Jeanne Guerin-Daley's Art Adventures: Thinking of and Thanking ARTsisters

Jeanne Guerin-Daley's Art Adventures: Thinking of and Thanking ARTsisters: "I am an artist. I am also an ARTsister. ARTsisters is a small group of local visual artists who meet monthly  Started by Linda Dubin Garfiel..."

Picked up my paintings from Gryphon Cafe today. What a disappointment... I firmly believe in networking and common courtesy. The artists today did not receive a simple thank you for filling their walls, no ladder to retrieve the paintings at the ungodly hour of 7:15 am and to think I did this to help him out due to a last minute artist cancellation due to a family emergency (would not even sign my customary list stating what I left at the local) You live and learn! Be forewarned ...

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How to Improve Motivation - wikiHow

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Social Media and Networking

It is common knowledge that the world keeps its balance of good and bad. Some of us focus on the good out there and how to spread the word. For those of you interested in good information, freebies, the Web and social networking, etc, I have a great document given to me last Fall for free. There are many venues explaining how to do this. Yes, some even Free. I included the document at my website since I do not know how to load such a large file here. Good luck... I do not understand why it does not accept the link (frustration)) so just go to my website and click on links. It is posted there: www.ednasantiago.com

2010-02-12

Best thing on a hot day

The Color of Heat

The Temperatures today reached 106 degrees according to the thermostat in my car. The temperature it read, while sitting in the dark of a parking garage x 2 hours was 102.
I braved the elements and met with my ARTsisters (monthly business meeting). It was worth every degree!

I once went to Dallas for a wedding, and the temperature there was 113 degrees... the sky was yellow, the grass was yellow, the heat felt yellow. No one was to be seen, everyone was locked up in their homes and cars, offices with the AC or fan blowing the heat as far away as possible.

No birds in the sky, no children playing outside, no one walking the sidewalks. It was eerie, like a Twilight zone episode. That was then and there.

Today was too close to Texas for comfort.... Back to my Air conditioned house.

My website ednasantiago.com

Just very happy to share with all of you my website: www.ednasantiago.com
You have stories, and photos and escapees... Hope you enjoy it

I am so confused...

Truth be told, I am a little confused right now. I only started painting a little over 3 n 1/2 yers ago and things are moving very quickly. Today I finally set up my webpage and did a search to find where I am in the marketing of the site. After polishing EdnaSantiagoArt for a year, I let it drop and someone else took the webname. So...that one is on top and I was alover the place. I searched for painting by Edna Santiago and discovered I was in an article written by Don Brewer on the Philadelphia Sketch club exhibit at Newman Galleries (http://www.brewermultimedia.com). There it was, my painting "Museum Stroll". the very one in my blog, as a sample of the works at the show. I do not get it. I am mostly self taught and do not paint in realism or on themes of barns and fields. But there is the painting, of which I am so proud to present, offered to the world to see on someone elses page. You want to be found; want to be recognized but no one warns you of the embarassment you feel when it happens. I struggled because I did not paint like others and finally accepted my color choices and topics. I can stop comparing myself and continue to focus on what I feel when I paint. Now just keep repeating to yourself: Am I there yet? Am I having fun? ()


http://www.brewermultimedia.com/

BACK HOME!

Gone for a month, mail sorted out (house mail and PO box)and ready to face the world! It is amazing how much work we did and I did only one painting to show in a months time. Weather here in PA is wonderful, 75 degrees and sunny. I have sorted out the responsibilities, professional and personal, and the list is lengthy but it always feels good to work.

Now I need to go to the Newman gallery to see the exhibit I have entered (while in PR) and quickly since I believe the 9th is the last day. I feel charged and ready. The teacher apprenticeship I accepted is starting for me 7/6. I do need to prioritize my website this month, and nothing else will be accepted!

I hope my friends and family feel as blessed as I do. One to continue my tasks! see you later. Please make a comment on anything you would like for me to write about.

Visit to Old San Juan

Since our visit to Old San Juan, I can not take the image of the city out of my head. The blue cobblestones, the long walks along streets that go up or down never flat. The fact that each turn of a corner brings a surprise, in the color of a building, or the view below, above or straight in front of you. The Governor of Puerto Rico lives there and we even saw a demonstration by university students, as close to the Governors mansion as they could get, barricades/policemen and all. The weather here has been cloudy, cool and even rainy, so the walk from gallery to gallery was just right. I hope the photo I link comes through. I hope you get to walk the same small streets and find out for yourself that you can not get lost in Old San Juan because all roads lead to something you wanted to see or do...

Art in Old San Juan

Steve and I spent a day walking around Old San Juan

Weekly classes are coming to a close end... I am offering the children in our neighborhood an art class: Paint supplies, basic instruction of technique and application and material to play with. We have had up to 8 children show up.
They are eager to learn, look, and paint without concern. I just collected the paintbox I had left behind in my brothers house, so this will give me more options in the next session.

I myself am being challenged with another venue: wooden statues of saints, usually made in PR called "Santos". My interest would be local themes such as the figure of a country man or Jibaro, dancers, etc. I found 2 books on how to carve in wood in the house while cleaning up, and bumped into a "Santero" , author of an instruction book that also offers classes... hmmm,... You do know how curious I am feeling these days and the urge gets stronger the longer I wait!

It's a Fathers day gift

Today is a lazy, rainy summer day.

We had a second session with the neighborhood children. This time we had 7 participants from 6 - 13 yrs age (2 females). The older girls help the younger ones and they all take turns with the material. Today they made a portrait for their fathers(tomorrow is Fathers Day). One child asked what to do if his father was not there... he is in jail and gets out in October.

The children are so eager to participate. It is summer and there is nothing for them to do all day. They have no paper or crayons, but we managed to get some colored paper and plain drawing paper thanks to my husband Steve. Todays lesson was again color mixing and adding white or black to the color...fun!

I just realized I can add a photo! I must start doing that the next time, I will see how it goes...

A day with artists on an island off the island

Coming back from Vieques now ... On a ferryboat, rocking and bobbing my way closer to FajardoPR
Rainy day turned out beautiful and met two female artists today: Carolina and Gina. I love them both, their curiosity and taste for life, their youth and energy and peace... We are all connected in our artistic vein. The trick is seeing how...another fabulous sunset: purple, lilac. Orange, pink...

I am in Newman Gallery!

Yes, the call came through today explaining that while I am in PR, that my painting "Museum Stroll" is in Newman Gallery in Philadelphia, PA with the other Sketch Club members. Feels good to know that all went well and the painting is safe and in display, as all paintings from the heart should be.

I started painting here in my home away from home, but found that the children in the neighborhood wanted to share in the fun. So, today was the first neighborhood class on art and painting. These children do not play at home with Wi or Nintendo or any other electronic devices. They play in the street, fish in the lagoon, you occasionally hear them being scolded by an adult and there is not much to do in the summer. So today they learned about primary colors, and how to "look" at items before you paint them. They saw colors in things they never imagined such as more than white in a white jar of paint and more than yellow in a mango or lemon. They did not have paper, nor crayons, and playing with colors was a treat... for me and them!

Hot day in June

Working on my new house, I find myself torn since I want to be painting..., working on my paintings and that website that I need to finalize so much. Every attempt to get a webpage has been a test of patience. I do not know why, since the customer support people are stumped and always promise to call back and never do. Oh well, I think I am going to go painting. After a cold shower...Boy it is hot !