Sharlena Wood - Recently Updated Pages

Caricatures by Friends

sharlena — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:22:06 CST

© Brian Smith	© Brian Smith
© Brian Smith	© Brian Smith
©Doug Laird	© Adam DeVries
© Steve Binkowski	© Pete Emslie
© Pete Emslie	© Susan Adsett
© Brian Smith	© Brian Smith
© Brian Smith	© Brian Smith
© Brian Smith	© Brian Smith
© Brian Smith	© Brian Smith
© Brian Smith	© Brian Smith

Artist Bio + Contact - Sharlena Wood

sharlena — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:00:03 CST

"All artists are illusionists that fight to shine & illuminate the world"

Sharlena is a Canadian artist, born in Kitchener, Ontario.
With commissions and works currently hanging in corporate and private collections internationally, Sharlena continues to experiment with her expert knowledge in media and define her own unique style. She started her own business, Shared Palette Inc. in 2007.

Artist

sharlena — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:16:06 CDT

NEW WEBSITES

www.sharlenawood.ca
Artist Portfolio

(model - me) Image title: Sight Lines

www.drawn2life.com

www.sharedpalette.ca
Art Entertainment

Links of Fellow Artists

sharlena — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:13:04 CDT


Brian Smith	Artist Home Page

Adam Devenish	Artist Home Page
Adam DeVries	Artist Home Page
Claudia McCabe	Society of Canadian Artists	Ingram Gallery
Derek Wicks	Artist Home Page
Donnah Cameron	Artist Home Page
Doug Mays	Arrows in the Quiver
Doug Purdon	Artist Home Page	Studio 737
Gary McFadyen
George Perdue	Red Eye Gallery
Hiroshi Yamamoto	Artist Home Page
Heather Gentleman	Hagatelier Studio
Jack Reid	Artist Home Page
Joan Holben	Golden Artist Colours
John David Anderson	Willow Gallery	Double Doors Studio & Gallery
John Molnar	Artist Home Page
Kathy Marlene Bailey	Artist Home Page
Keith Moreau	Visual Arts Brampton
Ken MacFarlane	Artist Home Page	Toronto Watercolour Society
Lila Lewis Irving	Artist Home Page
Marc Gagnon	Artist Home Page
Marianne Broome	Nature's Edge Studio	Toronto Watercolour Society
Myron SwistunArt Expo 2007	Denison Gallery	Westdale Gallery

Paul Magowan	Gallery Streetsville
Paul Savard
Peter Emslie	Artist Home Page	Pete's Blog
Sally Glanville
Shirley Erskine	Artist Home Page
Steve Rose	Red Eye Studio Gallery
Susan Fisher-Thomas	Artist Home Page
Susan Sommers	Home Page
Tibor Nyilasi	Artist Home Page
Tim Packer	Artist Home Page
Valerie Kent	Artist Home Page	Toronto Watercolour Society
William Band	Canada Fine Artists

Rheni Tauchid	Tri Art Manufacturing Inc.	The New Acrylics Book
Scott Cooper	Artist Home Page
William Lazos	Artist Home Page

Andy Elliot	Artist Home Page

Inspiration

sharlena — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 08:15:03 CDT

Inspirational Quotes for Artists

A Painter's prayer:"Goddess, grant me the strength to leave alone those areas that are freshly enough painted, and the wisdom to see and fix those that are not." - Robert the Humble

I believe in intuition and inspiration... At times I feel certain I am right while not knowing the reason. (Albert Einstein)

"It's not what you are that holds you back. It's what you think you are not." - Dr. Dennis Waitley

"Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right." Henry Ford

"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see." Henry David Thoreau

now she said: "help me to understand -- how do you actually make a painting? -- the process."

music played in the background, a gong, a flute, a line of synthetic keening, pausing, proceeding, an enigmatic composition which, if not attentively listened to, could easily fade in the background, receding to some subliminal aurality. "i paint to music," he said to her, and raised his eyes into the air, as if to catch the passage that hung between them now, a loosely strung necklace of meditative mysterious chords.
"i catch a rhythm and i let it go there."

- Basquiat

What is your unrelenting passion?

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. -Leonardo da Vinci

Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, its about learning to dance in the rain.

LIFE FILMS US EXACTLY...our experiences of it, through, lies beyond images and descriptions. emotions, coming in irrational flashes. are non-figurable. we lose our little connection to them very quickly. we look for forms which promise to take us to our own experience. we construct forms with this in mind: that they can take us to meet the subconscious.

The only way to predict the future is to create it.

Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a foreign language. Don't search for answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, some day far in the future, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.

-Rainer Maria Rilke

The only limits of your tomorrows are your hesitations of today.

It is important to visualize what you wish to accomplish. It is also essential that you put that vision into action.

