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		<title>Interview of Anne Stine by Jim Sisley, Tryst Gallery</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Interview with Tryst Gallery    I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Jim Sisley, owner of Tryst Gallery in Leesburg, Virginia in December 2018 on Facebook LIVE as the Gallery's featured artist. Click the link or read the transcript below to learn about my creative process, inspiration behind my latest series and my  [...]]]></description>
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<p>I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Jim Sisley, owner of Tryst Gallery in Leesburg, Virginia in December 2018 on Facebook LIVE as the Gallery&#8217;s featured artist. Click the link or read the transcript below to learn about my creative process, inspiration behind my latest series and my back-story.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="medium-text">Anne Stine Interview with Jim Sisley December 2018 </span></h3>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="medium-text"><span style="color: #ff0000;"><a style="color: #ff0000;" href="https://www.facebook.com/trystgallery/videos/526460854507996/">PART ONE</a> <span style="color: #000000;">and<span style="color: #ff0000;"><a style="color: #ff0000;" href="https://www.facebook.com/trystgallery/videos/357904304995875/"> PART TWO</a></span> on Facebook LIVE.</span></span></span></h3>
<p><strong>Anne: </strong>My medium is Encaustic Mixed Media. Encaustic is beeswax that is mixed with a pigment and damar resin, a tree sap. It comes solid if you buy it but I create it by mixing all of those elements together over a hot plate. It is completely solid and you have to melt it to use it up to 200 degrees. The way that I work with it is in tins on a hot plate so it becomes molten. Then I’m able to paint on a wood panel but it solidifies as soon as it’s off the heat source. I have to reapply the heat with a blow torch and heat gun. When I reapply the heat it’s able to become molten again on the surface so then I’m able to maneuver it and move it as I wish almost using fire and heat like a paint brush.</p>
<p><strong>Jim: </strong>That’s amazing you paint with a blowtorch. That’s cool. How did you get started doing this?</p>
<p><strong>Anne: </strong>I originally was an acrylic mixed media painter. I love acrylics but it was frustrating especially in collage work, getting each layer to really fuse with the next. I saw an encaustic painting online and couldn’t figure out how they made it. I researched what it was and from then on it was really about self-educating about the medium and working with it over and over with lots of failures until I had an idea of how to manipulate it the way I wanted it.</p>
<p><strong>Jim: </strong>So practice makes a real difference in any medium right?</p>
<p><strong>Anne: </strong>Right.</p>
<p><strong>Jim: </strong>So one of the things that I read about the medium is that this is a very ancient form of art and they have recorded that they have found encaustic works in the Roman ruins. So it’s a very durable medium because of the hardness right?</p>
<p><strong>Anne: </strong>Absolutely. There are paintings in museums today that are over 2000 years old. It first originated in 1 or 2 BC when Rome occupied Egypt and the Egyptians used the wax to paint the portrait, on a wood panel of that person who had been mummified. They are just as beautiful as they were back then.</p>
<p><strong>Jim: </strong>Yes it’s amazing. Every time I see one of the old pieces and think about what it would take to preserve it over all those years. Do you have any of that old work?</p>
<p><strong>Anne: </strong>Yea, no.</p>
<p><strong>Jim: </strong>The interesting thing is that the beeswax is the key. Because of its antifungal and antibacterial properties, it’s mildew and fungus resistant.</p>
<p><strong>Anne: </strong>Yes, it’s able to preserve even more than oil paint.</p>
<p><strong>Jim: </strong>So did you take lessons in this medium? I know you were an artist before, who taught you?</p>
<p><strong>Anne: </strong>This is called the life of hard knocks and hours and hours of playing with the medium and of course reading everything I could, looking at every video that I could find from other very generous artists online that share their work on YouTube showing how to work with the medium. Then it came down to determining how I wanted to use it, how I was going to use it the way I wanted to, and how I was going to get the expression and my interpretation.</p>
<p><strong>Jim: </strong>Anne has been with us from really the earliest days, maybe the second or third show we’ve had. You’ve shown a lot of subject matter. This show is all about water.</p>
<p><strong>Anne: </strong>It’s called Living Water.</p>
<p><strong>Jim:</strong> Good title, how did you decide on the subject matter?</p>
