Monday, November 28th, 2011
 For you folks, at Illustration Friday, here’s my idea of round, plus something extra!
This is an extremely busy time for many people, running round with end-of-year activities and holiday stuff, me included! So, I’m happy to offer some beauty and words to live by.
Here is the first of (18) inspirational card series, I’m launching:
Dream Sequence #7 - Inside Text: “You soar above life’s chaos“ ©Indigene Theresa Gaskin
Price: $5 per card – 5″ x 7″ Card
Shipping is Free in the U.S.A. and Canada
I will be featuring all (18) cards through my blog posts, Facebook and Twitter. All cards are $5 each, the messages are inspirational and the art is frame-able, they’re great as a keepsake or as a gift.
I’m really excited to be able to offer my art and words that I live by to you at an affordable price. For now, the cards can be purchased directly from me. Purchase can be made through me with PayPal, credit card and/or with check by approval first.
Email: indigene (at) indigeneart.com (Write in subject line: Card Purchase Only)
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/indigeneart
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Indigene1
All (18) cards will be available, plus many other beautiful items at the Holiday Open Studio Tour – 212 Wakefield Road, Rosemont, PA - December 9 – 11, 2011. Please stop by can view my art and the art of five other amazing artists/artisans. You can pick up a map from the aforementioned location to all the other studios involved as well!
So let me get back around to my chaos and remember to breathe, life is good and you’re alive!
In peace to you and yours.
Tags: Art, chaos, Dream Sequence 7, eagle, facebook, Holiday Open Studio Tour, http://twitter.com/indigene1, http:indigeneart.com, Illustration Friday, Indigene, Indigene Theresa Gaskin, inspirational, life, product, sales, Self-Promotion, soaring, twitter
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Saturday, November 19th, 2011
 Illustration Friday‘s prompt for creating this week is vanity. It got me to pondering whether confidence is sometimes mistaken for vanity.
Of course, I know the definition of vanity, but there have been times when I’ve mistaken someone for being vain, and after getting to know them, I realized that they had a confidence of self, that was enviable. Which brings me to my next pondering…do we see vanity because we envy the confidence of an individual?
The lesson learned for me, is not to judge, since it is only when I get to know the person, do I begin to see the true self, and there have been times, when I would have missed out on knowing a wonderfully confident and loving individual.
(Image: “Da Bronx” – 9″x12″ Mixed Media/Paper)
I captured this beauty sitting on a stoop in the Bronx. My first thought was “what a vain young woman.” She exuded confidence, beauty, which many took as being vain. I glad I got to know her, she had a mighty story, where vanity had no play in it.
How do you know when you’re dealing with vanity or confidence?
How do you know the difference? Have you ever mistaken one for the other?
Does culture play a role in your viewpoint of vanity of another?
Have you ever dismiss a vain individual without getting to know them?
Love to hear what you think!
Peace to you and yours.
Tags: Bronx, charcoal, confidence, Da Bronx, Experiences, Graphite, http:indigeneart.com, Illustration Friday, Indigene, Indigene Theresa Gaskin, life, mixed media, NYC, Paper, pastel, stoop, vanity
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Friday, October 21st, 2011
 I love winding down on Fridays, I look over my week’s work and feel a sense of accomplishment and order. Did I get everything done? Nah…that never happens…that’s what’s so wonderful!
I wake up in the morning, grateful for another day and I get to start all over again.
The days, when I’m stumped or can’t get the creative flow going, I look to my fuel packets…my art journals! :) I either create pages in my art journal or I look through art journals, I’ve created in the past and that usually gets me going.
It’s good to revisit my art journals from time-to-time. I especially look through all of them, at the end of the year. This year will be more meaningful to me, than ever. There is a lot of emotions in this year’s collection.
Art Journaling is the best fuel for me and it’s accessible at any time.
What fuels your creativity, your peace and/or happiness? I would love to know, leave me a comment(s).
Have a great weekend and fill up on the things that make you happy and at peace with yourself.
