new art vid and art classes!!

hellu mah babies. andy and i are going away for 5 - 6 days, so i won't be on here for a while, apologies if you are waiting for comments/ emails etc i should be able to respond once i get back. but before i go, i just wanted to post my new art vid & info about the online art classes i'll be running end of feb next year .... (thanks to ya'll for filling in my poll btw!!)

info about the art classes can be found in the video, but i'll also post the banner & info below! hope you come and join.





new l'art;





art class ad:





Workshop 1 - World of Whimsy
This course will run for 6 weeks with a video & pdf file per week!
Course skill level: beginner & intermediate
Course fee: $65

Course outline
week 1 - 28th feb 2009: composition, layout, design of your piece
week 2 - 7th march 2009:how to draw main elements of your piece & inspiration
week 3 - 14th march 2009: shading and filling in your elements
week 4 - 21st march 2009: background & layering
week 5 - 28th march 2009:embellishments, definitions & borders (frames)
week 6 - 4th april 2009: adding inspirational, uplifting messages to your art

Your pdfs will contain both technical guidance and will look into positive healing and self acceptance practises based on the teachings of Marshall Rosenberg (nonviolent communication, looking at feelings and needs), Eckhart Tolle (the power of now) and Byron Katie (the work).

During the course, the aim is; learning new art techniques, having fun, getting in touch with your inner awesomeness and remembering that there is no such thing as failure! Only several ways that you don't want to do art!! (Thomas Edison , the man who invented the light bulb, said after he was asked if he wasn't discouraged about the amount of times he kept failing: "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." - Now that's the spirit!)



www.willowing.ning

oh oh, ps. it comes with hilarious pictures too (yes i is a goof):





happy holidays and all that jazzzzz.

xxx

xmas prints?

if anyone is interested in buying any of the following prints (these are my top 4 selling prints) for either themselves or as a xmas gift, let me know as I'm printing a few at the moment and it's cheaper to do them all at once! :-)

Prints are $15 + $6,- shipping each.

You Shine


You are a Beautiful Expression of the Universe


Star Painter


10 Rules of Life

Enter name of print:

also, if you are looking for original art as a xmas gift, i still have quite a few original paintings for sale on my website here: original paintings

some examples:




to order the original art, or see larger versions of the images pls go to the link above.

thankooo.. xx

latest commission work

i finished this painting for rick (oliver's uncle you may remember a painting i did for him).



close ups:







i also made a video of the process!

meet the tweedles!

"helping us learn to accept ourselves as we are"

There once was a girl who liked to make puppets. When she was young the world told her she wasn’t perfect and therefore less lovable than other more perfect children. For a long time in her life, she tried to become perfect, she did everything she could to; look better, make better things, sneeze better, chew better, smile better and have better hair, until one day, she woke up and realised that “perfection” isn’t about changing what is, no, it is about accepting what is. It is about the ability to accept your imperfections and love them for what they are. She even started wondering if there was such a thing as ‘imperfections’ in the first place, boy, lights switched on in her head that day.

So since that day she started striving to accept all her supposedly ‘imperfections’. Now, she is not gonna lie to you; it wasn’t easy, voices in her head kept telling her; “you are wrong! What are you doing? Why aren’t you working on making yourself more perfect?! You are so below average, better improve, like, EVERYTHING you are and do or no one will love you.” But the girl insisted; my imperfections are perfect, just as they are. People who can see that too will love me and I will love them. And then she started telling the voices; you are perfect, as you are, too! The voices were a bit stumped by that response initially, and some sputtered and protested, but slowly they started to change their tune as well.

The girl kept working on accepting her imperfections, but when she was making art or puppets or sang some songs, the old voices sometimes came back saying; “that isn’t good enough, ugh, that is so ugly, you should stop making things altogether, you’re so bad at it”. And for a while, the girl started believing the voices again. She became quite miserable as striving for perfection would, because ‘perfection’ is elusive and mythological in nature and really there isn’t really such a thing, but the voices were so loud, the girl didn’t have a hope in hell to realise it.

Then, one day, one of the puppets she had just created but ‘wasn’t perfect enough’ started talking to her. The conversation went like this;

Puppet: Hello maker, how are you today?
Girl: I’m unhappy, I just spent 6 hours on making you, but you’re all wrong.
Puppet: I’m all wrong? Really? I rather fancy myself.
Girl: *giggles*, really? But 2 of your 4 legs are shorter than the other two and you look a bit lopsided. Also, your hair is slightly in the wrong place.
Puppet: And?
Girl: Well, that isn’t very perfect is it now?
Puppet: I think I am perfect just as I am. I love all of my legs and my hair, and I also love that I have no arms. I love you too, btw, thank you for making me and spending all that time on me.
Girl: Wow, thank you, Puppet, I think I’m gonna call you Tweedle, do you like that name?
Puppet: I love it.
Girl: Thank you, Tweedle, for reminding me to accept my imperfections.
Tweedle: What is an imperfection?
Girl: That is a good question, I am not sure. I think it’s when something doesn’t conform to certain rules.
Tweedle: Which rules? Who’s rules?
Girl: Again; a good question, not sure, perhaps society’s rules?
Tweedle: Sounds to me that your definition of perfection is a bit wishy washy and unclear.
Girl: Yes, very true.
Tweedle: To me, perfection is the ability to accept what you call ‘imperfections’.
Girl: I know, I agree!! I’ve been telling myself that for years. I really do strive to accept my ‘imperfections’.
Tweedle: Oh you do?
Girl: Yes!
Tweedle: Well, I’m a little sad then.
Girl: Why?
Tweedle: Well, you try to accept your own ‘imperfections’ but what about mine? I have to change and be better and learn to be different to what I am to be accepted by you?
Girl: I never thought of it that way Tweedle, now I’m a bit sad too.
Tweedle: Why?
Girl: I never realised that by judging my creations I am still not entirely accepting myself as I am. I want to from now on try to both accept my own imperfections but ALSO the imperfections of my creations!
Tweedle: That makes me feel so relieved. I really feel happy because I value being accepted for who I am!
Girl: I love you Tweedle, just as you are.
Tweedle: I love you too, just as you are!

