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

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.

Upcoming Workshop Details

“The Grace Project Experience” – Affairs of the Heart
A personal enrichment and creativity workshop
with Heartists -

ARTHUR LEVI RAINVILLE, M.Photog., Cr., CPP, API and ANNE CLAY

Believing that in this High Tech world, we silently all crave High Touch, these new age artisans will lead us on a natural journey of sensitive portrayals.

What can we offer in these times that continues our proud heritage of truly being artists – both in the eyes of our clients and in our own artistic heart?

How can we celebrate all that is special in each subject and create it in a more meaningful way – more personal, private imagery, unique services and products and savvy marketing to an appreciative ‘new’ audience?

This is the world to be revealed in a grand gesture called The Grace Project.

In this hands-on, Fine Art Workshop, you will come to understand your true reason for being..... ‘to leave a tender trail.’ You will become a more in-touch translator of feelings stirred. You will relate to your subjects in a deeper sense and thus create imagery that will command respect and financial reward.


Learn a contemporary twist classical Hollywood glamour style in Flaming Dahlias – the perfect celebration of a vivacious woman.

Commemorate a woman’s creative side in The Tenth Muse.

Learn to build powerful LifeForce Sketches for the man of today.

Share emotion and sentiment via frozen moment stills, tender audio and poignant video in ‘translate the love’ Heart Stories...Legacy ‘n Legend.

Behold a vision of feelings in Soliloquy – the Journey Within.
You will learn to validate personal and private in a most unique capture – Charis.
These Visual Alchemists will immerse you in a host of fresh approaches melding high art and craft into striking motifs steeped in Romantic Overtones targeting all ‘women of affection.’

This is the most complete workshop ever devised – innovative new photographic techniques, such as melodramatic posing and utilizing the latest LED lights, cutting edge products, services and business, and a higher level of subject connectivity than you might have ever thought possible. You will justly grow as an inspired, imaginative artist, rightly grow as a businessperson and sincerely grow as an understanding, caring creative. Yes, you will leave this experience changed forever, to live, love, laugh....as a coveted life-long member of....
The Grace Project.


Workshop Information:

For Who:

This workshop is for professional (or not) photographers. The essence will also be of great benefit to all artists or other creatives and anyone who....has a heart.

This workshop is being limited to the 20 participants.


Travel, Accommodations, Meals, Misc. on participant’s own expense.

BONUS: 6 Month Membership in “RAINVILLE’S RAMBLINGS’
Email and Telephone private one-on-one consulting
to continue the professional development process. ( a $300. Value )
( can be used to develop a business plan, marketing ideas,
refine photographic skills or just plain bonding time. )

Arthur Levi Rainville and Anne Clay's Bio

About our Instructors:
ARTHUR LEVI RAINVILLE, M.Photog., Cr., CPP, API

“Just as Robert Henri is to painters,
so is Arthur Rainville to photographers –
the Poet Lauréate of Photography.”
-Darrell Chitty, Louisiana.

ARTHUR LEVI RAINVILLE, M.Photog., Cr., CPP, API has worked out of his decorous studio in historic Whitinsville, Massachusetts for 40 years. He is widely known for his soft, muted, granular color work. Refinements of this life’s passion lead to his lyrical, quixotic Mansuesco style of today. Defying a definable formula, Mansuesco, much like Impressionism, is a plurality of looks. An innate quality of light coupled with a compositional choreography is akin to his signature style. In a one-man show at the French Cultural Center, his work was astutely referred to as “…a synthesis of observation and imagination blended with a palette of gauzy colors.” Returning photographic portraiture to a high art form is his muse.
Arthur has taught portraiture professionally on three continents, inspiring the budding or seasoned photographer for 25 years - he has launched many notable photographers of our time.
He is a prolific author with three published books on the Creative Spirit and numerous articles yearly in national magazines. Besides being a noted touring lecturer he has Fine Art work being shown throughout the United States, South America and Europe. Having been called… ‘one of photography’s premier creative minds’… he currently offers private consultations and enrichment workshops throughout the Americas and European destinations.

His time is devoted and divided between personal portrait commissions, private consultancy and education and his on-going experiential art studies.

To view imagery go to: www.studiorainville.com


ANNE CLAY

ANNE CLAY has been a force in the art scene for over 25 years.

With roots in graphic design, she evolved into the decorative arts as a Muralist with paintings on display throughout the northeast. Collectors countrywide have avidly sought her beguiling ‘folk art’ work. As an educator, she designed and led creativity programs for college students in the US and Canada that focused on innovative performance art.

Anne currently operates a thriving portrait studio in Apex, North Carolina specializing in women’s portraits. She is widely known for her ‘Over The Moon’ Hollywood style imagery, peppered with a cutting-edge contemporary look.

With her fine art background, Anne has joined Arthur in developing and presenting ‘the Grace Project’ and other enrichment programs for artists and photographers nationwide.

Her portraiture can be seen at www.anneclay.com and her fine art work will be exhibited at www.leegerie.com.

