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  • Three Features in The Outsiders
    by Janis Zroback

    The Outsiders have featured three more of my works since the first one yesterday.. How Wonderful !http://images-1.redbubble.net/im…

    The Outsiders have featured three more of my works since the first one yesterday.. How Wonderful / The Colour of LIght / Dervish 2 / Inner Joy (Second Feature This Week) So it is the duty of the artist to discourage all traces of shame / To extend all boundaries / To fog them in right over the plate / To kill only what is ridiculous / To establish problems / To ignore solutions / To listen to no one / To omit nothing / To contradict everything / To generate the free brain excerpt

  • Featured Artist in these Groups....
    by Janis Zroback

    The Sweet Tooth Group / *Scavenger …

    The Sweet Tooth Group / Scavenger Hunt / Collaboral Damage Thank you to the Group Moderators

  • Sales Today.....
    by Janis Zroback

    Some Great Sales Today of Matted Prints..I’m so pleased!! !http://images-2.redbubble.net/img/art/mattecolor:black/product:matted-p…

    Some Great Sales Today of Matted Prints..I’m so pleased!! / In the Summertime / Autumn Light / Blue Night / Time to Start Anew It must be someone with a love of trees…they will make a great grouping together…thank you so much..

  • Sales Today.....
    by Janis Zroback

    / Moondance...

    / Moondance / Yesterday / Reflected Glory Thank you so much

  • HOME PAGE FEATURE.....
    by Janis Zroback

    *My first Home page feature was exactly a year ago, and it was one of my Chinese Brush paintings, “Early Morning Feed”...I have had sever…

    My first Home page feature was exactly a year ago, and it was one of my Chinese Brush paintings, “Early Morning Feed”...I have had several Home page features since then, but I’m just as thrilled today as if it were the first time and it’s another Chinese Brush Painting!! Some of the others were.. Simple Abundance..Peaches. / Dragonfly Towards the Light 2. / Reflected Glory. / Grateful. / The Sentinels. / Lapis Lazuli. / Early Morning Feed. / The Last Catch Thanks so much Home Page

  • Sale..Today...
    by Janis Zroback

    *I am really pleased when a Canvas Print sells, and this was an extra large Canvas print…RB does such a fabulous job reproducing the br…

    I am really pleased when a Canvas Print sells, and this was an extra large Canvas print…RB does such a fabulous job reproducing the brush strokes, it almost tactile… / This painting is one of my particular favourites, as there are so many different textured layers, including lots of metallics…I drew extensively on my imagination here and Blake’s verse says it all.. / The Trees…Imagination The tree which moves some to tears of joy, is in the eyes of others, only a green thing that stands in the way. / Some see Nature all ridicule and deformity, and some scarce see Nature at all. / But to the eyes of the man of imagination, Nature is Imagination itself. Thank you so much

  • Sales...Wonderful..
    by Janis Zroback

    With grateful thanks to Bevanimage who bought some of my paintings tonight .... _I am…

    With grateful thanks to Bevanimage who bought some of my paintings tonight .... I am so pleased Grateful thanks also to DanaMS _ who purchased “I am the Memory of a Moment of Happiness... If you would like to view the larger images, please click on each painting ...

  • Challenge Winner..
    by Janis Zroback

    *The challenge was “Temptation” and my painting of “A Scone with Berries and Cream” won…How great is that, and what does it say about …

    The challenge was “Temptation” and my painting of “A Scone with Berries and Cream” won…How great is that, and what does it say about the things we love best and that tempt us the most? :))) I love it see the link below… Temptation / Scone with Berries and Cream You and I are great souls. / And we come together for a time. / We meet over a cup of tea here on earth. Shall we leave our shell and join with each other? / Shall we put down our shield and armor? / What will become of us if we do? / What horrible fate awaits us if we are defenseless? Tea is a time for love and tenderness without fear. / It is a time for sharing and learning and growing. / Come now, leave the battle gear behind. / Brave with me and let’s have tea.

