ARTS AND CRAFTS ONLINE MAGAZINE FEBRUARY & MARCH 2016 ISSUE 7
Man of the year (Department art & culture)
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Contents Lucas Ndala ‌.. Cover page
Page 4 & 5: Interesting dates Page 6: 2016 Calendar Page 7: Plan your 2016 Page 8: Editor’s note Page 9: Artist colouring book Page 10 ~ 13: The chocolate den Page 14 ~ 19: Planning vs not planning Page 20: Wood art by Jasen Page 21: Picnic with Mathys Roets
Page 22 & 23 : Where do South African handicrafts fit into the China demand? Page 24 & 25: Asante textile arts Page 26 ~ 31: The seven elements of art
Page 32 & 33: The history oaprons Page 34 ~ 41: Art & craft challenges 2
Page 34 & 35: Decorate Easter eggs Page 36: Why then, do we celebrate Easter? Page 37: Free colouring page Page 38 & 39: Make an Easter egg basket Page 40 & 41: Paint or draw an Aurunm Lilly
Page 42 ~ 45: Art History Timeline: Post-impressionism, Fauvism, Expressionism Page 46 & 47: Business Q&A ge 50 & 51: Chatterbox ART QUESTIONS ANSWERED BY Page 52 & 53: “Craft Together” JOHANNA Page 54 ~ 57: Lucas Ndala Page 48 & 49 Winner: Man of the year (Department of art and culture)
Page 58 & 59: The artists’ way Kids pages: Page 60 & 61: Santam’s child art project Page 61 ~ 65: Kids art and craft challenges Page 66 ~ 67: This issues kid artist Page 68 & 69: Small adverts Page 70 & 71: Stefanie Victor Page 72 & 73: Johann van Heerden Art Gallery Page 74 & 75 Centurion Art Association annual exhibition
Page 76 & 77: Amigurumi Page 78 & 79 Adele Bantjies Naïve Art Page 80 Back page 3
Starts 13 January 2016 February & March 2016 Available from 15 January 2016
Public School Holidays Starts 13 January 2016 Private School Holidays 21 March Human Rights Day 25 March Good Friday
February 7 ~ National Send a Card to a Friend Day 11 ~ Make a Friend Day
28 March Easter Monday/ Family Day Public Holidays
March 14 ~ National Donor Day
14 ~ Quilting Day
14 ~ Valentines Day
17 ~ St. Patrick Day
18 ~ Happy Drink Wine Day
30 ~ National Pencil Day
22 ~ National Margarita Day 28 ~ Tell a Fairy Tale Day 4
Ends 18 March 2016 February & March 2016 Available from 15 January 2016
Public School Holidays Ends 18 March 2016 Private School Holidays 27 April Freedom Day
April 1 ~ April Fools Day 10~ Encourage a Young Writer Day 21 ~ Get to Know Your Customers Day 23 ~ Picnic Day
1 May Workers’ Day 2 May Public Holiday Public Holidays May 5 ~ Cartoonist Day
7 ~ Packaging Design Day 8 ~ Mothers Day
May Date Your Mate Month
16 ~ Love a Tree Day 5
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Editor’s Note Happy New Year!
HAPPY 2016!
A new year means a fresh start. A brand new opportunity to change whatever you are not satisfied with, whether it is on a personal level, or accepting the challenge of a new job or taking your artistic talent to a new level. In this issue we will be looking at the impact of planning vs not planning on a successful business, artwork or just in general. We also look at two inspirational artists: Lucas Ndala already realised his talent as a young boy. However, Stefanie Victor discovered her unique talent less than a year ago and hopes to become a famous artist one day! So whether you are an established artist or just discovering your talents; SEIZE
THE DAY! Make 2016 the year to remember!
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The business focuses on providing a friendly and helpful atmosphere to all who choose to drop by and shop and for those too far away with an easy to navigate online shopping website.
