Indigene Art Forms

Collectors’ Delight

May 6, 2013

The people who buy my art, delight me in so many ways! I have wonderful conversations with them, we share heartfelt stories and we are both passionate about my art.

Here are a few of those amazing individuals who bought my art and sent me pictures, to show me their delight and the places where “our” art hangs.

My painting is the one in the center. This collector has to hang his paintings high, since he has an adventurous cat! :) The painting, “Elephant Dreams” was a commissioned mixed-media piece, that included antique buttons, gold leaf and sculptured mini faces. You can read about it on my blog post of http://indigeneart.com/2012/11/26/elephant-dreams/

This painting, “Hope’s Snow” was commissioned for a beautiful young lady who races dogs in Russia. This was my first painting to Russia. You can read about the making of the painting here:

http://indigeneart.com/2013/02/07/50-and-growing-pains/

If you’d like to read about the painting in Russia, you can visit her mother’s blog here (it’s in Russian; how cool is that? )

http://alovchany.blogspot.ru/2013/04/blog-post_17.html

This painting, “Flower Power” is a part of my collector’s sacred space. Art moves everyone in different ways and inspires one to invest in their own creativity.

I also offer, to hang art purchased from me, but as you can see I enjoy the collectors who do their own thing, too!

Art does move you…you just need to allow it to.

Please Note: All photos are copyright by the art’s owners.

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Liebster Award and Blogs for You to Enjoy

April 16, 2013

I discovered that Sumaiyah Dymonz Yates gifted me with an award on her blog. I am so grateful and am delighted to take this opportunity to share some blogs with you.

ABOUT THE AWARD

This award was designed to be a blog award in the pay it forward fashion. Once you’ve been nominated, you award it to five blogs that you like that have fewer than 200 followers, to encourage new visitors to visit these blogs.

RULES FOR ACCEPTANCE

Thank the person who gave you the award and link back to their blog. Post the award onto your blog. Give the award to five bloggers who you appreciate that have fewer than 200 followers. Leave a comment on their blog letting them know that you have given them this awesome award!

PAY IT FORWARD
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Becky in Burma - I love this blog, Becky’s an ex-pat, who writes realistically about the experience and if you don’t know what that means, that’s even more of a reason to check her out!

Catherine Meyers - Catherine went back to school at age 56, to earn her BFA, which she accomplished, she writes about other wonderful artists, gives me my art history and who’s who in feminist art! I love artists in my age group, who rock!

Lisa Hoffman - There are those blogs that are just fun, has fun videos and the blogger just pulls you in with their humor, well that’s what Lisa does, plus, I really really want to hang out in her studio! :)

Lori Portka - Lori started a “Thank You Project” a year ago, in which she created 100 paintings to say thank you to various people, some she knew and some she didn’t. You can read more about this on her link. If you ever wanted to start a “grateful project” her blog can give you tips on how.

Colleen Attara - Colleen is an amazing artist, who has a wonderful studio and creates wonderful work of arts by using recycled materials. I can’t rave enough about her and the work she does.

I’m not sure whether all my blog selections have 200 or fewer followers, since not everyone uses a counter, but, I love letting people know about interesting blogs, that I’ve discovered in my internet travels!

Have a great week and always pay it forward!

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Spring Time Meditation

April 5, 2013

On March 30, I was a guest blogger for Artistceller and had the wonderful opportunity to share my art journal pages that I created from using Artistcellar stencils.

Artistcellar sent me two fabulous stencils to play with from their Sacred Geometry Series – (“Square Rose and Flower of Life”). I was excited about experimenting with these stencils and sharing it here. The 6”x 6” size makes it great to use with a lot of different projects.

I needed a little “Spring” lift, after all the winter temperatures in my region, along with very gray days. I prepped two of my large format journal (22”x18”) with Liquitex Gesso.

Since most of my work incorporates some style of portraits/faces, I wanted to see how I could utilize these stencils into that format. Stencils are great; if you want to create wonderful backgrounds, add a different detail to your art or if you don’t have the time or skills to express your creativity.

I find that stencils are great tools to work with. After prepping, I drew two simple images, I then taped down my Artistcellar “Square Rose” stencil to the page and used a pencil to outline the stencil onto the page.

