Studio Tour 2013

Mark Your Calendar now for this year's Studio Tour hosted by the Fort Collins Lincoln Center!


GENERAL INFORMATION
The Fort Collins Studio Tour will be held on Saturday and Sunday, June 22 & 23, 10 am – 5 pm both days. Artists will be available in their studios during all open hours on both days of the tour.

The Fort Collins Studio Tour is an educational community art experience that enhances the understanding and appreciation of the visual arts by giving people a first hand experience with the artists in their studios, the creative process and the artwork.

Successful Studio Tour artists will:
a) invite people into their working art studio
b) provide a demonstration area or display so that visitors can either see a work in progress, or otherwise understand the processes, materials and techniques involved in creating work, and
c) talk with visitors about their art and make sales to visitors

The Lincoln Center will host an exhibit featuring one artwork from participating studios from June 14-29, 2013, at the Lincoln Center Art Gallery. A public reception for the artists will be held on Friday, June 14th, 5-7 p.m.

The Fort Collins Studio Tour is free to the public. Visitors may pick up the map/brochure at the Lincoln Center, Fort Collins Senior Center, Northside Aztlan Community Center, public library branches and other locations around Fort Collins, or may download it from the internet at www.lctix.com. Bike routes will be noted on the map to encourage visitors to leave their cars at home while visiting the studios.

Ten Things You Probably Didn't Know About Me

1. I've had this blog since the fall of 2007

2. I had my first email address in 1992

3. My first website in 1996

4. I travelled to USSR and East Berlin in 1986, China in 2004

5. I used to row a single scull on Portage Bay in Seattle

6. I received my MFA from New York University in Video Art

7. I've studied tai chi for over 12 years and before that yoga for seven

8. I turned down job offers at Microsoft (twice), Amazon, and a creative director job at Adobe Systems

9. I've lived in 4 time zones of the US, in Seattle longer than anywhere else (19 years)

10. I've taken a total of one painting class and that was in high school

May Mandala Circle

This month I will be hosting the last Mandala class of the season! Be sure to reserve your space early by registering. This class - Saturday May 18: A Personal Healing - will focus on setting a healing intention of your choosing and then creating Mandalas that set that healing in motion. Registration by May 13 required.

I've decided to take a break from the monthly sessions to enjoy the summer. These sessions have inspired attendees to the power of healing through this wonderful moving mediation. It is only fitting that these sessions also greatly influence my own creative work. My newest series of paintings are focused on healing intent, and the process is fabulously fun and rewarding. This summer I want to focus on continuing this body of work.

I also will spend time considering where I want to take the next series of mandala workshops. As my personal creative and healing work evolves, it continues to inform the classes. Should they be full day workshops? Or a series of sessions? Or include more creative play with other media? At this point any idea is on the table.

-Bonnie

Advanced Eyecare • Exhibition

Bonnie Lebesch shows paintings at Advanced Eyecare in Old Town Fort Collins. Contact Bonnie for purchase information.

162 South College Avenue, Fort Collins.

Corner of Oak Street

Open business hours

Currently showing:

The Forest Within Me

30x24" acrylic on canvas

The Felt Sense

20x16", acrylic on panel

Join Our Mandala Circle!

KNOW YOUR TRUE SELF!

Access the wisdom of your higher self 

through visualization and drawing.

JOIN BONNIE LEBESCH for classes in drawing healing mandalas with guidance and direction. The next classis Saturday May 18: A PERSONAL HEALING. Advance registration by Monday May 13th required!

• Discover your own source of healing energy and creative inspiration
• Let go of inhibitions and control
• Loosen up and let it flow
• Know your True Self and Life Purpose
• Relax in meditative silence while you draw
• No art or meditation experience necessary

JOIN US from at 9:30-11:30 am at my studio in Old Town. Materials provided. *Please arrive 15 minutes early to allow time to settle in. ***Classes are $30 per 2hr class. Advanced registration by Monday May 13th is required. Directions provided upon registration.

NOW AVAILABLE FOR PRIVATE GROUPS! Gather together a group of your own and we'll do a mandala session at your convenience. Contact Bonnie for details. 

Questions? Submit a comment below and I'll clarify any questions you have. SIGN UP FOR THE EMAIL NEWSLETTER to stay current with Mandala Circle information and other art events!

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Bonnie Lebesch is a nationally celebrated artist, teacher and author. She combines 18 years of yoga and tai chi practice into her painting and teaching style, honoring a deep connection to spirit and intuitive expression. A resident of Seattle for 19 years, Bonnie moved to Fort Collins, CO in 2011. Her work can be seen at Pathways to Wellness, Innosphere, and various other local venues.
www.bonnielebesch.com 
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The Strata of My Paintings

I just returned from a wonderful trip through Canyonlands National Park in Utah. We took the daring, dusty, 4-wheel drive down the White Rim Trail, which gets its name from the layer of white rock much of the road is built upon, about halfway down the canyon's walls.

Words cannot describe this immense and spectacular landscape. We travelled two and a half solid days bumping down the road, scouring the land with our eyes. And at each turn we encountered yet another vast vista of ever-impressive land.

This crumbly earth looks like it could tumble down at any moment, and indeed we did spy a very large dust cloud rising from what could only have been a rock scramble the next valley over. But this land is hundreds of thousands of years old. Layers built upon layers, upon layers....

I realized at one point that all the earth is made of this spectacular layered strata. It's such a wondrous thing that areas of erosion have exposed it to view, but really, we walk upon such hidden beauty all the time!

And a friend suggested the connection between these layers of earth and the layers of my work. It's true, I do love layers, and I spend extra time adding layers upon layers, upon layers, to build up what I call the "history" of a piece.

So it is conceivable that these layers factor into my current work even more... but as with all things, I have to let it work its own way in, on its own time. Piece by piece.

Here's a little example of the excavations that take place in my studio lately... oh, all those lovely shards!

March Mandala Circle

This month in the Mandala Circle session we focused on Knowing Rainbow Color. It was more instructional than the other sessions. I covered the color wheel and the use of color pigment to blend and create all the colors of the rainbow.

Here you see a triangle using three primary colors plus white. You can see the areas were color overlaps to create secondary colors.

The second example is using the same three colors in a more complex composition that uses the white pencil to bring out even more variation in color and tone.

This session was a small group so I took a more informal approach and we just played with whatever came to us. One woman drew "The Universe in Me", which was very cool!

I am continually amazed at how each person responds differently to the suggestions given in the class. Always an adventure!

The April 20, 2013 Mandala Circle will be Getting Unstuck. Sign up here (advanced registration required).

See you there!