merry, merry, happy happy......     Hana Christy Steinberg

Some days call for charcoal and newsprint paper.

They seem to do art all by themselves, I become the tool.

  

The following website helped me name this sketch.

"Sitting in the wound: this is about surrendering to your grief in recognition that the only way to the other side is through. This acknowdeges you are willing to do the work that mourning requires. Paradoxically, this befriending of your wound is what eventually restores your life and your living. To do this requires that you do not shut the world out, but let the world come in."  -  Alan Wolfelt  

 - "sitting in the wound"  art by Hana Christy Steinberg          hanachristy@hotmail.com

                             

"aspens"         

the air is autumn crisp

fallen leaves crunching under foot, got my nice hiking boots on

barely a breeze

midday, bright 

sunlight diffused by a thin haze

not far off, the whistle of an elk

the eagle's shadow crossing my path

big sky, soft day

...Hana Christy Steinberg

art by Hana Christy Steinberg.."aspens" 30"x40"  acrylic paint on canvas...email:hanachristy@hotmail.com

  "security scan"      11"x15"       felt marker, pencil, watercolor

I was just thinking about loading up the carry on.  

Packing light carrying a little bit of everything. 

Equipped for a few days away, laying over, surviving the "scan"..

One bag overhead, one under the seat in front of you.

Are we there yet?

happy trails, Hana Christy Steinberg

art work by Hana Christy Steinberg...contact the artist for price information...email  hanachristy@hotmail.com

Obsidian Mountains      by Hana Christy Steinberg    acrylic paint on canvas 24"x36"

We finally made it to Yellowstone National Park.  I took about 1000 pictures.
It was spectacular.
We arrived the first day the camp ground was opened for the spring season.  Several trails were still
closed because they were still covered with snow.  Yellowstone Lake was covered with a thin sheet of ice when we
got there, ice with steam vents at the shore. The lake was halfway melted by the time we headed south.
Magical sulfuric steam everywhere.
No fast food restaurants, no strip malls.  Keep the cooler loaded, the picnic life.
Humans outnumbered by animals.
Day trip to the northern area of the park,  Mammoth Hot Springs.
Steam escaping leaving mineral deposits of all colors, creating a crisp thin stone bed of travertine.
Mountains of obsidian rock giving new meaning to a few pieces of jewelry I have somewhere....
the ground hot beneath your boots..
and the weather was perfect.
Hana Christy Steinberg

Yellowstone & Bust! day one......

Day one.  Road trip.  Kansas City to Yellowstone Park.   

Who knew our first day on the road would be a bust...literally?

The temperatures were in the low 90's, BAM! blowout around 5:00pm.

Exit ramp, rip roarin wind, construction zone.....orange triangles....

changed the tire...

We made it to Henderson, Nebraska  (where?), overnight at the Prairie Oasis.  

next morning (Sunday, to boot) truck service center.  

We decided on all new tires (internal damage they say) because this blow out stuff is depressing....

Will we ever make it out of Nebraska?

"I-80 Blow Out"       mixed media by Hana Christy Steinberg                   

Beneath the surface.......

I remember the first time I went snorkeling. I was awestruck.

What a world to glimpse. I found it hard to believe I had already spent days

at the beach without even bothering to explore beneath the ocean surface.

Snorkeling remains to be one of my favorite things to do.

Now and then I even find a "treasure".

You just never know what lies beneath the surface until you dive in and check it out.

It reminds me of looking into a microscope, a different way of looking at the usual stuff.

Similar to looking at a blank canvas and feeling like there's nothing there.......

I wonder what other awesome things I am not seeing right now...

have fun going beneath it all

- Hana Christy Steinberg

"Beneath the Surface..." by Hana Christy Steinberg 9x12 mixed media on paper

..it's still life......

"Agreement with Time" 9x12 ink

art by Hana Christy Steinberg

HVD!

peace & love to all my valentines.......

white bird of paradise

Watercolor pencils, watercolor paints, 18x20 inch paper
and a fabulous enormous white bird of paradise looking in the studio window.

"White Bird" by Hana Christy Steinberg

open mike

Saturday afternoon.

The street outside, lined with parked motorcycles,

shiny clean waxed displayed.

enter throught the open door, smiling face inside

"Hey, No Cover! Come on in."

....and they keep on coming, walking in that door

guitars, bass, sax, trumpet, drum set ready to go, mikes turned on....

turn up the volumn

get up outta that chair......

'open mike at Knuck's' art by Hana Christy Steinberg

Mini open studio...

I have learned that in order to truly examine a piece of art I am working on,

I must 'take it to the wall'. Every functioning studio should have it's 'wall'.

Whether I've been working on an easel, or table, or the floor,

it must go to the wall to be viewed as is will be in it's final form.

In this small studio, I have always taken the piece outside or to a different

room, I have never before provided this room with it's own 'wall'.

Clearing the wall ended up being a 'clearing the corner' job.

Great lighting in this spot....I gathered up the pieces I've worked on this last month,

...and I took 'em to the wall... a mini open studio.

Hana Christy Steinberg...artist