Dreamswork

Paintings, drawings, collage and photography of Sandra Toornstra

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Saturday, June 21, 2008

Success - what makes your heart leap?

Love? Money? Being known? Selling paintings? Was reading some art blogs and came across this by artist Michael Georges who says "Find the thing that makes your heart leap and keep your feet on the ground." Click the link and have a read.

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Sandra T: Artist in mixed media, painting, drawing, collage and photography. My drawings and photography are often a beginning point in my artwork and I’ve explored the shapes from these images in painting, in textural layers on canvas or paper, working in acrylics and mixed media. Much of my work has been figurative based on life drawings, but I also create abstract works. Author of non-fiction books. Editor/proofreader. Bachelor of Arts (English, Writing, History).Graduate Diploma of Secondary Teaching . Advanced Diploma in Art & Creativity - http://bit.ly/1zkAYj5

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... the contemplation of the form of the model, a fellow human being, may be compared to an act of humility in which the artist temporarily forgets his or her physical frailties and imperfections and marvels at the diversity possible within the human form.

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The Big Idea

On my Mind

Acrylic painting

"I do dream about art, and images come to me in dreams. I am definitely hoping to be in touch with my subconscious. I expect a call any minute." (Julian Schnabel)

That Fractured Feeling

Mixed media collage

Guitarist

Acrylic and indian ink

Quick sketch of poet Sam Hunt

drawn while he was interviewed on television

Pen life drawing

Fisherman

Acrylic painting

Willow charcoal

Mixed media on gessoed paper

Charcoal Pencil Drawing

Pastel sketch

Dreaded

Paper collage

Ghosts and Shadows

Mixed media collage

2008 International Collage Exchange abstract painting acrylic acrylic painting art art therapy artists Waihi arts funding artscoromandel beach blue brush and ink canon censorship chance art charcoal Charlie Hebdo collaborative collaborative art collage collograph community education conte contemporary art Coromandel coromandel art Coromandel artist Coromandel artists Crayloa Twistables creativity definition of a painting digitally altered drawing disrespect doodling Dr Sketchy drawing drawing hair drawing hands drawing media drawing musicians drawing of musician drawing on the right side of the brain drawing with pen drawings of musicians dreams dreamswork dslr Dutch Tilders earth mother editing Eleanor Catton exhibition expressionism faces favourite poet female model Figurative figure drawing Francis Bacon freedom of speech fundraiser gardening gold guitarist Hauraki District Council Hey Ya Hone Tuwhare horizontality how to draw ICE idiotic males illustration impressionism Indian ink inspiration installation art John Key John Mulvay Jonas Gerard journal junior school art life drawing life model lifedrawing light and dark local government lost parrot macabre male model Marchwood mark making mask making Matamata sculpture symposium materiality mining mixed media mixed media collage mixed media drawing model pose Moleskine monoprinting monotype motivation mural music mythology natural materials negative space nude nude model NZ Art Guild oil painting oil pastel one one one painting painting from life painting to music pastel Payne's Gray Payne's Grey Paynes Gray pen drawing pencil people photography poetry political art political correctness portrait portraits of women pose poses poster printmaking process in art quick drawing rant right brain rocks Sam Hunt scribble Sean Plunkett seaweed self discipline self portrait self portrait challenge sensory drawing since when is Lord of the Rings a NZ novel Mr Key sketch SPC spring storm success sumi ink sunset painting suppression TLC untitled Visual diary visual journal Waihi Waihi art Waihi artist Warm Winter watercolour waterfall what is art white wild horses Wizard and Oz work in progress

Bluesman

Collage made entirely with pieces of the Waikato Times newspaper

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Mixed media life drawing

"Mine and body"

Acrylic on canvas 36" x 24" - there is much mythology about the earth, the land as earth mother, and this painting is a visual metaphor for how I feel about mining - the land as the body, the earth mother, and the layers of the land, vulnerable, scarred, powerless.

Mixed Media

Defining Beauty

Paper Collage

Red Nude

Mixed Media drawing

Waiting 2

Acryic on Canvas 10" x 30"

Waiting 1

Acrylic on Canvas 10" x 30"

Chain Reaction

This the first of a new series.

Submission

Acrylic on Canvas, 15" x 30"

Extracts from Trapped Self

Acrylic on canvas, 20" x 36" Painted on a winter's day, feeling the aching cold I attacked this canvas which did create some heat, it glows from her body.

"Then how shall we track your journey"

Acrylic on canvas, 24" x 36" In this image I thought of the machinery removing the gold and silver from below the ground, and mythology about the Greek god Hades. Hades was the god of wealth, he owned all of the precious gems and minerals that lay below the surface of the earth.

"Soul and mine illuminate"

Acrylic on canvas, 36" x 24" - the colours of the exposed earth are different depending on the time of day, the light and the viewpoint. There is now a walkway around much of the perimeter of the open cast gold mine operating here in New Zealand.

Warm Winter

This is based on my photograph of the sunset at Waitete Bay and incorporating figures taken from a life drawing class - last year one of the models brought her husband along to pose as well. The title comes from a Kid Rock song that made me think about the myth of Persephone who was taken down into the dark depths of the underworld by Hades, God of the Underworld. Acrylic media on canvas 32 x 39 inches.