Sharing The Procedure : Sarah Ahearn Bellemare
Friday, 22 June 2012
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Guest Contributor Post past times Heather Smith Jones of Blue Sparrow Press.
I don’t think a fourth dimension when I wasn’t making something equally a petty girl. Whether it was doodling with crayons together with markers, or icon shells together with rocks that I had collected on the beach, those were the types of creative activities that were ever my favorite things to create equally a child.
Fast forrard to college, when, inwards a drawing class, my instructor noticed I was belongings my pencil similar a paintbrush together with suggested that attempt icon instead. As I await dorsum now, I think the pencil to newspaper procedure feeling rattling unusual to me compared to the comfort, ease together with joy I felt in ane lawsuit I began to paint. On next hateful solar daytime I returned to course of written report with a paintbrush together with stimulate got never looked back. That instructor went on to move a mentor to me throughout my early on career, encouraging me to follow my instincts equally an creative somebody fifty-fifty though I was icon inwards a rattling unlike way than my classmates. Those showtime paintings of mine were made on the backs of former kitchen cupboards together with constitute pieces of forest rather than stretched canvas. While others inwards my classes were icon realistic landscapes inwards stone oil paint, I was working inwards acrylic together with collage, making huge messes equally I worked spread out on the floor.
The inspiration behind many of those early on paintings were words together with poems- ee cummings, Rilke, Walt Whitman together with fifty-fifty my ain poetry, I was icon equally a way to illustrate the words. The paintings that resulted were rattling abstract, filled with text of the poems painted or stamped throughout. The combination of visual together with verbal, text together with image, has ever been utilisation of my creative process; the ii are intertwined, quite oft the text coming first, leading me to the imagery equally I start out to paint.
Shortly afterwards college, I began apprenticing with a painter whose function I admired. There were many long days icon inwards the studio, together with it was during that fourth dimension when I began to I larn how to “be an artist”. In add-on to icon together, she taught me the concern side of an artist’s life, together with encouraged me to gear upwards a exhibit together with attempt to sell my work. Right some that same time, I took an impromptu trip to Paris with my hence boyfriend, at nowadays husband. It was 1999 together with nosotros went to band inwards the novel millennium nether the Eiffel Tower. While nether the spell of that magical city, I decided that upon my supply I would focus myself wholeheartedly on becoming a full-fledged artist. I returned home, had my showtime solo show, together with sold almost every piece. At that point, for me, at that topographic point was no tuning dorsum together with I’ve been working difficult at “being an artist” ever since.
I’m happy to tell that I’ve stayed truthful that invention I dreamed upwards inwards Paris, fifty-fifty though the path wasn’t a completely forthwith together with narrow one, for sure with a lot of bump together with bobbles, but it’s been the correct ane since it has Pb me to where I am today!
These days, beingness an creative somebody agency I wearable many hats! In add-on to painting, I learn in-person workshops a few times a twelvemonth through Squam Art Workshops. This fall, through Squam, I volition move pedagogy inwards the woods of New Hampshire, on the beaches of the Outer Banks of inwards North Carolina together with to the Adriatic Coast of Italy!
In addition, I’ve but launched my showtime online workshop, called pages together with paint, together with I couldn’t move to a greater extent than thrilled! To move able to accomplish students across the basis together with part what I create to aid others detect their creative paths, is genuinely a dream come upwards true! In add-on to teaching, I detect that I’m writing to a greater extent than together with to a greater extent than these days nearly my work. My biggest projection nevertheless was writing my book- Painted Pages: Fueling Creativity with Sketchbooks together with Mixed Media which was published through Quarry Books inwards May of 2012. It was my showtime book, together with a truthful labor of love, non to advert my miss was born during the process, ane hateful solar daytime afterwards my showtime large deadline inwards fact! Now that my mass is a twelvemonth old, together with my miss is two, I stimulate got some ideas for some other book, hence we’ll run across if I tin sack detect the fourth dimension to decease far happen.
I regularly exhibit my paintings throughout the Northeast inwards galleries together with at fine art fairs equally good equally online equally good equally selling inwards my etsy shop. Whenever inspiration strikes, you’ll detect me paint-covered together with making fine art with my 2-year-old miss inwards my sunny studio inwards Northampton, MA. When I’m non painting, writing, or teaching, I am dreaming upwards novel adventures to accept with my ecologist hubby together with our adorable petty girl.
