tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48408233836555300292024-03-12T18:13:14.837-07:00ART FULL MUSINGSART FILLED RAMBLINGS...Caterina Martinicohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13400408131171469396noreply@blogger.comBlogger238125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4840823383655530029.post-46547533110819460952023-09-07T17:41:00.000-07:002023-09-07T17:43:08.369-07:00What will you do with your one wild and precious life....Mary Oliver<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7OTGkqa7HeBx4IzDWfP-NvpLQi7QPV2ItDdFaqzl5iWRpT74g3ZClMVOmLO2Apb_MF1snbfyMKCMMa5pMX1f9Gz7XvC3NvMmDEY28njfP6Y-wsYrJwv1OarPJUOx1-scldmhWipsMQsJinL2TQ4NIVBPj6EZiPeXWx4ZhVie8nPEbhC2_aAyLBmKKCDri/s640/IMG_5452.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="434" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7OTGkqa7HeBx4IzDWfP-NvpLQi7QPV2ItDdFaqzl5iWRpT74g3ZClMVOmLO2Apb_MF1snbfyMKCMMa5pMX1f9Gz7XvC3NvMmDEY28njfP6Y-wsYrJwv1OarPJUOx1-scldmhWipsMQsJinL2TQ4NIVBPj6EZiPeXWx4ZhVie8nPEbhC2_aAyLBmKKCDri/s320/IMG_5452.jpg" width="217" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>Caterina Martinicohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13400408131171469396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4840823383655530029.post-2422386236272306862017-10-23T14:32:00.000-07:002017-10-23T14:32:34.873-07:00Back in the Blogging World once again<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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After the recent wildfire and being evacuated at 3:30 in the a.m, with flames shooting up into the sky in the hills behind my house, I got a horrible flu/ like cold. I woke up one morning, vowing to start up this blog again. So here I am. </div>
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My original focus when I started this blog, was sharing the work and classes I did as an art therapist, instructor, creativity facilitator. However, as I stopped this blog and time has passed, I have decided, even though I still teach and facilitate groups, to focus on my work as and artists here. <br />
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This year I turned 70, OMG, and realize if not now, when? I am an artist and love making art. I am obsessive about it do it all the time and what to make my living, or a good portion of it from my art, so it is time to come out of the teacher closet, and share it with others. So that is what I am doing, here. <br />
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All of these image are done with alcohol ink on tile and on glass. I have fallen in love with the vibrancy of this media, its quick satisfaction and its expressive intense qualities. </div>
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I am narrative in my work with alcohol ink and am always intrigued with the story that emerges out of my art. My need to express myself quickly, loosely and playfully, while allowing what wants to emerge is greatly satisfied when doing these small pieces. Also I am able to make a lot quickly, to sell at reasonable prices at shops and fairs for the holidays. So here are some of what the ones I have been creating in the last month. More to come, more to say. Hello to whoever reads this and finds it of interest. Stay safe, one never knows what comes next. CaterinaCaterina Martinicohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13400408131171469396noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4840823383655530029.post-23413767100196133742015-02-17T12:41:00.001-08:002015-02-17T12:41:36.604-08:00So Muchness, time passes..shrines and on & on OH MY.Has it been 8 months since I posted here? Oh dear. Best intentions and life has made this blog fall by the wayside, however I continue to do, teach and facilitate art making in spite of life's ongoing challenges. <br />
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I always like to share so here are some photos from a Shrine Making workshop that I did in the summer. So much fun! So here's a bit of the process and some of the completed shrines. <br />
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These were so much fun to do. I hope to do this again come summer, you can never have too many shrines around. </div>
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So perhaps the key to posting in this blog is to do it in small chunks, not too much, not to little.</div>
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Caterina Martinicohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13400408131171469396noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4840823383655530029.post-14006971236083922082014-07-14T15:19:00.002-07:002014-07-14T15:19:20.798-07:00Summer Solstice Mandala Drawing Day...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Here are photos from the most recent Illuminated Mandala class that I led.</div>
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Our focus was on acknowledging the Summer Solstice thru creating mandalas that reflect the four elements. <br />
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We always begin with blessing our materials...setting intention for the season.</div>
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Creating scale of light drawings using, white prismacolor pencils on black paper. Allow the light of spirit and illuminated vision to emerge from the creative ground of the paper.<br />
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By the afternoon, color begins to emerge....growing out of the light while being illuminated by it. <br />
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I always feel so honored to witness the creation of these mandalas.<br />
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The following series of SoulCollage® cards are the last five in the series that I created as healing tools, prior to my recent surgery. </div>
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Each one of them were images that moved into my inner family of allies and assisted me on an imaginal level, to develop confidence, resilience and an ability to enhance my bodies natural healing attributes in the positive outcome and ease in recovery that I have had. </div>
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I am posting them here just as images, because a picture is worth a thousand words, so to speak. Letting them go out into the world and do their work on a different level. Until next time. Ciao... </div>
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The next time my group met I wanted to continue with using the process of SoulCollage® to help support my preparing for surgery. I realized that I needed an image that represented the process of healing on a deep level These wonderful hands presented themselves to me, and represented the hard work that awaited me ahead, of going from being in pain to walking without pain. <a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-MH3hHnfnnOQ/U1LCTuARjWI/AAAAAAAADQ4/U__wNOao8q8/s1600/IMG_0242.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-MH3hHnfnnOQ/U1LCTuARjWI/AAAAAAAADQ4/U__wNOao8q8/s1600/IMG_0242.JPG" height="640" width="412" /></a></div>
<i>I am the one who does the hard work of diving in deeply to the process of healing. Allowing all parts of myself to connect with the life force of bone growth, cellular transformation and sprouting of new life. I am in alignment with this natural healing process on all levels. </i><br />