It's great to know precisely where you plan to go. Yet for that plan to be of any real value, you must act on it with commitment and persistence. Successful action is more than just a once-in-a-while effort. The actions that bring about the most value are the actions that are fully integrated into every moment of life. Real success is more than a method or a technique. Real success comes from who and what you most consistently and authentically are.
Every corner of your world, every moment of your time, every person and pursuit and passion in your life all matter. The time you spend playing has just as much influence as the time you spend working, for it all affects the whole person you are.
Seek to integrate positive purpose into everything you are, and into all that you touch. Live as though everything matters, and you'll bring magnificent achievements to life.
- Ralph Marston

How many ways do you know how to free yourself?

Failure can be damaging to our self-esteem. We give up easily when we failed. However people who have achieved success look at failure as positive opportunity to motivate them to achieve success To them success is not a given right, but earned through learning from mistakes. Remember: If you’re not experiencing failure, you’re not working hard enough.

Vision is the art of seeing the invisible.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens. Circumstances and situations do color life but you have been given the mind to choose what the color shall be.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

"I can't understand why people are afraid of new ideas....I'm afraid of the old ones!"

- John Cage

The subject means little. The arrangement, the design, colour, shape, depth, light, space, mood, movement, balance, not one or all of these fills the bill. There is something additional, a breath that draws your breath into its breathing, a heartbeat that pounds on yours, a recognition of the oneness of all things." -Emily Carr

"The most deadly picture is a picture of nothing at all." -William S. Burroughs

"The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do" - Pablo Picasso"
Don't be afraid that your life will end...be afraid that it will never begin"
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. " -Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.~ John Updike the writer, 1932-2009
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. Herm Albright
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. Albert Einstein
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." Marianne Williamson
people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel ~Maya Angelou
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor.... Explore. Dream. Discover. -Mark Twain
We can either watch life from the sidelines, or actively participate...Either we let self-doubt and feelings of inadequacy prevent us from realizing our potential, or embrace the fact that when we turn our attention away from ourselves, our potential is limitless. —Christopher Reeve
Your destiny isn't a matter of chance, it's a matter of choice. It's not something you wait for, but rather something you pursue.
"I do not think that I shall receive the sympathy of the intellectual forces in the great art world, for I admit that I am offering nothing new by following in a great tradition - except that I am me, and anything that I do cannot have been done before" EDWARD SEAGO 1910 - 1974
You are where you are, in life, because you know what you know, and you do what you do, and you are who you are. In order toadvance, you have to know more, and do more,and be more.

Illusions, techniques, basics

sharlena — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 19:19:30 CST

Your eye will always go to the darkest darks & the lightest lights

( Illusionistic Space ) is what
Space or depth indicated or implied on a two-dimensional surface through devices such as shading and perspective.

( chiar-‘oskyur-o ) is how
Chiaroscuro is a method for applying value to a two-dimensional piece of artwork to create the illusion of a three-dimensional solid form.
In this system, if light is coming in from one predetermined direction, then light and shadow will conform to a set of rules.

Basic qualities of shading:
-first establish the light and dark side (of positive shapes)
-identify cast shadow (always darkest at the base)
-back shading (reveals edges as the dark recedes)
-highlights are the lightest shape of a form (an intense reflection)
-reflected light (soft light of darker side)

VALUE * TEXTURE * LIGHT * SHADOW

BRUSH SHADING
Using soft graphite or charcoal, a stiff brush will move the dry media around like paint.
In the same way, the more "dust" or "dry pigment" you add, the more you can move around. For dark areas, this offers a very smooth and deep effect.

This technique works best applied in many layers, and as your brush fills up with dry pigment, you can then use this "tool" to softly shade lighter areas.

Basic Techniques of shading: (even tone or gradation of value)
-parallel lines "hatch"
-cross hatching
-smudging
-stippling
-eraser (elimination)
-random lines - In the detailing and final touches of a sketch,
random lines tend to become a part of using all 5 techniques in one
area. Bold, random lines can balance a drawing that is tight.

Basic Whites
http://www.paintmaking.com/white.htm
http://www.currys.com/knowledge/white.asp
Titanium White - titanium dioxide (oxide)
Most opaque white, perfect choice for direct painting but difficult for color mixing because it takes so much color to tint Titanium. It does not dry very quickly and is more Zinc white in this respect.

Flake White - basic carbonate of lead
Flake white has a heavy pigment and is regarded as the most reliable white on which to build a painting. It can be applied more heavily than other whites with less danger of cracking than other whites. Flake white dries well and is a "warm" white.

Zinc White - zinc oxide
It is a "bluish" (cold) white color, not nearly as strong and opaque as Titanium White. A slow drying white recommended for scumbling and alla prima painting.

