I have been working away on this mural for the Wilkes Barre Area Practical Nursing school. The director of the school, Mary Beth Pacuska, saw me working on the mural I did for Steve Taren's building Wet Paint in Wilkes Barre. The school being newly spiffed up, had a long hallway which Mary Beth felt needed something.... a mural, perhaps? We worked together coming up with the idea to depict the history of nursing visually. Working in sections on cloth all winter in my studio, it was adhered it to the wall on Thursday. The students came out of class to a transformed hallway which they really apprecatied! I really enjoyed learning about nursing - some strong woman - Florence Nightingale and Clara Barton.... and meeting another one - Mary Beth : )
A couple of years ago I did five very large Eiffel Towers for a new French restaurant called the Manhattan Bistro that is in Wilkes-Barre. A student of mine saw them and asked me to do one for her mom affectionately called LaLa. She gave me a list of LaLa 'isms' - like "We are sisters by birth and friends thanks to Prozac'. Lanie asked me to make it colorful, like her mom who being from Alabama is I'm sure just like her Mom... a beautiful, warm, colorful bundle of good energy and love.
From my molskine sketchbook - one a day ....!!!Julia Cameron suggests going on artists date once a week by yourself. Take yourself on a date! It could be going to a movie, a museum or as simple as going to a rug store to look at colors and textures from another country, and art store or a coffee shop in one town over.Matt Kahn says creativity is what we are all striving for - all spirituality is aimed towards one thing - and that is, creativity.How do you manifest creativity? By doing something different. Go a different way to work, brush your teeth with your opposite hand, eat something you don't usually eat, pay more compliments, ask someone you don't really know to lunch, take a different class. And then, congratulate yourself and get ready to create. Create your own reality. Create the life you want.
MORE has OM in it (backwards)! 2016 - More consciousness, more connection, more clarity, more creating, more calm.AHHHHHHHHMEN.
It's hard to believe 2015 is coming to an end. So appreciate of clean air to breathe, woods to walk in, family and friends who care for me, being able to do what I love to do everyday, for the teachers I have had and for the students who come to me, for Eloise who breathes life into my days just by being who she is, for the abiltiy to walk and run and skip and swim and bike through this thing called life. Yes, I am blessed. And so are you.
Tomorrow there is a group show I am part of at Marquis art and Frame in WB. It is artists response to the Back Mountain Bloomers event in the summer. It will be a good night to be out and about - so please come and enjoy - colors, shapes, textures and or course there will be some gooooood foooood~!
