tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69047121546827561562024-03-05T19:54:00.064-06:00Studio TimeSuzi Dennishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17509556154136297319noreply@blogger.comBlogger208125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904712154682756156.post-32633036424151715682019-05-03T14:06:00.002-05:002019-05-03T14:06:41.452-05:00A LITTLE EXPLANATION<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">MY PROCESS ON MAKING POTTERY</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I thought it would be a good idea to let you know what happens from the time you order a piece of pottery custom made until it is finished. People ask about "time" and it really depends. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So here is a little explanation of the steps:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The first thing that happens is I make the piece</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then it has to sit for a few days to become "bone dry". This is the Greenware stage. The piece is still just clay but hard enough to paint on. At this stage it can break very easily and can be added to water and recycled if need be.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Next comes the first firing. The Bisque Fire. In order to fire the piece I have to fill this kiln...can't just fire one or two pieces.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">After it is fired the first time it has to be glazed</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And then this kiln has to be filled and it is bigger and takes a little longer. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Once it is filled and fired, the piece is ready. The kiln takes about 7-8 hours to fire and then at least 24 hours to cool down enough to empty.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As you can see, this is not a speedy process. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The best case scenario is you order something I have already in the green ware and ready to paint, and at the same time, the bisque kiln is almost full and ready to fire. That is when it can go fast. Other than that....be patient. It's worth it :) (I think)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">HOPE this helps!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thanks,</span></div>
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Suzi Dennishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17509556154136297319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904712154682756156.post-88756821606168981062017-04-07T16:19:00.001-05:002017-04-07T16:19:08.694-05:00LEARNING CURVE - HANDS IN CLAY<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Several of you on my facebook page</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">have been bearing with my learning process in my journey with Pottery so I wanted to share this batch just out of the kiln.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The first batch was a disaster and I showed some of those on the facebook page. These are better (much better) but still have some problems but I am getting a better grip on what those problems are and how to proceed. So here are a few of them and a little about them. Remember....some of these are the very first pieces I threw on the wheel!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">First of all is the little kittie kat mug which turned out pretty cute :) The glaze is good. It's a small cup, 21/2" high, 21/2" across top, 31/4" across bottom. Some of the colors did not come out as planned but I now know the whys and hoping it will just get better.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Love my little St. Francis mug and little it is!! 33/4" high and only 2" wide. In the pics it looks flared at the top but is not. It is a straight cylinder. The disappointment here (and in several other pieces) is the terra cotta which turned brown and a brown brown at that. The leaves on the handle and rim were originally green but fired out brown because of the terra cotta. However, he is still precious and I'm pretty ok with it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And last but not least, my little houses mug. It did okay. Again, learning how to use my under glazes to get what I want. Another small cup (I am getting bigger!) 3" high, 21/2" wide at top, 3" at bottom</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">27 Years ago I took a Pottery Class in St. Louis at the Craft Alliance in University City were I lived.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I had just moved there after living in my hometown </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">for 43 years in South Arkansas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Talk about culture shock!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">During this time I did a series of cartoons </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">to document my experiences there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Pottery Class was one of them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Today, as I write this 27 years later, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am embarking on pursuing this ancient craft once again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Just wanted to share this little cartoon strip </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I did during my first experience!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hope it turns out better this time :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The main character, of course, is me but her name is Effie which was my grandmother's name and the real Effie was a pioneer woman if ever there was one!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So meet Effie and enjoy :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">There is just something about the fall that makes me want to get into the yarn!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Last year it was my <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/479465977/handwoven-scarf-11-the-wrap?ref=shop_home_active_11" target="_blank">scarves</a> of which I still have a few for sale, but this year I've gone into creating </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">YARN BASKETS!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you have ever been in my house or studio, you have witnessed this obsession.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I've been doing a lot of painting lately and frankly, need to sell some, so decided I needed to take a break and, as always this time a year, out came the yarn. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I had in my mind what I wanted to do. Colorful fun baskets using up some of the yarn I had left from the scarves, but didn't know just how to do what I had in mind.....so....off to good ole' You Tube I went and started looking at different basket making vids.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The first ones I did are called "Coil Baskets" and I love the look</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">BUT, a lot of work! It would take too long to make a bigger one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So back to You Tube and finally combined a few vids and came up with a crocheted basket that goes a lot faster and has a great look also.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So now I am off and running!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Materials: Some are all cotton yarn and jute. Some are cotton and cotton blend yarns and jute.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Are they for sale? Of course! But my debut for them will be at the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ChristmasShowcase/?fref=ts" target="_blank">Arkansas Craft Guild Christmas Showcase</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In a few weeks. After that, I will be offering them in my <a href="http://suzisstore.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Store</a> and I will be making more....</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I love to barter!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Nearly....no....all.....the art in my house has been acquired through bartering.