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I also instinctively knew that in order to do this inner work, and to be aligned with the healing process, I had to acknowledge and release the burden and weight of the pain that I had been carrying around for years. <br />
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This is the last card that I made in group that day. It puzzled me, and I had a hard time opening to its offering. But over time I came to see it as the part of me that uses active imagination, visualization and the healing power of art, to envision health and to support a way to move into this surgery with a positive attitude. </div>
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<i>I am the one who takes my life and my healing into my own hands, taping into the universal unconscious, imagining all parts of this process to proceed effortlessly, supported by healing imagery and my imagination. I am an active partner in my healing, along with the doctors, and all my allies in health. </i><br />
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I am grateful. Ciao CaterinaCaterina Martinicohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13400408131171469396noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4840823383655530029.post-14636536064153862832014-04-11T09:48:00.001-07:002014-04-11T09:48:01.965-07:00Soul Collage® Working in SeriesThis is the final card in my New Years Intention Series.<br />
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Realizing that I needed to have an image to move toward, that expressed how I imagined myself healed and moving forward in my life, I focused on that vision in my last card in this beginning part of my healing series.<br />
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I set myself the intention of taking myself to Hawaii, after these surgeries and visioned myself able to move without pain, and be free in my body and flexibility. <br />
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Two of the places that I am drawn to in my life are Hawaii and the Southwest. <br />
Although improbable in life, to walk out a doorway in a New Mexico garden onto a beautiful beach, this card makes the improbable probable. Which is how I felt about tackling two knee replacements and walking with ease.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I approached this new year ready to undertake the journey of having one of my knees replaced, with the second on the horizon. S0, as the holidays approached I knew it was time to cross the bridge to having a surgery that was, the next step in my healing journey.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">During the past 3 months, I created a series of cards in my SoulCollage® groups, that have supported guided and clarified my healing journey, and given me the strength and feedback to move forward and have the surgery which I have been resisting.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">As the New Year began I made this card in one of my groups as an intention card for the new year. Setting the stage for new year and a new journey with a destination in the distance. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">The year of the horse offered me an ally with the energy and strength to guide and accompany me as I crossed the bridge into an unknown future. The horse came spontaneously as did all the images in this collage, where I envision and actualize the beginning of this healing journey. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I am in the garden of my imagination approaching the bridge that leads to change. I am accompanied on all sides by allies offering vision, growth and insight. I am both witnessed and witnessing myself on this journey.</span></div>
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I am the one who is ready to walk across the bridge leading to a new way of living and moving forward to do what is necessary to bring health vitality and physical healing to my life. I am accompanied by a magical band of allies and helpers, who support me and help me to flower and grow as I approach the unknown in front of me. </span></i></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I am mid stream in this journey now and feel called to share here, my reflections on this process and the images in this series that have presented themselves to me, through my SoulCollage® practice. I plan on doing this day by day, as my energy allows. All responses and offerings are greatly appreciated. </span></div>
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I am so remiss in posting on this blog, that I wonder about the value of keeping it going. I have been busy to say the least, and time flies by. </div>
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This particular post was sitting here waiting for me to publish it during the summer. So rather then let it die on the vine, wither on a post page, I am posting it tonight, better late then never. So I can move forward and re-engage with this creative writing process, of documenting my creative journey. So here goes. </div>
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What have I been up to besides enjoying the summer. Well lots of things...Ongoing SoulCollage® groups, making mandala pendants and cards and collaged journals, and more.</div>
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But up until this past weekend, it has been like a block of resistance on doing encaustic which I love...at least until this weekend. </div>
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I can list the reasons that stop me, but that doesn't serve me here...</div>
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The spell has finally been broken, I have had the idea in my mind of taking one of my soulcollage ® cards and using it as a jumping off point as a direction for one of my encaustics, and I have finally started that process. I am sharing some process photos here.<br />
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I decided to work with one of my favorite cards, which I call<i> Into the deep.</i>.<br />
She is the one who is able to transform any situation with her imagination. <br />
Often when I swim at the YMCA, I imagine the water to be healing pools, warm water in Hawaii, crystal clear river swimming holes with waterfalls around me. My imagination takes me away from the box of water in a larger box of a building, into my memories of places I visited, to dreamy healing water sanctuaries that only live in my inner world.<br />
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By taking a photo of my card and making a zeros copy of it, I was able to transfer it on the wax.</div>
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Carrying me away on the waters of my imagination and transforming this space into a natural watery healing memory that lives deep within my unconscious and more youthful adventurous past. </div>
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Illuminated Mandala and 5 Universal Shapes Workshop that I did last month. </div>
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Held at<a href="http://www.artlife-gallery.com/"> ARTLIFE Gallery</a> in Sebastopol, there were 11 of us diving into the wonderful experience of creating mandalas, that day.</div>
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We worked with <a href="http://www.angelesarrien.com/">Angles Arrien's</a>, fascinating Shapes Preferential Diagnostic Tool, which she developed through her research on Storytelling, Fairy Tales, and the Universal Shapes that are found in the artwork of all cultures and their cross cultural symbolic meanings. </div>
