Rest and Recover

 

 

Rest and Recover

I just got home from a wonderful vacation hiking in Zion National Park. Today, after I have cleaned out the car, and sorted the laundry, and put the hiking equipment away. Exhaustion has settled in.

I love looking at my photographers after a vacation. It's like reliving the vacation all again.

But, now I need rest.

 

 

Rest and Recover,


Acrylic,

11" x 14

Jean Hart Artwork

Recovery isn't a goal, but a process that continues each day. You are always repairing and renewing and regenerating yourself. Take yourself outside to absorb the light and shadow of each day. Touch Mother Earth and feel her warmth each day that you live. Don't keep your spirit stuck in yesterday as a new day begins. Prayer is process.

Be Inspired,

~jean

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Everything about Paris

Everything about Paris

Still life acrylic, Jean Hart Artwork
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• If you want a casual, light meal, you would most likely eat at :
• A. Cafe
• B .Brasserie
• C. Bistro
• D. Restaurant
• Come to my art blog to find the answer.
• be Inspired,
• Answer

A. Cafe

Bistros traditionally serve slow cooked, long simmered dishes like poulet au pot or boeuf burgeoning, while brasseries do highbrow fast food like oysters and grills. Cafes, on the other hand, are casual, usually with some light fare. A restaurant is likely to be more formal and offer multi course meals

Bon Appetite.

~jean

Day 8 , 28 days to a more magnetic life

Day 8

28 days to a more magnetic life

Sandra Anne Taylor

 

Taking Action

Intention:

"Today I take some action toward the achievement of my goals. My action energizes my intention and tells the Universe that I'm serious about making my dreams come true."

OOOOOh today already has been tough and it's only 8:00. I've been up, meditated, eat breakfast and then immediately went back to bed. No, I'm not sick. A little bit of non-motivation has come to visit me.  It's the down after the up of a Art Reception. While the night was fun and well attended by a small group of artists. It was nice to talk to many people I have not seen for awhile, it was not the night I had thought it would be. In truth, it was a great night and I build these things up to be more than they are. So, just feeling a little down.

More action, more achievement towards my goals..... I'm feeling just a little lost today.

I will read on. Maybe just getting myself up and active will kick myself in gear.

 

Reflection

"Action is the accelerate that will ignite your desires. If your goal is important to you, then moving forward must be an ongoing, daily priority. It's the combination of intention and action that stimulates Universal response."

Wow, there it is. "ongoing, daily priority." So there is no day off? I'm just asking. I usually tell young artists that it is the persistence that will make you good. The keep going, make a plan, stick to it. I have small plans now. It is the end of the year. By Dec. I have executed my ideas for the year and I'm winding down. My ideas list has been crossed off. But I do have one more thing that I will do today to end the year.

Activities for taking action

She lists 3 activities for today, I will be doing number 3.

"3. Remember your energetic action: positive and valuing thoughts for the mind, movement and rest for the body, meditation for the spirit, and love and compassion for the heart. All of these are important actions that will lead you forward on your path."

Yes, this one seems the kindness for me today.

Matthew and I are setting out to help Santa bring gifts to a little girl and boy who's family is in need of a little help this year. We want to make sure that these Children will know the magic of Christmas.
Ho,ho, ho! Merry Christmas to you and to all a good day.

I have joined the pool and maybe I will swim later today.

Action Affirmations

"I am dedicated to the success of my daily life. I continue to take action to make my thoughts more positive, my emotions more joyous, and my intentions more conscious and clear."

This is where my daily to do list comes in. It never fails me. If I put it on the list, I get it done. I have over the years created a discipline for myself that way.

I also find that if I put the timer to 15min and say, "for 15min I will do this or that" it is enough time for me to get myself moving.

So what's on my list for today.

1. Delivering my new Christmas Cards to the museum gift store. (a forward activity towards my goal as an artist.)

2. Shopping for Christmas presents for a little girl and boy. (compassion for my heart)

3. Swimming, ( I have already rested, meditated for my body.)

One word about meditating, only do it once a day for 10 15min. after that it just becomes daydreaming.

