Headlands, acrylic and Masa paper collage on canvas, 36"X36"
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Spring - a time to birth new art or to experience dissatisfaction with your usual creations? The two experiences usually go hand in hand.
Right now I'm working on two abstract landscapes, which change from day to day and settle in my consciousness like great unsolved problems. These are larger canvases, which I'm realizing translates to larger problems (and hopefully eventually
larger successes!) Last night I dreamed the solution! Come morning what I remembered was a blurry picture of an opening that things were coming through and a number formula, 10.89.
Rather disappointing in the light of day (unless there's some Numerological solution I'm not aware of)! I figured out what the opening was about though. . .bats coming through. We've been host to bats these past few days, inside our home as well as in the roof. The hunt for the hole they are entering through has consumed a fair amount of mental energy, which will no doubt be translating into some new landscapes with caves, fissures and chasms.
My studio has some nice blank spaces as paintings make their way out into the world, either purchased or hopefully soon purchased from venues in the area. You'll find a listing of these local shows in this issue.
The art play lesson this month focuses on using music to enlist the emotional spectrum to paint expressively. I started taking piano lessons after the first of the year and am playing daily, trying to get back a small portion of the skill I had developed in the years between third and sixth grade. Clumsy fingers, poor eyesight, and lots of wrong notes have hindered me very little in the delight of expressing myself through music again. And it's so wonderfully humbling to be a beginner again!
In this issue there are more ways to jump start your art making this season, so please check out the new eBook and workshops.
Cheers,
Susan
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In the Company of Muses:
Adventures in Mixed Media Art Journaling
a multi-media eBook
A self-paced multi media course in eBook form which will launch you on an exciting process of creative discovery.
Learn playful mixed media painting and collage techniques combined with meditation and writing to encourage that wise and soulful intuitive voice and open new doors to creative expression.
Whether you're a current Muse Group student or artist from out of the area who wants to get in on the fun, you'll find this eBook to be an inspiration and catalyst for your art making.
Included in the downloadable eBook you will find:
* An introduction to the Muse Group practice: how to access creative flow through playful art making combined with meditation and writing.
* A complete materials list to equip your art space for play.
* Audio meditation instructions which you can use to get in a relaxed state before art making.
* Eleven detailed mixed media art lessons including: Inks and Gesso, Rorschach Painting, Cave Painting(surface textures), Image Transfer, Memory Mapping, Antiquing Paper, Metallic Look with Foil collage and more.
* Links to three new demonstration videos of art play lessons available only with this purchase.
* Detailed instructions for making your own art journal books.
* A Facebook group to give you a forum for sharing images and ideas with others who are participating in the course.
For a taste of what's in store for you in "The Company of Muses"
watch this video.
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You pay only $14.95 and download it onto your computer to enjoy whenever you have time. Read the instructions for downloading and payment and purchase it here.
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Painted to Yo-Yo Ma'a divine cello music!
I always have background music playing in my painting groups. It's a tricky business to pick the music. It may match one person's mood and be like fingernails on the blackboard to another. So I try to use my own sensibility about as a guide to what to play. I've subscribed to Hearts of Space and have lots of favorite playlists for the mostly instrumental "slow music for fast times" kind of world music that has the best chance of accompanying the act of painting. I alternate that with playlists on Pandora.
But sometimes it's fun to play some loud jungle boogie music for five minutes and paint that groove. Then switch to soothing native flute for the next 4-5 minute painting. Then switch again to a classical orchestral piece. We reach for different colors, use different strokes, feel the music coursing through our tissues and animating the emotions and the whole body. This is true expressive painting!
So if you have doubts about your ability to paint expressively, just crank up the volume. Have three or four sheets of paper at the ready, turn the music on, close your eyes a moment until you feel the music in your core, and let all that music out through your paint brush, finger dipped in paint or whatever else the music calls out for.
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Current Showings
An audience is as vital to the artist's survival as paints and brushes. I hope you will come out to see my paintings and react lavishly to them at the following venues this spring!
VML Winery, 4035 Westside Road in Healdsburg, CA is known for its superlative Pinot Noir and Chardonnay wines. The tasting room, open daily from 11-5 is hosting a show of 13 of my original paintings as well as prints until June 6.
Santa Rosa Symphony offices at 50 Santa Rosa Ave, Suite 410 (across from the Roxy Theater) is hosting a showing of the Four Hands Painting body of work by Suzanne Edminster and myself in addition to her solo paintings. You can stop by to see them during their business hours.
Scissors. . .Wax. . .Glue is the name of the current exhibition at the Healdsburg Art Center, 130 Plaza St in Healdsburg, CA featuring juried collage, encaustic and assemblage works. My painting "Cascade" is in the show. The gallery is open daily 11am-5pm.
Raford House Inn, 10630 Wohler Rd., Healdsburg, CA will be showing a collection of my wine country watercolor paintings starting April 29 for three months.
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Mixed Media Painting Workshop
Add expressive new textures to your painting surface with paper collage, stamping, splattering, scraping, decalcomanie, debossing and more. Learn to work with fluid acrylic and ink glazes to create uniquely rich painting surfaces. Combine this with an exploration of your own visual metaphors for an exciting art weekend.
Location: The studio in Sebastopol, CA
May 18 - 19, 2013
10am-4:30pm
Cost: $180
For more information or to register email Susan or call 707-824-8163
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Painting Laboratories for Creative Expansion!
Learn to paint intuitively, capturing thoughts, feelings and intuitions in the playful format of art journaling. Each session features a different mixed media painting technique which you can add to your repertoire - from textured collage to painting techniques with inks and acrylics. Meditation and writing are added to the mix to evoke that powerful Muse energy!
Monday Afternoon Muses (meets weekly for 8 weeks) When: New session starts in June Time: 1:30-4:30pm Cost: $280 for 8 weeks, $40 for drop in session if space allows
Saturday Muses (meets monthly for 6 months)
When: May 4, June 1, July 13, Aug 10, Sep 7, Oct 5, 2013
Time: 10am-2:30pm
Cost: $50 for drop in session if space allows
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Remember you don't have to wait til your next newsletter for more art fun, just visit my blog where I post new art at least once or twice a week!
Cheers,
-Susan Cornelis
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