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For artists interested in using color in a new way, this two-part
book offers a fresh, comprehensive approach to understanding color
in painting. Part one starts with the basics and teaches, rung by
rung, many concepts including color, value, and the use of red,
yellow, and blue to build three-dimensional form. Tools given in
part one form the foundation for part two's lessons in "temperature
painting," an original method created by the author using warm and
cool colors. The instructions are easy to follow, step by step, and
fully illustrated with beautiful finished pieces by various artists
and the author, an accomplished artist who teaches workshops
nationally and whose commissioned portraits and paintings are in
many private collections.
In this, Julie Hanson's second award-winning book, the poems
inscribe deep stillness on a world of harmonies in motion. Whether
composed on modern objects, say a vacuum--part pet, part
sculpture/sprawled awkwardly, still shrieking"--that evokes a
sudden onrush of sobbing, or the notional movement between a
plastic bag, a lawn and a return from a France not yet visited,
these poems circulate among the senses as moments that pass and are
recalled. Hanson's poems investigate interiority as they resonate
in the ear to excite the eye. Together, her poems illustrate the
movement between and among seasons and tasks, work and leisure,
solitude and people, and all through the private life as it
intersects with the products and noises of industry and nature.
Hanson's is a poetic realm that includes the head-splitting bright
white screamings of an Indy 500 race into a zen garden, this realm
we all inhabit where birdsong and squeaky water meters improvise
together.
Do you believe in living, breathing ANGELS? This story may convince
you they exist. Enjoy the miracles that The Evans Terrace Girls
invoke. This is a true story. In approximately 110 homes in an
enclave of Lake Mary within a few years, seven or more parents died
of unrelated situations including car accidents, cancers, and other
unexpected events. As people mourned and grieved, rumors started of
a curse on the land; the neighborhood children feared their parents
were next to leave for the afterlife. Suddenly, a lemonade stand
catapulted some of the young girls to lead their peers and the
adults out of grief; they witnessed many minor miracles through
this action. What brought on the proverbial lemonade stand? After
another dad dies, the kids were told by peers that our subdivision
was CURSED The children- already leery- felt panicked any time a
father or mothers left their sight. Their parents attempted to
arrange grief counseling into their elementary school. The
counselors volunteered services; however, this story took place a
few years before events such as Columbine High School. Not
understanding the implications of the many deaths on her system,
the principal thwarted these efforts. THE CHILDREN AND THEIR PEERS
NEEDED GROUP INTERVENTION Finally, God showed the way out of grief
and how to bring back a semblance of 'normal, everyday life.' A
simple and cliche LEMONADE STAND was the start of HIS guidance The
proceeds bought groceries for a family that just lost their dad.
The children's works of love brought about many minor miracles that
are shared by telling you their story. This is the true story of
how these girls' efforts help their community through the grieving
process. Did these girls find a way to end the NEIGHBORHOOD'S curse
and grief? Let's just say, "Hopefully, this tale will inspire
others suffering loss to take up a cause and take back control of
their own life." This book is a must read for anyone grieving.
Julie Hanson's award-winning collection, "Unbeknownst," gives us
plainspoken poems of unstoppable candor. They are astonished and
sobered by the incoming data; they are funny; they are
psychologically accurate and beautifully made. Hanson's is a mind
interested in human responsibility--to ourselves and to each
other--and unhappy about the disappointments that are bound to
transpire ("We've been like gods, our powers wasted"). These poems
are lonely with spiritual longing and wise with remorse for all
that cannot last.
"The Kindergartners" begins, "All their lives they've waited for
/ the yellow bus to come for them," then moves directly to the
present reality: "Now it's February and the mat / is wet." Settings
and events are local and familiar, never more exotic than a yoga
session at the Y, one of several instances where the body is
central to the report and to the net result ("I slip in and fold /
behind the wheel into the driver's seat like a thin young thing: /
My organs are surely glistening. This car was made for me."). These
poems are intimate revelations, thinking as they go, including the
reader in the progress of their thoughts.
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