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now let me say this about that...that does not mean I will trade for anything. It has to be something I really want, have room for, can use or need.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When we had our picture framing business I did a lot of bartering. Extensive dental work was bartered for framing! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Yes, I love good bartering.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">One of my loves is wind chimes. If you watch any of my videos on <a href="http://xn--barter%20brdr-dwa69ds0q12b/%20verb%201.%20exchange%20(goods%20or%20services)%20for%20other%20goods%20or%20services%20without%20using%20money." target="_blank">You tube</a>, you will hear my wind chimes in most of them instead of music. Often I combine the two.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My Dad made wind chimes with beautiful sound to them. He was a welder by trade but this was something he did when he retired and he did a local art fair and made a killing!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is one of his. I only have 2 left. It's been about 35 years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">He would etch his own drawings (very good ones) into the plexi clapper. birds mostly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When you come to our house, you come to the back because the front faces the lake. We have a 2 car carport and when my Dad was still alive and making his chimes, this carport was lined with his chimes and the sound was what heaven must sound like to me. These were pipe wind chimes and he hung them just right for the tones to be melodious.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We called it "Dickson's Cathedral" (Dickson was my maiden name)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The bamboo one up front, my daughter bought for me when she went back to the Bahamas for her one year wedding anniversary.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The blue one was a gift from "Blue Moon Art Gallery" when they closed. I was with them the 17 years they were open.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">just because I love it! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I SAY ALL THIS.....to show you the wonderful barter I did recently with my new friend <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/myartsandparts" target="_blank">Jeri Bellini</a> who, among other things, makes wind chimes out of recycled everything!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When I saw them I knew I wanted and had to have, and when I learned she coveted one of my Journey Journals, well...the rest was history!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So here is my new treasure!! Bottle caps, forks and knife, cradle for a casserole dish and the top from an old light fixture on top!! Now, sound is not what this one is all about...it makes sound but not really a chime, more of a "clank"...this one is about taking discarded treasures and turning them into something wonderful!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and this is "Sassy Suzi" (Jeri's name) which was inside.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I've loved being able to have treasures from other artists through the years and loved that they want my art enough to trade. I've only been turned down once by an artist I admire but that is okay. I also have had to turn down offers on my end also. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have a "couple" of wallpaper books (and this is not all of them)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And these are not just your B grade wallpapers...these are very very nice wallpapers!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have a friend who is a decorator and I finally had to say "no more"....at least for now :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So the other day I was working on an order for a <a href="http://suzisart-journals.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Journey Journal</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and got to thinking "Why not make Wallpaper Journals"?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So here I am, purging some wallpapers and some old books and really having a good time!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">These Journals will be different sizes but in the smaller (5x7 and smaller) range and mostly gorgeous wallpaper with other miscellaneous papers interspersed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Lea Ann, Kea and Cindi</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I just spent 2 GREAT days teaching these 3 gals and I have to say how refreshing it was!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now this is NO reflection on those of you who do a lot of workshops, but as an instructor it was great to have 3 students who didn't even know what Alcohol Inks are but still know how to do terrific art!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We spent the day learning about mark making and using those marks to make painted papers and trying out all kinds of different papers that are all around to paint on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Drying time and it was a beautiful day to string up the clothes line!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> By the end of day one this was the collection of paper!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And the BEST part of the two days was lunch provided both days by Lea Ann and the weather was beautiful to eat out on the deck!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thanks ladies for giving this old worn out instructor 2 days of laughter and learning and getting to know each other!</span></div>
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<br />Suzi Dennishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17509556154136297319noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904712154682756156.post-34595156087507441362016-08-31T16:29:00.000-05:002016-08-31T16:29:33.886-05:00THE TRUTH IS...<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"><i><b>"Oh it's okay if my class doesn't make, I'll come teach anyway"</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"><b><i>"It's okay if you don't have airfare in your budget, I'll just fly out there at my own expense...no big deal"</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">or any thing like that.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">they have:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>A</b>: a husband with a very good job </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">or a pension from some big company</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>B</b>: a sugar daddy</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>C</b>: Had a very good job themselves with a great retirement program</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>D</b>: An anonymous donor who is paying all their bills</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>E: </b>They won the Lotto</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>F: </b>Born with a silver spoon....</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">or other similar situations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In other words, they are able - God bless 'em - to teach for fun.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">BELIEVE me, I wish I could do that...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">HOWEVER, My husband and I live off of his police pension and my social security....and...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">my art.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Without that last one, we would be selling our home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'm serious.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'm not saying all this to gain sympathy or sales or anything like that...I'm saying it because I think the public needs to be educated on artists who make a living or depend heavily on their art to pay the bills vs. those who do not.