  • New Feature...
    by Janis Zroback

    Featured in Unconventional Artistry !http://images-0.redbubble.net/img/art/framecolor:black/framestyle:flat30/mattecolor:off%20whit…

    Featured in Unconventional Artistry / Emerging into the Light Thank you to the Group Moderators

  • Featured Collaboral Damage..
    by Janis Zroback

    *My second version of Diette’s Kiwis has now been featured and both are…

    My second version of Diette’s Kiwis has now been featured and both are also on the popular art pages.. I am also honoured to be chosen as as featured member of the group / / In the Light Thank you to the Group Moderators

  • Sales...Monday
    by Janis Zroback

    The Tropical Collection is doing well…..Laminated Prints this time !http://images-1.redbubble.net/img/art/border:blackwithdetail/p…

    The Tropical Collection is doing well…..Laminated Prints this time / Piper Nigrum / Bamboo Night / Tropical Fandango / Couleurs Fantastiques Thank you so much

  • Sales Tonight.....
    by Janis Zroback

    Hibiscus Morning sold just now, and I’m pleased to say that the Tropical Series is also doing well in original sales... / !http://image…

    Hibiscus Morning sold just now, and I’m pleased to say that the Tropical Series is also doing well in original sales... / / Hibiscus Morning Sequestered in their wiry pods, / the hibiscus opened last night after a long silence. Thank you so much.

  • Sales...Wonderful..
    by Janis Zroback

    It’s a great weekend…features, challenge win and now sales of two calendars.. How great is that !http://images-0.redbubble.net/i…

    It’s a great weekend…features, challenge win and now sales of two calendars.. How great is that / The Trees I have always felt the living presence / of trees. / the forest that calls to me as deeply / as I breathe, / as though the woods were marrow of my bone / as though / I myself were tree, a breathing, reaching / arc of the larger canopy / beside a brook bubbling to foam / like the one / deep in these woods, / that calls / that whispers home. / Seasons To Everything there is a Season and a Time for every Purpose under Heaven.. The buyers are not known to me, but I would like to thank them for their purchases.

  • Blue on Blue
    by Janis Zroback

    Just posted and featured in JPG Cast-Offs...I’m so pleased !http://images-3.redbubble.net/img/art/framecolor:black/framestyle:flat…

    Just posted and featured in JPG Cast-Offs...I’m so pleased / Blue on Blue Thank you to the Group Moderators

  • Today's Sale
    by Janis Zroback

    Todays Sale is a Canvas Print..... RB does a great job of these, and I’m extra happy when one is sold !http://images-3.redbubble….

    Todays Sale is a Canvas Print..... RB does a great job of these, and I’m extra happy when one is sold / Out There This painting is part of the second Journey series and is the 7th stage for the travellers... Thank you so much

  • Sale...
    by Janis Zroback

    Thank you so much. !http://images-1.redbubble.net/img/calendars/page:0/product:calendar/size:medium/view:preview/2762213-3-a-custom-...

    Thank you so much. / A Custom Creation I can create custom calendars using any of my images...

  • The Winter Cycle: or how to paint Sydney Park with fire and lime
    by Juilee Pryor

    The Winter Cycle: A hill painting project in two parts: Every now and again I might mention that I am really a painter not a photogr…