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The Chocolate Den - Classes We offer a wide variety of classes, including chocolate making classes, sugar veil classes and cake decorating classes. For more information about the classes currently running, please click on a link below: Debbie’s Cake Artistry Classes & Workshops Toni's Chocolate, Baking & Decorating Classes Easter Chocolates Workshop
99 Linksfield Road, Glendower Shopping Centre, Edenvale E-mail: orders@thechocden.co.za Tel: 011 453 8160 Terms & Conditions Apply 11
The Chocolate Den was established in the early 1980s by Felicity Phillips. It was the first of a kind shop in South Africa offering chocolate moulds, moulding chocolate, fillings and packaging to everyone and anyone who wanted to mould and create delicious chocolates. She built the business through hard work and long hours travelling around the country to various trade and retail shows where she would display and demonstrate her products. At the same time she opened a retail outlet in Edenvale which was to move to new premises in Glendower a short while later. You can still find The Chocolate Den in Glendower just off the N3 Linksfield road off ramp.
Today the business has grown to the largest retail outlet in Southern Africa supplying customers from South Africa, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia and Angola with chocolate moulding and baking supplies. Toni, her daughter, took over the business a few years back and continues to stock the shop with the newest and largest range of chocolate moulding supplies, importing many products, buying locally as well as manufacturing others. With a keen eye on innovative new items The Chocolate Den’s friendly and fantastic staff continue to grow and develop new products. Chocolate classes which have been taught from the onset of the business continue today along with cake icing classes, baking and cooking lessons. 12
Please join us: �All Girls Craft Club� 26 February 2016 Easter Egg Workshop @ the Chocolate Den. R400 per person Bookings essential: magazine@spectacularartsandcrafts.co.za
This is what we made during the workshop.
Daphne Smit (Founder of the All Girlz Craft Club) doing a Easter Egg workshop at the Chocolate Den.
Great for team building, birthdays and other events!!!
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“Any plan won’t survive its first encounter with reality. The reality will always be different. It will never be the plan.” Having a good plan is key to success in business. And being willing and able to adjust your plan in the face of reality is even more key.
Here’s what I mean by ‘a good plan’: one that’s based on a solid, accurate understanding of the core challenge you’re trying to address, and your current reality. One that includes a clearly articulated vision of the future you hope to create. One that acknowledges the most likely and most problematic obstacles you’ll face. And finally, one that includes a well-defined strategic and tactical path to achieve your vision.
If you’ve done all that, you’ll have a map to the future that’s well-grounded in reality, and probably won’t require a complete overhaul once you start implementing it.
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But reality is never exactly as you expect it will be, so you have to look at your initial plan as your best guess, and flex it to accommodate the actual circumstances you encounter.
I was just in LA last week, building a plan like this a very well-funded start-up within a much larger company. They crafted a great plan together: simple, clear, feasible. The whole team agreed on their vision and the plan for accomplishing it.
And yet, I know that the most important help I’ll be able to offer over the next month or so will be to support them to tweak and revise the specifics of their plan as it intersects reality.
Encouraging them to keep going and not abandon their plan to go back to the scrambled, ad-hoc, unplanned approach they’d been taking for the past six months.
Because, unfortunately, when many (perhaps most) people run into the hard truth that their best planning is never going to be completely right or 100% implementable, they tend to throw up their hands, say “See? I told you planning was useless!” And go back to whatever they were doing before (which was usually not-good enough that they stopped and made the effort to put together a plan in the first place). http://www.forbes.com/sites/ erikaandersen/2013/09/23/what-jeffbezos-knows-about-planning-vsreality/ 15
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It’s easy to become paralysed when so many choices exist. We can’t decide among them so we end up not choosing. But life goes on, and no choice becomes the de facto choice, and suddenly we look back and feel like our talents have been wasted. We leave the store without buying any jam at all. We need a way to get started now, to move in the right direction, even when we don’t have a plan. So what makes people like Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Page, and Sergey Brin so successful? Some of it is opportunity. Some if it is persistence. And some is sheer luck. But there’s another set of ingredients that encourages opportunity, persistence, and luck. I call them the four elements. Success will favour you if you:
Why Not Having a Plan Can Be the Best Plan of All Leverage your strengths Use your weaknesses Pursue your passions Assert your differences 17
Zuckerberg, Page, and Brin loved technology and were great at it. None of them operated alone —
they partnered with people to offset their weaknesses. And, in style as well as substance, they offered unique approaches that differentiated them and their companies from anything else out there. For me, at Princeton, it was outdoor leadership. My strength was group dynamics. My weakness, a neurotic safety consciousness, was, in this situation, an asset. I loved being with others in the outdoors. And, having grown up in New York City, my urban outlook brought a unique perspective to teaching people who were also new to the outdoors.
