New Journeys, New Frontiers

Landmark,  cold wax and oil painting by Donna Watson

NOTE:  My 4 day workshop still has some openings.  It is coming up soon - Sept. 15-18, 2014.

It is titled PERSONAL EXPRESSION:  A Design Approach.  The emphasis is on composition, elements and principles, personal content and expression.   You will find your strengths and figure out how to best use them to make your works more unique and recognizable and successful whatever your goals are.  The workshop location is on beautiful Whidbey Island at Coupeville WA.  Go to this website for the Pacific Northwest Art School here.  Look under the category for Mixed Media.

Histories, cold wax and oil painting by Donna Watson

NOTE:  My 2 day workshop in Virginia Beach, VA has 3 openings left.  It is also coming up soon -

October 4-5, 2014.  It is titled BORO/WABI SABI:  The Japanese Spirit of Collage.  You will learn how to hand paint your own rice papers to create your collage papers and then you will learn some composition, and design elements and principles to help you create your collages.  Go to this website for Art and Soul to find out how to register here.  Be sure to look for the Virginia Beach 2014 workshops.

Zen 7, collage using hand painted rice papers by Donna Watson

Art is a journey into the most unknown thing of all - oneself.  Nobody knows his own frontiers...

I don't even think I'd ever want to take a road if I knew where it led.

Louis Kahan

May my mind come alive today

to the invisible geography

that invites me to new frontiers,

to break the dead shell of yesterdays,

to risk being disturbed and changed.

John O' Donohue, from "a morning offering"

Life Threads

Detail from the collage COMPLETION by Donna Watson

NOTE:  4 Day workshop, May 20-23.  At Coupeville, on Beautiful Whidbey WA.

PERSONAL EXPRESSION:  A Design Approach.  This workshop is open to all mediums and all styles of painting, including collage.  For more information and to register go to the website:

www.pacificnorthwestartschool.org.    

some letters I have received from art buddies in 2012

"At the center of your being

you have the answer;

you know who you are and 

you know what you want."

--- Lao Tzu

some tags I have received from art buddies in 2012

"In the end, only three things matter;

how much you loved, how

gently you lived, and how gracefully

you let go of things

not meant for you."

--- Buddhist saying

image by Donna Watson

image by Donna Watson

The hands know, 

the materials too, 

quite apart from your imaginings,

less or more than your intentions - 

following the pattern that emerges,

the story as it tells.  -- Jane Whitely

image by Donna Watson

image by Donna Watson

You see, I want a lot.

Perhaps I want everything:

the darkness that comes with every infinite fall

and the shivering blaze of every step up.

-- Rainer Maria Rilke

image by Donna Watson, fabrics, fibers, waiting for inspiration

recent purchases from Habu - website found here  

 

There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening 

That is translated through you into action,

And because there is only one of you in all time,

This expression is unique.

--- Martha Graham