Your works are soooooooooooooo sweet!! Fantastic!! =)

Your work is VERY unique!! I like it all!! =)

VERY nice work!! =)

Very nice work!! =)

Very well done!! =) The man was something, wasn't he?

VERY nice work!! Beautiful!! =)

WOW! Very interesting work!! =)

I like your paintings... they're very fluid works!! =)

Beautiful flowers!! =)

HEY~!! Now THAT'S thought-provoking art!! Good job!! =)

Very mysterious!! Fantastic work!! =)

HEY, these are beautiful!! I love your lines!! =)

Your work is beautiful!! VERY nice!! =)

"Holy Smoke" is a FANTASTIC painting!! Very unique!!

Not only are your works beautiful, Marija, but I think you are a beautiful soul as well!! Again, your work is MOST impressive!! =)

Hang in there!! =)

HEY!! I really like your work!! =)

I like the red/black/white... very striking!!

Very nice watercolor!! =)

WOW!!

Very unique work!! Eye-catching to say the least!! =)

Shimmering vibrant color!! Wonderful work!! =)

HAHAHAH!! Love it, joyously warm for digital, and no telling where you'll take it from here!! =)

Stunning work!! =)

VERY pretty!! =)

Your work is beautiful!! =)

Seriously dreamy!! =) AMAZING!!

VERY INTRICATE!! Wonderful!! =)

VERY SOLID WORK!! =)

WOW!! KA-POW!! =) Vibrant!!

Gorgeous work!! =)

I have a hard time understanding just how you acquired such a subtle sense of vision and color... brilliant!! VERY VERY peaceful!! =)

HEY GIRL!! There you go again!! Making a masterpiece!! LOL!! Good work as always!! =)

Very sweet and happy artwork!! =)

Hey!! All of the best things of life!! LOL!! =) Very sweet painting style.

Really very unique!! =)

FANTASTIC WORK!! =)

Very nice work!! =)

I know that I'm not telling any of you anything new that when someone says to you "WOW!! Being a painter (or any other type of creative person) sounds sooooooo romantic, what a dream job!!" that you often times look around yourself and the particular challenges that come with following your dreams, and you can only imagine that their job must be torture beyond measure, whatever it is!!

Such was the case with the Rossini Festival, here in Knoxville Tennessee, Saturday April 19th, 2008.

Set-up was done in the rain, wind gusts were well above 30 mph and never really subsided, and the sun was absent for the majority of the day, causing the area the artists were set up in to be 10 degrees colder than the mid-60's high for the day. Let's just say, I'm glad that I didn't bring out my napkin art!! (That's a big ol' LOL, I don't do napkin art). In the past, I have sold hundreds of paintings on the streets of many a metropolis, in every type of weather, dealing with anything and everything you can imagine. I have also done the same in galleries, and though they seem a world's worth of difference, they both come with their difficulties. People who come to a gallery show just so they can drink free wine and eat cheese and hob-nob with the hoi polloi as well as the rich and shameless, all the while ignoring the artwork you've worked so hard to produce, and which no amount of money could truly recompense (not to mention the gallery's cut), is akin to the various hardships of the outdoor market.

To deal with either the elements or the mind-set of the viewer/potential buyer while virtually giving away a part of yourself, is not an easy task, but somewhere within us, we must believe that it is far closer to what is our true calling than flipping burgers or word-processing, and in the end, that we would not have it any other way.

I believe, therefore, that is up to us to decide how romantic and dreamy our lives as artists are.

Just beautiful!! =)

It is very nice!!

Fantastic!! =)

Very telling, very well evoked schism scape of this human condition!!

Marvelous!!

I Like It!! VERY mysterious work!!

BEAUTIFUL BEAUTIFUL BEAUTIFUL!! YOU'RE AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ahhhhhhh... relaxation!!

Very fluid and wonderful works!!

Very ethereal works, with a perfection of lucidity... abstract art done extremely well!!

Very joyful artwork!!

Your Portraits are fantastic!!

Your work is wonderful!!

VERY nice work!!

HEY!! You go girl!!!!! =)

Interesting images!!

I Love the abstraction in your work!!

I really like your work!! =)

Hurricane Katrina Artists
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My name is Hallah John Paul Boltik, and I am an artist who was evacuated 11 days after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans (as well as a great deal of the Southern Gulf Coast) on August 29th, 2005. I count myself as one of the lucky ones, blessed and grateful... I lost everything, other than most of my artwork which is my livelihood, but I was alive. Others were not so fortunate, and though my life has been changed forever and more deeply than any other could possibly know, I know, that at least I am alive with the opportunity to continue to create paintings which inspire and brighten other's lives.


You may view my website or google my name all over the web whenever you wish, but I am writing this blog in the hopes of raising awareness towards the efforts of other artists to continue their personal recovery as well as their devotion to help rebuild their communities and to revitalize their regions, some of the oldest and culturally richest areas of America.


I hope that you will take the time to visit the website of a friend of mine, who has done a fantastic job in trying to stay on top of the world of art in the South, post-Katrina, and has provided an excellent service for artists in the area:


http://www.katrinaartists.com


Please take a few moments to visit the artists, read the short blog, and through the modern marvel of networking, who knows? Maybe one text here, one click there, one e-mail here, and one phone call there, and you've helped America recover from one of the worst natural (and man-made) disasters it has ever experienced.


Thank y'all, and God Bless!!

~ Hallah John Paul Boltik

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Wow! Wow! Wow!! =)

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I have survived many tragedies and disasters in my life, but I will never cease to see the grace of God in all things, and I will never cease creating beautiful works from my heart and soul using the gifts given to me by The Creator. ~Hallah John Paul Boltik

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