<p><strong>Anne: </strong>Twofold. First of all, working with the medium itself, because of its molten properties it flows like water.  And when you apply it to the board and you are heating it, it will drip and ooze and cascade down the panel, so that immediately was inspiration right there. I thought if this moves like water, let me really make it move like water and see what I can do with it. There’s a beautiful sheen to encaustic. Especially working with the layers of wax. I work with it pigmented and also work with clear medium. When I lay multiple layers, and I put anywhere from 1o to 20 layers on a painting, I’m also applying that clear medium to show the depth. I then gouge into it or sculpt into it to produce ripples and reflections.</p>
<p><strong>Jim: </strong>So this piece, Motion, is a great piece. It’s a very challenging piece. I haven’t seen you paint water as prolifically as this show. I was wondering what particular challenges you may have had with that. It’s a very chaotic scene.</p>
<div id="attachment_1471" style="width: 610px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1471" class="size-full wp-image-1471" src="http://annestine.com/wp6/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Motion-encaustic-36x48.jpg" alt="ocean encaustic painting" width="600" height="449" /><p id="caption-attachment-1471" class="wp-caption-text">&#8220;Motion&#8221; encaustic mixed media, 48&#8243;x36&#8243; wood panel</p></div>
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<p><strong>Anne: </strong>It’s not chaotic, it’s passionate! (laughing)</p>
<p><strong>Jim: </strong>You captured chaos. There’s never going to be a repeat, if that was a photograph it never gets to be a repeat.</p>
<p><strong>Anne: </strong>First of all, working with a board this size was a challenge. That thing is massive; I hurt my shoulder when I was creating that one. (laughing) To get the image of flowing water,  I had to paint the encaustic then take the hotgun and tilt the board a certain way so that wax would move the way I wanted it to.</p>
<p><strong>Jim: </strong>It’s very organic. Honestly that’s one of the things about your encaustic work, I can’t say that I have a whole lot of other folks to compare it to, but your encaustic work you’re really letting the medium do the work. You’re letting it go where it wants to go. That’s a big struggle for a lot of artists. It’s the difference between people that really can use paint or whatever the medium is to accentuate the subject that they’re trying to get down, regardless of what their technical skills are. You seem to me to be a very technically astute and capable encaustic artist.</p>
<p><strong>Anne: </strong>Well, thank you, Jim. The best part of working with a medium such as encaustic for me is the creativity and its unpredictability. That’s why I don’t see myself going back to being a traditional acrylic painter. I do use oils because you can’t mix acrylic with encaustic, it’s like oil and water. I’m working with oils and pastels and infusing them into the wax and becoming more and more educated about oil and how it works with encaustic.</p>
<p><strong>Jim: </strong>The physical properties?</p>
<p><strong>Anne: </strong>Absolutely.</p>
<p><strong>Jim: </strong>That’s very exciting, I don’t know if you’ve studied a lot of the chemical compositions of the different media components that you put into it but what have you discovered? I think that people would want to know that.</p>
<p><strong>Anne: </strong>For encaustic itself, there’s a very specific ratio when you’re mixing the Damar Resin with the pigment and the wax. You have to know what you’re looking for. It could be too soft or too hard. If it’s too hard it would become brittle and you don’t want that to happen. If it’s too soft, it’s just not going to solidify. I work with a 1 to 8 ratio of resin to encaustic then a 20% addition of pigment. Some artists will go a little softer or harder, but that’s what works for me. I use pigment powder and oils to pigment the wax.</p>
<p><strong>Jim:</strong> Pigment powder, I think it creates that opaque quality that I think is in this painting specifically. But you’re also doing washes as well. I see a clear and see-through application of some of the medium.</p>
<p><strong>Anne: </strong>That’s putting in less than 20% of the pigment so it becomes more transparent. And then when you are adding a medium onto the encaustic, you have to be aware of how that is going to fuse. Every layer is fused. Whether I put on a layer of pastel or oil or encaustic, it needs be fused or it could separate.</p>
<p><strong>Jim: </strong>What happens if it comes apart?</p>
<p><strong>Anne: </strong>Well you don’t have that archival permanence. Especially as a mixed media or collage artist, everything must fuse. Each layer should be properly embedded with each other so it doesn’t come apart and have an archival quality.</p>
