Visual Journaling Video

I just made this video to excite you about the power of visual journaling.

I hope that you’ll join me on this exciting journey to self-discovery. You’ll love the power that your visual journal will give you to connect with your creative spirit…your very soul.

Get all the info on the class page at online Visual Journaling Journey .

My camera is only 3 feet from where I am working in my journal. I share everything…the techniques and the thought processes. You will understand and harness this power in your own life though your journal.

If you’ve never painted before, you’ll appreciate how I keep the art techniques very simple and explain everything.

If you’re a more skilled artist, some of the art techniques will be new to you. I share insights into art making as well as using your journal in profound and powerful ways.

Ann Bell

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Ann Bell’s word for the year Stretch

Last year I selected a word to inspire and motivate me during the year 2011. That word was “imagine.” And everything I imagined has come true. As you might imagine, I was careful to only imagine good things.

That word feels like a hard act to follow…and I think I may have surpassed its possibilites with my word for 2012.

Stretch. Stretch! Stretch? I’ll stretch activities, intentions and exercise. I’ll stretch time to accomplish more. I’ll stretch beyond the limits that I could only imagine before. I invite you to watch me…and to pick your own word for the year.

Your word for the year will become a mantra to guide and inspire you. And at the end of the year, as you look back and see how far you have come, you’ll probably feel (as I do) that it was indeed your word of the year.

In case you think that I spent weeks comparing, evaluating, and choosing, I didn’t. Imagine presented itself to me in an intuitive flash about this time last year. It felt right all year.

After spending weeks sitting at my computer editing videos and learning the technical intricacies of teaching classes online, now I want to move and be active. I want to do more of my own painting. It’s time to focus even more on the art.

I want to MOVE and to S…T…R…E…T…C…H!

And so my word for the year is ”stretch.” It came in an intuitive flash as I was working in my visual journal.

If you aren’t using a visual journal to deepen your own intuition and creativity and to converse with your soul, you are missing a wonderful opportunity to tap into everything that your soul knows.

I’m sharing what I know about how to access inner wisdom as you converse with your soul through your visual journal. Will you join me?

Find out more at http://www.annbell.net/visualjournalclass.htm

Stop postponing your dreams and learn how to make them real. The first class is Friday, Dec. 30. On your computer. At your convenience. I’ll even send you a journal and a package of stencils. How could it be easier?

What a wonderful way to begin the new year!

Ann Bell

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Visual Journal Journey Online Class

       “Creativity, as has been said, consists largely of rearranging what we know in order to find out what we do not know. Hence, to think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted.” George Kneller

This quote explains the popularity of puzzles, mystery novels, serial TV shows & spy movies.

You can use the visual journaling process to harness this innate human curiosity and use it for your own benefit.

This intrinsic human curiosity works closely with your creativity to provide answers to your questions in your visual journal.

Your visual journal can have ANY purpose you want.

Page from Ann Bell's Visual Journal

I modified an airline ticket from one of my trips, see lower left corner.

Just for fun is totally legitimate…PERFECTLY OK!

Learning art techniques almost automatically happens without your being aware of it…regardless of your present level of expertise.

So, no previous painting experience is needed. But if you are already comfortable with the idea of painting, you will see even more ways to use what you know. You’ll bring your techniques into your journal AND you’ll take what I show you and make it your own as you incorporate it into your painting process.

Join me in my exciting new online class.

Register before Friday, Dec. 9 to begin immediately and receive 2 free gifts: a blank journal and 2 free stencils. I’ll also send your first lesson within 24 hours. I’ll send the second lesson on Friday, Dec. 9.

Since I began journaling many years ago. I’ve made gigantic improvements in every area. The pace accelerated when I added images to my journals.

My Visual Journal is the most powerful tool I have ever discovered.

That’s why I am so excited to be able to teach you how to make your own visual journal.

In this class we begin with a blank book and we turn it into our own visual journal…our own personal, magical tool to design our life, solve problems, reach goals, reduce stress, increase happiness…and on…and on. Did I mention that you can use your visual journal for any purpose you want?Probably you’ll use it for different purposes at different times.

Get all the details here.
Register button on the page allows signup and secure payment through PayPal, even if you don’t have a PayPal Account.

Did I mention that visual journaling is the most powerful tool for transformation that I have ever found?

If you are feeling stuck in a rut…or in a difficult place, visual journaling has the power to transform your life. It is MUCH more than a diary.

Ann Bell
PS: If this class is calling to you,
please listen to your heart and join me!

 
 

 




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Mixed Media Online Video Preview

Would you like a mega-dose of creative fun?

Get the complete details at www.AnnBell.net/MixedMediaOnline.htm

There is a button you can use if you decide to join this creative adventure!

