Creative Arts, Crystal Lake, IL
A lovely little cottage for teaching art!
When I’m not in my studio – I’m at Creative Arts in Crystal Lake teaching drawing, colored pencil and marker techniques among other things.
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Janet Balboa (#janetbalboa) is an artist, writer and teacher living in the Chicago suburbs. Read more
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I receive your order, I sign the print, put it in a heavy plastic sleeve, put in fun extra stuff, and have the mighty USPS deliver it right to you, or where ever you would like it sent. Easy-peasy. From my heart to your hands.
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Going on its third year, this is a fun, friendly, very supportive class for emerging artists age 13 - 18 who love to draw and are interested in developing their own style.
. It’s an open studio format, which means everyone is working on individual projects, chosen to challenge and refine their personal style.
. I speak with each student about their interests and wants, make suggestions, demonstrate techniques, and watch them grow in confidence. .
Creative Arts provides graphite, colored pencils and copic markers, marker paper and Bristol among other things. .
THURS 4:00-5:30pm/Age 13-18
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🐇🐇🐇The Three Hares! Prismacolor pencils and markers on marker paper. Finished print will be 8 x 10, with written blessing.
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The Three Hares have an ancient history- found painted on cave ceilings in China (600CE) across the Silk Road, in Europe, to the British Isles. Devon especially. Check out the Three Hare Project!
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They are symbols of fertility, blessing, triangles, triple spirals, the triskele, fullness, full moon, the fertility, rebirth and often placed in churches opposite the Green Man. An archetypal image rich in meaning still.☘☘☘
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This is the blessing I wrote for these three little hares: .
may that which is unified and whole
find its expression in you .
may all things moving in and out of being
be encouraged by your presence
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may you be a source of blessing
for all that is unfolding and awakening around you
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may you find yourself as a vast circle of light recognizing no distance or barrier
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may the eternal dance resonate in your holy body as your voice fills the longing of the Universe .
#janetbalboa #threehares #tinnersrabbits #threeharesproject #greenman #triplehare
☘Reading Anam Cara again, by John O'Donohue. Celtic Christianity has retained all the magic, wonder and reverence for the beautiful earth and all creatures that inhabit her lands, seas and the sky above. 🐄🕊🐬
As humans, we are the face of the Divine on earth. How often we forget our Divine origin, and that the trails of glory undulating and rippling out in our wake have the power to uplift, heal and transform everything around us. But only if we are present.
Rumi says: tomorrow you'll see what you've broken and torn tonight thrashing in the dark. Inside you there's an artist you don't know about.
He's not interested in how different things look in moonlight.
If you are here unfaithfully with us,
You're causing terrible damage.
If you've opened your heart to ❤The Great Love ❤
You're helping people
you don't know and will never see.
Is what I say true?
Say yes quickly.
If you know,
you've known it
from the beginning of the universe.🕊 Well, we are here, now. ❤
The gift of a lifetime is ours,🎁
Just waiting to be opened...
#janetbalboa #johnodonohue #rumisayyes
Finished Dali.😅
I've put Philippe Halsman' s original 1953 titling on my print👽 (in a funky retro font.) If you'd like a signed print (Dali is no longer signing) I will be happy to sign and mail it to you. $25 shipping included. It's 11x14 on heavy stock.
Send me your address and I can send you over an invoice.❤
janet@janetbalboa.com
