watch bands. I’ll complete a pair of shoes I’ve been working on, too. Stuff like that.

I’ll sip on cocktails and meet potential art lovers, because I could not do this without you, my family of art lovers.

Thanks for everything. You pushed me to next level and I can’t wait to see the next, then the next, and what’s next, and so on… (lol)

EYE TO EYE – painted in the almost lost art of egg tempura – solo show Bastrop Public Library – June thru July 2023

Divine dissatisfaction: it’s meaning reworded to suit me: This type of dissatisfaction is divine because it works alongside gratitude and awareness. It’s when you are simultaneously in tune with the beauty you’ve created while feeling pulled toward the next thing. This is a yearning that comes from something deeper in your nature, cultivated by learning the mind of God, enabling your true Self to emerge.

In progress

Eye to Eye

My EYE to EYE show is really about me and my love for animals.

They are self portraits. Look into their eyes and you’ll see my reflection…

Yep, that’s me. I just wanna be friends with all God’s creatures. I’m like, “please be my friend. I’m nice and I try really hard to be deserving and worthy of your trust.” As we learn from the Bible in Isaiah 11:6, in the millennial kingdom there will be peace among the kingdoms.

“The wolf and the lamb shall graze together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox; and dust shall be the serpent’s food. They shall do no evil or harm in all My holy mountain,” says the LORD. Isaiah 65:25 (NASB)

That leads me to tell you about the images below; I’ve completed four of the five pieces that I’m calling Eye to Eye. The fifth piece is still in the ugly phase of the painting, but I believe it will be as engaging as the others in the group.

These pieces will be featured during my solo show in June and July 2023 at the Bastrop Tx Public Library. I am working feverishly to have them be done in time, and as a result I missed playing chess last night because of these guys. I’m so focused to have this done by the deadline, I can hardly keep track of the days.

We’re going to South Padre Island on February 27,2023. Will anyone join me? 

I’m going to sip something with coconut in it while sitting in the ocean, painting and jewelIng leather iPhone watch bands and ducks. 

I’ll even paint butterflies for your loved ones as I’m ready to paint on anything other than the eyeballs for the solo show, which will be hung at the Bastrop Public Library. This is a huge undertaking for me; I bet it will take over 250 hours to complete. How exciting! 

Speaking of butterflies: Come see me and view the art called HOPE that I made. It’s the first piece of art for our community art installation called Message of Hope. 

I’ll be speaking at #LostPinesArtCenter because the city, through the Bastrop Cultural Arts Commission, gave me some money to help cover the costs of preparing the canvas for the butterflies that we’ll make to honor our loved ones. All those butterflies need a beautiful place to live. Thank you #EdenEastFarm, I’m so grateful to all involved!

So, join me February 16, 2023 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m at the Lost Pines Art Center. There will be free food and drinks. 

You’ll enjoy loads of great art and booths to tour, and I promise I will not bloviate. Luck you, I’m only allowed 5 minutes to speak amidst this great line up of cool stuff to see and taste!  

There will be a sign-up sheet at my table where you can request a one-of-a-kind painted butterfly as a tribute to your loved one. The butterfly will live in our art installation at Eden East Farm, and a majority of proceeds from the sale of the painted butterflies will benefit the Bastrop County Emergency Food Pantry

Come play!

The Message of Hope Garden Bastrop

I’m on my knees in gratitude. For years now, my sweet husband has reached into his pocket and covered the bill for his community so that I could do my work that lays heavy on my heart.

I am delighted to get this news as it gives me HOPE that I’ve been on a great path.

I received the tourist tax dollars art grant from Bastrop’s Cultural Art Commission for my Message of Hope Garden location #2. It’s here in Bastrop, Texas and it’s located at #EdenEastFarm.

I have huge news about our first Message of Hope Garden located in Ruidoso, New Mexico coming Sunday, January 27. I’ll be talking about this announcement LIVE on my Facebook page at 4:00 pm. I hope you’ll join me!

But, back to BASTROP!!

Not only did we find a home for our art installation, we found some money to help build the canvas where the butterflies that we paint for our loved ones will lite!

Please come hear me talk about this development February 16, 2023, and then on March 3rd at the First Friday event. Let’s paint butterflies together honoring our loved ones and benefiting the Emergency Food Pantry. Again that will be March 3, 2023 First Friday, Downtown Bastrop, from 5:00 pm until 8:00 pm.

The following is from the email I received announcing the grant award:

“Congratulations! Your Mini Grant Application was selected for funding at your full requested amount. The Cultural Arts Commission and the City of Bastrop are so excited to support the arts in Bastrop by providing funding for events and art installations through the Mini Grant Program.

The first step to receive funding will be to complete the attached vendor form and send it back to me. I will also be drafting a contract that you will need to sign and send back as well. I will send that out to you soon.

If you haven’t already been contacted by a Cultural Arts Commission member yet, they will be reaching out soon. We would like all our Mini Grant recipients to give a short presentation at the Cultural Arts Commission’s next gathering event on February 16th at the Lost pines Art Center from 6:00pm – 8:00pm.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Thank you for all you do for our community and congratulations again!”

Yea! Isn’t that the coolest?

