Thursday, June 24, 2010

FALL ART RETREAT WITH MARILYN PHILLIS SAVE THE DATE! September 9-12

SPEND A WEEKEND WITH MARILYN HUGHEY PHILLIS & CHERYL HARSHMAN AS YOUR GUIDES INTO CREATIVE REALMS

CELEBRATING THE CREATIVE SPIRIT:
a workshop of art and creativity

September 9-12, 2010
Sandscrest Retreat Center
Wheeling, WV

This workshop will emphasize the creative nature that is a part of each being. In the very act of creating, there develops a unique expressive image which creates the individual artistic statement. This can be a sacred and very personal act for each artist. That inner spiritual nature within each artist must be expressed in its truest form to create, through design and expressive energy, a work that has impact and also reaches the heart.

In the beautiful settings of trees and hills of Sandscrest, we can gather informally to search for nature's and our own message in our work. Some exercises will be suggested, but you are free to pursue your own search during the workshop. We seek to become better visual communicators through our paint, brushes, papers, and sharing of dreams and ideas.
Marilyn will share different approaches to your personal statement plus explorations of fluid acrylic paint and/or watercolor in ways of expressing nature's beauty.
All levels of experience accepted. A materials list will be sent on receipt of registration.

The Details
Cost for the workshops, from Thursday dinner through Sunday lunch, includes all food and lodging. Rooms are twin bedded with shared bathrooms. Sandscrest living has a comfortable, shabby chic feel and is not a resort. Plenty of parking is available for those driving and travelers by train, plane, or bus will be provided ground transport to Sandscrest. Class limited to 20 participants.

Look for more info & updates at: www.violetpatch.blogspot.com
MARILYN HUGHEY PHILLIS
72 STAMM CIRCLE
WHEELING, WV 26003
304-242-6831
mhphillis@ yahoo.com

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PURLS OF WISDOM

"Color is the real substance for me, the real underlying thing which drawing and line are not."
--Sam Francis

"The great man is one who never loses his child's heart."
-- Philosopher Mencius

"We wear our attitudes in our bodies."
-- Patti Davis

Colour embodies an enormous though unexplored power which can effect the entire human body as physical organism.

Colour is a means of exercising direct influence upon the soul.
--V. Kandinsky
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way.. things I had no words for.
--
Georgia O'Keeffe

Nothing is really work unless you'd rather be doing something else.
--
J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan

Faith is like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
--
E. L. Doctorow

Somebody once said that people become artists
because they have a certain kind of energy to release, and that rings true to me.
--Dale Chihuly