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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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Johan was a neighbor
And a friend of mine
Gay as a blade and
A queen I’d say
With penile candles
And every bit the artist
He could turn a pigsty
Into a palace
Just give him
A moment
All the way from Germany
He came to live in a house
Behind a house
in Hollywood
Renting from a Jew
who made Johan’s life
as miserable
as possible
What karma
I’d think
They must have
sown a deal
In another lifetime
For they were always
At each other
landlord over tenant
Then one day
After 23 years
The landlord sold the house
And Johan had to move
He had nowhere to go
And barely hobbled by
On a paycheck here
And a paycheck there
When the move out
day dawned, he’d
masterminded a plan
Moving in with his friends
While caretaking the oldest
But that was a short resolve
Things became sticky
As sticky things do
And Johan grew a tumor in his head
He had one, two, three surgeries
Removing the poisons
as they continued to
Manifest
All the while
Sticky kept getting stickier
And Johan was looking
For an option
Knowing he’d need one soon
Things became sticky
As sticky things do
And Johan grew a tumor in his head
He had one, two, three surgeries
Removing the poisons
as they continued to
Manifest
All the while
Sticky kept getting stickier
And Johan was looking
For an option
Knowing he’d need one soon