Still I had no idea how I was supposed to turn any of that into gainful employment. I couldn’t see how it would provide a career for me in the long term. I couldn’t see raising a family while living in the woods. It was far from perfect. So I almost threw it all out. I almost went to law school. But I didn’t. Instead, I chose to stick with what I was doing, experimenting to improve my focus on the four elements while changing those things that detracted from them. One thing I experimented with was doing outdoor team building with corporate groups. I could do that while living a more stable life. And it leveraged my differences even more — I knew more about the corporate world than most others in outdoor leadership. 18
So I started a company. One decision led to another. Eighteen years later I’m still changing my business, morphing it to take better advantage of my strengths weaknesses, passions and uniqueness. What will it look like in three years? I’m not sure.
The entire path need not be clear. Most successful people and businesses have meandered their way to success by being willing to exercise their talents in ways they never would have imagined at the onset.
Here’s what’s fortunate: you’re already doing something — whether it’s a job, a hobby, or an occasional recreational passtime — that exploits your strengths, allows for your weaknesses, gives you pleasure, and uses your uniqueness.
Start experimenting where you are.
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Asante Textile Arts Akan textile arts were key markers of status and dominion, while the act of weaving itself had mythological and ceremonial resonance. This was especially true of a type of cloth called kente (1993.384.2), which was linked in Akan mythology to the spider Ananse, the first weaver. Its production was subject to certain behavioural sanctions and weavers made offerings to their looms when these prohibitions were broken.
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/asan_3/hd_asan_3.htm Kente is woven in narrow strips by master weavers who use a complex technique called "floating weave" to achieve the intricate designs associated with this cloth.
The strips are then sewn together, creating broad panels of striking beauty and compositional complexity. Because of its expense and symbolic associations, only persons of high rank wore kente, and certain patterns were reserved solely for the king's use.
Originally, these cloths were made of white cotton with woven designs of indigo-dyed thread. By the seventeenth century, however, luxurious silks imported by European traders were incorporated, resulting in the vibrant and richly hued textiles that are so admired today.
Akan textile arts were key markers of status and dominion.
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Let's say you are the artist. You've decided to create a drawing using a pencil on a white piece of paper. You might use the pencil to create the drawing using lines. A line is an element of art. It is a mark made upon a surface. In order to be a line, the mark's length must be longer than its width. There are many different types of lines, including horizontal, vertical, wavy, diagonal, and more.
1.Line 1.Shape 2.Form 3.Texture 4.Colour 5.Value 6.Space http:// www.oberlin.edu/ amam/asia/ sculpture/ documents/ vocabulary.pdf
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You might decide you want to continue working on your drawing and enclose some of those lines. The enclosed lines are then transformed into another element of art called shape. Shapes are areas of enclosed space that are two-dimensional. Shapes are flat, and can only have height and width. The two different categories of shapes are geometric and organic. Geometric shapes are mathematical, like circles and squares. Organic shapes come from nature, like clouds and leaves. This collage by Henri Matisse uses a collection of organic shapes.
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VALUES An element of art made up of three properties: hue, value, and intensity. • Hue: name of colour
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If you decide to vary the size and placement of your lines and shapes, you will use another element. This is the element called space. Space deals with the illusion of depth on a flat surface. You might overlap shapes to make some look closer, or make objects in the distance smaller to look like they are farther away. The element of space can be used in three-dimensional art as well.
Texture: An element of art that refers to the way things feel, or look as if they might feel if touched.