    The Winter Cycle: A hill painting project in two parts: Every now and again I might mention that I am really a painter not a photograher …but never follow through with examples of paintings…. now that won’t change hugely in the near future as my painting practice is often really personal and hence quite private…. but…. but I thought I’d do a journal about at type of painting that I once did where I was able to use the landscape as the actual canvas. Below is an image that looks rather abstract and simple. It’s called “Flaming Moebious with full moon” and it’s a photograph of a 50 metre long Moebious strip… the infinity symbol ….burning under a full moon and a little star….. and this journal is a document about how it came in to being. . / The Winter Cycle was a two part project that had its original genesis in a dream. A dream about painting and how to escape the limitations of paint while still being true to the landscape that inspired it. Partly about landscape painting and partly about a sculptural interaction with the landscape this massive hybrid art work took several months to realize. The first part of the project involved inscribing huge four pagan symbols onto the North facing hill of Syndney Park and the second part culminated with the spectacular burning of a 50 metre long Moebius strip under a full moon. It began as an expression of whimsy and ended as the peak event of the second Mascon Festival of the Moon held at Sydney Park on the edge of the inner city of Sydney on the 24th August 1997. / . / Here are the four pagan symbols I wanted to use in the first part of the project and to me they represented all that changes with the seasons over a period of time and all that remained constant. As winter changes to spring there was the perpetual cycle of nature represented by the moon, the sun, the elements and fire which in turn was an infinite cycle of growth, fruition, death and regeneration. / . / / . / and here is how they looked inscribed on the hill side of Sydney Park. / Now clearly I couldn’t do that all by myself so when I’d had the idea I got a group of friends together asked them if they would like to do something a tiny little bit out there with me…. and three people put their hands up for it…together we called ourselves the Grass Routes Renaissance (GRR). / . / What follows now is the story of how those two parts of the Winter Cycle actually came about. How do you get a mad idea like this from a rough biro sketch to a finished artwork? Well it took nearly three months of full on work so there was nothing quick about it. I had to convince a bunch of people that it was a way good idea and they should donate their time and labour to one of my mad ideas and then I had to talk the local council into letting us do it…. and then we had to live up to vision and actually do the damned thing….. Here is what the first quick sketch looked like… / . / / . / So how did we get it from a scrawled doodle to a finished artwork covering two whole sides of a hill with the complete support of the local council and the absolute fasination of the local community who could see it coming together? Reflecting back I can’t quite remember how I talked people into it but somehow I did and all I can do with this journal is show you how we actually produced the two parts of this Hill Painting. / . Part One: / . / Four 20 metre long pagan symbols representing the moon (luna), the sun (sol), the elements (elementa) and fire (ignis) were inscribed on the north facing hill of Sydney Park. / . Originally I had thought to grow the symbols with wheatgrass or somesuch thing but it just wasn’t practical in the end. So I convinced council to not mow the grass for a month or so. Then the symbols were marked out with spray paint and when the ground cover had grown sufficiently deep the symbols were drawn into the hillside using lawnmowers. / . / / . / This actually became a lot of fun and we would meet up at the park every weekend and flaff about in the winter sushine. We mowed down the hill. / . / / . / and we mowed up the hill / . / / . / The most important part of the mowing was to gouge out a sufficent depth to be able to infill the channels in order to make them visible. / . / / . / What we ended up with was vast lines in the landscape that blended into the earth beautifully. Each symbol was around 15 metres across so it was impossible to be able to keep each construction in eyeview while it was being drawn into the earth. But we did OK in the end. / . / / . / After the inscribed symbols were clearly visible they were then infilled with lime to echo the colossal chalk drawings found in various locations in England. / . / They went from looking like the first image to the second image: / . / Freshly mown bit of the elementa symbol / / . / Freshly limed bit of the elementa symbol / . / / . / And we did that by getting the council to gives us some tonnes of lime which we carted away in my old station wagon and then infilled the outlines by hand using shovels and brooms and a very very lot of elbow grease. / . / / . / / . / It took a couple of weekends to complete but we did it. / . / / . / / . / Then of course I had to take pictures of the whole hill side. Hmmm now short of hiring a plane or helicopter how was I going to get enough leverage to be able to do that? Well at that time Multiplex were building a huge ginormous apartment complex over the road from the park and lucky lucky they had a massive crane on site. / . / / . / I had to find out who was the site manager and then plauge him day and night to get permission to actually get access to this crane and Mulitplex were harder to talk into it than the council had been about letting me play around with the damned hill! But I can be persistant and eventually after a bit of effort I was able to talk them around…. woo hoo the crane was mine! / . / / . / Of course the reality of climbing up this huge structure was something I had not really factored into the equation while I was spending all my waking hours thinking about how I could get permission to actually get myself up the damned thing. OMG…. I don’t want to sound like a complete wimp but I was shitting myself. Eventually a friend came up with me so that was OK… I mean if he could do then surely I could….. / . / / . / / . / and here is one of me chilling out on the view from the gantry of the crane / . / / . These symbols were visible to users of the park, from the road by passing traffic, from the air by passing planes, from Centrepoint Tower in the very centre of Sydney its self and from Cyberspace. How unfortunate that Google Earth was still some time off in the future. / . / And that is how we did the first part of the Winter Cycle What comes next is the story of how we did the second part the