How to Leave a Comment on this Blog

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#2 You will see the word comments right in front of a little envelope icon click on the word comments.
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#5 If you want to preview your comment before you post it; click on the small preview box. You can make changes in your comment if desired.
Now you will see another very important small box that says post comment, click this box and you are done. Your comment will be posted. Yea!!! Makin it fun, Nova Cy

Artist Trading Cards Demo Blast Testimonials

Cappuccino Girl

Digitally Scanned ATC 

From Original Ink & Wash

Testimonials

Barbara R. said, "You are a breath of fresh air! Thank you so much; you really opened me up and helped me not be so rigid and stuck in my left brain; I'm going to reevaluate everything and buy new supplies you recommended."

Nina said "Thank you soo much! This totally made up for the terrible watercolor class I took in college; it was so bad I never painted again until today!" Then she showed me a beautiful ATC she had made during the Demo.

Alice said, "What you taught us about Developing an Idea and How it Grows, unblocked me. I now know a way to begin putting a series of poems on my ATC's, Thank you!"

People kept coming up to me after to say thanks and what a fun and inspiring experience they had.
And I'll tell ya this we all giggled til the Teacup Chihuahua's came home and then of course we giggled some more!  The Artisan crew said, "Seems like you had a lot of fun!" And I said, "Oh yea!"    
 Several participants facebooked about it and more comments are coming! Yea!!!

And that night and over the next three days I kept received more facebook and email messages here are    a few of the responses:

Facebook Messages:

"That you so much for the Demo today, I really enjoyed it. And I love your Art, Mary Ann S.

"Dear Nova Cynthia, Thank you for the great ATC Demo, my daughter and I loved it! Please let me know when you will be doing more, we would love to come." Erica B.

Wow!!! What a great demo, love the humor and learned alot, let me know when you do another. Thanx, Krista Brooks.

And more emails from participants, but seems a lot of them had a time figuring out how to leave a comment on this blog; hence the post by the same title: hey, I'm tired of typing comments, I'd rather be making art! so unless they are willing to come back, read the post and rewrite their own comments that's all for now folks!  LL-NC

Artist Trading Cards Demo

www.Artisan-SantaFe.com

I will  be Presenting an Artist Trading Cards Demonstarion Sat. May 1st at Artisans  1:30PM-3:30PM
click on link to register and find out all about this fun event!

I say the Heart is a Fiesta

Gouache on D'Arches Watercolor Paper

I say The Heart is a Fiesta

Complete with mangos and pinatas

and when it is broken open 

by a wise child on her birthday

all the forms of light  

spill out  for play...


Available as a Fine Art Print & Card from Redbubble.Com

Celebrating People

Thank you Spencer for Art Patronage: Getting My Mac Up: 
Lotus is Spencers favorite of the Dreaming Angels/Divine Feminine Series.

Santa Fe River Waterfall Watercolor Featured

Santa Fe River Waterfall 

Transparent Watercolor Painting From T"he Six Elements Series,"

Selected and Featured In Color Me A Rainbow Redbubble Group

The White Challenge

And Invited to Be in The Best of The White Award Invitational!!!

Available from Redbubble as Framed Prints, Epson Canvas Prints, Cards & more!!!

http://www.redbubble.com/people/novacynthia

How I Realized I am an Artist Animal

 Nova Cynthia's Artist Wake Up Call: 

"IN," by Nova Cynthia Barker, 

Click on Photo to Enlarge: Epson Prints Archival Available on Demand

 How My Story begins; 
I come from a family of highly creative beings:
Dancers, Storytellers, Oral Historians,Theologians,
Designers, Quilt Makers, Tailors, Cabinet Makers, Farmers,
Writers, Poets, Sculptors, Folk Artists, Painters, Photographers,
Educators, you name it.
 And Painting was just another of many creative pursuits
that were a daily part of my life: Poetry, Journaling,
Writing Short Stories, Designing, Sewing, Dancing with my
Mother, Sister, Grandmothers and Aunts and Play
acting with my Sister and Cousins.

 I had never considered it as a Profession until one day,
at the age of nineteen, I saw O'Keefe's Red Poppy, Joshua Tree
and three other Imgages reproduced in Reader's Digest:
In that moment The Top of my Crown Chakra Opened up into
a Thousand Petaled Lotus: and I realized THAT
a Modern Artist could Translate what She saw around her
into a Visual Language Expressing the Spirit of a thing
rather than simply creating a copy of it. Which I found boring,
the real thing is more exciting I use to argue with my mom in
front of Rembrant's Paintings, it was only when I discovered
his tiny etchings that I saw the Spirit of Genuis in his work.
BOOMERANG!!!   
Before then I thought all the Powerful Spirit-Filled Art
had been produced in earlier times and other cultures: Work I loved
and studied; Japanese Woodblock Prints, Russian Religious Icons,
Persian Miniatures, African and Greek Sculpture, Egyptian and American
Indian Artifacts. Of course, I also Loved Van Gogh, Maurice Pendergast,
and Chide Hassam; but I thought they had covered all that ground already.

 Until O'Keefe, and then I knew that I to was an Artist Animal
like O'Keefe. And with that knowing I made a Vow to Create a
Visual Language of Symbols in Paint To Translate, Express and
Acknowledge The Essential Spirit Of Life
I Witnessed All Around and Within Me...

When I go out of Here

When I go out of here
it won't be crying and screaming in fear
I'll do all that now with you.


When I go out of here
I'll be calm and clean and clear
moving as a line of white light
connecting to my source,
Into the womb of night
with sparkling white lights all around me...
all the way home.

Reflection

Love

Is sometimes,

a passing reflection in a Mirror...

True Innocence

Ever since I was nineteen I've know that,

The first Innocence is given and the second one is claimed;

I claim my right to live in Innocence, That said, What is True Innocence?

I've been asking myself this question for a couple of weeks now, 

and this is what I came up with as a working definition for my life:

True Innocence is not a lack of experience

It is the willingness to continuingly engage...

Love Rains, Remaining

Love Rains, Remaining

Love rains in my open heart,

remaining long after the

passing of the forms it comes through,

was_is always present; embedded as light in my cells,

awakened by tiny, tender acts of compassion, unexpected gifts,

delivered with a smile or tears.

Makes it's many appearances in the form of a lover,

daughter, father, mother, husband, friend, uncle, aunt, cousin, sister, nephew, neighbor, 

a person I encounter without ever knowing their name. 

A little bird singing a hymn for me, The sun and just how perfectly it's warming my body right now. 

Sunlight and shadows dancing across the floor

while I'm meditating, casting my lotus Buddha form 

as a shadow puppet show, for my psyche; 

to become aware of, contemplate and honor.

Words Melt Too

Words melt too_like snow

into a soul whose heart

honed with gratitude, 

has become a

half moon bowl 

ready to receive ...

Nova Cynthia 09

Healing Is One Healing Thought One Moment At A Time

 This thought came to me during a lucid moment of clear thinking, more of these are happening as I continue to unfold in my practice of Christian Mysticism, Shamanism, Tibetan Buddhism and Brain Science.
 I've been experiencing serious health challenges both Dental and Thyroid, so in my scientific and esoteric studies and research of how mind effects matter- I am focusing on how I-WE can facilitate healing this beautiful body temple we are experiencing our beingness in;

This thought came through as a mantra:
 Healing Is One Healing Thought One Moment At A Time.