(Photo Image: On-going 2011 Art Journal Collection – ©2011 Indigene)
Tags: Art Journal, Creative, creative block, Diaries, facebook, Fuel, Happiness, http://indigeneart.com, Illustration Friday, Indigene, inspiration, Journals, photograph, Studio, Theresa Gaskin, twitter, window
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Thursday, October 6th, 2011
I’ve been in hibernation, as far as my blog is concerned. I will remedy that immediately!
I try to blog weekly, but I’ve been working very hard on some left brain activities, like updating my office systems, reorganizing my files (yes, again) and adding more art to my inventory!
I’m also preparing for a Holiday Studio Tour, releasing a new product line, working on my newsletter to my collectors, creating a new painting series and attending some workshops!
So that’s what I’ve been up to, instead of blogging, I’ve hardly had time to think!
I need to get a lot done before the winter blahs and then my bear-like tendencies will be in full effect, especially when it snows, and I’ll be hibernating for sure! Are you hibernating or burning energy? Let me know. Peace to you and yours.
(Detail from “Sky Life” – 30″x22″ – Mixed Media)
Tags: activities, Art, Bear, blog, celestial, goddess, Hibernation, http://indigeneart.com, Indigene, Indigene Theresa Gaskin, inventory, left-brain, planning, Sky, studio tour, Work
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Tuesday, September 20th, 2011
 (“Dream Sequence-13″- 3″x 7″ – Mixed Media/paper)
You ever wake-up in the morning and feel like you’ve just come back from an exciting place? Or know that your dream had some significant meaning, and you try to hold on to it, to remember it, before it fades away?
I do that often, in my dreaming and at times, in my conscious life. Dreams are especially hard to hold onto, with its colors or lack of color, feelings, sense of place, things and sometimes people. Which is why I keep a pad and pencil, on my night stand, to capture all the symbolism of my dreams.
I think, that’s why I’m mesmerized by faces, places and things.
I find faces mesmerizing, they stay with me long after the person has left my vision scope. I’ve been accused of staring, but it’s because I’m putting that face into memory and the face has fascinated me in some way. Be it, the eyes, or that little space between the nose and the mouth, or their eyebrows.
I feel that way about places, too! When I travel, I feel the pulse of a place as it attaches itself to all my senses, it can be the food, the sounds, the scene, or the meeting of new people. A place has history and stories and my senses try to get a sense of it or add my own unique slant to it.
I have a fascination with things, also, since I’m used to be that kid, who would come home with beautiful rocks, I may have found, or a brilliant color button, strings and that old fashioned key (I’m that adult that still puts found things in my pocket). These are things, I can pick up later and in that instant, I’m back to that moment that I found that thing!
I am mesmerized by people, places and things…or maybe it’s just as my grandmother used to say, “Life, baby, it’s just life.”
What has you mesmerized, today? Is it just for today or are you always mesmerized by that person, place or thing?
I’m listening…
In peace, to you and yours.
Tags: acrylic paint, child, Dreams, grandmother wisdom, http://indigeneart.com, http://indigeneart.com/blog, Illustration Friday, Indigene, indigenous child, ink, life, living, marker, Mesmerizing, people, places, Pondering, symbolism, symbols, things
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Friday, September 16th, 2011
TO: My Artists Friends:
Are you confused about social media?
Do you understand how Twitter and Facebook can help you promote your art?
Do you think social media is just a big waste of time?
MAJOR HELP IS ON THE WAY!
Alyson Stanfield, author of “I’d Rather Be in the Studio: The Artist’s No-Excuse Guide to Self-Promotion,” is coming to Philadelphia for a one-day-only workshop to help us sort out the benefits (and pitfalls) of social media.
 SOCIAL MEDIA IMMERSION
PHILADELPHIA, PA
NOVEMBER 5, 2011
http://artbizcoach.com/philly
For one whole day (November 5) we’ll eat, breathe, and sleep Facebook, Twitter, blogs, and maybe some Google+ before then.
This is NOT a “how to get started on social media” workshop.
