tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33154718468964715512024-02-07T07:04:24.123+02:00Deena Mishaan"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction" - Pablo Picasso.
In my art I try to capture moments in time. Perfect moments that I break up into hundreds or thousands of pieces and put together again using spirals. Spirals are life, love, never ending, cycles of womanhood, femininity, our connections to ourselves, others and nature.
My art is my way of making order out of the chaos that is life.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03465813768006935510noreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3315471846896471551.post-19266245123504208902014-02-27T18:38:00.000+02:002014-02-27T18:41:57.951+02:00New Exhibition "Woman Woman"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Last Friday I traveled up north again.<br />
I am participating in a new exhibition "Woman Woman" opening this weekend in the Chagall Artist House in Haifa. -<a href="http://www.ilmuseums.com/museum_eng.asp?id=181">http://www.ilmuseums.com/museum_eng.asp?id=181</a><br />
I am proud to be part of one of the many exhibitions opening this month, in honor of International Woman's day.<br />
I will be exhibiting one oil painting, and two drawings from my nursing series.<br />
Here is the invitation to the exhibit and opening<br />
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And here are the works being exhibited-</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03465813768006935510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3315471846896471551.post-34003322779958955372014-01-16T23:53:00.000+02:002014-01-16T23:53:41.293+02:00Last Friday.....<div style="text-align: left;">
Last Friday was the opening of the group exhibit I am participating in, at the Nirale Gallery, in Beit Lechem Hagalilit, and it was a beautiful sunny day to spend in Emek Israel. </div>
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When I think of the Emek(Valley of Jezreel) I think of Earthy smells, Deep earthy colors of browns and greens, and the paintings of Eli Shamir. </div>
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Here are few of my favorites:</div>
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If you want to read about this amazing Israeli artist, his connection to the Emek, and enjoy more of his paintings check out this site;</div>
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http://english.elieshamir.co.il/</div>
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Just being in this part of the country for a few days is pure serenity. The fact that my art was being exhibited there, made it even more special.</div>
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The exhibition is amazing( If I may say so myself) Thanks mostly to the curater Nurit Wolpe. </div>
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She manages to give every one of the 13 Artist exhibiting the honor they deserve.</div>
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I truly feel honored to be exhibiting along with these artist.</div>
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The exhibit is called Couples Therapy. Every artist giving their interpretation on the theme. Showing the hardship and beauty of being part of a couple.<br />
Two Artist in particular that I would like to share with you.<br />
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Sharon Schwartz Boraks is a mosaic artist. She exhibits a Structural Mosaic " Sleeping with separate blankets"<br />
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Check out her website -http://www.glassandmore.co.il/<br />
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Edna Piorko is a Ceramics Artist, and she exhibits her amazing sculptures<br />
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Her websites:<br />
http://www.etsy.com/il-en/shop/ednapio<br />
https://www.facebook.com/edna.piorko<br />
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Here are some picture from the exhibit ( First picture is of me and my paintings)<br />
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All in all, It was an amazing day. Perfect even. I was surrounded by nature, color, beauty, and amazing people.<br />
Here are some pictures I took later in the day. You can see how Eli Shamir does justice to the landsape.....<br />
All the pictures were taken on my phone, so the quality isn't the best. Although, I'm not sure if that is my cameras fault or mine!<br />
Don't be surprise if one of these turns into my next painting.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03465813768006935510noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3315471846896471551.post-19503865415314835392014-01-08T16:15:00.000+02:002014-01-08T16:15:01.799+02:00New Exhibit opening this Friday<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Four of my paintings will be in this group exhibit opening Friday 10.1.14 at 11:00am, in one of the most beautiful places in Israel - Beit Lechem Haglilit (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethlehem_of_Galilee">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethlehem_of_Galilee</a>)<br />
Here is a link to the Gallery page with map of how to get there. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/niralegallery">https://www.facebook.com/niralegallery</a><br />
If you are in Israel, I highly recommend a visit! Not only to see my art and the others in the exhibit, But to visit such a beautiful place full of history and beauty.<br />
I will post pictures soon...<br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03465813768006935510noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3315471846896471551.post-60215209950232834012013-07-18T21:14:00.000+03:002013-07-18T21:14:44.640+03:00New Exhibit- The Story of the CreativeI am happy to share with you the news of a new exhibit.<br />
Three of my paintings will be part of an exhibit in New York this summer.<br />
"The Story of the Creative" will be opening next week at the "Angel Orensanz Foundation for Contemporary Art" in New York City. and will be showing until September 10th.<br />
Here is a link to the event:<br />
<a href="http://tmblr.co/Z9eICxoKkV27" target="_blank">http://tmblr.co/Z9eICxoKkV27</a><br />
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I am also part of a competition to get into another exhibit, this time in Paris. If you don't mind going into this link and voting for me, I would be very grateful!<br />
<a href="http://deena.see.me/atp2013" target="_blank">http://deena.see.me/atp2013</a><br />
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Thank you!!!<br />
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I hope <i>your</i> creative force takes <i>you </i>on amazing journeys as well....<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03465813768006935510noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3315471846896471551.post-81594419039901467362013-06-20T14:55:00.000+03:002013-06-20T14:55:23.137+03:00Online Studio<div class="MsoNormal" dir="RTL" style="text-align: left;">
<span dir="LTR">After
my last blog confession, about not painting lately and feeling uninspired, I
have decided to start posting more about the lessons I give in my studio.</span></div>
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<span dir="LTR"> I have been very creative in my teaching
lately and have had a lot of fun coming up with new and challenging ideas for
classes. I know that <b><i>I </i> </b>love
reading blogs with ideas for lesson plans, and from creative moms who post
their ideas of what to do with their kids. </span></div>
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<span dir="LTR">I
have been teaching for quite some time now and have accumulated a lot of very
successful lessons for all ages. All tried and tested on my lovely students!
