Dancing With your Dreams E-course giveaway!!

Ok all you dreamers. Come and join us for a year long journey into our dreams. This is the amazing brainchild of my beautiful friend Amy O'toole. The projects are amazing and I am lucky enough to be teaching one.
If you would like a chance to win a spot please leave me a comment here of why you would like this free giveaway.

Here's tons of info about it. I know you want to.

Connecting Dream Images with Art In this course, we will explore your dream symbols and themes. Using a variety of methods for working with our dreams, we will access the creativity of our own Dream Maker. The course will include over one dozen art projects shared by a wonderfully talented group of teachers! In addition to these lessons, we have included a few fun bonus projects that you may wish to do with the children in your life! We will be sharing journal prompts, sleep tips, recipes and aromatherapy (geared towards giving you a good night's rest), dancing (yes, dancing!) and guided meditations to help you on your journey.

Each of our lessons have been thoughtfully prepared to creatively express an aspect of dreaming.

Learn from a variety of talented art teachers Experiment with different techniques to enrich and deepen your art practice Be led by your intuition and the insights you gain from your dreams and visions Learn to identify what your symbols represent for you Clarify your messages from Spirit Improve your dream recall Connect with other dreamers in our private Facebook Group Protect your dream life as practiced by ancient societies around the world Gain an understanding of the feminine archetypes Develop a dream practice with the children in your life Focus on your desires, dreams, wishes and aspirations for your future Find the gifts that the "dark side" of dreaming holds for you Realize the power in changing the labels that we give ourselves Add dance and movement to your creative practice in the privacy of your own home

Here is the link to more information about the class. http://skyeandstonedreams.com/DancingWithYourDreams/order/

Happy Hour Painting Classes

Happy Hour classes. I have been thinking about doing this for so long. I finally got off my A$$ and did it. I love the idea of friends and family getting together to create. Classes are byob and bring your own food. classes are cheap cheap cheap! At the studio they are only $20 and that includes a 16x20 canvas or 2 wine glasses. If I come to you it is $25 per painter. You can also have a class in a bar or restaurant. I will be teaching at "Skinny Petes" restaurant in Avalon!!! It's about time I expanded a little bit!

Manifestation, Visualization and Meditation. Trying to find center

I USED to meditate a lot. And I will accentuate the USED part of that. I would simply listen to a guided meditation a couple of times and light my candles. I felt such a connection to spirit with those little changes to my life. For no reason I just let the practice go away. In that time I have felt the spiritual disconnect. I told myself I will get back to it but I didn't. So. I had to force my own hand. I started a meditation and visualization & manifestation group on facebook. https://www.facebook.com/groups/234865896639865/ I am making myself accountable for getting back to spirit by trying to help others do it. I made the group a week ago. I have been following a lot of the practices I have added and I feel that old spark of connectivity to spirit again. With just a few minutes a day. It makes me very hopeful!

Falling into Creativity, Mini Art Retreat

I am so happy to announce The First Mini Art Retreat at The Artist Within Studio. Falling into Creativity.
Sat Oct. 13th. 2012
This is a Mixed Media Retreat.
We will be working on backrounds, Watercolors, Collage, Portraits, Dreamwork and more.
We will also have a mini-yoga class and have an optional massage therapist. Registration is $100. That includes all supplies except matte medium and massage therapist. It also includes meals for the day.
We are only accepting 10 students and registration must be pre-paid.
Please email me for more info. JamUrbanek@yahoo.com
visit my facebook. TheArtistWithin1
or lastly my website. http://www.Theartistwithin.vpweb.com

Here is Arlene Holtz's fb page. She paints beautiful portraits and many other art classes. She is also Gumbacher certified!
https://www.facebook.com/SpiritEssenceArt

Here is the Breakdown of the day!
7:30-8 Welcome: tea coffee, slip into comfy socks or slippers
8-8:30 two quick watercolor backrounds. Set aside to dry
8:30-9 2 Atc affirmations,& tags to trade and add to projects
9-10 Zentangle: yoga for the brain, mid morning snack: coffee/tea juice/fruit salad
10-11 Make a collage backround
11-12 Basic Front facing portrait (Arlene)
12-12:30 lunch
1-2 Paint portrait (Arlene)
2-3 Giving tree in prepared watercolor backround
3-3:30 mini yoga & meditation
3:30-4:30 dreamwork with Amy
4:30-5:30 Intuitive journaling , finding your passion
5:30-6 Dinner
6-7:30 Finish up projects, get some extra help, or go a little more advanced
7:30-8 wine!! pack up goodbye
the schedule could still be tweeked a little but nothing drastic.

Imperfect and Honest

Since I have done 29 Faces in May I have really gone out of my comfort zone. Not that I tried to. I like my fairy tale, sparkly paintings. But these guys just kept coming. It was very intuitive. I drew it just the way my hand went. Completely automatic, I didn't erase or try to perfect. I just went with it. At first I thought they were sort of creepy but as I painted them and looked into their eyes I realized that they are completely raw and honest. And now I am in love. With each and every one of them. They are for sale. If you're interested please visit my fb page. The Artist Within Online Giftshop Here are a couple. Please visit them and let me know what you think. Better yet give them a new home. Please email me JamUrbanek@yahoo.com

29 Faces in May!!!! Done!

Wow!! I can't believe it. I signed up for 29 faces in May. I ended up with 33! I"m so proud of myself. It really opened me up to just being creative and letting my muse flow through me. Everytime I am sitting down to paint, I always have an end product in mind. Either for a painting to sell or a class to teach. I never just paint for paints sake. Not this time. I just needed to finish it. So I just kept going. Last week while I was away I sat down (while watching The Woman in Black) and did 16!!! It took me a couple of days to paint them in but they were all drawn in a 2 hour period! I didn't worry about the end result. These characters just kept coming out. People that were absolutely not my style at all. Some of them are quite androgenous some a little creepy and a couple I'm not to fond of but I just kept going until the well ran dry. I am so happy with the result. Some I really really love. Some are so so and I may jush up. Some I may just paint over. But I did it!!! Yay me!

Faces faces faces. Loving making faces

Well I'm trudging on with these faces. I had some good progress today. I did my first ever pencil portrait. I have never shaded with pencil before and left it just as a drawing. I'm pretty happy with her too! I then did a face from Fab. Faces from Tam. I love her. She may be my favorite thing I've ever painted. Then it was An Angel from Angels in my studio. Then I thought, Well I'm on a high note why don't I do another face from fab faces. I'm was crushed. I had just gained some confidence just to have it crushed. I guess I pulled her through ok but I was not happy with her. So I sulked and did a Frankenstein Face for a kids class. I'm up to 11 faces now and i'm going to keep on going. I need to grow as an artist and this will help me to do it.