tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88195228143640017962023-11-15T23:54:08.141-08:00River of My ArtMy art flows like a river through my soul. Sharing my work with others completes the circle of intention. Creative self-expression
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Note: Please click on the clustrmap so your visit will be counted. Thank you! Stephanie Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14383377260173607509noreply@blogger.comBlogger83125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819522814364001796.post-56791850800382187372015-09-02T02:11:00.000-07:002015-10-04T07:45:09.603-07:00NEW Seasons of the Soul print!<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: orange; font-size: large;">As I was putting the finishing touches on the painting for a </span><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">new </span><span style="color: cyan; font-size: large; font-style: italic;">Seasons of the Soul </span><span style="color: orange; font-size: large;">print, </span>I realized that it has been 25 years since the original version of the print was published. Wow! That was kind of shocking! So much has happened! </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>During that time, over 4,400 of the lithographs have been
purchased. But perhaps the most
interesting thing is how <i>Seasons of the
Soul </i>has taken on a life of its own.
I am not quite sure how to describe it but people find their own stories
within the narrative of the symbols. <o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>I will never forget the woman who was grieving the tragic
death of her son. She contacted me
about purchasing a <i>Seasons of the Soul</i>
print, after she had seen it in a therapist’s office. She said she just wanted to stare at it. I was so very deeply touched. I thought about how one goes through cycles when grieving. Cycles that repeat like the
seasons… <o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>The figure symbols that make up this artwork originated as individual doodles scattered throughout the pages of a sketchbook during a time of personal crisis. It wasn't until sometime later that I noticed the doodles when I flipped through the sketchbook. They seemed to be connected, so I drew them in a line and was amazed to see a visual story reveal itself. At the time, there were only ten figures, instead of the eleven that make up the finished piece. Somehow I knew that the visual story was incomplete. There needed to be at least one more figure... I had no idea what that figure would be. The other figures had come to me without forethought. After some time had past, I had almost given up on getting another insight. And then it happened. I was watching the television series, <i>Fame, </i>(this was the '80s, y'all). There was a scene where Debbie Allen was rehearsing alone in a studio and dancing her heart out. As she started across the floor, she struck a pose that instantly crystalized in my mind's eye. That was it!</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i style="font-size: medium; font-weight: bold;">Seasons of the Soul</i><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">©1990</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>So I drew the figure and then added it to the end of the line of others and it completed the cycle! My next challenge would be to find the perfect background... After much experimentation, I ended up with a sky with clouds moving toward the golden sun.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>This painting was commissioned to give as a gift. The cat on the left is no longer living but was loved and cherished. There were only two photos of the cat to be found and they were not good for reference for a pet portrait. So I had to think outside the box.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: orange; font-size: large;">This watercolor painting </span><span style="color: lime;">was commissioned by a friend I have known since elementary school. </span>She contacted me a few months ago to ask me if I would be interested in making a special painting for her mother's 80th birthday. She said the family would be gathering at the beach in August for a big celebration (all 80 of them!). </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>She requested a mountain scene with groups of trees to represent the 3 daughters, the 17 grandchildren, and the 10 great grandchildren. I sent her a photo of a drawing of the layout for the painting for her approval.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Once the painting was finished, I took it to my printer to have a high resolution scan made so that after she presents the painting to her mother, family members can order a fine art print of the painting for a special keepsake.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: yellow; font-size: large;">It has been several years since I created the first drawing of this series...</span> Each time one is sold, I consider it a challenge to come up with a new version. This is my latest version.</b></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"Treat the earth well; it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the earth from our Ancestors. We borrow it from our children."</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>This little watercolor was inspired by one of my many trips out to the Eno River.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>"I've known rivers;</b></span><br />
<span style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b> I've known rivers ancient as the world</b></span><br />
<span style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b> and older than the blood of human blood</b></span><br />
<span style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b> in human veins.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b> My soul has grown deep like the rivers." </b></span><br />
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<br />Stephanie Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14383377260173607509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819522814364001796.post-15691492199082154542014-12-06T07:25:00.000-08:002014-12-06T07:28:20.179-08:00WINTER ART SHOW & SALE<br />
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mixed media with watercolor<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;">Open Hearts </span><span style="color: #a2c4c9;">is a numbered series of mixed media works that I started making as a personal response to the tragic events of 9/11.</span></b></span><br />
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Stephanie Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14383377260173607509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819522814364001796.post-70302466383195658002014-12-03T04:40:00.000-08:002014-12-03T07:06:21.064-08:00'Tis the SEASON OF THE SOUL...<br />