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The 5 positions of choice were developed out of cross-cultural anthropological research, based on the five choices that occur consistently in fairytales and myths, giving a clue to through the shapes meanings, for right direction in life.<br />
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We often stopped to put our work in progress up on the walls, to step back, stretch, rest our eyes, and to witness the amazing mandalas that emerged throughout the day.<br />
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Here are the mandalas that came through for us that day.</div>
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First we created the white on black mandalas, using the scale of light drawing process, that makes these mandalas appear illuminated, from within, glowing with the essence of each persons touch.<br />
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Then they are overlaid with brilliant color using only 6 prismacolor pencils<br />
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a rainbow spectrum of colors<br />
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Each one a shining star, a vibrant energy of moving life force. <br />
Until next time, keep drawing........Caterina Martinicohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13400408131171469396noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4840823383655530029.post-53907178651227924952013-06-16T20:20:00.001-07:002013-06-17T11:23:08.332-07:00Busy, Busy , Bizeee...like a BeeWith the coming of the summer, many new opportunities and directions are opening up for me, and I find myself busier then I have been in a while. This week has lots of exciting things happening for me, but also alot of preparation. I am excited to be doing a two person encaustic class with a woman and her friend I am connected with from past classes and work, who will be in Calif. and want to dive into wax work.<br />
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It has been a while since I have taught others how to work with lovely delicious wax. Since I was setting up my studio for others, i spent a full day making new encaustic medium, fine tuning the electricity and melting parrafin and cleaning brushes. It has been hot here, and doing this in the heat is challenging. Also the sweet smell of beeswax, brings round the bees. I wound up getting stung by some yellow jackets in my right, dominant hand, which set me back several days.<br />
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If my studio was completely dedicated to doing this it would be one thing, but I set up for SoulCollage® workshops every 2 weeks, and then put it all away. So I have been busy.</div>
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In the Light of Gratitude, I have been facilitating a pilot project at a place called the <a href="http://www.thelivingroomsc.org/">Living Room</a> here in Sonoma County. A place for homeless women to to come and eat, and sit and be safe and have wonderful healing, and practical services provided for them. I am doing a modified 4 week SoulCollage® Personal Narrative group, which is very loose and acommodates a room full of women, sleeping, eating, talking on the phone, getting hair cuts and just being. In the back of the room, myself and Celine an art therapist who just graduated from Notre Dame, set up the collage materials and invite the women to sit and make SoulCollage® cards. I feel blessed to be able to share this, in spite of the settings challenges. </div>
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On Sunday I am doing a Illuminated Mandala and the Five Universal Shapes workshop, at<a href="http://www.artlife-gallery.com/art-workshops.html"> ARTLIFe Gallery in Sebastopol.</a> That along with SoulCollage® Open Studio, on Friday ends a full and art filled week.</div>
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Along with planning for a SoulCollage® workshop in Mt Shasta on July 13th, at a stunningly beautiful Buddhist retreat center called <a href="http://tarasrefuge.org/events/upcoming/">Tara's Refuge</a>. I am full to the depths of my heart with ART and Life.</div>
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I would like to introduce you to Rahima Warren. I love how synchronicity plays into everything. Rahima, went through the Person Centered Expressive Therapy program, training with my late friend and studio partner, Patricia Waters. Out of the blue I receive an invite to share her new book here. Take the time to read about the personal creative journey that led to her writing this book. If you want a chance to win her ebook, leave a comment here, and also let me know how you feel about my sharing this. Ciao. Caterina</span></i></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i>“If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good.”</i> </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">For many years, I admired the writers of fantasy and science fiction for the way they created whole new worlds, and amazing new creatures, while writing fascinating stories. I loved reading their stories, and still do. I never imagined being that creative myself. Expressive arts therapy changed all that, transforming me into an expressive arts painter and novelist. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">In 1995, I was seeking a new direction for my psychotherapy career. I had found that verbal therapy has its limitations. Since it uses words, we can stay stuck in what we know in our verbal/logical mind. Having specialized in dreamwork, Jungian psychology and sandplay therapy, I knew that the dreaming mind has its own language of image, symbol, nuance and color which are better expressed through art. So I attended the Person-Centered Expressive Therapy Institute’s 400-hour training in Expressive Arts Therapy, developed by Natalie Rogers. What a fabulous time we had, 20 or 30 women, studying and experiencing expressive arts! We learned to ignore the inner critic or judge, and any “art rules” we might have learned. Instead, we explored using all the art forms – movement, writing, art, music, clay-work, collage – only for self-expression, with no concern for technique or end-product. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">To my happy surprise, I found that with no formal training, I could paint, sculpt clay, write, make music, and dance. This experience helped me to own my true grace, strength, and wisdom as a woman. And it helped me to trust and open up to the creative flow. So when a dark fantasy story started to pour forth, I didn’t question it and went with the flow. For three years, I just wrote and wrote, letting the story go where it wanted, with no plan or outline. It’s the most passionately creative fun I’ve ever had! This is how I ended up writing what I call an expressive arts novel. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">What I had written turned out to be the first draft of my fantasy trilogy, <b><i>The Star-Seer’s Prophecy</i></b>. Perhaps you have heard the truism, <i>“Write what you know.”</i> From my own healing journey and my work as a psychotherapist, what I know is the difficult inner journey to wholeness. And that is what my story is about: the healing journey of the hero, Kyr. (More about how my hero turned me into a writer here.) </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The hero of this story was lurking in my dreaming mind (the unconscious) for years. I had many dreams and daydreams about characters like Kyr. I believe he represents an archetype, which I call the Wounded Masculine or the Suffering Hero. Early on, when I was less conscious, I kept falling for men who embodied the Wounded Masculine/Suffering Hero. (I doubt that I am the only woman who has fallen under the spell of this archetype!) Later, I did inner work with this archetypal character, hoping he would stop haunting me. But he always resurfaced in my dreams, even when I stopped falling for men like him in my outer life. