tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86305693390880166262024-03-11T01:15:56.948-05:00Whimsical Owls and Other Mixed Media Art From the Heart by Juliette CraneOwl Paintings and Other Whimsical Mixed Media Art From the Heart by Juliette CraneJuliette Cranehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04269527151508438927noreply@blogger.comBlogger615125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8630569339088016626.post-46863000738125258712013-11-08T05:00:00.002-06:002023-03-29T10:49:14.679-05:00This Blog Has Moved <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #444444;">SERENDIPITY is all about overcoming creative blocks and strengthening your own unique style, so with every project I try and push my paintings in new directions and share just what inspired each piece.<b> </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">So An Amazing Journey came about after I'd been inspired by my friend and artist <a href="http://www.behance.net/efikokkinaki">Efi Kokkinaki</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">I just love the dreaminess in Efi's work. </span><b style="color: #444444;">But when I tried to let her imagery inspire my paintings, I froze. </b></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">I had been trying so hard to repeat Efi's beautiful four-legged creatures in my own way, that I lost the beauty I felt while looking at her work. </span><b style="color: #444444;">So I gave up. I set my expectations aside and decided to let go of any idea of what I wanted to paint. </b></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">I grabbed a background I wasn't liking and decided to cover it up. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">I was looking for something new and remembered an image Efi had shared with me of one of her fluid backgrounds. So I repeated the motion I saw in her background. From there, I started having fun again.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">I found a way to incorporate something from her work into my own. </span><span style="color: #444444;">I let go of trying to push my artwork in a new direction and allowed what was inside of me to be set out into my own painting. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">I titled this piece An Amazing Journey as a reminder to keep letting go, allowing new inspirations and revelations to lead me just where I need to be. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">ps. If you're interested in seeing An Amazing Journey in progress and painting lots of different characters together for the entire year, find details on SERENDIPITY-A Year In Mixed Media and <a href="http://juliettecrane.com/workshop/index.shtml" style="color: #58b9d6; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 23.33333396911621px; text-decoration: none;">register here</a><span style="font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 23.33333396911621px;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">It was a painting I created to demonstrate two characters based on inspirations from some of my past paintings. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">However, as I was painting, I realized I was "trying" so hard to paint certain things and to make the left character a moon and the right character a girl. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">Then I remembered these characters could be whatever I dream. And from there, the painting evolved into a new story I never would have thought of. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">For this piece I used some of my <a href="http://juliettecrane.blogspot.com/search/label/art%20supplies">favorite art supplies</a> (especially when I got stuck)... shiva oil paint sticks, spray paints, tissue papers, cookbook pages, acrylics, and water soluble oil pastels.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">My favorite part in this painting is the rainbow on the bear's forehead. <b>That was one of those beautiful mistakes- something I never could have planned for, but that I let work into the painting.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." </span><span style="color: #444444;">-Robert Frost</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #444444;">This owl came out of a moment of frustration with all of the other paintings I'd been working on. </span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">I reached a point where I'd pushed myself so far out of my comfort zone, that I just needed to paint something I knew I would like. So I painted an owl.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><b>I called this owl GENTLE as painting it was a reminder to be gentle and kind to myself.</b> To take all of the care and concern I so often turn outward, giving to others, and to give it straight to my own heart.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><b>Here's a little video snip-it of DREAMERS WILL SAVE THE WORLD.</b>.. one of the paintings I demonstrate from start to finish in my online course <a href="http://juliettecrane.com/htcwa/index.shtml">HOW TO CREATE WHIMSICAL ANIMALS</a>.</span></div>
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<br />Juliette Cranehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04269527151508438927noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8630569339088016626.post-64600785884856298052013-10-22T05:00:00.000-05:002013-10-22T05:00:12.089-05:00My Texas Vacation & Filling the Well<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<b>I was lucky enough to spend a few extra days vacationing before the <a href="http://luckystarartcamp.com/">Lucky Star</a> retreat.</b></div>
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I felt like a princess, spending my days lounging by the pool and reading on the balcony with hillside views.</div>
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<b>I seriously filled the well. And now I am trying to find more ways to take time for this in my every day.</b></div>
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Because I can't even say how much this little vacation filled me up. It made my creativity bubble up and over. It made me remember the importance of taking down time to allow space for new ideas, spontaneity and serendipity. And it reminded me of the happiness I feel when I am creative. </div>
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<b>I started journaling with doodles and writing picture book stories. I got lost in the woods. I saw a jack rabbit, deer and another fox!</b></div>
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Here are a few Texas vacation photos...I hope they bring you a little of the happiness and peace they bring me.</div>
