tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50310833108055603812024-03-13T19:03:17.030-07:00Angela Menzies ArtAngela Menzieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14101822197553458984noreply@blogger.comBlogger213125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5031083310805560381.post-27069090758971773792019-06-17T09:42:00.000-07:002019-06-17T09:44:04.692-07:00More Tiny Silly Things (ravens and foxes)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The only thing sweeter than these diminutive paintings, is my diminutive rat terrier extraordinaire!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">A dear friend responded with this poem and I wanted to share it with you. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #1c1e21; text-align: left;">Just east of certainty. A little south of courage. A hair's</span><span style="color: #1c1e21; text-align: left;"><br />width from ease. Clicks away from ready. A turn<br />or two from acceptance. A shuffle from faith. A set of stairs<br />from achievement. A riverbed from happiness. A handspan from<br />peace. A wink away from freedom. A few lines until the poem's<br />done. A highway, a night's sleep, a phone call, a touch, a rotation<br />of gears away from that certain yes that tells you where you are is<br />exactly where you need to be. I know, the signs can look as if they're missing,<br />and the map so distant and unclear.<br />But I'm telling you, you aren't lost. You're never lost. You're always here.<br /><br style="content: ""; display: block; margin-top: 10px;" />Maya Rachel Stein</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Last week I saw a massive raven in my yard stealing robins' eggs. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Whenever I paint, I clean my paint brushes off onto thick paper. And this week I was day dreaming of ravens.</span></div>
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<span class="lr_dct_ph XpoqFe">/inˈsidēəs/</span><span class="lr_dct_spkr lr_dct_spkr_off" data-ved="2ahUKEwiX7ezgsJbhAhUJv54KHTDpDTEQlfQBMAB6BAhkEAg" jsaction="dob.p" role="button" style="display: inline-block; height: 16px; margin: 0px 2px 4px 5px; opacity: 0.55; vertical-align: middle; width: 16px;" tabindex="0" title="Listen"><input height="14" src="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAA4AAAAOCAQAAAC1QeVaAAAAi0lEQVQokWNgQAYyQFzGsIJBnwED8DNcBpK+DM8YfjMUokqxMRxg+A9m8TJsBLLSEFKMDCuBAv/hCncxfGWQhUn2gaVAktkMXkBSHmh0OwNU8D9csoHhO4MikN7BcAGb5H+GYiDdCTQYq2QubkkkY/E6CLtXdiJ7BTMQMnAHXxFm6IICvhwY8AYQLgCw2U9d90B8BAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" type="image" width="14" /></span></div>
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proceeding in a gradual, subtle way, but with harmful effects.</div>
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"the insidious erosion of rights and liberties"</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Strawberry season, my sweetheart is coming round.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is probably the first piece of fan art I have ever created. I first recreated a photograph of Anderson .Paak shot by Shayan Asgharnia last Christmas for my son Mason. I liked it so much I decided to paint another one for him, featuring strawberries layered into the figure.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">"I am a self taught artist and I have been painting since I was two years old. I first learned that art could stir a reaction in people when I was six years old and painted a portrait of my dad... skinny dipping... his dong hanging down to his knees. A star was born, and I don't mean me. My dad! He was suddenly invited to every parent teacher conference there was. I remember my friends being horrified, not because I painted my dad nude, but because I got away with it. When I left that school in grade 7 my painting still hung on the walls of the teacher lounge. As far as I know it is still there, and I have been painting portraits ever since.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I fell in love with psychology when I took my first Intro To Psychology class in grade 11 and then made the decision to study social and developmental psychology at the University of Victoria. During this time I painted small figurative works that I sold through a local framing shop. I spent the next 25 years painting figurative works.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">A shift in my focus happened about four years ago when I went from teaching art to small groups of home-schooled children in my art studio to large classes at a local private school. My work load as a mother, homeschooling parent, teacher, art mentor, and active studio tour member was horrendous. I was tired all the time and I had just resolved to paint my heart out! But first, something had to give. I decided to leave the studio tour art group I had helped build for the last 17 years after a friend encouraged me to jury into the Federation of Canadian Artists (FCA). I took a year to plan and paint 10 new paintings to submit to the FCA jury. These paintings were something new altogether.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I was excited again and I began to paint my heart out! My new paintings fused portraiture with my love and understanding of the human psyche. The paintings were scarred, excavated, layered and bleakly transparent... much like people. I was accepted into the FCA and immediately had three of my largest pieces accepted into their gallery on Granville Island.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">My paintings are a multi layered process of bonding paper to board and painting the surface black. I use white acrylic pens to draw the back ground, which is painted in acrylic. The back ground design is then incised, infilled with grease pencil, embossed and then polished. Next, a portrait is painted on top using as many as 40 layers of glaze. Finally, I use various etching tools to scratch through the glazes to strategically reveal the under painting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Ooooh, I love this question. From a technical standpoint, the grease pencil is used to create an unstable layer between acrylic layers. This allows me to etch and scratch into the work and excavate layers away. The instability is resolved with varnish. Psychologically speaking, I love knowing that each painting has an unstable layer, again... like most people.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: times, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;">Years ago, I accepted a painting challenge from a dear friend of mine to paint a "never ending painting". The goal was to layer 6 unrelated paintings on top of each other and allow each layer to inform (or not) the next painting. This was the first time I experimented with transparency, layering paintings and excavating through the acrylic paint. