Website update and new look!

I just finished updating my website with a brand new design and a more comprehensive gallery.  I'm featuring my "Dandelion" mandala as part of my logo and am planning on a series of them very soon.  I also have the street painting festival in Syracuse to get ready for as well as the street painting exhibit at the Summer Arts Festival in Watertown, August 14th.

I've updated my blog as well and now you can subscribe to it via email :)

Elmira Street Painting Festival

I just got back from the Elmira SPF and it was a great time....and the weather was beautiful!  I chose to be a part of the Mark Twain gallery and created a portrait from a piece of art I found online.  I wish I could credit the artist, but could never find artist's name.  I added the imagery above the head to make it a little more interesting.  The first day of painting was hot until George brought the canopy from the car...what a lifesaver that was!  It dropped the temperature on the asphalt significantly and made it a lot easier to paint.  I finished the face the first day and the second day worked on the jacket, cigar and smoke.  I managed to finish pretty early and spent the rest of the day lounging and walking around to look at the artists' work.  I won Honorable Mention this year which was fantastic considering only one cash prize was given and the other three awards were honorable mentions.  I was just happy to have been a part of this festival for the third year and to meet all of the great people passing by....which for me, is the best part....and petting all of the dogs!  Here are some pictures from the day...enjoy!!

A Prayer for the Gulf

I received this in the Susun Weed newsletter yesterday and thought I'd share. If you ever get a chance read Dr. Emoto's books...they'll change your perception of reality. Anyway, here is a the blurb from the newsletter and the prayer.

Blessing the Water - set an intention of love and healing

Dr. Emoto - author scientist, and humanitarian - has shared a brief, yet power prayer and we are passing it along here as a focal point, a space of conscious creation allowing us to move past fear, judgment and retribution into Unity, Harmony and Wholeness. This prayer is structured using Ho'oponopono and is directed initially at WATER - the element connecting ALL Life on the planet. Water ... the carrier of Spirit and the flow-er of Love!!!

Dr. Masaru Emoto's Healing Prayer for the Gulf:

"I send the energy of love and gratitude to the water and all the living creatures in the Gulf of Mexico and its surroundings.

To the whales, dolphins, pelicans, fish, shellfish, plankton, coral, algae, and all living creatures . . .

I am sorry.
Please forgive me.
Thank you.
I love you. "

We are passing this request to people who we believe might be willing to participate in this prayer, to set an intention of love and healing that is so large, so overwhelming that we can perform a miracle in the Gulf of Mexico.

We are not powerless. We are powerful. Our united energy, speaking this prayer daily...multiple times daily....can literally shift the balance of destruction that is happening.

We don't have to know how......we just have to recognize that the power of love is greater than any power active in the Universe today.

Please join us in oft repeating this healing prayer of of Dr. Emoto's. And feel free to copy and paste this to send it around the planet. Let's take charge, and do our own clean up!

I can't believe the time!

I'm astonished how time has flown and how negligent I've been about this blog.  I have since finished up another semester of school at the Academy of Art since my last post.  The two class were Color & Design and Anatomy for Artists.
 I had a great time with both of the classes and learned a lot.  I haven't posted much work because classes were quite demanding and I still have some images that need to be scanned from my Color & Design class.  For our final in Color & Design we had to complete a mandala...with desaturated colors and a strong focal point.  The image had to be well balanced between simple and complex design elements as well as being unified in color harmony and design.  I will post the image in the next few days...I had such a great time doing this that I'm planning on creating more with specific themes....stay tuned!

On the home front, the boys are well on their way with Nick transferring to SUNY Potsdam in August and Patrick starting Jefferson Community College.  It's going to be big changes for all of us!  I'm very proud of both of them, but a little sad to see them go.  I'll have to keep myself busy with my artwork.....

The Summer Arts Festival sponsored by the North Country Arts Council will be held again this year August 14th in downtown Watertown, NY.

This is a family event featuring:

Live Music and Dance Performances
Fine Art for Sale by North Country Artists
Live Art Demonstrations
Instrument Petting Zoo
Street Painting
Roaming Performers
Kid at HeART Hands-on Art Area (for all ages)
Arts Organizations Information Area


Make sure you come to the festival, it will be running from 10am - 5pm on the 14th of August.

If you're interested in being a vendor or want to participate in the street painting demo, you can sign up here.

Here are some assignments from my anatomy class:

Classes are finished!

I'm so excited....classes are finally over and I'm looking forward to a break. Next semester will be anatomy and color, line & design. I finshed my bust for my figure modeling class and my last two drawings for the figure drawing class. What a relief....

Now I can work on some of the projects that have been floating around in my head all semester...and get to some pastel painting. I haven't touched the pastels in too long...it'll be interesting to see if my drawing class has improved my painting. Anyway, here are my last assignments ...and Happy Holidays!

Only 5 days of class left and the semester is over!

It's been a busy couple of months and I can't believe that much time has passed since I last updated my blog...bad blogger, bad blogger. Anyway, here are some of the homework assignments that have been keeping me so busy. We're finishing up this week, only two more drawings and a clay bust to go!

Finished Homework Assignment

Wow, this one took some time to do and still needs work. This is the homework assignment from this past week and is a copy Bernini's sculpture of David.

This week we're continuing our work in anatomy and concentrating on arms and legs. The assignment is to do another copy of a master's work, this time it's Raphael. I'll post something as soon as it's finished.

Speaking of sculpture, I haven't posted anything from my figure modeling class. Our past weeks' assignment have been a controposto pose (weight shifted to one leg) which has taken some time to say the least. The sculpture is built on an armature and stands about 2ft. tall. Also, we had to make a mouth too...so here they are.

On the lighter side, my hubby George had his 39th birthday on the 23rd. We ate cake at the 'rents and made sure the table and plates were decorated transformer style! Complete with transformer masks...George wore four of them at the same time.