tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51585831838675911632024-02-20T12:43:03.649-08:00Judith Jewer - Fine Art and PoetryJudith's Paintings, Drawings, and Poetry. Please enjoy.Judith Jewerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06256494670430175875noreply@blogger.comBlogger55125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5158583183867591163.post-29119923755893286412021-02-03T07:58:00.000-08:002021-02-03T07:58:02.479-08:00Ode to Green<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUxesuTR2pJoZvGvBvMRQlU5g1y7aP6vOEqwSFnqFshioAvvUdcILnlEawqqOPXKvMG2Ne0bZ-ot46mDZCilHi07pAYo8MYPLickk9H82t0K9sziVjDJvcPzb1s5HOxRxsgqSIDZis-Vg/s1371/20210203_101246_resize_25.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1371" data-original-width="1080" height="417" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUxesuTR2pJoZvGvBvMRQlU5g1y7aP6vOEqwSFnqFshioAvvUdcILnlEawqqOPXKvMG2Ne0bZ-ot46mDZCilHi07pAYo8MYPLickk9H82t0K9sziVjDJvcPzb1s5HOxRxsgqSIDZis-Vg/w328-h417/20210203_101246_resize_25.jpg" width="328" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Life jumps out</div><div style="text-align: center;">Of any of crack.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: center;">Commanding attention!</div><div style="text-align: center;">Teaching resilience...</div><div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;">Watch the miracle</div><div style="text-align: center;">Sprouting joy.</div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Green is a hunter,</div><div style="text-align: center;">Green is a sap.</div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: center;">Great green globs</div><div style="text-align: center;">Growing without apology.</div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;">Confounding artists</div><div style="text-align: center;">To contain the power. </div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Give up...</div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Surrender to the glory.</div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;">Celebrate green!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Acrylic on Canvas. 11" x 14" Available. $300 CD</div><div style="text-align: center;">Contact Judith for more information: judith.jewer@gmail.com</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Judith Jewerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06256494670430175875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5158583183867591163.post-85286565588546131162021-01-29T08:48:00.005-08:002021-01-29T08:54:11.686-08:00Training Your Inner Critic to be Constructive - Eight Steps<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyEh50TQZkmGJsw3KTMczr_Wki-kq7Am9R_0meX8bhqI-5Dj2clUnOk6wyVZJJGJY47eooDNWZxDgQBdgOFMLoeDJJLHMMEWts_Jy6KZcpNwQjaZkxw_fv6Nrlwibznbmd_R7oHnPUbeE/s1080/20210129_115038_resize_27.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="810" data-original-width="1080" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyEh50TQZkmGJsw3KTMczr_Wki-kq7Am9R_0meX8bhqI-5Dj2clUnOk6wyVZJJGJY47eooDNWZxDgQBdgOFMLoeDJJLHMMEWts_Jy6KZcpNwQjaZkxw_fv6Nrlwibznbmd_R7oHnPUbeE/s320/20210129_115038_resize_27.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div>Good morning everybody ... Thank you for subscribing to my Art and Poetry Blog. This is where you will find my articles about the art process. Please make sure that you subscribe so that you do not miss out on any of the insights and artworks I will be sharing here.</div><div><br /></div><div>Today, I would like to give you some guidance on dealing with your inner art critic... I have personally struggled with an out of control inner art critic, and have watched many of my students struggle as well. The inner art critic can be crippling. I get that... </div><div><br /></div><div>But when you train your inner critic in the art of constructive criticism, this part of you can enhance the joy in your art making, not crush it. </div><div><br /></div><div>Follow these 8 steps to develop a helpful inner art critic, not an abusive one....</div><div><br /></div><div>1) Getting critical of your inner critic is the first step and it starts with observation... The nature of the inner critic is easily influenced by criticism. Learning how to train your inner critic is actually pretty easy once you understand this. Work with your critic with patience to train this valuable art making team member. Always come back to the question... "Is that helpful?"</div><div><br /></div><div>2) Understand the job of the inner art critic. What exactly is the job that your inner art critic is supposed to do? Most of us think that the only job for the critic to do is to judge success or failure. This is the main misconception about the role of the inner critic, and why it can become so destructive and crippeling... The function of the critic is actually much more.... Thankfully...</div><div><br /></div><div><div>3) Train your inner art critic to focus on the art elements! Examine all of your art works in terms of shape, line, placement, proportion, values, colours, texture, ect... All strengths and weaknesses are related to the art elements. </div><div><br /></div><div>4) Encourage your inner art critic to become like Sherlock Holmes... a detective solving a visual puzzle.... To solve this mystery, the clues are always found in the art elements.