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<br />Juliette Cranehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04269527151508438927noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8630569339088016626.post-56732466017393522582013-10-18T05:00:00.000-05:002013-10-18T05:00:01.426-05:00Creativity, Inspiration & Lucky Star Art Camp<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<b><span style="color: #666666;">"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men."</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #666666;">-Roald Dahl </span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><b>Well, I’ve just returned from <a href="http://luckystarartcamp.com/">Lucky Star Art Camp</a></b> in the beautiful Texas hill country where I spent a week soaking up inspiration and connection… and spent a whole lot of time painting. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><b>The experience reminded me of the necessity to take time to “fill the well.”</b> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">For me that means taking time to slow down and keep calm, reading in the sunshine, stepping outside at midnight to watch for shooting stars, doodling, writing poetry and finger painting. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">More than anything I am reminded that my every day is a process with one thing leading to the next. That there is no right or wrong way. And that I will figure it out. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><b>Sometimes it takes letting go and stepping away for things to fall into place.</b> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Here is a bit from my time away, teaching <b><a href="http://juliettecrane.com/workshop/index.shtml">Happy Painting</a></b> at <a href="http://luckystarartcamp.com/">Lucky Star Art Camp</a>...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Can you believe we got to paint there, right down by the river each day? So inspiring. I wish you all could have been there.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Have a wonderful weekend!</span></div>
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<br />Juliette Cranehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04269527151508438927noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8630569339088016626.post-66970807947819731152013-10-15T05:30:00.000-05:002013-10-15T05:30:02.880-05:00RUN WITH THE WIND: A New Painting<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="color: #666666;">"We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy." -Mary Oliver</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><b>Painting this piece reminded me to go with what I see in the paint</b>... even if I've never painted it before and have no idea what painting a horse would really be like.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Because when I saw a horse in all of my layers of this painting, I knew it was a horse, but a really odd shaped and weird horse. </span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #666666;">Yet the horse was so distinct, I could't not paint it in.</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">I hadn't even had my girl painted yet, which is usually where I begin. Then if there's a secondary character, it might fall into place. But the girl is always first.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><b>It felt so awkward to just have this horse on the canvas. </b>But I went with it and from there I found my girl and this dream catcher painting fell into place.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">It really doesn't even look like the same painting here. But after I'd finished a few other pieces, I was left with this girl.</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #666666;">I adored the colors, but I couldn't relate to the character. </span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">So I just created a background over most of it to cover the face and try and find something new.</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #666666;">And that's when the horse appeared.</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">She is called RUN WITH THE WIND as a little reminder to go with the flow and allow everything to fall into place.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 23.33333396911621px;"><span style="color: #666666;">pps. I've just returned from teaching at the Lucky Star art retreat in beautiful Hill Country in Texas and can't wait to share some of the stories and photos with you soon.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">morning rituals (journaling and sipping warm water with lemon and cayenne),</span></div>
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<br />Juliette Cranehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04269527151508438927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8630569339088016626.post-86803932150835113752013-10-08T05:00:00.000-05:002013-10-08T05:00:03.669-05:00New Painting: FREEDOM DWELLING<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="color: #666666;">And I saw a rabbit. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">I had painted over an old painting I wasn't liking for the background and had all of this texture at the bottom. But I didn't know what to do next with everything around the rabbit. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">I found a painted page I'd created in my sketchbook with watercolors and india inks. That became the "sun" in the sky. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><b>Then I smeared a bit of yellow and red acrylic ink at the bottom.</b> </span><span style="color: #666666;">And that became the ground, making all of that texture really pop.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">I call this piece FREEDOM DWELLING because in painting it I was reminded to feel the freedom of creating like a child without boundaries, to follow my instincts and to just have fun, letting things be easy and filled with joy.</span></div>
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Juliette Cranehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04269527151508438927noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8630569339088016626.post-2170698876236718662013-10-01T05:30:00.000-05:002013-10-01T05:30:02.370-05:00Your Eyelids Flutter - A New Painting<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Because I'm so used to covering things up in my work, I've noticed I cover up things that are new and original because they feel too awkward and weird.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">I think they're not finished. But really, it's not the painting. It's the feeling it gives me inside.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">This piece just sort of happened.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">I'd covered up a painting I had never liked, leaving the only part I loved... the layers of collaged monarch butterflies.</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #666666;">However, when I stepped back, I thought it can't be done. It looks too strange. This is not something I've ever painted before and it was too easy.</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">And I've learned that it's not that it's too easy... I paint as often as possible. </span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #666666;">Each piece leads me to the next.</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><b>Since this painting fell into place, it's only right that its title came right to me too</b>... it's based on my favorite ee cummings poem: <a href="http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~richie/poetry/html/poem162.html">since feeling is first</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">It's a little reminder that while "the best gesture of my brain is less than YOUR EYELID'S FLUTTER," whatever it is that makes you most unique, maybe say your antlers, is even better.</span></div>
