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Hello 2017! I am now on Patreon! Let me tell you about it...

I am beginning this journey on Patreon as a new way to connect to my fans as well as find new ones to share my visions with and start a community with. The web is becoming more and more difficult to navigate to find and nurture your audience without having to battle algorithms, filter bubbles and paying money to be seen with little to no benefit to either party. I feel like the Patreon model sounds so much more healthy and sustainable for both artist and patron.Through this platform I can provide exclusive patron only content such as drawings and work in progress videos and photos as well as different discount options for my Angie Mason Art Shop depending on the tier you choose. I look forward to nurturing and building this creative path with you and hope you will join me! 

My personal post mortem review of 2016

2016 was filled with personal growth both creatively, politically, as well as personally. Having spent the year in my sketchbooks I filled over 4 sketchbooks and took part in a handful of special art shows that ended up helping people through the sale of my art donating to help the water protectors at Standing Rock when I took part in the Benefit for Standing Rock at Rogue Space Gallery donating 100% of profits to help the cause to protect water and say no to DAPL. I was also super happy to be part of the group artists that helped raise money for the Boston Children's Hospital when I took part in Future Arts Festival curated by the fabulous Sarah Potter! Through such events I really saw how I could help raise money for things I care about as a way to have a voice in a movement. The movement I always choose is progress, peace and over all positive protections for our planet and environment. Upcoming art shows I am taking part in will benefit the ACLU and Planned Parenthood! Stay tuned for details!

Starting to look back over the year and well basically I drew a lot, this is just a small taste of my creative year I filled over 3 sketchbooks and counting this year. The blue and grayness felt right for all the personal and collective loss we all felt pretty hard this year. I am feeling 2017 has more painting and color in store the ideas are swirling inside me. 2016 was my first venture into working with a manufacturer to produce my own limited edition signed art pin a Weathered Souls Totem
which I am very proud of which you can get at my art shop www.angiemason.com/STORE

I was also happy to use my art as a way to help people taking part in benefit shows raising money for the Boston Children's hospital and Standing Rock Water Protectors. I plan on continuing this "Artivist" path beginning first thing in the new year hoping to help raise money for the ACLU and Planned Parenthood. ❤ ✊🏻✌🏻  Overall just happy to be on this visual journey.

A cluster of special happy moments I want to hold on from 2016! Friends, Nature, Beauty and Art!

2016 as dark as it was also had it's magical moments amongst so much of the constant barrage of bad news. I personally was so grateful to get to travel to Iceland and see the entire country on a road trip of a life time! I have never seen so much natural varied beauty on one tiny magical country. It was a powerful amazing journey that left me wanting to go back but also in awe of this beautiful planet we live on.  2016 showed me other worlds where beauty knows no words. Where the landscapes are so vast and so varied it leaves you breathless at the incredible sites they offered. It showed me how powerful natures beauty and strength are and we should fight to protect those things. *Stay tuned for a full Iceland blog recap which will be heavy on the photos!

I began the year so full of hope getting my political side energized by the one and only Bernie Sanders... I was feeling the Bern like so many others. He filled me with a hope for the future. He ignited the fire within to fight for a country I want to live in. The shift into dark times with the election of Trump really cut deep into so many of us leaving us asking what can we do how do we cope and navigate this world that seems to be going backwards. For me personally the answer is through my art. Getting more involved in benefit shows to help raise money for organizations and people I believe in.

On a lighter joyful level 2016 gave the gift of music seeing live concerts such as:
The Cure, Jane's Addiction, Gogol Bordello, The Killers, The Specials, King Dude, Zoe Keating, Chrvches and more! I always love seeing live music and getting to see these shows with some amazing people made it that more special! May there always be music in our lives!

2016 was truly a year of great loss for so many of us on so many different levels. Many of my personal heroes and teachers died and friends had close loved ones die, hope died a little during the 2016 election and on election day personally though the fire in my belly to keep pushing for progress and hope is seriously on fire now. This shedding of so many lives lost, this wall of life leaves me feeling exposed and alone to face the world I really have to be my own hero now to continue the creative journey, keep fighting the good fight with truth and beauty without giving into fears,depression and giving up. To keep creating beauty in the world as dark as it seems to be getting this is my responsibility and has been my life's main focus making art. This is my personal strength and how I often times have a voice. I hope we all can find the courage together to stand up and be the things we naturally are with no fear and together we can hold each other up to make our voices stronger for 2017 and on. We need art ,vision ,humor, compassion ,wisdom and really just all the positive parts of humanity to shine bight more than ever! I feel it was always historically a source of light during difficult times and is no different now that will be what helps us through any struggle and opposition. 

