Celebrando la Hermosura de la Vida_Celebrating the Beauty of Life

The Sun Gallery will host an exhibition Celebrating the Beauty of Life from October 15th to November 7th, 2015.This exhibition will feature works centering around the theme Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead), focusing on works that capture beauty, vibrancy and celebration in memory of those who have passed on. Dia de los Muertos originates from Mexico, but is celebrated in many parts of the world. Many works that are inspired by this holiday include strong vibrant color, skeletons, flowers and crosses.

An artist reception will be planned for Saturday, October 31st 2015 from 2 pm to 6 pm with food, music, and dance performances. Authentic Mexican style food will be served. It is a fundraiser and each person pays only $5 for the lunch.

http://www.sungallery.org/    

Sun Gallery is supported in part by the City of Hayward 

Gallery hours 11-5 pm Thursday- Sunday

Address: 1015 E Street

Hayward., CA 94541510.581.4050

email: sungallery@comcast.net

Sun Gallery has Transformations 2: Upcycled and Recycled with 6 of Susan's artworks

This is a great gallery for innovative work and for support of artists locally. Many people have heard of this Hayward, California gallery because the publicity was extensive for the last show of  Troubled Waters, Drought  and Change.

Here are the details with the postcard images on the front and the information about shen and where for the show.

The first image on the postcard is Susan's Eclipse

Sun Gallery_Troubled Water_Drought and Change

Yesterday on Saturday, we had a wonderful reception at Sun Gallery in Hayward. The show is about the 4th year of the drought in California  and will run on to May 30, 2015. The Sun Gallery is at 1505 E Street, Hayward. The hours are Thursday through Sunday from 11 am to 5 pm.

The friends who came to see the show  were delighted to meet each other and to have a wonderful experience with the art


The article in the Examiner was very positive about how much meaning and visual importance was in the show
.http://www.examiner.com/article/troubled-waters-drought-and-change-art-show-opens-at-sun-gallery-hayward.

Hope you can get to see it.

Daring to Defy the Medium_Collage

This is special to be accepted into the National Association of Women Artists online exhibition called Defying the Medium__What is Collage?

My collage of Ikebana Sensei will be displayed from today, March 20, 2015 through June 20, 2015 on:

ww.nawa.org

This is a study of a man deeply  contemplating  what and where a lily should be placed in his arrangement. He is a Sensei which means teacher in Japanese. He is a special ranking of a teacher as he has studied and been recognized by the master teacher of a school of ikebana which is the oldest school, Ikenobo. This school has been around for over 200 years in Japan. Now many students from many countries study ikebana.

My art is created on canvas and has very small pieces of paper torn from magazines which are glued onto the canvas to create Ikebana Sensei.

17th International Collage Exhibition and Exchange

An artist, Dale Copeland, has established an international show in New Zealand of collages from all artists who participate by sending a collection of about 13 collages. Some artists send more and some less, but all must be a small size.  All of the pieces need to be 8" X 10" or smaller. Each artist will have a piece offered for sale on the Vitual Tart website. To see last year's collection, view The 16th International Collage Exhibition & Exchange

Each artist will have one part collage on the month-long exhibition on the Virtual TART site during April and then permanently on the web at the above link.  Nothing for this year yet. It will be posted on April, 2015.

Also one of each artist's pieces will be then donated to an art institution somewhjere in the world. Yet to be decided. In 2013, I had a collage donated to the Puke Ariki museum in New Plymouth, New Zealand.

After April and after the museum donation, each artist receives a collection of about 12 collages from the participants. These are sent by mail.

Here are just 2 of the 12 pieces I plan to mail to New Zealand.. The first collage is How A Man Can Win A Woman's Heart. The second collage is: The Sweet Voiced Bird. Both have hand-made paper that I did in a workshop in Honolulu, January 31. The color on the paper is colored pulp embedded into the handmade paper.

Travel Destinations_submitted by Vertical Response

From a newsletter I just published through Vertical Response.
The link to my website is not active as it is resubmitted from original post.

Painting with Pulp workshop in Honolulu Museum' s Spalding House

High up in the foothills of Honolulu is a beautful space for art classes and a gallery. Yesterday I spent all day with creative teachers, Liz Train and Allison Roscoe. We made paper and adding colored pulp to the hand-made paper.
Here are some pictures of the beauty of the land and museum.

I had an interesting and creative experience. When I brought my work home,I added collage and pen. Here are some pieces.

Mapping the Face

This is fascinating to learn how we recognize faces. We don't recognize someone by memorizing his features like his eyes, nose and mouth.

With a great demo Artist/Teacher, Gary Faigin takes 2 different people and switches the feathers of the one on another's face. We still recognize this young man as we are aware of the SHAPES ON THE FACE not the eyes, nose and mouth. Maybe his mom might see the detail changes. Still we see his face.

It is great to watch this online workshop from Craftsy to learn the techniques of drawing or painting a likeness. Thank you Gary Faigin.