Diane Clancy's Art blog Diane Clancy creates vibrant paintings that feature color and vision to inspire and uplift people. Says Diane, “I feel that I am very blessed to have this opportunity to express myself through paintin Statistics Unique Visitors: Total Unique Visitors: Outgoing: Total Outgoing: 2 0 80 2645

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A Green Day 2007-10-14 18:45:59 Today was a day filled with green .. in terms of the environment, not money. Our town (some of friends really - not the town) set up a Greening Greenfield Group. This group has been working to raise money and consciousness around the environment to make this town better. Today was an ice cream social for people who have been helping. Fantasy in Orange, Digital © Diane Clancy It was utterly delightful to hear all the ideas for making this area more sustainable and having less impact on the environment. And they didn’t even know about Blog Action Day!! I am excited about the idea one local town is trying out. They are a test case of picking up compost at the curb!! I am so excited! We used to compost and we started running a skunk cafe instead. The smell (skunk, not compost) was terrible so we had to stop. They chewed their way through the animal proof compost bin. One day one of the people who used to live her lifted off the bin and found a skunk in the bin … it was t ...

Community for the Environment 2007-10-13 19:48:20 Want to feel better? Here is one way to help yourself and others. Making connections with each other is good for the earth. If we know each other and build relationships, we are more likely to live in harmony with each other. Living in harmony with each other is much more likely to result in living in harmony with the earth. And also - very importantly - living in harmony with ourselves!! The Baby Carriage Derby, Digital © Diane Clancy A sense of community and connection means we care more for each other .. we care if someone else has enough food to eat, if they are ok, if they are having the health care that their family needs. It is inspiring to me, how locally people will often pitch in when a family has medical bills that aren’t covered ~ when a specific circumstance gets publicity. Community is a win/win situation and tactic. Of course, I am talking about real community - not people sitting around judging each other. Connection is life-saving for all of us. Sometimes it ...

Shall We Dance? 2007-10-12 18:10:38 Would you like to dance?  Here … let’s dance in this … …  dancing painting … How are each of you today?  Let’s dance tonight! Dance of the Plums, Digital © Diane Clancy ~ Diane Clancy ...

Grant Application Revisted 2007-10-11 18:11:31 Some of you have asked me to elaborate on the grant application I have been writing - so I am! We have been having AWE - Artists Window Exhibits - in our town lately. We have had shows in July, August and again in mid-Sept - mid-Oct (yes, now). I have put in a grant application requesting some money to coordinate this project in 2008. It is in the mail!!! Joe Landry at Rooney’s, AWE, Photography © Susan Elkin Some of us visual artists started meeting over a year ago to connect, build the local economy, and in general figure out how to further our careers as artists. We have a fantastic area full of artists … we are rural and there is a economy rich in agriculture and not money. That is, we are one of the lowest income areas of the whole state (Massachusetts, US). So we need to build the creative economy here. When tourists come here, they can’t believe how inexpensive the art is. But many local people say the prices are way too high. So we are working to get this ...

My Contribution to Maraya Galleries 2007-10-10 18:30:51 Many of you know Action Blog Day is coming up Monday, October 15, 2007 - to help promote awareness and action around the environment. Rima and Neda are showcasing art on their gallery Maraya Galleries. This art can be for any of the dozens of ways to support the environment. I chose peace! My line to go with this painting is “Peace is Necessary for All Living Beings ~ Humans, Animals ~ and the Earth.” Peace, Digital © Diane Clancy Peace is Necessary for All Living Beings ~ Humans, Animals ~ and the Earth Not only is war tragic and destructive to people and animals, it is also terrible for the earth. Of course, bombing is awful for people and the earth. And then there are all the active ammunition that is lying around that explodes when people and animal step on it. But the other piece about war and the environment ~ the amount of resources that go into war is criminal, in my opinion. Besides the human cost, there is the environmental cost. Jet planes, bombs, transporti ...

Grant Application 2007-10-09 21:27:25 How many of you have applied for grants? Some of you may remember that I am applying for a local grant to coordinate the AWE project - Artists Windows Exhibit. It was quite a long process putting together a resume (that I should have done years ago). I was surprised that it didn’t sound half-bad. And then writing my very first grant application. Bryant Stewart at Opus, Photography © Susan Elkin I have put together quite a but of supporting materials including my own Artist Statement and Artist Biography. But also other artists were generous enough to let me include their bios - thank you!. I am going to be getting a letter of support from someone who works at building the creative economy. That is the last piece I need to put together. Luckily, I have the press release from the current AWE project. And the maps that they have given out to show stores that were involved in the downtown celebration. And, last but not least, BEAUTIFUL photographs by Susan of 8 of the stores wind ...

Can This Be My Earth Painting? 2007-10-08 22:28:26 I will catch up … again! I have almost finished with the grant application (my very first ever) and it is time for rest. So you are left with promises - for your comments and your posts. I am still so grateful at the support you have been giving me as I move into the next steps of my creative state! God of the Elements, Digital © Diane Clancy Do you think this picture looks like an environmental day painting? It can be the god side of Gaia who will straighten us up if we do not correct things ourselves. Gaia is the earth seen as an organism comprised of both living and non-living parts. ~ Diane Clancy Technorati Tags: creative state, Gaia ...

