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Teaching on Life Book 2016 + Give Away time!

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Hello dear artists-friends! Some really awesome news this time!

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I am going to be teaching on Life Book 2016 next year! I feel very privileged and grateful, and humbled to be invited to teach amongst other 23 most incredible and talented teachers.

And even MORE exciting news is that I can give away 1 space on this amazing YEAR LONG art course! Keep reading if you want to find out more about Life Book 2016, and if you want to find out how you can win a spot! :)

First let me tell you a bit more about Life Book in case you haven't heard about it yet. “Life Book, a celebration and honouring of YOU” is a year-long mixed media art class organised by Tamara Laporte from Willowing Arts. Tam is joined by 23 incredible art teachers who are sharing their mixed media techniques, tips and tricks with you in well filmed exciting video tutorials weekly – FOR THE WHOLE YEAR. Themed around self-development and healing, you’ll be creating several loose mixed media art journal pages per month which by the end of the year you will bind into a glorious journal (a Life Book).

It’s like, you won’t be able to get away from being creative for the duration of 2016, constantly inspired, constantly stimulated. I personally need it in my life.

This is all very new for me, I only just found out about this Life Book now, and it’s been running for 5 years already with like 22 THOUSAND members on the Willowing.org (omg – where have I been?!). With 8.700 people who have done Life Book in previous years. I am like… speechless. And it’s suitable to all levels of art. Apparently the price is unbelievably good for a 1 year long workshop, so definitely check it out by clicking HERE.

I haven't fully developed my class idea yet. I am planning to come up with a class related to the style that you can see on the below painting, or who knows – maybe even something more awesome? :) It will all depend on a theme of the month that will be allocated to me, but regardless of the theme I will make sure to spoil you all with something very inspirational!

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Registration for Life Book opens on October 5th 2015 and the class begins on January 1st 2016.

Keep this page bookmarked so that you can sign up the moment it goes on sale.

Now then, onto the give-away and blog hop. I can give away 1 space on Life Book 2016 to 1 lucky winner, yay! :) And if you follow the blog hop of other teachers (see below for links and dates) you can up your chances of winner a space by entering all the other give-aways also.

How to enter the give-away:

1. Subscribe to my newsletter.

2. Go to my FB page and see the post I made about Life Book, share this post, tagging my name in it – and I will enter you to the draw. Please don’t forget to TAG my name, so that FB send me notification and could I see that you have shared.

Good luck and I will announce the winner in my new blog post and on the same FB page, on my birthday - 15 September!

Here is the list of the other amazing teachers who will be teaching on Life Book – they too will be giving away a spot on Life Book so go check them out and enter their give-aways. Here are the dates for their give-away announcements:

7th September 2015 Tamara Laporte http://www.willowing.org/
8th September 2015 Annie Hamman http://anniehamman.com/
9th September 2015 Kristin Dudish http://kristindudish.com/
10th September 2015 Effy Wild http://effywild.com/
11th September 2015 Faith Evans-Sills http://faithevanssills.com/home.html
12th September 2015 Gillian Lee Smith http://www.gillianleesmithartist.com/
13th September 2015 Ivy Newport http://ivynewport.com/
14th September 2015 Jane Davenport http://janedavenport.com/
15th September 2015 Jenny Grant http://www.flowbyjenny.com/en
16th September 2015 Angela Kennedy / PennyStamper http://pennystamper.blogspot.co.uk/
17th September 2015 Lisa Viger http://lisaviger.com/
18th September 2015 Martha Lever http://marthalever.blogspot.co.uk/
19th September 2015 Mary Beth Shaw http://www.mbshaw.com/
20th September 2015 Melody Ross http://www.melodyross.com/
21st September 2015 Pam Carriker http://pamcarriker.com/
22nd September 2015 Pauline Agnew http://www.seedbedstudio.net/
23th September 2015 Rae Missigman http://rae-missigman.squarespace.com/
24th September 2015 Renata Loree http://renataloree.com/
25th September 2015 Roben-Marie Smith http://www.robenmarie.com/
26th September 2015 Roxanne Coble http://bybun.com/
27th September 2015 Shiloh Sophia McCloud http://www.shilohsophiastudios.com/
28th September 2015 Donna Downey http://www.donnadowney.com/
29th September 2015 Tracy Verdugo http://tracyverdugo.com/
30th September 2015 Wyanne Thompson http://www.wyanne.com/