Be Inspired,

~jean

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Live auction, Let It Snow

New season painting.

live au
I am starting something new. Many of you have heard about the paint a day movement. Well, this is not that. There is no way I can paint a painting each day....so I would not want to set you up to come here looking for a new painting from me everyday. However, I do paint a lot. I want to start offering my original paintings to you here on live auction.
If you find a painting you like, just email me here and I will put your bid on the list. By private message email I will let you know if you have won.
These will be big or small and you will pay the S$H price.
Let the auction begin.
I'm excited, how about you?
Be inspired,
~jean
just email me at

heartnsoulpic@gmail.com

 

Let It Snow

acrylic

8" x10" unframed,

starting bid at

$45.00

First Snowfall

acrylic, 8" 10" unframed

$45.00

Be Inspired,

~Jean



Alla Prima Painting

Interview with Artist

Jean Hart

 

People often ask me if my paintings are oil?

 

No, I am an Acrylic artist.

Acrylic is a relatively new material.

I like it because it dries fast and I can get on with painting quickly.

Acrylic contains pigments that are suspended in acrylic polymer emulsion. One really cool thing about the acrylic  paint is that it can be diluted with water. I can thin it down to resemble watercolor paints, on the other hand I can build it up with gels, media, or pastes to resemble oil painting.

Once it dries it's water resistant and permanent.

 

Do you under paint your paintings?

 

When I first started to paint. It was a labor of love. I would gesso my canvas's, 3 times. Even if the pre-made canvas's said they were already gassoed. This I still do.

I work out my painting, until the composition looks balanced.

I have done the under painting and building up with glazes, but I have found that with acrylics you can just paint over each layer and cover up anything that needs to be fixed. So, I have given up the under painting style. My work tends to be quick, and Alla Prima.

 

Alla Prima?

 

Yes, it's also called "direct painting".

  It became popular in the 19th century. The Impressionists were the first to use this style. It's spontaneous and has painterly qualities that I like. The brushstrokes are  bold, loose, and suggestive. Because the strokes are quickly painted  the accuracy of shapes and forms become less important. The painting takes on a more abstract, loosely painted suggestion.

 

Do you consider yourself to be a realistic painter?

 

That's interesting.

I once had an instructor who told me that I had to pick what kind of artist of was going to be, portrait, landscape, floral....etc. My question back was, Why can't I paint everything?

 I guess that's not how it's done in the art world.

 It's how I paint though. I paint what interests me.

My portraits are as real as I can make them.

But, my other paintings, are much freer in thought and accuracy. Lets, say I paint a tree and a bird, which  are  in many of my paintings. You, look at the painting and you say, I love the tree and bird. Well, I'm happy you saw a tree and bird.

Is it a real tree or a real bird?

Probably not. It only exists in my mind.

That's my artists license.

My first love is illustration. So I paint like an illustrator.

Many of my paintings first start with a Title.

Maybe a storyline.

Then the painting starts.

For me, what's important is that I paint.

My question to you is,

Which method suits you, careful planning in layers, or alla prima?

Be Inspired,

~jean

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Help with naming a painting

The art exhibit is getting closer and I'm just about done with my 5th painting for the art exhibit "Elements", Water, fire, air, earth, and spirit.
For the life of me I can not think of a title for this painting.
Earth,
So here it is, if s...omeone can come up with a title I like, I will name this painting with your title, give you credit and send you a 11" x 14" print for helping me.
My Title was,
"Earths Treasures"......not so exciting.
Be Inspired,
~Jean

As The Crow Fly's

Air painting,

As the show time gets closer and summer activities get busier, I'm getting just a littler nervous about finishing my paintings on time.

I started this Air painting last night and I'm very pleased with the direction it's going in.

My concern is about the Ravens and Crows in my area. They are being poisoned and blamed for the decrease in the Sage Grouse bird population. Of course, there is much more to it then that.

