Website: https://www.balaski-art.com/
“There is so much diversity in watercolors, one can only be limited by one’s own imagination. If you are open to listening to the muse, the flow of water can lead you where your imagination is endlessly open, allowing the kind of awesome creativity that real “Art” is truly made of. The kind of Art that takes you out of yourself and frees you of all limitations. This is my goal, to allow your eyes to rest on an image that will open and inspire your imagination beyond your physical world, allowing you to relate, yet freely fly..”
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Belinda Balaski,, a native of Southern California , creates colorful watercolors of people, landscapes, seascapes, flowers and animals. She is especially fond of painting horses, influenced by her childhood on the racetrack with her Father, the well known jockey, Lester Balaski. Her work focuses on capturing the spirit and unique beauty of living creatures and the natural world. She is motivated by the desire to share a spiritual sense of serenity and peace.
Belinda’s creativity expressed itself at a young age in acting, photography, and art. When not performing in theatre, she was shooting pictures and drawing incessantly. At fourteen, she won a four year scholarship to the Minnesota Corresponding Art School, where she nurtured her affinity for representational art and learned many techniques that serve her well.
Belinda’s gift for acting took her on a different path. She won many awards and excelled in a 50 year career in Hollywood. She created BB’s Kids Acting School where she taught, filmed, and nurtured thousands of children, all the while writing and producing original plays. These experiences developed her artistic eye for framing, beauty, and editing a myriad of choices.
Recently she retired from the film industry and closed her school to return to her original pursuit of visual art. She enrolled in courses at Emeritus College, discovering a passion for watercolors and pastels. Drawing from a well of diverse talents and life experiences, Belinda uses her gift of capturing a feeling with an instinctual ease of composition.
Belinda lives and works in Southern Calif but spends several months a year on Kauai, her spiritual home, where many of her inspired paintings are born.
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Website: https://www.balaski-art.com/
“There is so much diversity in watercolors, one can only be limited by one’s own imagination. If you are open to listening to the muse, the flow of water can lead you where your imagination is endlessly open, allowing the kind of awesome creativity that real “Art” is truly made of. The kind of Art that takes you out of yourself and frees you of all limitations. This is my goal, to allow your eyes to rest on an image that will open and inspire your imagination beyond your physical world, allowing you to relate, yet freely fly..”
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Belinda Balaski,, a native of Southern California , creates colorful watercolors of people, landscapes, seascapes, flowers and animals. She is especially fond of painting horses, influenced by her childhood on the racetrack with her Father, the well known jockey, Lester Balaski. Her work focuses on capturing the spirit and unique beauty of living creatures and the natural world. She is motivated by the desire to share a spiritual sense of serenity and peace.
Belinda’s creativity expressed itself at a young age in acting, photography, and art. When not performing in theatre, she was shooting pictures and drawing incessantly. At fourteen, she won a four year scholarship to the Minnesota Corresponding Art School, where she nurtured her affinity for representational art and learned many techniques that serve her well.
Belinda’s gift for acting took her on a different path. She won many awards and excelled in a 50 year career in Hollywood. She created BB’s Kids Acting School where she taught, filmed, and nurtured thousands of children, all the while writing and producing original plays. These experiences developed her artistic eye for framing, beauty, and editing a myriad of choices.
Recently she retired from the film industry and closed her school to return to her original pursuit of visual art. She enrolled in courses at Emeritus College, discovering a passion for watercolors and pastels. Drawing from a well of diverse talents and life experiences, Belinda uses her gift of capturing a feeling with an instinctual ease of composition.
Belinda lives and works in Southern Calif but spends several months a year on Kauai, her spiritual home, where many of her inspired paintings are born.
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Lei Lady Lei stems
not only from
a Dylan song title
But mainly from
The lei stations
outside the
Honolulu Airport.
If there was time
Before my flight
I would always stop
At the lei stations
And purchase
Several leis
For friends and family
For my flight home.
There were so many to choose from
All the different flowers
Were so beautiful
And smelled divine!
I particularly love
The Tuberose
Called Pikake
In Hawaiian
We had just become adults
Gathering political momentum
A cornerstone
Iowa
Where you had your choice to
Watch cows graze or
Corn grow
But on Friday nights
The whole town would
Come into the square
For an evening of
Square Dancin’
All gussied up in their
Square Dancin’ outfits
With a caller callin’
Swing ur partner left and right turn em round and hold em tight
O what fun to watch from up above
the B&B Drug Store
Where Chris lived and
We could watch from the windows
like balcony seats
Or during the day our friends
Would drop by for a friendly
game of monopoly
With the different businesses below like Mr Gobbles Fine Clothing Store or the new Hair Salon
where I painted Flowing hair on the windows for $50- and then
Was asked to do the lil restaurant on the corner, the laundry mat,
And pretty much every
Business on the square
Iowa was awesome!
Once you got past the fact
That there was nothin’ to do
Except play pool or
Join the school play
I remember when a
swarm of waterbugs
came thru town
They were knee deep
on the streets,
I mean you had to
wear boots in the middle of a sweltering summer!
That’s about when the electrical storms would come and lightning would be so bright at night
It would light up
the entire state
Iowa was so flat
you could see for
Miles when
lightning’d strike
Iowa
1968
What a time
it was…
