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Artful Creativity Sheila Eastman is an artist and workshop teacher.

She is passionate about sharing her art knowledge, art history, new fine art posts, and creating a community interested in creativity and art.

Sheila Eastman ArtHand Painted Christmas Cards on 140 # white paper (blank)4 in a set for $26 plus postageI will paint a...
11/21/2025

Sheila Eastman Art
Hand Painted Christmas Cards on 140 # white paper (blank)
4 in a set for $26 plus postage
I will paint and write words of your choice and mail 1 card for $12.
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Sheila Eastman ArtJust another study of waterlilies - The impressionists are my favorite group of artists. 8x10 Acrylic ...
06/30/2024

Sheila Eastman Art
Just another study of waterlilies - The impressionists are my favorite group of artists.
8x10 Acrylic waterlily study
Sheila Eastman © 2024
prints available

Degas, my favorite1910 dancer in pastelYou have to work fast when sketching and no cameraI love his delightful marks tha...
06/30/2024

Degas, my favorite
1910 dancer in pastel
You have to work fast when sketching and no camera
I love his delightful marks that have movement and loose creativity

More on lesser-known female artistsSuzanne Valadon – 1867-1938Little known French female artist born in 1867 from an unm...
06/16/2024

More on lesser-known female artists

Suzanne Valadon – 1867-1938
Little known French female artist born in 1867 from an unmarried laundress. She went to school until age 14 and then did many jobs most interestingly joining the circus and learning the trapeze.

She started drawing at a young age and found the performers of the circus great models. She fell from the trapeze and hurt her back and was forced to find another occupation. She became an artist’s model for Toulouse-Lautrec and Renoir. She is the woman in City Dance by Renoir.

She continued to practice art and learn from the artists she worked with as a model. She became friends with Degas, who took an interest in her art and even taught her printmaking techniques.

She is known for her outrageous female and male n**e paintings. N**e males were not painted as females were at the time. She used flat, rich colors, strong contours, and colorful ornamental backgrounds.

Her painting “The Blue Room” depicts her mature style portraying a woman with a carefree attitude with a cigarette in her mouth and wearing striped trousers, which was not the norm for women of the early 20th century. Her work was very different from other female contemporary artists of her time like Mary Cassatt and Berthe Morisot. Perhaps coming from a lower class level allowed her to be more creative with her subject matter.

She was married, divorced, and had 1 illegitimate son, Maurice Utrillo. She lived and made art on her own terms living extremely independently. Yet, she was included in the art world as a woman from a lower class. She was accepted into many art shows and became a successful full-time artist.

Excerpt from: https://www.thecollector.com/suzanne-valadon-from-circus-performer-to-artist/

A little Art History About Vivian Maier- An American PhotographerVivian Maier - 1926-2009 Vivian was born in New York ci...
06/01/2024

A little Art History About Vivian Maier- An American Photographer
Vivian Maier - 1926-2009
Vivian was born in New York city and spent 5 decades taking pictures in New York and Chicago leaving 100K of undeveloped negatives.

She was a remarkable street photographer who wasn’t discovered until she died.

She started her career with a Kodak Brownie camera. I am pretty sure I had one of those. There was no shutter speed, numerous lenses, or all the bells and whistles in those days. You see, you don’t need all the fancy equipment to create beautiful pictures or any other kind of art, for that matter.

What you need is a spark, so to speak, of looking at the world around you differently.

She took pictures daily that told a story of that moment in time, which we can enjoy forever. They were pictures of regular people, sitting, eating, walking, talking, laughing, and simply living.

She played with reflections, shadows, and light and showed us the details of the grit of life in one blissful second.

To see more of her amazing photos go to
Vivianmaier.com -

I am back and a whole new idea is transpiring for Artful Creativity..... regular posting, links to where you can find th...
06/01/2024

I am back and a whole new idea is transpiring for Artful Creativity..... regular posting, links to where you can find the art and purchase and even starting "The Paint Club" in Venice for those creatives that want to paint for the day and not own any art supplies --- yay
Tell your friends to come to a page that will glow with creativity....

Sheila Eastman ArtBetween the CracksThe spacewhere they leave ussweet freshly cut grassbreakfast bacon warm cookiesmorni...
07/15/2023

Sheila Eastman Art

Between the Cracks

The space
where they leave us
sweet freshly cut grass
breakfast bacon
warm cookies
morning coffee
rain in the pines
balmy sunsets
our heart knows
and remembers

Sheila Eastman © 7/2023

New painting for workshopSheila Eastman Art
02/20/2023

New painting for workshop
Sheila Eastman Art

Sheila Eastman Art12X12 Acrylic"Follow the Leader"Sheila Eastman © 2024Prints available
02/17/2023

Sheila Eastman Art
12X12 Acrylic
"Follow the Leader"
Sheila Eastman © 2024
Prints available

Just needed some color today - so experimenting with acrylic instead of oil - How does color affect your emotions? "Pop...
07/12/2020

Just needed some color today - so experimenting with acrylic instead of oil - How does color affect your emotions?
"Pop of Color" 8X8 Acrylic
Sheila Eastman © 2024
Prints available starting at $35

I am attracted to color wherever I go, even the grocery store. I keep walking past these bags of little peppers. I don'...
06/27/2020

I am attracted to color wherever I go, even the grocery store.
I keep walking past these bags of little peppers. I don't eat them,but bought them to paint. So now a series of peppers before they go south
"Then There Were Three" 6X6 $75
Unfortunately, my photos don't show my lush colors.
Original S Eastman ©
Several Pepper prints available

New Poem - right now our lives are bland, sometimes the mind talks when we are the only one in the room - beware...Trans...
06/25/2020

New Poem - right now our lives are bland, sometimes the mind talks when we are the only one in the room - beware...
Transparency

Thoughts weigh
Heavy,
Trying to lead,
They should follow.

Shouting,
Repetition,
Not a soft caress.

No respect for
Silence,
The purity of quiet,
Perfection.

Fog rolling in,
Gray, blue mist,
Edging,
Within my spirit.

Soon it will lift,
Release,
Celebrate,
create anew.

S Eastman © 2020

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