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Believe me, there is a huge difference.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">One is looked on as "oh aren't they generous" and the other looked on as "Greedy"!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This studio didn't get paid for by money I "happened" to have.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It came about from a loan.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And I didn't build it to teach in...I was doing about 13-14 art fairs a year at that time. I was using it go create art to sell to pay my bills.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As I have blogged before, It all changed in 2009 when I went back to work as a nurse and I only sold in galleries or online until 2012 when I retired.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Guess what.... the studio payment was still there and all the other bills and I needed to make money.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thus, the beginning of my teaching venture.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you have been keeping up with my blogs, you know that all that is changing once again, but what doesn't change are those bills.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">oh this list is endless!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Some things are successful, some not so much....</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Some just plain died from lack of interest!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But I keep trying.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I guess what I'm trying to say here is ... be patient with those of us who struggle with this need to make a living through our art.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">ESPECIALLY, those who are setting up their tents all over the country. THOSE are the ones who are serious. Many instructors are just "playing" but art fair artists are not.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We are very very serious!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Creating art is something that is inside of us and has to get out, but we need to survive also.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I wish I could just paint..paint what I want...and give it away just for the joy of creating.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I wish I could just pack up and go teach without concern of paying for the trip....</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I wish....but as a dear person in my life used to tell me</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"If wishes were horses, beggars would ride"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Yeh....the truth is.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have to make a living</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and so do a lot of other artists.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And I for one DO appreciate all of you who get this...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is more for those who don't..</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Thanks for listening</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Suzi</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><i>interesting tidbit about Suzi:</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>I haven't always just done nursing and art.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>My original career was as a draftsman back when draftsMAN was the correct label and women just didn't do this. In my drafting career I was an architectural draftsman, a steel detailer and a pipeline detailer.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>I have been a bookkeeper. My Parents owned their own welding business and Mom was the bookkeeper. My children's Dad was a welder and I learned the bookkeeping and we took over the business when my folks retired. 6 years into it my husband was killed in a truck wreck and we had to sell it all.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>At one time I was a jewelry engraver at a local jewelry store.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>I was a police dispatcher for University City in St. Louis.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>That was a very interesting job and I loved it.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>I also found my husband John there :)</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Oh, and I did some legal secretarial work for awhile.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>I also worked for several years as an activity therapist </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>in a mental health center.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Nursing wise I was a Labor and delivery nurse, Office Manager for a Pediatric Clinic, taught Lamaze childbirth, Surgical scrub nurse, worked on the Urology floor at Jewish hospital in St. Louis (Now Barnes - Jewish) and my last nursing job was as medical office supervisor in an Drug and Alcohol center as a detox nurse.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Just thought you might enjoy that list of things I have made a living doing in my life.</i></span></div>
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Suzi Dennishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17509556154136297319noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904712154682756156.post-74045483316161902672016-08-27T11:51:00.002-05:002016-08-27T12:50:24.148-05:00COPYRIGHT AND ALL THAT STUFF<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">In light of my recent "ethics" events, I've been thinking about artists copyrights. I've talked about what is ethical but what about what is legal. Here are some facts and an example of how so many just don't get it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This situation (<a href="http://suzistudiotime.blogspot.com/2016/08/ethics.html" target="_blank">part I</a> and <a href="http://suzistudiotime.blogspot.com/2016/08/ethics-part-two.html" target="_blank">part II</a>) is not the only time it has caused me pain and cost me a friendship, but first let me say this...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The artists signature on the art copyrights it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I only have one painting out there that I know of that I forgot to sign and I know where it is and it is safe :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The watermarks that you see on images (which are very annoying) hopefully help</span><span style="font-size: large;"> prevent people from copying and reproducing the piece. Some people put them all over the piece but I haven't been able to bring myself to do that....</span><i style="font-size: x-large;">yet....</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">These two steps do not stop people who don't care....and with all the photoshop type programs out there...they can unfortunately be eliminated.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So far....I have not caught anyone doing this to my art although I am sure it happens...and yes, yes, I know "copying my work is the highest form of flattery"......whatever.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I don't find it flattering and neither does any other artist I know!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have a dear friend who is an AWESOME illustrator. It is what he has done for a living all his life as far as I know...he deals with it all the time but then he also has an agent that takes care of all of that for him. Still doesn't make him feel any better. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We have had long conversations on the subject....</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Earlier this year, I put out a <a href="http://suzisart.blogspot.com/p/coloring-book.html" target="_blank">coloring book</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A little hard to read but the gist of it is...this work is created and copyrighted by me and no part may be reproduced, etc. without my permission.