Just finished my butterflies.....

                                                       Original watercolor by Jennifer Winship Mark

10" x 8"

$150 framed

 Original watercolor by Jennifer Winship Mark

10" x 8"

                                                                                                    $150 framed

 Original watercolor by Jennifer Winship Mark

10" x 8"

                                                                                                    $150 framed

 Original watercolor by Jennifer Winship Mark

10" x 8"

                                                                                                    $150 framed

 Original watercolor by Jennifer Winship Mark

10" x 8"

                                                                                                    $150 framed

 Original watercolor by Jennifer Winship Mark

10" x 8"

                                                                                                    $150 framed

Original watercolor by Jennifer Winship Mark

10" x 8"

                                                                                                    $150 framed

Yamhill Oregon...

photo by Jennifer w Mark

A while back after I spent a beautiful afternoon at Stoller Vineyards I took these photos

while my husband and I sped through the countryside of Yamhill Oregon in our little convertible. Life doesn't get much better than this!

The land and the skies are breathtaking .

photo by Jennifer w Mark

Creativity takes time....

I've been a little crazy over the last few months creating "hands on shared creative experiences"!

What does that mean?

  I have been effective in setting up some inspiring workshops that  have ignited the creativity of  friends, high school students,Chinese Medicine Students, Moms, daughters and corporate executives.

I have been stimulating creative interactions among many  even including chickens.

Here are a few photos from some fun art encounters over the past few weeks.

Lincoln High School International Studies Students putting the final touches on the collaborative painting created for the New Oregon College of Oriental Medicine.

Open Eye Art Water workshop at Canvas Art Bar in Portland

Jasmin Felton, Tiffany White and Linda Rose

discuss the importance of water, creativity and good wine.

Megan O'Harrow's unique colorful approach to painting water.

Megan O'Harrow giving some insight into her artistic inspirations.

She paints a lot of pieces that have a Wayne Thiebauld 

quality.

What's the big Eye-dea?

                                                            Watercolor by Jennifer Winship Mark

I have been working on images for our website lately and it seems

I am going off  on some crazy tangents.

                                      

Watercolor by Jennifer Winship Mark

   I am rediscovering how fun and challenging it is to paint with

watercolors again.

                                                      Watercolor by Jennifer Winship Mark
                                         What are your ideas on these Open Eye Art images?

Open Eye Workshop

Hong Finding inspiration....

 

 The group in deep concentration looking for outlines and ideas....

Fay and Helen connecting

  Saga's masterpiece in simplicity...

Open Eye Art workshop.....

Acrylic on glass

Here are some great pictures from our  "tester" Eye Opening Workshop on 

October 27th 

Eye opening workshops blend inspirational and strategic

exercises with a “ hands on” creative art project,

held at dynamic off-site or on-site facilities.

Intensive, fast paced, energizing encounters are led by

two professionals from diverse art and marketing

back-grounds. Custom designed exercises and

“Eye Opener” stations utilize different cognitive

tools and stimuli to help drive fresh ideas and creative

problem solving.

Faye getting inspiration from the "synchronicity" exercise.

Juliet making sure we kept to a schedule

Dana working out her ideas for a new  high tech product for kids.

Open Eye Workshop .......

“The future belongs to a very different kind of person with a very different kind of mind…creators and empathizers, pattern recognizers and meaning makers.”

Daniel Pink

Maddie's concept for a cool mirror embellishment

Doug brainstorming his "tea party in a box" idea.

Not everyone is in their “right mind” ;

That is why we created Open Eye Art.

Whether we are right- brained, left-brained, type A, type B,

amateur or expert…everyone has an ability to be creative.

Sometimes we just need a little help bringing the right brain back

into balance with the left so that we can open our eyes to

our own creativity.

Saga sharing some of her "passions"

Jenny sharing the concept of synchronicity.

new experiment in faces.....

 Watercolor by Jennifer Winship Mark 2010

Here are a few big eyed  "eye-dias" I have been working on for 

                   a project for OPEN EYE ART.  I had so much fun doing these 

   studies in watercolor.

                                                               Watercolor by Jennifer Winship Mark 2010

I would love to experiment with an ETSY store just 

to see if there is a market for

prints . 

 

                                                                 Watercolor by Jennifer Winship Mark 2010

I must admit this girl was another Mark Ryden inspiration.  

Gold Leafing with Nancy Thorn

Jennifer Winship Mark

 acrylic 

I took a great Gold Leafing Class from Nancy Thorn www.goldleafdesign.net and learned a minute smattering of the many  tricks of Water Guilding and Oil Guilding.

Here is the Italian Style frame I guilded and then created the traditional scraffito painting details using traditional egg tempera that I scratched into using a sharpened stick.

The acrylic painting is an experiment I did for our 

OPEN EYE ART

Can you find the eye in this piece?

Inspiration from a long plane trip....

Watercolor by Jennifer Winship Mark c. 2010

This piece was inspired by my favorite artist Mark Ryden.

Watercolor by Jennifer Winship Mark c.2010

I'm working on ideas for our new creative adventure

Open Eye Art!

Watercolor by Jennifer Winship Mark c. 2010

Another idea that was influenced by some striking green shutters

I saw in Bellagio Italy. Another reminder to keep your eyes open all the time.