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">There is a positive aspect to this archetypal haunting, though. In some sense, Kyr was always nudging me to develop the courage and skills for exploring the inner realms of psyche, soul and spirit, so that I could eventually write his story. But where he came from. or why he haunts me, or why he picked me to write his story is still a mystery to me. Perhaps he is my inner muse or daemon. According to an astrological reading of my natal chart, I am “a profoundly creative being whose desire it is to channel darkness through creativity, and dedicate that to the world…to articulate the truth and use words to take people on journeys…to use creativity as a tool of healing.” Perhaps that explains why I wrote this dark, intense but ultimately uplifting and healing story. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">With the inspiration, freedom and trust I gained from my training and experience with Person-Centered Expressive Arts, I was able to trust the creative process enough to allow Kyr’s story to come through me, without hindrance by the moralistic censor or inner critic. His story starts out with the darkest of human experiences, but the main thread is his journey of recovery, healing, forgiveness, redemption and love.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Even now, Kyr is haunting me, nudging me to be brave enough to get his story published, so that it can help others on their healing journeys. (One reader shares how reading Book One helped her here.) In 2011, <i>Dark Innocence: Book One of the Star-Seer’s Prophecy</i> was published by Rose Press. Now I am celebrating its e-book publication, with my blog tour and giveaways! I still have Books Two and Three to edit and publish. It’s been quite a journey, and my adventures with Kyr continue! </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Rahima is giving away prizes, including an e-copy of her book at each blog stop on her tour AND a Grand Prize Giveaway of a Custom Jumbo Tote Bag with your choice of fan art, chosen from here: <a href="http://www.starseersprophecy.com/fan-art/">http://www.starseersprophecy.com/fan-art/</a>, plus other goodies, including a signed copy of <i>Dark Innocence </i>for one lucky winner, shipped to anywhere in the world!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Rahima Warren is the author of <i>Dark Innocence: Book One of the Star-Seer's Prophecy</i>, a deep, rich novel of the healing journey. With Master's degrees in Clinical and Transpersonal Psychology, she was in private practice as a licensed psychotherapist for over 20 years. In 2006, Rahima retired to focus on her expressive painting, creative writing, and spiritual studies.</span></div>
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The first request was a creative response to Mothers Day. I was approached by Teresa Jordan to embed the following video in my blog. This poignant artist illustrated video about mother's, loss and the scent of memory, really touched me. Take the time to click on this link, it is really worth viewing. Sorry that I couldn't figure out how to actually get the video on here. Oh well.<br />
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After she passed away I had a series of three very intense dreams, early in the morning on three consecutive days in a row. I am sharing this dream, altered reality experience here. </div>
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Day 1 - Footsteps on the sidewalk, from a long way off, the sounds getting clearer and louder,<br />
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So familiar, so close, so real, my heart pounding,<br />
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Day 2 - Once again, footsteps coming from a long way off. The sound of the clicking, click.. clack, click clack, getting louder as they approached my house. I knew it was my mom coming again. This time, I heard the sound stop at the doorstep, but then the sound of the screen door opening, rustling sounds, like someone carrying bags full of groceries, in their arms. ...and I awoke. Once again heart pounding panic, is this real?<br />
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Day 3 - A repeat of the sound of high heels, in the early, early morning, heels clicking, on cement, quickly stepping closer, and closer, up the step, opening the screen door, lots of packages or parcels being put down and keys in the door, with the front door about to be opened. I could hear the door knob turning and the door starting to open. I awoke, my body tight, sweating. I knew my mother was about to come in the door, but I was too afraid to see what would happen next. I cried out "Please don't come in. I am afraid". Then I awoke, to a bright morning sun shining through the window and stillness. After that she didn't return. But I knew I had been visited. <br />
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I had the distinct knowing that she was coming to visit bringing presents, bags of gifts and blessings, and I was ready to both receive and release her. I felt grateful and in the months to come I did receive many blessings and gifts in my life, that I attributed to those early morning visits from my mother.</div>
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I have also been requested to participate in a blog tour and giveaway of a new ebook release of a fantasy novel, Dark Innocence: Book One of the Star-Seer's Prophecy, by author and therapist Rahima Warre. I haven't read her book, but feel in affinity with her work, so I am agreeing to it.</div>
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She will be doing a guest blog post here on June 4th. </div>
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Here is a link to her book, this should be interesting. </div>
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I often judge myself for not sticking with one things over time, or creating fine art, or developing skills in a progressive manner. What I love to do is make things.</div>
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I just get on a roll, get called to create something and then make it in multiples. Again and again, until something else calls to me. As you may know, I have been making pendants from my mandala art, and just recently started making pendants of one of my favorite artists, Frida Kahlo. <br />
Hence the multiples, begin again. These photos are of the series of Frida Pendants that I recently made. <br />
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After I create a series, I realize I have so many of these creative products or items, that I have to do something with them. That is what has led me to doing craft fairs, and starting so many etsy stores. Selling them is always the next step, along with giving them away to people I love. I make until something else calls to me.<br />
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I recently completed the mandala I started at the Spring New Beginnings Mandala day that I recently facilitated at my studio.</div>
