Day 16 of 100 Days of Happy Art

Wishing You A Colorful Day by Dorothea Sandra, BA, EDAC

These brushstrokes are gentle, while the colors burst on the canvas with excitement and energy. Since this is an abstract, it’s not appropriate for a healthcare setting; however, it’s a super upbeat mood lifter and looks great on most walls.

This painting SOLD in 2021 as soon as I made it available. I was told by its Michigan owner that it was going to the family’s new condo on the water in Florida. Enjoy!

(I’ve been through a number of hurricanes, and it’s so inspiring to see how Florida keeps bouncing back. Such a lovely state with so many hurricane resilient residents.)

Category: Abstract Expressionism, 21st Century Experimental Art

Size: 16”x20”

Medium: Acrylic paint on heavy duty gallery wrapped canvas

21st Century Art To Make Us Smile!

Day 15 of 100 Days of Happy Art

Flowers Bring Good Cheer by Dorothea Sandra, BA, EDAC

I love walking up a hill and seeing a body of water. From rugged coastlines in New England to beautiful State Route 1 in California to big lakes in Montana and Idaho and so many places in Canada and Japan and now in Northern Michigan.

What I often do is combine images from many of the places I’ve travelled (and there have been so many) and then let a recent image be my main inspiration. This painting was inspired by a trip to the Straits of Mackinac, where Lake Michigan and Lake Huron connect.

It’s an awesome view, and I added my own creative flair to it with all the Contemporary Impressionism flowers.

Flowers Bring Good Cheer by Dorothea Sandra (SOLD)

This painting represents Contemporary Impressionism and Expressionism art. Impressionism is when the artist interprets the world through their own eyes. Expressionism is when the artist communicates intense feeling through their work. I like to use my artistic talents to create evidence-based (based on medical studies) HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY art.

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Size: 30” x 40”

Medium: Acrylic on heavy duty gallery wrapped canvas

Art Categories: Contemporary Impressionism

21st Century Art Created To Make You Smile!

Day 14 of 100 Days of Happy Art

Why do so many people associate POWER only with misery?

Isn’t it what people do with power that assigns it something positive or something negative? I once knew someone who suddenly got a lot of power. The first thing that person did was to exact vengeance. I have also known many other people with power. As I got to know them, I watched as they used their power to offer their love, respect, and help to the world. Their power created (and still does) great happiness and joy.

For me, I am not afraid of power and I love to use it in my art. In the right hands, I know power is beautiful. Here’s a business video I created featuring an abstract painting called Movements With Power. (My apologies in advance for the business plugs:)

Beautiful Abstract Art Celebrating Power And Happy Smiles!

Day 13 of 100 Days of Happy Art

This painting makes you want to be inside it. Can you feel the pull?

People tell me all the time not to put images other than just my paintings on my website. They say associating fine art with interior design images diminishes the value of the art. Okay—so that’s what they say. They also told me years ago that a painting needed clear line and structure. Ha-ha-ha! This painting was designed using only a palette knife.

If I have a choice between creating art by the old standards (following old rules, even from 10 years ago) or creating art and a website that makes people happy, then I choose HAPPY, HAPPY, HAPPY!

There are people who regularly go to my website—not to buy more art—but just for a daily emotional pick-me-up…just to look at art that makes them smile…just for a moment of feeling hope or happiness or joy. When this happens, I feel that I have succeeded in art.

Happy Water Happy Sand is another painting that sings of nature’s joy. This painting makes you want to be inside it. Can you feel the pull?

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Category: Abstract Expressionism

Size: 30”x40”

Medium: Acrylic paint on heavy duty gallery wrapped canvas

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Day 12 of 100 Days of Happy Art

I’ve often been called an artist of HOPE, but you might be surprised to know that I’m a very serious, very intense abstract artist who makes 21st century social statements through art.

I got trained to paint from childhood, so I easily paint (like learning to ride a bike) from my soul out, but there are days my inner core is dark or deeply worried, and I often channel out many of these intense thoughts and feelings through abstract expressionism art.

Before Covid…before January 6th…before many of our problems erupted, I kept seeing that many of our Systems/Institutions needed some critical updating. I worried that some citizens might want to go outside the rule of law and take the country into a REVOLUTION. Speaking to this through art, here are two paintings I did.