This is for people with existing social media accounts and blogs.
If you’re ready to take your online presence to the next level, please join me in at this workshop.
. . . Only 60 seats are available! . . .
People are signing up already and Alyson expects it to sell out.
The price for this 1-day event is only $127 right now and includes lunch.
(Price goes up to $157 after September 27.)
Everything you need to know is at http://artbizcoach.com/philly
We’re going to have FUN. You’re going to be part of a wonderful, social (hey, it isn’t called “social media” for nothing) Saturday. I hope you’ll follow up on this soon and reserve your spot.
P.S. I’m promoting this because I think it will be informative, fun and great!!! I hope to see you there.
Tags: Alyson Stanfield, Art Biz Coach, facebook, http://indigeneart.com, http://www.artbizcoach.com/philly, Indigene, Indigene Theresa Gaskin, learning, Networking, Philadelphia, promotion, Social Media, Social Media Immersion, support, twitter, workshop
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Wednesday, September 14th, 2011
 This blog plays a part in my success, because it captures some of my creative processes, dreams, experiences of art and life, as a daily practice, I share with others. Since my creative processes are often done in isolation, my blog is a way for me to interact with others, which in turn helps me to network, connect and share!
After some difficult months and major changes, I spent some time soul searching, reestablishing boundaries, redefining goals. My definition of success needed to be adjusted, tweaked and changed at various times in my life. What I defined as success in my twenties, looks very different from what success looks like in my fifties!
In the Native American tradition, there is no word for art, because it is in every aspect of daily living and life. That’s how I wish to live my life, not with art being something separate, but as something that is a part of my life, like nature is, family is…because art is not separate from me! It is the authentic me. This is the formula used to define my success.
(“Define Your Success” – 5″x7″ – Mixed Media/Paper)
So a major part of defining my success is creating art, selling art, living with art and letting others know how what this means to me and what it can mean for them. I would like to reiterate: this is how I make a living! I love sincere compliments, who doesn’t like hearing pleasantries about something they’ve made?
REMEMBER, it is cash, that pay the bills, feed my family, gas up the car, pay for health insurance and allows me to continue being me. This is my economic circle of life.
All of the above makes me a success! How are you defining your success? Are you allowing others to define success for you? Forge your own path.
In peace to you and yours.
Tags: Art, Artist, blog, Boundaries, circle, Creative Process, culture, Definition of Success, Dreams, economics, Experiences, http://indigeneart.com, Illustration Friday, Indigene, Isolation, life, money, Native American, network, Selling, share, success, Theresa Gaskin, Tradition
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Saturday, July 30th, 2011
 Today, I just wanted to reach out to some of the talented illustrators, that I know. We visit one another, spend time in each other’s colorful blog world and reach out to one another with thoughtfulness, warmth and downright gut wrenching laughter!
When Linda Hensley, sent me this, I thought it was a good time to do something fun and show my appreciation of these artists.
First, I want to thank Linda Hensley, for giving me this award. Linda writes and blogs over at: http://lindahensley.blogspot.com. She’s a thoughtful and informative writer and an amazing illustrator. Linda adds value to the blog world! So this wonderful artist has given me an award! Yeah, thank you, Linda!
There were some rules for picking up the award, why, Linda, why? Rules…ugh! :)
The rules for receiving the award:
- Thank the person who gave you the award.
- Write a post about it.
- Answer the questions below.
- Pass it on to 10 bloggers who you think really deserve it and send them a message to let them know.
So here’s some miscellaneous stuff you didn’t want to know about me! :)
Q & A:
01. My favorite color: Orange & Turquoise – never could choose between them!
02. My favorite animal: I should say my daughter’s cat, Oscar, but we have a love/hate relationship! So I have to say my German Shepard, Keisha, who has gone to doggy heaven!
03. My favorite number: 3
04. My favorite non-alcoholic drink? Limeade
05. I’m a member of Facebook and Twitter
06. My passion: I’m not sure there’s enough time to list them all! I’m fanatical about My family, Women and Children Issues/Advocacy; The Elderly, The Environment, and Art, which is not last or least!
