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An Etsy shop featuring unique, original, abstract watercolor figure paintings & bird illustration drawings by artist Vanessa Lee of resetreality.net.
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Web: http://www.resetreality.net
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/resetreality
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sueanntaylor1 on Nov 13, 2022
5 out of 5 starsLoved this turkey. How can anyone be this talented. Looks modern with the all white background! Framed it the same day it arrived!
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Teresa on Apr 2, 2022
5 out of 5 starsVery nice print. Looks just as good in person as online. I'll probably buy more prints as I decorate our new house.
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Ashley on Mar 22, 2022
5 out of 5 starsWhat a wonderful transaction and experience it was to work with Vanessa!!!! Customer service was fabulous but not only that the prints she did for my custom order (the state animals) were done phenomenally well! Cannot wait to get them hung in our nursery.
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Michelle on Mar 8, 2022
5 out of 5 starsI love them!! I need t ofind proper frames, but that wont be hard. These pieces are beautiful...both of my grown daughters agree!
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asmolik05 on Mar 5, 2022
5 out of 5 starsThese are as sweet in person! Got one for myself and another as a gift. Arrived quickly!
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Michael on Sep 2, 2021
5 out of 5 starsYour finch print is absolutely beautiful!! I’m an avid birdwatcher, so I love this print. You’re a gifted artist.
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my4turkeys on Aug 21, 2021
5 out of 5 starsLove this little postcard... looking for the perfect frame. Fast shipping... thank you!
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About resetreality
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It's me, vending at the Handmade Cavalcade at Chelsea Market, NYC -
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The studio table covered in work and materials. Creative mess in all its glory! -
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Showing off their new artwork <3 -
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An in progress shot of one of my bird illustrations, drawn on my iPad using Adobe Photoshop Sketch -
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My work offers bright, bold colors and lines to liven up any room.
resetreality.net: principles & practice
The real breakthroughs happen when you least expect them: under pressure, during banal conversation, in a meltdown. At first, these breakthroughs seemed random and unrelated to each other; for three years it was this way. With all the blessings of persistence came the bittersweet burden of stubbornness. I was stubborn. When I thought I knew it all, my deaf ear haplessly sheltered my fears. After spinning wheels again and again, I conceded. The source of this perpetual cycle wasn’t coming from the outside. There wasn’t a satisfying answer that would neatly solve all my personal conundrums, so I went inward. I never knew it all to begin with and perhaps it was time to shut up and listen.
Not surprisingly, it worked.
The works I make these days may look radically different from each other, but Don Sibley kindly reiterated a concrete fact to me during my last semester of school. Like the many students that have preceded my time, I struggled with the insecurities about material, meaning and making. When I lamented about the discontinuity and fragmentation of my work, he proved to me that it was not. As I spent those Wednesday afternoons furiously scrapping paint onto paper, he picked out the good, the bad and the ugly; things in my past that I thought I had retired to the dustbin of history.
And then it hit me: it all came out of that dustbin. The research paper about language death, the character of a brushstroke as I practiced the bamboo leaf, the love of light bulbs, the fascination with negative spaces, the violence of inner city Chicago, the nagging fear of the debt collection calls, the people who have kindly shared their passion and knowledge with me…
The venerable dustbin of many moments before this one suddenly sparkled with gems I overlooked time and time again. These are the tools that shape my work. These pieces draw from familiar icons, metaphors and mythology to help navigate through the fog of insecurity. It grabs the language of vision and weaves a moment of clarity in which we can objectively see our selves not as “others” but as “people.”
Tearing down these invisible walls that plague these modern times can begin with a story. I tell stories to open us to things that we have shamed ourselves into never challenging before. I twist the very pieces of the cultural landscape into narratives that we all understand. The seeds vital to a cognitive exchange reach beyond polarizing ideals. Thus, by utilizing the tendency we all have to chronicle and share our lives, we also cultivate the yearning to awaken from this anguished slumber. For we have slept too long.
More academic theories could explain my work, its influences and its significance: visual language, remixing, postmodernism, dada, stream of consciousness. I could give you one thousand theories, but everything ends up in the dustbin, waiting for the day of its rediscovery.
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Why does international shipping take so long?
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For example, for customers living in the UK, all packages will be subject to a customs duty, and will take longer to arrive. Please refer to this link for more information about customs duty in the United Kingdom: https://tinyurl.com/ydao5sdq
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Custom and personalized orders
I love doing custom orders! Please message me details and let's work together on making something unique and beautiful just for you (or a loved one)
Will you paint/draw/illustrate my pet?
Yes. Cats, dogs, parakeets. I'm here for it.
Wholesale availability
I'm open to it! Message me and we can work something out if you're interested in carrying my products in your store.