tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28742278810859895232024-03-05T23:28:55.554-08:00Artwork by Roberta LaliberteAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07194179542505901497noreply@blogger.comBlogger69125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2874227881085989523.post-91571070086680583832016-01-02T22:01:00.004-08:002016-01-02T22:01:36.749-08:00Pssssst.......<div style="text-align: center;">
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I have some important information posted at the <b><a href="http://www.prairiefairy.blogspot.com/">Prairie Fairy Blog</a></b>, please please please if you love me.... head over there to read the info and help yourself to a free digital image that I will be posting a project video which you will need it if you want to follow along. </div>
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Sorry for the duplicate emails. I set my soul food post to stick at the top without realizing it was going to keep reposting it! Sorry for unintentionally "spamming" you!</div>
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Where to begin....... Oh it was so hard to keep this under wraps!</div>
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The <a href="http://www.lcinstitute.org/">LINCOLN CENTRE INSTITUTE</a> in NEW YORK CITY!</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07194179542505901497noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2874227881085989523.post-75121717984250814682013-07-21T11:13:00.000-07:002013-07-25T19:08:56.996-07:00Winged Faith<div style="text-align: center;">
Well I am back from New York, what a blast! I loved it there, not that I would want to live there. I missed my wide open spaces. </div>
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In a whirlwind day I met several people who led me here and there and shamelessly promoted me into a small video production which you will see eventually. So I haven't had time do anything of my own however, I do have footage ready so video will be coming soon. I will keep you posted and here is a little snippet of what is to come. </div>
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<a href="http://bravegirlsclub.com/archives/17005">The Brave Girls</a> are trying to raise money for Dahlia House, to help the victims of human trafficking. It's is a wonderful cause and I want to help. I am auctioning off my original painting "Infinite Goodness" over on my <a href="https://www.facebook.com/roberta.laliberte">FACEBOOK PAGE</a> so if you are interested in putting in a bid please feel free to head over and put one in. </div>
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Been really playing around lately. Trying out new techniques. Its been fun, sometimes frustrating of course because it doesn't turn out the way you expect which of course is to be <b>expected</b>, lol.</div>
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I am right into apps for my ipad and iPhone. One that I found recently that I am having lots of fun with is artrage. I actually did a sketch on paper:</div>
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A couple of weeks ago this years <a href="http://www.strathmoreartiststudio.com/">Strathmoore online</a> series began. Workshop 1 is being hosted by Acrylic painter Robert Joyner. He also has several youtube videos as well and I really enjoy watching them so you should go <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/robertjoynerartist?feature=watch">check them ou</a>t.</div>
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I have to admit that I loved my time away, living. Did not get to do as much as I wanted do art wise. Good things are that I did get two considerable art teaching projects in the last 6 months yay! Better than starving artist but certainly can't hang my other hats. I am not complaining. </div>
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I've really been exploring me, the directions I want to go with my art, and enjoying a bit of a reverse back to some old styles and I have really been enjoying abstract lately too. I think I would like to settle somewhere around abstracted realism-ish. LOL</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07194179542505901497noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2874227881085989523.post-5155986439399726362012-11-11T06:32:00.000-08:002012-11-11T06:32:31.245-08:00remembering our veterans...<div style="text-align: center;">
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This is a short tribute video to our veterans, of a poppy painting I did recently. I am so sorry that it is only the last phase of the painting that I caught. I just kind of felt like roaming my studio while doing that painting and I didn't record it.</div>
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And so it is here, October. So many exciting things. First, I was invited to be featured as the artist of the month at a wonderful ning group called <a href="http://communitythrive.com/">Community Thrive</a>. The group was started by Mystele Keering. A fun place to learn and play, you should check it out. One of the requests was that I do a video for them to feature over at the site. Here it is:</div>
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Another bit of exciting news and a reason why I have been a bit of an absent blogger too is the ArtSmarts program that I mentioned in my last post. The Manitoba Arts Council has so kindly approved a grant for myself and Ecole Powerview School. It is a fantastic program where artists work with teachers to teach through art! It has been a blast so far. I spend two afternoons a week with the kids and there are two classes, 21 kids and 25 kids. It can get pretty pumped up in there. It's all good.</div>