</div></div><div><br /></div><div>5) Your inner art critic has the capacity to identify both the strengths and weaknesses of your art. In fact, I would encourage you to start any critique with first identifying strengths... Identify weaknesses second.</div><div><br /></div><div>6) When you identify the strengths of your artwork, always think in terms of art elements. Love the shapes, love the lines. Pay close attention to your feelings of pleasure and resonance. Celebrate your success! Consider how to include more of these successful elements in future artwork. </div><div><br /></div><div>7) When you identify the weaknesses of your artwork, also do so in terms of art elements. Specifically focus on what will solve or resolve the weakness. The critic needs to be directed to identify specific art elements that can be improved... Say that you are drawing a portrait... The job of the internal critic is not to judge if the portrait is good or bad and by extension, that you are good or bad... The job of the critic is to identify that the nose is too big and needs to move over to the left... Now that is helpful and constructive because then, you know what... Just make the nose smaller and move it over and see if there's an improvement to the drawing... Also, consider how to develop and strengthen your art making skills for future work.</div><div><br /></div><div>8) Thank your inner art critic for having a 'good eye' and being so devoted to your success.</div><div><br /></div><div>That's the best way you use the critic...</div><div><br /></div><div>Please feel free to forward this post.</div><div><br /></div><div>Best wishes...</div><div><br /></div><div>Peaceful happiness Judith</div><div>www.judithjewer.com</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>PS - I have just started a new blog</div><div>Ms. Judith's Studio Practice:</div><div>https://judithjewer.com/judiths-blog</div><div><br /></div><div>PSS - I also have started making some videos and you can find them here: https://judithjewer.com/livestream-artpractice</div>Judith Jewerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06256494670430175875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5158583183867591163.post-12515514498332110702021-01-19T17:28:00.002-08:002021-01-19T17:28:39.401-08:00The Power of Cuteness<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTeOt9rwqIh-xT4VCax8PlX1NlzyT-xqbW8tmuxNkxl-OPDgA7BbBAqVxAJ_Bnhn8xaV7554SRfxDrxc7AdqguwIocXpzQ2VxXhZrtdax6P-5jAkQb95RsHfXdNv8iYBBA3K_mWS82flc/s1440/20210117_172017_resize_8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1080" height="543" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTeOt9rwqIh-xT4VCax8PlX1NlzyT-xqbW8tmuxNkxl-OPDgA7BbBAqVxAJ_Bnhn8xaV7554SRfxDrxc7AdqguwIocXpzQ2VxXhZrtdax6P-5jAkQb95RsHfXdNv8iYBBA3K_mWS82flc/w407-h543/20210117_172017_resize_8.jpg" width="407" /></a></div><p></p><div class="x-el c2-1 c2-2 c2-c c2-d c2-3q c2-2v c2-2x c2-3t c2-3u c2-3v c2-3 c2-3w c2-4 c2-16 c2-5 c2-6 c2-7 c2-8 x-rt" data-typography="BodyAlpha" data-ux="BlogContent" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: "Droid Sans", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">I like cute cats... what can I say about that?</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">When I was studying fine art in university, this is not something I would ever have admitted to..</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">But when I really get honest, I find there is a strong response in me to the cute, to the small and fluffy.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">Cuteness makes me feel peaceful and happy... Maybe that's enough...</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">Exploring an aesthetic of cuteness, sweet child like innocence... I am delighted in the beauty of big eyes that hold no worries, and smiles that hide no fear. Everything gonna be alright...</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">Maybe it's a worthy approach... Artwork that makes me feel peaceful and happy and other people feel peaceful and happy... </span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">These drawings are my chance to share a bit of peaceful happiness in the world.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">That's a big thing. That's a worthy thing...</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">This is an original work of art. The medium is colour pencils on 9" x 12" drawing bristol. The drawing itself will fit beautifully into an 8" x 10" matted frame.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">ENJOY! </span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">Peaceful Happiness, Judith</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> </span></p></div>Judith Jewerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06256494670430175875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5158583183867591163.post-57588955818772625362020-12-25T06:55:00.001-08:002020-12-25T06:55:26.516-08:00Merry Christmas! <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div><div>I would like to wish all of my readers a very Happy Thanksgiving! Hope that you are well... I am grateful for so many things. Particularly the joy and laughter that is in my home and heart...