Each painting to the left was called TO THE REVOLUTION. Each painting to the right I called OUR REVOLUTIONARY CHOICES.

Both paintings are united through the same background color. The abstract, To The Revolution, suggests society is heading for blood, revolution, and chaos. The evidence-based floral alongside it, Our Revolutionary Choices, shows how we have power to create—not blood and revolution—but beauty through our own dynamic and positive choices.

I wanted to put the art out there and ask, “What will it be? A bloody Revolution or informed decision-making through our Revolutionary Choices?”

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Size: 36” x 36”

Medium: Acrylic on Heavy Duty Gallery Wrapped Canvas

Art Categories: Abstract Expressionism, Contemporary Impressionism

21st Century Art Created To Make You Think Or Smile!

Day 11 of 100 Days of Happy Art

Deep Woods NATURE makes me feel like I can fly!

I live in a town surrounded by beautiful woodsy wonderlands. There are days I can almost feel all the love and healing given off by the land.

All of this happiness and natural beauty influences the quality of my art. This evidence-based work of art is calming and healthy and lovely to see.

It was super fun to work with the dark green background.

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Size: 36” x 36”

Medium: Acrylic on Heavy Duty Gallery Wrapped Canvas

Art Categories: Contemporary Impressionism

21st Century Art Created To Make You Feel Like You Can Fly!

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Day 9 of 100 Days of Happy Art

Does a 21st century painting need a traditional focal point to be considered great art?

The answer is NO. A focal point is essential in classic art, and a traditionalist may say it is necessary, but some abstract artists know how to deliberately create great compositions without focal points.

I’m a 21st Century Experimental Artist, with emphasis on both the 21st century and experimentation. When I paint, my goal is not to follow the rules of traditional composition. (And I got trained to paint in the traditional New England seascape style when I was 7/8.) My goal is to go beyond the rules and create art that gives others a fun and happy emotional experience.

Waking Up Happy—which is another SOLD painting without much of a focal point—offers an abundance of happy emotional impact. Rather than, “Dorothea Sandra, you create such beautiful traditional art”, I’d much rather have buyers say, “Wow! and Aaah! or Ha-ha-ha!” Rather than draw the viewer’s eye in to one spot, the painting is designed to takes us all over the composition for a super happy all-over experience.

I hope you enjoy the video!

Day 8 of 100 Days of Happy Art by Dorothea Sandra

MORE Bubble Art For You Today!

What’s so special about Bubble Art? It’s fun and happy and lots of people today like it.

Art changes as time goes by, not just because of the artists, but also because of the people and times in which we live.

There may be someday in the future…but there is no official category of art called Bubble Art. It’s just a name I gave to a style of art I pulled together from different traditional and modern techniques.

Here are some photos of the pieces in the video. People frequently thank me for creating this kind of art. In truth, I should be thanking them. I always have so much FUN, FUN, FUN when creating Bubble Art, and I think all these emotions of delight and happiness and comfort and joy get channelled right inside each piece.

ENJOY! ENJOY! ENJOY!

Happy Cheerful Wow Wow Wow by Dorothea Sandra

Bubbling With Happy Smiles by Dorothea Sandra

Joy Joy Everywhere by Dorothea Sandra

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Size: 36” x 36”

Medium: Acrylic on Heavy Duty Gallery Wrapped Canvas

Art Categories: Contemporary Impressionism, Abstract Expressionism

21st Century Art Created To Make You Smile!

Day 7 of 100 Days Of Happy Art by Dorothea Sandra

People love my happy floral art, but that’s not my only category of art.

Ocean Memories by Dorothea Sandra, 30”x40”

I love creating happy emotions on canvas with only a palette knife.

When I was a child my parents put painting tarps down on the sand and we’d all sleep under the stars facing the ocean while listening to the ever reassuring movements of waves. I loved it. It’s where I played so happily and where I learned to paint.

My parents were painters trained by Roger William Curtis, President of the North Shore Arts Association in New England. I remember being taught how to use the deep blue colors and mixing in white. Capturing movement and having sea hit rock and sand was another style I learned.

Today I prefer Abstract Expressionism to the traditions of New England sea art, but all those happy childhood memories are still here.

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Category: Abstract Expressionism

Size: 30”x40”

Medium: Acrylic paint on heavy duty gallery wrapped canvas

Art To Make You Smile!