(The top photo is of the new art I’m working on for the Bastrop installation, and the lower one is of me at my first installation in Ruidoso, NM. (photo of me by #jalynnWest).

Time+sweat equity+passion = vision

Time+sweat equity+passion = Vision

So. I’ve figured something out about me.

For years I’ve kept myself from jumping down rabbit holes that consume my time, especially when it’s for someone else’s vision. BTW all artists once they find their way, must learn to cut away distractions.

All artists at the beginning of their career, should indeed jump down other artist’s rabbit holes to gain the experience. As they help a master with his work and learn everything he knows, it’s done in hope that one day they, too, will find their own way.

The video features the Disney Wish Cruise Ship, and the beauty of this ship confirmed all of this for me once again as I contemplate taking a ride on her. What a distractions she will be.

If I were to go on the #DisneyWish, I would befriend an 11 to 14 year old kid in hopes that I would be allowed into the immersive experiences that only children get to enjoy on this ship. I know I would be obsessed with all it has to offer, instead of my own interests, because it’s just that fabulous.

The Disney Wish will have to be a one and done thing for me, because it would be 100% about their vision and experiences. I would want to find the flow of their entertainment and do it all. And trust me: there is a flow. She’s just that aesthetically put together and fabulous.

The ships I travel on have “eye candy” experiences that just take minutes to enjoy, not entire days or entire vacations. But on the Disney Wish, as it’s all just too fabulous. Even the most sophisticated eye will miss most of her greatness. And, the truth be told, the majority of her grandeur will escape the casual viewer. Whereas, I would be in tears at every turn.

The color combinations alone are phenomenal; enough to make me cry. I would love to meet her designers in person one day.

I’ll have to cruise her someday as I know it would creatively juice me for years to come, and that alone would be reason enough for me to ride on her.

But then it will be back to my favorite smaller class ships that have an indoor pool so I’ll have my work space, no matter the weather enabling me to focus yet again on my own vision.

So see, it’s always been about me and my art, my content and my footage that GRATEFULLY has led me to new friends and potential art collectors.

How can I delight my viewers while entertaining myself in my own artwork? Is now my only focus.

As many of you know, I’ve spent a lifetime in service and support of the emerging artist, and I’ve learned so much from all of you.

And I will continue to do so, only this time around it will be with the emerging artists who are willing to go to work on my vision, because I have one. I’ve earned one. And it’s an important one. Together we will help grieving mankind by building a giant, hopeful, community-driven art installation for the world to see, and/or build for themselves in their community.

So this is the truth: If you see it or read it from me, simply put, it somehow always relates to my vision and my art.

I’m like a shark who has to keep swimming to stay alive. That’s how art feels for me now, I have no choice but to do it. And I thank God daily for my desire for it, as I love it so much.

Disney Wish for her sheer creative majesty, is now on my bucket list, second place only to Playa de Carmans’ Hotel Xcaret.

Why is Xcaret on the top of my list?

Check this out: https://youtu.be/lJIDBgZNRkE

First: her creators have taken my breath away in her design that works so perfectly with nature.

Second: classes of living beings, other than the Homo sapien class, interest me greatly.

Third: I hope I can afford it one day? Lol. It’s on my internal vision board. Yes, I have one. It goes everywhere with me, it keeps me on my path.

Therefore, #XcaretHotel is the place for me.

If your wondering how does any of this relate to my art ? Well, we will both know someday. But I assure you, I’ve been placed on this path for great purpose.

Now changing the subject to Bastrop, as many of my beneficiaries before you understand, that anyone who is interested in learning the business of art, are all welcome, as they assist me with my vision, in order to find their own way one day. Learn everything I know to add to what you know, as I’m an open book, and the knowledge I’ve gained over my 60 plus years should NEVER simply find its way to the grave.

Time, plus sweat equity, plus passion = vision.

So attention local Bastrop artists, perhaps even a little money can be had, as you learn and work to bring visual delight to this community because… “good news Y she be a coming.”

Now back to my art, and for tomorrow I’ll be at Lost Pines Art Center as I get to teach a painting class about watercolor and ink, and I cant wait to meet you all!

Shoe design inspired by my last trip on the Ruby Princess. Next up #RoyalCaribbean’s Radiance Of The Sea. She’s the perfect class of ship for me.

Dane Porter, an American Photographer

Dane Porter, an American Photographer snapped photos of me that I never knew about.

Dane and Jana 1988

Thank you Chuck Palmetto for these great memories.

They say beauty is wasted on the young. I never got what that meant till now.

I did not like myself enough to see just how cute I was back than. I see it now. Lol. I was an artist in the making.

That cig makes me wanna light up. Lol. But I won’t.

Me in 1988 – 26 years.

Dane became a believer in Jesus Christ because I was stupid enough to say I prayed we would win. Thank God, the Holy Spirit was able to pick up that silly comment and make Himself real to Dane, and on 09/1/88 Dane placed is faith in Christ for Salvation and he starting learning the Mind of Christ.

The day Dane believed in Christ was the day we won the mega buck 2nd to top price. $8338 in 1988 was a lot of money back then. It was just the right amount to convince Dane I was right about God.

I will deeply miss my friend.