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I am also working on some online workshops and mini ecourses. I mean, not just your regular old ecourses. I am sharing it all. Photoshop, digital art, how I create my stamps, mixed media, water-colour, I mean I could go on all day. It all takes time and I have just stick to it and somehow find the time to pull it all together. I've said it before and I will say it again, I wish I didn't need to sleep!</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07194179542505901497noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2874227881085989523.post-33616930041315491332012-09-25T21:25:00.001-07:002012-10-01T08:03:13.644-07:00A quick hello<div style="text-align: center;">
Popping in with a quick hello. Lots of things going on here, mostly good but really keeping me busy. One of those things is I am working a couple days a week with one of the local schools doing art! The vice principal and myself applied for an ArtSmarts grant though the Manitoba Arts Council and we got it! I have done a few collage classes with the kids already and I think they are pretty pumped. </div>
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This is a short video demo I did for my two classes this week. I had them write journal pages with their personal local history on it which they were to paint and collage over a portion of it. Thought it would be cool to share the vid.</div>
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Yep, it's here all right. When it is cold enough at night that you have to turn the furnace on in the morning to warm up the house you know it. That's ok, I love fall. Love fall colours, just love it all. </div>
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I scooched off to my studio today to work on a video that I am doing for <a href="http://communitythrive.com/">Mystele's ning group</a>. I am excited to have been offered a spot in October as their featured artist of the month. It's exciting. </div>
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I am just going to share with you a little something I like to do with old book pages to clean my palette. I literally mop up the left over paint with the pages, I hate to waste the paint.</div>
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Now, I did use one of them for an accessory on one of the paintings I was working on today. Here is a sneeky peek. If you want to see the full painting including video you will have to run over to <a href="http://communitythrive.com/">Mystele's ning</a> page in october to see it ;)</div>
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So labor day weekend is here, the end of summer. Sniff sniff. It just flew by for me. I guess it does for everyone doesn't it. I will miss my flowers, I have always loved flowers. I used to steal them from the neighbours yards. One of my favourites are poppies. This is a short video I made of a painting I did of poppies, I hope you enjoy.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07194179542505901497noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2874227881085989523.post-77141035871941157542012-08-22T11:30:00.000-07:002012-08-26T20:42:12.117-07:00Keep Hope<div style="text-align: center;">
Summer has been rolling along. We had some plans to take the kids and run off for a bit but with dad not being well, the surgery and now his post op care ( his wound got a nasty infection) it just wasn't possible. Really, it's ok, there are much more important things to do right now. Dads dressings need to be changed twice daily, the home care nurse can only come once a day, I do the night change. I gotta tell ya, I have a pretty iron clad stomach but stuffing a wad of fabric into a hole the size of an egg into your dad's stomach is pretty unnerving. I am just so happy to be there for my dad though and he is healing well, after a couple of ups and downs during the healing process. I don't have tons of time to spread around though and I just have so much I want to do. I wish I didn't need sleep.<br />
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I have carted a lot of my supplies over to my studio and had a chance to sneek over a couple times to play around and I managed to make a video of it. I was inspired by a quote I read on one of my dad's cards he got while in the hospital. It really summed things up for me with all that has happened over the summer. We have an appt with dad's specialist coming up and we will find out the results of the pathology test. Many things run through your mind while you are waiting but mostly you try to focus on today and as always try to be hopeful.</div>
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Well dad is a trooper. His nurse laughed today and said "you are doing so good, what are you doing here?" All kidding aside he is recovering well. There is an awesome nurse here, I call him Billy Blanks. Reminds me of him. I call him dads personal trainer because he is always getting him up and going, moving forward. We are so grateful for all the warm thoughts and prayers and we still need them. We still have a road ahead of us.</div>
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You know, is it hard to be here, among all these wonderful people. People who are suffering and some who are struggling with loosing hope. There is always someone worse off than you. I am so thankful to be here with my dad, that I can be here for him. I am hopeful that we will have some more good fishing days ahead. One day at a time.</div>
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There is a fellow here, we spoke with his wife at length today while we had supper. It is so hard to see that hopelessness in someones eyes. Her husbands brother comes to visit and bring her back and forth but for the most part she is here alone with him most of the time. We share our struggles with each other, and I pray for her husband. It is one thing to bear a burden but having lived a full and blessed life can make it easier. It stings a little less, and you say "well no matter what happens, God doesn't owe me anything." But for those who have to bear these burdens when they are young, when they have hardly made it out of diapers, or those who worked their whole life, who almost reach retirement, only to be slapped with the insult of possibly being faced with only months to live.</div>
