Golden Cheetah Face Paint Design

 I had fun painting a Golden Cheetah design on myself and dressing up in a matching outfit / costume on my birthday weekend!

Sponge Roller Daubers for Face Painting

As I've been face and body painting again, I'm having fun learning about all the new developments and supplies in the field. One of them is using round foam sponges called daubers to quickly create circles. I decided to try out some of my foam hair rollers and they work just perfectly! Much more cost effective then buying daubers on a wooden stick, which are around $5 for 3 or 4, you can get 6 rollers in a pack of 1 1/2 inch rollers for about $2.79 and you can use both ends of a roller for 2 colors! Don't worry about the hole, just dab over the spot with the edge of the roller to fill it in.

    I made my Jack-O-Lantern arm art with the orange end of the roller :-)

Face and Body Painting!

I'm sending a BIG Thank You to Jamaal Eversley and Leyla Chaieb for being my Face and Body painting models last week, we had a fun time enjoying a beautiful Sunday out in Jamaal's yard! This was my first time painting all the way down someones neck onto their shoulders and the first time I painted a torso. 

Contact me ASAP if you would like to be painted for the Caribbean Festival Parade or if you looking to hire a Face Painter for a party and any other kind of event, thanks!

 Jammal is an abstract painter and a poet, so I put the S A on his chest
to stand for Super Artist!

The happy painted couple!

Up Close and Personal - Fine Art Floral Photo

Up Close and Personal  is one of my beautiful Fine Art Floral Photos of a White Dahlia with gentle curving petals back lit by the sun!

This was fun to shoot, as I had to lay down on a nice soft lawn to get this much detail.

These small photos are perfect for apartments, smaller homes, displaying on a desk at the workplace to help personalize a space or to give as a gift. They are also a great way to start a photography collection!

Printed with archival ink on Canson PhotoSatin paper and is available to purchase in multiple sizes.

Sizes

5"x7"$11.00 USD    8"x10"$20.00 USD    11"x14"$58.00 USD    14"x17"$88.00 USD

1/4 inch white border on all sides. Signed and dated with the title on the back, protected in a clear plastic sleeve and packaged in a bubble-wrap envelope.

This image can be printed in custom sizes on canvas, watercolor paper, glass tiles and more! Please send me an email to: radiantjasmin(at)comcast.net to discuss custom options.

To see more of my Floral Photography, please visit my shop:
http://www.etsy.com/shop/FantasticFlowers ,Thanks!

Spring Open Studios of Gallery G at the Black Indian Inn

Saturday May 19th, 2012 from 1pm to 8pm.

Celebrating the start of our spring Visual Art and Performing Arts season, artists Radiant Jasmin, Guadulesa, Jameel Parker and Satiah Dancing Moon will be showing new and older work that includes: paintings, jewelry, collage, photography and sculpture.

The visual art viewing will be from 1pm to 5pm, than at 6pm there will be a mixed-media performance 
featuring Radiant Jasmin, Guadulesa, Terry Orlando Jones and Sonja Evans, along with other performers TBA.

The performance will combine dance, poetry, music and live body painting!

You want to make sure you come to this event, as it's been 9 years since Radiant Jasmin, Guadulesa and Terry collaborated together!

We will also announce the schedule for rest of the performances and exhibits for the year.

See our website for more info on the other programs at the Black Indian Inn.
http://www.blackindianinn.com 

The Artist’s Way Group at the Black Indian Inn for Boston area artists

Do you want to let your creativity flow, get more time in your studio and be the artist of your spirit? Are you tired of having artists block or have you taken a long break from your artwork and feeling

a bit nervous about returning to your art? Then this is the group for you! We will explore and release our creativity using the techniques in the fantastic book The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron and meet in a safe, supportive environment with other artists and creative people.

This group is facilitated by Radiant Jasmin and is for all performing, visual and literary
artists and creatives.

