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Asemic Collage

Another Day in ARTS-IN

Well...It's been a while that we, four of us, didn't come together at the gallery. We all had our reasons... First of all Türkan's brother, who lives in Izmir, had an operation and Türkan was naturally busy to take care of the patient and the rest of the family. Hilal, who has a very talented son, is always busy, she runs here and there to keep everything in order. She was at the gallery on Tuesday BUT I was not there... I had a ''GIRLS BREKFAST'' at my best friends house, with 5 other friends, so I couldn't join ARTS-IN team. Meral, the motivator, is most of the time at the gallery. She lives on one of the islands of Istanbul and she spends a lot of time at the gallery. Now that we have our exhibition on MAIL ART, she comes to ARTS-IN 4 days a week.
These three ladies I mentioned above are the founders of this art heaven. Apart from them, we have other friends who share the place with us. Like Gülcan for example... She is a very good oil painter... Then there is Öznur, whose collages are the best; she will give us a course on monochrome painting next week.
Every Tuesday and Thursday we, the ARTS-IN artists, meet at the gallery. We work together, we talk, laugh and share the best time of our lives. We learn a lot from books, from art works which arrive from all over the world and especially from each other. I feel very lucky to be with them sharing this wonderful atmosphere.
OK... Now the last works of mine!!!
Well, honestly speaking my last few days are gone reading a lot about watercolor technique.  I always dreamed of doing nice sketches and coloring them with watercolors. BUT, I am terrible!!! I am definitely the worst watercolor-lover of the history of mankind!!! I should give it up BUT I simply can't!!! That's my dream!!! I always envied those people who sit in a quite corner in one of the mighty temples of, for example, BAGAN in MYANMAR and start to do some quick sketches and then add some colors here and there easily... I am not one of them!!! I struggle...But with watercolor, you shouldn't struggle... You should set yourself free and just do it! BUT I can't let myself go! I try!!! And I try... No way!!! But one day I'll do it! Hopefully in this lifetime:))
So here is the collage I did today... Everything started with the map of METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART NEW YORK... So here it is...

Collage Day

Penguins

Leap of Faith

Miracle

Icebergs Around South Sandwich Island

No Name

This is a postcard size collage that came out on Sunday... At home, in Istanbul...
What do you think????

Prison Project from SPAIN

  

                               Frozen Scream from Insıde and Nobody Can Hear You

My First Entry...

Hi everyone!!!
This is going to be my new blog dedicated to art, art and art!!! Sometimes music, sometimes paintings, museums and exhibitions... Direct from my life...Right from the source...
But who am I?
Am I an artist?
Well, to be honest, I don't consider myself as an artist but I know that I am an art lover.
I am a professional tour leader. I take groups all over the world to visit interesting places. Sometimes I fly over the mighty Himalayas into te Tibet and some other times I visit art museums in Europe or USA. Either way I am happy... But when I don't work and spend my time in Istanbul, I go to ARTS-IN and breath the air filled with the fragrance of oils, pastels and papers...
So what is ARTS-IN?
ARTS-IN is a modest but very active workshop / art gallery in Istanbul. Founded by three wonderful women: Meral Ağar, Türkan Elçi and Hilal Tursoluk. All my friends...All painters...And project inventors... I love to be with them... They are very supportive with me...
And I have NEVER had an art based study but I have always dreamed of being part of such a place. So last year I started to join them once or twice weekly in the workshop...
So this is going to be my page dedicated to art...To what I do in and out of out workshop... At home or during my trips...
Don't expect me to be a wonder woman!!! But in my humble way I am trying my best...And the most important thing is that  I am creating something...I am trying to add some value to this world...So please accept my presence within the creative minds of the art world...

So to start with I want to put here two of the collages that I prepared for two different mail art projects.

The first one is for a Turkish project. The project is called HOMELESS...

                                                    Homeless Princess in the Big City



And the second one is going to participate in Biennale of Small Works in Italy. Subject is free...So I created the next collage.

                                                         Big brother over the Big City