WHAT ARE YOUR SUCCESSES IN 2019?

Suzanne talks about Celebrating Successes of 2019, before and beyond, including building her dream studio and the new online course, Exploring Abstract Art.

This is a great time to reflect and take in all of our successes for 2019, large and small.  Successes give meaning to our life, reflect back to us our good efforts, and help propel us forward.  When we stop to contemplate these particularly good moments and bring them to our awareness, we can enjoy them again and let them sink in where they become a real part of who we are.  Success are empowering and great affirmations of our desires to share our unique gifts to the world.  And, without risk, we would have no successes at all.

What are your successes in 2019 and what are you grateful for?

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““Art is an adventure into an unknown world, which


can be explored only by those willing to take risks.” ”

— Mark Rotho

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Our dream is so support YOU and
YOUR creative successes in 2020. 
 

Please check out our new ONLINE course EXPLORING ABSTRACT ART .. Sign up so you can be the first to know when the registration is open.  The course starts in just under two months! - JANUARY 12, 2020!   We hope you will make our gift to you a gift to yourself, too.

Thanks,
Suzanne and Grant
Living Your Wild Creativity

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EXPLORING ABSTRACT ART ONLINE COURSE

With much excitement we want to share with you what we have been doing for the last three years…. We have been pouring our passion and love into making an exciting new online course for YOU!

For the past several years we have been listening to what participating artists need and want to make their art the best it can be. Our response was to create an in-depth 14 week ONLINE course that will help you make more dynamic paintings. We give you knowledge and experience of the fundamentals of abstract art while supporting and inspiring you to express your hearts' desires. We are excited to share more about how our course works and the great benefits to you an your art. So, stay tuned......

“ Art attempts to find in the universe, in matter as

well as in the facts of life,

what is fundamental, enduring, essential.
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—  Saul Bellow

If you are ready to follow your creative voice and live your life full of passion and purpose, please check out our new ONLINE course EXPLORING ABSTRACT ART and sign up so you can be the first to know when the registration is open. The course starts in just under two months! JANUARY 12, 2020!

Thank you for all your support.
Grant and Suzanne

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YOUR ONE WILD AND PRECIOUS LIFE

Who made the world? 
Who made the swan, and the black bear? 
Who made the grasshopper? 
This grasshopper, I mean- 
the one who has flung herself out of the grass, 
the one who is eating sugar out of my hand, 
who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down- 
who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes. 
Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face. 
Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away. 
I don’t know exactly what a prayer is. 
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down 
into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass, 
how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields, 
which is what I have been doing all day. 
Tell me, what else should I have done? 
Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon? 
Tell me, what is it you plan to do 
with your one wild and precious life? 

Mary Oliver 

Mary Oliver’s tender inquiry into the meaning and purpose of life demands our attention. What is true for you? Here is what Grant has to say about his own experiences of living his life with purpose.

Creativity is a driving force in my life and my art as an expression of this creativity.  To me, I am living life with purpose when I create——-I show up, I give of myself wholeheartedly to the process of expression. I feel an authenticity, an integrity, a completeness when I do this. Life is easier and goes more smoothly, is felt more deeply as infinite worlds open before me.

“Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.


Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
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— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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We offer you many ways to ignite your own creativity through our workshops and our NEW online course, Exploring Abstract Art. We hope you check them out and join us however it might work for you.
Suzanne and Grant

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IN STUDIO? LIVE ONLINE? OR AN ONLINE COURSE? WHAT KIND OF WORKSHOP TO CHOOSE?

One of the greatest opportunities in the modern world is to get an art education of your choosing.

While it is important to learn and practice the fundamentals of art, how do you desire to learn these. Short, intense workshops usually up to a week are combined with being in a “destination”; longer, more comprehensive slower-paced courses are more likely in a private studio or live online. I call this type of workshop Studio Practice. There are also newer online video-based courses with larger numbers of participants and social media based. And there are a mixture of these. Each has advantages and limitations.

1. Short Intense Workshops - These usually are specialized in topic and are more narrowly focused. The student is immersed in creativity with a lot of fast-paced instruction and personal help. Students quickly bond and share together much like “camp.” These workshops are great for learning and practicing because the emphasis is usually on process and exploration. It is a wonderful way to meet various levels of artists from a variety of places and to get away completely from daily routines.

2. Studio Practice Courses - These longer courses usually meet on a weekly basis; learning is at a more leisurely pace with the emphasis on learning and practice and building habits for a sustained artist life. This is a great way to mentor and to develop skills and confidence while growing as an artist. Such a course is usually close to home and artists meet other like-minded artists in their own locale. Some may be given both as in-studio or live online. They are less expensive since there is not travel involved.

3. Online Courses can be done either alone at your own pace or together in a large virtual group. In the latter case, there is usually a meeting and sharing arena on social medial. The emphasis is more on the lessons, less instructor contact, and more reliance on the other students for connection. Often there are very large groups in on line courses from across continents. They can be great melting pots of all kinds of people to meet, and a great exchange of support and ideas among the participants. Less personal instructor involvement and again there is no travel involved.

4. In-studio and live online Courses. You can choose to travel or not. Teaching is done over a webinar type platform with students actively participating and receiving input from peers and the instructor. These courses can either be short and intense or over longer periods of time like Studio Practice Courses. These have the advantage of working in one own studio. The instructor is able to give plenty of one-on-one attention to all students. The group becomes cohesive throughout the course on social media and through checks-in during classes. This is a relatively newer form of workshops. They are usually fewer students and they often live in far away places.

We hope this helps you be able to choose the right workshop for you. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to email us in the form below.

We hope you take a look at our workshops and find one that is just right for you. We offer all types of creativity learning opportunities.

Suzanne and Grant

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