You can read more about it here.

http://elkodaily.com/news/local/save-sage-grouse-target-ravens-county-hopes-pilot-program-sets/article_e8d4fe28-8df4-11e2-9981-0019bb2963f4.html

 

As The Crow Fly's
acrylic
32" x 36
by artist
Jean Hart

Be Inspired,
~Jean
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Narcissuss painting

Here is the finial painting of Narcissuss
Acrylic
32" x 36"
Jean Hart
It will be exhibited at the Northeastern Nevada Musuem in Aug. 2013
In the Elements art exhibit
Please enjoy my artwork,
Be Inspired,
~Jean
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_noiFEY0pI

How do you know if you are the one inspiring or being inspired?

LIVE TO INSPIRE

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IDEAS AND CONCEPTS, ACRYLIC
BY JEAN HART
 



Inspire.

What moves you to the point that you must do something and then share it with someone?

Inspiring is doing something bold or courageous and then passing this high energy along to someone else.

How do you know if you are the one inspiring or being inspired?

I moved completely away from home at a tender age of 18. With no friends to a new city, college and barely no money.

Was that inspiring?

I married at 21 and again moved far from home to a city with no family or friends, with only $100.00 and no where to live.

Was that inspiring?

Being brave, vibrant, and as authentic as you can in living your life.

Yes, I think that's inspiring.

Telling how I left a job as a baker when I read a fortune cookie that said,

"Move in a different direction to begin your dream life".

Yes, that was inspired!

I hope that I don't just tell people about being inspired, I hope they are inspired by watching how I live my life. How sometimes taking a risk works out, being bold is exciting, taking chances makes your heart beat faster, by picking yourself up after a disappointment and moving forward after a good cry.

Keep moving forward...keep up the curiosity....keep the ideas and concepts coming.

I love this little abstract painting. It was my first atempt at painting concepts. Everytime I look at it I see something new. It Inspires Me.

Show yourself to the world.

Breathe in, breathe out.

Be Inspired,

~Jean

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Technical Tuesday still life

 

TECHNICAL TUESDAY

 

 

well technically this will not be a "Technical " instruction day.

Mothers Day is coming up and so I have started to paint flowers.

I went to my local craft store and found drawing paper in 5 x 7 pads. I thought wow, this is great, they were already cut for me, in canvas for acrylic, pastel and colored pencil.

I brought out all my colored pencils and started to put together a little still life of flowers.

Today you will be doing the same.

Really think about what kind of flowers YOU LIKE. I find it easier if you like what you are going to draw.

I start with the size and shape of the vase.

pencil in the flower placement.

Pick out a color scheme that is complementary.

I usually work from top to bottom, and with pencil front to back.

Meaning that my background is usually the last thing I draw.

Have fun with this, it's not meant to be hard.

For me this whole painting was imaginary, but if you need to look at something by all means bring out your flower photos.

Have Fun,

Be Inspired,

~Jean

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EARTH Soul Coaching

EARTH

SOUL COACHING

I'm doing this little book by

Denise Linn

 

good morning,,,,this is me, even before my first cup of coffee.
 

 

 

Be Courageous...
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
~ Anaïs Nin ~ This is my last week on this program. I'm just a bit sad to see it come to an end. But as I read the introduction I see I have no time for that..

Earth week, Clearing your physical self.

This comes just in time for me to paint my next painting for the Element Show, "Earth".

 

There will be no time to rest during this week it looks like. While I am still cleaning, with all the home machines running. I just finished cleaning, decluttering under my bathroom sink. YUCK!!!! why do I keep everything that comes to me...half used bottles of shampoo, old bars of soap, I must have found 5 hairbrushes, a curling iron, I've never used, some other mysteries tubes of  creams!!!

Which brings to mind the question, "Do you ever look in someones medicine cabinet when you use their bathroom?"   Well, it's all cleaned up and out now.

