New Holiday Schedule 2015
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- Post 24 Nov 2015
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To families, friends and returning students spending the holidays in Santa Fe - my class schedule has been updated. Since both Christmas and New Year's fall on a Friday, I will be offering my group classes on Thursday of those weeks.
Team Building Through Expressive Arts
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- Post 17 Apr 2014
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"Jane was a pleasure to work with! Her recommendations for our group worked perfectly. We truly enjoyed our Team building session." Quote from Melanie L., group organizer
Melanie was from a major corporation in Albuquerque. She contacted me about a team building event for her group of eight staff members from human resources. We talked about the size of her group and came up with an idea - a group mandala. A mandala is a circle, often considered to represent the cosmos. The center of the circle is viewed as a power symbol. There are Tibetan Sand Mandalas, Native American Medicine Wheels, Rose Windows, the Celtic Cross, halos, and of course, from nature - the sun. Even the iris of our eye can be considered a mandala.
Art Holidays and Creative Surprises for Families and Friends
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- Post 18 Nov 2013
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I am so pleased to offer classes to families, friends that travel together and all of you that choose to take an art class on your holiday. I have always liked working with groups because there are always surprises. It is the same in individual classes - I can never predict what will evolve, but when I am teaching in a group, the surprises are multiplied. The interaction when people open to their creativity is genuine and fun.
Pastels at Twilight Summer 2013
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- Post 13 May 2013
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Abstracting a landscape suggests a simplification of form, while maintaining a clear sense of a landscape space...a horizon, a ground line. We will also look at expressing aspects of nature along with eliminating an obvious ground line and/or horizon. Taking this step places your artwork in abstract space, which has its differences from landscape space.
Painting Outdoors in New Mexico
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- Post 20 Mar 2013
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Today is the first day of Spring. I am ready to paint outdoors again, now that it is getting warm. There are many painting spots that I love in Santa Fe. I often bring my students to these great plein air painting locations for pastel classes.
Plein Air Painting-Bananas in Costa Rica
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- Post 22 Jan 2013
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This image is a detail from a pastel painting I made in Costa Rica. It took a few days to get someone to help me carry plastic table and chairs up to my painting spot on the wild banana mountain. I went up there every day (almost). I preselected my colors and carried them in my back back. I had a light weight folding easel to carry over my shoulder. I loved painting on banana mountain. It was the opposite of what I love about New Mexico - New Mexico with its ancient mesas and the intense stillness of the sky. Everything in Cuidad Colon is moving. The banana trees I especially loved. They are mostly diagonals, and they point and wave and curl and the shadow and light are constantly changing.