Before I started teaching I was inspired by the many creative ideas I found
on-line and in books. I love and have always loved Art History. I collect art
history books, and love to read about artists and how and why they do/did what
they do/did! I learned to appreciate a
lot of different types of art which I didn’t always understand before. When my
boys were younger, I wanted to share this with them and used a lot of online
lesson plans and books to help me learn how to pass this on to my children. I
found I was very good at this; probably because when you love something so much
it shows through and is contagious! My kids use to (Ha! Did I really just use
past tense!!!?? ) have lots of friends over and I noticed how much they enjoyed
creating with us and learning about art. This was a huge influence on my
decision to go back to school and not just learn art but become certified art
teacher. I wanted to learn how to teach art to others. I started to teach a small group of 8-10 year
old girls in my home while I was still in school. It was so much fun!! </span></div>
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<span dir="LTR">Since
then, I have not looked back. I finished school and opened my own studio where
I still teach not only kids, but all ages. My students range in age from 6 to 90. Every age has its challenge. I am
very grateful for my classes in art education. You really have to know what is
appropriate to teach for each individual based on personality, learning style,
capabilities and age. I am still learning, of course. I learn from my students
every day. But those lessons online really gave me the push to try with my own
kids and then with others. </span></div>
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<span dir="LTR">SO…My
wish is that this new part of my blog inspires you to try some of my ideas at
home. Whether you are a grown up or a kid, a teenager or an art student, I hope
you will find something here. I will give lessons for all ages and examples of
my students’ art (with their permission, of course). Feel free to use these
ideas with your kids or students or if you home school, to add on to your
curriculum. </span></div>
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calling this new part of the website/blog "Online Studio" Please feel
free to stop by and create with us!</span></div>
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creative energy your way,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Deena</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03465813768006935510noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3315471846896471551.post-77174029968792292962013-05-24T00:26:00.000+03:002013-05-24T00:26:08.553+03:00<div class="MsoNormal" dir="RTL" style="text-align: left;">
<span dir="LTR">I
haven’t been writing much lately (as you probably noticed). Actually, I have
not been so great with my painting lately either! That is hard for me to admit;
maybe that is why I haven’t been writing… my guilt of not creating? How can I
write about creating and trying to inspire others when I can’t inspire myself? But, I suddenly realized that that is not
true. I <u>do</u> inspire others! Everyday! THAT I <i>have</i> been doing. In
my studio. In my classes. Wow! I do that EVERYDAY. What a realization! So, no-
I haven’t really been painting lately. I can now openly admit that. I have been
sketching a lot and drawing in my journal. But that’s like meditating. It’s for
me-to help me focus. But, everyday I teach others. Everyday I get to have
people in my studio, my amazing students, whom I hopefully inspire, but who
definitely inspire me. That is a blessing. I am so lucky. </span></div>
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am sharing today some personal pages from my journal. I hope they will inspire
you to draw or paint or even doodle as I do sometimes. These are not paintings.
These are pages from my journal that I usually start my day with. Like I said, to
me this is like my morning meditation. I start my day with my coffee and my
journal and just start drawing whatever comes out. Sometimes it’s words,
sometimes images or just doodles. I have seen online, that there is a name for
these doodles now, called Zen doodles. It makes sense, since the process of
doodling like this is very meditive. The process is like meditation where you
are super focused on the shapes and images you are creating and in such, you
relax your body and soul. </span></div>
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<span dir="LTR">If
you want to create and don’t know where to start, this is a great way to start.
It gets the creative juices flowing in a very non- threatening way. Anyone can
do it! Even my 7 year old has started to do these! </span></div>
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Enjoy. Create. And have fun!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03465813768006935510noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3315471846896471551.post-40837565226560334622013-04-13T21:02:00.000+03:002013-04-13T21:02:57.177+03:00Let's get back to the spirals, and how it all began…<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span dir="LTR" style="font-family: Arial;">I have written before that I have doodled
spirals since I was little; in school, while on the phone, when I was bored…I
loved to doodle. There is something very calming in drawing a spiral.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span dir="LTR" style="font-family: Arial;">But my real connection to the shape and my
more conscience connection happened in art school.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span dir="LTR" style="font-family: Arial;">It was in one of my art education classes on
teaching art to people with special needs. The course was a combination of
academic text reading and writing papers, and art therapy exercises we did on
ourselves. Then we would practice what we learned in working with others. I
loved that class! The teacher was very
insightful, and I learned a lot about myself in that class, which has helped me
as a teacher and artist. I remember that in one of her classes, the teacher
talked about the spiral mandala. This was the first time I had ever heard of a
Mandala. I don’t remember if she taught us of the different religions that use
the Mandala; I just remember her talking
about the difference in drawing a spiral starting from the outside to center or
from the center out. If you start at the center, working your way out in spiral
motion, you are spreading your strength out into the world; where as if the spiral
is drawn from the outside toward the center, you are collecting your strength
inwards. I loved that! All of a sudden this shape I had been drawing since I
was little had meaning. This wasn’t only a shape; it continues endlessly and
repeats itself. The importance is in its strength.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span dir="LTR" style="font-family: Arial;">After that, the spirals started to appear in
my art work. At first, it was in exercises in that class. We had to draw an
instinctive drawing of our family and I drew myself holding all my children in
my arms, my arms spiraling around them, holding them close. In another class,
we had to draw a peaceful moment. All I could think of was that moment in the
morning when I first got up, before everyone else in the house. I always set my
alarm 15 minutes early, so I could have a cup of coffee in peace and quiet before
I started my day. I loved those 15 minutes! It was, in those days, the only
time I had to myself. So I painted my coffee cup from above, the way I see it
every morning.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span dir="LTR" style="font-family: Arial;">And again the spirals... Now remember, this
was an exercise and not a fully developed painting, but an idea, a concept, a
connection was starting to come together in my art and in my head.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span dir="LTR" style="font-family: Arial;">At first the spirals were chaos, a whirlwind
of emotion going through my mind that never shuts off….but then…in the cup of
coffee…in those 15 minutes every morning. Gazing into my mug of sanity, I saw
my spiral. I saw my calm, my serenity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span dir="LTR" style="font-family: Arial;">I am sure it had everything to do with what
was going on in my life at that time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span dir="LTR" style="font-family: Arial;">This was the same year my daughter was born
and my mom was battling breast cancer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span dir="LTR" style="font-family: Arial;">And now this shape, that I instinctively have
always drawn, was starting to develop a very deep meaning to me. It was not
only a doodle. It was giving me strength and eventually it helped me put myself
back into the world where I could. The direction of my spiral changed as my
life did. I became more aware of this shape, shaping my life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I
started to use this shape more concisely in my art.<span style="font-size: small;"> The first time was when I sat down to paint
my belly cast from when I was pregnant with my daughter.</span></span><br />
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<span dir="LTR" style="font-family: Arial;">I casted my belly at the end of my pregnancy
and the plan was to paint it after she was born. After we had met her.</span><span lang="HE" style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span dir="LTR" style="font-family: Arial;">I have written before of the influence on my
art during this time, but this really was the beginning. This class that I had
taken, and the connection I was starting to develop with this shape, would
shape my art and my emotions. It started here in this work of art. It isn’t my
most beautiful piece, but it is one of my most meaningful. I put all my
emotions from the pregnancy and after into this sculpture. The spiral is here.
It was starting to speak to me and make sense. I could express my feeling of
the pregnancy through the colors. For some reason, throughout that whole
pregnancy, I was in pink/purple mode! Now you have to understand, I am NOT a pink/purple
girl. I am a more green/brown girl, so these colors that were in my head, and
had come through in my paintings during the pregnancy, had to be on the cast.
