jeaninesdreamletter II — winter 2006
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This is my second newsletter bringing all of you up to date on what's happening in my personal world and in my art world, both of which are connected. Thank you for reading & responding.

NEW PRINTS!
I am offering a tryptich of my most recent paintings (seen above), printed on watercolor paper, with inkjet long lasting ink. 12 x 17 image on 13 x 18 paper.

$300 including S&H for the three print. CLICK TO ORDER, specify size desired. Thank you!

SALE – FINE ART SHIRTS
PRICES ARE ON FIRE! $10 plus $4 S&H
"Wear a little mystery!"

“Glimpse of the Creation Mother”
Black 100% cotton, short or long sleeve, M, L, XL and sweatshirts XL & XXL

“Red is the Color of Passion”
Black M & L, Tan M, L, XL, & Gray L, 100% cotton, all long sleeve

CLICK TO ORDER ART SHIRTS
Purchase shirts online or mail checks to:
Jeanine Semon, N90 W16824 Pershing, Menomonee Falls, WI 53051

GRATITUDE
I want to thank everyone for their interest in my art and my newsletter. The art I have made that has gone out into the world, into your hands, has been important to me and to all of us. Remember, there is healing in it, my gift, which our world deeply needs. Art is powerful.
My work will soon be available at the CURRENT  GALLERY on Main Street in Menomonee Falls.

NEW WEBSITE
     Check out my new beautiful website. Tiffany Navin has done it again!

MESSAGE OF CHANGE
     This is a message about changes, delays, patience, and progress. In other words, life as it truly is. Firstly, I thought by this time our house would be sold, that we would have moved to Portland, OR, and be onto as they say, another level. But that hasn’t happened yet, except that we are always on another level that we hadn’t planned on. Things change, and we grow where we are. We simply adjust our goals while LIFE continues to happen. As my husband says, “Man makes plans and God laughs.”

APPAREL AND MELINDA
     Here is what is happening to me: On my new web site I have referred to starting an apparel line using my paintings on the clothing. Years ago I did have fashion design schooling and I am thrilled at the idea of putting my paintings onto clothing. But there have been delays. Meanwhile I have kept on with my life, waiting and watching, and continuing to paint as usual, plus teaching an art student named Melinda who has taught me as much as I have taught her. She came to me with illness, and over the summer I watched her improve while she painted and we talked. She is a brilliant art historian and writer, plus she loves the same artists that I do. Our deepest common interest is William Blake, the 18th century painter/printer/writer, in case any of you want to look him up.

NEW PAINTINGS
In the meantime I have been doing some beautiful paintings in watercolor, some of the best work I have ever done. They are visions I’ve had in my heart all along, not new subject matter, but presented in a new way. That’s who I am, truly, an artist. What a gift, to know what you are. To put my hand to painting the intermingling of life in the universe, dolphins, birds, plants, celestial is where I continue to be. I am not sure that the new art will all be on my web site by the time you read this newsletter. But they will be shortly. I intend to put some in this newsletter.

BOOKS OF MY ART
As luck will have it, while waiting for the apparel business to rev up, I have started a project I have wanted to do for years, putting my various groups of paintings into book form, the first about my dolphin paintings. It really began when Melinda noticed the relationships between my recent paintings. She has been a very able to critic of my work, a first for me. She knows my paintings as well as I know them. Our thoughts were to combine my images with her writing.

Now there have been delays with Melinda that neither of us can help. (Please send good vibes to her.) I discovered that when we are forced to wait, creative ideas have time to germinate and to grow. At this point I am writing down my own thoughts for the book on Dolphins, whose working title is "Dolphin River" or "An Eden of Dolphins".

ATTENTION PLEASE —
ANYONE READING THIS NEWSLETTER, PLEASE SEND ME ANY STORIES OR FEELINGS YOU HAVE ABOUT DOLPHINS. And sign your name. The book may become a collection of people’s writings beyond Melinda’s and mine. You don’t have to be a “writer”, just a lover of dolphins. Please Email me at jeaninesemon@aol.com

CLIP ART
There is an additional project that may be on the way also -- my own “Clip Art” page on my web site. It would consist of selling portions of my paintings for business or personal use. This will relate to the amount of time my great brilliant graphic artist, Tiffany Navin has to spend on my website.

My activities may sound a little wild for an older woman whose residence is not secure, but the ideas are there and want to be developed. If anyone wants to comment or help with these projects, please Email me at jeaninesemon@aol.com

Much peace throughout the world.
Jeanine