 Like my art fridge magnets? Find a typo in my post and let me know, and I'll post one of these to you. :-). This one is of snow in Venice. The title of my novel will remain a secret until I am ready to publish so I will simply call my first novel, “Secret”, to give it a name, to talk about it here.. Tonight I have spent 4.5 hours in preparation time on my novel, “Secret”.. I have not written a word of my novel, I do not intend to write the novel until November, Tonight I completed the time management planning to write the novel and allocated other aspects of my life into a secondary position in my life to give the novel, a primary focus The division of Time I have allocated to each stage. I have generously allowed myself 21 hours a week to work on the novel. 1/ Preparation and research - 3 months, Begun. 2/ 1 month to write, the novel, in November. 3/ 5 months to get it properly, edited and re written to a finished stage. Total of 9 months, lol, ‘that would be right, that is how long it takes to produce a child’. Time Management Plan to Gain a 21 Hour Novel writing working week. 1/I have allocated 3 hours x 7 days a week to my novel writing project, giving me a 21 hour novel writing week. This should be more than adequate to do a good job. 2/ I will continue to blog and I will do EBooks and art prints for sale from my blogs also free form link work and advertising as I will need to save my money in case I self publish a book 3/ I will discontinue my gym and focus on ¾ of an hour of cardio exercise and ¾ of an hour of strength training exercises on alternate days, from ‘home’ as this will save me time. I will not be active in the 12wbt forums as I need to find additional time I have to cut back on some actions. Similarly, I may move entirely into my Kathy Shell page on facebook to chat, my site I publish my blogs to, purely due to needing to find this extra 3 hours a day. 4/ As my time for exercising will be reduced I will need to be more focused on eating clean. 5/ I will be packing my paints away, for some time. A novel will be my major work of art for the year, I have achieved painting I am ready for new achievements. 6/I may learn how to download audio books to an IPod or get a portable CD player to listen to audio books while exercising fulfilling some additional exercise benefit and learning more about the craft of novel writing by listening to the work of good authors. 7/ After an initial stop start attempt to begin the novel preparation work, earlier in the night I realized that this work will have to happen after reg retires for the night. 8/I discovered as I researched my novel, I found great ideas for blogs so I actually deviated and did some blog topics while they were flowing off my fingers into print easily, that 'works for me', in the same way as sharing how I write this novel, can be a useful blog topic for those interested. Happy with the time management plan above and placing it into action immediately, I am ready to write the Plot Chart I am ready to begin to write the rough plot chart for the novel, plan where it will start and how it will end and prepare my character descriptions. Private & Semi-Private Lessons Add Comment  "Love what you do and you'll never have to work a day in your life." I love that quote. That is a fantastic way to live your life. In many ways I do live my life that way. I am not conventional; I do not try to do what is, expected, of me. I am comfortable in a mess as long as I can find the things I need and things are clean and hygienic. After all nature has litter around the place and I love the landscape with its fallen leaves and fern fronds with insect chew marks, the landscape and my home does not need to be perfectly manicured for me to be happy. Too much tidiness would cut into my creative time, my 'work', that I love too much to call work. My idea of beautiful hands would be hands reaching out to aid someone or up to their wrists in wet clay or other creative medium. My vision of beauty is different to the conventional. I see beauty in eroded mountains and scars on trees and wonder that people view these things as flaws in people when they give such character. I am certain artists see life differently. Private & Semi-Private Lessons The writer in me is developing along with the painter, and just like when I was a painter I am now turning away work I don’t have the time to do and choosing, only the best assignments or the best businesses to do work for and enjoying planning the novel I hope to write in November. Creative people, never retire, we just reinvent ourselves. Yes, I am a carer, but I retained my creativity, by adapting my talents to those compatible with my new lifestyle. Where I once was, the painter who wrote, I am now the writer who paints. By adapting to my changing needs, demands and environment, I have retained the love for my work. My work is my play, my passion. My sister was a writer, by profession, she also painted, (the reverse of my early career choice), so we mentored each other. She then adapted to becoming a painter, then as her life needs changed, she returned to our early life upbringing, that of working with fabrics. We were born into 'the rag trade', my mother being a fashion designer. My sister now makes beautiful art quilts for galleries in San Francisco, loves her work and is highly respected for it. My family, past and present, have all gravitated towards doing what they love and turning it into a profession. This is a great way to live if you can do it. "What do you love enough to make your life's work and then never work a day in your life?"   