And the spiral- It started at my bellybutton, where I had been giving her life
and moved out from there.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span dir="LTR" style="font-family: Arial;">Her name and birth date are in the center
moving out with the spiral, going out into the world. And my hands are on the
top - resting on my belly like all mothers do during pregnancy; feeling the
movements of their unborn child, talking to and connecting with this child even
before he or she is born. While we still hold them inside and protect them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span dir="LTR" style="font-family: Arial;">We give our children life, and bring them into this scary world. We are the
beginning of THEIR spiral. Our job (as I see it) is to give them the tools to
continue on their spiral path through life. At first we protect them, we are
their everything; but slowly they develop into themselves, into their own
spiral. Still gaining strength from us but learning to move out into the world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span dir="LTR" style="font-family: Arial;">You can see how the spiral started to
influence my art and thinking. I started to see everything this way. And when I
started to learn more about the spiral in literature, science and religion it
made even more sense to me. But let’s leave that for another blog……..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03465813768006935510noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3315471846896471551.post-21307821800003159052013-03-29T13:00:00.000+03:002013-03-29T13:00:14.349+03:00Finding my blogging voice…<br />
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<span dir="LTR">In
writing the continuation of my last blog I realized a lot of things about
myself and this space.</span></div>
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<span dir="LTR"> Last time, I wrote about how I see spirals in
everything and how I was starting to see the spiral in a new way. I was
starting to see a bigger picture. Before I got into this new thought process, I
thought I would explain how I related to it all before. But when I started
writing, I realized just how personal it all was and it started me thinking on
just how much I want to share here on this blog for the world to see and read. </span></div>
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<span dir="LTR">At
first, I erased everything I wrote; thinking- this is way too personal! Why
would I share that? And why would someone want to read that? But on the other
hand, it's hard to explain certain things without getting personal. The writing
starts to be cold, and boring.</span></div>
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<span dir="LTR"> I realized that the blogs that I do like to
read were personal. When I read them I feel like I know that person, and then I
want to read more. Some blogs can get too personal though. And the blogs I have
stopped reading, are the ones that <i>over </i>share. There is a very fine line
between getting personal, but not <i>over </i>sharing.</span></div>
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<span dir="LTR"> I started this blog saying that it wasn’t
going to be about me. I don’t want to write about my day to day, what my kid
did, and who said what to me…..I don’t want that out there and I don’t think
people would want to read that. I wanted
it to be all about inspiration, woman, art and creativity. But all those things
ARE personal. And to write about them I guess I m going to have to be a little
more personal. I realize I am afraid. Afraid to be too personal. Afraid to put
that stuff out there for whomever wants to read. Afraid I may bore you or be uninteresting. But what I am starting to
understand is that my fears are blocking me. I started this blog as a new
creative challenge for myself. But it has turned into much more than that. I
love to hear back from people that have actually read what I have to say. I am moved by your
words. I love the fact that someone I don’t know, on the other side of the
world, may be inspired by something I write. Or that it might start a conversation between
us! </span></div>
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am always telling my students that if there is something that they are afraid
to try, then that is exactly the next thing they are doing in my class! If we
are afraid to try, we will never move on. We will be stuck. Blocked, like I
have been. So, I am going to take my own
advice, and am going to try that here on my blog. I will try to be more open
about me and my life without over sharing. I hope what I have to say inspires
you. I hope that if I write a little more about my personal life and how I am
inspired, by what and whom, that may inspire you. This is all new to me. I am learning as I go.
Finding my "blogging voice" in a way..It is taking some time, but I
am learning I hope you will stay with me. I hope you will comment on my blog so
others can see. I hope I learn from you and you from me. </span></div>
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will end with one of my favorite quotes by Sir Ken Robinson " If you are
not prepared to be wrong, then you’ll never come up with anything
original"</span></div>
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here’s to original thought, without fear , which will bring us all to closer to
our creative potential. </span></div>
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you all an amazing weekend. </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03465813768006935510noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3315471846896471551.post-91099968440334400322013-03-11T09:06:00.000+02:002013-03-11T09:06:52.973+02:00SPIRALS<br />
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<span dir="LTR">Spirals….</span></div>
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<span dir="LTR">I've
been thinking a lot about spirals lately.</span><span lang="HE"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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mean I'm always thinking about spirals; seeing spirals, painting spirals, and I
have already written about spirals and my connection to them. How spirals are
in everything from our DNA, to how things grow in nature and even in how we connect
to G-d. The Tree of Life symbolizes how we connect to G-d and the path we take.
We each have our own path and our own way of relating to G-d, or whatever
higher energy you believe in. Or maybe you don’t believe in a higher energy and
you believe only in science; the spirals are there in science, too. </span></div>
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<span dir="LTR">So,
we each have our paths and we live our own lives, yet we connect to people and
influence each others paths. Are our paths destiny or pre ordained? Do we meet people
randomly or are they put in our paths (and us in theirs) for a reason?</span></div>
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<span dir="LTR">These
thoughts have been "spiraling" through my brain lately and I will
probably expand on all of this in coming blogs. In the meantime, I would love
to hear <i>your </i>thoughts. It may influence my path; my journey of
discovery. </span></div>
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<span dir="LTR">So
please share your thoughts here on this blog with me and all my readers. You
never know whose path you will influence or change…</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03465813768006935510noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3315471846896471551.post-90252180115421874492013-02-28T18:32:00.000+02:002013-02-28T18:32:08.968+02:00A different kind of art experience<div class="MsoNormal" dir="RTL" style="text-align: center;">
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<span dir="LTR" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wow. It’s been awhile! Sorry for the unplanned hiatus.
It’s been a crazy few weeks here with everyone taking turns getting sick and I
have been working hard at a new project….But I'm back! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span dir="LTR" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I want to share with you the amazing exhibit I got to
see. I know that I usually promote female artists, but thankfully there have
been A LOT of amazing men out there who inspire as well. In fact, the three
artists who have inspired my work more than any others are men. Mark Rothko and
his amazing color fields; Picasso with his genius and ability to constantly
change and re-invent himself artistically; and Chuck Close, who got me addicted to grids
and the ability to combine realism and abstract.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span dir="LTR" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But, today is about a different artist- Van Gogh. I
don’t think I have truly appreciated him enough before seeing this exhibit. His
canvases do come to life. The colors and emotion in his paintings are amazing!
I have been to the Van Gogh museum in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Amsterdam</st1:place></st1:city>,
and I have loved Van Gogh’s work, but this exhibit brought me <u>into </u>his
work, made me feel a part of his art and his world. It was an amazing
experience.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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talking about the "Van Gogh Alive" experience. -</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><a href="http://grandeexhibitions.com/vangogh/index.php" target="_blank">http://grandeexhibitions.com/vangogh</a></span></div>
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<span dir="LTR" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is a new kind of exhibit - one that I am all for. Now, I LOVE museums! I mean, I really, really
LOVE them. I can spend days (and I have!) walking around museums. You can taste
all kinds of art in one place; be inspired not only by the artist’s work, but
thanks to amazing curators, sometimes I feel like I am getting a peek into the
artist’s head. I find it inspiring to see others’ creative thought processes.
