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Duality Of Self
Ivette Newport
Duality Of Self
Ivette Newport

I hope your week is off to a great start! I got home from The Art of Sisterhood Retreat on Friday and it was an absolutely amazing experience! My heart is full! As promised, I’m delighted to share the lesson I taught while there with you all today! I hope you enjoy watching the process.

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A Self-Portrait Collage
Ivette Newport
A Self-Portrait Collage
Ivette Newport

I just completed this self portrait collage and I absolutely loved the process. Working with your own image can be kinda uncomfortable but I think that’s the point. Right? Who said art making was comfortable?! Lol.

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Colorflow Update
Ivette Newport
Colorflow Update
Ivette Newport

We have been busy bees here in the studio putting all the finishing touches on our Colorflow book! This book has been meticulously designed by us with so much love and I can’t wait to begin shipping them out to you at the beginning of November!

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Let's Face It 2019
Ivette Newport
Let's Face It 2019
Ivette Newport

Hello Friends! I am so excited to announce that I am going to be a part of the Let’s Face It -2019 Team! This will be my fourth year and the line up of artists is outstanding!!! Seriously amazing!

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Creation & Destruction
Ivette Newport
Creation & Destruction
Ivette Newport

I’m excited and (crazy nervous) to share these videos with you today. Why? Well, they document one of my creative processes that went rather awry…like I totally had a meltdown and had to start over! It’s embarrassing in some ways but completely cathartic in others to just be OPEN about it and let you watch the whole thing unravel. LOL!

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Leaves In Her Hair
Ivette Newport
Leaves In Her Hair
Ivette Newport

I'm excited to share the first Colorflow video tutorial with you! I've wanted to create this artistic resource for years and it's an absolute thrill to finally see it come into being!

