FEBRUARY news January 28, 2016

Hello dear sweet souls, January is almost gone and with the workshops “Passport To Journal” in Austin, TX and “Alterations” at home in Redondo Beach, CA, it was a most exuberant month. A fantastic beginning to what promises to be a prolific and altered year for all of us. I just feel it! And I wish it!!

I have created The Journaling Game last month and am so happy it was received so well and people are feeling inspired by them. I now have the card sets in stock and plan to make sure they will be in stock at all times.

More information about The Journaling Game and how to order is available only by inquiring via orlyavineri@gmail.com

Towards the end of February I will be taking a nice drive to the beautiful Santa Cruz Mountains in California to teach in one of my favorite retreats, An Artful Journey.

It is unfortunately the last one. I believe registration is still open.

www.anartfuljourney.com/feb-2016/

If you are interested in finding out where I will be teaching throughout this year please check out oneartistjournal.com/workshops-and-retreats/ Please make sure you scroll down to find out who to contact regarding a specific workshop.

Visual Journaling in Southern Cal. January 21, 2016

This weekend…waiting to alter and be altered.  The practice of Visual Journaling cultivates insight into the nature of the creative process and its multiple meanings. Enriched by self trust and acceptance, paper, paint, words, pen, and line entwine to make expressive complex intimate books. It’s all about one’s willingness to reveal vulnerability and rawness for the sake of true creative freedom. Experiencing honest and joyous journeys takes precedence over producing beautiful outcomes. Ultimately, visual journaling is about depicting the fluidity of life, about effortlessly carrying one’s self from one place to another.

THE (art) JOURNALING GAME January 16, 2016

…is back, and is available in the US, Canada, and outside of the US.

For inquiries and purchase please email me at:

orlyavineri@gmail.com

The (art) Journaling Game is a deck of 48 cards (3.5 x 3.5”) with art derived from my journals on one side and a prompt and a spark of inspiration on the other. It’s designed for the absolute beginner or the seasoned art-journaler, working solo or enjoying a group setting, with materials mostly found at home, in nature, and on the street.

THE (art) JOURNALING GAME December 22, 2015

THE (art) JOURNALING GAME is now OUT OF STOCK.

In mid January 2016 it will be available again for inquiries and purchase and shipping in the US, Canada, and outside of the US.

The (art) Journaling Game is a deck of 48 cards (3.5 x 3.5”) with art derived from my journals on one side and a prompt and a spark of inspiration on the other. It’s designed for the absolute beginner or the seasoned art-journaler, working solo or enjoying a group setting, with materials mostly found at home, in nature, and on the street.

The Journaling Game December 20, 2015

Another batch of The (Art) Journaling Game deck of cards is in and ready for you to order…

oneartistjournal.com/my-store/

….in the US, Canada, and outside of the US.

The (art) Journaling Game is a deck of 48 cards (3.5” x 3.5”) with journal art on one side and a prompt and inspiration on the other. It’s designed for the absolute beginner or the seasoned art-journaler, working solo or enjoying a group setting, with materials mostly found at home, in nature, and on the street.

…and the winner… December 15, 2015

…of a deck of THE (ART) JOURNALING GAME is

(drum roll)…

Ronit Neeman Salei…

CONGRATULATIONS!!

…an email will be sent to you shortly…

DUE TO HIGH VOLUME OF ORDERS THE CARD DECKS ARE NOW OUT OF STOCK….A NEW SHIPMENT IS UNDERWAY! 

THANK YOU FOR YOUR GREAT ENTHUSIASM, YOUR RESPONSE HAS BEEN  INCREDIBLE!!!

I appreciate your patience as I try to navigate this new terrain and also make it available for individuals outside of the US.

The Journaling Game & Giveaway December 13, 2015

THE JOURNALING GAME is out and a deck of cards is ready to be given away.

But first let me tell you how it came about….

A few years ago I was teaching in a beautiful art retreat in the mountains, a place where the joy of creating didn’t stop at the end of the class but continued into the night.

Retreat buddies gathered in their cabins to journal together. I started noticing that it wasn’t that easy for anyone to be in a group setting and have ideas how to begin, continue, or end their pages.

Then an idea came to visit me. How about if each of us took a turn in giving the rest of us a prompt. It was not only working out but it was contributing to a light, non-judgmental, fun evening.

Since that day it was known to be The Journaling Game and inspired many gatherings to be joyously creative and lively.

So I’ve designed a deck of cards based on that idea. Each card has a close-up taken from one of my journal pages on one side and on the other, not really a technique but more of a prompt, a starter, a process that can take you in many directions if you run with it…it has an opening to a new expression. It offers many opportunities for you to explore and become inquisitive about, to expand your emotional and creative horizons.

The box reads “Sparks of inspiration for individuals who work solo or in a group setting with materials mostly found at home, in nature, and on the street.”

DUE TO HIGH VOLUME OF ORDERS THE CARD DECKS ARE NOW OUT OF STOCK….A NEW SHIPMENT IS UNDERWAY! 

THANK YOU FOR YOUR GREAT ENTHUSIASM, YOUR RESPONSE HAS BEEN  INCREDIBLE!!!

I appreciate your patience as I try to navigate this new terrain.