We will start on Monday April 9, 2012 from 6:30pm to 8:30pm and meet for 12 Monday nights or on Sundays from 4pm-6pm (the day will depend on which one works for the largest number of people.) There is a sliding scale fee of $25 -$50 for all 12 sessions. You will need to have the book and a new journal or one that has a lot of blank pages in it.

The Black Indian Inn is on 38 Bicknell St., Dorchester, MA 02121, www.blackindianinn.com.

For more info and to register, please call me at: 617-319-9778 and let me know which

day you can attend. Spread the word, thanks!

Keep on Creating!

Radiant Jasmin

Happy Springtime!

Watercolor pencil and pigment ink on paper
7 in x 5 in

$85

"See it, Hear It, Feel It" Part 2 - Words in Full Bloom at the Henson Jackson Art Gallery

                                          
                  "See it, Hear It, Feel It" Part 2             

Words in Full Bloom 

at the Henson Jackson Art Gallery.

Join us for a night of Art and Poetry

Saturday, March 10th 

6:30 pm - 9 pm

I'll be there with a few of my floral photos and new jewelry, come on by and pick up your Mother's Day presents early! I'm now making custom class rings, so put your orders in now to have your ring by graduation :-)



Click the link for more info:



http://myemail.constantcontact.com/A-Spoken-Word-Art-Exhibit-II.html?soid=1102430296852&aid=lKRyaGCg_cs

The Meaning of Radiant Jasmin

Radiant, as defined by the American Heritage Dictionary 1. Emitting heat or light. 2.Consisting of or emitted as radiation: radiant heat. 3.a. Filled with light; bright. b. Glowing; beaming. See synonyms at bright. 1. An object or point from which light or heat rays are emitted. 2 Astronomy. The apparent celestial origin of a meteoric shower. [Latin radians, present participle of radiare, to RADIATE. - radiantly adv. Bright - Synonyms a radiant object radiates light; figuratively the term applies to that which, like a smile, reveals inner light and warmth. The meaning of the name Jasmin is: Fragrant Flower or a climbing vine plant that has fragrant flowers. So for me, Radiant Jasmin means to shine light on the truth and to bring the heat to cold places, to heat it up, as on the dance floor and to shower a beautiful fragrance around the world! And for me to let my inner light shine fully :-) So there you have it! I had to post this because there are a few people who have a misconception as to what my name means. If you you happen to hear anyone say something along the lines of "she should act like this or like that because her name is Radiant, please send them this post to help them understand who I am, thanks!

My Dream June 18, 2010 - the Dark Staircase - Updated

I first posted this in my Facebook profile and I have added an update at the end. **************************************************************************************** My Dream June 18, 2010 - the Dark Staircase: That morning I dreamt that I was walking up a high flight of stairs that had no handrail, the stairwell was kind of dark and spooky. I was on my way to participate in some kind of art event, it was very important that I continue through this to get there. I kept trying not to look down, though out the corner of my eye I would see the lower levels, get a little dizzy & slow down. When I had climbing about 8 levels and had only a few more floors to go, I heard someone on the floor I was on. I opened the door, entered the hallway and met a young lady who was probably in her mid twenties, she was about my height, slender, of European descent and had straight light brown hair parted in the middle that reached to her shoulders. She asked where I was going, after I told her, she said I was very brave, she didn’t have the courage to go up that staircase and anyway, with the medium / discipline she works in she doesn’t need to go up there. I thanked her, turned to enter the stairwell again to continue my journey and then I woke up. Update: The synchronistic thing about this dream is I had a similar experience last year where I had to climb up the shell of a staircase in a new building that was being built in preparation for submitting an art consulting proposal. There were no walls at all, just steal rods, so when I looked down I could see all the way down! And it was a rainy day, so it was a little slippery. A few people on the walk through got dizzy when they tried to ascend and they decided to not to go up, but I remembered my dream and kept going. I felt very brave and happy that I pushed through my fear! We didn't get the art consulting contract for that building, but it was an amazing learning experience.