Once that was finished I then used my black Coptic marker to outline the pencil drawing of the stencil.

Once that was completed, I used various markers to color in the flower details of my stencil drawing.

I took my time on detailing this part, because it was so meditative. I wanted to add some glitz to the page, so I then added a block of imitation gold leaf on each side of the image (following the easy directions that come with the gold leaf kit), to make the imagery pop!

On the left journal page, I used the “Flower Power” Stencil.

With the complexity of the right side of my journal pages, I wanted the left page to be fun, simple and clean.

I used my stencil brushes and my flower of life stencil, I then added my lettering with my alphabet stencil.This was so much fun and I had a chance to use the both stencils in a meditative way, which appeal to my need for simplicity and complexity.

Thank you Artistcellar, for these great stencils to work with and add to my spring time journaling fun!

List of Products/Tools Used:

Artistcellar Sacred Geometry Series “Flower of Life” and “Square Rose” Stencils
Stencil brushes
Liquitex Gesso
Liquitex Basics Acrylic Paint (Light Red and Titanium White)
Americana Acrylic Craft Paints (Blue Harbor, Baby Blue, True Blue, Boysenberry Pink and Baby Pink)
Farber-Castell – 6 PITT artist pens (Manga set)
Farber-Castell PITT large White 101 artist pen
Farber-Castell Pencil – 2H
Black Coptic Sketch marker
Sharpie Paint Pens – Medium – oil based pens (white and blue)
Sakura Opaque Pigment Markers – dual sides – (light blue, fuschia, orange, purple, and green)
Mona Lisa Art Products – Imitation Gold Leaf Kit
Artist Loft Alphabet Stencil – Roman Lettering Style

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Encouraging Words…

April 1, 2013

A couple of days before Spring, I received a lovely package in the mail from my friend, Colleen Attara. Colleen is this amazing artist, who uses recycle and reclaimed materials and turn them into works of art.

Colleen also creates words, out of a plastic recycled materials and I asked her to create a couple of words for me.

Words have a way of creating a path, a life and action.

After receiving my love package, and on the first day of spring, we got snow!

So on a very cold day, when spring was nowhere in sight, I was outside in the snow, hoping that this “word” would send a message out to the universe, so the warm air would “spring” into action.

After the snow left, the cold rain came. I’m still waiting for lovely flowers to sprout.

Nature, teaches us so many lessons, and one of its most powerful one, is that patience is truly a virtue and so for now, I settle for spring flowers of the silk variety, until the Spring bloom, comes in!

So thank you Colleen, for giving me some wonderful words that remind me of nature’s force and my human potential.

For your own words, in real life form to put in places to inspire you, contact Colleen Attara at Colleen Attara Studio, in beautiful Bucks County, PA. She’s amazing to work with and will inspire you with her art and words.

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Spring Equinox Commitment

March 20, 2013

At the beginning of the New Year, I decided that my word for this year would be “commitment“. It’s not that, I haven’t committed to things in the past, I have! But, this year, I wanted to put a laser focus to my commitments and choose them wisely. I’m like many people; in the past, I’ve over-committed and drove myself and others crazy, trying to fulfilled them. This year, I want to change how I commit to people, causes, etc. I wanted to be present in them, and give them my full attention and integrity.

So hear we are, three months into the new year and I want to keep moving forward.

Keeping a gratitude journal, keeps me ever grateful and I’m finding that affirmations are a wonderful way to keep me focused and moving forward.

I found this wonderful author, Heather McCloskey Beck, who has written the “Commitment Series.” So on this first day of Spring, I am recommitting to my New Year’s word, “Commitment”

“Commitment Series“, the book will be published in the spring of 2014. You can preview a part of this wonderful series at: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.529756183720274.137345.346457395383488&type=3. If you’d like more information on this series or to see more wonderful affirmations and amazing photography, please check out the aforementioned link. This is a book, I’m going to buy and refer to often.

There are (31) days in Heather McCloskey Beck, Commitment Series on her Facebook Page, so go and check it out, maybe you’ll feel like making a commitment to yourself, for yourself.