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Space is an area that an artist provides for a particular purpose. Space includes the background, foreground and middle ground, and refers to the distances or areas around, between, and within things. There are two kinds of space: negative space and positive space. Negative space is the area in between, around, through or within an object. Positive spaces are the areas that are occupied by an object and/or form.
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The history of aprons The first aprons appear to be little more than squares or rectangles of linen cloth tied around the workers waist. Fabric was precious because, for the common folk, it was woven at home on narrow looms. Every scrap was used, so there was probably a minimum of cut and sew involved. And there wouldn't have been a lot of resources... time or money, to spend on decorative aprons. The earliest pictures of aprons that I've found showed peasants or labourers in medieval or renaissance time... both men and women. The wealthy folk that had their portraits painted would not have done any labour that required garment protection. And if they did, they wouldn't have allowed the painter to show them in work clothing.
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Plain aprons were the norm until the late 1500’s, when elaborately decorated aprons became the style for women. These weren't work aprons. They were fashionable, status aprons decorated with expensive lace and embroidery. When Europeans began immigrating to the new world, aprons were simple & functional as a reaction to the excesses of fashion. The Pilgrim women wore plain, white long aprons. Later the Quaker women wore long aprons made of coloured silk. In England, women competed to see who could have the most elaborately decorated apron. Wealthy women often left their heirloom aprons to favoured family members. The Duchess of Queensbury once wore an apron that was rumoured to have cost 200 guineas. (which must have been a LOT of money or the story wouldn't survive in oral history!) http://www.acmeaprons.com/history-of-aprons.html
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Chocolate coloured eggs, cute little bunnies. Easter has always been an exciting time for me. I remember that every year, when I was growing up, my family would spend a few hours on Friday or Saturday night just before Easter Sunday, colouring and decorating Easter eggs. We always had a lot of fun.
Did you know, you can really tell a lot about a person’s personality, by the way they decorate their eggs? For example my oldest sister was always very carful and ended up with the most beautiful looking eggs, you have ever seen, while my youngest brother and sister would plop their eggs into so many different cups, each with a different colour, that they would end up with a multi-coloured mess!
I also remember that my mom enjoyed making special baskets for each of us that would be filled with candy and chocolates. She would hide each basket somewhere in the house, but leave a trail of marshmallows that went from our bed to where the basket was hidden.
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These fun activities are just some of the things that usually come to mind when we think of Easter, but there’s more! These things aren’t really the reason we celebrate Easter every year. Christiananswers.net/kids/edn-easter.html
As Christians, we celebrate Easter for entirely different reasons than most people do. You see, about two thousand years ago, God
sent His only Son, Jesus, to live a perfect life, and to die for our sins! But Jesus did not stay dead; He rose from the dead! We are actually celebrating Jesus’ death for our sins
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Make an Easter egg basket!!! This can be a fun activity for you and the kids, no matter what medium you use to make your basket.
This can also be a great recycling project.
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The Calla Lily is a most beautiful flower that comes in many colours - whites, rich yellows, and yes, deep burgundy! Native to South Africa where rainfall and temperatures are adequate. It's preferable habitat is in streams and ponds or on the banks. It is the national flower of the island nation of Saint Helena, where it grows widely. Much to my surprise, it has become an important symbol of Irish republicanism and nationalism since 1926 to commemorate the fallen of Easter 1916 and onwards.40
• I don't see why we ever think of what others think of what we do -- no matter who they are. Isn't it enough just to express yourself? http://www.arthistoryarchive.com/arthistory/modern/Georgia-OKeeffe.html 41
Post-Impressionism Symbolic and highly personal meanings were particularly important to Post-Impressionists such as Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh. Rejecting interest in depicting the observed world, they instead looked to their memories and emotions in order to connect with the viewer on a deeper level. http://www.theartstory.org/movement-post-impressionism.htm 42
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Post-Impressionism: Expressionism In the late 1800’s a number of young artists met in the studio of Symbolist painter Gustave Moreau at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Paris. Outraging critics and the public, led by Henri Matisse and AndrÊ Derain, they took colour to where it had never gone before. Essentially Germanic and led by artists like Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Expressionism developed out of the two movements of Symbolism and Fauvism. Mystical, violent, it too sought to refute Impressionism and Realism http://www.howtodrawjourney.com/post-impressionism.html 45
There is so, so much that goes into having a successful online craft business. Truly, the path is long, and can be hard, and has so very many steps. However, I’ve been in the handmade business for a long time now, and over the last few years I’ve built up my business to the point where I am now earning MORE than I did in my last professional job. Some days, I can’t quite believe that I’ve reached this point. A few years back, it seemed like a pretty unattainable dream. But here we are. I am lucky enough to be making a living making beautiful things – doing something I love. I don’t say this to brag or toot my own horn, I say it to give you hope. Not a false hope. Not a hollow – you will succeed if you just do what you love.