It is fascinating to me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span dir="LTR">But this is a completely different experience. If you
go into the link above and click on video, you will see what I mean. Walking
though this exhibit, you feel like you are inside Van Gogh’s paintings. Not
only are his paintings all around you, but inspiring words from letters he had
written are displayed across the ceiling and floor, along with beautiful
classical music.</span> </span></div>
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<span dir="LTR" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of these quotes <i>-"I wish they </i></span><br />
<span dir="LTR" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>would just take me as I
am"</i></span><br />
<span dir="LTR" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> was displayed with all of his self </span></div>
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<span dir="LTR"><span dir="LTR" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, if you get a chance to see this exhibit- go. I saw
it in Tel Aviv, but I don’t know where it is traveling to next but it is a
great way to see art in a new atmosphere. Even if you are not a huge art lover
like me, you would still enjoy the experience.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span dir="LTR">I will leave you with some more Van Gogh quotes to
inspire, and wishing you all a peaceful, loving and relaxing weekend.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span dir="LTR">“It is good to love many things, for therein
lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can
accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.”</span><span lang="HE"><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"><span dir="LTR"></span>“If
you hear a voice within you say „you cannot paint“, then by all means
paint and that voice will be silenced.”</span><span lang="HE"><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"><span dir="LTR"></span>“What
am I in the eyes of most people — a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant
person — somebody who has no position in society and will never have; in short,
the lowest of the low. All right, then — even if that were absolutely true,
then I should one day like to show by my work what such an eccentric, such a
nobody, has in his heart. That is my ambition, based less on resentment than on
love in spite of everything, based more on a feeling of serenity than on
passion. Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness,
pure harmony and music inside me. I see paintings or drawings in the poorest
cottages, in the dirtiest corners. And my mind is driven towards these things
with an irresistible momentum.”</span><span lang="HE"><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"><span dir="LTR"></span>“What
would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<span dir="LTR"><i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“It is looking at things for a long time that
ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span dir="LTR">“...and then, I have nature and art and
poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?”</span><span lang="HE"><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"><span dir="LTR"></span>“Close
friends are truly life's treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know
ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to
share our laughter and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never
really alone.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"><span dir="LTR"></span>“Just
slap anything on when you see a blank canvas staring you in the face like some
imbecile. You don't know how paralyzing that is, that stare of a blank canvas
is, which says to the painter, ‘You can't do a thing’. The canvas has an
idiotic stare and mesmerizes some painters so much that they turn into idiots
themselves. Many painters are afraid in front of the blank canvas, but the
blank canvas is afraid of the real, passionate painter who dares and who has
broken the spell of `you can't' once and for all.”</span><span lang="HE"><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"><span dir="LTR"></span>“At
present I absolutely want to paint a starry sky. It often seems to me that
night is still more richly coloured than the day; having hues of the most
intense violets, blues and greens. If only you pay attention to it you will see
that certain stars are lemon-yellow, others pink or a green, blue and
forget-me-not brilliance. And without my expatiating on this theme it is
obvious that putting little white dots on the blue-black is not enough to paint
a starry sky.”</span><span lang="HE"><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<span dir="LTR"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>“Your profession is not what brings home your
weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with
such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.</i>”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03465813768006935510noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3315471846896471551.post-5936144248328395402013-01-24T21:31:00.000+02:002013-01-24T21:31:32.156+02:00Celebrating Female Artists<br />
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<span dir="LTR">This
week, I hosted an evening for all my students, where we celebrated woman and
creativity and watched the movie "Who Does She Think She Is".</span></div>
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<span dir="LTR">It
got me thinking, again, about all the amazing female artists out there, past
and present; and how we have to encourage and celebrate them. The fact that so
many of my students related to this film and felt that they were discouraged
from creating art in life or didn’t have time to do it until later on in life,
shows just how important this film is. If you haven’t seen this movie already, I
highly suggest you do. And if you are a creative person and have that spark and
longing in your soul to create - then PLEASE do! Don’t wait! Don’t let life,
society, spouses or children get in the way of you expressing yourself. Draw,
dance, paint, doodle, write, sketch…just do it!! Do it for you.</span></div>
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<span dir="LTR">In
light of these thoughts and that evening, I would like to share with you
an artist whose work I was privileged to have seen at the MOMA this past summer- Elizabeth
Catlett. While at the museum, I took a picture of her sculpture because I was
so moved by it. I wanted to learn more
about her. When I looked her up I was
blown away by her and her work. When I showed my mom the picture she said that
if I was a sculptor, that is how she imagines my art would look! </span></div>
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are the pictures that I took at the museum</span></div>
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<span dir="LTR"><a href="http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?%20criteria=O%3AAD%3AE%3A1037&page_number=3&template_id=1&sort_order=1" target="_blank">http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?</a></span></div>
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<span dir="LTR"><a href="http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?%20criteria=O%3AAD%3AE%3A1037&page_number=3&template_id=1&sort_order=1" target="_blank">MOMA Collection- Mother and Child</a></span></div>
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<span dir="LTR">Elizabeth
Catlett was an American born, Mexican sculptor and printmaker. Her art
celebrated the heroic strength and endurance of African American and Mexican
working class women. This sculptor "Mother and Child" was completed
during the year she returned to sculpting after the birth of her third son.
This does remind me a bit of myself! What is it about that third child? My
paintings and style also really developed after the birth of my third child- my
daughter. That’s when I started to paint more regularly again, and to develop
my style. The emotion in this sculpture
reminds me of my work in the fact that it captures that beautiful fleeting
moment between mother and child. I guess that's why I fell so in love with this
work of art!</span></div>
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<span dir="LTR" style="font-family: Arial;">I just finished another oil painting in my Tree Series.
I am very happy with the process which I went through painting this. These
paintings have helped me deal with my life the past 3 years; and as I have
grown, I feel my paintings, my technique and my style has also grown. I painted
this tree in spirals, as usual, but notice the spirals start small at the top,
and grow larger toward the bottom of the painting. I wanted to give the feeling
of looking up and through the tree; up to the light in the sky. The sun was
coming through the branches and shining on me. I wanted to capture that feeling.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span dir="LTR" style="font-family: Arial;">Next week is my 40<sup>th</sup> birthday and as I
look back on my life and where I am today, I feel very blessed and lucky. I just read in "The Element" by Ken
Robinson, that lucky people often make their luck because of attitudes. We all
create and shape the realities of our own lives to an extraordinary extent. If
you just wait for good things to happen, then you will be lucky to encounter
them. He says that our ability to look at situations in a different way and
take advantage of situations that come along is what makes the difference. This
is why I say that I am both lucky and blessed. I have done lot of soul
searching these past years and have tried to work on myself. One of the things
that I try to do is to see the world differently; to be open to people, to
connect, not to close myself off or be afraid of the world. When you make a
conscious decision to be open and to connect, it is amazing the things that will
happen to you and the people you will meet. So I guess that is the lucky part.
