Monday, December 7, 2009

Scarlett on the Square!!!

ARTHUR LEVI RAINVILLE & ANNE CLAY’S

Grace Project Workshop of Marietta Georgia presents:
SCARLETT ON THE SQUARE

2010 will be filled with outstanding photographic development opportunities. Many are tried and true from our industry’s leading educators. BUT.....
None will compare to the energy generating, creativity inspiring influence of this years most EPIC EVENT............
SCARLETT ON THE SQUARE



When the movie Gone With the Wind premiered in Atlanta in 1939, the world fell in love with Scarlett and Rhett. The love affair of all time will be our guiding light as we explore the Grace and Glory and Power of LOVE.
- We will study, re-create and re-interpret for a modern age....beauty - the Scarlett... “I wanted you. I wanted you desperately...” Sensuousness Session.
- We will create the magic of Rhett...“with enough courage you can do without a reputation” Manly Man Session.
- We will explore the essence of couple portrayals -
“...you need kissing, badly. You should be kissed and often, and by someone who knows how” in the Frankly My Dear I Don’t Give A Damn Session.
- We will bring one of the world’s most memorable love stories back to life......come learn how to put intensity into your work
- make and take home images out of time, for all time........... SCARLETT ON THE SQUARE

BUT WAIT......THERE’S MORE !
Our Scarlett on the Square is only a part of the amazing experience of the Grace Project Workshop.

AFFAIRS OF THE HEART...’n a little ART

As always, Arthur will share his Enlightenments and Enchantments, a fusion of High Art, Bold Strokes of Business and a Twinge of a Heartstring. Take a blustery tour of novel, creative techniques and intoxicating, fresh ideas designed to feed both your photographic and personal soul. Believing that in this high tech world, we silently all crave High Touch, Arthur will lead you on a wondrous journey of sensitive cinematic portrayls perfect for today’s couples, ‘matures’ and all ‘women of affection.’ This Visual Alchemist will immerse you in a host of fresh approaches as he entices with his personal signature style of Mansuesco, the melding of melodramatic posing and Aesthesia into striking motifs steeped in Romantic Overtones.
Arthur will play with your mind, tug at your heart and return you to your world changed forever.

Anne will share a myriad of wonders as she offers fresh ideas under the Grace Project umbrella. She is particularly proud of and successful with her FLAMING DAHLIA portraiture – a modern take on the Hollywood Glamour Portraits of yesteryear. She will divulge a complete program from co-opertition marketing to stylized photography via hot lighting and posing to intriguing Photoshop finishing techniques.
If you need to add new energy to your photography and income to your business, not to mention a little sigh to your life – this is a not-to-be-missed two-day workshop.
Schedule: Sunday, Jan. 24 – 10am to 7pm (lunch included)
Monday, Jan. 25 – 9am to 5pm (lunch included)

Price:
Any PPA (national, regional or local) member: $595.
Non-menbers $695.

Payment Options available.

Receive 2 PPA Education credits!!!!

Includes: 6 MONTHS of Connection – Private communications with Arthur and Anne to continue your professional development experience one-on-one.

Location:
Alchemy Artisans Portrait Studio
142 S. Park Square N.E.
Marietta, GA 30060
678 – 881 - 1101
770-608-2908

Local Info – please contact our host Jena Ritchie at
alchemyartisans@gmail.com

Hotel options available.
Info and travel details by request.




Located just northwest of Atlanta, this charming town is filled with a turn-of-the-century square, quaint shops, theatres and museums.


For program details or any other questions please contact:

Arthur Levi Rainville, M.Photog., Cr., CPP, API
rainfoto@aol.com
HYPERLINK "http://www.studiorainville.com" www.studiorainville.com

Anne Clay
anneclay@mac.com
www.anneclay.com

Thursday, September 10, 2009

The Grace Project celebrates Grace in six forms...Charis






Charis
Caressing one’s very being.

“That which affords joy, pleasure, delight, sweetness, charm loveliness.”