<p><strong>Jim:</strong> There were a lot of great painters who didn’t believe in that</p>
<p><strong>Anne:</strong> I don’t want anyone calling me saying their painting is chipping! (laughing)</p>
<p><strong>Jim:</strong> In 200 years.</p>
<p><strong>Anne: </strong>Yea, right!</p>
<p><strong>Anne: </strong>So applying, you asked me how they work together. You can apply oil to the encaustic surface but not too much or it won’t fuse when you heat it. When you use pastels, you have to make sure to rub it with your hand so you doesn’tt have that chalky look. There’s a lot that you learn through experience, through playing with it. Hours of playing with it.</p>
<p><strong>Jim: </strong>So subject matter is always a challenge for any artist regardless of medium. I’ve seen you paint a lot of landscapes and I love them all but how do you decide what you’re going to paint. Do you work in themes or do you work in one-offs? Tell us about it. What’s your process?</p>
<p><strong>Anne: </strong>Nature is very important to me. I have a deep spiritual connection to nature. To me, nature is my church. I grew up in Virginia and I would walk into the forest across from our house and walk through the pine trees and it would be like a cathedral to me and  I have a deep connection with nature and just magnifying the beautiful natural monuments in our world. So that’s important to me as a subject matter. I chose water because the connection of water is also important to me. So yes, the medium itself was an influence, but to me the water is also living because it evokes emotion and it has movement. This piece for instance, that we were talking about before, represents to me the turbulence of life we all experience living on this planet. It might mean something different to someone else but to me that was the feeling behind it. And, that piece across the room, “Quiet Expanse”, is an expression of the stillness of a marsh and the peace that you find when you’re next to a very peaceful, quiet marsh at dusk. It’s all about an emotive inspiration as well as the movement or stillness of water.</p>
<div id="attachment_1574" style="width: 610px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1574" class="size-full wp-image-1574" src="http://annestine.com/wp6/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Quiet-Expanse-Anne-Stine-2.jpg" alt="encaustic water painting" width="600" height="800" /><p id="caption-attachment-1574" class="wp-caption-text">&#8220;Quiet Expanse&#8221;, encaustic mixed media, 30&#8243;x40&#8243; wood panel</p></div>
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<p><strong>Jim: </strong>You know water I think is one of those elements that it’s never the same. There’s a great old saying that a person can’t step into the same river twice because the person is different and so is the river. Every single time. And one of the things that make it so healing is that reflective quality of light regardless of the time of the day. It could be absolute midnight and you still get reflection in the water. It’s a very difficult dynamic to capture. So I’m curious how you study to capture, do you draw first? Do you do Macketes? How do you approach that you’re able to recreate and capture water?</p>
<p><strong>Anne: </strong>The challenge with encaustic is that I can’t paint outside, with all the cords and outlets and electricity and fire that’s required to do what I do.  However, I’m exploring this. For my next collection I’m incorporating plein-air. This collection was all done in the studio working from photographs I took of water sites. Most were done at Sleeter Lake in Round Hill, Virginia. It’s a reservoir, a lovely lake that you can go kayaking on. I work from photographs because I‘m able to use them for inspiration. The painting never looks like the photograph.</p>
<p><strong>Jim: </strong>I was going to ask. How close?</p>
<p><strong>Anne: </strong>I use it as inspiration to get started and let it the creative process take over.  You can’t see that piece over there, but that rushing water painting was inspired during an afternoon with my son at a creek in Purcellville.</p>
<div id="attachment_1416" style="width: 610px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1416" class="size-full wp-image-1416" src="http://annestine.com/wp6/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Spring-Thaw.jpg" alt="encaustic painting" width="600" height="468" /><p id="caption-attachment-1416" class="wp-caption-text">&#8220;Rushing Water&#8221;, encaustic mixed meia, 36&#8243;x24&#8243;</p></div>
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<p><strong>Jim: </strong>So you’re not a control freak as an artist. I’m just going to feed this back to you. It seems to me what you’re doing from the photo references, is that you want to get the general feeling of it. And what you’re creating is as much about Anne’s patience, hand and experience with the elements that move it around. Your brush for the lack of a better term than the medium, the paint in painterly terms and you’re okay with it just going that way right?</p>