Basic Blacks
http://www.paintmaking.com/black.htm
Mars Black - iron oxide
A warm black, made from a heavier mineral pigment than the others. Mars black is the blackest and is very opaque.

Bone or Ivory Black - animal bones
Ivory black has a neutral brown undertone, and will absorb any single pigment mixed into it, providing a clean change in value. A beautiful black with transparent tinting qualities.

Lamp or Carbon Black - carbon
A blue-black with high tinting strength and can overpower when mixed with colour.

OILY RAG DISPOSAL FOR OIL PAINTERS
Natural Substances such as linseed or poppyseed oil act as polymers when hardened.
When paper towels or rags wet with these oils polymerize or harden, they can spontaneously combust.
It is safe to assume these safety precautions should be taken when using ALL oil mediums, mixtures of solvents & oils and polymers.

What to do with your rags?
place rags: *in an air-tight container *in water *out to hang dry

Shading Techniques Artists

sharlena — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 19:17:53 CST

Berry Red by Maggie Williams	The Joker
Catwoman by Maggie Williams	Thatcher by Maggie Williams
Moon	Man Bites Dog
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NEW Landscapes

sharlena — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 18:33:17 CDT

Model Booking

sharlena — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 20:19:29 CDT

Art Models for figure drawing

The past few years I have been organizing life drawing and booking models. I have many current contacts and a large list of professional and highly recommended figure models for fine art life drawing.

Please contact me if you are interested in booking an art model in the Greater Toronto area. Maybe I can help....

Contact Sharlena

Artist or Art Group references for credibility required.

Monday Morning Weekly Inspirational Quote

sharlena — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 06:23:10 CDT

Arranged by Billy Ikosipentarchos

"Whoever can see through all fear will always be safe."
- Tao Te Ching
"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what
nobody has thought."
-Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi
“One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody,

everything, every night before you go to bed.”

-Bernard M. Baruch

“The world is not moved only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by
the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.”
-Helen Keller, US blind & deaf educator (1880 - 1968)
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even
touched. They must be felt within the heart."
-Helen Keller, US blind & deaf educator (1880 - 1968)
"Two kinds of people on earth can be seen: the people who lift and the
people who lean. "
-Ella Wheeler-Wilcox

"Great Spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
-Albert Einstein
"If you keep doing what you've always done, you'll keep getting what you've always gotten."
-Anonymous
"People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes."
-Abigail Van Buren

"Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by an encounter
with another human being. Each of us owes the deepest thanks to those
who have rekindled this inner light."
-Albert Schweitzer
"The most damaging phrase in the language is: 'It's always been done
that way.'"
-Grace Murray Hopper
"The purpose of life is to live it, to taste it, to experience to the
utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer
experiences." -Eleanor Roosevelt

"There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day."
-Alexander Woollcott

Sample Art Show

sharlena — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 09:01:03 CDT

Come Join Me for an Event

Celebrating Art & Life!

Who: You and a guest.

When: July 4, 2007

Time: 7 p.m.

Where: your Gallery

What: Light appetizers and drinks, music, and good friends.

Cost: Free!

Please RSVP!	Driving Directions
(Create subpages for your RSVPs) Wouldn't miss it! Sorry, can't make it Not sure	From Hwy 101: Take E Sunset Wy (exit 18) – go 3 mi. Bear left onto Highlands Dr – go 1.5 mi. Turn right at NE Federal Dr – go 2 mi. Turn right at NE Park Dr – go 1 mi.

[insert a map like this one!]

Life Drawing 2006-2007

sharlena — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 01:09:55 CDT

“Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.” John W. Gardner

Life Drawing by Sharlena Wood

Superman

sharlena — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 23:26:20 CDT

Batman

sharlena — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 23:26:08 CDT

NEW Portraiture

sharlena — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 23:25:56 CDT

Portraits 2007

The beautiful model in these recent portraitures is, Jinder

www.Jinder.com

Sketch

sharlena — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 23:00:39 CDT

Working arts for street involved and homeless youth

Creates opportunities for street involved and homeless people ages 15-29, to engage in the arts in
a cross-discipline studio environment or in the community.

visit Sketch

The natural way to draw...

sharlena — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 13:40:48 CDT

"The supreme misfortune is when theory outstrips performance"
Leonardo da Vinci

There is only one right way to learn to draw and that is the perfectly natural way. It has nothing to do with artifice of technique. It has nothing to do with aesthetics or conception. It only has to do with the act of correct observation. DRAWING DEPENDS ON SEEING - SEEING DEPENDS ON KNOWING. Knowing comes from a constant effort to encompass reality with all of your senses, all that is YOU. Never be concerned with appearances to an extent which prevents reality of content. It is necessary to rid yourself to the tyranny of the object as it appears. The quality of absoluteness, the note of authority, that the artist seeks depends upon a more complete understanding than the eyes alone can give. To what the eye can see the artist adds feeling and thought. An artist can relate to the rest the adventures of their soul in the midst of life.