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Juliette Cranehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04269527151508438927noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8630569339088016626.post-81959020743937789992013-09-27T05:30:00.000-05:002013-09-27T10:56:18.621-05:00A New Mixed Media Painting: ACCEPTANCE<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="color: #666666;">"Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art."</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">-Leonardo da Vinci </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">If you're a regular reader of this blog, you know that whenever I am stuck with my artwork and feeling really vulnerable with my work, I paint an owl.</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #666666;">Well, sometimes I paint a bear to get back into my comfort zone.</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">This little bear came out of a lot of other frustrated paintings. I'd been feeling like I wasn't pushing myself enough, so I tried to do something different, which inevitably made me dislike my paintings... because I was trying something I'd never done before AND I'd stopped having fun.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">So I dragged out an old painting I'd never liked and painted over it. </span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #666666;">I wanted to paint something I knew I'd love, so after I'd covered the original up with my favorite supplies (tissue papers and inks), I started painting a bear.</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">And I ended up experimenting with a few new techniques and colors... which is what I had been wanting all along.</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #666666;">Sometimes it just takes returning to what you're most comfortable with and having ACCEPTANCE in the journey of the creative process.</span></b></div>
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<br />Juliette Cranehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04269527151508438927noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8630569339088016626.post-66657721535098576872013-09-24T05:30:00.000-05:002013-09-26T11:00:44.323-05:0010 Things I Love & Our Wedding Anniversary<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #666666;">I thought I'd share a few of the things I love most today <b>as it's our 8 year wedding anniversary. </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><b>And we're celebrating with a little bit of all of these things today (well, maybe not the plane ride)....</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><b>I can hardly believe it's been 8 years since this day we were married in the woods of Door County... </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">and we spent a glamorous <a href="http://juliettecrane.blogspot.com/2011/10/anniversary-celebrations-i-flew-plane.html">getaway in milwaukee</a> at our favorite hotel, the iron horse.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">I have so much fun embellishing these little guys, that it just gets me back into having fun with my paintings again. So, if ever I start to get a little frustrated with my artwork (which generally happens whenever I'm pushing myself and trying something new)... I go back to painting an owl.</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #666666;">Once I am having fun painting again, then I feel more confident to experiment with new characters. But sometimes it just takes a little bit of what I'm most comfortable with to get there.</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">ps. If you'd like to learn the simple shapes to paint your own owls, watch a little video and <a href="http://juliettecrane.com/workshop/index.shtml">find my owl painting courses here</a>.</span></div>
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<br />Juliette Cranehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04269527151508438927noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8630569339088016626.post-25014861474636636572013-09-17T05:00:00.000-05:002013-09-17T05:00:04.993-05:00The Kingdom Inside - A New Painting<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="color: #444444;">"All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better." -</span><span style="color: #444444;">Ralph Waldo Emerson </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">I feel like with a small piece, the story can be very condensed and they're don't need to be too many elements in the background. </span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #444444;">For this piece, I covered up a character's face that I wasn't liking with a circle of lokta paper. </span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">For me, I can never leave a character or painting I don't completely love. So covering the old piece up with paper is my new favorite technique to really get rid of something and create something new.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">That way the piece feels like a fresh start. And I already know where the new character's face will be. And from there, this little lion got its story...</span></div>
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Since my new online course <a href="http://juliettecrane.com/serendipity/index.shtml">SERENDIPITY - A Year In Mixed Media</a> is all about strengthening your style, I've been looking through some of my oldest artwork to share in class.</div>
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<b>Some of these pieces in the photo above are from college when I just couldn't stay out of the art room even though I intended to study environmental biology. </b></div>
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The common theme I see in all of my old work is color, experimentation and mixed media... and I'm so happy to be able to continue to share all of it with you as I keep painting.</div>