<p><strong>Anne: </strong>Yes. To me that’s art. That’s what brings the heart into a work. I could never see myself doing photorealism. For me, it has to have a piece of my heart in it.</p>
<p><strong>Jim: </strong>I think for a lot of painters and I’m hearing that from you as well is that letting the painting go where it wants to go, to let the art piece go where it wants to go allows it to be something that couldn’t be any other way. Right? It’s kind of this partnership between the artist and their medium.</p>
<p><strong>Anne: </strong>I call encaustic a naughty child. You try to control it and it just won’t work. You need to give it some space and you have to guide it as opposed to controlling it.</p>
<p><strong>Jim:</strong> So I just wanted to touch on the beginning of your art career. Did you go to school anywhere? Are you a self-taught artist?</p>
<p><strong>Anne:</strong> I went to Virginia Tech and I studied communications and art and that has helped in my art career. I’ve been able to pull from that.</p>
<p><strong>Jim: </strong>What have you pulled from a communications education?</p>
<p><strong>Anne: </strong>Well, the business part of art and publicizing the work. I think it’s helped me because being an artist is 50% business 50% creating if you want to make some income from it. It’s helped me to promote my art as well as work it as a business. Studying communications has given me the background I needed to help promote art organizations, other artists, and the art community through social media and print media.</p>
<p><strong>Jim: </strong>But you worked in other mediums too?</p>
<p><strong>Anne: </strong>Yes, I also studied art and I’m constantly learning. I’m taking courses whenever I can, learning under masters whenever I can find someone available.</p>
<p><strong>Jim: </strong>So, who has been a big influence?</p>
<p><strong>Anne: </strong>The impressionists were my biggest influence. Monet is my absolute favorite and I was able to visit his garden last Summer, so I painted some water lilies. You know the iconic waterlily painting you have to paint if you go? (laughing)</p>
<div id="attachment_1580" style="width: 610px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1580" class="size-full wp-image-1580" src="http://annestine.com/wp6/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/summer-of-reflection.jpg" alt="encaustic painting" width="600" height="600" /><p id="caption-attachment-1580" class="wp-caption-text">&#8220;Summer of Reflection&#8221;, encaustic mixed media, &#8220;24&#8221;x24&#8243;</p></div>
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<p><strong>Jim: </strong>I have to say I see a lot of people trying to do Monet-like work and they use paint or watercolor or something and 99.99% of them all fail and you’ve done it extraordinarily well.</p>
<p><strong>Anne: </strong>Thank you. <strong>I</strong>mpressionism is where I’ve parked myself.</p>
<p><strong>Jim: </strong>Hard to stay away from. It is a phenomenal thread of work. Who do you buy? Local artists, have you bought any local art lately?</p>
<p><strong>Anne: </strong>I love Leanne Fink’s work. I love her use of color. Penny Hauffe’s work is beautiful.  I started as a muralist.</p>
<p><strong>Jim: </strong>Was it hard to scale down?</p>
<p><strong>Anne: </strong>It was a relief to scale down, let me tell you. I did it for 15 years. It was a lot of big work. The piece that broke me was a ceiling. I did a ceiling and I said that’s enough. I put my ladder away and started my original work. Also, I felt as an artist it was time to step away from commission work, being told by someone else what to paint.</p>
<p><strong>Jim: </strong>And paint your heart and soul?</p>
<p><strong>Anne: </strong>And paint my heart and soul.</p>
<p><strong>Jim: </strong>If there were a young budding artist wondering if it was something they should get into and you wanted to give them some words of wisdom of your travel down the artistic road, what would it be?</p>
<p><strong>Anne: </strong>I’m a big believer in following your dreams. I didn’t start out as a young person thinking I was going to be an artist. But, I had a dream and I never let it go. Jut immerse yourself in what you love and be around people who love art and people who encourage you. I have an amazing friend group and an amazing husband and family that really promote me and encourage me every step of the way. Keep following that dream. Also, study under people whose art you love.</p>
