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Art show coming up @ Cykel in San Francisco

I will be featured @ Cykel in San Francisco. I will be showing all new work.... more

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The Art of Steve Javiel

Most of my work is non-representational due to the abstraction of color, shapes,... more

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Steve Javiel's Art Studio

I created a short video of me in the studio working on a few new paintings.... more

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Art 101: BWAC's Fall 2010 "Lineage" art show

This past Sunday I previewed the Fall 2010 show Lineage that opens on Saturday... more

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Soothe And Cure Yourself By Learning Mixed Media

Mixed Media art is truly calming. There is a wide range of media available for you to discover your own creative side. You can start with pastels, change to water colors as you progress, and, if you nurture your art practice, you may even see yourself graduate to oil paintings some day. Encouraging art also includes enabling yourself to have a go at at modeling with clay, pot painting, and other activities. Think out of the box. Make something out of odds and ends, such as a paper bag puppet, for instance. Dabbling in art is a great stress buster. Actually, psychologists encourage a young child to draw so that they can draw inferences coming from the child's art and psychoanalyze these.

Drawing as well as painting can also be a good way for you to vent your pent-up feelings. If you are struggling with grief, persistent pains, or major life changes, think about art therapy. There is something great about creating a picture, photo, or clay sculpture from raw materials, particularly if can dip straight into your soul and let your personality look out. Words may not be sufficient to convey the real and mental distress of people struggling with chronic pain. People often feel safer containing these kinds of unspeakable feelings inside artwork.

Creating art fortifies your sense of self and also plays a role in feelings of normalcy. Additionally it is relaxing. Creativity raises serotonin levels as well as reduces stress; it also helps blood pressure as well as heart rate. If you are dealing with a recent illness, art therapy might help create a new post-illness identity. You could investigate how irritated, discouraged, and unhappy you are -- and look at the ways your life has improved.

A recent study shows that the right kind of art in the hospital could accelerate a patient’s recuperation. It could enhance a facility's identity. In the past several years, hospital leaders, doctors and patients have found that art inside the hospital environment can help patients cope with their health problems more effectively and perhaps return to full functioning previously. Healing art can be as simple as looking at pictures on the wall to help calm the worries of waiting for a procedure. Therefore, care providers, volunteers as well as artists from around the nation are interested in bringing art to the bedside and to the entire medical environment.

Mixed Media Art could make you feel gorgeous inside and out. Learning to paint and see as a painter does is definitely a unique experience. It's a different view from ones previous photographic perspective. Learning exactly how to oil paint or acrylic and watercolor helps give you a better understanding as to how great works in museums as well as galleries were made and all the time and effort involved. Perhaps you could have painted that artwork, but now you know all the care and creativity that was put into making it. A lot of people who seek art therapy usually have hidden feelings which they do not normally feel comfortable talking about or may not even be aware of. Art therapy is known as one of the finest approaches to help someone understand something regarding themselves.

http://www.bertaart.comSoothe And Cure Yourself By Learning Mixed Media Mixed Media art is truly calming.... more

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samuel4instudio's home - My Photos - Ovation

Art by INSTUDIO artist and interior designer Samuel Fleming Lewis... more

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Nikki Farquharson’s Mixed Media Girls

Pattern and POW!- Nikki Farquharson is a 24 year old freelancer based in London,... more

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when i m pissed

mixed media digital project photos conveys being in a pissed off mood there is a... more

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I am Yours by Rosalind Davis_Art Show until Th24Dec2009

at Julian Hartnoll's 37 Duke Street St James's London SW1Y 6DF... more

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doll 1

from dolls r us mixed media project

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Electronics on Canvas: Les Années Lumière by Ayah Bdeir / Eyebeam Open Studios Fall 2009

The spokesperson of littleBits, a friend of the artist, talks to See-ming Lee about... more

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Choichun Leung: Mixed Media Paintings

Choichun Leung talks to SML about her mixed media paintings during the 13th Annual Art... more

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State cracks down on charter school using bible |

School wants to use bible is class to teach ?

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Village Girl

A Village Girl Goes to an Audition Digi Photos View with music Mixed Media... more

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Kenn Kotara: Kinetic Sculptor

Kenn Kotara is a mixed-media abstract artist producing works on paper, canvas, Mylar,... more

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Zombie Boyfriend

Zombie Boyfriends love you for your Brains. More than you can say about most boyfriends!

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personal statement

Live Jelly presents sri lankan-american actress Thushari J. She is creating her own... more

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Collage Hearts (The Beauty of Experimenting)

These new piece’s I have created are all made using collage. They are all... more

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Sweeper

From metacafe.com You wouldn't want to mess with a sweeping robot if you litter...

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Kay Weber - papercuts

The intriguing detailed papercut artwork created by Kay Weber, an artist who is so... more

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