PANASIUKART

Terranova

2011-05-08T14:15:00.001-07:00

Earth Set
Acrylic on canvas
4'x5'

Worship Painting At Adventure Christian Church in Rocklin, CA

2011-04-18T17:35:00.001-07:00

Palm Sunday 2011

Portrait of the Cross Series

2011-04-15T22:29:00.001-07:00

Acrylic on Canvas

4'x5'

"it is finished"

Portrait of the Cross Series

2011-04-15T13:03:00.001-07:00

"Eloi, Eloi"

Acrilic on Canvas
4'x5'

Portrait of the Cross Series

2011-04-15T12:59:00.001-07:00

Acrylic on Canvas
4'x5'

Painting #3

Portrait of the Cross Series

2011-04-13T18:49:00.001-07:00

"it is finished"
Acrylic on Canvas
5'x6'

Painting #2

Portrait of the Cross Series

2011-04-13T18:06:00.000-07:00

"I commit to you my Spirit"
Acrylic on Canvas
5'x6'

As we come into this season of mediation on the Cross I am often reminded how this should always be my meditation. Giving up something for God is a nice gesture in light of what He gave up for us, but He gave up his life and is asking us to do the same. We may have dreams of what we want to accomplish but they aren't as importaint as His dreams for us. How magnificent is His love. I will be painting to protraits of the Cross and I will be open to what God has for me. Im not perfect but if there is perfection in my life it is all Him.

"Spirit"

2011-02-05T11:59:00.001-08:00

Emilie Panasiuk
"spirit"
acrylic on canvas

I have heard time and again people tell me that they cannot draw a stick figure with any luck. Although I almost always let it go, I believe that everyone can experience the Spirit of Art and produce work that is great and meaningful. There is no way to put a value on pure and honest expression. In Fact, you would be surprised what you are capable of doing!
We spent time today giving the Kids 30 minutes alone in the studio just to listen to the Spirit and put paint on canvas. The results where amazing! In the picture shown above, Emilie painted a breath taking painting titled "spirit". So awesome!
Spend some time today just taking in this magnificent life that we have! Life is beautiful. No matter where you are.

Urban Painting Series

2010-09-30T19:26:00.001-07:00

"Grace"
acrylic on canvas
20"x 24"

This painting is hanging in my breakfast nook and it amazes me everytime I sit to eat or read or facebook. It looks different in every part of the day. The morning light brings out the soft tones and peacfulness. Then, in the afternoon, its vibrant with the splashes of color. At this very moment the sun is down and the florecent twisty bulb produces a very Santa Cruz Boardwalk flavor with the smell of corndogs...oh wait..."Kids! your snack is ready!"

Oh well... I just wanted to share it again just in case I never posted this pic!

Painting Job from the Bible

2010-08-11T19:23:00.000-07:00

Closing Challenge - Super Servants - Job from Bridgeway Christian on Vimeo.

This was such a fun thing to be involed with...it was fun painting while there was two cameras on me and I think the video turned out great! I just painted another character from the Bible named Epaphroditus which will be shown at the end of the Services at Bridgeway Christian Church in two weeks!

"The Process"

2010-07-23T14:44:00.000-07:00

I was painfully reminded that finding good canvas to paint on these days can be very expensive according to your proximity to Utrecht. I went to Aaron Brothers today and was shocked that they charge $16.00 for a canvas 16"x20". So don't worry friends, I have dedicated the next post to help you step by step build your own canvas and save you big bucks! I have been building my own for years and it helps me stay involved the work all the way through. Besides...why should all the sweat shops in China have all the fun of making these canvas'!

Africa

2010-06-01T12:16:00.000-07:00

I have always enjoyed watching people paint. When I was in college I would browse videos in the library and my favorite selection was De Kooning. There is a video of him painting for about 40 min. it's awesome! Here is the video of the painting from the previous post. Enjoy!

Lion Head

2010-05-30T21:21:00.000-07:00

Acrylic and Oil on canvas 12"x16"

Here is a painting that I did in my studio last night. And I am working on producing the video of the painting. My last video art painting of Christ was recieved well and I was touched and pleased with the variety of stories that I heard and how much it was shared with friends. Thanks guys! But what I was touched by the most was a little 8 year old girl Mackenzie who saw the video and wanted to pause it and she sat down and drew her own picture of Christ. So I did this painting for Mackenzie because she loves animals. And I am pleased to have presented it to her today with the video of the work.

