The set arrived in the mail and it looks so amazing all lined up in it's tin container that I am having a hard time taking them out and using them. The possibilities inside that tin are endless! There are so many pieces of art just waiting to be made.
Thank You Natalie at Heart Your Art.
I thought I would share the web page with you all and let you know that there is another contest running right now for a set of Gelatos. Enter, You may be as lucky as I was.
http://heartyourart.com/
And the winner of the Inktense Set is….
I can’t work out if this post is my most or least favourite one to write – I’m super happy because we’re announcing the winner of our Inktense competition; but at the same time I’m super sad because we only have one to give away, and we know how many people are itching to get their hands on these babies!
Never mind – there will be another new competition next month, so if you didn’t win, there are plenty more chances
So……..
The winner, drawn by random.org from over 200 entries, is lori.bradford – Congratulations! As soon as we hear from you with your address, we’ll be sending out your pack. We can’t wait to see what you do with them, and hope you love them as much as we do
In the meantime, please keep sharing. If you have examples of how you’ve used these products (or any really!), we’d love to hear about it!
With love.
Natalie
Creative Heartist @ Heart Your Art
Never mind – there will be another new competition next month, so if you didn’t win, there are plenty more chances
So……..
The winner, drawn by random.org from over 200 entries, is lori.bradford – Congratulations! As soon as we hear from you with your address, we’ll be sending out your pack. We can’t wait to see what you do with them, and hope you love them as much as we do
In the meantime, please keep sharing. If you have examples of how you’ve used these products (or any really!), we’d love to hear about it!
With love.
Natalie
Creative Heartist @ Heart Your Art
Comments
Lori Bradford says
Thank you for picking me! Thank you for supporting Art and Artists. I look forward to creating some wonderful Artfulness with my New Inktense set and I am planning on sharing them with my friends and students. Again, Thanks, Lori.
Natalie asked if I would do an Artist interview and I agreed. I thought I would share my questions and answers with you here as well.
Thanks
so much for helping out with our artist interview :)
The
questions are below, if you are ok to complete and send back.
Would
be great to also get 2-3 good quality images of your gorgeous art work that we
could include with the post.
Thanks
again,
Nat
(PS -
no hurry!)
1. Which one word or phrase would you pick to sum up your artistic style?
I remember going to a
watercolour class and the instructor told us to take out our burnt umber and
sienna. I didn't have those colours, my
paints were crimson, turquoise and green gold.
2.
What is the one thing
that keeps you going as an artist?
I don’t think I could stop even if I wanted to. Being creative has been the one constant in my life. It is my therapy, my relaxation, my happy place. I try to do it every day even if it's just a doodle of my morning coffee cup.
3.
What do you think is the
single biggest reason people give up on their artistic dreams?
I get sad just thinking of
having to give up on any dreams, especially artistic ones. I guess for some, life gets in the way but I
have always managed to arrange my life to incorporate my creative dreams.
My dream is pretty simple, have an inspiring
space to create in and share my ideas with as many people as I can.
The only way I'm going to stop reaching for my
goal is if I run out of time but I'm only 54 so have half my life ahead of me.
;-)
4.
Describe your happiest
artistic memory?
Just a few weeks ago a lady
approached me and said she had taken one of my classes and wanted to tell me
that it changed her life, she said that she never would have believed that she
had any talent for painting and drawing but she found it in my class and has
not stopped since. Now that was a happy
memory and made me tear up as she hugged and thanked me. What could be better than that?
5.
What is the one piece of art-related
advice would you like to send to your ten-year-old self?
6.
If you could visit
inside the head and heart of one artist, living or dead, who would it be?
(and why?)
Emily Carr. She was a Canadian woman painter at the turn
of the last century. She became
famous for her paintings of the native villages and totem poles of the west
coast of Canada often travelling by boat to the remote Queen Charlotte Islands. She was a independent woman in a time when
that was considered very improper.
A few years ago I took
myself to Victoria, British Columbia, Canada to visit her museum and see her
paintings.
7.
If you could pick one
activity that you think all artists should place on their bucket list,
what would it be?
I think it's important to make connections
with other artists so my bucket list includes travelling as much as I can to
either see their paintings if the artists are dead or meeting as many artists
as I can while we are all still here.
When I can't travel I use the internet and visit blogs, web pages and
videos.
8.
What is the one art
supply you couldn’t live without?
I like to have lots of good
black ink pens. Waterproof and
preferably refillable. There is always
one in my purse or pocket and by my chair, on the kitchen table, containers
full of them on my studio table. I did
mention that I like lots of pens.
9.
If you could keep only one
work of art that you created, which one would it be?
The first thing that came
into my head was the next one. I love
the piece as I'm working on it and for a short time after but as soon as I
start the next one that becomes my favorite.
That's tough for me because
I love both the forest and the beach and have arranged my life so I can live in
both at different times of the year. I
live in northern Saskatchewan, Canada in the spring and summer months where my partner
and I have 120 acres of forest and share it with all kinds of wild flowers,
birds and animals.
When fall and winter comes
we head to the deep south most tip of Texas, only minutes away from the beaches
of South Padre Island.
You asked for one though so I guess I would
pick forest. There is nothing like the
smell of pine and poplar trees, it's perfect for inspiring creativity.
Go check out Heart Your Art, they are a great support to artists and the chance to win some awesome art supplies is pretty fantastic as well.
Lori
