My 3 in-person workshops in New Jersey, USA!

Day 3: Tribal Art

What a privilege it is to be invited to stay in Olga Furman home and paint in her studio! 18 hours flight from Cape Town, South Africa was absolutely worth it. Olga chose a gorgeous farm venue for the workshops and the students were a delight to work with! We had a blast creating first 3 days of painting, then 3 days of sculpting.

We even had a day in-between to hangout together in a historic town Lambertville, filled with vintage shops, beautiful old style houses, inviting restaurants and stunning wide river with a bridge leading to a town of New Hope.

Sharing here some favorite moments of this truly delightful experience. I loved in person interaction, which happens rarely for me, I mostly teach online. It was so wonderful to connect to old time Facebook friends and meet new ones as well.

Day one: mixed media and collage, students works

I have 1 last workshop ahead of me before I head back to South Africa, it will be held inside Olga Furman studio (a bonus!) on 7-9 August, day 1 painting Collaged and Mixed-Media Story Art, day 2 painting Icons with gold leaf halo and illustrative patterns, day 3 painting earthy tones Tribal Story Art. Large variety of techniques and color palettes is used for 3 in depth demonstrations. This is intensive workshop, where students grow in skill tremendously in such short period of time.

i have 8 years experience in teaching art, and a school teacher’s degree I received in my 20s. I felt how my previous life experience have prepared me to handle well 9 and 8 students classes, 3 day long each.

Here is one of testimonials from previous class:

“ JEANNE ELLIOTT 

July 27, 2023 at 10:55 pm

This was such a WONDERFUL workshop!!! I really enjoyed spending time with Annie Hamman painting soul filled portraits! She is such a wonderful encouraging teacher who shares her passion for story art with so much love and energy. If there is any way you can manage to take her workshop, GO!! You will be soo happy you did!!! I learned a lot and this is such a great opportunity to study with one of the very best. It was truly amazing how much we all accomplished in 3 days! I can not recommend it highly enough. Olga Furman was such a delightful caring hostess as well! She also shares so much love and joy. What a wonderful time we all had! It was a truly unforgettable experience that I am sooo happy I had!

If you are considering to sign up for my last class, we have few spaces left. You can read more testimonials from students that just finished a class, and sign up here:

Sculpting The Winged Ones with shells, driftwood and other nature items.

Day two on Painting Icons, works in progress.

Online art teaching in PYHaS 2023, plus giveaway

Dear artists, I will be teaching art online once again, after a long pause, during which I focused on discovering new ideas and techniques in my daily art practice. My last online workshop was released 3 years ago. Since then, I went on a road of self discovery through plant medicines, Native American teachings, tribal themed paintings and sacred tools crafts. This year in April, I have graduated as Shamanic Ceremonial Practitioner, Sweat Lodge Pourer and Prayer Pipe Carrier with my teacher Michelle Reid, who is a holder of Okanogan/ Cherokee lineage here in Western Cape, South Africa.

I am excited to film and edit instructional art videos again, with new subject matter and techniques. And the first project I signed up with is PYHAS 2023 - collaborative 1 year long workshop, hosted by Olga Furman, with 40 different art teachers, with new classes emailed to you weekly for the whole year. I am planning to make my own new stand alone classes as well, which I will announce as soon as they are in production.

I would love to follow your progress on PYHAS 2023 throughout the year and comment on your art created in this course. To sign up click here:

First 500 sign ups for the course get 41% discount off original price! ($119 instead of original $199.) It is truly incredible offer for weekly classes from 40 talented teachers for the whole year.

For those who wish to enter my Giveaway of 1 spot in this remarkable course, here are the guidelines:

1. Please subscribe below to my newsletter (If you are already on it, there is no need to subscribe again.) Please make sure your name as you subscribe matches your Facebook first and last name.

2. Go to my personal Facebook page and comment in the pinned Giveaway post.

I will check to match subscribers and those who commented on my FB post, and the winner will be announced on Facebook in the same pinned post on 13 September.

