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Diane Woods

I am a painter. It is what I love to do. I paint landscapes, giant fruits hanging on the tree or balancing impossibly on a tabletop, giant flowers and tiny flowers.

I love to see healthy, happy people and I admire those who contribute to them. I love the way life forms work together in a well managed organic environment to create a happy, respectful and healthy living for one and all.

I have learned that life is not an object and that it is aware. I have even learned that the tiny fungi along the roots of plants in healthy soil CHOOSE minerals for the plants! They are essential to proper nutrition. I seek to raise awareness of the network of life.

My mission impossible is to paint life even though life is awareness and is not visible. I guess that is what we do every day. I just love paint!

Marietta Duda

I am a Cultural Anthropologist, Artist and Explorer in Training. I help others to embrace and appreciate diversity and enjoy the differences and ultimately embrace the oneness that we all share. I lived and worked in a remote area of Kenya for 3 years helping bring people together from all over the world to help empower the African women and girl child. I am actively involved in Wildlife conservation and cannot imagine a world without the amazing creatures that lived on the ranch I lived on in Kenya. We can never seperate the wildife from the people living around them…we must support programs that serve to help the peoples living with and around wildlife so that they have ways of making a living without poaching and charcoal burning. Life is hard for these people that are subsistance farmers when there is a drought their crops do not grow and they can’t feed their families and many resort to illegal activities such as poaching to feed their families. I am returning in a few months to help those in the villages I worked in learn about their Human Rights. I am humbled to be a part of so many strong women. I tell everyone just tell someone to do something.

We should all know and help educate others of their Human Rights. I love what I do and can’t imagine not living a life where I am allowed to be free to do what I feel passionate about.

Alexandra

Like yourself and realize you are a creator. Create create create.

Barbara Andrews

This is a great way to participate in Clearing the Planet! Carl this is awesome!
Here are a couple links to my works of art

1st my Music -
myspace.com/barbaraandrews

2nd Murals
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2006928&id=1391371892&l=5cc9f4171e

Create…Create…Create and clear Planet!

Richard Ellam

Hello Friends,
I have worked for many years in the Heritage and Entertainment Crafts business producing sculpture, props and displays for film,advertising,museums,theatre and the retail industries. A cross section of some of the crazy things that I have been asked to make can be found at http://zazzle.com/scificastings. Pretty much everything from dinosaurs to aliens.

Over the years I have been obliged to work with some quite nasty materials and chemicals in order to make things happen. And I feel quite fortunate to be a healthy 50 year old, dispite the impetuous abuse to my system.

I have ‘Seen the Light’ and will now only work with environmentally friendly materials. Which I also encourage as a Lecturer at The Centre for the Creative Industries at Exeter College.

This year I set up FX Sculpture and our aim is produce modern sculpture that is inspired by Sci-Fi and Fantasy. The kind of stuff that we are all used to seeing in films and on television.

Our Greys that Glow are our first product. They are cast using Jesmonite, which is an envronmentally friendly water based resin system, manufactured here in the UK.

As a new business venture we have only recently started to promote our work on the internet. And are finding it a quagmire of advertisers asking money up front and shops offering sale on return.

We would very much like to sell our work on recommendation and for commissions to go to good causes or individuals helping us to spread the word.
Therefore we would like to offer a 10% commission on every one of our sculptures sold. This would be payable through paypal, by simply including a code into the notes section when a purchase is made.
To request a code number please visit our site and send me an email.

We wish you good fortune

Richard

Art is a way of thinking and percieving the world we live.

Art has always been described as a way to explore how we think, see and feel in the world, weather its a about what is going on, a bunck of flower… anything.

Either way it is a thought prcess and a message to the world outside of ones self.

so i say use this opportunity to make a difference, and tell the world what is really going inside your self and the world around you. open the worlds eyes to you reality.

Im doing this by being interested in the world people and home it all works. Also i am stufieg art to improve my skills and my abillities to open the eyes of the world, through Three dimentional Design at UCA Farnham in the UK.

Maura

earth

I am young aspiring artist which loves art and finding it a life-giving water.

You can find me on web:
www.medailon.deviantart.com
www.mariabeno.studentartfolio.com

Leisa Collins

How it all began…

Welcome to my first Art in the Making Newsletter, which marks my re-emergence into the art world and the launch of the Leisa Collins website.

So how did this all begin?