The part I have brought to my world by opening my heart and eyes to things and
people I didn’t before. But, I am also blessed. Blessed, because I do believe
that even if our own actions bring the blessings into our lives, we are blessed
because of our actions. I believe in a higher energy that looks over me. That is
what brings these events together through our actions. It is not random. I am
blessed with so many things from the people in my life to the way my life is
unfolding. So I would like to start this New Year with a blessing to everyone-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03465813768006935510noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3315471846896471551.post-4690811100107053402012-12-30T20:57:00.000+02:002012-12-30T20:57:00.061+02:00My Firstborn<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">17 years ago today, my first child was born - I became a parent - I became a mommy. I looked into my child’s eyes for the first time and knew my life was changed forever.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So much has happened in the last 17 years. He has grown from my baby to a young man. A young man learning for his driver’s license. A young man with a job. But a young man who still needs his mommy sometimes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I decided to re-share today the drawing I did of Effi 2 years ago as it reflects the same feelings I feel today. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In this drawing I was dealing with my emotions of my child growing into a man. Spiraling away from me into his own spiral. Changing and growing but the center is still with me. It was suppose to be an image of him today but as I was drawing I realized that I was putting in a lot of what he looked like as a child. It was a strange experience. I meant to draw one thing, but my mind and emotions, memories and love, changed it into something else. It is how I see him, and probably, only me. It is my Effi. I see the man in front of me, but I still see in him the child that was. My baby, my son. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Happy Birthday Effi!</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03465813768006935510noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3315471846896471551.post-30170529265938788222012-12-20T21:47:00.000+02:002012-12-20T21:47:35.749+02:00Teaching the Art of Mandalas to Kids<br />
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classes I teach in my studio is to 6-7 year olds. I love this class. Well, I
have to admit, that I love all my classes. Each group is unique and has its own
personality. I truly feel privileged
that this is my job!!! People coming
together every week, to create together and connect in my studio. It’s a
beautiful thing. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span dir="LTR" style="font-family: Arial;"> Kids have
a special way of seeing the world. Pablo Picasso said "It took me 4 years
to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child." This is
because as we grow up we are influenced by society and life; and our
insecurities and our life experiences influence our creativity. I think what
Picasso meant when he said this was that it took him a lifetime of painting to
get back to that feeling of painting like a child. You can be taught to paint
(not all of us to the level of Raphael or Picasso! ), but to get back to that
childlike excitement of painting, to experience art as a child, the feel of
mixing colors and touching different mediums….that's what we need to get back
to! I try to teach that to all my students. But for this class, I don’t need
to! They still have it! And a lot of
times I learn from them. I learn to see art and artists through their
eyes. This week I decided to try to
teach them about Mandalas. I wrote about Mandalas in my blog a few weeks ago
and I have taught this to grown up students, but never to kids. It was an
amazing experience and I wanted to share it with you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the class talking about what a Mandala is and showed them images of different
Mandalas from all over the world and different cultures. We talked about how a
Mandala is a way for us to express ourselves in a special way and connect with
ourselves and the world around us. I had them close their eyes and do a little
meditation exercise. It was very cute to see their reactions to this. My 7 year
old daughter is in this class and I have been doing meditation with her since she
was 3 years old. She uses breathing techniques all the time to help herself get
through hard situations. When she is really upset, she will go to a corner,
close her eyes, and just concentrate on her breathing – in and out - it works every time! But, here she was the
top giggler at the beginning! They were a bit self-conscious, but soon got into
it. I had them focus on their breathing - in and out - and then told them to
think of something they wish for, or a prayer or a thought for someone in their
life. I told them to imagine this wish/prayer as a little light in their heart
growing as they breathe in and out, growing and warming their body as it
spreads through them and out around them to a circle surrounding them. I then
told them to open their eyes and to draw a mandala starting in the middle of
the page and like the light starting in their heart and growing out, to draw
the Mandala starting in the center and growing out. I got the idea for this
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Mandalas that they drew were AMAZING!!!
I put out on the table A LOT of different materials for them to
experiment with and express themselves through. We had collage, paints,
pastels, markers and different brushes and stamps, finger painters and combs to
play with texture and let’s not forget the 6-7 year olds favorite- GLITTER!!!. They
really got into the paints and the colors; experimenting with different
textures. Since I got permission from their parents I would like to share their
work with you. I hope you enjoy seeing what they did as much as I </span></div>
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and discarded. So we decided to make use of it all, and used the leftover paint
to turn all that paper into amazingly unique textured papers that we can now
use for other projects! Boy, did we have fun doing that! Here is an example of
some paper we made and my very creative daughter’s work of art- notice her eye
showing through! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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amazing people that read my blog and comment on my musings. It means so much to
me to know that my words touch you and you make the time to share your thoughts
with me and others. Unfortunately, I didn’t have time to write a proper blog this week, But I didn’t want to
go a week without posting. I would like to share with you a recent commission I
did and hadn’t posted on my site yet. It is a sketch of the "Chazon
Yechezkel" synagogue in the Old City of Jerusalem. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span dir="LTR" style="font-family: Arial;">The picture is now in the gallery, and commissions
page of this site. Feel free to look around and if you are, or know any one who
may be interested, in commissioning a painting, feel free to contact me. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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This isn't a political blog or a very personal one; but it is blog on
women, motherhood and creativity- so I feel it’s important to discuss how we
deal with being (or not being!) creative during times of stress. Sometimes
during stressful situations there are no kids around and we have the time to create…this
is our time. Only our thoughts are so consumed with stressful thoughts that it
pushes creativity aside and paralyzes us. What if you can't find the muse to
create!? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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When I was going through my divorce, for some reason I couldn't paint. I
can’t explain it except to say that maybe I connect oil painting to a very
emotional place in me and I didn't want to deal with that place, so I pushed it
aside. But I found other ways to create. I created a lot of mosaics during that
time. Something in the process of breaking things up, physically, and putting
them together in a new beautiful way, spoke to me. The creative process helped
me, healed me, calmed me and I found peace there. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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It took me along time to pick up
my brush again. I worked with soft pastels, oil pastels and pencils and only
recently got back into my oil painting again. And I love it again!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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But this past week I had an emotional blockage. I couldn't write my blog
and I couldn't paint all week! I was too preoccupied with the war going on in
my country. My mind was so consumed with thoughts, there was no room left for
anything else. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">If you aren't from </span><st1:country-region style="font-family: Arial;" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Israel</st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family: Arial;"> then you
may not know there was a war going on here. Officially, it wasn't called a war.
But believe me when I say that for the people in </span><st1:country-region style="font-family: Arial;" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Israel</st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family: Arial;"> it definitely felt like a
war! The last time I heard sirens in </span><st1:city style="font-family: Arial;" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Jerusalem</st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-family: Arial;">
and had to run to a safe room I was a teenager. I was living at home, a senior
in high school, and my parents were there to protect me. I remember feeling
that. It was a very family oriented time. We spent a lot of time at home just
waiting for the sirens. We played a lot of backgammon and spent most of our
time together glued to the TV to see what was going on in the country. Who was
hit? How many injured? It was very scary, but I felt safe with my family. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Last Friday night a siren went off in </span><st1:city style="font-family: Arial;" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Jerusalem</st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-family: Arial;">, I was home with two of my three kids.