</div><div><br></div><div>I am also grateful to be able to share my artwork with you! This painting is called 'Godspeed.'</div><div><br></div><div>It is about the feeling like a Slowpoke ....</div><div><br></div><div>I have written a poem to go with it...<br></div><div><br></div><div>LOVE-POKES</div><div><br></div><div>Us Love-Pokes <div dir="auto">aren't in a rush.</div><div dir="auto">That's just cuz </div><div dir="auto">life is so lush...</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Love calls us</div><div dir="auto">to savour now.</div><div dir="auto">Attention...</div><div dir="auto">To beautys' wow!</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">This step here </div><div dir="auto">is just so fine,</div><div dir="auto">take a minute</div><div dir="auto">to smell the Pines...</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">It's okay</div><div dir="auto">to be this way. </div><div dir="auto">God has plans</div><div dir="auto">to fill our day...</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Just enough</div><div dir="auto">Our cups are full.</div><div dir="auto">Right here now,</div></div><div dir="auto">we feel Loves pull...<br></div><div><br></div><div> Stay safe.... peaceful happiness Judith...<br></div><div><br></div>Judith Jewerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06256494670430175875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5158583183867591163.post-33913231610215836402020-09-22T06:05:00.001-07:002020-09-22T06:05:42.548-07:00Finding My Flow - Cultivating Gratitude <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div><div><br></div><div>Having an art practice can benefit your health and well-being. <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Understanding how art can help you be happy, and how being happy can help you be healthy is really important.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">An art-making helps cultivate gratitude. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">How to be grateful for the beauty of simple things will train you to focus on the positive. This practice can change the channel of your consciousness. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Art-making can train your eyes to see. When you learn to appreciate the beauty of the visual world, all sensory experience is enhanced. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm... I am blessed! </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Life is an abundant adventure....</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Hope that you enjoy this painting. It is 8" x 10" acrylics on masonite. The title is...</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">"Finding My Flow."</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Best wishes for your health! </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Peaceful happiness Judith </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div>Judith Jewerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06256494670430175875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5158583183867591163.post-6887333727941503792020-09-12T16:48:00.001-07:002020-09-12T16:48:54.077-07:00Gladiolus September <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>September's gift...</div><div>Breath deeply</div><div>Glowing sunshine </div><div>Thick as honey, </div><div>Dancing on the edge</div><div>of Autumn </div><div>Summer's grace </div><div>Receding...Blessing </div><div>Glad and glorious </div><div>Frilly petals </div><div>Blow kisses </div><div>To the setting sun.</div>Judith Jewerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06256494670430175875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5158583183867591163.post-12933344531768706742020-09-07T17:00:00.001-07:002020-09-07T17:00:42.574-07:00Labour Day Sunset <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div><div><br></div><div>Wow what a fabulous Labor day it's been this year... warm and windy and almost raining all day... I'm happy that I just saw the most beautiful sunset. It was red and pink , magenta, and purple... so lovely! It was really really really beautiful. Oddly enough, I happened to do a painting yesterday that foreshadowed the sunset that I we had today... so I'm sharing this beautiful painting of a sunset with you the 'Labor Day Sunset.' <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"> I'm sitting here listening to my little singers, The Crickets and all the other insects who are adding to the Beautiful song that they make this time of the year... this is a real treasure to me! Its so lovely and so peaceful...</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"> Yesterday I was sitting and watching the sun set, and a little dragonfly landed beside me and watched the sunset with me for a while... he kept on looking up at me with his big blue eyes, as big as his head... and before he left, he landed right on my finger as if to say "thanks for watching the sunset with me" and then off he flew... </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thanks for reading my blog. