Painting with Charleen Touchette

"A day painting is better than a day doing anything else."
by Charleen Touchette

" One Love, One Heart" 2010 (Birthday Gift to Everyone)















"One Spirit"







"Yin/Yang (Vesica Piscis)"

Painting in Public at The Station trackside at Santa Fe Depot.

Painting in Public at Saveur in Santa Fe.

Drawing table at TouchArt Studios.

TouchArt Drawing and Painting Studios

Three Circles - sketching charcoal drawing for new painting.

"Calling Home the Bees" by Charleen Touchette

TouchArt Drawing Studio with "Connections" mixed media painting on wall.

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A day painting is better than a day doing anything else.

Painters, understand that statement.

Artists everywhere of every kind understand it too.

Painters know the state of bliss when the sound of the paintbrush is

one with the beating of the heart and the flow of blood through veins.

Painters feel joy when the strokes of hands, tilt of fingers holding brush or charcoal

bring forth the image in the mind to light.

From empty white canvas, a simple circle. The One. Undivided and whole.

One circle, then two, then three.
Draw the Vesica Piscis. Two circles intersect to create the mandorla sacred shape.

One circle, then two, then three, again.

A maiden, a mother, a crone. Honor the women. Call the bees home.

Three Graces. Three Sisters - Corn, Beans and Squash.

A rainbow and a whole universe emerges.

Black and white, yin and yang, light and dark are all contained in the one.

A circle carved in rock, painted on wall, inscribed in heart.

A day painting circles is better than a day doing anything else.

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by Charleen Touchette 2010
OneEarthBlog.blogspot.com

Call for Ideas for TouchArt One Earth Bottle Home

Call for ideas for TouchArt's One Earth Bottle Home design.

Think many of you may have brilliant ideas for embodying sustainability in the design and knowledge about renewable energy, water catchment, gray water systems and plants for the green roof and kitchen garden.

TouchArt's One Earth Bottle Home is a project for a sustainable beautiful home built by communities for women, children and families using recycled glass and plastic bottles, cans and tires.

The home would use solar and wind energy and have a green roof, water catchment and gray water system.

The idea is an earthship like up in Taos, but in a sustainable thousand square foot size.

I have been envisioning the TouchArt One Earth Bottle House since 2000 and now I'm doing a call out to all my talented artist, scientist and designer friends to help design a sustainable, energy independent, affordable family home made out of recyclables.

My plan is to give the TouchArt One Earth Bottle House design to our communities so badly in need of housing and energy and food independence.

Write Charleen Touchette at TouchArt@aol.com with ideas for a sustainable, low-cost, beautiful 1,000 square foot home made of recyclable bottles.

TouchArt One Earth Bottle Home will be simple, sustainable and inexpensive to build and easy for our families to operate and maintain.

Birthday Gift to Everyone

Every year on my birthday, I give a piece of my art to everyone to use for women, children and families. One year, a birthing center in Atlanta, Georgia printed my "Nursing Mothers' Circle" on tea mugs and doubled breastfeeding among their new mothers.

This year, the art, "One Love, One Heart," is inspired by the practice of compassion and forgiveness. The hands form a heart to symbolize that action and compassion are essential to forgiveness.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said that Peace is not only the goal, it is also the way to achieve that goal. Hatred and violence lead only to a never-ending spiral of violence and destruction.

We can choose to forgive and to practice unconditional love and compassion to everyone everywhere. We are all related.

Peace Now Everwhere,

Charleen Touchette

OneEarthBlog.blogspot.com

Relocatee Shima's Grandchildrens' Shoes

Relocatee Shima's Grandchildrens' Shoes, originally uploaded by artist_charleentouchette.

Barry took this photo in the late 1980s when he worked to Navajo Tribal Justice representing the Navajo Relocatees from the disputed lands near Big Mountain. This hogan is near Teec Yah To.

The grandchildrens' shoes set on the roof to dry in the sunshine reminds me of the challenge of dealing with Chinle mud caked on our boys' shoes when we lived there.
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Charleen Touchette
One Earth Blog
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