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I am such a sucker for show and tell, perhaps because, I loved it as a little girl, showing off my art to others. However, my training as an art therapists, enamored me with the stages of my process in creating as well, so here follows a series of photos of the stages of my mandala.</div>
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As it takes form new directions are showing as possible directions I can take the drawing. I love how the scale of light drawing, seems to sculpt dimension and form, through the contrast of the white on black.<br />
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Although I could have taken more photos in the earlier stage, here is my mandala with just the beginnings of color coming in. The central image of this mandala really stands out in this photo. The holding/ honoring of the iris in the center, which to me is about opening and holding a space within for the new the emerge and flower in my life.<br />
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And here is the completed mandala. Often time in this drawing process, the image changes again and again. I have a tendency to be a bit heavy handed with my pencil and it affects my ability to lay in more color, so I have lost some of the gradations in the center. But I still love how the holding energy stands out admist the opening mandala. Holding Possibility, Dwelling in the Possibility of New beginings, new opportunities, beginning again and again. <br />
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After spending quite a few days working on a mandala, I am almost bereft that it is complete, but I also am trying to stop sooner rather than later, to avoid over working and allowing the mystery of the black, the unknown powerful mystery of the procreative darkness, to be part of the image. Without the dark, the light is not as bright.<br />
Now on to the next mandala, or???? Ciao.<br />
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Yesterday I did a small spring mandala group in my home studio. The four of us spent the entire day lost in the Illuminated Mandala drawing process. With one person new to the process, the day flowed magically, as we each shared, explored and dove into the beauty of creating mandalas. </div>
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I love sharing what emerges in these drawing days. So here are the mandalas that came through for us. <br />
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Creating a color wheel mandala is a wonderful way to be free of creating image and yet still explore color and the process in depth. This color wheel mandala in its initial white on black stage, was created by Claudia, whois an art teacher, this was her first illuminated mandala. She took to the process effortlessly and was caught up and lost in drawing for hours on end. <br />
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This is Liz's Spring mandala, so eloquent in the black and white drawing<br />
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Holding iris mandala, is one that I began yesterday, inspired by a vase filled with Iris's and daffodils on the table in front of me.<br />
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Still in process this mandala, created by Scarlett Sky was a poignant one, emerging out of the depths, honoring two of her precious dog companions who had recently passed on.<br />
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Finished or rather almost complete mandala, the color evokes the mystery of transcendence and new life, subtle and stunning, I could lose myself in viewing this one. Definitely a Spring Mandala.<br />
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Claudia's color wheel evolving. What fun she had doing this, I can't wait to see the completed mandala.<br />
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Scarlett's Spirit Shield coming more into focus.<br />
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And finally my mandala, with the color just being laid into the paper. Who knows where it will go. Interestingly, looking at it here, allows me to see it in a new light, and open to what might be next. My intention for this mandala, was to create an image that supported me in being able to dwell in possibility instead of concern, or worry or, ...... <br />
Each of us, moved into our own story, journey and process with these drawings, and as always, the process was grounding, healing and enlivening all at the same time. <br />
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" Dwell in Possibilities" Emily Dickenson<br />
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until I get around to posting here again.. Ciao.Caterina Martinicohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13400408131171469396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4840823383655530029.post-45411512361517227292013-01-26T15:40:00.000-08:002013-01-26T20:34:53.986-08:00SoulCollage® Readings- Always Amazing<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I shared a series of questions about what we wanted to bring into our lives for the new year, or release or focus on. The questions I focused on were: What is it I committed to receiving in 2013? Where is it I will spend my time? What abundance am I going to bring forth? and....How will I care for my body?</div>
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Each of us picked questions that spoke to us personally and pulled a card for each of our questions. We did free write and the "I am the One Who" prompt, speaking from each card specifically about these issues. </div>
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These are the 2 cards that I picked. Next we had the energy, being or essence of these cards write a letter to each other, addressing, clarifying and giving more advice to in relation to one of our questions. <br />
I am sharing my writing because it was such a powerful process for me.<br />
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Dear Great Spirit of Life,<br />
I am just a humble maker of things of beauty. I often wonder if my work can be infused with your spirit and speak to peoples lives, and help them on their journey. I also do so many different creative things, that I worry that I am diffusing your energy and my offerings to the world would be more powerful or of worth if I focused on just one thing. I am writing to you to get your advice on this deep issue. <br />
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My creative endeavors are so many and so varied, like the creatures of the forest. My work as an art therapist and teacher, is of course prominent, but also the joy of making things and crating a life sustaining business from my art is a big piece of it all. I have tried to keep all my creative pursuits in alignment with spirit, but I am in a quandry over process vs. process. Can you offer me any advice or direction in this new year around this issue.<br />
Yours in service,<br />
The Maker, Embellisher and Devotee of Spirit in form.<br />
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<a name='more'></a>Dear Dear One,<br />
There is no way to squelch the energy of the creative life force manifest in you and in the essence of life on earth. All is of value. Creative energy all arises from the deep well of the Universe in a myriad of forms. As far as spirit is concerned, one form is no better than any other, all is part of divine expression. <br />
Matter grows out of Spirit and spirit expresses, that is what life as all about.<br />
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You want me to tell you what to let go of and what to focus on, but that is not my job. My job, if I allow myself to be boxed in by tasks, is to give energy to creative expression, and I think that is your job as well. <br />
