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Imagine With Art Newsletter
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I welcome your comments!
susan@imaginewithart.com
707-824-8163
Table of Contents:
Workshops
Muse Book
Hot Blog
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 Dear Friends,
Summer is the season for art! The bag is almost packed and I leave Monday for a trip to Spain and France where I'll be leading a group in watercolor sketchbooking on the southern France countryside. And the fingers are itching to get started. Picture me on the Costa Brava beach, not sunbathing, but under an umbrella madly sketching everything and everyone in sight! I hear there's so much to see in Barcelona that any sketching I do will probably have to be while standing or walking!
Last month I had some good practice for this. At the Barnyard Sketching workshop we hung out with chickens and goats for a day, taking on the challenge of capturing moving subjects. Step one: tell yourself "I can do this!" Step two: think of your eyes as camera lenses and take quick memory snap shots. Step three: draw like crazy and keep drawing until you learn the parts and can put them together into a whole chicken!
I hope you'll join me later in the month in Gualala, California for some more travel sketching at the ocean, and in July for a weekend of freeing the creative spirit. Read on for more details of these summer workshops and fall preview. And take advantage of summer as the season for art!
Cheers,
Susan
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Imagine With Art Workshops
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Travel Sketchbooking
Join me for a weekend at the beautiful oceanside town of Gualala, California on the north coast! Lodgings of all kinds available nearby.
I'll be bringing back lots of new ideas from my sketchbooking trip in France this month and sharing them in many of the natural settings this beachside village has to offer. Using pen and watercolors which fit in a purse or pack, you will create your own captivating color sketchbook which records not only the visual experience but your personal reactions..
Drawing warm ups, watercolor painting technique, and collage and textures will be demonstrated with ample time to practice the new skills around town. We will also be practicing meditation techniques to improve our sensory awareness of the moment.
Date: June 26, 27
Time: 10am-4:30pm
Location: Gualala Arts, Gualala, CA
Cost: $150 members, $175 non-members
To register go to www.gualalaarts.orgor call 707-884-1138
Free the Creative Spirit Retreat 
The weekend features a unique interplay of instruction in water media painting and collage techniques, art journaling and written word with meditation/contemplation to quiet the mind and summon the Muse, and music and gentle movement to engage the body in creative expression.
Date: July 17, 18
Time: 10am-5pm
Location: Bennett Peak Ranch, Santa Rosa, CA (next to Matanzas Creek Winery)
Cost: $195 includes lunch and some materials
To register email Susan.
Ask for a list of local accommodations if you are coming from a distance! (And bring your swimsuit if you want to
take a cool dip at the end of the day)
A new 6-month series of monthly Muse groups will begin the first weekend in September! More information available on my website.
I
was touched recently by an email from a student who wrote:
"The Muse Group has been the perfect
antidote for someone like me recovering their connection to the joys of
doing art. I just realized in the last couple of days that since
starting the group, I've gotten out all of my old drawings and materials
that had been locked away gathering dust, transformed my dining room
into a working mini studio, and I'm not afraid of the blank paper any
more. The Artist's Way [Julie Cameron's] process helped, but art
journaling has felt so safe and nourishing and enticing that my
repressed artist self couldn't resist any more and finally came out to
play again." -Muse Linda
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Hot Blog!
A couple years ago I made friends online with a French artist living in Spain named Miki. We are both water media artists and have an appreciation for each other's work. Her style of travel sketchbooking is so different from my own and so appealing that I enjoy visiting her blog to get fresh ideas. She has little concern for traditional methods of capturing perspective and her sketches are filled with energetic ink lines and fabulous fresh color that illustrates her feelings about her experience. Isn't that after all why we paint? Enjoy her sketches for yourself on Miki's blog.
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Conversations With The Muse: The Art Journal As Inner Guideby Susan CornelisIn this book I share my art journals and the personal revelation and healing which is cultivated through this process. The reader is guided through the steps including: accessing a quiet state of mind, translating inner feelings and visions
to paper, employing a wide array of painting and collage techniques,
and writing expressively to reap vibrant meaning from the images
appearing in this spontaneous manner. The colorful images, materials,
techniques, and written words combine for a rich feast for the
imagination.
You may preview the book on blurb.com and see the first 10 pages. Softcover and hardcover versions are also available directly from the Blurb bookstore.
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That's it for now. I'll be taking a break from blogging while I'm in Spain and France, but after I get back on June 22nd, expect to see a flood of travel sketches on my Art and Sketchbook blog! And happy adventuring in art!
Cheers,
Susan
Susan Cornelis
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