Denita Tizard

Isn't it funny how you start looking for something on the net, you get distracted you end up finding other things? I was at  michellerumney.com  watching this interview about Agnes Martin and went to Vimeo to see what other videos might be interesting and I see an artist I know has commented on the same clip. So I went to his page and got to see him talking about modern art... I found this clip by Artist Danijela Vitasovich which she made during her graduation year at Whitecliffe College... The Agony of the Agnostic is a song by Chris Knox. To create this animation, Danijela painted 144 individual portraits of a series of poses Chris took to express the mood of each one of the characters singing in the video. While posing, Chris had to follow a complex system of mouth charts designed by Danijela, to allow his characters to articulate the lyrics in synch with the soundtrack. The song is introduced by an animated feature starring Danijela herself. Visit her webs...

Life has been pretty full on lately! Having Maddy start creche has been the biggest blessing as I have had 2 mornings a week to be me. Maddy loves creche she runs into the centre and doesn't want to leave when I pick her up. Maddy ready for her first day at creche Since January I have been hosting an artist salon through Skype. It started out as 6 artists from around the country and we have made it to the last session with 4 left standing. We have been working through 8 sessions based on the 'I'd Rather be in the Studio' by Alyson Stainfield. It is a pretty intense and a huge learning curve in many ways. Sometimes it has felt like information overload but we are coming out the other end with so much knowledge to get us to the next level in our careers. The best part for me is defiantly working together with with Deanna, Ronda and Diane! I would have been happy to read the book by myself but I wouldn't have got half as much out of it as I have with t...

I am watching this movie Zeitgest 3 which I want to share with you. This movie AWESOME it has my full attention, and I want to learn more. It's so nice to hear people speaking words that I have been feeling for years. I bet John Lock never knew what the effect his words have had on the whole world. Lets hope people realise how to change our behaviour so the next generation can live long and happy lives. You can visit their website to get the links of the other 2 movies:  zeitgeistmovie.com While I am here I might as well pull a card: WRITE

I'm feeling like my mind is about to explode with things that I need to do at the moment, so why not forget about it all and write in my blog? What a wonderful weekend it has been, mine started a bit shaky as I really wanted to go away but I'm glad we stayed home, as we have spent lots of time with our families. Yesterday was an easter egg hunt at Grandma's... Saturday we went out and Friday everyone seemed to turn up here which was just what the doctor ordered... The youtube clip of the day is a slideshow I made in April 2008 with a few of my photos of Wanganui, I also made the loop of music to go with it :)  Visit our website:  wanganui.org The card for the day is YES From Wiki....Ganesha  ( Sanskrit :  गणेश ;  IAST :  Gaṇeśa ;    listen   ( help · info ) ), also spelled  Ganesa  or  Ganesh , also known as  Ganapati  (Sanskrit: गणपति ; IAST:  gaṇapati ),  Vinayaka  (Sanskri...

Well the cold weather has hit us pretty hard today, there is snow falling on the mountain and it's really windy. It doesn't take long for the Wintery season to kick in once the clocks go back. I'm loving the cold this time, after our long hot Summer! I'm suppose to be hosting our 6th art marketing group about ASSESS AND IMPROVE YOUR EXHIBITION AND SALES OPPORTUNITIES tonight but 3 out of the 6 are sick so I have put it off till next week. I really enjoy hosting the group, even with all the crazy run of events in the past few months. I started another group this week for men, the group is based on the book The Artist Way by Julia Cameron and the people in the group are old friends that I love hanging out with. I bought the book Vein of Gold by Julia Cameron last week and it has really kicked me back into gear and so motivated to ROCK ON!!! I was missing writing my morning pages. I wrote them for years and years and when I had Maddy they didn't fit into my day, bu...

Shaughan, Tony, Maddy and I spent a few hours today visiting artists in their studios for the 2011  Whanganui Open Studio event. It has made me feel very privileged to be living in such a beautiful art community. I didn't get time to visit all the studios I wanted to visit but I made a pretty good dent and hope to get to the rest of them next weekend. It made me realise that next year I need to make an effort to be involved in the event again. We started by parking outside the Museum and walking down to Gaynor Mulholland's Studio as you can see in the photo above the bright green flags are hanging outside all the studios. Gaynor had a good range of realistic paintings for sale and the lovely Marie Grice was also there also exhibiting her work. Walking up Victoria Ave to Guyton Street we called into Sue Cooke's Studio . She has been drawing on Eggs which was interesting. Maria Martin Smith was also exhibiting there, she loved Maddy's outfit. We ha...

I haven't been able to post in my photo of the day blog because  wordpress is a target of attacks and I can't log in  so it has given me a good excuse to write here. Here are some photos from the past few days.. it was my niece's bday yesterday, Dulcie-Jean was 1 years old :) I did some painting in the morning yesterday and more today I'm have donated this painting for Sharlene's trip to India.  Will let you know when it goes on TradeMe The day before yesterday I shot Maddy jumping on her new tramp :) It is a rainy Sunday here, so wonderful as we haven't had rain for such a long time. Shaughan took Maddy into town for half an hour and I got to have a nice hot bath and relax, just what the doctor ordered as I have been a bit stressed. I got to do a bit more painting this afternoon and I still have paint all over my hands and Maddy has managed to get paint all over her new pants, like mother like daughter! If you haven't seen, this week I sent ou...