Maria Sanchez

Some new paintings that I've been working on. They will be available this Friday at the Oakland, First Friday. ... more details to come.

I was commissioned to do this special little painting of El Cipitio of El Salvador. It's my interpretation of a small postage stamp that El Salvador put out several years ago. "El Cipitio" 8x10 inches acrylics on canvas El Cipitio (From Wikipedia) El Cipitio es un cipote (niño) de 10 años con un estomago bien grande. Su nombre se toma de la palabra del nahuat “Cipit” o “Cipote” que significa niño. Algunos también relacionan su nombre con el de Xipe Totec. Según la leyenda, él es el hijo de un romance prohibido de una mujer nativa llamada Sihuehuet, conocida como Siguanaba y del hijo del dios Tlaloc. El Cipitio fue condenado por Tlaloc, a vivir para siempre como un chico de 10 años con sus pies colocados al revés, como recordatorio del amor perverso de su madre. Las historias que cuentan los campesinos, es que él viene a sus campos y que encuentr...

New painting I've been working on for the past couple weeks. It's an updated larger version of my first lotus painting. It's was a commissioned piece and is going to London! How cool is that?

Some new painting that I finished this week. Mariposas (8x10inches, canvas panel), Pareja ACEO, Angel Heart , Gypsy Catrina 4x4 inches. All are available in my etsy store . thanks for stopping by :)

I haven't blogged much these days but I do hope to start blogging more. So today I'm just going to post some pictures of what I saw on my drive in to work today. I took a serene drive down 280 the mid peninsula's most beautiful and untainted freeway. I don't always notice them on the side of the road but today for some reason they were out and enjoying the freshly sprouted grass.

One of my resolutions this year is to use up all of the art, fabrics and craft supplies I already have, before going out and spending on new ones. This is a good start to that resolution. I've been playing with repurposed fabrics and mades some "pretty things" as I like to call them. But they are actually simple fabric brooches, perfect to jazz up your outfit or even your hairdo!