<p><strong>Jim:</strong> Ladies and gentlemen I just want to thank Anne Stine for her time.</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[North Gate Vineyard Artist-in-Residence Program Anne Stine Newly Appointed as Artist-in-Residence Purcellville, Virginia June 18, 2018 North Gate Vineyard is pleased to announce the appointment of Anne Stine as the program’s newest Artist-in-Residence. Anne will be hosting a public reception showing her work entitled ‘Living Water’ at North Gate Vineyard on Sunday, July 8th, from  [...]]]></description>
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<h4 style="text-align: center;">Anne Stine Newly Appointed as Artist-in-Residence Purcellville, Virginia</h4>
<p>June 18, 2018</p>
<p>North Gate Vineyard is pleased to announce the appointment of Anne Stine as the program’s newest Artist-in-Residence. Anne will be hosting a public reception showing her work entitled ‘Living Water’ at <a href="http://www.northgatevineyard.com/">North Gate Vineyard</a> on Sunday, July 8th, from 3PM to 5PM. Her art will be on display through October 1st, 2018.</p>
<p>On exhibit will be a collection of Anne&#8217;s encaustic mixed media paintings centered around the theme of water and its ever-changing moods captured through movement, color and texture. Anne concentrates primarily on the ancient wax based medium of encaustic paint into which she incorporates oils, pigmented shellac, vintage papers, textiles and salvaged found objects. The manipulation of the fluidity of the wax allows her to evoke a realistic element as she captures the beauty of nature using vivid color, rich texture and multiple transparent layers of wax.</p>
<p>Here are a few examples of the work that will be included in the collection ranging from sizes 8&#8243;x8&#8243; to 48&#8243;x48&#8243; .</p>

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<p>A native Virginian, Anne began painting at a young age and developed a love of working with a variety of media. After a career in Arts Marketing, her passion for painting led her to leave a conventional career and open her first creative business, Anne Stine Decorative Painting in 1999. For many years, she delighted residential and commercial clients with her murals until 2014, when she shifted her focus to original art work. In her inspirational blog, Anne encourages others to pursue their creative passions no matter their age or artistic abilities.</p>
<p>Anne’s work has been exhibited at: Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing, China; Gross-Downing Cultural Arts Center, Newport News, VA; AiM Gallery, Middleburg, Va.; Tryst Gallery, Leesburg, Va.; The Gateway Gallery, Round Hill, Va; 8 Chains Winery, Purcellville, VA; Franklin Arts Center, Purcellville, VA; Harvest Ball Art Show, Salamander Resort, Middleburg, VA 2016; and several local boutiques. She lives in Purcellville, Virginia, with her husband and three children where she works and teaches from her home studio.</p>
<p>“My art focuses on the emotional essence of nature and allows the viewer to slow down, take in the view, and reconnect with their inner self and the natural world,” states Anne.</p>
<p>The North Gate Vineyard Artist-in-Residence program was created to support local artists by providing a venue to show their artwork in a public, formal setting. The program also provides a facility for the artists to conduct other art-related activities such as educational seminars, instructional classes, or in-depth lectures on their artwork or creative process. Displaying their work in such a way provides flexibility for the artist to work at and achieve certain goals they may have in their profession.</p>
<p>North Gate Vineyard hours are Thursday &#8211; Monday, 11 am &#8211; 6 pm.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.northgatevineyard.com/">www.northgatevineyard.com</a></p>
<p>For more information on the art shown in this exhibit, click <a href="https://annestinepainting.com/product-category/original-paintings/">HERE.</a></p>
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<p><strong><a href="http://www.wlast.org/" target="_blank" data-cke-saved-href="http://www.wlast.org" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Western Loudoun Artists Studio Tour</a> is</strong> the largest weekend of art touring, shopping, and relaxation in Loudoun County, Virginia. Meet more than 60 talented artists as you wind through the scenic countryside and historic villages of western Loudoun County. I’ll be set up at the Round Hill Art Center, stop #26A,  35246 Harry Byrd Hwy #170, Round Hill, VA.</p>
<p>Go to www.wlast.org for a map of all studio sites. Come by to see my demo of painting with wax on paper. To see the collection of encaustic paintings and hand painted tiles I&#8217;m offering at the tour, click on <a href="https://annestinepainting.com/product-category/original-paintings/">my shop.</a></p>
