• March 3, 2025Winners of the Happy Losar 2025 prizes 🌷Last Day Discounts on online courses Winners of the Happy Losar 2025 prizes 🌷Last Day Discounts on online coursesRead more
• February 28, 2025Happy Losar 2025 - Tibetan New Year! 🎁 Enjoy GIFTS 🎉 WIN a Course 💰 Get DISCOUNTS Happy Losar 2025 - Tibetan New Year! 🎁 Get Thangka GIFTS 🎉 WIN a Course 💰 Get DISCOUNTSRead more
• February 26, 2025Tara's counting down to Losar 😻 Just two more nights to go! Will you celebrate Losar with us?Read more
• February 23, 2025Preparations for Losar 🌷 Five more nights to go! Get ready for your Tibetan New Year Gifts, Prizes and DiscountsRead more
• January 28, 2025Which Thangka Painting Retreat do you want to join this year? 🌷 Which Thangka Painting Retreat are you joining this year? The Art of Thangka can be best learned and practiced in a retreat setting - a place where you'll also stay and where dinner is served to you so you can fully focus on your drawing/painting. In addition there's time to bond and socialize with other students, make long walks or do some sightseeing (Florence, anyone?). In a retreat week you can also learn to work with the traditional thangka painting techniques, so it gives a much deeper...Read more
• January 2, 2025Wishing you a Buddhaful 2025! 🥂 Time to make your creative plans for this year 🎉 Wishing you a Buddhaful 2025! 🥂 Time to make your creative plans for this year 🎉Read more
• December 23, 2024A Merry Christmas 🎄 from Carmen and Tara Stay warm and cosy with your loved onesRead more
• November 30, 2024🎉 €108 Early Bird Discount on the Thangka Retreat Week in Italy 🎉 + Course Overview for 2025! 2025 Thangka Retreat in Tuscany€108 Discount for the First Ten Registrants! A short video made at the 2024 Italy Thangka Retreat. Check out the beautiful work space. 🇮🇹 Read this description in Italian or another language This retreat is taught in English, translation in Italian or other language provided on request €108 Discount for the First Ten Registrants Thangka Painting Retreat Tuscany (near Florence) May 10-17, 2025In this wonderful 8-day Thangka Retreat in Italy you will learn to draw...Read more
• October 22, 2024Watch the New Video! 🎥 Last chance to sign up for the Guan Yin courses in the Netherlands and Italy - This is a still from the new video, scroll down to view it - Standing Guan Yin Seated Guan Yin Standing Guan Yin 🇺🇸 NOTE: this retreat in The Netherlands is taught in Dutch, translation is provided on request (in any other language) Read this description in English 🇳🇱Guan YinCursus op de Veluwe27-30 okt, 2024 Tijdens deze vierdaagse cursus leer je deze prachtige figuur te tekenen (en wellicht te kleuren of later te schilderen).Je ontvangt je de grids van twee verschillende vormen van Guan...Read more
• October 8, 2024FOUR DAYS LEFT to use your Early Bird Discount / Join me in Italy or The Netherlands / Rubin Museum of Art closed Dear Reader,In this newsletter: The Rubin Museum of Art in NYC has closed its doors. I was teaching there for many years. See my text and images about it and learn about their next chapter Join me in Venice, Italy next month! There are still a few spaces left You can also still sign up for the Guan Yin thangka course in The Netherlands Don't forget: there are a few days left to use your 20% Early Bird Discount on online courses Love, Carmen 🇺🇸NOTE: this day in The Netherlands is suitable for...Read more
• September 19, 2024Early Bird Offer on Online Courses! / Program for Fall and Winter / Tara's Birthday Celebration 🎉 Dear Reader, How was your Summer?I hope you've enjoyed it as much as I have (we celebrated Tara's sixth birthday!) see the pics in this newsletter. Herewith I present you the course program for this Fall/Winter so far, with a 20% discount on upcoming online classes for Early Birds. Additional classes may be added later. New in this newsletter is that the descriptions of some courses offered in The Netherlands will be written in Dutch and some of those in Italy wil be in Italian, as that's...Read more
• August 21, 2024All about Guan Yin! 🌸 Register now for VENICE and the EXTRA Course in The Netherlands Dear Reader, At home, on my altar with female Buddhas, I've had two statues of Guan Yin for many many years. A standing Guan Yin (here behind the daffodils) and a seated one, known for its 'royal ease posture.' These two forms are among the ones most depicted out of the 33 manifestations of Guan Yin that are mentioned in the Lotus Sutra (chapter 25). When Mahayana Buddhism spread from India to China in the 1st century CE, also its deities traveled along. Avalokiteshvara, the Indian...Read more