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Yes. I once read that when an octopus is stressed it will eat itself. I loved this as a metaphor for mental illness, which can be all consuming.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I studied social and developmental psychology at the University of Victoria and earned a Bachelor degree. After that I went back for a fifth year to write an honors thesis on the suggestibility of children's eye witness testimony. I then worked with sexually abused children in the foster care system. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">One thing that surprises people is that there is not necessarily a correlation between awards, prestige and making money as an artist unless you can market your awards and prestige. Financial s</span><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">uccess is born from marketing. So you really need to define what success means to you and prioritize how to make that happen. Personally, today I define my success as being able to find time to make art in the first place and as having something to say through my art. I have to find ways to prioritize getting out to my studio in the middle of a hectic schedule. It helps to have a studio muse.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">When I was a young child I would sit with my grandmother and watch the bluejays she fed on her big porch. She died when I was a young teen. She kept in her garden a peony plant that came to Canada with her from England after the war. When she died, my aunties dug up her peony and kept her legacy alive. My mother gifted me a piece of this precious peony when we bought our first house and I planned my first garden. This painting and a tattoo I have are sentimental reminders of a safe place to fall.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">This painting of Anderson Paak just happens to be my favorite, for no other reason than I love painting portraits (and that smile was irresistible!). I painted it for my son Mason to hang in his new tiny home, so the painting itself is also tiny at 10"x10".</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">My oldest son, Raine, and I decided to collaborate on some book making projects for my parents. My dad, and Raine's Poppy, has spent our lives regaling us with delightfully grim stories. We love it! The three of us read, watch, and write tales of horror. Together, Raine and I created a custom made and painted box set of horror writing prompts for my dad. And they are pretty grim so I won't share the story starters with you (take my word for it) but I will show you the artwork.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Raine drew the tentacle design for our box and I painted it to match the booklets we made.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I even made my own cards this year, during a lino block printing class I took from a friend of mine. The octopus and manta ray card was hand painted for my brother and his wife.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">"The Monarch Butterfly has a special place in my heart. When
I was a kid in Whitby, Ontario, after school I would often play in a small
forest at the centre of a farmer's field. One year the field was fallow,
growing among other things, Milkweed. One day I noticed that the farmer was out
in the tractor mowing, and the plants were covered in the iconic striped
caterpillars. I got a box and plucked probably hundreds of the caterpillars off
the plants. I took them home and put the box in my garage. Every day I would go
and find milkweed to bring to the box of caterpillars. My sisters thought I was
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went all over the garage. By the time they became chrysalis, they were hanging
everywhere! Off of shelves, even off of the side mirrors of the old VW Beetle
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door and was greeted by the sensation of Butterflies fluttering past my face
and hands. Even to this day I don't know if I can express this experience
adequately. Utter freedom. This happened for several days in succession, as
they emerged from the chrysalis.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Non-interference, and controlling enthusiasm for example, simple patience. In
my rush to "help" I even went so far as to use a blow dryer to
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of transforming, and finding the open air.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5031083310805560381.post-87704536930568259832016-11-22T10:33:00.000-08:002016-11-22T10:33:46.771-08:00No Such Thing<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Quilting with children on a large scale like this (58 students) is not for the faint of heart. This project is prep heavy, coming in at over 55 hours of personal prep time.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I would like to thank the estate of Kay Reamsbotham for the generous donation of all the quilting fabrics.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">This is truly a collaborative project, with older students pitching in to help with sewing buttons or threading needles and tying knots. Karly even became our resident "whisker expert." Once she learned the stitch technique for making whiskers, she helped teach the other students who needed to make whiskers.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">And talk about confidence boosting.When 6 year old Nowa chose the hardest square on the octopus to make he assured me with joyful confidence that this was the square for him.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">1. Prime, draw and paint a pattern onto canvas that is the size you want your quilt to be (8 hours prep). </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">2. Measure and cut the canvas pattern apart into 6 inch squares (1 hour prep).</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">4. Translating the pattern to fabric; I used tracing paper to create the fabric pieces to be sewn. I chose to do this for the students as it is a complicated and time consuming step. I imagine smaller classes and older students could manage this step for themselves. The prepared squares are then put into embroidery hoops (8 hours prep).</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">5. We are almost ready to sew now. The last step is to prep the threads. Ordinary thread tangles too easily and embroidery thread is too thick. The solution is to separate the 6 strands of embroidery thread into strands of two. I wind the threads onto card stock, ready for threading. I then thread the needles and coil them into egg cartons to keep them tangle free. This has to be done multiple times before the quilts are done, and is a really nice step for the students to help out with (3 hours prep).</span></div>
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