No. But if you’ve dreamed of doing what I do – making a living from selling your craft, I’m here to tell you that it IS possible. No, it’s not easy. No, it’s not a quick process. But it can be done. I, and many other artisans, are living proof. Today, I thought I would dig deep into those years (and YEARS) of trial and error to share with you 10 things that I believe are absolutely crucial to the success or failure of your online handmade business. 46
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What advice can you give me to run a successful online craft business? Send us your business related question
1. Create something people actually want to buy This is number 1. I’ve written about this before – the uncomfortable fact is that when you make the transition from making things simply for your own joy and satisfaction to making things to sell, you need to change your mind set. This can be HARD. Of course you love what you make – that’s why you make it. But is there a market for it? And is the market willing to pay what they need to in order for you to build a profitable business? Before you dive into setting up an online shop and learning everything there is to learn about selling your work, you need to seriously consider this question.
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“Craft Together” JOIN US, YOUR FRIENDS AND OTHER ARTISTS AND CRAFTERS FOR A RELAXING, CREATIVE, FUN DAY. Bring the art or craft project you are working on. Order a nice cup of coffee or something to eat. Chat and enjoy the day with other like minded people. Follow us on Facebook for upcoming events and updated venues. Venues time slots may differ. Participating “Craft Together” contact details on our website: www.spectacularartsandcrafts.co.za
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Lucas Ndala Born: 11 August 1982 Winterveldt (Baphutha, Tshwane)
Lives in: Mabopane (Pretoria) It is the Winterveldt/Mabopane community, because they are very close to each other. "God gives us talents when we’re born and now it is all up to us to convince him to turn them into Gifts, now I feel it's time for me to share my Gift with the world and start with kids who love art or should I say kids with talents who want to turn them into gifts. My dream is to open up an Art Centre in my community and implant my love for creativity in the future of SA. I worked as an Art facilitator, at 7 high schools, helping out Arts and Culture teachers and that's where and when I saw that there's so much talent in our schools but the problem is some teachers at schools teaching Art do not know a single thing about art and the practical side of it, that's where the fire burnt even more.� ~ Lucas Ndala 54
“I am a young Ndebele man who loves Art. I started loving Art from a very young age. I truly believe I was born with the Art gene in me. Why do I say this? I say it because I remember when I was still a little boy playing with mud, sticks, crayons etc. I always wanted to create something out of the so called "dirt".”
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“My fascination with shoes started a long time ago when I was at secondary school, then I wanted to be a shoe designer, and always loved buying and wearing shoes that were different from other people, then that grew into me now making “Tekkie Art”.”
Order your original, personalised Lucas Ndala “Tekkie Art” Cell: 073 360 8289 E-mail: ndalas11@gmail.com
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A man with a dream. Lucas’ dream is to start a community art centre. He will be hosting a few fundraising projects during 2016. Spectacular4Hope the social development branch of Spectacular Arts and Crafts (Pty) Ltd , will be involved in this fundraising project. Follow us on Facebook or our website for more information. If you would like to get involved in any way, please contact Daphne Smit at daphne@spectacularartsandcrafts.co.za or Lucas Ndala Cell : 073 360 8289. 57
Have you ever longed to be able to draw or paint, write or compose music? With The Artist’s Way you can discover how to unlock your latent creativity and make your dreams a reality. With the basic principle that creative expression is the natural direction of life, Julia Cameron leads you through a comprehensive 12-week program to recover your creativity from a variety of blocks, including limiting beliefs, fear, self-sabotage, jealousy, guilt, addictions and other inhibiting forces, replacing them with artistic confidence and productivity. This book links creativity to spirituality by showing how to connect with the creative energies of the universe. The Artist’s Way provides a twelve-week course that guides you through the process of recovering your creative self.
