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Anyways, now more about me. I haven't been painting. Sorry. I have been dreaming about painting, which is really weird. I've painted two pictures in my dreams and I figure I need to just take a day to paint what my subconscious has already painted. It's nice to know that my subconscious has time to do the things it likes to do.

In my dreams, I am painting a very large picture, like a full size of Arches, with watercolors that are nothing more than pigment in cups. Its messy and more like body painting...which sounds extremly erotic, I know, but I think it means more that I should just give myself over to this art form and stop thinking my way through my paintings. Ah...I should read my "Artist Way" book again and remember to embrace the child side of my creativity and stop being a critic before I even start painting.

So, I need lots of plastic and a large board and plenty of water, cups and pigment...oh, and a hair net...are you art geeks getting steamy yet? Check back later...if you're lucky I may have photos....hehehe... Yeah, like you guys ever are lucky...only if you were Britney Spears paparazzi would you be so lucky...She at least invites them over for drinks and to see her divorce and restraining order memorabilia. Sure beats the same old family photos...You go girl...

So, get lost... I need my sleep.

]]> ~tnkrbll http://tnkrbll.deviantart.com/journal/14921024/ http://tnkrbll.deviantart.com/journal/14921024/ Fri, 05 Oct 2007 01:00:07 PDT "Britney I Love You. I want to have children to lose in a nasty custody fight with my ex-husband because you’re my reason for living."

Okay... see, you should listen to your therapist kids...it helps to just let it all out. Well, October is here and the art season is upon us. This October 5th kicks off the First Friday season for us and there is a lot to do and see.

First, good friends are showing…see below…and I can be found showing at Revolver on 7th Ave and Melrose in Phoenix. Enjoy the cooler weather and stay safe...crazy artist types are rooming the streets at night again in Phoenix.

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ART SHOW FOR LISA AND PERI

Sweet Pea Bakery is featuring the art of LISA VOLZ & PERI MILLER during the month of October

OPENING NIGHT, 1st FRIDAY Oct. 5th 7-10 pm. Festivities Continue Sat. Oct. 6th 10-4pm

Sweet Pea Bakery
209 west jackson st phoenix, arizona
sweetpeaaz.com

lisavolz.com & perimiller.com

Hope to see you there!

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Okay…so I remember talking to a friend of mine and I agreed to help her with setting up her classroom for the next school year, which started August 13th here. That was sometime ago and I just now realized that September is like soon; more like SATURDAY! My question is…WHERE THE HELL DID AUGUST GO?

Well, to my defense, I did start back to school at Arizona State this semester while trying to keep my day job, playing with my puppy and my husband and just keeping up on my homework. If at all possible, I’m looking for more hours in my day. I may be able to buy a few…but I’m not beneath just out right “thievery” (I love that word. It sounds so elaborate).

So, as far as art goes…I have the new work drawn…I just need to get to painting!! I do have some time coming up and First Friday is coming up soon…I better get working on it. I have already planned for two showings, so please check back to find out dates and times. I am planning on increasing the commercial side of my art by introducing new products for the Fall season at the Phoenix Farmers’ Market. I need the $$ as ASU pulled my grants due to the small realization that I already have one degree…in which I responded, “SOOOOOOOOOOOO…and I’m supposed to pay for this tuition how?”

Anything else… Phoenix Comic Con January 2008, Scott and I will be there!!!

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The fantasy illustrator section was very inspiring. Scott and I met with Jeff (Hi Jeff) and Bob, who has a booth this year. I met with some of my personal favs; Craig Elliott, Charles Vess and Daivd Mack. And, also found new favs; Danni Shinya Luo and Stephanie Roberts.

Well, its back to work. I took 9 weeks off from painting and DA. I went to Wisconsin and San Diego, Temecula, CA, and Flagstaff, AZ, for inspiration, rebirth and some much needed r&r. I feel much more focused on this next art season coming up and invite you all back to check out what is new and engaging.

