Art With Love, Art With Beauty, Art With Power

Dorothea Sandra, BA, EDAC, an Evidence-Based Design Artist

Modern Floral Art

Day 12 of 100 Days of Happy Art

Abstract Art, Abstract Expressionism, Art Collecting, Art For Sale, Contemporary Art, Experimental Art, Happy Modern Art, Impressionism Art, International Art, Modern Floral Art, New Popular Artist, Today's Abstract Art, Today's Impressionism ArtDorothea Sandra, BA, EDACComment

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

Today's Impressionism Art, New Popular Artist, Modern Woodsy Art, Modern Floral Art, International Art, Impressionism Art, Happy Modern Art, Experimental Art, Contemporary Art, Art For Sale, Art CollectingDorothea Sandra, BA, EDACComment

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!

In every video I create, all music and photography copyrights have been honored.

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Day 10 of 100 Days of Happy Art

Contemporary Art, Art For Sale, Art Collecting, Happy Modern Art, Impressionism Art, International Art, Modern Floral Art, New Popular Artist, Today's Impressionism ArtDorothea Sandra, BA, EDACComment

New Evidence-based Design Art Pops with Brightness and Good Cheer!

I love creating Evidence-based Design Art! Oh, Baby Blue! I Love You! really POPS with an abundance of joy and happiness. Look how this painting makes these cold, boring, sterile walls POP with brightness and good cheer!

Oh, Baby Blue! I really do love you!

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Size: 36” x 36”

Medium: Acrylic on Heavy Duty Gallery Wrapped Canvas.

Art Category: Impressionism

21st Century Art Created To Make You Smile!

Please note that I am no longer selling my art through the Thunder Bay Arts Gallery at 127 West Chisholm Street in downtown Alpena, Michigan. Why? Simply said, one of the gallery’s requirements is that artists must work a certain number of days in the gallery. I simply got too busy; otherwise, I would definitely still be there. (I miss many of the lovely artists.) Thunder Bays Arts is a beautiful gallery with so many fabulously talented artists. I highly recommend a shopping visit. I’m always inspired to buy something there—from hilariously funny hand-painted greeting cards to a handwoven silk scarf to copper jewelry with amazing stones from the Upper Peninsula to wooden items I love to look at while working in my art studio in Rogers City.

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Day 9 of 100 Days of Happy Art

Abstract Art, Abstract Expressionism, Art Collecting, Art For Sale, Contemporary Art, Experimental Art, Happy Modern Art, Impressionism Art, International Art, Modern Floral Art, New Popular Artist, Today's Abstract Art, Today's Impressionism ArtDorothea Sandra, BA, EDACComment

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!

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Day 6 of 100 Days Of Happy Art by Dorothea Sandra

Modern Woodsy Art, Modern Floral Art, Impressionism Art, Happy Modern Art, Contemporary ArtDorothea Sandra, BA, EDACComment

Deep Woodsy Flower Happiness, 36”x36”

I always get so thrilled when walking in the deep woods. There’s a darkness to it, yet it’s always so beautiful. For me, the deep woods and its colors speak of health and healing. It’s a place where I feel deeply connected to life.

I also like to take something traditional and make it modern. In this painting I picked a traditional dark brown color from the deep woods and then added on top of it a beautiful bouquet of very modern Contemporary Impressionism flowers. The painting is fun and lively and full of tradition with added 21st century style expressions of happiness and joy.

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Size: 36” x 36”

Medium: Acrylic on Heavy Duty Gallery Wrapped Canvas

Art Categories: Contemporary Impressionism

21st Century Evidence-based Art Created To Make You Smile!


Living so close to nature helps me create art that celebrates our beautiful world. Each day I am amazed at how much our planet gives us. Clean air, clear skies, a huge Great Lake down the street, and miles and miles of trees—all this health and happiness is the source of this work of art.

Did you know I’m a talented “horrific art” painter? I’m really good at the ugly, the hideous, the alarmingly shocking. Francisco Goya and Hieronymus Bosch were two of my favorite artists as a child. We had the entire Time Life Library of Art book series in our downstairs bookshelf, and Goya’s book was one I analyzed over and over again.

I found Goya’s art fascinating (and praiseworthy given his time in history), but today I choose to use the power within my artistic talents—not to shock or horrify—but to cheer people up and make others happy.


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DAY 5 Art To Cheer Up A Heart

Impressionism Art, Contemporary Art, Happy Modern Art, Modern Floral ArtDorothea Sandra, BA, EDACComment

I’m usually a super happy, super good-natured person. Before I started showing my art and had a workplace job, I was even given the nickname SMILEY. Then, one day, something horrible happened to me and I got really, really angry. I got so angry and I got so bottled up inside, I just could not talk. It wasn’t because of one person or a community of them. It was just LIFE HAPPENING. No one was at fault. During this time the only thing that spoke to me was art.