<b><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Recently I was contacted by a woman who lives in California. She told me that she had something that belongs to me...</span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #d5a6bd; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>About twenty or so years ago, I was vacationing in Provincetown, MA, a small tourist town at the tip of Cape Cod. I was on cloud nine because a gift shop there (Womencrafts) had just accepted my Seasons of the Soul prints to sell. I had left some prints with the clerk to show the store owner. Someone from the store called me at the b and b I was staying to give me the good news. I remember running down the street to the store like Forrest Gump! When I got to the shop and walked in the door, the clerk was just handing a customer one of my prints that had just sold! This account would turn out to be a phenomenal sales source for me over the next several years.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #ea9999; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Back to the story... A woman who was staying at the same b and b offered to help try to find me a store to sell them on the west coast. She was from California. When I got back home, I packed up some prints and shipped them to her. She wasn't able to find a store. I remember her contacting me to say she was moving and she was leaving the prints with a friend. After that I lost track of the prints and chalked them up as a lost cause. </b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>It turns out, the friend with whom she left my prints, passed away back in 1997. A friend of hers ended up with them and when recently, she was cleaning out some old things, she came across them and looked me up on the internet.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>I was so touched that she had kept them safe and secure all these years. When I mentioned the cost of shipping them, she offered to pay for the shipping, saying it was something she wanted to do. She said she had one of the Seasons of the Soul prints hanging in her home and had enjoyed it for many years.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>The packages were delivered today. Two large boxes containing fifty prints in mailing tubes and eight matted and shrink wrapped. The box with the eight matted ones was the original box I had shipped them in. I could see my handwriting on it. I opened it and pulled out one of the matted prints that I had last touched over twenty years ago. It was kind of like opening a time capsule. I can't believe I sent so many prints! I must have been out of my mind with optimism! And to think they would have been returned to me more than two decades later in the same condition I sent them out...</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>But since Seasons of the Soul has taken on a life of its own over the years, it gets some of the credit in this story. And I want to share the love with a special offer for the holidays for those who like to share the print as a meaningful gift.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: magenta;">Over the past several weeks since I announced the beginning of the new series, </span><span style="color: orange;">I have been trying to figure out how to come up with an </span><span style="color: lime;">offering for those who wish to have a watercolor portrait done of their pet's eyes. </span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>I had shown Bob the first pet's eyes painting of my sweet cat, Boo. I mentioned my interest in doing a painting of Isabel's beautiful eyes. He indicated a desire to purchase it when it was finished. So when it was done, I took a photo of it and emailed it to him while he was at work. His response was <span style="color: #ea9999;">"I love this. Has your artwork ever made anyone cry before? Because it happened just now. Those are the eyes I imprinted on 12 years ago, and now I know I will always have them... you captured something that doesn't come across in photos. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. You are the new trend in animal portraiture!"</span></b></span><br />
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Stephanie Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14383377260173607509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819522814364001796.post-6293738817888862242014-10-13T17:09:00.000-07:002014-10-13T17:09:48.101-07:00Isabel's Eyes<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">I need photos of your pets to help me continue this series!!! </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">NOTE: </span>I prefer images with the pet looking directly into the camera. It is helpful to have more than one photo for reference.</b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">Please </span><span class="Apple-style-span">email me photos of your pet's face. I need good images of animals' faces that I can zoom in on and use for reference to create more paintings for my series. If I choose your pet photo to make a painting, you will have first option to purchase the original at a special price. You are not obligated to purchase. My email: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime;">sots11@hotmail.com</span></span></b></span></div>
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Stephanie Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14383377260173607509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819522814364001796.post-4328641668718106112014-10-13T16:22:00.000-07:002014-10-13T16:22:52.579-07:00ANNOUNCING A NEW SERIES!!!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">Why do artists work in series? </span>One of the biggest advantages to working in a series is to create a unified and cohesive body of work. Over the many years of making art, I have explored a variety of different mixed media methods and techniques. Last fall there was a showing of my work that included various works that I had created over the years and I noticed that many people were somewhat surprised that one artist had created so many different works. Fortunately the show included a number of pieces from my mixed media series, "Open Hearts". The "Open Hearts" helped bring continuity to the exhibit.</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>The whole experience got me to thinking about starting a new series. I still continue to make "Open Hearts", the numbered series of mixed media works I started in 2001 as a deeply felt reaction to the tragedy of 9/11. I am up to #237 in the series.</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>But I wanted something new... something fresh and invigorating. How do I follow a series that has endured for over a decade? A series, for me, is a journey that I become fully immersed. I am a seeker looking for something meaningful and perhaps I will become enlightened and transformed along the way...</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9; font-size: large;">Recently I was trying to come up with ideas for a brochure to advertise my new service, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #c27ba0; font-size: large;">pet portraits</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9; font-size: large;">. I wanted something </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange; font-size: large;">eye catching </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9; font-size: large;">on the cover... </span></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>I am excited about this new series! Just a few weeks ago, I was asking the muses to lead me to an inspiration for a new series of artwork. I am struck by how focusing on the eyes seems to accent the individuality of the animal. Looking into the "windows of the soul", one sees something more... I am hooked!</b></span></div>