We translate it all into ‘loving-kindness,’ a sort of ‘self-benevolence,’ a simple compassion for one’s sprit that commemorates love in the purest form... a ‘Harmonic Resonance’ that emanates from deep within.

It may take many forms. Perhaps through a connecting memory or a less than mindful act of imagination. But at its core.... ‘unspoken encouragements,’ turning inward, a convergence, in order to see something nearer and dearer. We cherish the freedom to celebrate, that which was put within us.

The world of Fine Portraiture has always been about giving – given to others, but until now, never given to self. Much like a spa experience, your Charis Portrait is a self-fulfilling pleasure; a private souvenir artistically created and designed for self-meditation, to quietly honor one’s personal spirit.

The Grace Project celebrates Grace in six forms...Soliloquy





Soliloquy - The Journey Within
Conveying ones private thoughts and feelings.

A Soliloquy is a literal device often used to dramatically divulge one’s thoughts or emotions, intended to give the illusion of unspoken reflections.

Our Soliloquy speaks volumes through Touchstones – the stories of a life worth living. Commemorate with Touchstone Words and Portal Portraits - a series of miniature personal images joined with your most treasured of life’s treasures – from soul searching to soul remembered. Lovingly gathered, preserved and arranged to chronicle your most eloquent private story.

The Grace Project celebrates Grace in six forms... Legacy and Legends



Legacy ‘n Legend

Once upon a time, in a land not so very far away, lived.......a most special of persons. Someone near and dear, a Legend in your very own mind, with a simple Legacy of Life to share. No fuss, no muss..... stories of the little in-between-moments of life, stories of everything from trials to tribulations to exalted grand adventures.... stories that have earned the right to be preserved, and passed on and cherished.

Photographs to hold, feel, remember.

Words to hear, tug at a heartstring.

And motion, oh the motions of someone who has lived, truly lived.
For every time you need to smile, from deep within, and remember........
Legacy ‘n Legend.

The Grace Project celebrates Grace in six forms... Life Force Sketches



Life Force Sketches

Not all men are shallow.......... some, some special men, offer a quiet assurance, a sense of their private LifeForce, a Sketch of who they really are at their emotional core.
Hidden away from day-to-day, protected, and seldom shared, this LifeForce can be captured, can be honored, can be, must be, sketched and preserved.

Not flashy, we’re not saying they’re dull, a LifeForce Sketch is a simple reminder that in a world of hustle and bustle, of high drama and turmoil, of life’s insanities........
this man can pause, for a moment, to offer, to share, to have and to hold his LifeForce in a once-in-a-lifetime LifeForce portrait.

The Grace Project celebrates Grace in six forms... The 10th Muse






The Tenth Muse

In days of yore, Muses were venerated; goddesses who inspired creation in the arts.

Throughout poetic lore, a Muse shared her Grace, aroused passion, stirred souls.

Words have sprouted from the Muse..... amuse....museum, but always paying tribute to creativity through a joyful artistic process.

Ancient mythology offered nine Muses, seems one for every occasion.
Euterpe (music) carried a flute – today we would celebrate through metaphors, the mousike (music) in your soul. Calliope (poetry) bore a tablet – today we would celebrate your heart-light. Erato (lyrical) is often seen with a lyre and crown of roses – today we would celebrate your spirit.

In modern times, a most imposing of feminine compliment, the Tenth Muse, serves to bring a contemporary celebration of the joys of womanhood.

The Grace Project celebrates Grace in six forms... Flaming Dahlia





Flaming Dahlias

John Huston once said, “Hollywood has always been a cage... a cage to catch our dreams.” Then dreams it shall be......just once....to glow like a ‘star.’

The hair, the make-up, the glamorous attire, the heat of the spotlights...all meld together in an orchestrated crescendo to create a stunning portrait... ‘Hollywood Style.’

Dramatic mood is the order of the day, a classy painted-lady in bold black and white is oh so stylish. You deserve to be the bell of the ball...in a cage of dreams.

Be one of the chosen few, a true Flaming Dahlia – you will never feel so special.