ROMANCING THE CANVAS

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BE HAPPY DAMN IT!

IT'S NEVER TOO LATE TO HAVE A HAPPY CHILDHOOD

~Claudia Black Ph.D, M.S.W

Sometimes our Mixed Media Art is "pretty," Sometimes it is "ugly," Sometimes it is "curious." But the reality is it is always OURS.

And the JOY of Mixed Media is that it is DEEP and it is about LEARNING and it is about FREEDOM of EXPRESSION, whether that be with the pen, the marker, the gels, the knives, the paints and on and on and on.

The best part of Mixed Media is that it gets to be REAL. Yes, really REAL - real in its HURT, real in its LOVE, real in its QUESTIONS and real in its STATEMENTS.

On that note...

To free yourself from the past, you must break the rules of silence and compliance. C.B

One needs to walk through the pain,
not over it,
not around it.
You never again have to walk through it alone. C.B.

Feelings are from your heart and what your heart wants to tell you. C.B.

Feelings are to be listened to = they are cues and signals that indicate where you are and what you need. C.B.

Yesterday, this picture came out of me. Bizarre as it was...it was in front of me...it's a big picture - I advise you to take it in slowly lest it trigger you. It is truly a "yester-year" picture for me - but up the spiral of life we always go if we are being authentic and sharing the truth! Art can be that way when we least expect it! Mixed Media is a place where I've learned this is what authenticity is all about in the artist's way...

Lovies, Samara

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GREAT WORKSHOPS...

WILLOWING - LIFE BOOK 2013

WOW, there are some really fantastic workshops on Tam's LIFE BOOK 2013. I will put up some of the pieces I created. I've been watching the videos, taking notes and then meditating on them.

Days later, after the workshop and after I've read my notes a few times and they have sunk into my own style, I create my piece.

Below is a pic I created from the teachings of Monica Zuniga. I recommend LIFE BOOK highly. Phew, what a thoroughly charismatic group of teachers lined up! Thanks Tam for putting this together. Oh, btw, there are over 1500 students registered and taking Tam's year long workshop!

Thanks for taking a look at my fun!

Lovies,

Samara

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2012 ART STILL SPEAKING TO ME!

Hmmm A DILEMMA

I signed up for many 2012 art segments that are L O N G while I was S H O R T on time. I am going to complete (my New Year's Resolution) these classes before moving onto the 2012 art classes that I signed up for. So my lovelies, what you will see will be, in honesty, named 2012 art - in order to honor the teachers. Enjoy! I sure have loved the process of transformation inherent in each piece, many still in progress. LOVIES, Samara

These pictures are a collage of my fav. pics from a home magazine. The next two pics are my personal favorites of the entire page. I loved the pink-ness and the glasses and the fruit water!

I'd say I enjoy these two more than the finished product - isn't that the way sometimes..."we love a part better than the whole"...great all time metaphor of life!

I loved seeing the pics that I put on the bench as well in the reflection of the mirror (and also hanging the window from the house in the midst of the trees with the hanging basket in the mirror as well.) Perhaps my dream garden!

For anyone who knows about the micro-living in this size house below, this was a fav design for me. Google mini living - it is an environmentally great thing and transportable (so you don't need a permit to construct.) The originator has a great book and a very neat hour long youtube worth watching. That is why this little white home spoke to me. Contemplating this type of living for retirement.

And how great would an outside claw tub be! Ummm I guess Arizona (Sedona-ish) not where I live in Ontario with 3 feet of snow! (unless of course I had a hot tub beside it! haha)

and VOILA the final collage piece!

Enjoy!

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