And so the girl decided that no matter how ‘imperfect’ her creations were, she was going to accept them and send them into the world anyway.

BUYING A TWEEDLE

Tweedles are some of my creations that I initially deemed 'imperfect' and not suit for sale. After talking to Tweedle (the first ever 'imperfect' plush creation), I realised that there is a lot to be gained from having a Tweedle around to remind us to accept our own and other people's imperfections.

Therefore, Tweedles, are now sold to help spread the message of self acceptance in the world! Their 'imperfection' or 'Tweedle Factor' helping you remember to accept your own imperfections (they so perfectly accept their own you see).

Each Tweedle will cost between $5,- to $15 depending on size plus about $5,- shipping.

Each Tweedle comes tagged with a 'w' on the front of the tag and a 't' on the back of the tag - this indicates true 'tweedle-ship'. Other plush items in my stores are simply tagged with a 'w'.

Tweedles are one of a kind and there will never be another Tweedle like it seeing that a puppet only becomes a Tweedle when it contains unintended 'imperfections'. I will not attempt to create a similar Tweedle with similar 'imperfections' nor will I try to create deliberate Tweedles.

Tweedle Factors(TF) or 'the imperfections' will be listed in the description section.

Tweedles plan on healing the entire world (for serious)!

visit the tweedles at willowing.org

awww

baron loveheart and flora the penguin have just been sold! awww. i'm gonna miss them!



fret not however, i'm about to create a new 'one of a kind' penguin, i'm excited about what sort of character she is going to be. :-) watch this space. x

and a big thank you to the buyer! ♥

soul whispers

acrylic transfers. :)

i did art. yay.

i did some cool acrylic transfers of two of my photographs and did some mixed media/ healing with it like so;



the middle image of the child is me as a child! :) (awwww), it's from this picture:



(but then reversed as it is a transfer)
i scanned it, printed it and transferred it.
i am no older than 3 there - yeah, i know, it looks a little like i'm no older than minus 100 there (hee hee) with the sepia and old look there, but zhe truth is; my mum had a thing for 'old looking' photos so she hired a photographer especially. this pic was taking in the 70ties, not in the early 1900s hee hee. ;)

and the lower pic is another pic of me, this one:


(again; reversed as it's a transfer)

i enjoyed doing this piece, definitely very mixed media, loads of different materials; crayons, fabric, scrapbooking stickers, scrapbooking papers, book pages, rubber stamps, sheet music, gold leaf (or rather silver), ribbon, rub ons, acrylic paint, stickers.

but i miss the drawing. ha. it's more collage than drawing, and i like drawing so much! :)

mostly i wanted to see if i could get this gel transfer to work nicely, they're a bit vague but nice enough i think!

i've done more art and new [experimental, hilariously deformed] puppets, but not scanned/ photographed them yet, should appear somewhere sometime soon!!

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ok, hope everyone's good, happy thanksgiving to my americanosies. :) and happy whatever else to everyone else.

oh PS.

if you use this link:

www.lookpink.com

as a search engine instead of google, you'll help raise money for breast cancer research!


big love. x

portals-zine

check it out, joleen featured me on portals-zine.com

http://portals-zine-blog.blogspot.com/2008/11/willowing.html

yay! thanks joleen!

i will also appear in their december issue of portals zine!

x

a pair of underwater pearls

been pretty sick with back ache and some other medical issues, but managed to find some energy for new art vid and some new stuffed toys. :)

the art video is a bit of a random one. i do a mini tutorial on drawing hands and i am working on a painting inspired by josee savaria whose paintings make me drool.





also, i bought a mini moleskin a while ago, it was meant as a spiritual diary but i've been doodling more in it on the train every day, can only really use pencil as i'm on the train, so some pics of recent girl doodles below.

the painting i'm working on in the vid, will have a girl in it like in the doodles below.








uhm, what else?

oh yes; i put a load more stuff up in my etsy shop again, so go check it out :-) (if you want of course). here are the latest listings:






on and made this new cute bear named by andy as baron heartlove (supername me thinks! ;)):



of course, he too, is for sale.

want to thank everyone who's been sweet to me, leaving comments and sending love and healing vibes during this scary time for me. you know i love you guys right? and uhm; you like, so totally very much rock!

xoxo