 For the next seven days, focus on the physical nature of your environment.

During Earth week,

Become more connected to your body. (I looking for a STRETCH CLASS, not yoga though."

Attend to your health, (I made many Dr. Appointments)

Detoxify your body.( learning to drink lemon water)

Understand how to use your body's physiology. ( exercising)

Connect more fully with nature.(watered my plants)

Create a home for your soul.( OK, strange as this sounds, I want to make my own urn.)

Take action for a positive future.

Today is day 22, Earth, Connecting with your body.

Affirmation for the day

"I am one with the earth. I am one with my body."

There is a long list to help with making an accurate body assessment,

After I went through this list I discovered that YES, it was time to get physical and take action to take care of my body. So, Dr. appointments were made.

Eye, Dentist, Gynecologist, Monogram, Dermatologist.

Here's something  fun,  I called my Mary Kay associate and planned a party for next week.

We will have fun food, wine and girl time.

Facials, and make up expert advice.

I'm also making a promise to myself to regularly take my blood presser to keep on top of that too.

That's filled up my calendar for this week,

Have fun with this.

Soul Coaching has been a great help for me.

I welcome you to join in with me.

Be Inspired,

~Jean

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Soul Coaching, Fire week

FIRE!!!

Soul Coaching book by Denise Linn

what I thought was going to be a fun week, so Denise says in the first pages of fire week, and I quote from the book, "Have Fun!"

Well, yes I did have fun, and I did get organized and yes I did create some awesome artwork. But, I would like to also say, "What a crazy week!!!"

Facing my shadow self was not fun, she came at me from no where and held on to me for the entire week.

Examining my fears, was no surprise except to learn that I have passed a few of them and left them behind. That was fun to know.

Changing my routines and habits. Oh, fun, fun, fun. New hair style, new ways to wear a scarf, and considering a new decorating scheme.

But the image of pretending  "your dead"...well, interesting, hance the back of my head picture. Because of that days activity, I made a "will". Guess who's getting my cat's?......You will just have to wait until my will is read.

This week too, I finished my 'FIRE" painting for the element art exhibit.

It's been a big week, lots of things got done.

Still cleaning, clearing and I have a to do list that has tripled.

Before and After  and now you can really see my vision for Paris.

Last day of FIRE, I look pretty good. May I just say, not so easy taking picture of yourself. I'm just saying....I love my kindle.

I love this little book. Make no mistake in thinking that these little activities are easy. They are anything but easy and some are more time consuming then others.

Join me in this little book,

Soul Coaching, by Denise Linn

If you've done it, congratulations,

If you want to join me.

Have Fun!!! Seriously, it's fun.

Be Inspired,

~Jean

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Blue Monday

Blue Monday

The paintings for Blue Monday, are not always blue in color, some are blue in mood or texture,

This little painting of a burned tree in the marshes made me sad, but too it reminded me of this poem.

Enjoy,

~Jean

 

Trees and Men

 

The tree that didn't have to fight,

for sun and sky and air and light,

But lived out on the open plain,

and always got its' share of rain,

Never became a forest king,

But lived and died a scrubby thing.

 

The man who never tasted spoil,

The man who never had to toil,

That never had to win his share

of sun and sky and light and air.

Never became a manly man.

But lived and died where he began.

 

Good timber does not grow with ease.

The stronger the winds the tougher the trees.

The further the sky, the greater the length,

The more the storms, the more the strength.

 

By sun and cold and rain and snow.,

In tree or man good timbers grow,

Where the thickest stands the forest growth

We find the patriarchs of both.

 

Who hold and converse with the stairs,

Whose broken branches show many scars,

of many winds and much of strife,

This is the common law of life,

Og Mandino

Dada Art

Dada

1916-1920

Zurich, Berlin, New Your

I must confess I do not know much about Dada artwork.