We grabbed the dog and ran into the safe room. I didn't know where my 16 year
old was. I was very scared. We heard a boom -and I realized – </span><u style="font-family: Arial;">I </u><span style="font-family: Arial;">am the
parent here. My kids are looking to </span><u style="font-family: Arial;">me</u><span style="font-family: Arial;"> to feel safe. I didn't feel safe.
My insides were screaming. Where is my son? Where did it hit? Where is my son?
I hope no one got hurt! WHERE IS MY SON!!! But outside, I was calm. For my kids
who were also nervous. I had to be calm and keep them calm. Hug them and
reassure them that it will be okay. We just need to stay in the room 10 minutes
to be sure and safe and then we will go out and see that all is okay….but
inside…inside, I was scared too. And when my son came home, very shaken from
the experience, I couldn't stop hugging him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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When the next siren that went off in </span><st1:city style="font-family: Arial;" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Jerusalem</st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-family: Arial;">, I was teaching. I wasn't with my
kids! I didn't know where they were, and that scared me. I didn't think
anything had happened to them, but they weren't with me. Who is helping them
feel safe? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">And then a bus was blown up in Tel Aviv,
and I couldn't breathe until my kids got home that day. They all take buses
back and forth from school everyday…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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It has taken all my strength and emotions to keep it together for my
kids. Our country was at war for a week. They saw the news. Even when </span><st1:city style="font-family: Arial;" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Jerusalem</st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-family: Arial;"> wasn't affected
we are all affected because this is a country where we are all one family. We
all care for each other and want to protect each other like a family. We are
all responsible for one another and want to feel safe.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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So, I couldn't write and I couldn't paint. My thoughts were too consumed with worry and
concern for my family. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Now </span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;">the painting will come again.
<b>Now</b> I will express it all in my work. I need that distance from
emotional events in my life to be able to create on them. Time to reflect, and
then create. I dealt with my divorce in the end, as I dealt with my mother’s
illness. I painted through it eventually. And it healed me. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">So let us all go back to creating, to living.
And I wish my WHOLE family a safe, warm and peaceful week.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03465813768006935510noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3315471846896471551.post-72630148375652338822012-11-09T16:44:00.000+02:002012-11-09T16:44:24.614+02:00Mandalas- A creative journey for our soul<br />
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<span dir="LTR" style="font-family: Arial;">As you know (if you don’t, then check out my gallery
page!), I use spirals in my art. I love the feeling I get painting in a spiral.
It takes me back to my school days when my notebooks were filled with more doodles
than notes! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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what was going on in my head and soul then what the teacher was saying! Today I understand this strong connection
between what is going through my head and what I am feeling to what I paint or
even doodle that day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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drawings with pencil, pen and ink. I had a lot on my mind and I find this very
comforting, calming and even soul searching. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span dir="LTR" style="font-family: Arial;">Mandalas are used in many religions and cultures. It
is a spiritual, creative meditation that connects our inner and outer self. The
psychoanalyst Carl Jung saw the Mandala as " a psychological expression of
the totality of the self" Jung maintained that the mandala describes our
soul, our center point, symbolizing the self. Children draw mandalas instinctively;
they are in nature in a variety of forms. The essence of the mandala is a
circle, spiral- like, in nature. Spirals
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connect and meditate on our connection with ourselves and G-d; a type of prayer
through art.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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center parallel to our own center. We connect through line, form and color with
ourselves and create a feeling of balance and calm.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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finished it did I realize I had been thinking of my son that was in the army
for the week.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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uniform, but also the green of nature. He is growing up and away from me, my
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03465813768006935510noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3315471846896471551.post-22685255466997577092012-11-03T19:21:00.000+02:002012-11-03T19:21:34.024+02:00If Mary Cassatt had a blog…<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">…or any of the other amazing female artists from a
time without Internet and blogging - what would they have blogged about?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> Today, so
many artists have blogs or are connected to other artists through online
networking. We get support beyond our immediate
environment and interact with people all over the world without traveling. This
has opened a number of doors for artists.
You can interact and learn art online, or even find where to get the
best quality and priced materials. You can see art online and learn and be
inspired by what you see without going to a museum (although it is NOT the
same!!!!); or view the work of an artist who may not be exhibiting at museums
and galleries but has an online portfolio. There are ways to show your art
today that weren't available before.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> Would Mary
have written a blog and shared her frustrations with society’s outlook on woman
artists in those days? Would she have shared her ambitions to paint
professionally against these prejudices?
Maybe she would tell tales of her school days and how she didn't think
she was learning anything so she moved to </span><st1:city style="font-family: Arial;" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Paris</st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-family: Arial;">
and copied the masters at the Louvre. We could have heard of the people she met
there. The frustrations of submitting work to the Salon and not being shown.
The fact that her father disapproved of her way of life and wouldn't give her
money for art supplies. How she almost gave up in despair.She went to America and wrote in a letter in July 1871- "I have given up my studio & torn up my father's portrait, & have not touched a brush for six weeks nor ever will again until I see some prospect of getting back to Europe. I am very anxious to go out west next fall & get some employment, but I have not yet decided where." </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> Thankfully
she didn't give up! Eventually she went back to </span><st1:place style="font-family: Arial;" w:st="on">Europe</st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;">
and had success. She was very verbal and blunt about her ideas on politics in
the art world, and I am sure I would have loved to read a blog of hers. At one
point she debated and tried to paint in a more fashionable manner to be more
marketable and make money doing commissions for the American socialites. This
is a topic many of us are well aware of today. Do we paint more marketable
paintings thinking of what people would want to buy, or are we true to
ourselves and paint from our souls? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> We could
have read about her interaction with impressionists; her friendship with Berthe
Morisot and Degas and how Degas influenced her. On seeing Degas’s work she
said, "It changed my life. I saw art then as I wanted to see it.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> Mary
decided early in life that marriage would not fit in with her career choice. Is
this not still a big challenge for women artists today? How to balance our
creativity with marriage and children? So many woman struggle with being an
artist as a career choice and only go "back" to art later in life,
when they have time. Women are still battling with society’s idea of women’s
roles and how we can manage a career and family. If Mary had Internet, and
could interact with other woman going through similar struggles as her own,
would she have still chosen this road?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Later in life Mary created her most famous series of
paintings and prints. She painted mothers and children in the most soft, tender
and honest way. I love these paintings. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> Here are a few
for you to enjoy…The first one I saw at the Brooklyn museum this summer and it
is just amazing up close.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> Mary went
on to be a role model for many young artists and advised art collectors on buying Impressionist art.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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what influence she would have had today.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> I would
like to give blog space once a month to celebrate female artists from around
the world. We can all learn from them. Their struggles and issues are our
struggles and issues. I would like to try and see the world through the eyes of
these amazing women, learn from them and discuss issues that were important to
them and may still be relevant today.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03465813768006935510noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3315471846896471551.post-23423626596085815872012-10-25T21:29:00.000+02:002012-10-25T21:29:09.621+02:00Birth and Creation<br />
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and Creation</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I just experienced one
of the most amazing experiences I could have ever wished to be a part of…..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">A very good friend of
mine honored me by asking me to be a part of her baby’s birth. Months ago, when
she first asked me, I was so touched that she would want me there, but also a
little nervous and scared. I had never been to anyone’s birth except those of
my own children. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"> I am
very lucky to be able to say that I brought 3 very different children into this
world, each in their own unique and beautiful way. Each pregnancy and birth was
so beautiful, natural and miraculous. When I was pregnant with my first child,
I devoured every book I could get my hands on about pregnancy and birth. I
wanted to be prepared! My favorite books (and those I reread in
preparation for this experience) were by the amazing Ina May Gaskin. The book-
Spiritual Midwifery blew my mind away. I loved being pregnant and was really
looking forward to having this little person in my life, but I was scared of
the actual birth experience. We are always afraid of the unknown, aren’t we?