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		<title>10 Bullet Journal Ideas for Artists</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[I love, love, love, my bullet journal. At first I wasn't sure if this was just another time-wasting gimmick to sell more stationary supplies, but this hobby has boosted my productivity through greater organization of my personal and business life. Before using a bullet journal, I had three separate notebooks and three apps on my  [...]]]></description>
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<p>I love, love, love, my bullet journal. At first I wasn&#8217;t sure if this was just another time-wasting gimmick to sell more stationary supplies, but this hobby has boosted my productivity through greater organization of my personal and business life.</p>
<p>Before using a bullet journal, I had three separate notebooks and three apps on my phone to keep track of business and personal notes, goals, ideas and plans. Crazy, right!? The worst part was not being able to find information quickly because I&#8217;d forget which journal I had put it in. Now with everything noted in one journal, I can quickly reference the index and find important information in one place quickly. No more &#8212; Where is that piece of art hanging right now?</p>
<p>The journal also has become a creative outlet I use to wind down at the end of day. Some people color in coloring books, I draw a flower mood tracker or sketch out my latest inspiration for a painting. Call me &#8220;old school&#8221; but there is something very satisfying putting pen to paper and physically charting out your week just how you want it.</p>
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<p>The beauty of the bullet journal system is the simple and indexed organization of information in a personal design. Your bullet journal will be completely different from anyone else&#8217;s since your needs are unique. As artists and creative people, our needs are unique as well. We have inventory to track, shows to schedule and the compulsive habit of drawing on anything close at hand. How nice it is to keep it all in one place!</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been keeping a bullet journal for seven months and have learned what information is useful to log as a working artist. I&#8217;ve listed <strong>10 ideas for artist collection pages</strong> to save you some time and help jump start your bullet journal love affair.</p>
<p><strong> 10 BULLET JOURNAL IDEAS FOR ARTISTS</strong></p>
<p>1. Keep track of art show deadlines and event dates<br />
2. Inventory for each show and gallery<br />
3. Taxable income for filing state sales tax<br />
4. Art show supplies checklist (See my complete list <a href="https://annestinepainting.com/blog/art-show-checklist/">here</a>.)<br />
5. Art project ideas and sketches<br />
6. Subscriptions, membership fees, app fees<br />
7. Monthly expenses and revenue<br />
8. Social media scheduling calendar<br />
9. Hours spent in the studio<br />
10. Class and student schedule</p>
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<p><strong>Need help starting your bullet journal?</strong></p>
<p>Go to my <a href="https://annestinepainting.com/favorite-things/">&#8220;Favorite Things&#8221; </a>page for all the supplies you need to get started. There are plenty of YouTube videos and Pinterest posts for tons of design ideas. Here&#8217;s my<a href="https://www.pinterest.com/stinepainting/bullet-journal-ideas/"> bullet journal Pinterest Board </a>and a link to my Facebook group<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/158058798160305/?ref=bookmarks"> Bullet Journal Junkies</a> if you&#8217;d like to see what we&#8217;re up to. The <a href="https://youtu.be/fm15cmYU0IM">original bullet journal video</a> by Ryder, the inventor of the bullet journal, explains the set up.</p>
<p>TIP: From one artist to another, there are different weights of paper used in different journals. If you&#8217;re going to use heavier mixed media like acrylics, go for the one with heavier paper. The original Leuchtturm1917 bullet journal has more pages but the paper is a lighter weight and a cream color so you might see some ghosting from the previous page. I&#8217;ve used both and don&#8217;t mind the ghosting. But, it’s a personal preference.</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[Paintings are like children. They go through developmental stages that can be stressful and a pain in the butt, but still wonderful to behold. So, before you toss that frustrating piece, read on to learn from this mom's experience how patience and trust can turn it into something beautiful. The first developmental stage of a new painting is  [...]]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Paintings are like children</strong>. They go through developmental stages that can be stressful and a pain in the butt, but still wonderful to behold. So, before you toss that frustrating piece, read on to learn from this mom&#8217;s experience how patience and trust can turn it into something beautiful.</p>