Art belongs to children.

Seascape

2010-05-19T00:26:00.001-07:00

Oil on Canvas 13"x34"

This is a small piece that was fun to paint. I feel so good about many things being organized in my life with me and my family. Even though it's not clear as to what will come I am sure that the big picture is coming together nicely. I always default to painting the sea. I am not an obstructionist although I love when things are ambiguous and this painting will help me take my next step. Painting is not about subject matter but more about application of product and connecting; in the end we are nothing more than spirit.

Journey to Jesus

2010-04-27T15:01:00.000-07:00

Here is the video that Shari and I recorded for you to see. Enjoy!

Jesus Painter

2010-04-26T22:57:00.001-07:00

3'x4' Acrylic on canvas

Here is a performance painting that I did in my garage studio and if I can figure out how to upload the video you can see me paint this from start to finish. It's a very quick painting but very fun to do. I actually copied it from the real "jesus painter" but that's just me. When I see somthing great I want to paint it! And I love Jesus!

Peace

excessive, exaggerated anxiety

2010-04-13T23:59:00.000-07:00

Oil on Canvas 3'x4'

I've been drawing and thinking lately(and playing my wifes guitar writing an indie alternative song) so needless to say tonight was a random act of painting! I found great joy in watching my oldest daughter find her way through a painting last week. (which I will post on this blog on a later date) Teaching my kids to draw and paint is importaint to the work that goes into a piece of art. And this painting is one Ive been dreaming of for many years. I worked under Eugene Garin and he was the master at seascapes. One of his works led me here and I will forever be grateful for the little but enlightening time we spent together. I love the feel of oil and will be tweeking this painting for awhile to really learn some things.

Captain?

2010-03-23T00:00:00.000-07:00

3'x4' acrylic on canvas

Humble

2010-03-22T10:25:00.001-07:00

#2
4'x5' acrylic on canvas

#1
3'x5' acrylic on canvas

Pacific Street #2

2010-03-22T10:21:00.000-07:00

4'x5' acrylic on canvas

The Crucifiction

2010-03-22T10:07:00.000-07:00

4'x5' acrylic on canvas

This is a painting that I'm surprised by every time I am doing it live. I have this fear that people will think that it is too graphic but I always hear the stories of how it touched people. One testimony that I heard this weekend was from a mom who was telling me that her son knew exactly what I was painting from the first strokes. He said, "I know Him!" and turned to his friend and said, "but you don't know Him..not yet." His friend said..."know who?" and the boy replied, "Jesus!". Then he saw me painting the red blood on His arm and face...and the boy said,"that was for me" and turned to his friend and said,"that was for you too!"
Once I painted this painting at a youth event where I was preaching while I painted Christ...that was fun.

The Jesus Painter

2010-03-22T09:45:00.000-07:00

Pacific Street

2010-02-28T22:23:00.000-08:00

20"x24" acrylic on canvas

Urban Painting Series

2010-02-24T21:56:00.000-08:00

The "work", up to this point, has been paying more attention to my surroundings. Sitting. Watching. Recording. I have always been aware that there are many levels of life and death. While some of us find ourselves lonely and wondering how we got there and finding no motivation to change anything, others have their opinions on the matter...we ultimately have no response. And it strikes me that I am full of opinions. The journey will be one of awakened awareness and will create perhaps an opportunity for action. Did you ever drive a route for years and then decide one day to just walk the same space? What a difference! The things we see when we just take some time to step out of our bubble and absorb the new rhythm, new beats, new pace...Do it! Go out there and experience this new layer of Life!

Listen to your Heart...Beats

Happy Holidays

2009-12-22T18:44:00.000-08:00

Here is a performance painting that I did at Shari's mom's church up in Jackson CA on Easter 08. It's a penticostal chruch so there was lots of Spirit! I am posting it because it also depicts the scene in Bethlehem where Jesus was born. When I was painting this I had a completely different plan and I was moved by the Spirit and He lead me through the "Life of Christ". I hope all of you have a wonderful Christmas remembering Him who called himself I AM.