Describing my process-
I ever start past times recording my ideas, creative sparks together with inspiration inwards my sketchbook. The pages of my sketchbooks are covered with anything that strikes my fancy- scraps of paper, ticket stubs, photos, together with leaves to lines of poetry, notes together with doodles, anything that mightiness inform a time to come painting. My sketchbooks are my most of import “tool” when it comes to my creative process; I am constantly referring dorsum to them for ideas equally I function inwards the studio. As for where I detect inspiration, it tin sack spill out almost everywhere! Sometimes I acquire my best ideas inwards the shower or on a walk inwards my neighborhood, I dear looking through antique together with junk shops, inwards former books, together with at maps, vintage signage. Things similar clothing patterns, dictionaries, faded maps, former plane watching guides brand me hence excited, the listing could continue together with on. Finding the ephemera to utilisation inwards my artwork is actually utilisation of my creative process. I dear anything that becomes “one with the board together with paint”, thin, former papers are my favorite to function with. Found dark together with white photographs are “adopted” from flea markets together with antique shops inwards add-on to my ain family’s photographs. Both detect their way into my paintings are together with given novel lives together with stories when mixed with pigment together with collage.
I detect inspiration inwards the everyday- singing dizzy songs with my miss together with icon side-by-side with her, the colors of the farmers market, an escape to the beach, a walk inwards the woods, farm stand upwards flowers, level drives inwards the country, former fashioned H2O ice cream shops, experimenting with my letterpress from the belatedly 19th century, chatting with creative somebody friends over endless cups of java together with cupcakes, vintage children’s books, the quilts of Gee’s bend, former botanical prints, giant outdated maps together with imagining living inwards Paris someday.
Blog : www.sarahearn.blogspot.com
Shop : www.sarahearn.etsy.com
Handmade : http://market.poppytalkhandmade.com/author/sarah-ahearn/
Sarah's mass : http://www.amazon.com/Painted-Pages-Fueling-Creativity-Sketchbooks/dp/1592536867/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top
Sarah's online class, starting inwards July! : http://www.squamartworkshops.com/pages-and-paint
Hello together with welcome to some other installment of Sharing the Process! Today Sarah Ahearn Bellemare talks nearly her journeying equally an artist, from a kid to the "many hats" she wears at nowadays equally painter, author, together with instructor. Sarah's brilliant together with playful paintings combine newspaper ephemera, text, together with pigment beautifully. Find out what inspires Sarah inwards her function together with banking concern gibe out her mass Painted Pages: Fueling Creativity with Sketchbooks together with Mixed Media together with upcoming online course! Thank yous Sarah!
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I don’t think a fourth dimension when I wasn’t making something equally a petty girl. Whether it was doodling with crayons together with markers, or icon shells together with rocks that I had collected on the beach, those were the types of creative activities that were ever my favorite things to create equally a child.
Fast forrard to college, when, inwards a drawing class, my instructor noticed I was belongings my pencil similar a paintbrush together with suggested that attempt icon instead. As I await dorsum now, I think the pencil to newspaper procedure feeling rattling unusual to me compared to the comfort, ease together with joy I felt in ane lawsuit I began to paint. On next hateful solar daytime I returned to course of written report with a paintbrush together with stimulate got never looked back. That instructor went on to move a mentor to me throughout my early on career, encouraging me to follow my instincts equally an creative somebody fifty-fifty though I was icon inwards a rattling unlike way than my classmates. Those showtime paintings of mine were made on the backs of former kitchen cupboards together with constitute pieces of forest rather than stretched canvas. While others inwards my classes were icon realistic landscapes inwards stone oil paint, I was working inwards acrylic together with collage, making huge messes equally I worked spread out on the floor.
The inspiration behind many of those early on paintings were words together with poems- ee cummings, Rilke, Walt Whitman together with fifty-fifty my ain poetry, I was icon equally a way to illustrate the words. The paintings that resulted were rattling abstract, filled with text of the poems painted or stamped throughout. The combination of visual together with verbal, text together with image, has ever been utilisation of my creative process; the ii are intertwined, quite oft the text coming first, leading me to the imagery equally I start out to paint.
Shortly afterwards college, I began apprenticing with a painter whose function I admired. There were many long days icon inwards the studio, together with it was during that fourth dimension when I began to I larn how to “be an artist”. In add-on to icon together, she taught me the concern side of an artist’s life, together with encouraged me to gear upwards a exhibit together with attempt to sell my work. Right some that same time, I took an impromptu trip to Paris with my hence boyfriend, at nowadays husband. It was 1999 together with nosotros went to band inwards the novel millennium nether the Eiffel Tower. While nether the spell of that magical city, I decided that upon my supply I would focus myself wholeheartedly on becoming a full-fledged artist. I returned home, had my showtime solo show, together with sold almost every piece. At that point, for me, at that topographic point was no tuning dorsum together with I’ve been working difficult at “being an artist” ever since.