Halloween costume dream realized :) 

Halloween costume dream realized :)

2016 was filled with so much loss but it also gave so much. It gave me a fire in my belly to make changes to be involved to use my art to help others. To use my art as my voice. To continue to dedicate myself to making my art path and art life. Sharing yourself can be political, it can motivate and inspire others. It can help others. 2016 gave me courage to stand up taller and fight for who I am and the world I want to live in. And most importantly it taught me to enjoy life with those we have now. Love big and dream strong. 2017 I welcome all your obstacles and look forward to the continued journey! Happy to be alive! Rest in peace to all we have lost! I hope to live my life as fully and beautifully as my way to honor you all!  

Holidays with friends and family makes my heart smile :) 

What a beautiful memorial for my first life changing art teacher John Kavalos. We met in the Egyptian wing near the temple of Dendur where we formed a large circle and people just shared their stories it was very moving. We ate edible gold leaf in Johns memory surrounded by statues of gods.

Hello, I'm Angie and I had first met my painting teacher John Kavalos in 1990 at S.A.I. ( The Summer Arts Institute) an immersive five week sleep away program when I was 17. At this gathering at the Met I felt I've come full circle he was the first person who took me to this museum and taught me to pay a penny or whatever I could afford. As a financially poor 17 year old kid he opened the world of art to me it wasn't just a closed off world, I could now be a part of this. He showed me it was possible. I have followed my art path, my art life and I really feel looking back like he was the smart mouth sharp minded ambassador who welcomed me onto this art path that I have been on ever since. Teaching me early on to fucking trust my gut and be honest in my work. He is a feeling now so many I have heard speak at this magical uplifting inspiring memorial carry this feeling with them as well and that is his gift to us. I am forever grateful to this marvelous wonderful teacher and human his generosity forever changed me and so many others. And in his honor I paid $1 (inflation ;)) to get in to the museum.
I'm so inspired seeing how one person can affect so many lives change them become part of them in some way.It was an extremely beautiful moment that made my heart grow wanting to and hoping to touch lives and affect people the way he did even if I could do that at a fraction of his power I would feel a success. Rest in peace kind sir. We shit gold and piss perfect circles in your honor ❤️ #johnkavalos

What a perfect photo of The late great Katherine Dunn 🎪🎨✏️✒️❤️ if you have never read Geek Love you are not fully living go right now & read it! Her language is so visual, so dark and so beautiful it's astonishing! It's human and it's perfect in all its marvelous twisted ways a favorite book for ever ❤️

My cat loves #Prince too especially all the filthy songs 😽

• "Admission is easy, just say U Believe and come 2 this Place in your heart

  Paisley Park is in your heart" #ripprince His music has touched my life and I feel so lucky to have been on the planet with you for 42 years of my life and first hearing you when I was 8 years old when my mother joined a penny cassette mail club and Controversy arrived in our rusty old mailbox. You were one of the first non conformist mentors to expand my mind. May U Live 2 See The Dawn 💜💜💜 😌 p.s. I learned to play Purple Rain this weekend on my #ukulele to pay tribute to your wonderful insanely prolific creative being. #paiselyprince#princeart 💜💜💜

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Holiday Card Archive 1998-2015

Happy Holidays everyone! The clock is ticking and I have yet to unveil a 2016 Holiday art greeting! As you see above I missed 2010 I am still trying to whip something up we shall see if I get it done my special cherry on top to this year which 2016 was a pretty dark year and could use some sweetening up so I really should do something! :) In any case Happy Holidays to you and yours! xoxo! More to come for sure stay tuned!

10 Years of Making Art in 3 minutes

It's basically a 3 minute memory blitz of my art over the last ten years, 

it might make you dizzy but hope you enjoy it smile emoticon

  This is a super short "docu-mini" condensing ten years of making and showing my art. If you are curious to see more and get a closer look visit at the artwork please visit https://www.angiemason.com also be sure to like my facebook page https://www.facebook.com/AngieMasonArt 

For me the crazy part is this is a very very condensed selected works video so there is so much more that isn't even shown! Like I said it's a memory blitz basically ;) 

It slips through fingers & air time went by & I didn't care... Part ONE!