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now I "had" a friend who bought the book, took one of the images, reproduced it and used it to make a needlework piece out of for her granddaughter I think.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">She proudly sent it to me and it was really cute and I honestly didn't mind her doing it for her granddaughter...but then</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">she proceeded to tell me how she was going to send the pattern to another friend and if any of my students or anyone wants the pattern I can give it to them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The conversation went downhill after that when I made an attempt to educate her about copyright and permission, etc.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">She honestly had no idea she actually needed my permission to take my work, reproduce it, make a pattern and give it to others and it offended her.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">After several heated emails from her, and me trying to educate her....we parted company....end of story....end of friendship.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I try to think what would I have done if the roles had been reversed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'd really like to think I would have said "Oh I am so sorry, thanks for the info and thanks for allowing me to do this and I won't do it again without asking"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I really think that is what I would have done....</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hmmmm...would I do it again? Yes. I didn't do anything wrong. I was educating a friend. If she had not been a friend, it would have been an entirely different story.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I say all this to educate you all.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I know her intentions were good....I know most of you have nothing but good intentions,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">but stop and think before you take another artists work and make it your own.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>"Here endeth the lesson" - Sean Connery, "The Untouchables"</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Thanks for listening!</i></span></div>
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Suzi Dennishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17509556154136297319noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904712154682756156.post-67975346847205371902016-08-25T06:22:00.000-05:002016-08-25T06:29:05.336-05:00LITTLE STUDIO<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is my studio. It opens up from my bedroom.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Several of you have played in the paint with me here or toured it through videos.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And this is my "little studio"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">but let me give you a little history...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The home we live in was my parents home. My Mom went to Heaven in 1987 and my Dad lived here until his passing in 1994.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'm an only child, therefore, it is now my house and everything in it!! My parents were depression era people who lost 2 homes in the great depression so NOTHING was ever thrown away!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My Mom was a wonderful seamstress and loved to sew. The "little studio" was her sewing area. It's a closet in the main living area of our house and was built just as a sewing area, nothing else.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When my Dad developed cancer in 1994, John and I were living in St. Louis and I came to Hot Springs to take care of my Dad. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I was strictly a watercolorist then and didn't need a lot of area to work so John converted this little closet for me to work in while talking care of Daddy which was only 2 months. It served me well for about a year until we could move here permanently then I converted a small bedroom into a studio.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In 1998 we opened a frame shop downtown and I had my studio there for about 6 years but when it came time to close that and move home, I needed MUCH more space so we added on the room that is my studio today. That was about 2003.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Working in mixed media collage and teaching and making journals and doing all the "stuff" I do, it has served me well and will continue to....but sometimes I find myself sitting with my husband in the evening watching T.V. but thinking about whatever art is laying on my table in my studio.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Today it occurred to me that I could reclaim that "little closet studio" and now that I am working more in water media, I can do work in there and be in the main room with my husband and watch T.V. - the old "two birds with one stone" trick :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Tonight I initiated it and it felt wonderful!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'm beginning to think I am turning back time....</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">first I get an urge to do my old medium, watercolor,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">then I decide to do a few art fairs after 7 years,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Next thing you know I'll be wanting to play jump rope!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Well....I started something!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have had so many comments, emails, posts, etc. on my </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">What happened is that I got word that a student who came to my studio and learned from me, then went back to her town and taught it all to her local art group. The result is that no one in her town signed up to take a workshop I was offering. No one. Nada. None.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I guess the premise was "why take it when I already know it...for free". Hey...I get it, but shame on her.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">What it means is that there will be some changes and these are some things that <b>MAY</b> happen:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">* <span style="color: red;"><b>no students in my studio</b></span> unless I know them well. ie: close friends and previous students I have a good history with.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">*<span style="color: red;"><b>no traveling to teach</b>.</span> It is a lot of work to prepare for a workshop and especially to travel with it. Especially with the method I teach in collage</span><span style="font-size: large;">. To prepare so hard and have no one sign up is disheartening to say the least. Sometimes the class doesn't "make" (I need to make a certain amount to pay my expenses plus make some money .... I wish I could do this for fun, but I make my living off of my art.)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">There are a lot of artists out there who have a husband with a good job, or they have good other income and they don't have to worry about it and they have the "Oh it doesn't matter! I'll teach whoever shows up" attitude. Good for them! Believe me I WISH I could be that way, but it's just not my situation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">*<span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">My online "Inside Suzi's Studio" </span>which is a monthly membership, is now closed to any new members. Only the people already there can stay. In other words, it has become exclusive.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">This I have already done. I hate this! It is not what I wanted but this woman was in this group.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">* <b><span style="color: red;">Online workshops:</span></b> I have 4 <a href="http://suzimadeworkshops.blogspot.com/p/online.html" target="_blank">online workshops</a> now and they will remain. Whether I do anymore....well....I don't know at this point.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have to be honest...what this woman did hit me hard. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">She was a person who pretended to be a friend...not just a student. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">She not only came to my studio, she took a lot of my online classes. Little did I know what she was doing....</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">When someone betrays your trust it stings and you </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">hopefully learn from it. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Yes, I realize MOST of you are trustworthy and wouldn't do this, but this HAS made me realize that there are probably others doing it already. I no way know all the people who take from me.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">It's a risk I took....I'm the only one that can change it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">SO...don't panic...I'm still around...Just making changes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://suzistudiotime.blogspot.com/2016/08/should-i-stay-or-should-i-go.html" target="_blank">Art Fairs</a> are safe :)</span><br />
