Collaboration with Flowrsinher Hair

In case you didn’t know Flowrsinher Hair is an art name of a very talented Cape Town artist Jeanne-Marie Webb. FB community of artists often call her simply Flowers. She is indeed very beautiful flower-like gentle soul:

So “Soulful Sisters” is my collaboration with her:

Jeanne Marie has visited me recently for a weekend of fun and inspiration. On a spur of the moment she suggested we make an artwork together, and we have filmed it along the way. We started with painting 2 faces on 1 large piece of paper, using only 1 reference (just to see where the light falls and to guide us in the color palette.)

Ok, are you ready to see the reference?!! I am closing my eyes now… 3-2-1… Ta-da!!!

What?! I know, right?! Flowrs hardly used the reference, she is rebellious like that. And I was like: “Hey! Are you using the reference?!” And she was be like: “Ummm… Hmmm… Yea…” I used it a lot! (That’s the way I paint). Somehow this lovely warm green have crept into our work and tied it all together. And the light fell where it should be.

She painted her side for a while and I painted mine, and then we swapped sides and interfered with each other’s work, then we swapped sides again and the artwork was done!

Magic happened! We are both in love with this work, but who gets to keep it? Tough decision… So, we have to sell it. It went to Flowrs shop.

And here is the video incase you missed it:

Art Collaboration: AnnieHamman & FlowrsInHerHair from Annie Hamman on Vimeo.

Thank you for viewing, we had fun!

Hugs,

Annie.

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Just few reminders, next year I teach in:

1. Life Book – one year long online workshops with 21 fabulous teathers. Fabulous art lessons delivered to your inbox every week, and at end of the year you bind your art into 1 BIG book. Or don’t bind it – sell it! :)
2. Let’s Face It – one year long online workshop on faces, collaborating with 15 other teachers. Let’s paint faces whole year.
3. My own workshop “Fearless Expression” involving collaboration with my toddler artist Tallulah Jade Rainbow. Registration opens 15^th of January 2016, workshop starts 29^th of February. More details soon!

Teaching on Life Book 2016 + Give Away time!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

How to enter the give-away:

1. Subscribe to my newsletter.

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

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

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

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

Misty Mawn -- artist I admire

I rarely become anyone’s fan, and have no favourite actor or singer, but I can honestly say (and I even blush admitting it), that I am a big fan of Misty Mawn. I adore her artwork, and probably saved all images I could find online into my folder “Misty Mawn”. I just checked, it’s 192 paintings in that folder. Cheez, it’s almost stalking on my part. There are several things that amaze me about her art: 1. Subject matter: these otherworldly, angel-like girls, pure and innocent looking, right down into your soul. 2. Technique: layer after layer after layer, tremendous build-up of texture and absence of lines, only forms, and if you have seen videos on her workshop – you’ll know what I mean. 3. Light: her addiction to white… well… addictive. That amount of light in her artworks, that touches you with its innate purity, always makes me wonder if it’s reflection of her beautiful soul. There you go, I made a confession. Please do share yours. Some of artworks by Misty Mawn. You can check out her blog here.