INSPIRE paintings featured on KEEP A CHILD ALIVE and HUFFINGTON POST

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http://blog.keepachildalive.org/post/14168375732/julies-inspire-paintings-to-benefit-keep-a-child

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lois-alter-mark/shop-with-a-conscience-th_b_1149757.html


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JOY

This encaustic painting is one of a series of inspirational pieces done in support of Keep A Child Alive.  25% of each painting sold goes to Keep A Child Alive.  They work primarily in Aftica and India to help stop the HIV/AIDS pandemic.  Each painting is 8"x8", framed in a black 10"x10" floater frame - ready to hang.  Each painting is $200, with $50 being donated to Keep A Child Alive.  These paintings are created using encaustic (molten beeswax with damar resin and pigment).  The encaustic is painted in layers with each layer being fused to the one below using a torch flame.  The word is transferred to the painting with carbon paper then carved...this process continues numerous times.  I then add  the word in Braille, using dots of encaustic so you can "feel" the inspiration. 

My Art on StyleSubstanceSoul.com!

October 25, 2011

Art by Julie Weaverling to Change Your World
In this economy, when it's unlikely you'll be selling your house any time soon, the best way to change the environment in which you live is simply to hang new artwork on your walls - and, wow, have we got some fantastic options for you.
Julie Weaverling is a visual artist whose contemporary paintings and mixed media pieces will completely transform any space. Her colors are vivid and powerful, with themes focusing on the human condition and how we compartmentalize our lives. These are the kind of pieces that will make you stop and look -- and think and feel -- every time you walk by them. Read More... http://stylesubstancesoul.com/category/style/

Front Porch Gallery New Exhibit Opens Nov. 12 runs through Jan 8

CONVERSATIONS

This is a new encaustic with oil painting...I think it is another start of a new series to explore. This painting started with drawing with inktense pencils then layered medium and started adding encaustic color. After a good number of layers, I scraped back to reveal some of the original drawing, then I scribed some of the lines and rubbed in oil paint and then removed oil paint. Several more layers of encaustic and this is the result. This painting is 8"x8" on cradled panel and will be framed in a black floater frame.

"I'm Honored"

Named after words written to me that I was in fact honored to receive. This is a new work, encaustic with collage on cradled panel, 11x14. Inspired by the idea of anthropology, or the way we live. Not in a nostalgic manner but rather as an experience of our shrinking world, exploring new and old together. Part of a new series to include old letters, love letters, packaging, postcards, and things in other languages and all interesting found things.

INSPIRED ART CHICAGO

Inspired Art Chicago pairs poems from their America Scores program that were created by school age kids with artists who create a painting to go with a particular poem. This is the third year of this auction fundraiser and my third year participating. While the other artists are primarily from the Chicago area I found the program inspiring and wanted to be a part of it. This year I decided to put the focus on the poem as primary element of the painting. I have signed on the back. This is a highly textured mixed media painting, 8 x 8 on 2" cradled hardboard and will be available at the auction at South Halsted Gallery on September 30. More info available at: http://www.inspiredartchicago.wordpress.com/ 

NEST I CAGE

Here is a hot off the easel new painting titled Nest I Cage (Untitled 88).  This is a mixed media piece including oil and cold wax, gold leaf, acrylic and charcoal.  This is a continuation of the Nest I Cage series and is taking on a new shape as the ideas and work deepen.

TO ALL MY VALENTINES

This little cutie is reminiscent of those yummy little candies we all used to get when we were kids. Always thinking, hoping that the messages were indeed intended for us alone! There's nothing better than love and I send this out to everyone!

CANNON GALLERY JURIED BIENNIAL

Saturday night was the opening reception for the 2011 William D. Cannon Gallery Juried Biennial. The night was a huge success with 850 people in attendance! The show features 61 artists from San Diego County and is a look at what's happening in contemporary art in the area. The exhibition was juried by Larry Baza, co-owner of Baza-Noel Fine Art in San Diego, and Peter Frank, Curator for the Riverside Museum of Art and art critic for The Huffington Post. The jurors poured through over 1100 images and pared it down to the pieces shown. I am very proud to be included in the wonderful group and will be including further images from the show in the upcoming weeks.
My piece is titled SOUL FINDING and is an installation featuring an original joomchi with shoes.
The exhibition runs January 30 through March 18, 2011.