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Pandemic Art 1

30 Saturday Jan 2021

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Art, collage, Mandala, mandalas, mixed-media, Zentangle, Zentangle Inspired Art

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Place I stand unfinished

Hello again. Since I have started posting to Instagram (and it is so easy) I have neglected my blog. I want to do some catching up. When the pandemic started I bought a large sheet of hot press watercolor paper and started making a very large Zentangled mandala. I still have not finished shading it, but this year I want to finish things. I have developed a daily art practice over the last 10 months and would like to share what I have made with you.

The piece on the left is called Illuminated Journey and is a large (24×36 inches) mixed media collage that I made for a call for art. The call for art was a presentation to a hotel chain that was looking for art by local artists. Our art association didn’t have anything else going on, so we put up a show with a lot of different styles of art. It turned out that they were looking for landscapes and traditional representational art, but it inspired me to make this piece so I’m happy with the outcome. I put a lot of work into it and didn’t have an end in mind so it kept evolving. The inspiration for it is a book I got from the high school library purge that occurred while I was in my residency at North High School. The book is called Victorian Inventions by Leonard de Vries. If you look at the details in the close up pictures you can see a wide variety of transportation related inventions.

The backgrounds of the six small mandalas include vintage book pages that I wrote over with a blue pen. I saw an old journal with small blue writing in it that really looked interesting. I’m always on the lookout for interesting ways to write in my journals and art without it being legible and this is a new favorite. The mandalas that have black circles as a background include an unusual textural element, a circle of chipboard covered with black gesso and the netting that vegetables come in. It was kind of tricky to do, especially in a circle, but I love the effect and plan to play with it in the future.

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I hope you have some beauty in your day.

Find me on Instagram

07 Friday Aug 2020

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I have started using Instagram. Here are some of my recent posts. I have gotten back into art journaling and I’m working in my Zentangle journal, as well. I hope to get back to blogging as well. I hope you have a beautiful day.

Zentangle journal August 2020
art journal July 2020

Flower of the Day: Metropolitan Museum of Art: Monet Sunflowers

05 Thursday Jul 2018

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Another inspiring work of art.

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For more inspiring flower photographs check out Cee’s Flower of the Day posts.

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Flower of the Day at the Met

02 Monday Jul 2018

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Finding inspiration.

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On Saturday my husband and I were able to go into New York City to play. We decided to go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. I will be posting photos from that trip over the next few days. They currently have an exhibit called Public Parks, Private gardens: Paris to Provence that includes some Van Gogh paintings I was not familiar with and this one is my new favorite.

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Reproductions don’t do his works justice. The colors and textures of the original are breathtaking. If you get a chance to see one in a museum it is worth the price of admission.

For inspiring flower photographs check out Cee’s Flower of the Day posts.

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Zendala & Coloring page

05 Tuesday Jun 2018

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Healing arts

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Colored coloring page available in my Etsy shop.

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Zendala 6 of 100, Mandala 57 of 100.

I wish you beauty in your day.

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Another Art Journaling Class

12 Monday Mar 2018

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This gallery contains 6 photos.

Originally posted on Jeanette Clawson Art:
I was asked to fill in for an altered book workshop this past Sunday and it…

3 Diva Challenges

05 Monday Mar 2018

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I will be teaching an altered books workshop this Sunday at the Morris County Art Association studio.

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This is the most current Diva Challenge. The challenge was to use the tangle pattern called Siri that was created by Simone Menzel.

I have been working on the Zentangle challenges hosted by Laura Harms, aka The Diva, but I haven’t managed to blog about them. In February all of her challenges were to uses hearts as strings and on one of mine you can see that and the other one the string mostly disappeared. Can you see where the heart strings were on my Zendala? This is Zendala 7 of 100 and mandala 56 of 100.

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I hope you have a beautiful day.

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My Art and I

11 Monday Dec 2017

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This is the last week of my exhibit at the Alhamra Art Gallery in Bernardsville, NJ. Here are some photos of the gallery director, my art, and I. For more information about the pieces in this show see this post.

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alhamra art gallery exhibit arshia and I
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Welcome to Jeanette Clawson Art

05 Wednesday Apr 2017

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This is a place to showcase my art and provide information about upcoming classes. Today I mailed a piece to be part of a fundraiser. See my other blog for all the details. Here is the finished piece.

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