But these books helped me see the spiritual, emotional and loving side of the
birth itself. My births turned out to be beautiful experiences in my life and I
am sure that the positive way my children came into this world has helped in
starting them off to be the amazing people they now are and are still growing
into.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Now, I have a little
secret. When I grow up (ha-ha!) I want to be a Doula. I would love to be able
(if I can) to help other woman have such positive birthing experiences. I can't
think of a better way to spend my life than by being apart of bringing life
into this world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">My experience from the
past 2 days with my friend has only strengthened this as a goal in my life. It
was so beautiful. To be a part of the journey of this little soul into this
world, and to help make that journey as calming and positive for the mom and
dad.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I am so honored and
moved to have witnessed such love between two people and the creation that love
inspired.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Today I’m looking at
the world slightly different (Although, It could be from lack of sleep)…I see
creation, I see love, and I see miracles.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">It was by birth and
connection with myself as a mother that brought me back to my art. Art is like
birth and motherhood. I am lucky to be
creating art daily and helping others on their journey of creation and
connecting to that part of themselves</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I hope someday I will
be as blessed to be helping people bring their creations into this world
through childbirth as well.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">For now, all I can say
is THANK YOU to my friends for inviting me along on such a beautiful, personal
and loving journey</span>. </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03465813768006935510noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3315471846896471551.post-22896476609961470472012-10-05T09:27:00.002+02:002012-10-05T09:27:38.587+02:00Today was a good day!<br />
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I feel a <u>little </u>guilty
saying this knowing that my kids weren’t home at all. Their father took them
camping for two days and I decided to use that time to do all the things I haven’t
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So… the first day, I DID NOTHING!!!! It was
amazing! I hadn’t done that in so long! Just sat around in my PJs reading, watching TV, catching up on
facebook….Okay, okay…so I did do some practical stuff, like banking, laundry and cleaning, but I did it
very relaxed!!!!</div>
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Today started with surprise. A friend of mine
took a course this year called "Oh Mama", at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Hebrew</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place>.
Its focus was on Art and Motherhood. It was a fascinating course and she decided
to write her paper at the end of the year about me and my art. During the year,
we had sat together often and discussed art and motherhood. She interviewed me
about my art, and this morning I read the paper she wrote. It moved me to
tears! First of all, it was interesting
to read about myself! Plus some of the
things she wrote about my art were enlightening. She saw things that I never
thought of, or intended, in my paintings. I always use to wonder what some of
the artists in museums and books would think about the interpretations we have
made of their art work. Reading this paper today gave me a feeling of what it is
like to have someone else write about you and your intentions from their
perspective. I hope her professor is as moved as I was!!!<span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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PAINTING!!!! What a pleasure! I really haven’t done that in too long. During the month of August the kids were home
everyday, all day, leaving no time to paint. Then the school year started and I
thought I would be able to get back into my painting. But then I was too
preoccupied with planning all my classes and teaching (and learning to write a
blog!) to find that big chunk of time to really dive in. Today I did, and boy
does it feel great! If you are an artist
you know that feeling: that amazing feeling of getting lost in your artwork. It
is the best feeling on earth. It is a spiritual, emotional and physical
awakening. I feel energized, like I haven’t in awhile. I have noticed that
about myself over the years: that when I don’t create I get down and when I am
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So, how <i>do</i> we find
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I think the problem is
sometimes we want all or nothing. If we can’t find that perfect time, complete
quiet, no kids…or whatever other obstacles we lay out for ourselves, we cannot create.
I know I am like that. I need my space and time to paint. So for now, I am
looking for that balance <i>within</i> my life, cause I <i>am</i> a mother,
partner and teacher and all those things will get their full attention; but I
need to –no, I HAVE to - paint. I have
to for my own sanity, in order to be a good mother, partner and teacher.
Therefore, I am putting aside one day a week from now on. I have one morning
that I don’t teach and I am NOT going to go shopping or meet friends or even
read a book! I will paint! The dishes will still get done, the laundry sorted
and food will be on the table … and I will be HAPPY to do it!!!!</div>
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So, don’t make excuses to not
create! Make time for yourself. Put time aside every week to create. The time
will never be perfect so don’t try to make it so or wait for it to be, just DO
IT!!!!! </div>
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Is anyone else struggling to find that balance? Write a comment here and
share your experience. Maybe we can all learn from each other and encourage one
another….</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03465813768006935510noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3315471846896471551.post-88360263498320009782012-09-20T15:14:00.001+03:002012-09-20T15:14:31.120+03:00Musings on teaching<br />
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I have written a lot about my art and my life connected to art, but what
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<span dir="LTR">There
is that saying by George Bernard Shaw which people always joke about "He
who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." As I sat down to write these
musings, that quote popped into my head, and I was thinking of its validation.
I think that there <i>are </i>plenty of people that excel in what they
"do" but cannot teach it to others. And there are those who teach,
not because they "cannot" but maybe for more practical reasons
like…making money! There are many successful artists who still need to teach to
make enough money to live. It is actually very practical. You love something;
you are good at it; why not try and pass that on to others! Inspire! That’s
what good teaching is all about, right? Inspiring.</span></div>
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think that I "do" <i>and </i>I "teach" from my passion to
"do". Does that make sense?</span></div>
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love to teach. I went back to school later on in life. It took me awhile to
reconnect with myself and discover what I wanted to do. But when I went back to
school, it wasn’t just to do and learn art, but specifically to learn how to
teach art to others. The biggest part of my education was reconnecting with
myself as an artist. I became passionate about art again. When I teach, I feel
my job is to inspire others with my passion for art and what I "do". If
I didn’t "do" it, I don’t think I could teach it.</span><span lang="HE"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03465813768006935510noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3315471846896471551.post-21960182676244488442012-09-07T00:58:00.000+03:002012-09-07T00:58:42.086+03:00Committing to writing a blog<br />
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So, maybe committing to writing a blog right before summer vacation
started wasn’t the best idea! I have taken a month off without meaning too!
