©SusiGalloway

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Watching Clouds

"I love my right to rest and leisure"

Artist: Susi Galloway - USA, Switzerland
Medium: Acrylics on canvas
Website: www.susigalloway.com

©Renee Duke

 

Aphrodite

"Free to play"

Artist: Renee Duke - USA
M edium: Oil on canvas
E-mail: renee@eckelberry.com

©Laura Jean Feeley

 

Serentity

"Inspired by a A quote from L. Ron Hubbard about living life fully.
Life is a game and one game is to play."

Artist: Laura Jean Feeley - USA
Medium: Acrylics
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©Tracy Akamine

Muse

"I grew up in Hawaii where music, relaxation, and good times are shared by friends and family on a regular basis. This rasta fellow is inspired by the blending of different musical sounds in Hawaii.

This mellow gentleman, painted in a loose and free style, expresses laughter, positivity and the freedom to be as he wants to be. Human Right 24"

Artist:Tracy Akamine- USA
Medium: oils
Website: www.myspace.com/142257105

 

©Jude Wadler

 

Muse

"The title of this painting is "Muse". It illustrates Human Right #24. "Rest and Leisure". Eating cherry pie in a chic Parisian cafe is one of my favorite leisure time activities."

Artist: Jude Wadler - USA
Medium: Oil on canvas
Website: www.HeyJudeArt.com

 

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©Jim Warren

Awkward Age

"Anyone who has children knows exactly what I mean by this painting. They can be so cute and funny at times but man, can they do the darnedest things."

Artist: Jim Warren - USA
Medium:
Website:www.jimwarren.com

 

©Jack Potter

 

Racing The Stars

"Playing before the wind. Playfulness should be encouraged"

Artist: Jack Potter - USA
Medium: oil on canvas - digial
Website: www.jbpotter.com

 

©Stephanie Markley

Take me Away

"I was feeling underappreciated at work and a little down at the time. I wanted to paint something bright and fun. The girl in the painting is being flown away from the "black clouds" to some place else, but who knows where? In her mind it's someplace better than where she was and that makes her feel content, at least for a moment.

This painting is about getting away from it all. Getting away from the stresses of work and life in general. Sometimes you really need to take a step back to enjoy nature and the open air. We tend to get so caught up in our fast paced ritualistic lives that we forget to take time for ourselves. Enjoy Life!"

"Thank you for the opportunity to share my art with the world, this is a great thing that you are doing."

Artist: Stephanie Markley - Caucasian
Medium: acrylic on canvas
Website: www.myspace.com/monarch_art

©Jack Potter

 

Playing with the Big Boys

"Playing before the wind. Playfulness should be encouraged"

Artist: Jack Potter - USA
Medium: oil on canvas - digial
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©Steven Two Hawk

 

The Flute Player

The traditional customs of my people

"The Native American Flute, able to be heard today, is one of the most powerful instruments created by an indigenous culture. The southwestern desert, plains, and woodland tribal nations were very well known for their flutes, differing in size, keys, wood, and many other aspects that go into this instrument.
Traditionally, my Blackfoot and other Plains nations used the flute, used by young men only, to court young women they had their eye one. During daily routines around the village, it was not kosher for teenaged men and women to be courting and making loving gestures, inlcuding holding hands, talking a lot, or even being near each other. A young women's father was very strict for the soul reason of protecting his young daughter, even though there was no mindset of rape by Native peoples.
Often the young men would wait for the girl he is looking at to leave the village to do chores such as gather water, collect firewood, wash-up, etc. Here the young man would make himself known to the girl in many ways. One very popular method, especially practiced by the Sioux tribes, was creating love songs on flutes they had made. Since this type of sound was not heard on a daily basis, it would very often appeal to the young woman greatly. Since young adults were not permitted to shoot-the-breeze with each other around their parents, this was the time for the young man to impress the girl he had been looking after for perhaps months. It gave him a geart large voice to start off with since most of the time they had not even spoken with each other yet.
Usually after his first time, the young woman might purposely make a daily schedule to this secret place where she would meet up with the young man to hear him play.
By then, she may "open her blanket" to him, which was very commen of young women who had officially become one. This was how women would get to know the man who's been courting her, perhaps more than one. Here they would encircle themselves in one blanket.
In the blanket, any sort of sexual touching or innuendos was not permitted at all, since those things were only shared by married couples. In the blanket, the two would talk, and she would discover what the young men were like. She may also make her decision of who if she has more than one young man courting her.
But in conclusion, the Native American flute was not used as a common instrument to make music with other instruments, orplayed publiclly, but instead used as a haunting and beautiful voice for young men to impress young women. Today, many flutists still write traditional love songs, but mostly people write songs about other spiritual aspects of Native life, even contemporary things. More importantly, its not what the song is entitled or its subject and purpose, but how the player portrays the instrument to his or her listeners. Today it is used fore meditative purposes, relaxation, and serenity after possibly a stressful day at work. Though this instrument was played so privately back when the culture had thrived, I believe this instrument deserves to be heard by everyone who enjoys some ambient music that can relax them, since this world today is so high-strung and upbeat. We all deserve sometime in our day a state of leisure and relaxation.

I've become an accomplished Native flutist, and I'm ready to sell an album. Anyone interested in at least hearing this instrument, can visit my public page here. Enjoy! http://www.myspace.com/steventwohawk"

Artist: Steven Two Hawk - Native American (Blackfoot)/French Canadian
Medium: Woodless colored pencils
Website: http://lakota-eyes.deviantart.com