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Suzi Dennishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17509556154136297319noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904712154682756156.post-60880975082799460582016-08-23T16:36:00.001-05:002016-08-23T16:36:50.637-05:00SHOULD I STAY OR SHOULD I GO?<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">After my latest <a href="http://suzistudiotime.blogspot.com/2016/08/ethics.html" target="_blank">dilemma with workshops</a> I got to thinking...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Should I go back to doing art fairs?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">WOW!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A lot of "ifs" "ands" and "maybes" there!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I would actually LOVE to!! We loved doing art fairs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But before I go on let me give you a little history about my "art fair" career.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It all began in 1993 in St. Louis, Mo. at the Greater St.Louis Art Association Spring Art Fair at Queeny Park. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now let me say upfront....we had NEVER done an art show in our lives! NEVER.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This art fair is a very long time semi-upscale art fair that you have to jury into and I had applied but had no clue on how to go about it and, of course, got rejected. No problem...we didn't have a display anyway.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Well....2 days before this show, the President of the Association called and said "We've had a cancellation...would you like to take the spot"? WHAT?!! Of course!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Wait.....what did I just say....we have no display!! And when I say no display I mean all I had was a pile of watercolor paintings...unframed/unmatted. That's it. No frames, no mats, no screens, no bins, no lights, no nothing!! And 2 days to get ready!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I must be nuts.....but what an opportunity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">John and I (along with working regular jobs) spent 2 days making frames on a little hand miter saw he had, cutting mats with a hand cutter and straight edge...building screens out of 2x4"s and chicken wire and building bins for the unframed work.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The evening of the set up we walked into that building with our "display" and felt like the Beverly Hillbillies!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here were all these nice professional booths and we didn't even have lights!! "Run to the Home Depo John and get clip on lights and extension cords and I'll start setting up", I said, with fear in my voice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Can you say</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: lime; font-size: x-large;">"GREEN" </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The funniest story about all this is that we didn't have shrink wrap for the unframed pieces to display in the bin so we went to Sam's and got a huge roll of Saran Wrap and wrapped them all up to protect....only problem was...they stuck together...so....</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">wait for it......John's job all weekend was to sprinkle baby powder between them to keep them from sticking!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Yep...it was pretty funny!! We laughed too and still laugh at it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I sold one $15 painting but what we learned from the other artists in that 3 days was priceless.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">That was the beginning of 15 years of traveling all over the country doing art fairs. We had about 120 under our belt when we stopped in 2009. We met so many wonderful people and eventually bought a travel trailer and had the opportunity of traveling all over the U.S. Before it was all over we had done fairs in Arkansas, Tenn., Missouri, Arizona, Wisconsin, Alabama, Illinois and Michigan to name a few.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">2 earlier shows above: Ann Arbor, Mich. 1994</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And this was our last show in 2009 at Panoply (our very favorite that we did for 11 years) in Huntsville, Al.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So in 2009 I went back to nursing full time and we figured we were getting too old for all this set up and tear down (which can be gruesome).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I retired in 2012 and started doing workshops online and then traveling and taking students in my studio.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">.....but it's just not the same.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We both missed doing art fairs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">After losing my daughter in 2013, we decided life is too short for not doing what you love to do so we went back to doing The Arkansas Craft Guild show in Little Rock at Christmas Time. We figured we could handle that....it's indoors, not hard to set up or tear down, it's close to home....sure....why not.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So we did it in 2014 and we did it again in 2015 and will be there again this year.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Booth sure looks a lot different than those early days..huh?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and we've done okay. It's hasn't killed us, although I'll admit it's a little harder at our ages (me 70 soon and John 71 already), but we've done it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So here we are, looking at how workshops are just not always reliable, among other things, and thinking..."Hey, we could do a couple of more art fairs a year! One in the spring, fall and December.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We don't have the R.V. but that's okay, although we did love that, and yes we are older and can't do the pace we used to...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">but.......hmmmmmm</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">so like I said</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'll let you know, (but we have already written for a couple of applications for 2017)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I began my journey of sharing my art on social media in about June of 2012 after I retired from nursing and was able to go back to doing my art full time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I LOVED the idea of being able to share with you what I was in my studio learning and experimenting and I have made so many wonderful friends on this journey......</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I never dreamed that people actually </span><span style="font-size: large;">watch another artists hard work on You Tube, and take their workshops they have prepared long and hard to put together and teach it as their own.