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Dear Friends:
So many good wishes to all of you and prayers for your good intentions in 2009. In preparing my own list of good intentions it occurred to me that my list needed to be based on a foundation that would support the plan. Sort of like preparing the right size canvas, or cutting the right size piece of paper to house the size of the composition we have in mind for our drawing or painting.
The framework for our lives and for any good piece of artwork lays in the preparation of a good foundation. The Boy Scouts have the right idea. And as I reflect on this I begin my preparations. My thoughts roll around and begin to take shape. And as Buddha says, �The thought manifests as the word; The word manifests as the deed; The deed develops into habit��
Working backwards in thought, I ask what road do I seek and who and what will I be at the end of the journey? It seems life is made up of many roads � every choice an opportunity to merge or diverge with the great divine. Opportunity then, I would think, is the miracle gift of the new year. What a great sense of hope it offers to each and every one of us!
And so with my jumbo plastic calendar I plot my course�.time for you, time for me, time for the spouse in the house, time for art, time for exercise, time for kindness, time for love, and most of all time for God�for in that speck of time His will makes time stand still and opens up a world of grace that feeds our soul and marks our place.
May our calendars have such places for time where the exercise of our thought expands our life, our heart, our soul. God bless. OM
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Change Your Thoughts - Change Your Life: Living the Wisdom of the Tao
By Wayne W. Dyer
The Power of Intention
By Wayne W. Dyer
The Intention Experiment:
Using Your Thoughts to
Change Your Life and the World
By Lynne McTaggart
The Amazing Power of Deliberate Intent:
Living the Art of Allowing
By Esther Hicks, Jerry Hicks
Cracking Creativity: The Secrets of Creative Genius
By Michael Michalko
Mosaic of Thought, Second Edition:
The Power of Comprehension Strategy Instruction
By Ellin Oliver Keene,Susan Zimmermann
How to See Yourself As You Really Are
By His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Cultivating the Mind of Love
By Thich Nhat Hanh
The Teachings of Kirpal Singh
Published by Ruhani Satsang
His Grace Lives On
The Last Darshan Talks of Kirpal Singh
Published by Ruhani Satsang
Academy of Botanical Art
Distance Learning
Now Available for Anyone
Interested in Endangered Species,
Bromeliads or Palms
Endangered Species for Botanical Artists
This wonderful course is available to anyone interested in the study of endangered species.
Academy Students earn elective credits for taking this course and completing the enclosed exam. A wealth of information that all will find extremely interesting.
Academy Electives: 15
by John Beckner, Botanist
$150.00 Non Certificate Student ~ $275 Certificate Students
Bromeliads for Botanical Artists
The structure of bromeliad plants and their flowers
with suggestions for ways to illustrate and
better understand these exciting plants.
Academy Electives: 5
by John Beckner, Botanist
$50.00 Non Certificate Student ~ $175 Certificate Students
Palms for the Botanical Artist
This publication is just the tip of an iceberg.
Palms are plants inclined to large dimensions.
They are very numerous and more varied than you first imagine. This text is for the person interested in illustrating them in various ways;
artistic or scientific and as a motif for crafts. But nearly all of it will be useful to plant lovers, tropical nature fans, gardeners and other people.
Academy Electives: 5
by John Beckner, Botanist
$50.00 Non Certificate Student ~ $175 Certificate Students
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Academy and its instructors
ABA Instruction & Course Paks
The Academy of Botanical Art�s flexible program allows for distance learners to tailor a schedule of botanical art training to their needs that includes phone tutored lessons, classes with the Ringling College of Art and Design, the Marie Selby Botanical Garden, and Academy workshops now offered in several locations. Distance learners take advantage of classes offered in their hometown as part of their study program. There is hardly an excuse left not to join the Academy's growing school.
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The soul is dyed by the thoughts.
Dye it then, with a continuous series of such thoughts as these � that where a man can live, there � if he will �
he can also live well.
Marcus Aurelius
A man would do well to carry a pencil in his pocket, and write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought are commonly the most valuable, and should be secured, because they seldom return.
Sir Francis Bacon
The thought manifests as the word;
The word manifests as the deed;
The deed develops into habit;
And habit hardens into character.
So watch the thought and its ways with care, And let it spring from love;
Born out of concern for all beings.
Buddha
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
Benjamin Disraeli
Have the courage to take your own thoughts seriously, for they will shape you.
Albert Einstein
The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.
Mahatma Gandhi
Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
John F. Kennedy
The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
John Milton
Even a thought, even a possibility, can shatter us and transform us.
Friedrich Nietzsche
A thought is an idea in transit.
Pythagoras
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Painters, voice your thoughts judiciously and at your own peril, lest you kill that which you wanted to see grow. If you must share your thoughts, try an in-studio diary.
Alexander Petti
My life has been woven in this one thought that there is no East and no West, the whole creation is the House of our Father.
Kirpal Singh
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Art Classes & Workshops
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Distance Learning with Class Time
at any of our locations!!!
Private Classes with O.M.Braida
Studio 20
Time:
All Private Studio Classes
are from 9:30am to 2:30pm
Location:
2068 Sunnyside Lane, Sarasota, FL, 34239.
Just off 41 in the Southgate area two blocks north of Webber and the Mall.
Special LEAF Drawing or Painting Class at Studio 20
FRIDAY, January 16, 2009 � 9:30am to 2:30pm
$140.00 Non-Certificate Students
$165.00 for Certificate Students
Refreshments provided, but you may want to bring your own lunch.