The year was 1975. It was the beginning of a beautiful New Zealand summer and I was fresh out of high school. The setting was a stuffy lecture room at the Auckland Technical Institute where I had enrolled for art training so that I wouldn’t end up behind a grocery store check-out counter with no formal education to fall back on.

The teacher’s discourse ran on and on, his voice echoing off the walls… and then it hit me! There had to be more to art and life than this! Surely art was something to be LIVED, not just the subject of boring, pedantic course room lectures.

I made up my mind. I would learn my craft by capturing the splendor of the countryside on canvas. I threw the few paintings and art supplies I possessed in the back of my old station wagon and with only a few dollars in my pocket (no credit cards those days) I embarked upon a new adventure. And what an adventure it was. I gave rides to a wide variety of foreign hitch-hikers and learned about their cultures and customs, I visited the Maraes (community meeting centers) of New Zealand’s native Maori race, I got lost in remote mountain regions, and when I found myself totally broke I spontaneously set up my easel with a beautiful scene in front of me… and a busy tourist resort directly behind.I sold the landscape before the paint was dry and was back on the road in a flash.

My interactions with people on these travels gave me my first view of social injustice. When I arrived back in Auckland I continued my career as a full time artist while becoming increasingly involved in the growing movement to restore Maori land rights. A few years later I decided to devote my energies full time to social issues – a course which lead me to the four corners of the globe. This provided me with greater insight on life and introduced me to many diverse cultures and art forms.

My motto is Art with a Message and my new path is to work again as a full time artist while using my art to promote and create change on important social issues.

Over the last few months I have compiled an art portfolio which I hereby proudly present to you through my new website – www.leisacollins.com.

I invite you to tour my virtual gallery and take note of my unique commission work. I also especially invite you to visit the Art in Action page of the website.

Remember that supporting a living artist and owning original works of art gives you a unique relationship and ownership – something that is rare in the artificial world of today.

Purchase one of my original paintings online, send me an e-mail message, visit my Art with a Message Blog or sign up for this Art in the Making Newsletter.

I will continue to update my website with new works of art and blog the daily events of my upcoming live tour – Across the USA from the Eyes of an Artist.

Later this year I will continue to blog as I retrace my journey through the New Zealand wilderness where I first taught myself to paint.

Most importantly, I would love to hear from you and get your feedback.

Wishing you a fabulous week!

Best regards,

Leisa

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Directing Attention

By Joe Ball

It’s great to be able to write about whatever I think of! Cool! This way nobody has to hear my thoughts. One of the things I’ve been thinking about recently is the subject in the title.

This is what you could call, being cause over being cause. Why did I have to bring that up…. Ah well. What I noticed was that when I perceive others and what they have to offer, I am being the effect. Whenever i pay attention to anyone I’m being the effect. And the reverse is true, whenever anyone perceives you or what you have to offer, you’re being cause. Ok, so if you know that then you can be causative over your causativeness. RAD!

I try to notice what’s around me, it’s in my nature. One of those things I notice is advertisements. Many times advertisements just throw out all kinds of message, in hopes that they will direct people’s attention well enough to take all the necessary actions to then buy their product. That hasn’t really worked on me, but what I do notice is how advertisements direct attention. Since I’m being the complete effect I might as well savor it right?

There is an art to directing attention. I really started to notice this in public speakers. A public speaker can just let the words roll out and at the same time let their audience fall asleep- or they can keep people alert and very interested by the way they are able to direct people’s attention artfully.

Here’s how a professional looks at anything: ‘how can this be bettered?’ That is so neat. I pointed out a sagging doorway to a contractor friend the other day, and he just looked, figured out what going on, and finally said, “That shouldn’t do that.” He was thinking in terms of an ideal (best situation), and the current doorway under inspection didn’t fit the ideal. Had I pointed that out to someone else on the street they might have said, “It’s probably just old.” Think of your own examples on this.

The reason I brought up the professional tidbit is that you can assume a professional viewpoint on anything, even if you’re not a professional in that area. All you have to do is think, ‘how can this be bettered.’ So, in the case of directing attention, you can take notice of what you observe and you might start to see the full scale. On one hand you’ll notice what you don’t want to observe and why, on the other hand you’ll notice what is pleasing to observe and how well it directs your attention.

I do this with web sites very often. I will notice where my attention goes. Sometimes I really enjoy the path in which my attention travels if there is an artist behind the scene. Many times I don’t like what I see or can’t comprehend stuff rapidly enough. When that’s the case I’ll want to leave that site, but before I do, I take a really close look at how it could be bettered, and where they went awry.

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