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What you might want to consider is to allow yourself to be led in circles and spirals, like you needle work, back into the fabric and cloth of the beauty of your being. This is not a problem but a gift. Find a way to honor all your gifts under one umbrella - that of being a Creative Being, with gifts to offer. I am not the one to ask about editing or distinction. Can you not bask in the gratitude that this life work of yours is good a true and touches others and is enough? Try that for a while.<br />
With a deep and enduring love, Yours Great Spirit<br />
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So I am going to try that, to accept without the need to change or turn into, or make better, but just be grateful.<br />
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So, as we move into 2013 I offer this up to the world, to show how unique and touching this work is.<br />
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Now I am off to the Big Island of Hawaii, for a renewing vacation. Perhaps I will do art there, as I pack my art supplies to take with me and share those another time, in my infrequent blog posts.<br />
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This Full Moon Winter Solstice Tree of Life is the first mandala I have drawn featuring the tree of life. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><b> It symbolizes life itself, with it's branches joining <i>"Father Sky"</i> in the heavens and it's roots with </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><a href="http://www.squidoo.com/symbols-of-motherhood"><span style="color: #42701a;"><b><i>"Mother Earth"</i></b></span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #454545; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><b>.</b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">~<i>This mandala ~ Full Moon Tree of Life ~ was done on the Spring Equinox</i></span></div>
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The Full moon also seems to come up again and again in my drawings, along with the deep roots and the extending branches. When I was a young woman, living in Southern California, I felt bereft of trees. I used to go on walks to visit trees, making pilgrimages to them, since they were so rare, in the area that I lived. I think the fact there were so few trees in LA, was a factor in my moving to Northern California, where they are abundant.<br />
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<b><i>~Summer Time Tree of Life - Balance~</i></b></div>
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When I taught Creative Process classes, at Santa Rosa Junior College, I would give the exercise of drawing a Seed a Star and a Tree. Then we would put the drawings up on the wall, and brainstorm our associations with each symbol and make up stories, reflecting each drawing. The symbolic meaning of the tree of life, was so inherent to each person, and everyone loved how the drawings revealed something about their lives.</div>
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I just finished this mandala of the tree of life, and it is my most favorite. I began it at the last mandala workshop I taught. I worked on it over New Years, completing it New Years Day. I always love drawing on New Years, it is my perfect way to bring in another year.</div>
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As I prepare, to teach yet another mandala workshop, I decided to share these four images here.</div>
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Have a balanced and deep New Year. Sinking your roots deep into the fertile ground of your life, and extending your dreams out into the skies of your evolving imagination.</div>
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Best To All.</div>
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Caterina Martinicohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13400408131171469396noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4840823383655530029.post-48975248816978304282012-12-31T15:27:00.000-08:002013-01-01T09:06:26.022-08:00Bittersweet Year<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This past year has been very bittersweet....and this past month has really brought up feeling of loss and sadness for me. </div>
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Last February, my dear friend and partner in the Creative Arts Studio, Patricia Waters, passed on...to...from, into another form. The first 6 months or more of 2012, were an ongoing process of dealing with her life.<br />
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It is amazing how much it takes to unravel a life deeply lived through her possessions, and her wonderful amazing art. This is one of her powerful pastel drawings. Patricia's death was an amazingly deep loss for me and only recently has it gotten less difficult.<br />
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However, right after Thanksgiving, my sweet dear little spirit dog, Chelsea had to be put down.<br />
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Here she is outside a Mandala workshop that Patricia and I facilitated at Mountain Home Ranch in Calistoga.<br />
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Chelsea often went along to all of our workshops, sitting in circle with all the participants holding sacred dog compassion for everyone.<br />
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So Chelsea's death has made me revisit all the losses of the year and it has been a very difficult time for me. One loss, truely reminds us of all of them.<br />
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So on this New Years Eve day, I am honoring both of these dear friends through my writing and photos on this blog.<br />
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I find that my healing way of coping with loss, sadness and challenges is through expressing myself through art. I teach this to others, because art has been my life long salve, and coping strategy.<br />
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Here is the SoulCollage® card I made for Chelsea right after she died. I cried all the way through the process but it helped tremendously, and I have had this card on my altar for her, for the whole month now.<br />
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This is an acrylic painting I did of Chelsea about 5 years ago, that is now more precious than ever before.<br />
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So, I end the year honoring these two sweet beings, who made such a difference in my life. I don't know who reads these writings, but it is important to express my truth today. <br />
May you all have a blessed and creatively fulfilling new year!<br />
Namaste.<br />
CaterinaCaterina Martinicohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13400408131171469396noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4840823383655530029.post-67218669396335122232012-11-10T21:07:00.000-08:002012-11-11T09:42:42.676-08:00Sonoma County Beauty<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
The other day I went out to Sonoma to bring some of my Mandala Pendant to the charming store <a href="http://sonomaconsignment.com/">"Sisters ",</a> where they will be for sale. </div>
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It was an absolutely stunningly beautiful autumn day and I was dazzled by the beauty all around me.</div>