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And one of the things that keeps inspiring me is all of the amazing artwork that students share in all my classes. </div>
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<b>Here are a few recent paintings from the galleries... </b></div>
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I love how each piece has its own personality. It's so fun seeing all of the artwork you're creating. </div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">ps. If you're interested in painting together, find all of my <a href="http://juliettecrane.com/workshop/index.shtml" style="color: #58b9d6; text-decoration: none;">online mixed media classes here</a>.</span></div>
Juliette Cranehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04269527151508438927noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8630569339088016626.post-53732337121740317442013-09-10T05:00:00.000-05:002013-09-10T05:00:04.839-05:00To Only, If - A New Mixed Media Painting<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Sometimes I leave a painting for too long, and then I just cannot get back into it. </span><span style="color: #666666;">That's what happened with TO ONLY, IF. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">I tried to keep certain shapes that I loved, but when the tower wasn't working anymore, even though I liked it and its colors, I had to cover it up with teal oil paint.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Her name comes from the book pages glued upside down at the top of her head.. Like a crown they express her truest dreams that sometimes feel so far away and near impossible... TO ONLY, IF.</span></div>
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<b>Thank YOU so very much for all of your kind words and enthusiasm about my newest online course, <a href="http://juliettecrane.com/serendipity/index.shtml">SERENDIPITY - A Year In Mixed Media</a>.</b> </div>
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Your support means more than I can ever express, and I can't even say how excited I am for <b>class to begin on September 16</b>! This is the first time I'm teaching a class throughout the entire year and after hearing from so many of you that you just don't ever get enough time to create, it seemed like the perfect thing to do. <b>And the classroom will be open for 2 years.</b></div>
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<strike><b>And to celebrate it all, I'm having a GIVEAWAY!</b> </strike></div>
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The winner will receive a spot in SERENDIPITY. <b><strike>Just leave a comment to this post and include your email address by September 10, 2013 11:59 EST</strike></b> and I'll randomly choose the winner and announce it here on Wednesday before class begins. If you've already registered, no worries, you can still enter and either choose to be refunded or pass your free spot onto a friend.</div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">Whenever I paint big, I feel like I am wasting paint. Because my process is so full of layers, a LOT goes into each piece. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">I had been so set on making this a flowering lion with an incredible mane made up of layers and layers of this incredible vintage wallpaper I'd just gotten from my sister-in-law.</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #444444;">I cut and pasted in all of these glorious colors and patterns. But the lion just was not fitting together.</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><a href="http://juliettecrane.blogspot.com/2011/03/painting-with-jesse-reno.html">In 2011, I took class with Jesse Reno</a>. It was an incredible journey that included a <a href="http://juliettecrane.blogspot.com/2011/03/west-coast-art-inspirations.html">roadtrip to Big Sur</a>, California. Completely life changing as I was able to plot out and plan my very first ecourse along the way. From there How To Pant An Owl was born.</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #444444;">In that scrap are the words "Little Owl." </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #666666;">This was one of those magical paintings where everything just fell into place.</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Sometimes I find that the character's disposition, eyes, background story or color just fits.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">But every once in a while I'm in a groove, not thinking and just following instincts and a new character emerges, seemingly perfectly.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><b>So often for me that falling into place has to do with painting outside.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">It is seriously my very favorite thing. To drag out all of my art supplies onto a sheet of canvas on our backyard patio and paint all day is absolute bliss.</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #666666;">And that happiness and ease always seems to get transferred into my paintings.</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Now I must say, this girl did start out as a lion. But it wasn't the kind of painting where I pushed to make it a lion.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">It simply was a lion, then I didn't like the papers I'd added or the face, so I ripped it off. And from out of the torn paper, I found the girl. And she came back with lightening bugs streaming from her head.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">And so she got her story...</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #666666;">With past, comes layers of beauty inside. Share and shine them bright like the light of the FIREFLY.</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Have a wonderful weekend!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">ps. If you've been thinking about having fun with mixed media, my new online course SERENDIPITY begins September 16, 2013.</span></div>