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Peaceful happiness Judith </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"> </div></div>Judith Jewerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06256494670430175875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5158583183867591163.post-92032180355158831522020-07-26T18:00:00.001-07:002020-07-26T18:29:36.724-07:00Golden Child. Art as Spiritual Practice <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div><div><br></div><div>The core of my practice as an artist is actually the practice, the action of making. <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">My process is very much driven by meditative practice. Allow the mind to chatter, but it gets quite with deep art making focus. It is such a relief to escape the mind chatter. Peaceful happiness rushes in, along with an expansive feeling of time and space. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"> Curiosity, freedom and the willingness to not know... like letting the artwork call the shots, brush stroke by brush stroke... Colour by colour... Shape by shape.. Creativity has wildness ... and needs relaxed acceptance. More like listening and less like talking. This is why artists follow their muse. When you learn to listen to the still quiet voice within.... where your art spirit lives... you will learn to love. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><font color="#37474f" face="roboto, sans-serif" size="3">The interaction of hand, brush, paint and movement. And a deep feeling of gratitude that I have been gifted with the resources to devote some time to the practice. </font></div><div dir="auto"><font color="#37474f" face="roboto, sans-serif" size="3"><br></font></div><div dir="auto"><font color="#37474f" face="roboto, sans-serif" size="3">A deep feeling of gratitude to be surrounded by such intense beauty. The artwork becomes a humble offering of reverence for this beauty. </font></div><div dir="auto"><font color="#37474f" face="roboto, sans-serif" size="3"><br></font></div><div dir="auto"><font color="#37474f" face="roboto, sans-serif" size="3">The artwork itself will always have limitations and will never fully contain the beauty... but it's enough. It's enough to brighten my ability to see and appreciate the beautiful. And I hope that my viewers can get a sense of peaceful happiness from looking at it.</font></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Blessings... Judith...</div></div>Judith Jewerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06256494670430175875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5158583183867591163.post-80669918237017351882020-06-21T05:32:00.001-07:002020-06-21T05:32:10.305-07:00Happy Father's Day! <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div><div>Happy Father's day and a great big thank you to all you Dads and all you Uncle's doing a great job raising the kids in our community<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"> I'm sharing with you today the demo I did for the kids in my zoom classs so that they would have fabulous artwork to give their dads today.... we chose the image of the seahorse because seahorse the fathers look after the young; an appropriate image to share with the kids in honour of Father's Day.. and seahorses are just super fun to draw...</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">My Dad will be 90 years old in July, and he is working with some health challenges. But he has a lot of courage and grit. So I am very grateful that I still have my Dad and I will be giving my seahorse drawing to my Dad for Father's Day too.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">My Dad has a sweet tooth and he loves icecream... </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Have a joyous day! </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Peaceful Happiness Ms. Judith </div></div><div><br></div>Judith Jewerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06256494670430175875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5158583183867591163.post-62536021690364839052020-06-16T11:05:00.001-07:002020-06-16T11:05:18.415-07:00The Purpose of Art <div><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div><div><br></div><div>Well... </div><div>The purpose of Art it's not anything that somebody else can tell you... phew... I'm off the hook for that blog title...</div><div><br></div><div>It is a big job to figure out the purpose of your own art... and there is no one defining purpose either... change is the constant that we can count on... </div><div><br></div><div>Here's some possibilities and motivations that have informed my art process over the years..</div><div><br></div><div>Learning to Draw...</div><div>Becoming more observant...</div><div>Curiosity and learning about the world...</div><div>Learning about myself... and my values...</div><div>Developing courage...</div><div>Slowing down... calmness...</div><div>Developing the capacity to maintain deep focus...</div><div>Developing my own sense of aesthetics and beauty....</div><div>Developing and understanding visual symbols...</div><div>Exploring intuition, dreams & the subconscious...</div><div>Learning how other people see see things...</div><div>Sharing, community and friends....</div><div>Teaching and the privilege of sharing and encouraging others...</div><div>Becoming more open to Beauty...<br></div><div>Pleasure and joy... happiness...