I’m happy to tell that I’ve stayed truthful that invention I dreamed upwards inwards Paris, fifty-fifty though the path wasn’t a completely forthwith together with narrow one, for sure with a lot of bump together with bobbles, but it’s been the correct ane since it has Pb me to where I am today!
These days, beingness an creative somebody agency I wearable many hats! In add-on to painting, I learn in-person workshops a few times a twelvemonth through Squam Art Workshops. This fall, through Squam, I volition move pedagogy inwards the woods of New Hampshire, on the beaches of the Outer Banks of inwards North Carolina together with to the Adriatic Coast of Italy!
In addition, I’ve but launched my showtime online workshop, called pages together with paint, together with I couldn’t move to a greater extent than thrilled! To move able to accomplish students across the basis together with part what I create to aid others detect their creative paths, is genuinely a dream come upwards true! In add-on to teaching, I detect that I’m writing to a greater extent than together with to a greater extent than these days nearly my work. My biggest projection nevertheless was writing my book- Painted Pages: Fueling Creativity with Sketchbooks together with Mixed Media which was published through Quarry Books inwards May of 2012. It was my showtime book, together with a truthful labor of love, non to advert my miss was born during the process, ane hateful solar daytime afterwards my showtime large deadline inwards fact! Now that my mass is a twelvemonth old, together with my miss is two, I stimulate got some ideas for some other book, hence we’ll run across if I tin sack detect the fourth dimension to decease far happen.
I regularly exhibit my paintings throughout the Northeast inwards galleries together with at fine art fairs equally good equally online equally good equally selling inwards my etsy shop. Whenever inspiration strikes, you’ll detect me paint-covered together with making fine art with my 2-year-old miss inwards my sunny studio inwards Northampton, MA. When I’m non painting, writing, or teaching, I am dreaming upwards novel adventures to accept with my ecologist hubby together with our adorable petty girl.
Describing my process-
I ever start past times recording my ideas, creative sparks together with inspiration inwards my sketchbook. The pages of my sketchbooks are covered with anything that strikes my fancy- scraps of paper, ticket stubs, photos, together with leaves to lines of poetry, notes together with doodles, anything that mightiness inform a time to come painting. My sketchbooks are my most of import “tool” when it comes to my creative process; I am constantly referring dorsum to them for ideas equally I function inwards the studio. As for where I detect inspiration, it tin sack spill out almost everywhere! Sometimes I acquire my best ideas inwards the shower or on a walk inwards my neighborhood, I dear looking through antique together with junk shops, inwards former books, together with at maps, vintage signage. Things similar clothing patterns, dictionaries, faded maps, former plane watching guides brand me hence excited, the listing could continue together with on. Finding the ephemera to utilisation inwards my artwork is actually utilisation of my creative process. I dear anything that becomes “one with the board together with paint”, thin, former papers are my favorite to function with. Found dark together with white photographs are “adopted” from flea markets together with antique shops inwards add-on to my ain family’s photographs. Both detect their way into my paintings are together with given novel lives together with stories when mixed with pigment together with collage.
Related:
Blog : www.sarahearn.blogspot.com
Shop : www.sarahearn.etsy.com
Handmade : http://market.poppytalkhandmade.com/author/sarah-ahearn/
Sarah's mass : http://www.amazon.com/Painted-Pages-Fueling-Creativity-Sketchbooks/dp/1592536867/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top
Sarah's online class, starting inwards July! : http://www.squamartworkshops.com/pages-and-paint
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Heather Smith Jones M.F.A., is a multi-media artist, arts instructor, together with author. She lives with her hubby inwards Lawrence, Kansas together with loves painting, printing, together with drawing. Find out to a greater extent than nearly what Heather does here:
Website : http://www.heathersmithjones.com
Blue Sparrow Press : http://www.bluesparrowpress.com
Handmade : http://market.poppytalkhandmade.com/author/blue-sparrow-press/
Website : http://www.heathersmithjones.com
Blue Sparrow Press : http://www.bluesparrowpress.com
Handmade : http://market.poppytalkhandmade.com/author/blue-sparrow-press/