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">until now...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'm not stupid....I'm not naive....but I was a little too trusting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">and there were red flags....a gut feeling.... and then </span><span style="font-size: large;">it happened.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I can't prove it, but all the signs point to it and a little birdie whispered in my ear.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A student who came into my studio, took my online classes and pretended to be my friend has now gone out and taught what she learned from me as her own ideas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and there probably are more than her.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">She was just pretty obvious.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It makes me want to stop.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It makes me want to withdraw all of my online workshops </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">(and I have withdrawn one as a result of this)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It makes me want to stop blogging,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It makes me want to stop You tube videos,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It makes me want to stop sharing on facebook....</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It makes me want to stop....</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">but I can't....it is who I am.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">BUT, I will be more cautious....</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">there probably will be things I will stop and think about before I put it out there for all the world to see.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Am I saying "don't share anything you learn from me" ?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Absolutely not....but remember the ethics of sharing....</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Give credit to the person you learned it from.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So, aside from the "sting"...this made me think about my beginnings in social media, so I have linked below </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">a bunch of my "firsts"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">They are kinda fun to look at.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://suzistudiotime.blogspot.com/2012/06/bunnies-and-stuff.html" target="_blank">SUZI'S STUDIO FIRST BLOG</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://youtu.be/4fsxeV6TQSo" target="_blank">FIRST YOU TUBE VIDEO</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://twitter.com/sUZImADE/status/166006396775698432" target="_blank">FIRST TWEET (Feb. 2012)</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">(I tweeted a lot at first then nothing for a long time and more now)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And have no idea the firsts on these social medias but here are links if you would like to check them out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So, twice last week I had someone say "You are a true artist" and then a student/friend and I had a conversation about what makes </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">She was talking about my story and my art and this is basically what I wrote to her:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>"I think story is the key element in art. It gives the artist the passion and sensitivity needed to produce meaningful art.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>There is a LOT of "art" out there and good "art" but it has no story. It's just nice to look at and that is fine for some people but not for me. When I look at other peoples art, it needs to tell me a story of the person who created it."</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Several years ago I wrote short stories about my art and put them with the art. The stories were actually part of the art. I made little pockets on the front of the piece, in the area where the signature goes, and put a little piece of paper inside with "the story" of the piece. This piece below is a piece I happen to have because it belonged to my daughter Shari, who is a huge part of my story, and due to her leaving this earth, I now have it back.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In 1999 we went to Maui together and had a wonderful time. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This was a memory of that trip I made for her.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sometimes the story can't be put into words, it just has to be "said" in the art itself. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">For a long time I put the title of the piece somewhere in the art itself. This is just one example of many along with the "Parrot in my Parlor" piece.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Titles alone sometimes tell the story. I'm not one of these artists that can do "untitled". I just have too many stories in me...And, I love to tell them. That is what I miss about art fairs....that direct contact with people and getting to tell them the story.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Most people feel an artist has to be weird, act weird, dress weird and be liberal in all their thinking. Well...that may work for some but it is not me. Some may think I dress weird in that my clothes always have paint on them, and yes, I "see" things a little different than most...but my hair is naturally grey, not purple and my clothes (other than the paint) are normal and I am pretty conservative in my way of looking at life. I am first and foremost a Christian...a believer in the Son of God, Jesus Christ and unfortunately yes, that makes me look weird to most art communities.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have a passion in my heart and it comes out in what I paint. I also encourage my students not to imitate what I do, to find their own path. that is why I give them the tools to work with and don't do the "everyone paints the same thing" gig, and I'm not saying that is wrong....I'm saying "is that a true artist"?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When I returned to painting in 1987, after many years lay off due to having to "make a living" and raise children, I went back to painting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When I started painting at around age 10, it was oils. That was the 50's and about the only choice out there. I worked in oils until my 20's when I had to move on with life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When I returned to my art in '87, a friend of mine talked me into doing watercolors. Oh my, what a challenge that was and I almost gave up a few times, but there were things about the medium I liked so I stayed with it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">These are 3 of my early watercolors</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In 1993 I was able to get into my first Art Fair and that started a 15 year period of traveling and selling my art. We loved that time!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">NOTHING else touched my paper. No pens, no acrylic, no nothing but watercolor! White had to be the white of the paper.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here is some of my best watercolor work:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It hangs in the First Christian Church here in Hot Springs in memory of my parents who were my biggest supporters along with my daughter Shari.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I look at it and wonder how in the world I did it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In 1995 we moved from St. Louis to Hot Springs, Ar. and I enrolled in my first college art classes ever at the community college. Except for local classes when I was very young (the oil days), I was completely self-taught, but, like I said, in a rut.