</div><div>Making decorations and a beautiful home...</div><div>Remembering experience and events...</div><div>Making gifts...</div><div><br></div><div>It has truly been a fabulous adventure and I have been blessed with the opportunity to share it with my family, friends and students...</div><div> </div><div>All of us are blessed with the spirit of creativity and deserve the space, time, freedom, resources, safety, and encouragement to express it in whatever way fits each of us...</div><div><br></div><div>God bless us... everyone... </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>Judith Jewerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06256494670430175875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5158583183867591163.post-8268192883728569502020-05-09T18:16:00.001-07:002020-05-09T18:16:27.272-07:00Wake Up <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div><div>Well this is the first painting that I've made since we've been on lockdown... I don't know what it was about chickens but I found after I was sitting around long enough, I started to want to draw chickens and lots of them... It kind of culminated in this guy ... </div><div><br></div><div>Chickens, in our culture are a symbol of fear... and the virus generated a lot of fear...the odd thing about that is... roosters are fearless... Especially Fighting Roosters...</div><div><br></div><div> I sat with that for a while and came up with the idea that maybe maybe true courage comes from facing fear and chickens can be a symbol of fear but also a symbol of Courage one of those double sided coin type symbols... they're also very beautiful... enjoy....</div>Judith Jewerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06256494670430175875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5158583183867591163.post-68513570443159814402017-08-17T08:59:00.001-07:002017-08-17T08:59:12.626-07:00Girl Smiling<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Eating is crazy important! The process of cooking and eating healthy nutritious food can be very demanding of our time and resources... And as an artist, I would rather be drawing, but I have to eat well to draw well...<br />
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I would like to share with you a recipe for Green Soup, this is so simple and it makes a BIG lot of soup that I can cook up and my family will eat it for a few days and we do not have to think to much about it. It is yummy and very easy to digest. It is also easy to modify; when you warm it up - throw in any left overs you have in the fridge or throw in any type of sauce - lime juice is very nice...<br />
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Bunch of green kale<br />
Bunch of red kale<br />
Bunch of Collards<br />
Small cup of rice or grains of some sort<br />
Heaping teaspoon of cumin<br />
Filtered water (enough to cover your greens when they are in the pot)<br />
Big pile of cooking onions<br />
Oil to fry up your onions (I use either avocado or olive oil)<br />
Himalayan Salt to taste<br />
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1) Wash your greens and cut off the ends of them.<br />
2) Get your big soup pot.<br />
3) Boil your water and put water and your greens in the pot on the stove.<br />
4) Use your big kitchen scissors to cut up the greens a little bit so that they fit into the pot.<br />
5) Add the Rice and the Cumin and some pink salt if you like it.<br />
6) Bring to a boil, stir it a little bit.<br />
7) Turn stove on minimum heat.<br />
8) Put a lid on your soup pot and leave on minimum heat for a minimum of 2 hours.<br />
9) Skin and chop your onions... put them in your big fry pan with some pink salt on them.<br />
10) Put in enough of your oil to let them fry up nicely and caramelize them (this takes the most time - you have to stir them on medium heat for about half an hour till they brown up)<br />
11) Add your caramelized onions to your greens after they have boiled for the 2 hours.<br />
12) Use your hand held blender to puree your soup.<br />
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Done like Dinner - Enjoy...Judith Jewerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06256494670430175875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5158583183867591163.post-39950020403166973862016-02-25T08:42:00.003-08:002016-02-25T08:42:48.473-08:00Joy of Fuchsia<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I hope this blog post finds you well, happy and enjoying your holidays! I was honoured with the request to create a painting for the first Sunday of Advent to be shared with the congregation of my church... The theme was 'Hope.'</div>
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This is the painting I created. It was a lot of fun to make. I did a lot of the painting as a demonstration for my Adult Acrylic Creations painting class in Ajax... I was thrilled with the beautiful artwork that my students created in response to my suggestions for this project...</div>
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I have been deeply inspired by a book called 'Hope for the Flowers...' It is a very profound book about a couple of caterpillars called 'Stripe' and 'Yellow.' In the actual book, the caterpillars are illustrations in a very sweet cartoon style. I choose to make my 'Stripe' and 'Yellow a little bit more realistic... inspired by the beautiful tiger swallow tail butterfly. But I couldn't help myself from putting the smiling faces on the bugs... Mmmmmmmmmmmmm Sweetness... </div>