Untitled- 4'x6' Oil on Canvas

2009-11-26T00:02:00.000-08:00

New work from the studio

2009-11-20T15:21:00.001-08:00

Christmas 2009
Oil on Wood 26.25 x 12.25

Somthing is Brewing!
Oil on Canvas 3'x4' (in progress)

Great Paintings by Addie and Emilie. I love watching them enjoy just putting paint on canvas. They are definitly getting better! My vision for the future is to see the Panasiukart School open to give all children the opportunity that my girls have to experience the Joy of Paniting! I'm still working out the details but I have 15 years of experience in running a sucessful buisness and I love to paint. Stay tuned for more work from me and my girls as we dazzle you with new works of art!

Back home

2009-10-30T08:19:00.000-07:00

I will be home on Tuesday nov 2. And I'm happy to say I will be back in the studio painting. What a crazy summer of traveling the USA. Happy to be home for the holidays. I will start working on some Christmas paintings.

Addie and Emilie Painting

2009-09-13T20:45:00.000-07:00

I love that my little girls love to paint, so after some chores today I made good on my promise that they would have some time on the easel to create. It is the beginning of a dream that I have to open a childrens art studio. It begins in the studio in my garage. Children need to connect with the different medias of expression and I am happy that the girls love and take pride in there work. Brady is still on the side lines watching his sisters. His time will come.

Painting with Addie

2009-08-13T19:28:00.000-07:00

I have been having a great time this summer just enjoying my family and finding special times to paint with my children. Addie is turning 8 on Sunday and she loves to paint so I am showing her work today in water colour and one in acrylic. She believes she's a real artist and she is! Enjoy!

New Work from the Studio

2009-07-02T23:44:00.000-07:00

In uncertain times the Master asks us to trust Him and act out our Faith...In two different places in Scripture Jesus asks his disciples to act out the impossible. Once when Jesus was walking on the water and Peter steps out of the boat to walk to Him...Another time when the storm is raging and they loose faith and go below to wake Jesus up from his sleep to have him calm the waters.

Addie was helping me paint tonight and she had the best time. I paint on very large canvas and she is use to paint on a small scale. Once she got the idea that she wasn't going to mess anything up...she went to town and had a blast. This is going to be a personal peice for the Family. Thank you Addie for helping Dad tonight.

A trip to the city does an artist good

2009-06-08T21:10:00.000-07:00

Our family went to San Fransisco for the day on Sunday. It was great. We had lunch at Golden Gate Park then took the Cable Car from Powell St to the Peir and had ice cream. And finally ended up on the other side of the Golden Gate bridge (which is not really gold at all...according to Addie). It was nice to get out of our normal routine and take a break.

Optimism

2009-05-08T22:09:00.000-07:00

Today Shari and I watched the Michael J. Fox's ABC-TV Special on Optimism and it was awesome! I recommend this special for everyone who just wants to watch some good TV and walk away feelin good. One of my strengths which drives me in all areas of my life is a healthly dose of Optimism.

A door may close on you but "no worries" another will open!
No...Really...I don't worry about it!

Some thinkers say "Your life begins now! So go out and write on the blank pages of your future!" I see it more like...I've already done this, I've been here before, so all I'm doing is looking back on my life and remembering this very moment. When I'm in the Spirit I can find it...but this very idea of looking back is in Ephesians chapter 2. You see right now I'm literally in Heaven and Jesus just said to me "Hey, danny, do you remember that time when.... and I say, Oh Yeah! I remember...

Eternity!

Peace and Love,
Saint Danny

From the studio in my garage #2

2009-05-03T22:48:00.000-07:00

Back in the studio after some time of wandering and learning about where I was headed next, and I must say that it was awesome just to hang out and enjoy myself. I acutally recorded about 15 min of painting that I will share with you on a later post. As I was painting I felt like I had an audience, some of you have seen me paint in front of a crowd of people, I love it! And I hope to do more of that in the future. When I was in art school I remember watching a video of DeKooning painting for 20 min. and remembering that I didn't want it to end. Hopefully when you see my video you will see the magic of painting with Danny!

Our junk-God's Art

2009-04-20T19:34:00.000-07:00

We were in Santa Cruz for Easter weekend with Sam and Julie's family and we found many things on the beach, well actually Addie was the our little paleontologist, and this is a piece that she found and may I say that it was a great find. It's a piece of metal that came from the ocean: Ohhh! Maybe it's peice from a sunken ship!

The young mind can only imagine.