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The sky was so dramatic, with dark storm clouds moving in and out of the sky, punctuated by intense white and cerelean blue skies. </div>
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Luckily I had my camera with me and as I drove out there, frantically trying to be in time for an apt.<br />
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I noticed different places along the road that I vowed to take photos of on my way home, when time wasn't and issue. <br />
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Now, for those of you who don't know Sonoma County, it is often called Wine Country, and Luther Burbank called it the Chosen spot in the world...as far as natural beauty is concerned. Whenever, I go away from here, I come home like a tourist, re-enchanted with the place where I live.<br />
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I become jaded to the beauty all around me, yet on this particular day, actually this past Friday, I was driving around in a state of wonder at the dramatic beauty all round me. <br />
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As I drove, I noticed cars parked along the side of Hiway 12, with people outside their cars, doing plein air painting, and some taking photographs. <br />
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Suddenly I realized that like Julia Cameron writes of in her book the "Artist's Way", I was on an Artists Date with myself, and I slowed down and began to take photographs of what drew my attention, all around me. </div>
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Pulling out of the traffic here and there, and thinking about the dark and light, the contrast of colors, and whether or not any of these images would work well as photo transfers for my encaustic paintings.<br />
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This mountain is called Sugar Loaf and it is a very special state park right in my back yard almost, isn't it sweet? What a perfect name for a mountain.<br />
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Along the way I stopped at some fabulous thrift stores, and spent a little money on some delights as I made my way home to Santa Rosa.<br />
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The photos turned out quite wonderfully and so in the spirit of show and tell, and like a proud mother to my wonderful home county, I am sharing them here with the world, or at least a tiny little slice of it.So I hope that you all enjoy these photos, they call out for taking a deep breath.<br />
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So, Ciao..... and<br />
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happy autumn.... Until Next time, from the Valley of the Moon in Sonoma County.<br />
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If you read my blog on a regular basis, you might know not only do I love collage, but am constantly making things, playing with images and doodling as well. I recently made a series of collages for this Italian festa that I will be selling at, this coming Sunday Sept. 30th, in Santa Rosa.</div>
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I just love how they turned out so I am posting them here as my show and tell for the month. ( Yes it seems like I am a monthly blogger) enough is enough, I do so many things on line that this is a monthly commitment that is doable. <br />
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After dribbling and playing with watercolors on really good paper, I rubber stamped, doodled and collaged all over the pages...<br />
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Then I began to look for Italian phrases and words that called to me, and were recognizable to even non Italians.<br />
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Pulling out my rubber stamps I stamped here and there on the large page of watercolor paper, first with the words and them with some of my favorite charming stamps.<br />
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I then pulled out my large stash of various small collage images and began to glue papers and images here and there on the large paper that seemed to reflect either the meaning of the words or the Italian theme.<br />
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One thing led to another, with this process being done in small stages of one step each time over a series of days. About 45 min each sitting. Perfect art making time for my computer affected attention span these days.<br />
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I then had a large sheet of paper with little vignettes all over it. Each one small and flowing into the other.<br />
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Just the perfect size for 5"x7" art cards.<br />
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So I proceeded to cut them up into various sizes, finding the essence of each little picture story.<br />
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And low and behold they were charming but small, so I pulled out a lot of my beautiful art papers and began to glue them onto the papers, highlighting all the wonderful burnt sienna colors I love and that reflect the softly worn colors of the beauty of Italian towns.<br />
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I next glued these onto the fronts of art card panels that I have in my stash of art supplies.<br />
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But too my delight, I found them soooo charming that I decided to put them in 8"x10 matts instead of just leave them as art cards. And this is what I came up with. They look so perfect matted. Although rather primitive, with the stampings smudged here and there, they delight me and they are absolutely charming to my eye at least.<br />
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So this Sunday at the Festa Italiana at the Vets Building in Santa Rosa, I will have these little darlings for sale. Come on by if you are in Santa Rosa and say Hello..and see not only these but my Italian themed art pendants, mandala pendants and some charming little encaustic paintings that I am selling, all with an Italian slant. If you don't know by now, I am Italian American, my mom's family being from Bari and my dad having grown up in a little town in Sicilia called Strassati di Petrosina, which is near Marsala.<br />
So selling at this fair, allows me to be close to all those old Italians again, warming my heart and filling my soul with italian music, food and sounds. I wonder if anyone who reads this will stop by and say hello. Who knows. Ciao. CaterinaCaterina Martinicohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13400408131171469396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4840823383655530029.post-42035748314199671632012-09-13T11:10:00.002-07:002012-09-13T11:10:18.481-07:00Still Enamored with SoulCollage®<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Since it has been a while since I last posted, I decided to share some photos that I recently took at two of the different SoulCollage® groups that I offer at my studio.</div>
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At my Soul Writing Group, which meets on the Fourth Friday of the Month....<br />
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We each put all of our cards out on the tables, then walk around looking at all of them, "A Gallery Crawl".... I am always amazed at their diversity and uniqueness. We then choose from our cards, the ones we want to use as writing prompts for that day. Although at other times we do it differently. Each group is unique. These photos are from that group. Aren't they amazing?<br />