The Fun Fact I found about where the word Dada came from,

"The origin of the name Dada is in dispute. The most popular theory is that "Dada artists randomly stabbed at the French-German dictionary and hit the word "Dada," French for hobbyhorse. The other is that the word is simply nonsense or babble, reflecting the artists' attitude toward fine art."

Well there you go!!!! I like the babble myself.

It was during World War 1 that these artists came on the art world. They created provocative, contradictory, and irrational art. Their art was a way to protest against the war.

Dada artist did not seem to have a specific medium or standard to their work. More like chaos was used to create collage, paints, and sculptures. They were not interested in art for arts beauty. No, they were more interested in making the viewer think. They were more engaged in discussions of poetry readings, and performances and images that mocked the government, art world, and contemporary culture. I believe they were using art to make a political statement.

The Dada artist were the founders of what later became Surrealists artists.

Selected artists of Dada:

Jean Arp, Hugo Ball, Marcel Duchamp, George Grosz, Raoul Hausmann

http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?_adv_prop=image&fr=yfp-t-652-s&va=dada+artists

Something to think about today.

Where can you find artwork that may be political or provocative,

 contradictory?

Do you consider it artwork if it is not beautiful?

Have you ever made artwork that was a statement of current affairs?
These are my two paintings that were influenced by current affairs.


Tsunami, acrylic, Jean Hart

Cow in the field, Jean Hart

2013 the year of the Water Snake

Helping Hands

 

 

Be Inspired,

~Jean

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a brave butterfly

I enjoy putting words and music to my artwork,
Please enjoy this little story of a brave butterfly.
http://smilebox.com/playBlog/4d7a55794e5455314f544d3d0d0a&blogview=true

Blue Monday-finding sublimity in our surroundings

Blue Monday

Rise and shine!

It's Monday.

Raise yourself out of the past and into a new day.

Look who has come to join me for breakfast.

It's hard to feel too blue when I look out my window and see this.

How can you not look at nature and not be inspired?

Walt Whitman said,"A morning glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books."

What would the landscape look like without nature. Surely what would artists paint, photographers shoot or poets write about.

Here's a thought for today.

Without nature what would the major master pieces of artwork be?

Nature is everywhere, landscapes, seascapes, animals.

Now think, what is the rest of the artists painting if not nature?

My guess is the relationship people have to nature, abstract, man-made structures and feelings.

Nature has colors and shapes we can all relate to easily. Without too much thought we recognize trees, mountain, oceans.

A question for today,

Why do humans feel so moved and inspired by nature?

Today's challenge is for you to draw something in nature to moves you in an inspired way.

Be Inspired,

~Jean

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Has a work of art ever revealed to you a profound truth about our world?

Has a work of art ever revealed to you a profound truth about our world?

I painted this fine art piece for an exhibit I did on "Human Life".

The tile is "Plant Food Not Fuel".

Today's question is

Can the creation of art add meaning to a person's life?

Jean Paul Sartre,

"If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someones trouble." -Sartre

Jean Paul Sartre was a famous 20th century philosopher, a French Existentialist.

In his philosophy he was aware of the power of images on people's beliefs. Sartre sees art as an intellectual pursuit and believes, "that every artist must commit to bettering society and taking responsibility for his or her work".

I agree with this statement. I have always believe artists can paint and record history. I too believe there is so much power in images. I do not like to have to explaine my artwork because by doing so it really takes away their own experience of the art. Each person is drawn to art and images by their own emotions. 

Once you have painted a picture, it lives on in the minds of those who have viewed it long after the artist has moved on.

Creating beauty, with meaning.

Here is my exhibit of my paintings I painting for "Human Life" exhibit.

Please enjoy my artwork.

 http://smilebox.com/play/4d6a63304d4449784f44513d0d0a&blogview

click on link below to read more about Jean Paul Sartre,

 

http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Jean-Paul_Sartre

 

Our challenge for today is for you to paint something that is important to you about Life, Earth, the World.

I love My World and so I painted a painting to show my gratitude from this wonderful place we call earth.

Be Inspired,

~Jean

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