My new workshop and video-fun collaboration with Tallulah

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Just an update on what I've been up to recently... I have taken a giant leap towards online teaching these past two months, so at home I teach art to Tallulah (or she teachers me?), and online I teach other artists, or shall I say I share all my art experience, tips and tricks with all of you – wonderful creative souls. This is one of the artworks I created for my workshop: AnnieHamman-Apple

The workshop is already full and registration is closing tomorrow, Friday 28th. It's called “Creating Soulful Art With A Story” and starts on 7th September 2015. Although it is only 1 week workshop, it has 8 comprehensive instructional videos and might take 2-3 weeks for students to work through. Good news is – I will be available for full support for the duration of whole September. Registration will ten re-open on 1st October on a self-study basis. More info here (if PayPal button there is gone, it means registration is closed).

I was also excited to receive invitations to teach on other 2 large and popular workshops in 2016, but on that I will talk in a few days. For now it’s a SECRET and I hope you can keep it just for few days longer. :)

Me and Tallulah have been busy experimenting with collaboration on painting faces, taking turns on various stages of the face, and pulling each other into different directions. Well, she definitely pulled me into her direction. I started out with sombre palette, but she moved me into more loose, more abstract and more vibrant face. Her contribution have definitely gave it a more layered intriguing look. Have a look at this fun fast paced 10 minutes video of our collaboration:

Paint My Face - Artist Annie Hamman paints a face with 3 years old Tallulah Jade Rainbow from Annie Hamman on Vimeo.

To read more about Tallulah Jade Rainbow and her painting process, and also to see more videos of her painting large abstract paintings, please visit her personal blog: rainbowgirl.co.za

Tallulah is a professional artist who held her 1st solo art exhibition at the age of 3 at Bellini Gallery, here in Hermanus, with approximately 30 canvases displayed.

"Somewhere Over The Rainbow", acrylics on canvas board. Created with Tallulah Jade rainbow and shown in above video. Available in my Etsy Shop:

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Transforming few old artworks

Lately I've been digging out some old not very effective artworks and giving them new life. Here are 4 that I just finished and finally quite happy with. Sometimes revival of old proves to be wrong move, when people say that they love old version better, but important thing is that you as an artist happy with final result. Bottom line is: we are not making art to please others, unless it's commissioned work. This one is acrylic on canvas, painted with a small palette knife, but I redone her with brush and more fresh realistic skin tone. Values were also corrected which I think made it more effective. "Listener":

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She used to be a simple monoprint in oils, so I gave her a couple of fresh oil layers. "She spoke the truth":

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Update in oils. "On the road you warned me about, I go with wavering heart":

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Below work was done on 2006, 9 years ago, I used to live in Micronesian islands then, and photographed this native girl somewhere on the road. It might have been my first ever attempt to paint a face, after years of still life, flowers and journaling. So, yea, she was flat and uninteresting and collected dust in my studio ever since. I was not happy with the artwork, but could not give up on it and dragged her all the way from Micronesia to South Africa (24'X30'):

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So I gave her a fresh new life and named her "Spring". I painted her face, then Tallulah joined me and helped me to collage lives and paint the tree. Tallulah's free and fearless influence is obvious here and I enjoyed her fresh approach. It is now framed and gracing a wall in Tallulah's blue bedroom. Our first collaboration:

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Collage and ink art with my toddler

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Today I gave my 3 year old baby Tallulah her first art journal. I made these books from a good quality 300lbs watercolor paper, so she got one, and I got one. Gave her a photo of a girl's face from a magazine and explained the concept of "reference image". I was in doubts whether my lecture is age-appropriate, but she listened intently. I drew an oval on her page and asked her to collage pieces inside it. I prepared pieces in advance, mostly pink, purple, blue and other happy colors, thinking that as a child she would want them. No ways. She scratched for some black an white and neutral tones and started to glue. -Tallulah, what about all these lovely pinks and purples?

She looked at me like I was stupid and replied:

- The reference image is in black and white, mama.

I think  she added couple of purples just to make me happy, :-/  After she done gluing, I gave her calligraphy nib pen and black acrylic ink and suggested to draw a face over it. Surprisingly she kept looking at the reference image throughout her drawing and concentrated intently.

I made one drawing too in my art journal, and we ended up having the same color palette, since she refused the "childish" one and and went for my collage pieces.

Here is Tallulah's:

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And here is mine:

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Our brand new hand-made journals made with Coptic binding technique:

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