It dispels the ‘I’m not talented enough’ conditioning that holds many people back and helps you unleash your own inner artist. Its step-bystep approach will enable you to: start out on your own path to creativity, dissolve the barriers that prevent your creative impulse from finding expression, use your rediscovered talents in whatever way you wish, learn that it is never too late to start fulfilling your dreams. The Artist’s Way helps demystify the creative process by making it part of your daily life. It tackles your self-doubts, self-criticism and worries about time, money and the support to pursue your creative dream. It has already helped thousands of people to uncover their hidden talents – it can help you, too. 58
http://www.takealot.com/the-artist-s-way-ebook/PLID37592857? gclid=CIWCsO292ckCFReRGwod7YYOoA 59
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7 February Send a Card to a Friend Day The best way to make a friend 11 February Make a Friend Day When last did you receive a card by mail?
Make her/his day and send him/her a special card by mail.
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Don’t forget to send us images of your work. Enjoy!!!
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Kids Artist Xzané Monique Bekker Ellisras Hoërskool
Gr.:•10 15 years old I started drawing when I was 12. My mother inspired me to continue doing art, specifically drawing, when she saw how good I was. I love doing portrait pencil drawings.
My passion is drawing and when I am busy with art, I feel free, relaxed and happy. When I grow up I would love to be a graphic designer and as a part time job I would love to teach people how to do portrait studies.
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Ek is n gebore Pretorianer, 26 jaar oud en het onlangs (Febr 2015) ontdek dat ek geseen is met n kunstalent. Ek voel nogal bederf!! Dit was n nuwejaarsvoorneming om vir kunsklasse te gaan hierdie jaar en sover was hierdie jaar al ‘n baie goeie jaar vir my met my skilderye. Die kunsklasse is goeie terapie vir my en ek geniet elke oomblik daarvan. Ek wil graag ver kom in die lewe met my kunstalent. Om te dink aan n volgende skildery maak dat n mens anders na die lewe kyk en dis so opwindend om die kleure raak te sien in ons alledaagse lewe.
Dit was vir my n groot voorreg om deel te kon wees van die Charlien Muller Pampoenfees kompetisie! Dit was n wonderlike fees en ons was omring met awesome mense!! Ek was so verras toe ek die 4de plek gehaal het, wow! Ek sien myself in die toekoms as n beroemde kunstenaar met my eie handelsmerk, vol energie en lus vir nuwe uitdagende skilderye!! My motto: You don’t always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go and see what happens!! 70
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Centurion Art Association Annual Members Exhibition Hand in art work on 5 March 2016
8 March—1 April 2016 Opening 8 March 18h00 for 18h30 Centurion Art Gallery
Though he faded into obscurity in the U.S., an early '70s musician known as Rodriguez became a huge hit in South Africa and was widely rumoured to have died. Two obsessed fans set out to learn the man's true fate. 74
The Life and Music of Sixto Rodriguez Second option is to create art in any theme or medium.
This exhibition is open for Sugar Man Song Lyrics Centurion Art Association Sugar man, won't you hurry 'Cos I'm tired of these scenes members only. For a blue coin won't you bring
If you would like to join back the Centurion Art All those colours to my dreams Association or would like more information Silver magic ships you carry regarding the exhibition. Jumpers, coke, sweet Mary Contact Mariette Minnaar
Jane Sugar man met a false friend On a lonely dusty road Lost my heart when I found it It had turned to dead black coal Silver magic ships you carry Jumpers, coke, sweet Mary Jane
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