Thanxx for all the love and support!!! My DA site hit 1000 this week and I really didn’t think it was possible. I don’t really overly advertise my art, so this marker was really very personal. It proves DA is about friends and community. Thanxx for the lovin’

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Well, very busy. Our showing at The Mighty Cup in Glendale is coming to a close on May 13th. Scott and i will be at LepreCon this weekend showing and selling art work. And, thanxx to Peri Miller, we are scheduled to show at That's A Wrap in DT Phoenix in August.

I seriously need a vacation!!!!!!!!! Well, I have to take the puppy for a walk so chat with you all later

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March 5th -- April 9th: My personal showing of watercolors at Copper Star Coffee. Thank you to everyone who has given such wonderful support.

April 11th & April 25th -- Town & Country: From 10am-2pm I continue to sell art work, prints, cards and such from myself, Scott and Lisa Volz. It's a growing market and everyone is really fun to chat with in the biltmore area.

April 7th & April 21st -- Phoenix Farmers' Market: From 8am-1pm I sell art work, prints and cards with Peri Miller, Scott Vaughn and the lovely Lisa Volz. This is a wonderful market with plenty of vendors with a wide selection of organics, goodies and crafts.

April 22nd -- The Mighty Cup: Downtown Glendale location invited our art troop to show for the month. For all our friends and family...stay tuned to your emails for an opening night invite. Love to see you there!!

May 4th -- First Friday on Melrose & 7th Ave: Be srue to catch us on our final First Friday before the summer. Fun times, great vendors and a cute little puppy named lilo.

Did I forget anything... Oh, it was my mommy's birthday on Easter!!! Happy Birthday Mom! Thank you for all your support and love.

Anything else... my puppy loves rabbit pellets, lettuce and strawberry jello... in that order.

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So, what's coming up in March. Other than the biggest beer drinking day of the year... what more could you ask for. Okay, here ya go.

Shows:
Sunday, March 4 -- 20th Annual GCNA Historic Home Tour. I will be showing art and selling prints along with Peri Miller.

Saturday, March 24 -- M7 Street Fair. Indian School and 7th Ave will be CLOSED for street vendors, classic cars and good fun. From 3-9pm you will find myself, Scott Vaughn (hubby), Peri Miller, Lisa Volz, Laura Henry and Monica Steheli selling art, knit, cards and more art.

When Im not at these two shows I will be at the Ren Fest in Gold Canyon, Arizona... DRINKING BEER...

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My homework assignment: To study the dual personality of the goddess Persephone, Queen of the Dead.

I went to Barnes & Noble...their mythology section SUX. I thought that the real purpose of their mythology seciton was for me to stack all twelve books ontop of each other on the floor and complain to customer service that there was trash on the floor.

I went to Borders...their mythology section is more like the Penguin Classics Book section. Doesn't anyone reinterpret mythology anymore? Then again, at least B&N puts mythology next to poetry...at Borders you have to look between Sociology and Sign Language...don't ask me why.

So, I look on. I have read the 'Rape of Persephone' a 1001 times and have found little else on the goddess. The myth is really belonging to Demeter's trials to find her daughter and talks very little about Persephone's transformation from virgin to woman. I have also read in other books that Persephone is regarded as the Queen of Witches, and that you will find her myths difficult to locate because of this reason...as in they were purged...but that's opinion. I have a quest of sorts for 2007.

Anyways, other than my own personal hell things are moving forward slowly. I have more time to paint and more time to talk and more time to show off and more time to do alot of things I couldn't find time before to do. So, watch out world...I'm either going to build a MySpace.com website or volunteering with the Democratic Party. Can't decide which one will be more of a global power in 2008. hehe

Enjoy January all you Capricorns and for the rest of you...carry on.

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This has been a slow month for art. I've taken to working two jobs for the extra $$ and now I find little time to do much else. Shopping is a disaster this year. I was really late in starting. I did get a new painting done for my brother and his GF. So far, that has been about it. So much for writing a journal with cool stuff to talk about.

So... on to next year. I have big plans... bigger goals and lots to do. I am starting a series with kittie-kats for cards and stationary and I am taking on bigger painting projects for future artist alley events at a convention near you. I am also thinking about switching careers and finish my history degree at ASU so that I can have smart-ass kids yell at me in a highschool class room and then throw their fists at me. I am also plannin on opening an e-bay store this next year so keep in touch.

