Art Process for Rays Flip, Flap! Creatures of the Sea From A to Z.

The illustrations were rendered via dimensional collage.  Each creature was first drawn on cold press watercolor paper, painted via acrylic paint, cut out, then layered for depth. 

The original poster sized illustrations were displayed at the Upstate Golisano Children's Hospital in downtown Syracuse NY, bringing enjoyment to many of the young patients and their families. During the month, Marsha also presented a workshop on the art process for parents and children. 

Portions of book sales have been donated to the Golisano Children's Hospital art therapy program, and to select ocean-health funds protecting our planet's water for future generations.

Marsha provided an exhibit of her book Rays Slip Slap, Creatures of the Sea from A to Z at the Syracuse NY children's cancer hospital, Golisano Medical Center.

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The Everson Members' Council presents 60/60 under the tents on the Everson Community Plaza. Art lovers stroll about chatting with the 60 artists as they work and purchase raffle tickets which they place in pails by the artists whose pieces they would like to win. At the end of the hour, winning raffle tickets are drawn for each of the sixty works of art. 

(Past-event)

Health Sciences Library. SUNY Upstate Medical University, Weiskotten Hall, 766 Irving Ave. Mon.-Fri.: 9 a.m.-7 p.m. 464-4828, 464-4582. Through June: Passages: Ancient to Modern, abstract mixed media on canvas by school psychologist Marsha C. Egan.

Marsha Egan provided one of her poems to accompany this painting of the Manlius Swan Pond in Manlius, NY.

Artist:  Bernard Lee

Learning Nihonga (Japanese painting techniques with ground minerals and semi precious gemstones) in Litchfield, Connecticut with Judith Kruger, renowned Nihonga artist. 

Wabi Sabi is a Japanese philosophy of beauty focused on imperfect things, a concept more often felt than articulated. Wabi Sabi implies a sense of timelessness yet reveres the transiency of life. I am reminded of reading The Little Prince by Antoine St. Exupery, to my young son. The fox is speaking to the young boy, "And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."  I believe Wabi Sabi is not a "thing" but the heartfelt being/essence/ interpretation of the "thing". I am sure there are many experts out there who may disagree with my interpretation, but for me the (he)artful essence of the simple, the organic, nature-based, and serene, exemplifies my attempts to discover Wabi Sabi in my art and in my daily life.

Friday late afternoon, decided to go into the back of my yard near trees with my portable table, always ready-to-go paint box, and canvas, to paint an in-the-moment painting. Trying a new technique with a squeegee, soft watery blues led me to call my abstract 30x40 piece, Homage to Monet. Yes, that is a glass of wine in the picture.