Guada`s art place

Mixed Media and Mandala Art, my new online class!

2011-12-08T04:54:00.001-08:00

Yes! my new class is ready to go♥

It officially starts next December 14th

If you want to join the class

PLEASE CLICK HERE TO SIGN IN

Please check the outline...I thinks it´s really cool

Week 1: December 14th

Creating wonderful backgrounds for tags, cards, Mandalas, etc

Suplies for this week: Gesso, Acrylics, Brayer, any kind of Stamps.

If you don´t have stamps I´ll give you some ideas to replace them, don´t worry.

♥After this week we break for Christmas and begin again on January 4th.♥

Week 2: January 4th

Making a mixed media background for a Mandala design and applying layers of geometry

Suplies for this week: Acrylics, Watercolour pencils, Pens (I use Faber Castell PITT pen), Square, Compass, Blending stump

Week 3: January 11th

Including characters in your Mandalas. Mixed Media background

Suplies for this week: Acrylics, Watercolour pencils or crayons, Pastels, Pen, Square, Compass, Blending stump

Weeks 4 and 5: January 18th and 25th

Including animals in your Mandalas. Mixed Media background

Suplies for this week: Acrylics, Pen, Square, Compass

During the class I´m going to show you first how to create this kind of textured backgrounds and next how to use them for your Mandalas or other art work

The course will run in Tam´s awesome art site

http://willowing.ning.com/

If you want to join the class

PLEASE CLICK HERE TO SIGN IN

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Also remember I´m one of the Life Book teachers!

PLEASE CLICK HERE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT IT

The Age of Love

2011-11-11T10:18:00.001-08:00

The New Age is here, can you feel it?
I have to say that the last time some knocks had made me stumble...or maybe I was like ancient tree roots hidden in that dark and warm place where to nurture ourselves.
The truth is that since last night I can´t stop feeling the Love.

Don´t ask me what happened because I won´t be able to explain it, don´t ask me how was it because I don´t have a clear register, but I can tell you that this Mandala of Compassion was made in the dawn of 11.11.11 and since then I can´t stop feeling the Love and compassion.
Yesterday all was doubt, today all is something more than certain...today all is Faith
Faith in Everything
Faith in You
Faith in My Self
Faith en We as the Body of Evolution
...I write this moved and full of Love.
Times for the brave ones are comming...times for those who tolerates living in Love, who accept feeling without explainig, touching without asking our selves, looking into the eyes without being ashamed.
...this are times in wich I want to Live!

Female times are arriving where we have to stop DOING and start FEELING.

What a challenge, isn´t it? we´d lived all our human existence trying to understand and just now we realize The Secret is to feel and not to think, the key is to trust without conditioning.

Today I have some answers that yesterday I didn´t had and was looking since months ago, that answers came from feeling and letting this Mandala express itself.
I appreciate your visit to my virtual spot.
...and I Hug you♥

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Remember this!

The class starts next November 14th

I´m one of the Life Book teachers!

CLICK HERE TO VISIT IT´S PAGE

Mandala FREE class description and supplies

2011-11-06T02:59:00.000-08:00

Have you already sign in? no??? what are you wainting for!!

--- It´s a FREE Class ♥ ---

A class to introduce and teach you how to do great Mandalas from a simple template :)

- What will the Mandala FREE Class cover?

Description of the Class:

Week 1: Working with templates, learning how to transform a basic template into your own design. Basic painting.

Week 2: How to draw a basic template. Painting and blending.

Week 3: Drawing, painting and doodling a Mandala puting together all what you´ve learned.

we´ll be going from a template like this

to beautiful Mandala like this one!

This is just an example, will be using another template with other results :)

Awesome isn´t it?

- What will you need for this class?

Supplies for the class

Watercolor paper: As I Live in Argentina I´m using Fabriano, Caran d´Ache or Canson watercolour paper, you can use any brand you like or are used to.
Watercolor pencils: I use Caran d´Ache supracolor soft and Derwent Inktense, but you can use any other brands.
A regular square

A Compass

Black pen for doodling: I use Faber Castell PITT pens, you can use any other brand just keep in mind it has to be a very thin one.
You will also need to print the templates, they will be available once the class starts.
Optional: stamps, ink pads.

So, to sign in just CLICK HERE

Also remember I´m one of the Life Book teachers! yeyyyyy

For more details about LB please

------>CLIK HERE

The Mandala FREE Class is almost here!

2011-11-02T06:39:00.000-07:00

Yes!!! Mandala FREE Class is almost here

The class will run next

November 14th, 2011

A class to introduce and teach you how to do great Mandalas from simple templates like this one :)

into beautifull Mandala artwork like this one

The class will run in Tam´s awesome art place http://willowing.ning.com/

To sign in just click on the link below an join the group

CLICK HERE TO JOIN THE CLASS GROUP

Please feel free to invite your friends and share this information in your blogs, twitter, facebook or where ever you want.