The job is to get at the truth - the truth as you will be able to understand it using all of your senses. When you are truly enthralled and stimulated by a force other than the visual, strange things will occur....you will no longer judge your work by formula or conventional standards. You may feel that there is no necessity for remaining truthful or even structurally truthful in relation to the moment.

There is always a bigger truth undiscovered....unsaid....unchartered until you meet it.

Draw what you feel.

Kimon Nicolaides

the meaning behind the new scream

sharlena — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 17:52:17 CDT

In a new world where global commerce is the failed ideology of mankind that is thrust upon women, we add another level of competition between women that is artificial and contrived.

Women have to compete on so many levels already as seemingly mandated by modern day society that adding the pressures of the male's idea of global commerce competition is wrong in every way.

We as mankind should not be forcing our failed ideologies of how the world should run onto women and thus trying to create a gender that would be a bad carbon copy of mankind.

Instead we should be celebrating the great and beautiful spirit of the female mind and reverse the practice of forcing women to adopt a male model of moving through the world.

To myself, as a creator of the film, "The Unspoken Words," Sharlena Wood encapsulates so beautifully an updated version of the classic Scream painting. She captures the essence that women no longer wish to encounter all the layers of competition they have to deal with in their lives with each other.

Add to that, all the regular stressors of life and it demonstrates truly how powerful the female spirit is to take so much everyday routine punishment from our modern day civilization.

Of course no one hears the scream of the rational woman because, as the painting illustrates, the women in the background are too engaged in continuing to play the game of life the way we are all taught to play.
'Survival of the fittest,' I believe is how the Archie Bunker’s of the world bastardizes Darwin’s theory every day.
And anyone who screams out for change is looked at in a way that suggests you are crazy.

The day has come, that the unspoken words be spoken.

To realize that silence is never golden and that a change for the better is on the horizon.
Of course to invoke change, we must first shed light and deal honestly with our current day problems.

The Film does that in a very open and honest way.

I have great admiration and respect for all human kind and furthermore know that specifically the creative, smart, visionary minds of women should be influencing the way we move forward. Only then do we have a true prescription, through a complete change of collective thought, to evolve as a human race to heights we only today imagine possible.

Positive, intellectual, rational, and visionary collaboration between us all will always lead us to genius.

That is how this movie and more specifically this painting of The New Scream came to pass.

I do hope that we all continue to move forward together with this positive movement and for once have open and honest dialogue.

The Unspoken Words film has no nudity at all in it but is full of naked truths, ranging from witty, funny, serious themes juxtaposed with campy covert and overt violence and sexy elements.

All the while providing thoughtful insight in an entertaining way from a position of love and urgency.

And naked honest words, not images most times are a lot harder to digest and make people the most uncomfortable.
At the same time it is the only path to true growth. We are never free from our own biology but since one's biography is their biology if we change what people experience we ultimately change our very biology. That is in essence to me evolution in its greatest glory.

My desire with this short film is that everyone embraces the idea of talking again in an honest way never seen before so that history does not continue to repeat itself with cycles of catastrophic man made suffering. That we also do not want to create a new “herstory” instead of history filled with the same errors of conditioned thinking.
To realize we all have the power to choose, men and women alike to create an incredible world to live in or continue to swing to the next branch silently.

Sincerely,
Writer, Director
Billy Ikosipentarchos
The Unspoken Words Film

Gallery Opening

sharlena — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 10:11:32 CDT

Come Join Me for an Event

Celebrating Something Big!

Who: You and a guest.

When: April 19th 2007

Time: 5:00 - 9:30 p.m.

Where: Art Link Design Inc.
360 Revus road suite 16
Mississauga, ON L5G 4S4
905-278-6777

What: Opening party ~ Light appetizers and drinks, music, and good friends.

Cost: Free!

Sharlena Wood - Recently Updated Pages

Caricatures by Friends

Artist Bio + Contact - Sharlena Wood

Artist

Links of Fellow Artists

Inspiration

Illusions, techniques, basics

Shading Techniques Artists

Berry Red by Maggie Williams

The Joker

Catwoman by Maggie Williams

Thatcher by Maggie Williams

Moon

NEW Landscapes

Model Booking

Art Models for figure drawing

Monday Morning Weekly Inspirational Quote

Sample Art Show

Come Join Me for an Event

Celebrating Art & Life!

Please RSVP!

Driving Directions

Life Drawing 2006-2007

Superman

Batman

NEW Portraiture

Sketch

The natural way to draw...

the meaning behind the new scream

Gallery Opening

Come Join Me for an Event

Celebrating Something Big!