Black Friday Offer

 

Special Black Friday Offer

 

If you are reading this, you are one of my friends

and I would like to extend a special gift to you

I will be offering a beginners oil painting class

at Missouri on Main

in St. Charles

on Thursdays from 1:00 - 3:00

January 7 through February 4, 2016

The costs of the class is $95.00 plus materials.

The gift is this:

If you sign up and pay for the class before December 25,

The cost of the class is only $90.00

PLUS

you will receive TWO prepared canvases

AND

one of my favorite brushes

FREE.

You can only sign up by contacting me at

paintdiva106@gmail.com

Hope to hear from you!



Lets hear it for the Whales

I wandered back into art journaling not too long ago.

Just couldn't stay away.

It's just too much fun and it really is a way I can find

my visual voice.

 

It reminds me how much I love the sea

and all the creatures in and around it.

That is where I come from.

I breathe better when I am near salt water.

I see things.

Everything.

It's life.

my life.

So the sea washes into my soul and out into my work

on a regular basis.

When I started to draw,

I drew light houses and sailing ships.

Then there were seashells and fishes.

Now I've traded my fins for feet and live landlocked

with only the river

to remind me

on those days when I need more wet than dry.

 

 

So my art journal holds these secret desires.

Poems and drawings.

I hear my mother singing this poem,

the way adults sing things to children.

Yes, Mother,

I will go down to the Sea again,

and dream of whales and storms.



 

Hello! Long time no write!

Well I am sincerely hoping to get back in the groove of

sharing my art work and creativity with you.

Sometimes, as an artist, we need to cocoon a bit,

wrap up and see what we really nee to see.

Actually, that's not a bad thing for anyone.

 

I began teaching again in St. Charles,

at Missouri Artists on Main,

an amazing gallery full of the most talented collection

of artists in Missouri.

They are also the most welcoming and inspiring

group of artists I have ever met!

 

Teaching again reminded me how very much I love

lighting up the fire of art

in others.

It's one of the finest things I've ever done

and I love doing it.

It's both an honor and a pleasure.

 

The other piece of treasure I discovered in my cocooning

is a remembrance of the wonder of drawing.

My pens and pencils have all come out of hiding and have been put to work.

Drawing is a wonderful meditative thing

that is far more than image making.

It's a spiritual thing that opens you up as it slows you down.

If coloring books do wonders for you,

you should try drawing.

 

Well I have plans.

I have dreams.

But I am going to save them for another day.

I haven't forgotten my paints.

You can see my oils over at the

Kirkwood train station through the end of the month.

I will be here more often,

with some surprises,

some new journeys.

I hope you will join me.