That is one of my favorite quotes by, Eleanor Roosevelt. How do people who patronize others, make you feel? A man and woman demanded, rather than asked, to see my art work, over several days. When I put on a private showing, just for them, they said they would return when they were ready, (like I am to put it out on demand any time they ask), and she acted patronizing to me telling me, ‘how to sell my art work’. I had already told her I had owned and run an award-winning, gallery. I am obviously not an amateur so I did not like the assumption that my exhibition time was theirs to command, or that I needed to be told, how to sell art when I am, as I had informed them, now retired, to a hobby business level, due to my carer duties. Then the husband met up with my husband on the beach this morning, where my man was happily fishing and so proud of his efforts, having caught 10 small whiting with a small rod and light line and 1 large whiting on his first try with the new heavier line I bought him yesterday. This man, through his choice of patronizing words, made my husband feel, as if he was not an angler’s bootlace. He also ordered, my husband to throw back the one fish he caught, saying ‘it was undersized’, yet it was the same size, all the other anglers there were catching and keeping. I believe he was just picking on my man, because I was not there to protect him. I can only think that both members of that couple, gain some sort of superior feeling by speaking to others as if they were somehow inferior, using a patronizing way of expressing themselves. He knew my man was like a child in looking to others to guide him so he took advantage, bullied, and strived to make him feel inferior. I had politely ignored the patronizing of my art, that’s what I get, for putting major art work outside a caravan, I once had an art teacher tell me that if you placed a Sir Hans Hysen landscape in an amateur art show, most people would have no idea what they were looking at.  I express my feelings here in my blog. If the couple I’m referring to, read my blog and recognise themselves through the eyes of those they have been trying to act superior to, then that will give me a tad of satisfaction. Mostly I hope to help other artist, recognize that when people strive to put you down in any way, it is a reflection on them and their life situation, nothing whatever to do with you and your art. Keep your head up and do not let them spoil your beautiful creative day. Artists rarely work just for ‘the money’, we are motivated by ideals, though if we earn our income doing what we love, as I have been able to do, then that is wonderful. I have refused, to sell to people before, (not often, they have to have acted very objectionably to me, for me to do this), but on previous occasions I have told people, ‘Sorry, I have nothing available for sale today’, and I have never regretted the few times I have done this. I have fond memories of every piece of art I have created, but also extremely fond memories of the client who appreciated my work enough to have fallen in love with it and bought it. Tonight I go fishing with my man and protect him from nasty two-legged groper, sharks, lol, because his welfare and happiness is my major creative activity these days, work I do with love and pride.  Peacock Feather Craft. 04/06/2010
 My daughter took a friend and her children to the Mansfield Zoo and to stay with her at her holiday van for the weekend and their friend returned during the week with this beautiful gift of a lamp with an a silk and Peacocks feather shade. It looked exquisite in my daughter’s home. What a beautiful thank you gift. I am posting the photo here as an idea for those who might be interested in making crafts made with peacock feathers .   Bendigo Pottery … Australia's Oldest Working Pottery Reg and I visited Bendigo Pottery on Saturday. It has changed in many ways since our previous visits but it is more hands on these days allowing creative interactive experiences. I loved viewing the working pottery environment and the historical section of the old bottle kilns and pottery industrial supplies it fired my memories of my own decades of creative work with clay. Clay Activities FUN WITH CLAY - In the potters' workshop area is a Clay Play area for kids to try some hand building or sculpting. Pick up a Clay Play Kit from the sales counter $3.00. WHEEL THROWING LESSONS - Try your hands on the wheel; book a lesson with a skillful potter. $12.00 per half hour, $18.00 per hour. Bookings recommended, especially during school holidays. Group inquiries welcome. Lessons are available daily at 10, 11, ,12, 1.30, 2.30 and 3.30. To Book a Lesson Phone 0354484404 or email bpottery@bendigo.net.au     I am wondering how other artists and creative people cook meals. The reason for my question is that I own recipe books, my current favourite is the Michelle Bridges, Crunch time, cookbook, but I never follow a recipe, I think I cook like an artist. Lol J ,not sure that’s a s good as a cook and certainly not as elaborate and skilled as a chef, but it works for me. I think of food, like an artist from the time I hit the shops, I love the fresh fruit and veggie department and I buy a rainbow variety of coloured