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Stephanie Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14383377260173607509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819522814364001796.post-64980908258591401882014-09-20T08:58:00.003-07:002014-09-20T08:58:54.182-07:00In Their Eyes We Can See...<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Well, one thing led to another and I had an inspiration for a new series! This is the first of a series of pet's eyes and fittingly I have started the series with my own sweet boy, Boo.</b></span></div>
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Stephanie Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14383377260173607509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819522814364001796.post-27275787450507583442014-07-06T14:17:00.000-07:002015-03-01T09:41:27.427-08:00STREAMS OF LIFE ~ Inspiration from the Source<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">In 2007-2008 there was a severe drought in our beautiful state of North Carolina. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">For anyone who loves nature, it was heartbreaking to witness...</span></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Fish gasping for breath in puddles where streams once flowed... Plants withering and dying, lakes drained leaving eerie cracked dried mud mosaics...</b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>For a while, at least, people were becoming aware of how vital clean water is to the survival of all living things. Mandatory water restrictions were imposed on individuals and families, while many companies and corporate industries blithely continued their unbridled use of the dwindling water supply.</b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>My soul ached for the suffering of the plants and wildlife and I felt a deep seeded need to do something. "Go to the water for answers" is the wisdom offered by Native American traditions. I followed that guidance to an ancient valley in the Blue Ridge Mountains near where I grew up. Centuries ago this picturesque valley was regarded as sacred hunting grounds by the Cherokee people. A beautiful stream flows through the valley passing by pastures and farms on its way to join the magnificent Tuckasegee River.</b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>It was a beautiful spring day. After I stopped by the sacred rock to pay my respects, I continued on the winding road that paralleled the stream. I followed the road as it wound up the mountain. Higher and higher I went, past the end of the paved surface and onto the gravel road into the Nantahala National Forest. Nantahala is derived from a Cherokee word meaning "Land of the Noonday Sun" because many of the valleys and gorges are so deep that the sun only reaches the bottom in midday. To my right, the mountainside rose steeply upward, thick with forest and boulders covered in moss and lichens. To my left, the sheer drop off was unnerving as I peered over the edge of the road to see the stream tumbling down the mountain. I was hoping if I continued on, I could find the source of the spring. </b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>I explored the area sketching and photographing, I could feel the magic and enchantment of the place... I began to imagine an ancient ancestor, a great great great great ... grandmother. Perhaps she was a powerful shaman and seer. She could look down the stream of DNA and see future generations and even send messages to them. She knew I would be coming here with on a quest for guidance. She could see me and beyond. </b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Before long I was scampering around like a kid looking for a hidden treasure. As I searched nooks and crannies, I felt a little foolish but exhilarated all the same. And then it occurred to me, if this ancient ancestor did have a message for me, it would most likely come in the form of a vision or a dream. Stranger things have happened so I decided to just flow with it.</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>As I walked around the large standing stone I happened to notice a little trail that disappeared into a laurel thicket. I found that it led to a small opening in the forest canopy where two streams meet. One stream wrapped around the left shoulder of the mountain and and the other wrapped around the right shoulder like a necklace. Where the two streams met was a pointy rock like the bow of the ship overlooking the combined stream as it tumbled down the mountain. </b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>I stepped up on the rock where the two streams met and immediately I could feel the energy. I steadied myself by grasping a tree that grew out of the base of the rock. I thought of all those who had stood here before me back through the ages. The water is the life blood of the land and all living things. How could we have forgotten? How could we have become so distanced from our Mother Earth? I closed my eyes and I was flying high above the mountains below. And for an instant I could see all the streams that ran together to form the larger streams that fed the rivers... I was struck by the resemblance to the veins and arteries that carry the blood through my own body. I could see the finished painting in a flash, and it was phenomenal... <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">THIS is what I am supposed to create! </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">THIS is the answer to the question in my heart.</span></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>At the time, I had no idea what I was getting into. I did not realize that this artwork would be so involved to create that it would take over the next year and half of my life... </b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>The next day, I bought a typographical atlas of the state. I looked at all the streams... and I realized that in order to create what I had seen in the vision, I would need to use tracing paper and trace all the rivers and then reduce and refresh the lines several times to get it to a size that would fit on the sheet of watercolor paper.</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>I became obsessed with the project... or I would have never gotten it done. I lost track of how many hours I put into it but I know it was over a thousand hours... tracing the streams from every square inch of the atlas, night after night. It was like a meditation in a way... While I worked on it I prayed for the rains to return. By the time the painting was finished, the drought had ended... </b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b> My intention with this artwork was not to create a map but something more... to spread awareness by helping people to see that water is the life blood of a living system. We urgently need to band together to protect this most vital natural, public resource from toxic chemicals from fracking.</b></span><br />
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