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No Talent Needed.
Initially it is your teacher who requires the talent.
Kathy Shell is an award winning artist and author of  multi mediums and subjects with over 50 years professional painting experience.  All she requires of her students initially is the desire to learn from a teacher who will demonstrate how and explain why and constructively critique your own work. 
Kathy does not waste your time or money by giving hobby classes. 
Kathy Shell teaches because she LOVES to teach people who want to learn. These are not classes for those who are just seeking a social gathering to paint in with just a little assistance.  This is the right way to learn if you are eager for 'more,' than a hobby class.  Your work will develop steadily as you learn in an environment that nurtures the artist in you.   Kathy Shell is herself an active successful, author artist.
LIMITED VACANCIES Exist and bookings can not always being accepted.
Tuition Enrollment: As students book private or semi-private lessons, demonstration tutorial classes are at flexible class times and may be arranged on an individual basis between student and Kathy Shell, your tutor.  Fee is payable on booking.

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New Health Report Jolts the Creative Artist in Me.

My creative artistic time is a mixture of physical exercise, bush walking and sedentary time, creating. The sedentary time far outweighs the amount of hours spent in physical exercise and I had hoped my one or more hours of strenuous planned activity per day would outweighs my feet up on the sofa, writing or painting at the easel, time.  We often hear about the benefits of exercise how it will improve your quality of life and help you live longer. Although exercise is key, how you spend the other 23 hours a day is just as important. If I ever needed a reason to understand that I need to put down my brush or pen and turn off the computer, and MOVE, more often, a new study says that if you spend a lot of the day sitting, you have an increased risk of mortality regardless of how much you exercise.

Researchers at the American Cancer Society analysed survey responses from over 123,000 men and women. The results are published, in the American Journal of Epidemiology. Participants had no history of major health issues and were studied, over a 13-year period. According to the results, women, were more affected, by leisure time sitting than men. “Women who reported more than six hours per day of sitting (outside of work) were 37 percent more likely to die during the time period studied than those who sat fewer than three hours a day. Men who sat more than six hours a day (also outside of work) were 18 percent more likely to die than those who sat fewer than three hours per day. The association remained virtually unchanged after adjusting for physical activity level.”

“Women and men who both sat more and were less physically active were 94 precent and 48 precent more likely to die during the study period, respectively, compared with those who reported sitting the least and being most active,” according to researchers. Obviously, the worst thing for your health is to sit a lot and not exercise.  I know from my own past personal experience that creative people can neglect their own health while they pour passion into their creative pursuits.  Remember the greatest artwork you can create is your own healthy balanced mind and body and assist in the development of that same health in those you are responsible for.  Try it. Keep doing your regular art and crafts but see yourself as the major work and remember to nurture yourself, by becoming an active as well as creative, person. 

What do you think?

Can you combine a creative life with an active life?I am constantly ‘working at achieving the balance’; it does not come naturally to me.

Can you achieve this balance?Read more:  Exercise might not help you if you are a couch potato
 

Visual images speak louder than words.

"If you don't move, you get fat”.  That is a message that as a creative person I need to keep in mind. Painting and writing are mainly sedentary activities and I need to find ways to make them more active.  I do this by painting on my feet, walking back and forth to view my work from a distance.  I get out on my feet to research stories I write.  Even so, a lot of the work is far more inactive than is good for me and I need to plan activity breaks in my day and not allow my obsession for my creativity to take over and deprive me of exercise, or for that matter sleep. Therefore, once I post this fabulous visual image and reminder of why I strive to remember to be active, I will say goodnight :-),


Apparently this statute, and another of Lincoln grown portulant just sitting all these years in his chair at the Lincoln Monument for too long, was part of an advertising campaign by Advertising Agency: Scholz & Friends, Hamburg, Germany