World Card Making Day 2007-10-07 20:31:20 I am very moved by the outpouring of kindness and understanding that you have given me in your comments! You have touched me in a deep place in my soul with your connecting to me … and letting me know about it! This is an added bonus I did not expect when I started blogging! Happy Dog, ACEO © Diane Clancy I promised I would give you the link to the World Card Making Day (WCMD)- which was yesterday, October 6, 2007. If I had known earlier, I would have shared this so all of you could have the chance to play too. It is a little like Rima’s challenges … different blogs set up a kind of card to make and then details were posted during different times of the day and then people went to town creating cards! ACEO (Art Card Editions and Originals) and ATC ( Art Trading Cards) are 2.5 x 3.5″ cards (made of many different materials) that people trade and collect. They are the same size as a baseball card (at least baseball cards in the US - I don’t know about ...

Wow! and Thank you! 2007-10-06 21:59:58 I am very awed and humbled by the generous outpouring of kindness you have given me in the last 24 hours!! I will write more about the details of things, but today I will just give you broad strokes since I am still working. Heart of Life, ACEO © Diane Clancy Last night after writing the post, I found out that today is World Card Making Day - tomorrow I will do the link. I decided that it was a good excuse to dive in without worrying too too much. I want to do the Environmental Blog Day painting more carefully! It was quite a ride for me for several hours. I hadn’t painted with a brush for a couple of years, I hadn’t done any cards for quite a bit longer and I had never done ACEO or ATC - more tomorrow on them. It was quite hard for several hours. But after awhile, things started to gel for me. I am done creating for today, but I am still uploading ACEOs for the challenge. You can check out what I have posted so far at my other blogs here and here. There are no duplica ...

A Confession and Appreciation 2007-10-05 20:01:18 One thing that has been great for me in blogging is getting back into creating paintings again. I had gone on quite a digital image binge a couple of years ago and then slowed way down (except for animal pictures). I have not done that much new painting with traditional materials except for working on a couple of series that I knew I wanted to work out to four in each series. And I have spent a lot of time marketing and doing graphic design and web design for clients. Above the Race Track, Digital © Diane Clancy Coming here and having you want a new painting every day, I worried if I would have enough. I am sure I had enough for maybe a year (or 2 depending on what I use), but I am very conservative in a certain way (not politically), and I didn’t want to use up all my paintings. So I started creating new digital ones to hopefully delight you. And it has been great - because you have helped me go past what I was doing before in working with Studio Artist. In Photoshop I am ...

Great Comments! 2007-10-04 17:25:22 It was great to hear everyone’s comments about CAPTCHA!! I love it when people talk together about things … Each of you shared such thoughtful comments - thank you! What would you like to talk about next? The Queen is in a Snit!, Digital © Diane Clancy I worked hard most of the day with a client and made some real progress - always satisfying!  And another job came in for another client so I have to say HI and … Bye!  Thank you so much for stopping by!!  And I am serious that I would love to hear from you what you would like to discuss. I thought this image looked like a queen … but with a bee in her bonnet … maybe from Alice in Wonderland’s world …. ~ Diane Clancy ...

Purpose of “CAPTCHA” 2007-10-03 17:45:07 CAPTCHA - those annoying little numbers and letters that are all tipsy that you have to figure out what they look like untipsy and then write them into a little box and push a button … and half the time redo it because you didn’t untipsy the stuff correctly! According to Wikipedia, “a CAPTCHA is a type of challenge-response test used in computing to determine whether the user is human. “CAPTCHA” is an acronym for “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart”, trademarked by Carnegie Mellon University.” Wow - that is a mouthful!! Monkeys and Owls, Digital © Diane Clancy Completely understandably, many people start using CAPTCHA to protect their hard drives and computers from computer viruses. Understandable!! to want to protect yourself and your computer (is there a difference?) But that is not what CAPTCHA does. CAPTCHA protects you from spammers. But, I don’t know about you, I don’t get t ...

What Are You Doing - Oct 15? 2007-10-02 20:46:26 More on a nature theme as we all get ready for International Blog Action Day Oct 15. I have no clue what to do for an image for this important environmental day. I am excited to be part of Neda and Rima’s gallery show, but I have no clue what to do. Are you willing to share what you are doing and what you are thinking about for this day? I have done lots of environmental activism, but I don’t know how to think about doing a picture for it. I would love if you would share what you are doing and what your process is. Thank you!! Devas in the Trellis, Digital © Diane Clancy ~ Diane Clancy Technorati Tags: environmental day, Neda, Rima ...

Kaleidoscpopes 2007-10-01 19:36:02 Sue O’Kieffe of Sacred Circle Mandalas created some absolutely gorgeous mandalas or kaleidoscopes that she is featuring tonight. Sue created them from my paintings!! You can see these wonderful images in this post. Wow! And she also said some very generous things about me. Thank you, Sue!! You Said What?, Digital © Diane Clancy Thank you for your good wishes for us! What do you think about this silly painting?  I would be delighted to hear about you. ~ Diane Clancy Technorati Tags: Sue O’Kieffe, Sacred Circle Mandalas, mandalas, kaleidoscopes ...

Thank You, Our Friends 2007-09-30 16:02:26 I want to appreciate our friends for being with us in a health crisis for Susan that we are currently undergoing. Neda Doany and Sue O’Kieffe have both made creations in support of Susan Elkin. Many others have sent healing energy and prayers. We are both greatly appreciative of all your help!! “Fear and Loathing” Collage © Neda Doany The OTHER Easily dismissed Feared or loathed Unknown entity Dissected Rejected Ignored Boxed and Labelled As other or worse I am the other I speak your language But you don’t know mine Open your eyes For you are also the Other To me. © NKD Sept 23, 2007 Dear Neda, thank you so much for this moving image and incredible poem that you have created to reflect and support us through what we are dealing with! Neda’s blog is Papiers Collés (this is linked to this post). Papiers Collés is a very interesting blog I visit every day. Sue’s inspiring mandalas always delight me! Vessel of Hope Mandala - (Circles of Light se ...