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In this class my instructor "gave me permission" to use other media WITH my watercolor!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Since that time I have gradually worked my way out of watercolor and into mixed media collage. Mostly Acrylics.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A few years ago, late 1990's, I was heavy into making and teaching handmade paper and so I did a series of watercolors on gessoed handmade paper:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">That was kinda fun and different, but not the same....</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So, you ask, why is she doing a watercolor now??</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I really have no idea why I decide to do this right now, but I did and I kinda enjoyed it....</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So all that being said, here is what I have "gleamed" from doing this watercolor:</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: x-large;">What did I love about the medium that I had forgotten:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">* I love the paint flow</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">* I can do most of an entire piece with one good #9 round brush</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">* Nice translucent colors that cover an area fully</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">* Don't need the entire room to work! (I was reminded that one of the things I loved about doing watercolor is how soothing it is.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">* Easyyyyy clean up</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">* Paint goes a very long way</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: x-large;">What did I miss:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">* Opaques. I love opaques</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">*Spontaneity of the way I work in collage. Lots of nice surprises.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">*Easy to change and go in a different direction with a whole different color.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">These are just a few.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">SO, where am I with this?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Well, IF I do go back to doing some watercolor, I'm not going to limit myself. In this piece I did here, I used some Pitt Pens which is India Ink and some white acrylic dots in the middle of the flower, but I stayed pretty true to watercolor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I will "give myself permission" to use other media, especially acrylic and inks, where needed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And yes....collage papers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I will not frame behind glass. They will be sealed like I do my pieces now, with acrylic sealer. I have learned how to do that with water soluble paints.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hmmmm.....it should be interesting to see what happens.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">For now I want to do a series of small w/c pieces like this one just to get the "feel" of it again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Yeah...it was pretty fun :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I had the pleasure, and I DO mean pleasure of teaching this group of artists in Knoxville, Tn. this past weekend.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have to share with you ONE of the reasons it was such a pleasure.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As most of you know I teach several workshops a year on the road and several small groups (1 - 3 people) in my studio,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">but this group is special because of one main thing...they know workshop etiquette.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have a <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-jdWneEYfJRdWYzZkZ2VkxTNWc/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">LIST</a> of workshop etiquette that was given to me once when I attended a workshop. </span><span style="font-size: large;">It is very good information but one of the main things on that list is #2.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Unfortunately, this has been something I have battled in nearly every workshop I have taught....hearing about how wonderful another instructor is while I am trying to teach and pass along the information I have on the subject.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It is very annoying and degrading and it actually, sometimes, is something that ruins the relationship you can have with the instructor. It, regretfully, has for me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">NO ONE in this class even came close to doing this.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Did I learn anything? Yes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Absolutely!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">(and I won't even go into all the "special" treatment I received!! Treated like a queen :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I hope anyone reading this that attends workshops will heed this advice and the rest of the advice on the <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-jdWneEYfJRdWYzZkZ2VkxTNWc/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">LIST</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It is very good advice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">NOW, having said that I want to share some photos from this group. Aside from just being wonderful people (I actually wish I lived closer so I could share in that Art Center with them) they did some terrific work!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Enjoy and Thanks for stopping by :) - <i>Suzi</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Any of you who know me or collect my art, know that I go through changes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">That "new and different" challenge is in the air now!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">So I have a box of strips I'm eyeballing</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">and these are some areas of interest </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/stencils-by-suzi-dennis-s/1992.htm" target="_blank">FLOWER POT MASK</a> here</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">So where is all this going??</span></div>
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Suzi Dennishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17509556154136297319noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904712154682756156.post-61674033818555360682016-06-22T12:29:00.000-05:002016-06-22T12:47:34.076-05:00STUDIO TOUR<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">And then think about coming to</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">spend time in a <a href="http://suzimadeworkshops.blogspot.com/p/in-studio-workshop.html" target="_blank">WORKSHOP</a> with me!!</span></div>
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<a href="https://vimeo.com/171798046">studio tour 2016 - Suzi Dennis Artist Studio</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/suzimade">Suzi Dennis</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.Suzi Dennishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17509556154136297319noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904712154682756156.post-26322198343082549002016-06-17T00:01:00.000-05:002016-06-17T00:01:00.608-05:00PLANTING MY GARDEN<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Suzi Dennishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17509556154136297319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904712154682756156.post-26571898696708936962016-06-15T10:29:00.003-05:002016-06-15T10:29:39.026-05:00STUDENTS ROCK!<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">We are having such an awesome time of creating and sharing at <a href="http://suzimadeworkshops.blogspot.com/p/i-was-doing-project-in-my-studio-and_29.html" target="_blank">INSIDE SUZI'S STUDIO</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I just had to share some of this awesomeness with you!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So kick back and enjoy this little Video</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and then <a href="http://suzimadeworkshops.blogspot.com/p/i-was-doing-project-in-my-studio-and_29.html" target="_blank">COME JOIN US!</a></span></div>