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The following photos are some shots I took as I set up my studio for group last Friday.<br />
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As well as taken in process during group, in order to give a visual picture of the process.</div>
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After making cards, we spend time dialoguing with a partner. </div>
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Doing the "I am the One Who" process with at least one of our cards. </div>
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The following images are of some of my most recent cards. </div>
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It always seems like the last card I make is my most favorite, but as I go through them, they are like old dear friends come to visit once again.</div>
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These pictures speak a thousand words, so I will let them gently reveal their stories to you </div>
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I just love this process, and now I am planning a SoulCollage® Cruise for sometime next year.</div>
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More about that next time. Until then.</div>
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Ciao. Caterina</div>
Caterina Martinicohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13400408131171469396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4840823383655530029.post-65490991472516106362012-08-24T12:35:00.002-07:002012-08-24T12:35:16.225-07:00Cycling Back into Circles...Mandala Magic<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
After quite a long while I finally came back to drawing some mandalas. </div>
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Here is the beginning of one that I started a while ago and decided to work on to get myself back into the groove so to speak.</div>
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Since I love drawing them and rarely set the time aside to do them when not leading a workshop<br />
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I decided to see if I could get a once a month mandala group going in my studio, which would be an opportunity for me to dive into the process regularly as well as provide the time and space for others as well. .<br />
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So on the Second Sunday of each monthly I am now offering an Sunday Morning Mandala Circle at my studio. If you are interested in joining me and a small group of other Mandala lovers...please do get in touch...</div>
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Last Sunday the Northern California (NorCATA) art therapists gathered at Linda Chapmans studio, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #009933; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"><b><a href="http://arttherapyredwoods.com/">Art Therapy Insitute of the Redwoods</a></b></span></span>, in Calpella in Mendocino County, just outside of Ukiah.<br />
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We gathered to honor the passing of my dear friend Patricia, and her contribution to the field of art therapy. had the honor of holding the circle and sharing the Illuminated Mandala Process that we both facilitated together for many years with the group. <br />
Here are some photos from that day..<br />
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We did a Thank you for this Moment Mandala...to honor our lives and what is precious and meaningful to us.<br />
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At the end of the circle we placed our mandalas in a larger mandala on the floor of the studio, to circle, honor and witness them and our process. Once again, I felt enlivened and blessed to be doing this work, and hope to continue sharing it with others. </div>
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with encaustic medium, I am so happy. </div>
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It seems I work in cycles, and put aside one media for another, and then resurrect it based on what inspires me, or if I have a specific idea or goal to work on.<br />
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I wanted to create a series of wine themed encaustic paintings, to have available for a Trade Show for the wineries represented by an organization called The Wine Road, here in Sonoma County. I live in Wine Country if you don't already know that.<br />
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So I resurrected a series of images of wine themed encaustic paintings that I did and sold when I was represented by a gallery called ARt and All the Jazz in Healdsburg several years ago.<br />
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I have my art and my Art pendants at a store called <a href="http://www.shareexchange.coop/"><span id="goog_1580677732"></span>Made Local,<span id="goog_1580677733"></span></a> here in Santa Rosa, and they are hosting this trade show at the beginning of August. I decided to take advantage of the opportunity.<br />
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I made high quality prints of my original pieces, and then saturated the images in encaustic medium, adhering them to the 6"x6" panels I had.<br />
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After fusing them, I added more medium and painted over and around them with encaustic paints<br />
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some more so than others, and walla they turned out exquisite....at least to me they did. Each one of the pieces in these series are charming, rather folksy looking and some of my favorite pieces I have done. The beauty of this medium is that I can make them anew, revise them, add on to them and bring these originals back to life in new pieces. Now the question arose from someone, are these true encaustics... and my answer is yes they are encaustic collages, in a way, from my own original art. So rather than sell prints, I can sell actual pieces of my favorites. We shall see if anyone is interested in these sweet little paintings.<br />
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The last piece that I did during this time frame, was this encaustic. I did a photo transfer of a photo of a winery landscape that I took a while back. Then I painted over the transfer with encaustic paints, bringing it to life with color and more depth. (12"x12" cradled hardboard). Subtle but successful, letting the unique quality of this medium and the beauty of the landscape around here, be the emphasis of this encaustic painting. I think I took this photo on a road in Alexander Valley. <br />
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I intend to create more encaustics of the Sonoma County Landscape soon. We shall see if I get any of my pieces in any winery tasting room gifts shops or not, I hope so, but we shall see. By the way, I also created a line of pendants using the my La Dolce Vino imagery as well. I will post some of those photos soon. Now I have reason to get out into the country side to take more photos of the beauty all around me. There are those, who lament the mono culture of vineyards that have taken over Sonoma county, but I love the repeating pattern of the fields of grape vineyards, and taking photos of them.<br />
Ciao.Caterina Martinicohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13400408131171469396noreply@blogger.com2