07. Getting or giving presents? I love both equally!
08. My favorite pattern? I don’t have a favorite.
09. My favorite day of the week? Friday.
10. My favorite flower? Sunflowers, because when I see them the make me smile, no, matter the mood, there’s something about their brown faces and bright yellow/gold flower hair, that brings out the best in me.
10 Favorite Bloggers:
I hate choosing just 10, because I love so many, but here goes this time around:
1) Vanessa Brantley Newton – http://oohlaladesignstudio.blogspot.com. Her joy and enthusiasm, and pure madness always keeps me laughing!
2) Valerie Walsh - http://www.valgalart.com/blog. Valerie thoughtfulness and beautiful aesthetic always gives me food for thought.
3) Bella Sinclair -http://bellasinclair.blogspot.com. Bella’s art is wonderful and Bella has enough warmth and love for the whole world, and I’m so happy she give me some of it!
4) Jack Foster - http://jacktoon.blogspot.com. Jack’s expressive illustrations are always fun, warm and so easy to relate to.
5) Josh Pincus -http://blog.marshotelonline.com. He is always over the top, and his posts has me laughing out loud with memories and amazed at his knowledge and research!
6) Paula Kuitenbrouwer – http://mindfuldrawing.com - Paula’s posts are always calming and meditative with a smile factor, proving life is in the moment.
7) Ellen Byrne – http://ellenbyrne.blogspot.com. Her blog always has a nostalgic feel and sparkles with her personality.
8) Laurel Gaylord – http://www.studiololo.blogspot.com. Who for the longest time, I only knew her by “Lolo”. She’s an amazing talent with several wonderful blogs!!!
9) Roberta Baird -http://www.robertabaird.com/blog. She is the only illustrator who can get me to look at a mouse, longer then two seconds! Her illustrations makes the child in you dream.
Last, but never least:
10) Sharon Wagner -http://sharonrwagner.blogspot.com. Sharon’s color and designs always jumps off the page, in a fun and whimsical manner.
Sharon has given me a beautiful award, which I want to acknowledge here, also so that you can see her beautiful style and of course to end this blog post in vivid color as well. Thank you Sharon!
 I’m truly blessed to know so many talented, amazing, fun-loving and caring artists. It makes life bearable and memorable!
Appreciate your friends, they are your extended family.
In peace to you and yours.
Tags: Appreciation, Art, Awards, Cherish, Friends, grace, Indigene, Indigeneart.com, love, Warmth
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Sunday, July 10th, 2011
I have something very special to share, so stay-tuned for my wonderful unveiling on Wednesday, July 13, 2011 AM!
I’m excited!
Ciao, until then!
P.S. Once again, THANK YOU and an amazing and heartfelt hug to all of you for your cards, comments, thoughts, support and time.
Tags: Art, Friends, http://indigeneart.com, http://indigeneart.com/blog, Illustration Friday, Indigene, News, Stay - Tuned, Work
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Sunday, June 26th, 2011
 I am in the middle of a summer night’s dream, of the mind, body and spirit. I am trying to wrap my mind around the concept of the spirit leaving the body.
It’s not something that I can articulate well at this point, and maybe I never will.
(“Mind Body & Spirit” – Mixed Media/Paper)
My sweet little sister, Renee is in hospice, that is really all I can say now. My dreams are filled with surrender, an outpouring of love and a deep hole of sadness. So on these midsummer nights, I try to understand, believe and sustain faith. May the God you believe in, give you the peace of mind, that can surround the body, so that the soul may be released. Blessings to you and yours.
Tags: acrylic paint, belief, Blessings, body, Care, faith, Family, Friends, God, Graphite, Hope, hospice, http://indigeneart.com, Illustration Friday, Illustration Friday, Indigene, ink, love, midsummer, mind, mixed media, night, Paper, Peace, Prayers, release, Renee, soul, spirit, Surrender, watercolor
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