<p>The first developmental stage of a new painting is the <strong>infancy stage</strong> where the artist is full of hopeful anticipation. When paint first touches canvas, creative spirit is high and the artist just knows that this will be the best painting ever!</p>
<p>Next, the <strong>toddler phase</strong> is when the artist attempts to apply all she knows about the medium to shape the painting into what was first imagined. Similar to the &#8220;terrible two&#8217;s&#8221;, there are challenges for sure &#8212;  cleaning up mistakes, applying artistic discipline and gently guiding the imagery towards the original vision. Much patience is needed, but nothing prepares the artist for the demands of the next phase . . <strong>.Adolescence!</strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">&#8220;Who are you? What have you done with my sweet, endearing little one?&#8221; rage in my thoughts as I give my teenager daughter that &#8220;look&#8221; only a mom can deliver. So, <strong>meet my teenage painting. . . </strong></span></p>
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<p>I&#8217;ve worked and worked but nothing went right with this piece. I must have scraped and repainted it a dozen times, but I still wasn&#8217;t satisfied.</p>
<p>Luckily,<strong> experience has taught me to recognize when it&#8217;s time to back off.</strong> The more I push, the more push-back I&#8217;ll receive. I&#8217;ve been known to check up on my teenage daughter one too many times after a heated &#8220;discussion&#8221; and the results were always disastrous. Sometime it&#8217;s best to stop the meddling, walk away and allow emotions to settle and friction to dissolve between mother and daughter &#8212; artist and painting. The temptation to quit hovers in the air like a dark cloud, but that won&#8217;t solve a thing. Anyway, it&#8217;s more fun to see what will develop over time with a lot of love and patience.</p>
<p>Back at it the next morning refreshed, I still don&#8217;t understand the creation before me but I&#8217;m able to see it from a different perspective. Try a little of this, take away a little of that &#8212; ideas flow and <strong>something new begins to evolve</strong>. I&#8217;m surprised to realize that this painting was never meant to be a landscape after all, It&#8217;s a koi pond!</p>
<div id="attachment_1054" style="width: 310px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1054" class="size-full wp-image-1054" src="http://annestine.com/wp6/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/koi-garden-300.jpg" alt="encaustic" width="300" height="300" /><p id="caption-attachment-1054" class="wp-caption-text">&#8220;Koi Garden&#8221; 24&#8243;x24&#8243;, encaustic mixed media</p></div>
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<p>&#8220;Of course! Why didn&#8217;t I see that before?&#8221; I say to myself. Now, the work flows. I follow the creative spirit and the painting matures into what it was meant to be. If you&#8217;ve hit ultimate frustration mode, perhaps you&#8217;re trying too hard. Despite all our efforts as artists, <strong>a painting can not be forced into something it isn&#8217;t</strong>. There are developmental stages it must go through.  And, the same goes for our beautiful children. I humbly admit there have been times when I&#8217;ve tried too hard to manipulate both.</p>
<p>Please leave a comment on your creative process in painting and/or parenthood.</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Learning about Love in the Studio This summer, I completed a bible study of 1 Corinthians 13 titled, "Bible Study for Busy Mamas, Thirty Days in 1 Corinthians 13," by Pam Foster, that centered around defining demonstrating love in life. Most of us are familiar with this well-known scriptural passage popular in wedding ceremonies. You  [...]]]></description>
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<h4><strong><span class="medium-text">Learning about Love in the Studio</span></strong></h4>
<p>This summer, I completed a bible study of 1 Corinthians 13 titled, &#8220;Bible Study for Busy Mamas, Thirty Days in 1 Corinthians 13,&#8221; by Pam Foster, that centered around defining demonstrating love in life. Most of us are familiar with this well-known scriptural passage popular in wedding ceremonies. You know the one that begins &#8220;Love is patient. Love is kind.&#8221; My NKJV Bible translation has a slightly different version of verse 4, &#8220;<strong>Love is long-suffering. Love is kind</strong>.&#8221;</p>
<p>Long-suffering? I wondered . . . What does that mean? What does it look like to DO long-suffering?</p>
<p>In the Blue Letter Bible app,<strong> long-suffering is defined as being of a long spirit, not to lose heart.</strong> To persevere patiently and bravely in enduring misfortunes and troubles. Slow to anger. Slow to punish.</p>