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<br />Juliette Cranehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04269527151508438927noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8630569339088016626.post-40384125102996517342013-08-27T05:00:00.000-05:002013-08-27T12:15:27.912-05:00FINDING JOY- a New Mixed Media Painting<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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Prints in my <a href="http://juliettecrane.etsy.com/">etsy shop.</a></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #666666;">“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">-</span><span style="color: #666666;">Howard Thurman</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #666666;">Sometimes there are parts of a painting I just can't touch.</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">If you're a regular reader of this blog, you know that I usually have no qualms about painting over things I don't like. But sometimes I get the hunch that they're there for a reason.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">That's how the fox was in this painting.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><b>So as much as the fox did not fit or I did not like it, my instincts said to leave it be.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">And as the girl changed, and changed and changed, the fox remained... hardly touched from beginning to end.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">The painting evolved and it wasn't until I posted it on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/JulietteCraneArt">facebook</a>, that others said they saw a "J" "O" and "Y."</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Perhaps that fox needed to stay there as the "Y." I'm not sure. But it is pretty amazing just how prominent those letters really are in this piece and that I had no intention of revealing them.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><b>This was definitely a painting I struggled with.</b> The girl just never felt right. And even once I found her face, carving out a body that fit took layers and layers. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">But every once in a while, painting for me is not about having fun. Instead it's like pulling and pulling this giant thread out of my heart until the story that needs to be told can come out.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">That's how this piece got it's title and story... </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">ps. If you're interested in painting together find details for my <a href="http://juliettecrane.com/workshop/index.shtml">online mixed media classes here</a>.</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #666666;">This painting was one that I did just for fun. And those always seem to become my favorites.</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Most often when I begin a piece, I set an intention for a feeling I'd like to express. But with this painting, I just wanted to play with some of the gelli prints I'd been making.</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #666666;">WITH THIS, THEN the stars may fall, the sun might shine, brighter still. But until, there is never knowing.</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">At first, I always feel like I need to know exactly what I am going to paint. If you're a regular reader of this blog you know that is not how I paint. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Whenever I force it, my pieces don't have the same depth or feeling. Yet when I'm painting so large I feel like I'm wasting paint and precious art supplies if I don't start with a plan.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">By stepping back, I've learned that I just don't have fun with painting unless it's spontaneous and free-ing. </span><span style="color: #666666;">My favorite part of the process is when the painting reveals a story to me.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">It was always meant to be a rabbit, yet I tried to push it into new directions, which never, ever works for me. </span><span style="color: #666666;">For a while, I tried very hard to turn it into a lion.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Then once I accepted it as a rabbit, I started having fun with my painting process again.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Then it wasn't until I closed its eyes that everything really fell into place.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><b>For this piece I pretty much used every single art supply I have</b> (except glitter, which is kind of surprising. although glitter with rainbows and stars feels a bit too much to me... right now).</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">I layered lots of acrylic paints, tissue papers, vintage wallpaper, pastels, spray paints, pencil, inks, water soluble oil pastels and shiva oil paint sticks. Then on top I sprayed a varnish to keep everything in place, followed by a layer of vintage-hued decoupage and wax.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><b>I call this painting CREATIVE DREAMING</b>... a little homage to the process in which I remembered to set my intentions and pay attention to my instincts and everything around me to bring my dreams to life.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">ps. a HUGE thank you to everyone for all of your kind words, enthusiasm and support for my new course <a href="http://juliettecrane.com/serendipity/index.shtml">SERENDIPITY - A Year In Mixed Media</a>. </span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #666666;">If you'd like to join us for the year, <a href="http://juliettecrane.com/serendipity/index.shtml">find details here</a>. Class starts September 16, 2013.</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><b>To celebrate, I'm opening registration with a very special EARLY, EARLY BIRD SALE this weekend only (this will be the lowest price for this class this year).</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Sign up for EARLY EARLY BIRD registration at $119 until 11:59PM EST Sunday August 18, 2013... after that the course will go to regular early bird pricing of $139. Once that tier is filled up, the cost will go to full pricing of $169.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">I am so crazy excited for my new online course SERENDIPITY - A Year In Mixed Media where we'll be painting together for an entire year!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">This class has been on my mind for some time as I've been wrapping up many creative projects to allow more time to create. I just can't wait to dive back into painting and exploring new techniques, styles and playing with all sorts of fun art supplies. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><b>That means we'll be painting whimsical animals, girls, imaginary creatures, owls and so much more</b> (I'll even demonstrate one of my new BIG paintings)!</span></div>
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<b style="color: #666666;">The classroom will remain open to you for two years when you register now</b><span style="color: #666666;">, so if you'd like to get the most out of this class, be sure to register early!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">I just can't thank you all enough for your kindness, encouragement and support! THANK YOU! I cannot wait to paint more with you. Painting has always been my passion. And I am so very honored to be able to share my art with you! </span></div>
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