Good luck and hope to see you on PYHAS from January 2023!

Much love,

Annie.

“Bird of many lives” - by Annie Hamman

Have I abandoned painting for crafts?

“Seal Medicine Shield”

I tried to resist crafts. I pretended I am just dabbling. I even forced myself to paint when I wanted to craft. To craft rattles, jewelry, leather pouches, magic wands, protection shields, accent braids, drums, and clay sculptures. But in the last year I made so many crafts, I had to admit my defeat. Crafts have consumed me. I still love to paint. But it got pushed away as one of the things I want to do, it wasn’t the main thing anymore.

Who said that painting is more noble thing to do, or more refined thing to do, or even more skilled thing to do? Creativity is just that - creativity, in whichever form it present itself. And art can take so many forms: from dance, to writing, to acting, to music, to paintings, to crafts.

Below I am sharing some of my this year crafts in this post. Please let me know if you like any of them.

And thank you for checking what I am up to and being present on my creative journey to this day.

Much love,

Annie.

P.S. You can request something custom made, based on below images. :)

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Lady brush, a brush and clay sculpture. Available, please inquire. :)

New nature inspired art - 24 hour FB group auction 18-19 November

This will be my last auction event in a long while, my solo auction and this group artists auction have been very close to each other due to postponed dates of my solo with Covid lockdowns around the world.

I have been delving deep into nature inspired arts and crafts, exploring further driftwood and clay creations, making pendant necklaces from my reproductions art, and starting new adventures in handmade journals, inspired by my collection of vintage. And of cause I always have time for paintings - story art. :)

For this upcoming 24 hour event I offer 6 reproduction pendants in resin, made into beautiful necklaces. 2 original artworks, 2 driftwood and clay sculptures, 1 hand made Book of Elements art journal and 2 block mounted ready to hang prints. Above is a combined photo of my offerings. Few more photos below. :)

To attend please join this group on FB: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1081400241910524

Upcoming solo art auction 20.10.20

Dear reader,

I still feel like an instrument of the Great Spirit of Life, channeling this art that comes through me. My last year journey took me deeper into relationship with plant medicines, and consequently plant and animal kingdom, earth, and relationship with myself. My expanded consciousness allowed deeper understanding of how everything in life is truly connected and also my place in this beautiful tapestry of life.

I started seeing life’s blessing and tragedies not with a particular viewpoint of preferences, but rather as generally Life, unfolding itself in one continuous never ending flow. Looking everywhere, and seeing only me, weaving myself, into Life. Life as One, reflecting in a mirror of multitudes of forms, not one greater or lesser than another.

I have been accumulating some nature inspired body of work since the beginning of the year, and in the last couple of months finishing few sculptures and paintings that took longer to bring to the light. Each piece takes its time, for composition to form in my heart, and then takes its evolution on the canvas, paper, or in sculptured form. I see each artwork’s undercurrent, as it forms in my heart during my daily life occurrences, seemingly unrelated to the work in my studio. It tickles in my heart, like water drops, forming a puddle, and then a lake - overflowing, wanting to become a completed work of art. It is impossible not to create.

I have been also immersed in creating many nature inspired crafts: animal masks, medicine bags, smudge wands, medicine sticks, etc. These came from nature’s gifts I stumbled upon my path or was gifted with. These I will share in another post.

Dear beautiful soul, you are invited to my solo art show 2020 event held by an auctioneer Stephanie Gagos on 20 October 2020. To attend please click on this event link, then click on Going:

https://www.facebook.com/events/659359441372195

To be able to comment on the auction items during the auction you will also need to be part of this Facebook auctions group (the event was created from that group, so it requires people to be members of a group. You can leave the group after the auction if you wish):

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1118917878158733/

The auction will run 20-22 October, some items will have only opening bids and some will have BIN (buy it now prices) which mean artwork can be bought immediately at that price.

There will be about 20 originals, 6 sculptures and 10 reproductions.

Thank you for your continuous support on my artistic and life journey.

Annie.

some work for the show:

Painting on a drum.