According to an investigation by French Beaux Arts Magazine (July 2013 Issue)
"art acts like a vitamin on our brain, making us noticeable happier."
Greta's Garden 24"x24" Art lives in you, don't overthink it. (table design and photo credit S.Antonucci)
Double Heart is 1 of 4 from The Heart Series, encaustic on panel.
Sometimes I will use images that are not my own. Not to claim them as mine more to connect with a collective unconscious. Old anatomy books are a source of inspiration. They are distant, somehow removed from the actual subject they are meant to represent. I recycle stamps from my father's collection and often re-use his written Scientific research reports or just as likely pages torn from an 1800s Tennyson book of poetry given to me by a grade school friend, stolen from her parent's bookshelf . So now you know. Lost and found .
Double Heart
Encaustic painting, also known as how wax painting, involves using heated beeswax to which coloured pigments may or may not be added. I use the hot wax technique to encase the images and preserve them. Prints Available
Many, many people to thank… ZOOM, Jardin de Flores Nursery and Farm, Roberts Creek , Rent it, Sunshine Coast Botanical Gardens, ..thank you Sue, Sheer Bliss, Steven you always look after us so well, Coast Reporter, and Jan DeGrass, as always you write so well and the District of Sechelt .. special thanks to you Perry and the spouses that help set up those heavy heavy walls Nick Vermeulen and Mike. Mike Tandy and Jimmy Gregor…the music was amazing and thanks also Mike for the warm welcome. The Volunteers… our dynamic duoKasia Krolikowska, and Lore Schmidts..we absolutely love you….Thank you Charly Mithrush, Judy McLarty, Jeanette MacDonald, Jen Drysdale, Karen Tosczak, Diane Penonzek, Pat Opp, Barbara Moustafa, Suzy Naylor and wonderful Marlene Lowden …your presence was invaluable…you made the evening fun and run smooth for us. Last but definitely not least Ginny Vail…thanks for organizing us and adding all your wonderful touches along with your easy, fun personality. We love you to bits
Written by Carol LaFave , on behalf of Eleven Equal Artists;
Morley Baker, Josef Fritz Braham, Todd Clark, Elizabeth Evans, Greta Grunow Guzek,
Carol Lafave, Kim LaFave, Ian MacLeod, Cindy Riach, Nadina Tandy, Marleen Vermeulen
Welcome entrance at Seaside Centre Painting by Josefa Fritz Barham
Power of Paint Art Exhibition | Latest Work
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Lets blow it up, just do your art and shut the fuck up. I am offering you 4 easy solutions to follow for inner creative peace. You can add to the list in the comments, hell lets coauthor an e-book.
#1 : Create. Create anything. Just start. Don't judge it or think you are amazing. Just pick up a pencil show up to life drawing class. Shut up and draw.
#2 STOP TALKING. Talking about shit, no more conversations about sensitive digestion or your ingrown toe nail that has haunted you and stopped you from being a fully realized super star. Yawn, are you boring yourself?
#3 DON'T LISTEN TO WHAT OTHERS THINK ABOUT YOU OR YOUR ART. Don't listen to what you think about others and their art.
#4 BE IN THE PRESENT. Just 'be' in the present moment of the creative process and all the other crap will shrink. The perfect weather or the perfect space. You make things happen when you create art with whatever tool you have, wherever you are. It lives in you, don't over think it.
Fine Art , not for the faint of heart. My one line elevator pitch.
The cranky artist motivational series has a gift for you! A printable version of ART MATTERS 4 steps to inner creative peace and getting shit done. With love Nadina
I found my dad's field notes or ruff notes for his PHD credentials. They were important to him so I kept them after he died.
My fasination with fish and their habitat is the sorces of a lot of my inspiration. I can thank him for supporting my unique perspective saying, "Well tiger, you always do things in your own way." I am sure he would be happy to know his work will be incapsulated into my art.
Notes: A.P.Ronald
Notes: A.P.Ronald
Second phase of the line drawing overlay.
My paint studio is outside of the house these days. The change of studio location has brought a fresh perspective.
Mean while, my home studio has new order, not so much as organized as I see other possibilities in the chaos. I am having fun and for me this is where inspiration lives.
The lines drawn on plexi casts a mysterious shadow.
I welcome you to view the evolution of a drawing.
What started as a line drawing on vellum overlayed onto a print of my painting 'I Am Here', a cut out Italian Drone Bee printed on an old map with a carved plexi overlay added -BOOM...I got excited by the possibilities and wanted to share the Art Experiment over the next few days. Here is the beginning.
In progress
Dear Friends and art lovers,
Sometimes the best course of action is to let go of the past in this case the past is last years painting.
In preperation for up-coming exhibitions I become immersed in my painting . For me it is a good place to be no matter how neurotic I can get .
Last year this time life derailed my focus from painting. Life can be that way, creating a path you did not see coming . The painting I was working on at that time 'Pathways' never felt complete to me . I was rushed, distracted and my priorities were shifted.
The profound influence life events have on us are always under the surface they inform our present I feel this when I create. Last years painting is the under painting for a fresh perspective being grateful for it all.
Now to work,
fond regards Nadina
Last years painting just under the surface.
Dear Friends and art lovers,
Presenting the Eleven Equal Artists Fine Art Bursary to Shayleen LePage on behalf of our art group was a meaningful experience one I will hold dear . The bursaries were funded through the sale of panels from the collaborative art work at the 2013 Power of Paint exhibition . We are honoured to be advocates of arts and culture for our young people.
Eleven Equal Artists | 2013 Power of Paint Exhibition | Sechelt, BC
Congratulations to the all 2013 Eleven Equal Artists Fine Art Bursary recipients ; Kevin Graham from Elphinstone Secondary School, Sydney Donnie from Chatelech Secondary School and Shayleen LePage from the Outreach Program at the Sunshine Coast Alternative School. Pender Harbour Secondary received donation for their art department. The money will go directly to purchasing art supplies and materials for the students.
Eleven Equal Artists are planning a new collaborative art piece for the 2014 Power of Paint Exhibition this August 15-17, 2014 more info www.elevenequalartists.com
Regards,
Nadina