See you in the Class!
L♥ve
Guada

...by the way, did you know I´m part of Life Book proyect?
for more info cheek the link -----> Life Book Proyect

The winners of the Give Away are.... Plus one Free Mandala Class

2011-10-15T09:57:00.000-07:00

Yes yes! it´s the date,

the winners of the Give Away are announced

Take a look at the video and keep you fingers crosed!

Sooooo...if you are a winner send me an e-mail to

guadas.art@gmail.com

1rst place: A free spot in Life Book Project 2011

2nd place: A complete set of my 5 Mandala Stickers

3rd place: three of my Mandala Stickers

4rth place: three of my Mandala Stickers

And like I promised there´s a prize for all of you :)

:: Free Mandala Screen Saver ::

to download the screen savers right click on the links and save them to your own computers

Screen Saver 1024_768 pxl
Screen Saver 1280_1024 pxl

Screen Saver 1600_1200 pxl

Screen Saver 1920_1200 pxl

THERE´S ANOTHER BIG NEWS♥

to somethins like this...

yes!

in ONE

Free Class

you´ll learn how to paint it.

To sign in you just need to suscribe to my newsletter, that´s all :)

The date class will be next October 31, more details are coming soon

so spread the news! invite your art friends, you´re all wellcome :)

more details are coming soon, keep visiting the blog for fresh news and have a great weekend!

Love♥

Great news, more prizes and Life Book open for Registration now!

2011-10-01T05:51:00.000-07:00

Good Morning beautifull beings!!

Woooowww a lot of you came by my blog and live me so kind words, I just want to let you all know I'm thrilled.

I want to let you know a couple of things:

1rst of all the big news is that Life Book 2012 Registration is Now Open!

isn´t that great!!

I just want you to know that if you decide to register in the course through my link i´ll receive a commission, so i´ll be always thankfull if you decide to go through me :)

The 2nd news is that I decided to be more generous with my GIVE AWAY!! yeeee

so ALL of you are going to get a prize♥

1rst place: A free spot in Life Book

2nd place: A complete set of my 5 Mandala Stickers

3rd place: three of my Mandala Stickers

4rth place: three of my Mandala Stickers

THE PRIZE FOR ALL OF YOU:

YOU WILL ALL BE ABLE TO DOWNLOAD MY MANDALA SCREEN SAVERS :)

Please remember that in order to be able to get in touch with you if you win any of the prizes I need you to FOLLOW MY BLOG, live me a comment (lets share the L♥ve) or let your email in the Follow my blog box.

The 3rd news: The drawing day will be next October15th, also the download link for the screen savers will be ready this date for all of you ;)

so PLEASE! (it´s a BIGGG please heheeee) help me to spread the good news and share this on you blogs, facebook, twitter or wherever you want.

Also remember that you can always get in touch with me though me email guadas.art@gmail.com

BE IN TOUCH...I HAVE MORE GREAT NEWS COMING SOON

HUGS and LOVE♥

The GIVEAWAY is here!

2011-09-28T15:54:00.000-07:00

Tic tac tic tac... registration for

it´s almost here!

To participate CLICK HERE or on the LIFE BOOK logo
and follow my blog or leave me a comment so I´ll be able to contact you if you win ;)

1rst place: A free spot in Life Book

2nd place: three of my Mandala Stickers

3rd place: three of my Mandala Stickers

4rth place: one of my Mandala screen savers

You will be able to choose from this 5 Mandalas

Mandala Dancing Shoe

Mandala Eagle

Mandala Here and Now

Mandala The Kiss of the Worlds

Mandala Zen Star

Good luck to all of you and hope to see you in the course!

The age of the brushes

2011-09-12T08:13:00.000-07:00

Since always I´ve been a neat person with all that things I Love, and my brushes weren´t the exception to this rule.

If a brush wasn´t neat and clean like new it seems to me it wasn´t good enough.

I remember the first brushes I bought, some of them are still with me, they evolve with me, we made each other.

We evolve as an artist is the same way we evolve in our life, sometimes we think that something will never fit with us and we say - This isn´t for me -

With the pass of the years I've learned that the expression - I will Never do this - must say - I won´t do this in the present, who knows in the future -

I've learned that what today doesn´t goes with me tomorrow may fit perfect in my life.

When I started painting I did it with very small brushes and it took me years to finish a Mandala, but I fill comfort and sure, and I think that no other brushes will let me fill that way.

Sometime after that I started using bigger brushes and that seemed to be the best of the world too!

At last I learned the lesson, using all my brushes is like seeing life from different points of view.

With the use and the pass of the years that first brushes lost their glamour but get wiser.

Today I understand that years add experience, something we can´t buy or borrow. My old brushes are the most precious treasure in my studio, they walked with me in my artistic journey and they still do it.

No new brush can replace their brush strokes.

Today when I buy new brushes I know that the good times will come with the time and the experience.

Hugs