CrossFit LifeSport: Daily Food Logging

Tamera:
9/11/2012

Breakfast:
Protein shake with flax seeds
coffee
3 oz grilled chk breast
h2o
Lunch:
2 cabbage rolls (with sprouts)
asparagus
granny smith apple
diet coke
snack:
hot green tea (afternoon)
protein shake (after trianing)
dinner;
4 oz steak
green yellow, red,  peppers sliced with muchrooms
small side salad with tomatoe - lemon dressing
h20

CrossFit LifeSport: Daily Food Logging

Tamera:
9/10/2012
protein shake
coffee
3 oz chick breast
h20
baby greens salad mix - lemon juice
apple (granny smith)
2 cabbage rolls w sprouts
asparagus
h2o

My most recent portrait painting of a student of mine named Brittany.

The Gemini Muse!

The Gemini Muse is really just a concept! A title merging my zodiac sign, the Gemini, and the idea of a muse being one who inspires! I am an artist, a creative spirit and I love to paint!







Artist Biography
For
Tamera Menard Scannell



I was born an artist. I have always connected to the world through artistic means. As an only child a pencil and paper was like my babysitter. Even in school I always had a doodle pad handy for those creative urges, which was almost always! I would draw everything, which would sometimes get me into trouble! I was never bored; when I had to go to work with my mom I would draw portraits of her colleagues. I remember painting “Set the world on fire” on the ceiling in the basement; I called it the art room. So when asked the question “Why do I paint,” my answer is, “Why wouldn’t I paint?” It is like asking a bird “Why do you fly?” I live and breathe through the visual world and I don’t know how to live any differently. When I describe myself “artist” is always the first word. There is only one certainty I have about life, that I am an artist. I was born an artist and no one can take that away from me.

My first true love was art. I have worked in many mediums, such as clay, sketching, charcoal, watercolor, silk flowers, acrylic, pen and ink, oil, pastel, wood burning, carving, silk screening, sculpture, illustration, collage and design to name a few. My favorite medium is oil painting, but I have no favorite subject, I paint what ever moves me. I am fascinated with the natural world, an admiration I acquired from my dad! I adore all of creations colors and the silent wonder the sun gives adds to them! I always look for signs of life such as, delicate footprints in the snow, sunflower seed shells, or antler sheds in the woods. There will never be enough time to paint all the things that inspire me, in this life or the next!

The desire to paint is an ever present inner hunger. I have to steal time to paint. When I am painting something starts to happen inside. All the stress of life disappears and I am in a place where the paint and brush become my world. Time stands still. I try to plan most of my paintings but sometimes they evolve as I go. I truly don’t care about setting my work apart from every other artist; I just want to paint for the love of painting. Art is a place where I am free. Painting creates a timeless joy in my spirit and a hunger to further evolve as an artist! I have studied and prepared myself and I am ready to set the world on fire!














Artist: Tamera Menard Scannell

Teachers and Mentors: (priceless guidance from other artists)
Sue Gallagher (Bay): high school art teacher
Marion Zoner: painting mentor
Pat Bombach: lessons in pastel
Heiner Hertling: oil painting mentor, several workshops and plein air
Margie Guyot: painting
Dave Messing: illustration lessons
Leonid Gervitz: portrait painting workshop in New Mexico
Kay Polk: portrait painting workshop in Dallas, TX
Anne Turner: painting class O.C. College



Accomplishments:
3rd place at Oakland com College Art Show April 2 2009
OCC Chancelors purchase award (painting for their permanent collection) 2009
The Aubergine Gallery 2005-2006
The Heron Festival 2007
Michigan Plein Air Painters Member since 2006
Artwork on display at Saginaw Museum, Mi
Scarab Club competition, Detroit, Mi
VFAA member since 1996
Livonia Library Plein Air Exhibition 2007
Views & Visions Art Show 1999-2008
PAN Art Show 2003, 2006, 2008 ribbon
The Highland Equestrian Conservancy, Pink Door Derby Aug 29, 2008
The Menagerie Room Gallery and Show in South Lyon, Mi Feb. 9, 2009
The Pink Horseshoe at Bakers, Milford, Mi 2007
Bachelor of Science from Eastern Michigan University, Mi 1994
Masters Degree EMU, Mi 2000