So here I am again with several months off from my blog and now with summer behind me, being absent on my blog was not intentional. I just get so full of life it distracts me, takes me away from the things I used to do but hey, it happens and well we should all be happy it does rather than being glued to our glowing boxes burning our eyes out. ;) We all try to balance the best we can but sometimes you just trip and fall and your face goes off the map. Then you have to gain momentum again to do those things you once did... except now on top of it all you have new jobs, new shows, new paintings, new family members, new sicknesses, new tricks, life is full of new tricks at every turn!

AHHHhhh and Now for another distraction, it's yet another social media site. Ello is that you? Find me there @angiemasonart even though I feel so disjointed and spread thin as it is online, but I still decided to join and how to handle that in regards to 'ello for now I will sporadically post animated gifs of me making art or my art animated. PERIOD! So many fads and trends around... in the end we all want to connect,we find each other and the newness of finding each other is a great part of the novelty I suppose. Like when you are a kid and you make friends in school for the first time it can be magical and scary and over all wonderful. It always starts off new and fun like that and I guess that too is part of the charm and pull that sucks me in. Fresh starts everyone wants them and lucky for us we get them every few years via some social media site. This post is not going to be all about social media I am done going on about that... I REALLY am blogging because I wanted to share a few neat things I have done over my "summer vacation" from my blog. ^___^ Random roadtrips, finds artworks you know life crumbs! THIS IS PART ONE OF TWO! 

Looking back in order of events roughly.... well FIRST OF ALL my Botanicuties show was fantastic thank you all for coming and a huge thank you to Martina and Frank of MF Gallery! I love those 2 they are part of my art family ^_^ 

Speaking of Botanicuties in late Spring we welcomed my new Niece in to this world with SMILES!




July was pretty much was filled with friends, nature, and delicious food :) oh and I did an art event in Philly with the wonderful people from ArtStar Gallery who I also love and adore! Prepare for a photo heavy post! :)

my table :) 

Harbor Park view from our room :) 

Harbor Park at night is magical and so filled with life! What a great new park Philly has made! 

Harbor Park, Philly 

2 amazing people I adore! Megan and Cisco of Art Star! 

Me and my set up for the day :) 

I realize I have a lot of catching up to do talking about the take away moments from this summers past. Too many to mention really or too personal to bother to post online, for me anyway ;) but I think I will post a bit more of photos and then call it a night. To be continued!  I am back on the blog horse I will do a Part TWO within this next week so look for it!

I took lots of road trips this Summer many to Upstate NY! I Love New York! For reals it's so full of nooks and crannies pockets of wonder over flowing in to the majestic Hudson River! Hudson New York, Carmel NY, Montauk NY, Beacon, Storm King, etc etc etc. Places like Wings Castle! WOW!
Or the Buddhist Temple in Carmel is a must see! More on that in part TWO!

But for the rest of this post it was all Friends, Food and Cats! Party!

A couple of slobs in love looking up at the stars ;)  XOXO.

In my garden! 

Being near the ocean makes me super happy and spazzy! 

My blueberry bush in my garden :D

Hiking is best with friends! 

A smile rock in the forest :) named Ralph Boulderson  

beach daze with Martina Joey and Frank!

WONDERFULLY refreshing homemade Strawberry Lemonade with basil! SOO DIVINE!  Thank you Sarah F. for the suggestion! Its so easy to make Fresh juiced lemons crushed strawberries and Basil that has been steeped in hot water then mixed with some sugar if chosen and ice mix all together and chill! :) 

Yummy Bits from my garden making a flavor filled sauce that was used in a rustica potato dinner that tasted like joy! 

looking at you looking at me looking at you...

Being moody on the beach ;) wearing my bloodmilk necklace (birthday present to me)
 mean mugging goth sunning for the camera

a hibiscus beauty from my garden! 

Took time to freshen up things in my studio! Both me and my cats love it! :D
*New rug from Target fits perfect in the studio.

I grew a variety of peppers in my garden this year here are a few I harvested one night :) 

Spending a lovely summer day at the Highline in NYC

at the Highline in NYC

Dipping toes at the Highline in NYC I LOVE the water sidewalk section it just makes
you happy splashing your feet in the water small simple pleasures! 

view from NYC if you can believe it! 

I taught my cat more tricks :) to make me giggle!

 

Ok so that is it for this brainspill image dump :) more to come! AND I will also share some upcoming shows for this Fall and Winter 2014 and 2015 shows! I have some exciting news is going to be shared!