Flaming Moebious. / . / Part Two On the opposite side of the hill facing the Airport and bordering the main clearing of the Park, a 50 metre long Moebious strip (infinity symbol) was inscribed into the hillside using a Bobcat. On the night of the festival a specially prepared 120 metre long petrol soaked rope was laid in the cavity and in a spectacular finale to the project was brought to flame just after sunset illustrating the infinite nature of the natural life cycle to all the participants and guests attending the festival. / . / First take one hill side then using a bobcat mark out the design. / Initally I had though to put the infinity sign into the ground with a back hoe or something but I chatted to council about it and bless their little cotton sox they offered me a bloke with a bobcat for a day….woo hoo… I always wanted to use a bobcat to draw with although I hadn’t realized it right up til that moment…. / . / The first thing was to put a design on the ground using spraypaint and then guide ropes. / . / / . / Pretty soon it was under way and the hill side was being transformed before out eyes. / . / / . / / . / Watching the bobcat perform it’s delicate manouvres on the sloping hillside remains with me to this day as a truely awesome thing that I can’t imagine being able to better. So don’t ever let anyone tell you that a bobcat doesn’t make a great drawing tool…. it works a treat…. / . / / . / In the background of this shot you can see the big crane I climbed up to take the photo’s of the symbols which are on the other side of this hill. / . / / . / Well the inscription was done. Now we had to wait for the night of the festival to bring our Moebious Strip to life. So meanwhile we were preparing our rope. Once more we got some help from the council in the shape of some large sulo bins and in these bins we were soaking 120 metres of rope in a driptorch mixture of petrol and two stoke and a bit of oil. Quite a brew as I remember. We had to pull all this festering volotile rope in its bins up to the park and lay it out in the track before the sun went down. Fortunately the original team of helpers had grown substantially by now so we girls had a quite a few large young men volenteering to help out by now…. and we put them to good use too…. / . / / . / But make no mistake this was a girly sort of project and the chaps had to take their directions from one of the girls running the show while I ran around on the night like a headless chicken taking photo’s and shooting with super 8 film and dealing with all the festival officaldom. This is the extraordinary Cathrine Keyzer getting the boys motivated. This amazing woman has three older brothers and three younger brothers so she was the perfect person to put in charge of the chaps. / . / / . / / . / The festival had been set up earlier in the day and there had been lots of stalls and lantern making workshops and there was lots of excitement and activity all around us with lots of curious onlookers. / . / / . / Here you can see the tents and activity of the fair in the background as Cath lays the rope into the tracks. / . / / . / We were fast loosing the last of the light and there is no artifical lighting within the grounds of the park so now it was all systems go and we had to really move ourselves around as quick as we could to get it all ready. Here are the boys running the rope about the circuit with one facing the front and pulling and one running backwards to make sure the rope came out as it was meant too. / . / / . / We had waited so patiently all day to do this and then it all happened at once in such a frantic rush with everybody working together. / . / / . / Now we had to wait and wait and wait for darkness to fall and the lantern parade to happen which was when we would be given a signal so we could ingnite our artwork in sinc with the fireworks. / . / . / Here is what it looked like with the fireworks on one hill and the Flaming Moebious Strip on the ajoining hill under a full moon. The little red triange under the Moebious is someone with a lantern making their way up the hill side to help out with the burning rope. / . / / . / Of course with such an ambitious and whimsical project like this there were bound to be a few issues that came up. One of these was the reality that we couldn’t actually test the rope. It was a bit of a cross your fingers and hope like hell that it will work proposition. Oh well we had really thought about the logistics of the rope burning and figured our odds were good. / . / / . / What happened though was the hour and half or so that the rope laid on the ground coupled with a gentle breeze lead to a bit of evaporation of the accelerant and it was quite difficult to get burning. This patchiness of the flame however lead to a rather suprising thing happening. / . / / . / People came from all over bearing their bic lighters and boxes of matches and joined in. There were folks everywhere taking charge of a tiny bit of rope and tending to it and keeping the flame alight while the fireworks finished. It really was awesome to see. / . / / . / The kids especialy just loved it to bits. No one was kept back or away from the flames and by allowing people to join in and take charge of it at this critical point made it truely something else again. / . / / . / Here you can see the whole shape of it and the poor quality of the image really positions it as a painting rather than a photograph. / . / Well how amazing this event has been but the finale is alway in the documentation and in this case it’s the idea that what has happened here is a painting not just an adjunct to a fireworks display. So now here are my paintings from the night. / . / Flaming Moebious with Full Moon / . / / . / Flaming Moebious with Full Moon and little star / . / / . / Grass Routes Renaissance (GRR comprised Juilee Pryor, Catherine Keyzer, Mary-Anne Johnson and Jeff Corbett. No public funding was sought in relation to this project but immense assistance in kind was provided by South Sydney Council who provided unfettered access to the site itself and then backed up their delight with the whimsy of the project by allowing us unlimited access to the logistical support of their Department of Parks and Gardens. These marvellous men provided us with the lawnmowers we needed for drawing in the symbols on the first hill along with some tonnes of lime need to fill in the symbols. They also generously provided us with the services of a Bobcat and its driver for a full day to draw in the Moebious Strip on the second hill. To South Sydney Council go our very great thanks and to the organizers of the Mascon festival similar thanks are also due for incorporating our Flaming Moebious into the finale of the Mascon Festival of the Moon. Juilee Pryor May 2009

