Win my Craftsy Class for FREE!

I'm running a Giveaway Promotion for a FREE Painting Wildlife • Acrylic Mixed Media class!http://www.craftsy.com/ext/SharlenaWood_GiveawayJust click this link and sign up for (or sign in to) Craftsy in order to enter to win.Share this opportunity with your friends! This promotion ends September 12th (just before my birthday weekend!!!) Colour me Fabulous! ♥Sharlena Wood

Dog Days of Summer Sale for ALL Craftsy Online Classes!

The biggest sale of the summer starts now!

ALL classes, including my 'Painting Wildlife: Acrylic Mixed Media' class, will be up to 50% off, until Monday August 11th 2014. This kind of offer only happens a few times a year, so don't miss out on this awesome opportunity. ☺

Dog Days of Summer Sale!

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Register today forPainting Wildlife: Acrylic & Mixed Media

My class just went live! Check it out ~ I know you will enjoy it!It's the kind of class *I wish* I could have taken when I started out :)And I'm so very proud of my production team and the result - we all put a lot of work, thought and heart into it.

It's an online class, so when you buy it, you can access it whenever you have time to create ♥‿♥

Sign up today by clicking here and get a $20 off special!

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 Painting Wildlife: Acrylic & Mixed Media

Paint vivid, lifelike animals as award-winning artist Sharlena Wood guides you through a variety of accessible acrylic, charcoal and pastel techniques. Discover how to render accurate proportions, build dimensional form and convey drama as you create your own unique wildlife images. Learn to depict distinctive fur and feather textures using wet and dry media, and enhance your work with luminous highlights. Integrate textural medium with delicate acrylic washes for captivating contrast, and bring expressive energy to your creations with Sharlena’s tips for painting realistic animal eyes and features. Bring the power and excitement of wildlife to your easel with essential mixed media skills!

Sketchbook Project

The Sketchbook Project Team just updated me that my submission :: Magical Creatures ~ An exploration of imagination! (#S99150) has been favorited! This was one of my favourite projects, in concept and collaboration with The Sketchbook Project, and then simply for myself and my own growth as an illustrator. Seriously...I had totally forgotten about this little book since it's been traveling around the world with many others on the mobile library for a couple years now... very cool. I love sharing :) 

Coming Soon! Painting Wildlife: Acrylic & Mixed Media on Craftsy

 My next class will be available to artists all over the world! After years of teaching in classrooms, this is pretty darn exciting!Craftsy and I will be bringing you the wondrous world of animals, and my favourite painting & drawing techniques for fur and feathers. The class 'Painting Wildlife: Acrylic & Mixed Media' will be available in a couple of weeks and will feature a special giveaway to celebrate the launch.I'm starting a mailing list to stay in touch about dates and specials, as well as inspirational behind the scenes art stuff, so if you are interested in hearing from me more often, please let me know by filling out the following form with your name & email ----->[contact-form subject='Please add me to your art mailing list'][contact-field label='First and Last Name' type='name' required='1'/][contact-field label='Email' type='email' required='1'/][contact-field label='Please add me to your artist mailing list!' type='checkbox' required='1'/][contact-field label='Comment' type='textarea'/][/contact-form]

finding a voice on cfrc 101.9fm

July 4, 2014, 4-5pm - first hour of a two hour show, featuring predominantly an in-studio interview reading with Bob MacKenzie discussing his just published books, "Songrise" and "Spirit Quest". The remaining approx 10 minutes of the hour features the beginning of an as yet unaired recording of a 2013 Kingston WritersFest event called 'You Are What You Read' which runs through the 2nd hour. LINK

Honey Bee

Since I started drawing Endangered Animals, there has been a decline. In the first few months of drawing and researching them, the Black Rhino was declared extinct. Not even a year later, and the news continues to reel in with desolate results. A report came out today : Honeybee Death Rate is Currently too High for Survival of the Species - See more at: http://livefreelivenatural.com/honeybee-death-rate-currently-high-survival-species-crucial-food/#sthash.tecvPGbj.dpufI will leave it to the scientists to share the importance and viability of the Honey Bee, but as an eco-warrior and artist who does research and keep account of the connection to our brilliant planet, I can tell you beyond needing these creatures that they are absolutely remarkable. .... not only regarding the jobs they naturally and selflessly fulfill, but in their every detail that I have studied at magnification. Such magnificence should be marvelled, respected and loved. At the time I included the Honey Bee into my Endangered Species series, I had a feeling they were too small, and too easily ignored, and I was worried from the beginning.Sad days are ahead folks ...the human condition is proving that we are capable of standing by and allowing such an important living creature to vanish. We are such a destructive species. We have a history of waiting until it is far too late.If it is any inspiration, I do think that many care about many creatures as small as the Honey Bee, and wish every day that we all came together to act, and not allow such heart sick situations to ever happen. Yet with Corporate corruption and deceit, our future seems pretty bleak. Instead of choosing to stop using poisons that we knew damn well were harmful to them - KILLING them - as of now, there will be a change greater than we ever could have imagined because bees are a very important species.  And we let them go.They say you never know what you had until it's gone. Truth is, we knew exactly what we had... we just thought we would never lose it, we took it for granted while we had it, combined with Corporations having control over the demise of our future for their current pocket book. And so perhaps we deserve whatever sad future will be without Honey Bees.