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I was smiling all the while I was painting - what fun!</div>
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This will be the painting I exhibit at Allan's Artists Exhibition... </div>
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Have a wonderful holiday - Judith</div>
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I like seahorses - there is just something about them that really appeal. OK - I love cuteness - a lot... In fact, when I draw any critter, I make the eyes way big and give it that sweet baby face... Ahhhaaaaaaaa !</div>
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<br />Judith Jewerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06256494670430175875noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5158583183867591163.post-60775750516515592742015-04-07T19:43:00.002-07:002015-04-07T19:43:31.617-07:00Camilian<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I did this drawing at the Zoo - these little guys are really interesting to watch. </div>
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<span style="color: #474b4e; line-height: 24.9200000762939px;">I would like to share with you one of my mandalas today. I have a lot of fun with my colour pencils and ink pens that I lay down over an acrylic layer. These works have a 'zen-tangle' type feeling and they are created in a meditative way - with a focus on one thing... awareness of the colour flowing onto the paper. I was influenced by a book I got out of the library full of illuminated manuscripts from the Middle-Ages. The little dragon in the lower left corner sneaked into the work right out of one of my favourite pieces...</span></span><br />
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Judith Jewerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06256494670430175875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5158583183867591163.post-18054249590372638832015-01-01T09:45:00.001-08:002015-01-01T09:45:23.014-08:00Dragon's Joy<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Happy New Year! Wishing you wonder and joy in your life for the coming year!<br />
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I choose this painting for my New Year greeting because of the spiral - seeing as we are on the start of another amazing cycle with this first day of the year. And also because of the positive feeling I get from this image. The colours are just so joyful and peaceful - and the feeling of light drawing you to the centre and radiating back out. There is just so much life and happiness here....<br />
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The title of this painting is 'Dragon's Joy' and that is where it came from - the feeling of joy it gave me to make it. The dragon's head is painted using a photo reference I took of a snake in the Toronto Zoo - they sit on their branch coiled up in total contentment - utterly still and present like some sort of reptilian masters of meditation. I hope we can all focus this coming year on the contentment that comes from stillness and presence...<br />
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I am deeply grateful for the amazing year that we have just finished. I am grateful for my family, friends, students and my health! There are just so many things that bless my life. Like my brother Bill says "It's all good."<br />
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I hope that you find happiness, health and peace in 2015...<br />
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Judith Jewerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06256494670430175875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5158583183867591163.post-40790186653415212962013-10-06T20:15:00.000-07:002013-10-06T20:15:37.676-07:00ConnectWho we are today<br />
Connects to who we were:<br />
Foundation,<br />
Direction,<br />
Family,<br />
Friends.<br />
Well rooted we can fly;<br />
and the freedom to become<br />
the best we can be<br />
is ours to share.Judith Jewerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06256494670430175875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5158583183867591163.post-70997277483910633662013-07-20T14:31:00.000-07:002013-07-20T14:31:50.427-07:00Plein Air, by the Lake<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is out of my sketch book and was drawn with a charcoal pencil. This drawing was created from a photo and not from life. Although I have seen lots of these little guys in the woods while hiking... One day I even had one land on my hand and take a sunflower... This event happened at the Lynde Shores Conservation Area where the birds are hand fed throughout the winter and become very tame - lots of chickadees will land on your hand for the seeds and it is very special, although I have only had one little woodpecker land and take a seed and dart off to a tree to eat it... Made my day - I was smiling for a week.Judith Jewerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06256494670430175875noreply@blogger.com1