Enjoy the season... sing "Silent Night" at least once and call your brother or sister because, like your mother, they miss you.

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I have uploaded new watercolors and I thank everyone who has stopped by and should some lovin' by commenting and/or faving. I love stopping by your own galleries, so please let me know who you are. Everyone has such a different perspective and I find it fascinating the overwhelming number of stories that are out there.

I am currently working on two huge ideas myself. One is the story of the Norse goddess Iduna and her captivity with the Ice Giant. The other is the change of the Greek goddess Kore into Persphone. I am a FREAK about mythology. I read it, study it, dream it, draw it, paint it, live by it and find my life surrounded by the "power of myth." I have been building up the courage to take on bigger and bigger watercolor composition, but the amount of paint that is involved is a little scary. So, to those of you who can fill a 30"x20" and larger canvas I applaud you. It's no easy task.

Well, in closing I say: Don't forget to mail out your holiday cards this weekend and water that poor plant in all of your studios. Show someone you haven't talked to in a long while some charity/generosity/kindness and call you mother...she misses you. December will be gone before you know it and soon we will all be staring down another year. Enjoy the season!!

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November 3rd started the festivities with First Fridays on 7th Ave and Melrose in Phoenix, AZ. From 6-10 we set up a table and visted with shoppers/art lovers while selling prints and drinking lattes.

November 4th was our Grinder's Coffee Artist Reception. From 7-9 we enjoyed wine and munchies at 7 E. Dunlap Ave., Phoenix, AZ, while visting with fellow patrons and friends.

Sunday, November 5th concluded the weekend events with a booth at the Shemer Jazz Festival. Peri Miller had a big day selling two originals and several prints. WOW!!

So, this week has been a week of recovery from my real life as an artist. Back to work on enrollment books for 2007 Health Benefits...this is punishment for not reading my health benefit book at home now that I qualify for health insurance.

I still don't believe in health insurance and the reason is why pay big $$ in premiums when they can refuse to pay your hospital bills if you are obese, not wearing a seat belt, a smoker or failed to give them notice for required treatment. Just put the $$ in a savings account and visit Urgent Care. You'll need the $$ for a lawyer anyways to sue for treatment costs.

So, back to painting. I love painting. Love Love Love.... I wish I could paint all day and all night and paint when I sleep at night. I would paint girls with big hair boys with moody eyes and flowers that would pick fights. I would paint crazy colors that were bold and bright and keep my mother up all night. Painting is a return to what's true when it was okay to explore while my imagination grew. Painting is raw and painting is a release. Painting is whats right in this world without peace. Now I'm just reaching but I will leave you with this. Paint for your soul, paint for what you miss.

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I bought a mat cut, but I haven't used it...why...because I've been busy looking for the perfect color copies for making artist prints. Who would've thought that this would be so hard. It should just be scan and print, but oh no...white look too white, or there is no hint of color its been all washed out and darks are too dark or some are too dark and others way too lite....ARGH!! So, Im busy at work trying to color correct for crapy color copies at Staples.

So how was your weekend? I've been out visiting everyone who's stopped by my site to say thanxx...and I'll say it again THANXX. It's been alot of fun seeing what everyone is working on and seeing what everyone works with. I've had alot of additions to my FAVs because you are all just so darn good.

Angie4450--love your dramatic watercolors Gooberbrain--your contest idea is inspiring yowassup--Cheers! Darkie-duckie--I love butterflies SeriouslyTwisted--when I grow up can I be seriously twisted too? DocRedfield--Thanxx for your gift of immortality.

See you all around !!

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I shouldn't be so hard on the color orange. Its a holy color in the east and it suggests warmth and growth. Orange is a healthy vitamin C filled fruit and the favorite flavor of america fruity soda.

So, why do I hate orange. It smells funny.

Anyways, I have uploaded three new watercolors to my gallery. Two are a larger 11" X 15" format and the other is a familar 4" x 12" size that follows suit with "My Hair Cut Was Free" and "Only When I Think of Daisies."

I am planning to show my work in Phoenix's 7th Ave First Fridays Art Walk with prints available for sale. (Nov. 3rd, 6-9pm, 4230 N. 7th Ave, two blocks north of Indian School on 7th Ave.) Hope to see you there.