Many artists have missions. One artist may be on a mission for fame…another may want to show the world the horrors of life…I decided to share my art talents—at least most of the time—to make others feel good and smile. Like many of my floral paintings, Art To Cheer Up A Heart has humor built in it. As a child I was trained to paint using traditional painting techniques. If I did as I was taught, this painting would be a realistic still life. Instead, it’s a super galore bunch of flowers dancing and singing and helping others feel good and smile!

Art To Cheer Up A Heart by Dorothea Sandra, BA, EDAC (Evidence-based Design Accreditation and Certification)

WISHING YOU A SUPER WONDERFUL DAY!

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Day 4 Lakeside Lovelies

Contemporary Art, Happy Modern Art, Impressionism Art, Modern Floral ArtDorothea Sandra, BA, EDACComment

HOPE—that’s what many people say my art shares with them!

You Are Incredible by Dorothea Sandra

SOLD!

Size: 11”x14”

Medium: Acrylic on canvas

Category: Contemporary Impressionsim

You Are Magnificent by Dorothea Sandra

SOLD!

Size: 11”x14”

Medium: Acrylic on canvas

Category: Contemporary Impressionsim

I know I have the art talent, but I just can’t take credit for (ownership over) all the amazing natural wonders and beauty I get to paint. I love most bodies of water and see them as gifts to love and enjoy. I got trained to paint along coastal New England and love the Atlantic Ocean. I also spent time along coastal California, another amazing place. Then I moved to Japan and got to see the Pacific Ocean from the other beautiful side. Now I live along Lake Huron.

These paintings were inspired by the truly unique Great Lakes region. I also wanted to create within each painting feelings of HOPE and then have their owners SHARE in their unique names. I wanted to create the idea that the paintings were incredible or magnificent or inspiring or special and so were the people who bought them.

They are a contemporary impression of the Great Lakes and nearby flowers (planted or wild) and are intended to share with the world naturalness, beauty, and joy!

You Are Inspiring by Dorothea Sandra

SOLD!

Size: 11”x14”

Medium: Acrylic on canvas

Category: Contemporary Impressionsim

You Are Special by Dorothea Sandra

SOLD!

Size: 11”x14”

Medium: Acrylic on canvas

Category: Contemporary Impressionsim

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DAY 3 Bubbling With Happy Smiles

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For all kinds of reasons, I think more people today need less stress and more happiness. I like to use my art to make the world smile!

BUBBLING WITH HAPPY SMILES was created as a super smile-maker and a super mood-lifter.

It’s a fun and happy evidence-based work of art that was deliberately and strategically designed to make us smile. Evidence-based art relies on actual medical studies in its designs. Like many hospital architects, medical facility exterior and interior designers, doctors, administrators, and more, I am EDAC (evidence-based design) trained and certified.

I decided to get this very difficult training after going on a popular New York website that billed itself as a art website for health and healing. On the website they featured horrific abstracts that looked like dripping blood and stabbing daggers, grossly misshapen and disfigured everyday household items that resembled humans, and political characters they strongly disliked.

I wanted my evidence-based art to be rooted in actual medical studies done on design and human health and healing. I wanted rigorous, legitimate training—which I got—and I love taking the new yearly courses required to keep up my certification.

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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!

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DAY 2 Modern Woodsy Love

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Modern Woodsy Love by Dorothea Sandra

Modern Woodsy Love celebrates 21st century living in a nature-filled woodsy area.

I spend quite a bit of time in the Great Lakes region, and there’s always something green and woodsy and beautiful to inspire my art. For Modern Woodsy Love I used very traditional northern woodsy background colors, but I just had to give it a modern, upbeat, full-of-fun, 21st century twist.

36” x 36”

Acrylic paint on heavy duty gallery wrapped canvas. Professional level materials and expert packaging.

(Some people have asked, so here are my thoughts on the oil vs. acrylic paint debate. As a child I was trained to paint only in oil. Today I use only professional level acrylics. Is oil better than acrylic? I don’t think so—at all. If you use cheap studio-level oil paint, then your materials are cheap. If you use cheap studio-level acrylic paint, then your materials are still cheap. This painting was created using expensive, professional-level Liquitex acrylic and professional-level Golden acrylic paint. Everything I use is high quality, right down to the glassine paper each painting is wrapped in.)

Beautiful Sue Anne, named after the buyer who commissioned it.

This painting was created using Evidence-based Design research. Multiple credible studies now show connections between certain types of art and positive health outcomes. I am EDAC (evidence-based design) trained and certified.

Custom art in my style also available up to 5’x8’. This painting is part of my Woodsy Wonderfuls brand. I super enjoyed creating the national commissioned art paintings in this series.

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I Create Happy Art To Make You Smile!

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