V-Day Apex

Here's my (Anne's) video that will be featured on the V-day Organization website and also Animoto for a Cause Website. It features the activities of V-Day Apex for one month as they raised money to benefit the Apex Police Department in building a "safe" room for victims of violent crimes.

V-Day/ Until the Violence Stops

This is not directly related to The Grace Project - but is certainly an example of Grace at work. I have been doing quite a bit of photography for V-Day Apex - a local chapter of V-Day/ Until the Violence Stops. This group of women have been working tirelessly to fight violence against women and are raising money for a private interviewing room in our new police station in Apex for women who are victims of violence. They have put on a fashion show, 2 silent auctions and will be putting on The Vagina Monologues at the Halle Gallery in Apex this Friday and Saturday night.

Last month I had the privilege of photographing behind the scenes. Great time! I put the images together on a video and posted it to my blog and on my FB account. Animoto saw my video and contacted me by phone saying that they were very impressed with it and wanted to feature V-Day Apex on their new site "Animoto for a Cause". I was thrilled and contacted the local chapter leader who got in touch with V-Day National. To make a long story short - the V-day organization and Animoto choose to feature V-Day Global and the issues in the Congo. This video going out on earth day world wide is a direct result of Grace. s

three sisters

Jours de grâce – Days of Grace

Three sister goddesses of Greek and Roman mythology dispensed Grace through charm and beauty, but their Grace was limited to a visual world.

Our quest is to celebrate the vision of one’s Grace, by understanding each woman’s unique state of being. The idiom of, “in the good graces of..” offers a starting point of discovery. We search for the, ‘privately refined, effortless beauty of manner, elegance of personal style....all a part of your Grace.

With due respect to theology and religious connotations, each of us harbors special qualities of Grace deep within our being – kind of like the silent partner in our character. I have always been of the notion that all of God’s creatures embrace and shelter a simplistic Grace that lives as an integral part of personality. Mockingbirds chatter, Buttercups glow, Oceans flow. Seems that Grace is a defining element in every living thing, be it obvious or subtle.
Grace might be simple but it might just as well be complex – attitudes, behavioral patterns, emotional responses...individual traits that flourish over a lifetime. Yes, Grace epitomizes your enduring emotional response to life.

Your Grace of Being should be anticipated, nourished and honored.
In these Days of Grace, we come together to realize an outward symbol,
a Grace Project self-commemorative Portrait.

Finding my Spirit...

A few months ago, Arthur Rainville set himself on the difficult task of finding and documenting my spirit. I don't say difficult because my spirit is hidden - rather difficult because I'm a rather complex person. There are so many aspects of my personality that you might say I'm complicated. Of course, many of you are the same way.

Through a great process of interview, looking through artwork and questioning others who are close to me, Arthur set out on the great venture with renewed interest. As the process went further, he became a bit confused by my inconsistencies in what I said I liked and what I didn't.

This is all part of The Grace Project -- discovering the beauty and grace that lies within each of us and celebrating it in a beautiful piece of art to enjoy and treasure. This is not a work of art that I will print into 8x10's and pass out to my family, rather, this is one that I can study and look deep into my spirit to remember what's important - on those days that life seems overwhelming and gets away from me.

I will treasure this portrait forever and the process that I went through to get there. It was a time of serendipity.. a personal retreat that will live in my heart for years to come.

REVERIE

REVERIE: a state of idle and pleasant contemplation.....ya, daydreaming.
For we cannot control our night dreams...but we can so induce the most lovely of daydreams. It’s what happens when we stop making ourselves logical and start letting ourselves live, think and feel... freely. It’s like the smell of fresh cut grass...without having to do the cutting. It’s like getting covered in snowflakes without worrying about shoveling. It’s like touching beauty...without worry of repercussion. And it’s definitely.... a state of GRACE.
Reverie – it’s nirvana when accidentally discovered. It’s serendipity self-induced. It’s not for everybody in the whirl-wind-world of this day. But if you are one....one who gets it.... who truly understands that hidden within the trauma and turmoil of each and every moment lay a little in-between moment of spontaneous joy.....
Then join us in.....the GRACE of REVERIE

Grace to You

What do you think of when you hear the word......Grace ?
More often than not I suspect, you think of giving thanks before a meal - thanks for the food at table, for the great and simple gifts bestowed, thanks for each and every breath of this precious thing we call life.
We are quite often quite good at offering Grace in this lovely, appreciative fashion. But consider another Grace that often goes unappreciated – your very own private Grace.
Yes each of us is imbued with a most special of gifts, placed deep within our souls, a God-given ‘Grace of Being’.
This Grace Within takes many forms as we scurry through our lives. It manifests itself in what we say and how we say it... to friend and foe alike.
It manifests itself in how we breathe... the Joys of the day we celebrate, the Pains we endure.
It manifests itself in all the little in-between moments that most often go un-noticed but are so a part of our private make-up.
Yes, how you spend your time on this great planet, each and every breath, big and small, that you celebrate... or not, is a part of your Grace of Being.
In the coming months, we will explore aspects of your Grace, help you discover your Heartlite, snuggle up to your Soul. Grace.... it’s up to you to honor and cherish your very own... Grace of Being.

Yours in Grace,
Arthur

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