If you suspect that someone is having a stroke act FAST
With over 150,000 people in the UK having a stroke every year, it is imperative that people can recognise a stroke when it's happening and take prompt action.
FAST requires an assessment of three specific symptoms of stroke:
Facial weakness - can the person smile? Has their mouth or eye drooped?
Melanie joined the team of London art college course artists about 10 years ago and has written and tutored a variety of courses including the young artists courses and the coloured pencil course. Due to the success of her own business and her artwork, she now concentrates on the Pet Portrait course and the Young Artist courses she has written and illustrated, to which she devotes a lot of time guiding her students in the right direction.
The majority of her portrait commissions come from America and she enjoys creating portraits in a variety of mediums. She uses Graphite Pencil, Coloured Pencil, Pastel and Acrylic however she is best known for her Oil paintings on canvas.
Her website is -
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Get Creating...check out this fabulous project and make some art today.
The idea behind the 100 Artists Project came from the 1000 Journals Project. The idea of getting a large number of people involved was appealing and so it was brought up on the comic art creation message board Penciljack as a way to possibly collect art and donate the funds from the sale of the art to charitable organizations.
The charities we've chosen this time around are the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund and The Hero Initiative. Both these foundations help comic book and cartoon artists and they are both non-profit. Once all the art is collected and either auctioned or sold at a print-on-demand store, all the proceeds will go to these groups.
The project consists of a couple phases:
The Big Mailer - This is the original idea and also the most ambitious. We take one sketchbook and mail it to 100 different artists. Each one adds to it in their own way and then mails it along until all 100 pages of the book are filled. The book is returned and each page is scanned. The sketchbook is auctioned off and the buyer pays directly to the foundations through MissionFish. Next, the scanned art will be sent to an online book binding and POD store front (more than likely Lulu) where it will be assembled, bounnd and sold at their store front. Again, the sales will be sent via Paypal directly to the funds.
The Single Mailer - This part is simpler and was called for when we realized the Big Mailer could take years to finish and has a higher possibility of not being completed. In this phase, the 100 artists send in a single page of art. The art is sent to a binder to create a single book. After that the process is the same and the book is auctioned and then after the auction it is sold online.
The idea is the art is worth more because it's traveled so far and the books are wroth more because they are not just assemblings of different pieces of work, but work that's traveled a distance and done knowing that a good cause awaits them.
We decided two projects were needed because, while we're all honest people, there is the likelihood that a single sketchbook will either not survive 100 mailings or be lost or stolen. We're padding the project with the less problematic Single Mailer so we can actually get something done.
Eventually, we'll have smaller books that folks can sign up to work on. On the Sign Ups page there will soon be an option to sign up for the Single Mailer, the Small Mailer or the Big Mailer. As long as we can keep the project rolling, we can keep funds going to these great organizations.
KIWI DELIGHT
I am still trying so hard to master those colored pencil techniques.
A watercolour painting of a frog on a leaf. art by Jan Robson Available
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Created using WATERCOLOUR PAINTS PEN AND INK
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AN ORIGINAL MINI PAINTING CREATED USING WATERCOLOUR PAINTS AND PEN AND INK...SIGNED AND DATED BY ME THE ARTIST ON THE BACK.
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A quick sketch in pen and ink and overwashed in watercolours
Here is my latest aceo
The Robin Redbreast created using watercolours and pigment ink
Here is my latest ACEO available on ebay here
The Stranglers 
Here is my latest ACEO available here on ebay
The RED DRAGON
He is a fiery fiesty fun lover and his favourite gemstone is the RUBY
He is a OOAK original
Created using coloured pencils (faber castell) and ink on heavy white cardstock.
art in your pocket
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