Ann Bell

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Sneak Preview Mixed Media Online

Here’s a sneak preview of my Mixed Media & Collage classes. Collage is an important element in both.

Whether you can attend in person in my Houston studio, or whether you want to play online,
this video will give you a taste of the exciting power of Mixed Media!

Class dates & links to individual class pages are at www.AnnBell.net/classes.htm

Will you come play with me?

The BEST art comes from CREATIVE PLAY!

Ann Bell

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Spend the day with Artist Ann Bell in her studio

This is your opportunity to Spend the Day with me in my gloriously lighted creative artist studio in Houston & get my personal assistance with your creativity & your art.

What kind of help would you like from me?

This Spend the Day with Ann experience is more than a class.

You get to pick my brain & access all of my knowledge Continue reading

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Paint from your Imagination

If you are an artist…or an aspiring artist…this day in my studio is designed just for you!

You’ll learn how to develop an idea from the beginning spark that may exist only in your imagination into a real painting.

And, incidentally, you’ll also rejuvenate your creative spirit and have lots of creative FUN. Of course, this incidental result might be the reason you choose to come.

Paint from your Imagination:
Monday, May 30, 2011.
Class begins at 10 AM & ends at 2:30 PM.

Advance registration is absolutely necessary. My studio is small & space is limited. You can register through Paypal at http://www.annbell.net/ImagineClass.htm 

If you usually spend Monday trapped in an office, this holiday workshop may be the creative opportunity your soul has been yearning for.

I’ll provide all materials & supplies. Just come & enjoy a creative adventure that will enable lift your art to new levels.

Beginners are welcome. Actually, when you try to entice images out of your heart onto the paper/canvas, we are all beginners.

This unique class offers you the opportunity to play with ideas in a way that will change your feelings about yourself as an artist in a dramatic, confidence increasing way. I haven’t seen anyone else teaching this type of class. I wish I could have taken a class like this 20 years ago. But YOU can take it now. Your heart knows whether this class is for you. If it is, I urge you to indulge your heart’s wish.

We’ll work on paper that I provide in this class. The paper is not rationed. If you want to begin again, I’m happy to provide more paper. Although…I find that continuing to work & make changes actually helps the ideas to flow. Remember the old rule that says, “A body in motion tends to remain in motion.” I find that it also is true for the flow of ideas.

I keep my class size small, so you can have as much personal attention as you want.

I provide all supplies, so you don’t have to gather yours & carry them in. You can enjoy experimenting with mine for extra creative fun. I have acrylic paint in dozens of colors, including metallics. I have oil pastels, several brands of water soluble crayons, pastels & pencils, including the new Derwent Inktense colored pencils.

My gloriously lighted creative studio is near downtown Houston, convenient to all the freeways, and adjacent to the Metro (McGowen station).

If you are in town without art supplies, and this class becons to your heart, I provide all the supplies.

Online registration is available through Paypal on the class page at http://www.annbell.net/ImagineClass.htm

Ann Bell

PS. I realize that Monday is Memorial day. If you are meant to be here, the fact that it is a holiday might be the fact that makes it POSSIBLE for you to come.

PPS. My complete class schedule is at http://www.annbell.net/classes.htm

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Interview with Ann Bell

I made this short video in my studio the same day that I was photographed by Deborah Wallace from Barfield Photography for the article about me in Houston Woman Business Directory

Interview with Ann Bell from Ann Bell on Vimeo.

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Mixed Media Paintings Video

Do you like this video?

Or is the background a distraction?

Perhaps a simple slideshow would be better…

What do you think?

Ann Bell
Mixed Media Artist
www.AnnBell.net

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Hearts, Love & Moonlight

Stop the whirling time machine. It’s all going too fast. I just want to slow down & make art. What about you?

And the next best thing to making art is teaching others to make art. If you have an unfulfilled dream of making art, but don’t know where to begin, I invite you to consider my one-day workshops. I provide all the supplies, easy-to-follow demonstration, as well as glorious light, inspiring music & flowing creativity.

More than a class! It’s an experience. See the possibilities at
http://www.annbell.net/classes.htm

Each class is a fun & relaxing adventure. And you have a beautiful piece of art to take home & enjoy forever.

Ann Bell original painting "Love Gives the Heart Wings"

"Love Gives the Heart Wings" an 8" x 8" original painting by Ann Bell

Treat yourself…or a friend…to one of these workshops.

Or treat both of you. Sign up and come together for double the fun.

My studio is in Midtown, close to all the freeways, easily accessible from the Woodlands, Kingwood, Conroe, Tomball, Sugar Land, Katy, Pearland, Pasadena, and all parts of Houston.

I hope you’ll join me soon for a one-day creative workshop.

Ann Bell

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