Regular Studio 20 Class Dates:
Thursdays, 9:30am to 2:30pm
January 8, 15, 22, 29
February 5, 12, 19, 26
March 5, 12, 19, 26
April 2, 9, 16, 23, 30
May 7, 14, 21, 28
June 4, 18, 25
Tuition:
4 classes/20 hours: $450
Individual class: $125
Refreshments provided, but you may want to bring your own lunch.
Credit Cards Accepted!
Register Here
Or contact olivia@omartdesigns.com
Or Call 941-953-9999 for more information
Plant Morphology for Artists @ Studio 20 With John Beckner
Ten Tuesdays � 1:30am to 4:30pm
Class Dates:
January 13, 27
February 10, 24
March 3, 10, 17, 31
April 7, 14
Or contact olivia@omartdesigns.com
Or Call 941-953-9999 for more information
New York City Spring
Workshops
with O.M. Braida
Location:
New Studio for the Art of Painted Finishes
15 East 77th Street (Between 5th & Madison)
Ground Floor - Garden Level Studio
Time:
9:30am to 4:30pm
Dates:
May 4 - 8, 2009
Tuition: One Five-Day Workshop........................ $875.00
Some single day seats may be available at $180 per day.
Credit Cards Accepted!
Register Here
Or contact olivia@omartdesigns.com
Or Call 941-953-9999 for more information
Academy of Botanical Art @
Marie Selby Botanical Gardens
To Register, visit www.selby.org
Or Call Marilynn Shelley 941-366-5731 x 239
2009 Academy @ Selby Schedule
Botanical Drawing & Watercolor � Noon to 5pm
Jan.19, 20, 21 w/ Olivia Braida
Feb. 16, 17, 18 w/ Olivia Braida
March 23, 24, 25 w/ Olivia Braida
April 20 to 25 w/ Olivia Braida
May 18, 19, 20 w/ Olivia Braida
Botanical Art & Illustration
Certificate Program Classes
Ringling College of Art and Design
Spring 2009 Term
Thursdays, February 5, 12, 19, 26, March 5
6:30pm to 9:30pm
and
Thursdays, March 12, 19, 26, April 2, April 9
6:30pm to 9:30pm
To Register, visit www.ringling.edu
Or call, 941-955-8866
Open Studio Workshops
for all levels
w/Olivia Braida
October to December - 6:30 to 9:30pm
Academy @ Kentucky
with Leslie Ramsey
Botanical Art Workshops
Graphite � Watercolor � Pen & Ink
Beginners to Advanced
With
Leslie Ramsey
Certified Botanical Artist
Certified Academy Instructor
THURSDAYS
January to June
Day & Evening Classes
Day: 10am to 1 pm $200 (individual class $75)
Evening: 5:30pm - 8:30pm $200 (individual class $75)
Location
4464 Stuart Hall Boulevard #33102
Lexington, KY 40509
Art supplies and books not included.
For recent Arboretum/Kentucky University
Workshop attendees who completed Drawing I and Watercolor I, pursue the next level book
Drawing II and Watercolor II.
For Books and Course Paks and
Art Supplies visit�
www.botanicalartsupplies.com
To Register, call Leslie Ramsey:
606-434-4280
Exhibits
Exhibits Museums
South Florida Museum
201 10th Street West
Bradenton, Florida 34205
(941) 746-4131
http://www.southfloridamuseum.org/
John and Mable Ringling Museum
5401 Bay Shore Road,
Sarasota Florida 34243
(941) 359-5700
http://www.ringling.org/
Museum of Fine Arts
255 Beach Drive NE, St.
Petersburg, FL 33701
(727) 896-2667
http://www.fine-arts.org/
Salvador Dali Museum
1000 Third Street South
St. Petersburg, Florida 33701-4901
(727) 823-3767
http://www.salvadordalimuseum.org/home.html
Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213-3890
(412) 268-2434
http://huntbot.andrew.cmu.edu/
National Museum of Women in the Arts
1250 New York Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC 20005-3970
(202) 783-5000
1-800-222-7270
http://www.nmwa.org/
Smithsonian Institute
10th Street and Constitution Ave., NW in Washington, D.C. 20560
(202) 633-1000
http://www.si.edu/
Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue
New York, New York 10028
(212) 535-7710
http://www.metmuseum.org/
American Museum of Natural History
79th Street @ Central Park West
New York, New York
(212) 769-5100
http://www.amnh.org/
American Museum of Natural History
79th Street @ Central Park West
New York, New York
(212) 769-5100
http://www.amnh.org/
Modern Museum of Art
11 West 53 Street,
New York, NY 10019-5497
(212) 708-9400
http://www.moma.org/
Brooklyn Museum of Art
200 Eastern Pkwy
Brooklyn, NY 11238
(718) 638-5000
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/
High Museum of Art
1280 Peachtree Street, N.E.
Atlanta, Georgia 30309
(404) 733-HIGH
Receptionist: 404-733-4400
http://www.high.org/
Art Institute of Chicago
111 South Michigan Avenue
Chicago, Illinois, 60603-6404
(312) 443-3600
http://www.artic.edu/aic/
Bruce Museum One Museum Drive
Greenwich, CT 06830
203-869-0376
http://www.brucemuseum.org/
Harvard University Museum of Natural History
Home of the famous Glass Flower Sculptures
by Leopold Blaschka (1822-1895)
and his son Rudolf (1857-1939)
22 Divinity Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02138
(617) 495-2365
http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/
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