  • Saturday Morning Feature
    by Janis Zroback

    In Bits and Pieces !http://images-0.redbubble.net/img/art/border:blackwithdetail/product:laminated-print/size:large/view:preview/265…

    In Bits and Pieces / Heat O wind, rend open the heat, / cut apart the heat, / rend it to tatters. / Fruit cannot drop / through this thick air / fruit cannot fall into heat / that presses up and blunts / the points of pears / and rounds the grapes. / Cut the heat / plough through it, / turning it on either side / of your path. Thank you so much to the Group Moderators

  • Featuresssssss.....
    by Janis Zroback

    The Watercolour Paintings Group has honoured me with Six Features today Thank you so much Marion Chapman and Marilyn Brown !http:...

    The Watercolour Paintings Group has honoured me with Six Features today Thank you so much Marion Chapman and Marilyn Brown / Winter’s Light / / Bacca Regius / / Ripe Cherries / / Juicy Stuff / / Tropical Fandango / / The Nothing That Is And Featured in The Scavenger Hunt / I Am the Memory of A Moment of Happiness Thank you so much to all the Group Moderators

  • Another Feature...The Outsiders
    by Janis Zroback

    The Second Feature for this Painting.. !http://images-2.redbubble.net/img/art/framecolor:black/framestyle:flat30/mattecolor:off%20wh…

    The Second Feature for this Painting.. / The Portrait Not a red rose or a satin heart. / I give you an onion. / It is a moon wrapped in brown paper. / It promises light / like the careful undressing of love. Here. / It will blind you with tears / like a lover. / It will make your reflection / a wobbling photo of grief. I am trying to be truthful. Not a cute card or kissogram. / I give you an onion. / Its fierce kiss will stay on your lips, / possessive and faithful / as we are, / for as long as we are. Take it. / Its platinum loops shrink to a wedding ring, / if you like. / Lethal. / Its scent will cling to your fingers, / cling to your knife ....Carol Ann Duffy. Thank you to the Group Moderators

  • A Sale...
    by Janis Zroback

    A Matted Print just posted... / !http://images-0.redbubble.net/img/art/mattecolor:black/product:matted-print/view:preview/2755820-3-the…

    A Matted Print just posted... / / The Mango Tree Thank you so much Anna

  • Today's Sale...
    by Janis Zroback

    This painting, along with the whole Tropical Series has done really well in sales I am really pleased !http://images-0.redbubble.n…

    This painting, along with the whole Tropical Series has done really well in sales I am really pleased / Tropical Fandango Thank you so much

  • / Winter Drift (Link to Page) I saw you as a beloved, phantom child / Beyond all years or time’s reckoning, / And would have given all that I am / To possess your eyes. / Damn time’s insolence / To enumerate all the years I never / noticed. / Now I must wonder / About the passing of years / And the counting of hours, / Wonder / If a gnarled tree / Can love Spring’s flowers. Thank you to the Group Moderators

  • Tuesday Feature
    by Janis Zroback

    JPG Cast-offs has featured Winter in the North (posted for the Scavenger Hunt) within minutes of publishing. I’m so pleased !http:...

    JPG Cast-offs has featured Winter in the North (posted for the Scavenger Hunt) within minutes of publishing. I’m so pleased / Winter in the North Thank you to the Group Moderators

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