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Suzi Dennishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17509556154136297319noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904712154682756156.post-39032964592936673912016-06-05T16:45:00.003-05:002016-06-05T16:52:55.794-05:00A NEW LOOK FOR PROUD MAMA<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">In Spring of 2014 I created this piece. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I loved it. Love that look of pride on Mama's face</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">about that one precious egg she produced.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I even see a little tear in her eye.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It spoke to me of how we Mother's are </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">always so proud of even the least </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It went to all my galleries.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I just got it back after not seeing it </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">see she needed new life....</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">so I got to work and re-created her environment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">She and her nest are undisturbed.</span></div>
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Suzi Dennishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17509556154136297319noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904712154682756156.post-9672891961070664822016-05-19T00:01:00.000-05:002016-05-19T00:01:01.162-05:00NEW SUZI STENCILS AT STENCILGIRL<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">GUESS WHAT!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I've designed 3 new stencils that I can't wait to share with you!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">To see more about these stencils and to order go to</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Working in my handmade journal and using the GARDEN DREAMS and RIPPLES stencils, I came up with this fun piece.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">GARDEN DREAMS is a stencil that can be used for everything and I do just that!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And here you see the RIPPLES stencil making waves and ripples in the water.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In another journal I made up this "Garden" piece using the GARDEN stencil for the flowers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">ANCIENT MARKS is a wonderful stencil I designed from a series of stamps I had made. I just decided to combine them to make this wonderful stencil that can be used for so many things. Great for back ground, borders or random markings in your art. Many uses for this stencil.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Below are a couple of painted papers I created with </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> check them out at <a href="http://www.stencilgirltalk.com/2016/05/mary-beth-shaw-suzi-dennis-stoneandmortar-hashmarks-ancient-marks-in-the-garden-ripples-stencils.html" target="_blank">STENCILGIRL PRODUCTS</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ever once in awhile, I just get to looking at a painting of mine and feel it's just not <i>quite </i>right.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">That's what happened with a piece I did last year called "Glory"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's not that I didn't like the piece because I did, but <i>something </i>was nagging me about it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When I originally created the piece I was trying to convey a beautiful cluster of tulips growing wild in deep woods somewhere where there was darkness and the flowers were to represent the Light in the dark, the Glory of God.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But....the more I looked at it the more I felt the title "Glory" and the painting just didn't match...there was a "clash" there for me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now I can hear you..."wouldn't it be easier to change the title?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Well, yes....but "Glory" was the right name...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So...I needed to change the image to project that title.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So here is the new image</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So tell me what you think.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Check it out at <a href="http://www.stencilgirltalk.com/2016/05/doodling-with-stencils.html" target="_blank">Stencilgirl Talk</a></span></div>
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Suzi Dennishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17509556154136297319noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6904712154682756156.post-9707128514672009782016-04-28T16:45:00.004-05:002016-04-28T16:45:39.967-05:00IN THE STUDIO ROUND TWO!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Back to back "In the studio" workshops!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Whew! I'm worn out but ALL worth it!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Vivian and Jonny came down all the way from Iowa!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And we talked and we did art and we talked and we painted papers and we talked......well, you get the gist!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And they really hated staying in the cottage on the lake.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So here are the results!! Great fun!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I shared a few ideas on painting papers and let them go!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Lots of fun and loosing up!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am LOVING this paper Jonny did. She's really into pressing leaves and flowers and brought several (a whole box full) with her. With a little help from her trusted instructor (ahem) she made a great piece of paper using them!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">She left me with several of her pressed leaves and yes, I will be doing this myself!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">One of my very very favorite things to do!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And at the end of the day....this beautiful stack of papers!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now it was time to take the papers and create a piece of art.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This was a challenge and that is what I want it to be.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Jonny is an artist and does very realistic art, mostly dog portraits. Beautiful work, so this was taking her wayyyyyy out of her comfort zone! And Vivian is one of those we instructors love because she has done a little bit of all of it!! Bless her heart :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I was having her follow some rules of art concerning color and value and compostition.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But they were sports and dug right in and I love the results!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Should I stencil? or stamp? or stencil and stamp...or....</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Jonny started out with a cat and a bird in a window...the window lost...the cat and the bird remain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">No they didn't get completely finished but off to a good start!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Thanks ladies and thank the rest of you for stopping by!</i></span></div>
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