After camp was over and the kids were home fulltime, well…time flew by without
me realizing it. But it was a great summer. The kids had fun, relaxed, and have
now gotten back into a school schedule, and my life is back on track. My
classes have all restarted. It is great to have people back in the studio
creating and having fun. I now have time to paint again and get back to my
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I started this blog more for
myself than anything. I have written in the past that I don’t want this blog to
be just about me and my life. My intention isn’t to tell you all about myself
and for people to comment and relate to that. I do feel I have a story to tell and
experiences to share that would benefit others; and I have seen on other blogs
and know for myself that sometimes just reading that someone else is dealing
with similar issues as you can help you get through them. When I first got divorced,
I read a lot of blogs of other single parents and I felt less alone; not only
because of what they wrote, but seeing so many others responding and hearing
their stories as well. It really made me believe in the good side of the
internet! A place for people to connect and share.</div>
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I have always loved to write. When I was little I wrote poems. Cute little
poems that I was very proud of and very embarrassed if my parent read them out
loud! As I grew older my writing was more for myself, and I never thought of it
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I never even thought of it as creative! My art was what made me
"Artistic" and "Creative". Writing was more personal. The
older I have gotten, and the more writing has benefited me in my life, I
realize the strong relation it has to my Art. A lot of the same feeling I get
when painting, I get when writing. The frustration when nothing comes out…and
the excitement when it all just overflows and pours out!! As Picasso said, “<i>Painting
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So, to me, this blog is also my new creative challenge: every week, to
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out of my comfort zone. This is how we grow, as people and as artists. By
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So this is my new adventure, and I am taking a risk with you and myself
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">I didn’t always live my life by this wisdom. But for the past few
years I have. I have been living my life with belief in myself and my dreams.
It has not always been easy (I talked about that in last week’s blog), but I
feel that lately it is all pulling together. Lots of positive things are
happening to me and I believe it’s because I now believe in myself and allow
myself to dream and to believe these dreams will come true.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">As you know I participated in "Art Takes Time Square"
this past June, where one of my paintings was displayed in <st1:place w:st="on">Times
Square</st1:place>, along with those of other artists from all over the world.
Well, I just received an e-mail informing me that one of my paintings will now
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<a href="https://www.see.me/items/book/atts2012/?profile=Deena&id=46992-4f75d9d72b9be" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px;" target="_blank"><img align="right" border="0" src="http://c2910532.r32.cf0.rackcdn.com/46992-4f75d9d72b9be-thumbnail.jpg" style="padding: 10px;" /></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px;">We have exciting news. After reviewing the work you submitted into the Art Takes Times Square competition, our Editorial Committee has chosen one of your pieces to be featured in our upcoming publication, </span><strong style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px;"><em>Art Takes Times Square</em></strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px;">.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px;">Out of the tens of thousands of artists who entered the Art Takes Times Square contest, only a select few will appear in this publication. You can take pride in knowing that your work was among the best we saw, and we believe this special coffee-table book will be even better with your art included.</span><br />
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particular painting is the one which I had hoped would be picked to be
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<br /></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03465813768006935510noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3315471846896471551.post-83779635752663364322012-08-02T20:22:00.001+03:002012-08-02T20:22:30.891+03:00Who Does She Think She Is?<br />
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My <b>idea</b> for this blog is that it
shouldn’t just be about me and my art, but a celebration of woman, motherhood,
art and creativity.</div>
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<span dir="LTR">Unfortunately, it isn’t always easy to combine these things. A lot of
woman artists stop creating when they become mothers, or their creativity
shifts to a more practical route. Now this makes a lot of sense. Once you are a
mother, time isn’t always available. You need to learn to multitask your life
between being a partner and mother, and juggling work and friends. It is not always easy to find time for yourself.
Ask any mother of little kids when was the last time she sat down to read a
book and she will probably laugh. When I
first got divorced, there were many people who told me I should give up on my
art and find a more practical job. "You should teach art in the school
system" or my favorite - ‘you should do art in your free time (ha ha) and
get a regular job’. I am very grateful and lucky for the fact that most of the
people in my life didn’t say that and were very encouraging and supportive. I
think that I am very lucky to do what I do. I get to be a full time mother and
work at a job that I love! I have people coming to my studio to learn art and
be creative. I get to inspire and be inspired daily. My studio is right there,
ready and waiting for me to create daily. I feel I am a better mother when I
give myself the chance to make art and express myself.</span></div>
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<span dir="LTR">One of the big influences on me to stick with my art was the movie-"Who
Does She Think She Is?" This is a documentary about women struggling to
live creative lives and balance with motherhood and family. It talks about the
guilt women feel when putting aside time for themselves to create. It deals
with questions such as: how to create and not turn your back on family and
community? How does this affect children and family? Why are women always
caught between giving to others and developing their own skills? This movie
empowered me and encouraged me to realize that I can live my WHOLE life. I would love for my blog to inspire
others. I have received a lot of
responses to my blog from women who told me how hard it is/was to keep creating
when life got in the way. I would love for people to respond and comment here
on your thoughts on this issue. Maybe we can start a conversation that will
encourage others to live their WHOLE life. So when asked-"Who does she
think she is?" We can just smile
and say “This is who I am!"</span></div>
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<span dir="LTR">Please check out the website and be inspired. </span></div>
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<span dir="LTR"><a href="http://www.whodoesshethinksheis.net/">http://www.whodoesshethinksheis.net/</a></span><span lang="HE"><o:p></o:p></span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03465813768006935510noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3315471846896471551.post-39026431344918907332012-07-19T12:46:00.000+03:002012-07-19T12:46:59.719+03:00Art Takes Time Square!!!Last month I had the pleasure of participating in an interesting art event, Art takes Times Square, hosted by "Artist Wanted”.
Artists from all over the world put up art portfolios on the web. They were then judged by the public and Artist Wanted, and those who received enough votes were chosen to exhibit their art in Times Square.
Here is a video of the event and winner, Vicki DaSilva<br />
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It was an incredible experience for me. I hadn’t been to NY in 20 years, and this was my first time traveling by myself without my kids! So just being there was amazing….I lived and breathed art for 10 days. The event itself was a celebration of art and artist. Artist from all over the world, standing together, watching our art on huge screens in Times Square New York! It was an amazing feeling. Here is my painting up on the big screen-
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I then spent the next week trying to see as much art and museums as possible, spent time with old friends and family, and came home refreshed and inspired!
I will be sharing some of the amazing art I got to experience with you in the next few blogs….I have also started a new painting and look forward to sharing it with you all when it’s finished.<br />
Thank you to everyone that has written to me lately about my blog. I am truly touched to get such beautiful letters from such inspiring people and am thrilled that my art may inspire others. I know there are artists that just paint and don’t think about what people will think or feel when looking at their art; but I am not like that. My art is my way of connecting. Connecting to myself, and the world around me. So if my art touches you, I would love to hear! And feel free to write your beautiful words on this site as well, so that others can be inspired by you!
Thank you again. And till next week…..Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03465813768006935510noreply@blogger.com1