No Sales. No Hype. Another Happy Video from Dorothea Sandra. Let's enjoy a little art together.

The Northern Great Lakes Region is such an inspiration for my happy art. I drove about an hour or so to the Boyne City Art Gallery the other day. What a great place! Boyne City has a ski resort and a really big, beautiful recreational lake and an active downtown with lots of yummy restaurants. (Yes, even European cuisine.) The people I met were so intelligent, so easy-going, and so nice. Oh, and let me also mention the low to no crime rate. It’s so delightful to be surrounded by super nice people and be able to walk the downtown streets and feel so safe!

Today's Happy Video For You!

No sales. Not hype. Just another happy, fun, artistic video for you to view and smile. Great Lakes Inspired Imaginative Art by Dorothea Sandra. Let’s Enjoy A Little Art Together!

Today's New Video From Great Lakes Artist Dorothea Sandra

Medical studies now show evidence-based art relaxes, reduces stress, and restores.

Take a break!

Relax!

Come on in and enjoy the 1-minute music, images, and happy vibes. (no sales or hype)

Welcome to a world of Great Lakes inspired art and a fresh, new, artsy way to experience Great Lakes interiors and living.

This is the first video in a new blog/video series, and it’s called Beautiful Like You.

This video uses images of a 36”x36”acrylic painting called Happy And Graceful. The painting is soft and soothing with an abundance of happy flowers over many layers of complex artistic techniques. When painting this kind of art, my goal is never to reproduce a scene from nature but to use images to capture “the essences” of human emotions. I combine Evidence-based Design knowledge from actual scientific studies of health and design with artistic skill and then create art that makes others feel happy, healthy, and healed. Anyone can make this claim, but I back my claims with rigorous evidence-based design training and certification. I am EDAC (evidence-based design) certified.

Enjoy the video!

Dorothea Sandra Art of the Great Lakes

I love living around the Great Lakes. Aren’t they so happy and inspiring? Here’s another video featuring Great Lakes inspired art. Significant discounts for local deliveries and Great Lakes residents. Enjoy the fun! Enjoy the art!

Art Designed With Your Health, Healing, and Happiness In Mind

Flower Sunshine by Dorothea Sandra

Not that long ago I was on a very popular art website that promoted calming art for health and healing. Get this—misshapen and horrifically disfigured images, open human legs and rolls of fat, abstracts of daggers and dripping blood—all amazing works in their categories—just nothing I would deem appropriate for the elimination of stress or the recovery of human health.

This set me on a course for knowledge to find out if I could actually learn to design/create art with your health and healing in mind. I found The Center For Health Design with its excellent EDAC (Evidence-based Design) courses and certification. Picture thousands of doctors, hospital administrators, health facility architects, hospital room designers, and more around the world basing their creative/artistic decisions and designs on actual medical studies.

Instead of some untrained art critic or consultant setting the standards for art for health and healing, I now had real medical professionals to learn from and follow. It was the hardest exam I ever took (and I’m a university grad with high grades), but the knowledge I gained—and now incorporate into my designs—was absolutely worth all the hard work.

It’s amazing how many people who visit my viewing gallery along the Great Lakes or who buy my evidence-based designs make it a point to tell me how this “evidence-based” art actually shifts their moods and creates in them positive and uplifting feelings/states of mind. I love it when our world changes for the better!

Art Notes From A Great Lakes Artist, Mackinac Straits Health Foundation

Hello everyone!

I get to create in such a magical area surrounded by so many magical people. As many of you know, I like to donate my art, especially to health organizations. I recently donated two paintings to an online auction held by the Mackinac Straits Health Foundation in lovely St. Ignace, Michigan. What a beautiful area! What great people! I got to meet Kimberly North and Director Mike Grisdale. I was told this painting found a home on beautiful Mackinac Island. Did you know cars are not allowed on the island? Other than emergency vehicles and electric wheelchairs, how do people get around? Walking! Biking! Horse and carriage! So amazing! If you’ve never visited the Great Lakes, you’ve got to plan a trip!

Mackinac Straits Health Foundation Director Mike Grisdale and Dorothea Sandra. (Look at my shoes! I know Northern Michigan winter dress can be casual, but not sloppy. So excited about delivering the painting, I forgot to switch out my studio/painting shoes for my winter boots. Life is always fun around here! LOL!)