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This was my demo from today teaching at @karabullockart’s gorgeous studio! Such a fantastic group of students who were willing to create boldly! Loved witnessing all that they made! Day 2 we will play with color! ❤️😍🎨
✨Hello creative friends✨ . I’m so excited to invite you to join me for an incredible adventure to the west coast of Ireland! ☘ . To the Emerald Isle, where magic, mystery, and myth enchant the very soil! This 7 night/8 day all inclusive creative journey will be hosted by The Essence of Mulranny Studio, run and operated by artists, Lora Murphy & Cheryl Cobern Browne and located in the quaint coastal village of Mulranny! . A place full of rugged beauty, fascinating history and endless inspiration! Let me tell you a little bit about our plans... . Your 8 days will be a beautiful blend of studio time, delightful excursions, cultural experiences and of course, plenty of free time to rest and explore! I will guide you through many projects ranging from portrait making, expressive collage, art journaling, sketching on location and of course, mixed media encaustic! . We will be visiting enchanting villages, strolling along the beautiful coastline, touring ancient castles and ruins, picnicking in the heather fields and creating all along the way! . You will leave Ireland full of inspiration, new artistic skills and extensive mixed media knowledge - PLUS personal and soulful artwork that will forever commemorate this life-changing adventure! . I hope you will join me! . To learn more go here: ☘️www.ivynewport.com/join-us-in-ireland☘️
Sometimes my non-dominant hand won’t even let the other one play! Lol. It’s getting rather bossy! I love seeing what it decides to create. 🤷🏽‍♀️😂🙌 Can’t wait to travel down to CA this week to @karabullockart fabulous studio to teach some of my non-dominant hand techniques! 👏❤️
“Note to Self” {another message that poured out onto my page last night} . Do not let the broken parts of you be the guide through this world. The lost parts. The fragments. . Snarling, caged beasts, tethered to the corners of your heart. . They are not the soothsayers nor the seers of truth. . Still cringing and lunging, the pain of their last wound, fresh. . They will lead you astray. They will bite at the air around you. Attack the good and the bad, not knowing the difference. . Look past these shadows in your soul. To the light beyond. It still smolders within. A beacon of hope. Of truth. . A way back to love. To trust. To the truest parts of yourself. . From here, from this place, is where you must open your eyes. . See across the waters. . Send your love back to that maimed creature. Restore it’s faith in what can be. In what can be good And pure. . That is all that is required. . To begin here and face what you see in the reflection of your pain. . Look deep enough and you will see fear. Cure it with love. Small doses. Over time. . A gentle hand and a clear path. . I’ll be waiting.
“✨Surrender your light✨” My thanks to my dear friend Jackie Barragan for helping to facilitate the healing needed to express this art. 😘 My non dominant hand led the way to me releasing this. - {These words came to me after a beautiful week witnessing amazing women create and connect. I could see the incredible beauty in it all...but of course, I also witnessed the doubt, the hesitation the lack of trust in ourselves. In myself. These words came as a sweet whisper while in the clouds somewhere between Arizona and Portland and I’m grateful for them.} - “What if?” - What if we “think” we know what we want our art to look like. To feel like. To be - but we really have no idea at all? - What if the image in our mind is NOT what actually needs to be created? To be revealed. To be expressed. To be birthed. - What if our limited, linear, logical brains are unable to comprehend the magnificence of what our soul yearns to share? - What if we could accept that? To move out of the way. To lay down our egos. To revere the divine creativity that exists within us all. - This is where we must begin. Humble. Unknowing. Trusting. - Close your eyes. See what you “think” you “want” to create. Then wipe it away with inky blackness, with a firm hand and an open heart. - Cast aside your expectations. Your desires. Your need to perform. Your desperate want to be accepted. - You have what you need within. You just need to step aside and trust the all knowing that resides in your heart. Your soul. - Approach the page and put your faith in this. - Art is not about outcome it is about surrender. - Surrender your humanness and embrace your divinity. - Now paint.
Today was the last day of The Art of Sisterhood Retreat and I’m sad it went by so fast.😔 - This final creation really expresses the magic, mystery and power that occurs when women from all walks of life come together to create.✨ - I have been touched by each and every one of them. ❤️ - My thanks go out to @karabullockart for, yet again making this incredible experience possible. - I have deep gratitude for being able to do this work and truly witness how art unites our sisterhood. 🙏 - This piece was created during @murielstegers wonderful class! What a beautiful way to close this week. 😍🙌
Having SO much fun at #artofsisterhoodretreat ! This morning the lovely @karabullockart taught charcoal portraits! I was a happy girl, shame my portrait doesn’t look too pleased!! Lol! 😂Love being around all these amazing creative women!! ❤️❤️❤️
Just completed this self portrait collage and I absolutely loved the process. - Working with your own image can be kinda uncomfortable but I think that’s the point. 🤔😉Right? Who said art making was comfortable?! Lol. 😂 - Working with collage always reminds me how relaxing it is to rifle through papers and find connection in the broken pieces. - Much like a painted self portrait, a collaged one brought me insight into my thoughts and meaning to the marks, shapes, colors and fragments of paper that I selected. - I was also reminded at how much collage hones one’s compositional skills. Like arranging a puzzle, each piece builds the picture. Light and dark need to be balanced along with form and line. - I filmed the whole process so I will be sharing it soon! 👏😘 - BUT first I get to travel to Arizona and teach with an amazing group of women for 💗The Art of Sisterhood retreat! This will be the lesson I share with my students and I can’t wait to see what they create! - I’ll be sharing my journey in my stories if you want to tag along with me. ❤️❤️ - Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend. 😘
