Artists' Nook - Mixed Media Art Store: January 2009

January 1st has come and gone....

The President's Inauguration has come and gone...

Now our focus needs to be on our New Year!

A NEW YEAR TO CREATE......

We have many great things planned for 2009.....

First,

Many of us have made New Year's Resolutions and Resolutions are about changing something in our lives....

My Life's Passion Blog addresses this topic in the most recent post... "Fear or Fear Not Change"

NOTE:

Christine's Life Passion Blog has a NEW address:

christineannwebb.com

So if you have bookmarked the old one, go to the new one and bookmark that!

I am still working on the look that I want and trying to figure out the formatting of posts but at least it is my name as the address! It gives me a sense of freedom!

Second,

Our workshops for 2009 will focus on our traveling, Nationally known Guest Artists Workshops.

Plus, some workshops that I will teach as well but later in the year as I am working on my own personal healing right now.

Our 2009 Guest Artists Line up can be found on our website.

My Resolutions for me and The Artists Nook in 2009 are:

1) Put all the store front supplies and goodies on the Online Shop

2) Offer Tutorials to inspire

3) Teach Online Classes

4) (this should really be number 1 but), Create more Art!

This is just a start, and sometime just starting is what it is all about isn't it?

Artist Spotlight

Michael deMeng -

Assemblage Artist from Montana

The Artists' Nook welcomes back our favorite artist,

Michael deMeng.

Michael's style of assemblage work is edgy, pushing the limits and amazing!

What Michael says about his work:

"My work is about transformations. It is about the transformation of the common into the sacred. Discarded materials find new and unexpected uses in my work; they are reassembled and conjoined with unlikely components, a form of rebirth from the ashes into new life and new meaning."

Here is what students love about his workshops:

1) teaches how to use paint in layers to get the look you want

2)teaches to balance the objects, line and design into your art

3) Pushing the limits on using objects where their intended purpose was not to be hung, cut, or transformed into art!

4) Friendly Critque of the class' day's creations

5) Humor, of course....

6) Tunes (deMeng music picks)

7) And techniques, techniques, techniques

Michael will be at The Artists Nook FEB 20-22nd, Teaching 1- one day workshop and 1-two day workshop.

Side note: This is a secret but it is Michael's Birthday weekend!

Join us!