<p>Okay, I&#8217;ll go for it. So, I meditated on the question: <strong>Where do I need to not lose heart, to persevere patiently and bravely endure troubles?</strong> I was expecting the usual thought of practicing patience and kindness with my kids, my husband, my friends, etc. However, a surprising thought came to mind instead &#8212;  <strong>I needed to show patience and kindness to myself . . . in the studio.</strong></p>
<h4>Ain&#8217;t<span class="medium-text"> got that lovin&#8217; feeling</span></h4>
<p>I don&#8217;t know about you, but I wrestle with bad days in the studio frequently. They hit usually after coming off of a big production time like before a show. As the dust settles, I start having troubles. Just such a time hit me hard after a big art tour in June where I produced 25 paintings in three months! Work was not going well.  A week filled with scraped paintings culminated in a fierce attack of my inner bully. <a href="http://annestinepainting.com/news/kill-fear-bully-start-creating/">(I elaborate more on how to fight back the bully in the article, &#8220;How to kill the mental bully and start creating&#8221;.</a>)</p>
<p>The unkind self-talk started with small accusations like, &#8220;you&#8217;ve lost your touch,&#8221; and &#8220;it&#8217;s because you took a vacation that your rhythm is off.&#8221; I ignored the insipid thoughts, like we all do, and continued to work, but to no avail. I was stuck in the pit of self-loathing, self-pity and ugly paintings.</p>
<p>After the work I had done in this bible study on love, I knew it was time for me to take a deep breath and change these thoughts around. I needed to <strong>purge the lies and remember the truth</strong> that each failure is one step closer to the art I&#8217;m meant to create. My unique style and perspective is mine and mine alone, and every failure reveals what doesn&#8217;t fit in my style. How will I discover what is truly my voice if I don&#8217;t take risks and fail? <strong>This weeding-out process of techniques that don&#8217;t fit and the cleansing of poisonous self-critical thoughts is so essential to the creative process and maintaining peace.</strong></p>
<h4><span class="medium-text"><strong>Stop the Madness</strong></span></h4>
<p>Of course, this isn&#8217;t easy. <strong>The first step is realizing it&#8217;s happening.</strong>  I used to keep pushing harder when frustration hit. Now, I<strong> stop and meditate on all of the good</strong> around me.  I put down the brush and take up pen and paper and begin jotting down everything good that has happened recently in my personal and professional life. I know it sounds cliche, but the act of counting my blessings changes my thought patterns and gives me the boost I need to be patient and kind to myself in the studio. This process of weeding out the lies and affirming the truth can take some time, but it&#8217;s worth every minute. Just this simple change in my thought pattern increases my joy and I can start fresh again at the easel.</p>
<p>So, if you find yourself in that maddening creative pit, STOP! <strong>Make a list at what you&#8217;ve accomplished and hang</strong><strong> it up</strong> where you can see it every day. Presently, I don&#8217;t have a large inventory and it worries me. But, when I read my list of what DID go well these past few months like creating a new website, opening a studio and starting to teach; I can give myself a break and say, &#8220;Good job!&#8221; instead of &#8220;You&#8217;re behind!&#8221;</p>
<h4><strong><span class="medium-text">Remembering the Mission</span></strong></h4>
<p>Finally, I remember my art career is not about the shows, the profits, or the ego boost from recognition. <strong>My passion for my work is about bringing joy to others. That&#8217;s my mission</strong>. I believe art is the tool I was given by God to complete this assignment. The work is hindered when I focus too much on self, promoting self, and caring what others think. The creative process just seems to flow when I make time to show up in the studio with a patient heart and see what was given to me to do during that special time. Slowly, a rhythm will appear. Good work will come. Then, one day I sit back and see there is a collection before me. A collection created by the collaboration between the creative spirit and me.</p>
<p><strong>What&#8217;s your mission?</strong> Jot that down and hang it up next to your blessings list as a way to remember why you&#8217;re toiling away at the work you love.</p>
<p><strong>Love is patient and kind. Demonstrate this to yourself in the home and in the studio.</strong> Take life slower. Be patient with yourself, your art, your progress and other human beings. Just make art, the progress will naturally come. There is no one to catch-up with or out-do. It&#8217;s your story, your life, your precious time. Just your art that comes from a special place, unrushed, sacred.</p>
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