There are 48 cards in the box, 3.5” x 3.5” in size. Each deck costs $28 (+shipping and handling) and can be ordered through me at the link below: www.oneartistjournal.com/my-store/ (US ONLY)

For those of you located outside of the US shipping will be available soon.

For a chance to win a deck of The Journaling Game please leave a comment right here, tell us if you’ve played this before and please remember to include your email address in case you are the one to win.

A randomly selected winner will be announced in 48 hours, that is Monday at 5:30pm Pacific time.

Tiny Books, Big Expressions November 18, 2015

It’s been a few years since I made such a book from one sheet of watercolor paper. I learned how to do it from the incredible Tracy Moore at Teesha Moore’s “Play” retreat up in Port Townsend in Washington State. I made two of them. They are really tiny, about 2 x 2 1/2 inches. I was proud of myself and was super enthused holding them in my hands and imagining their interior potential. Starting there and continuing on my way home on the airplane with only Peerless Watercolor Papers, a Niji brush, and black and white gel pens, with my buddy Brian Kasstle, I filled one up with faces, and titled it My Mini Face Book. It holds a lot of humor, in some pages. So I then came up with the idea to teach a workshop, but needed my friend Elise Amour to join me in two 2-day workshops in Southern California where we both live. She would teach how to make these books using the coptic stitch and I would teach funky ways of filling up these pages… that happened in the last two weekends…we all, teachers and those attending had such a spirited time.  Since then both times after class I continued and finished both books made in class. I enjoyed this process so much…seeing how a theme emerges. There is something so intimate, raw, and real that happens in such a tiny format. You can begin a book and finish it in a few intensely enlivening hours. And boom, you are moved by your own creation, that something out of nothing again. It’s a sensual, tactile little thing, a microcosm of one person, in all that she loves to create.

Here are the two books:

The first one resides mostly in a rusty, heavy, soil-like realm, and does not relate to words very well. And yes, Paul got in there cause he just appeared and was given as a gift to this book. And the other a Mini Face Book of mourning…dispirited faces. A tribute to “Paris” and other wide-spread losses….expressing the thought that change comes in small formats, sometimes too small to contain big sorrows. It was instigated by little paper-mache faces that were gifted to each one of us by Lydia Velarde, one of the kind souls who attended the workshop. The manner in which I created the faces were inspired by Marlene Dumas’ art which for me epitomizes the essence of visual journaling: puddles of water, minimal ink, less control, more raw expression.

I do it all for the purpose of mending…

And the winner is… November 13, 2015

CONGRATULATIONS DEAR SOJNA!!!

You are the winner of one of my workshops in 2016!!!!!

Sojna’s comment: “Hello Orly, What a generous give away. Can’t tell you how happy I would be to attend one of your workshops. I guess it would be kind of like a miracle to win? I would be ecstatic to win any of your workshops but if I had my choice it would be The Visual Journal as Sanctuary in Portland, A visual Journal….a place for Independence Star Idaho, or The Visual Journal as Sanctuary in Redondo Beach, CA. I would just like to take a class from you and no one comes to INDIANA!”

I am so happy you won Sojna, I’ll email you shortly! XO

My Visual Journaling Teaching Schedule and GIVEAWAY November 10, 2015

I am finally announcing my workshops schedule for 2016…I am beyond beyond excited…I have carefully chosen places I wholeheartedly believe will be a great fit to the manner in which I naturally create, and to my innermost longings to connect to people and places, wishes to share what I have inside me with others.

For more information about the individual workshops please contact the host or visit the link noted underneath the specific poster. Please scroll down to find them!

A GIVEAWAY

I’ve decided to give one of my workshops away to one eager student. The workshops that are up for winning are the ones that have my email address underneath the posters below. That’s orlyavineri@gmail.com. There are 7 of them. To enter the drawing please leave a comment here and mention the specific workshop you are interested in attending.

A winner will be randomly drawn on Friday, November 13, at noon Pacific Time.

I hope you’ll join me someday in 2016

Please scroll down to see the individual workshop announcements and who to contact to receive more information.

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https://jannasammon.com/2015/06/passport-to-journal-with-orly-avineri/

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For details please email me

orlyavineri@gmail.com

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www.makeartinla.com/2016-workshops/alterations-with-orly-avineri

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www.anartfuljourney.com/feb-2016/orly-avineri/

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teeshamoore.com/af2016-menu/

SOLD OUT

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For details please email me

orlyavineri@gmail.com

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www.erinfaithallen.com/ghostranchretreat/  SOLD OUT

www.erinfaithallen.com/ghostranch2/  SOLD OUT

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For details please email me

orlyavineri@gmail.com

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 For details please email me

orlyavineri@gmail.com

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For details please email Kathie Vezzani

kathievezzani@yahoo.com

SOLD OUT

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For details please email me

orlyavineri@gmail.com

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For details please email Leslie Van der Heide

leslie.vanderheide15@gmail.com

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www.erinfaithallen.com/prague/

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For details please email Jenny Grant

jenny.b.grant@gmail.com

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For details please email Amanda Grace

hello@amandagraceart.com

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For details please email Rebecca Brooks

recuerda_mi_corazon@yahoo.com

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For details please email me

orlyavineri@gmail.com