This portrait came about in a strange way...I was feeling a little down and felt the need to sit down and draw. (Side note: I had just read a historical novel about women in Insane Asylums...yeah dark, I know.)😔 - I began the way I always do. Reference photo, charcoal, non dominant hand. I kinda half heartedly doodled and let my hand wander around the page. - My daughter, Grace came in and asked what I was doing? - I murmured, “I don’t know. “ - “Are you doing a portrait?” She pressed. - “Maybe...” I said. - Meanwhile, I had grabbed a china marker, a ball point pen, a tube of titan buff paint and some chalk pastels. I began to make strange marks, scribbling over most of my drawing with the china marker. - “Why are you messing it up?” Grace asked. - “I’m not.” I squeezed out a blob of paint right in the center of the face and began to smear it around with my fingers. The features bled and blurred as I rubbed the paint into the charcoal. Then I began to spray water all over the page. - Grace was watching on with a mixture of confusion and fascination on her face. - Finally she broke the silence, an edge of frustration in her voice, “MOM! What ARE you doing???!!” - I stopped and looked up at her. - “I’m allowing.” I said. She cocked her head and said, “Allowing for WHAT?!” “I’m allowing the piece to guide me, instead of the other way around.” She looked at me, contemplating what I had said. Then she nodded, smiled and said, - “Well, I think it’s working.” - I went on allowing the piece to navigate my next moves. If I felt myself over thinking, I dropped whatever I was using and picked up something else with the other hand. I could feel my sadness release into the marks I made...I kept going till it was gone. - I’m not entirely sure where all of this is heading but I know that I want much more from my art. I know that to get there, I need to embrace the unknown and learn to trust my intuition on a deeper level. - Anyone else feeling this way? Or maybe I’m just being a crazy artist! Lol! 😂😬
Love this quote via @daniellelaporte ! It’s so so true! Wishing you all a wonderful weekend!! 💗🙏😘
Tonight I am playing with mixed media collage! What a fun exploration! The image is via @unsplash and I went a little crazy with vintage papers, napkins, charcoal, china marker, gel pens (I stole from my kids 🤫) acrylic paint, ball point pen, powdered graphite and white charcoal pencil. Whew! 🙃🤭 talk about mixed media!! Lol! - {This piece was inspired artist @paul_cristina }
✨Happy Friday friends!✨ - { “Into the Night” - 11” x 14” acrylic & oil on water color paper } ✨AVAILABLE✨ PM me if interested. - So... just got her finished up this morning. What a delight she was to create. I truly learned so much this week about how incredibly important it is for me to be aware of my inner dialogue when creating. - I can clearly see now that on Tuesday (my bad studio day), I was consumed with the future - worrying about the outcome, what people would think, even imagining them watching my video and criticizing me! 😖 Thanks inner critic...😒 - BUT with this piece I started the day with a short meditation thanks to my buddy @trinamlee1 and entered into the creative space with a calm, loving energy. ❤️ - I still had my usual fear and doubts about approaching the blank canvas but I quietly and kindly told those thoughts to hush. I put my faith in my hands and began. The process flowed with ease. (Phew!) 😌 - I also learned that sharing about my “failure” released me from feeling the shame that inevitably was connected to it. - Instead, I felt relieved and could be more objective about what went wrong instead of staying locked in a cycle of self-berating. - You guys were the BEST too with all your kind words and encouragement! I’m so thankful. 🙏😘 - Wishing everyone a beautiful weekend! Xo.
🎨WIP✨ - Well today brought with it a completely different energy. A calmness that seemed to permeate the studio. I approached the paper with some hesitation but it quickly faded as I let my non dominant hand lead the way. 🌌She emerged from the darkness, swirling in midnight and let me breathe life into her with gentle brushstrokes. 🌌 A blend of graphite, acrylic and oil paint. She rests now and we will see what tomorrow will bring. My ❤️ heart is full of gratitude for you guys, who cheered me on and who embraced my vulnerability. I believe it truly gave me the strength to try again today. So thank you!!! 🙏 { This is my project from the online class - Wanderlust 2018 @everythingartuk }
As you may have seen in my Instagram stories, yesterday was a tough one in the studio! Filmed for five hours and ended up with a huge mess. 🤦🏽‍♀️😫 ✨BUT✨ today I care back to the destroyed canvas and tried again. After a few more layers she emerged and I’m so glad I didn’t give up. I filmed the whole process MESS and all!! 😬 I’ll be sharing it soon. ❤️❤️Thank you to everyone who has been so supportive! 😘😘 This art gig is not for the faint of heart! 😬
So here’s the wild sister to my other abstract painting! I figured I would push this one past my comfort zone and see what happened. It felt like a mess but it has grown on me now. I think it has 13 layers of paint on it! Talk about a process!! I’m still relatively new to abstract painting, with expressive portraiture being my focus, as many of you know but I really love working this way - playing with pure color and texture. The more I create abstract work the more I understand just how complex it is. You think it’s gonna be easy but then....😬 I will say that choosing a color palette really helped me begin this journey. 💙💙💙 I would love to hear from other abstract painters - How do you start your process?
So...this is one of the pieces I created yesterday during my self-inflicted, paint abstracts all day and don’t stop till your ready to fall over session. 😬 🎨 It was so very enjoyable but wow what a rollercoaster of emotions. 🤦🏽‍♀️ Creating abstract work is truly an act of discovery and an unraveling of oneself. My analytical mind basically freaked out and kept getting in the way! My mind kept future tripping, attaching to a desired outcome. I went from carefully adding brushstrokes to carelessly destroying the entire piece. 🤦🏽‍♀️🙄😑So to sum up the experience,I listed the layers with a one word description. I think I counted about 13 layers of paint... 🎨 The 13 layers of my recent abstract painting experience... 1. Playful 2. Messy 3. Curious 4. Predictable 5. Bored 6. Destruction 7. Confused 8. Interested 9. Excited 10. Contrived 11. Destruction 12. Intrigued 13. Wondering (is it done?) 😂 I have HUGE respect for the Abstract artists I follow! 😘🙏
After painting abstracts all day, I needed to see this. Lol. 😬😑🙄😂