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This weekend was full of fustrations, tears and cancellations of any and all Yahoo accounts. Yes, I am Yahoo free. How did I do it... "Wasn't easy!" -- Big Trouble In Little China

I really do compare it to being debt free.

And the reason why I cancelled my Yahoo account. Because I was trying to be nice and link my friends web-site from mine and Yahoo deleted my entire site. Gone...So much for being nice. Terms of Service states that along with showing porn, selling illegal items, fraud and money pyramids...linking to sites outside of Yahoo was a big no no. (This is for Free service).

So, I took the next train out of fascism and signed up with a very dirt cheap server and so on.

Notice I still have my deviant art site... I love this place.

So...be nice and check out my new website at [link] ]]> ~tnkrbll http://tnkrbll.deviantart.com/journal/10038842/ http://tnkrbll.deviantart.com/journal/10038842/ Mon, 11 Sep 2006 12:22:05 PDT
...co-worker that is. Ms Terryl Longfield has given up on U-Haul and returned to spending long hours in a studio filled with young minds and creative asspirations at the Art Institute of Phoenix. Lucky girl...I mean it. I wish I could be back in college drinking beer and discussing how ever one who says that they are a graphic designer should really have a degree instead of learning the craft from "Graphic Design for Dummies." Well, here's to you Terryl... You go girl!!

So, Im sooooooo bored at work and I was trying to keep myself awake when I realized I could be doing something constructive...like work on my web-page or a promotional piece or better yet my resume. But, I'm too bored to start.

All it seems I want to do is sleep with my puppy on the sofa and watercolor. Sleep, puppy licks and watercolor. Sleep, puppy licks and watercolor. What more is there????

A lot more...

I long to recapture that motivation of a 23 year-old where the world is at hand and all I have to do is get the hell out of school and begin my life of credit debt and disapointments. Maybe, I'll win the lottery and die a true Rock Star death and not have to worry about it... then again, the odd of dying a Rock Star death is a million to one.

So, that is that... I guess I will just have to dig up some motivation somewhere and mask it as an attempt to recapture my youth. I hate being 30ish with no children and a dead-end job. I hate explaining why Im not 25 and still creative, imaginative and lively. From now on Im going to be 27 so people won't look at me funny and say things like "Your not THAT old" or "I thought you were ALOT younger."

Well, you know what... I am ALOT younger... and I am ALOT older. Being 30 is about being an adventurer and a mentor. About inticing others to follow the unbeaten path and challenging the system by getting out of the house once in a while. MAKE FRIENDS for goodness sake. Talk with your co-workers and learn about who they are. Embrace their hopes and dreams and support them through encouragment and LISTENING.

Then when they leave... You can truly see just how complacent you have become. ]]> ~tnkrbll http://tnkrbll.deviantart.com/journal/9736170/ http://tnkrbll.deviantart.com/journal/9736170/ Tue, 15 Aug 2006 11:30:30 PDT
What is it about art that makes us want so bad to create yet bleeds us each time we attempt to do any actual work?

I have been going to a watercolour group since June. The group is cool and the artist/teacher, PeriMiller.com, is awesome. However, each time I try to sit down and think about painting all I feel is the burden of overthinking about the composition. So...I resort to the opposite side of my brain and spill color all over the pages. This annoys me.

I picked up a book called the Tao of Watercolor. In the book, it describes how, like Yoga, painting is an inward artform that needs unity between the right / left side of your noodle to function in union. When there is a balance between the technical skill and the creative inner child magical things happen...and you know what...they do.

However, I suggest taking yoga classes so that you can reconize this new sense of unity between the minds first before you sit down to watercolor / do art / attempt the creative. Then, when you can feel the unity happening within you, you know better than to over think your work or let the inner child take over... but rather enjoy the flow of the river to the sea. ]]> ~tnkrbll http://tnkrbll.deviantart.com/journal/8484199/ http://tnkrbll.deviantart.com/journal/8484199/ Sat, 15 Apr 2006 23:38:53 PDT
So I drew something to upload...enjoy. ]]> ~tnkrbll