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We go along our merry way in our lives, blissfully unaware of the alarms ringing in the hospital wards, the pain and suffering, moaning about our parking tickets. Don't. Take every negative you have going and turn it into some kind of a positive. Think of the lovely couple across from my dad today who smiled ear to ear so happy to be getting married, here, in a hospital. Thankful because he survived a head on collision with a rock face. He survived his scull being crushed in by his eye, the brain trauma, the massive wound to his leg which has him unable to walk on his own yet, though he swears he will. He wants to take his 7 month old daughter for a walk with his beautiful, now wife, her great big smile with us all day today.</div>
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Wow, this feels so weird. You haven't heard from me for a while. Honestly I can't remember the last time I posted. </div>
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I have been busy, some good, some bad. My dad has been keeping me fairly busy these days and he is why I am here today. I am off to sleep right away, I have to be up in five hours. Mom and I are following my dad into the city for surgery,( he is going by ambulance). It has been a long two and half months of emergency rooms, hospital rooms, CT's, ERCP's, some SOB's but mostly lovely wonderful healthcare workers. Tomorrow my dad should be in surgery for at least five hours and up to 10 or twelve. Of course there are risks for anyone but the older you are the higher the risk and my dad is in his early 80's. He is a tough ole bun yack (Ukranian), but this is going to be very tough on him and he needs your prayers, positive thoughts.</div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">1. If you pray</span></b>, please pray for my dad, Norman, that his surgery goes well and everything turns out good. If you belong to a prayer group or have a prayer chain in your parish, please add my dad to your prayer chain. Also, could you leave me a comment letting me know if you did and how many are on your chain. I would love to tell him how many people are praying for him and from where. </div>
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Yes, though sometimes it is hard to find and even harder to keep, it is necessary. Without it, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">who would we be</span>. </div>
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I often have a hard time keeping faith in what I am doing as I work on a piece. You have this fabulous idea that looks so good in your head. Then it starts to pour out and feels even better on the canvas. In the beginning the colours are pure, the strokes are free and you just flow. Something emerges and you go with it. Then<b> </b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">it hits</span>, that deep dark <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">ugly part</span> that you try so hard to avoid. Slap some more paint on that might fix it, or I could move in this direction.... then yuck. What now? Pull out some rubbing alcohol and some sand paper and take out all your frustration on that canvas and when you have something left that you would like to add something to... you <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">go with it</span>. </div>
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Eeeeeek. i didn't even look at the date of my last post. I don't want to know, I have an idea. Here is not where I have been.</div>
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Where you ask? Where have I gone. "Here and there" I say. Mostly there I guess. What can I say, I am fickle. I go where the wind blows me and lately it has been away from the computer, the internet, etc. I often wonder how so many people seem to find the time to have kids, jobs, successful blogs and Facebook pages, post enough things to keep people interested and manage to keep there houses clean too! I guess I just started to feel overwhelmed. I had so many things that I wanted to do, things that needed to be done around the house. Bike rides to take and walks with hubby. </div>
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It is so easy to get caught up in social networks, there seems to be new ones all the time. You just feel this stress... the need to keep things fresh and keep it coming. It is sometimes this delicate balancing act and it is hard to perform. I have a few things on the go right now. A collection of mixed media acrylics, some e-courses, yes e-courses (mixed-media, water-colour and photoshop). So much to do so little time and only so much sleep you can skip hahaha......and laundry. </div>
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A while back Millande had a journal prompt a day with the theme "Be the seed". It was fun, for the first two days, then poof, stuff just got in the way. I did record most of the process however and this is a little short video of it. Hope you enjoy it.</div>
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Can you believe it is like 20 degrees here! We can practically wear shorts here!</div>
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Sheesh has it really been so long! Ouch. New stuff is coming I promise. For now here is a little video I did of a trip I took with my sons class to a local festival we have annually. Lots of fun and full of local culture. If you are ever in Wpg in February check it out! </div>
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