Art & Inspiration For Your Life
INSPIRATION is truly going to be flowing all around us at the retreat! Artist, Jenifer Chappell is flying in from Massachusetts to share her creative story and her beautiful glass jewelry. Making Art, Making Time Presented by, Jenifer Chappell If you think you just don’t have enough time to make art, think again! This...
Get your pens ready! “Found Stories,” a writing workshop with Melissa Goslin Collins is coming to the fall retreat “Reawaken Creative Dreams.” “Found Stories” Instructed by writer, Melissa Goslin Collins Your story already exists in the Universe, and this workshop will help you find it! We will collect, alter and reassemble the words around...
Presenting one of the incredible workshops at the fall retreat, “Reawaken Creative Dreams.” Photographer, Christi Raines, shares her own therapeutic journey with art and offers tips and advice for adding more creativity into your own life. “Dealing with Fear and Anxiety via Photography: How Art Changed My Life” Presented by Photographer Christi Raines...
EXCITING NEWS Good just got better!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6bYj-7pahg Reawaken Creative Dreams September 30th – October 2nd, 2011 NEW ARTIST PRESENTATIONS & LOWER COST! More artists have jumped on board to offer YOU even more creative inspiration. With their collaboration I am able to lower the cost of tuition. That means YOU get MORE for LESS!...
Some days life just drops something REALLY REALLY COOL in your lap. That’s how I felt the day I received a request to review the book Raw Art Journaling: Making Meaning, Making Art by Quinn McDonald. Unprompted, unasked, life (via Quinn’s publicist) invited me to share this upcoming book with you. When I got...
Happy Friday everyone! Today I am busy painting away. I’ve started a new series of small paintings. 5″x7″ to be precise. They’re quick, loose, painting sketches and they are a lot of FUN! I thought I’d take just a minute to share a bit of this process with you. Here’s a peek inside my...
Take a moment. Relax. Inhale. Exhale. We all need to take a little space for ourselves from time to time. Refresh, renew, relax. My space last week was this beautiful lake. Ahhhh… In taking that time to sit in the sun and play in the sand I was re-energized. This week I’m all about...
This week I am honored to introduce you to Annelies Gentile ARTIST, VISIONARY, EDUCATOR Please introduce yourself and your art a little bit. Hello! My name is Annelies and I experience the world as an artist, visionary and educator who currently resides in Raleigh, NC. Recently, however, I’ve mainly been a fulltime student,...
ART inspires ART! Today I would like to share a personal expample with you. I am completely honored that my own art has inspired my friend (and published author) Rose Firestone. Over the years Rose has completed several “Creative Imagery” poems in response to my landscape paintings. She has captured with her alluring...
Creative inspiration is the focus here at JoyfulArts Studio. I would like to begin to introduce you to some famous Art & Artists. May they inspire you in your own creative endeavors, whether you are a writer, a musician, a landscape painter, a fabric artist, a photographer, an art journaler, or simply someone who...