This is a great example of God creating Art from something that mankind has manipulated from the original purpose that God imagined. Just being there on the beach and being reminded of how small we really are but how our small things make huge impacts. Ahhh, but the great Equalizer will step in and make it right again making it all the more true that He takes the messes of men and turns them into beautiful things.

What an awesome effect that the saltly Sea and the passing of Time has accomplished together in response to Worship our creator!

From TV to the Studio

2009-04-14T13:17:00.000-07:00

This is an Oil Painting on Canvas 20"x16" that I painted a couple of months ago. I was bored and gave in to watching some over dramatic TV with Shari. And as I was watching "the biggest loser" I noticed a painting in the background that caught my eye. So I paused the tivo and ran back and forth from the TV to my studio and I painted this picture. This just goes to show you that watching TV is not as bad for you as one may think, you just might spot some good art! I also remember seeing good Art on "the apprentice". Not that I watch that show or have ever. I can tell you this for sure-- there is no good art hanging on The Bachelor.

The Seven Spirits of God

2009-04-02T10:30:00.000-07:00

Today my meditation brought me to this painting that I did a couple of months ago. It is Oil paint on Wood titled "The Seven Spirits of God". Not long ago was watching this show on Ovation TV featuring Rothko and I went to my studio and painted this painting. I showed Shari and she said, "why are you tring to paint Rothko?"...I got alittle offended and cleaned my brushes. One thing I like about Rothko is his soft lines. I see the Spirits of God as Soft whispers of guidance. I finally hung this piece and Shari likes it now...Uhh? So in light of the happenings of the world around us...I look to another world within.

2009-03-26T22:45:00.000-07:00

Here's that video I promised...
Enjoy

Empty

2009-03-26T20:34:00.000-07:00

Well now it's just an empty brown wall. And I must say that I'm shocked and more sad than I thought I would be. This wasn't a surprise to me, I knew this would happen. They told me that they were painting over it and I was OK with it. But now I am sad because I miss it... and I didn't think I would. Yes...I know it's still there underneath the brown paint. At least now I know how I really felt about that mural...here I thought I had no feelings...

That is why I must share with you now a video that I saw on TV of an artist that did this very thing on purpose. I love watching stuff like this because it's just crazy...who gets to just sit around all day and just paint?

Robert Rauschenberg took a De Kooning painting and actually erased it and he called it - "Erased De Kooning Drawing"

So Long Good Friend

2009-03-23T22:47:00.000-07:00

Here's a sad story... this is a mural that I painted over 10 years ago, maybe even 15...And it will soon be gone. This mural is on the Cup-A-Joe building and the new owners have decided to paint over it. I'm okay with it but still a little sad. I have painted six murals in my life time all were full size walls. This piece is 8'x16'. I know that it wasn't quite finished but I feel like it had character and I just couldn't mess with that. We'll So long!

Thinking about getting into the studio

2009-03-22T22:19:00.000-07:00

Yes I know that I said I will be in there painting...you have to understand that there is more to it than sitting and letting it flow. I am constantly thinking about my work and I am pausing for a moment to unleash the brush with truth. There is a passage in the Bible that I read over and over. John 1 1-18 and here even God himself shares with us the beauty of this "dimentionality" that he created. Light is the ruler over darkness. Light dispells darkness. When you draw something on paper you must first shine a big powerful light on the subject then start by drawing the darkness which will reveal the light. You find your way to the light through darkness. I often meditate and hum the hymn from my childhood:

"Great is Thy faithfulness, O God my Father;
There is no shadow of turning with Thee"

I imagine God "Jesus" the true Light and how when He turns there is no shadow because Light has no shadow. When Jesus sees...what does he see? I believe He does not see darkness because He being the Light dispells it. And I think and can't wait for that one day when He will put His light in me...and then I remember, Oh Yeah! He already has!

2009-03-18T22:52:00.000-07:00

I will be in my studio tomorrow night with more pictures of the progression of this new peice that I'm working on. I also have a portriat painting of my son Brady that I'm working on but I set it aside for awhile. Maybe I'll shoot a photo so you can see it.

Oil on Canvas 4'x5' Work in Progress

2009-03-17T23:44:00.000-07:00

From the Studio in my garage

2009-03-17T23:34:00.000-07:00

I have been paniting in here for many years. Welcome to my Studio and I hope you enjoy the progress of my work, I just wish you can smell the paint....