food. The fish, meat and poultry counter has the same attraction to me and I love to mix colours, something cream, this week it was turkey mince, a pink salmon steak, some red strips of beef steak, and then to the pulses and legumes and there were black and yellow legumes added to my trolley. Even my bread, is dotted with texture and colours, lol J. When it comes to planning and preparing the meal, even when I have this lovely array of cookbooks I have read, I do little more than glance at the photos of the meal. My system is look in the garden for any fresh vegetables ready to pick, then open the fridge and see what I have, choose an assorted selection of items that will work well together. I then head to the pantry to add any extras, and pick some fresh herbs from the garden, and then I produce a concoction using any one, of the simplest, of cooking methods, except for deep-frying, which I never do. I probably read nutrition books, more than cook books, and I occasionally amend the food choices I buy as I learn more, this has been successful as aside from taking prenatal multivitamins, when I was younger and pregnant and now that we are seniors, adding some calcium and anti inflammatory fish oil to my diet. I am currently looking into information about managing fibromyalgia, through diet, 10 Food Rules for Pain Patients - fibromyalgia - Health.com, to help Reg, so he can join me on more of the bush walks we love doing together. My colourful palette of food has provided all the nutrition I have needed and I wonder how many other, creative people never ever follow a recipe and manage perfectly well, producing delicious, healthy meals, just treating every meal as its very own, original creative work. I would LOVE to hear your responses to this. How many creative original cooks are out there? Lifelike Drawing in Colored Pencil with Lee Hammond Tile Art. 01/29/2010
 Artist’s can do some incredible tile work. It is worth considering trying working with tiles as a creative medium. I have seen artists use a mixture of modern commercial tiles and broken pieces of patterned English bone china to create beautiful coffee table tops. These photos above are of the tiles in the footpath in front of the gate leading into the garden of the Art Gallery Restaurant, at 50 Emily Street Seymour, Victoria. To see more travel photos and stories, check out my 'gone bush' blog at http://www.gray-nomad.com The photos below are of the flower boxes at SPC Ardmona, KidsTown, Midland Highway, Mooroopna, Victoria.  Lifelike Drawing in Colored Pencil with Lee Hammond Clay Figurative Sculpture 12/30/2009
   The clay sculptures in these photos, were once in my home and treasured by me, they were gifted to a family member when we downsized. Clay sculpture is too heavy to 'move on with', in a downsized life. They still bring me pleasure to see them when I visit and I have included here an extensive list of websites for figurative, clay sculpture studios, for your browsing pleasure. Clay sculpture was an art form I began as a child, loved and achieved professional award winning status in, and it was a retail success for me, alongside my paintings, at exhibitions. It ceased to be useful once my exhibitions became far spread around Australia, the fired clay works being too heavy for easy transport. Giving way to the wishes of my partner I introduced teddy bears as my second line, instead of my sculpture and this began a decade of soft fabric sculpture, teddy bears selling along side my art, something I loathed. Reg has finally come to understand how offensive teddy bears were to me, as a side line to fine art. As a non artist, he never quite understood how I could not feel a teddy bear was equal in any way to having created and a sculpture from clay, with one's own hands. lol, :-). I am sure artists will understand, though my feelings may offend teddy bear lovers. I just have never seen myself as a craft-er nor do I think I do craft well. Art is my field. Ceramic figurative sculpture is an art form I will always admire and understand the skill required to bring it through to a successful completed piece. I had a full ceramic art studio, everything the potter sculptor could desire, I was able to finance the beginnings of my ceramic studio and some quality tuition at Monash university and at Walkers Ceramics, through the sales of my paintings. I sold all the contents of this ceramic studio that had served me well during my active exhibition years, three years ago. It was a painful parting at the time but I needed to realize that this part of my life was non-compatible with downsizing and carer duties. I have since filled the creative gap that pottery sculpture left in my life with more creative writing, so a new version of me has emerged, one that fits in with my downsized, touring lifestyle and is very compatible with my carer duties. I am currently reclining on a sofa, writing, and Reg is beside me doing his Sudaku in the comfort of his armchair. I am able to sell my writing on line; never needing to leave my man’s side to do that, sculpture was a passion that suited a different phase of my life. Websites for Ceramic, Figurative Sculptors. A Guide To Figurine Sculpture A must have resource for ceramic sculpture enthusiasts - featuring free clay sculpting tips and tutorials from Royal Worcester and Coalport master sculptor, Peter Holland. http://www.figurines-sculpture.com Clark, Claire