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This is going to ROCK!!!

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!...

Inspiring Artist: Quinn McDonald

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...

Getting my Paint On!

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...

Breathing Room

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...

Inspiring Artist: Annelies Gentile

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 & Poetry

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...

Rivers & Tides

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...

Inspiring Artist: Noah Hutchins

I had originally not scheduled an artist interview for this week.  With the 4th being a holiday here in the States I thought I’d keep the date free.  In a last minute decision, I have changed my mind and am posting a day early. What changed it? A conversation I had with my son,...

Allow

I had no intentions as I sat down to paint one day this week. I simply allowed my brush to grab globs of paint and stroke it onto the canvas. I played with thick texture, smoothed it out, then let it build again. I allowed my emotions to flow with the brush, with the...

Coffee Anyone?

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...

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