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I am so excited to be a new member of the Denver Etsy Team! Already I can tell there is a spirit of camaraderie and support, not to mention a group of very talented artisans! Beadsoul, one of our fellow businesses,  featured our “Lonely Peach” painting in this great treasury, which is full of lovely gift ideas for everyone on your list! Click here to see the wonderful variety of handmade items beadsoul has gathered!

“Why would you ever hassle with the crowds, traffic and long lines? Here is everything you need!

Featuring team members from the Denver Etsy team and the Sneak Team!”



Skip the Mall, Etsy has it all! Treasury by beadsoul

I’d also like to point out a few lovely items on sale at beadsoul: 

“Art Resin Pendant and Necklace” $45 by beadsoul

 

“Earrings-Copper, Brass and Sterling: Riveted” $22, by beadsoul

 It’s going to be a great season of fellowship and fun for the artisans of Etsy, and those of us based in the Rocky Mountains!  Let us help you find something unique for that special someone this holiday!

10 Reasons Why Art Education is So Important

Categories: Art Education, Elysian Studios, family

1. Making Art involves critical thinking and problem solving.

2. Art empowers students to take risks and do something different.

3.  In an age of instant gratification, Art teaches commitment to learn a skill and complete a project.

4.  The Arts are an extension of other curricula.  Math, Science and Language are all needed to create.

5.  Art equips students with a diverse set of skills needed to enter institutions of higher learning and the workplace.

6.  Participation in the Arts builds relationships between students and teachers and among peers.

7.  Involvement in the Arts improves self-esteem and builds confidence.

8.  Art teaches students to be more tolerant and open through multicultural and historical perspectives.

9.  Art develops a students ability to critique their own work and that of others and knowledge of how to make multiple revisions to create high quality work.

10.  Art helps a child develop emotionally and socially, contributes to a positive work ethic and pride in a job well done.

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Thanksgiving: Simple Appreciation for Our Blessings

Categories: Art History, family, food, Holidays, illustration, painting, portrait

“In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms.

The first is freedom of speech and expression—everywhere in the world.

The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way—everywhere in the world.

The third is freedom from want—which, translated into universal terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants-everywhere in the world.

The fourth is freedom from fear—which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor—anywhere in the world.

That is no vision of a distant millennium. It is a definite basis for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation. That kind of world is the very antithesis of the so-called new order of tyranny which the dictators seek to create with the crash of a bomb.” –Franklin D. Roosevelt, from speech to Congress, 1941

Norman Rockwell’s “Freedom from Want” appeared on the pages of The Saturday Evening Post on March 6, 1943.

   

William Formsby Halsall’s “The Mayflower on Her Arrival in Plymouth Harbor” shows the ship at dawn after her landing in Plymouth Harbor, and is portrayed as a symbol of the beginning of a new era. The vessel left England in September 1620 and after a grueling 66-day journey marked by disease, which claimed two lives, the ship dropped anchor inside the hook tip of Cape Cod in November .

“Embarkation of the Pilgrims”by Edgar Parker after Robert Weir.  In 1836, the United States government commissioned Robert W. Weir to paint “The Picture of the Embarkation of the Pilgrims from Delfthaven in Holland “for filling the vacant panels in the rotunda of the Capital” in Washington, D.C. It was one of several large scale paintings chosen to represent significant historical moments leading to the founding of the American Republic. Completed in 1843, it depicts the Pilgrim families gathered around their pastor, John Robinson, for a farewell service on the deck of the Speedwell before its departure from Holland.

Elysian Studios wishes everyone

a Happy Thanksgiving!

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