An exhibit of her multifaceted sculpture, showing how she sculpts in a variety of themes. http://www.newyorkartworld.com/gallery/clark.html Clay Images Wheel thrown and hand built whimsical stoneware - oil lamps, incense burners, drinking vessels, etc. http://www.clayimages.com Daniel Allen Figurative ceramics. http://www.danielallen.net Dave Kellum The amazing clay works of Dave Kellum. Figurative ceramics. http://www.davekellum.com Daga Design, Fine Art Ceramics Specializing in unique and stylized animal sculptures for collecting, home decor, and awards. Building on a history going back more than 40 years. http://www.dagadesign.com David Cleverly Ceramics Decorative earthenware. Iconic figures and animals, Made individually using joined clay slabs, which are then modeled, covered with semi-porcelain slip and bright painted underglaze colours. http://www.david-cleverlyceramics.co.uk Farrell , Nancy The virtual gallery of painting and sculpture created by Nancy Farrell. View the artists work as well as personal information and artist appearances. http://www.nancyfarrell.com Hicks, Susan Uses ceramic and mixed media to create figurative sculpture with a prophetic edge. http://susanhicks.faithweb.com Innis, Frances Sculpture of famous figures in clay and plaster. http://www.sbweb.com/sculptures Jennifer E Lucht, Ceramic Sculpture One-of-a-kind, hand built figurative ceramic sculpture and wall hangings. http://www.jlucht.com Judy Onofrio This work is narrative figurative sculpture, often self-portraiture or stories that come out of my daily existence with a little fantasy thrown in. They are mosaic- encrusted assemblages with seeming thousands of disparate elements, that some how come together as a whole. http://www.judyonofrio.com Jan Rentenaar Figurative ceramic sculpture. http://www.columbia-center.org/legendaryart LuAnne Tackett Simpson This body of work refers to that sacred place within ourselves to which we retreat and where we are able to look inward with new eyes. http://www.luannesimpson.com Large Scale Narrative Ceramic Sculpture This award winning large scale ceramic sculpture explores complex levels of memory through chair and figure forms that are layered with personal, historical and cultural imagery. http://www.deborahraelbuckley.com/ Linda Lewis, Narrative Sculptures in Clay Figurative sculptures from clay with earthy, textural surfaces. The sculptures are often witty & contemplative depictions of ordinary people. http://Lindalewisart.com Linda Ganstrom Near life-scale figures created from body cast molds. Installation settings. Beautiful and meaningful. http://www.geocities.com/lindaganstrom Marlene Ferrell Parillo This work has always been concerned with storytelling. Observations, feelings and experiences are the themes of my pieces. These very accessible topics include confinement, fertility, marriage, home ownership, anxiety and the difficulties of balancing a lifestyle that includes both children and art. I call these narrative vessels “story pots. http://storypots.net Mark Chatterley figurative sculpture. http://www.chatterley.com Maskwoman.com ceramic masks Maskwoman ceramic masks. http://maskwoman.com Nancy Farrell Nancy is both a painter and sculptor. Her sculpture emphasizes mood, gesture and narrative. Her painting focuses in on the relationship between the man-made and natural world. http://NancyFarrell.com Nancy Briggs Pottery Contains, gallery, part show list, photos of raku process links to galleries. Soon to be added, figurative sculpture. http://www.nancybriggspottery.com Nan Smith Figure-oriented installations, figure sculpture and tile paintings. Site includes portfolio, artist statement and bio, resume, and technical information about large scale sculpture building and surfacing processes. http://nersp.nerdc.ufl.edu/~nan Original Sin Designs Functional ware and one of a kind sculptural pieces from stoneware. One of a kind sculptures deal with the female form universal life experience. http://sinclay.com/original-sin-designs.html Ozark Wonders Stoneware pottery, sculptures, earthenware made with hand dug local clay, functional items, teapots, mugs, wall hangings and tea strainers. http://ozarkwonders.2ya.com Pecnik, Diane Visit a working potter's studio nestled in the indigenous Louisiana garden of local ceramic artist, Diane Pecnik. Located just outside of Lafayette, Louisiana, open to the public. http://buildingclay.com Rachel London Katz's Clay People Small ceramic figurative sculptures full of humor and expression made by Israeli sculptress Rachel London Katz. http://www.rachelondon.org Sugg, Teresa An exhibition of ceramic sculpture, wall pieces, and vessels based on the human figure and archetypal images. ... http://www.suggarts.com Teresa Sugg An exhibition of ceramic sculpture, wall pieces, and vessels based on the human figure and archetypal images. http://www.suggarts.com/ceramics Tomsic, Gianna Handmade ceramics from Slovenia. http://tomsic.tripod.com Vallerie Scott Knaust Figurative sculpture. http://www.empyrean.net/vskclay/galleryv.htm Victor Benckhuijsen Figurative ceramic sculpture. http://home.concepts.nl/~ceramics Wendy Holcomb Evocative ceramic sculpture, primarily wood-fired (anagama) http://www.wendyholcomb.net Whiterock Art Studio Presenting the work of Joe Rock. http://www.whiterockartstudio.com | Follow me on Facebook at @ Kathy Shell
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