:::WAS 1975 AND::
:i made the first Volkswagon Bus Bags decades ago. andI called the MAIN OFFICE IN NEW JERSEY every day and pleaded for them to see what I designed and it would bring in great profits for us both!!
..They hung up..I called again..same thing.
I called TWICE A DAY and finally a VP got on phone and said if they see that would finally shut me up-and come in and show them what I designed

...AND SO I WENT AND WITHIN AN HOUR I was sitting with their lawyers and accountants doing the numbers of how it would profit!!THEY LOVED IT

VW OF AMERICA gave me a tour of all their properties and then they told me they wanted me to DO IT and I could keep all the monies since I was so young and was trying anything to make a living as an artist here in NYC ( hard to do when your a young gal and alone and broke). THEY gave me the OK to mass produce and they advertised my bags all over the world...I have that under my belt as one of my FIRSTS in my careers in the ARTS

A very very well known Magazine named "THE NEW YORK" WAS ONE OF THE MAGAZINES that reviewed my bags ..heres the full page..then I made then in blue and white,,,red and white,,NY checker cabs and animal cracker bags..animal carrier bags and tote bags. They WERE LARGE AND THEN I MADE VERY SMALL BAGS AND SEWED A SAMPLE LOOP TO THE BAGS AS A TEST AND CALLED THEM SMALL WRIST BAGS AND BELT BAGS ..TESTED THEM ON MARKET AND MADE HIT with all stores ordering like crazy

They sold very very well around America I was 27 years old, and felt like I owned NYC...tee hee. Everywhere I went near the most famous stores my Bags ( Saks Fifth Avenue,,,Bloomingdales....Nehman and Marcus....Lord and Taylors...and soo many many more) my bags were in their windows beautifully displayed
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....Designing bags and clothes was a fun thing for me to do but not my dream
..My dream was for all to know my paintings and that happened later...BUT IT DID HAPPEN!! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤*•°.°•*•°.°•*

:::Sheila Wolk Sports Artist and Fantasy Artist, are both me ::::: so funny how people still get confused that those two portfolios of art were by two different Sheila Wolk's...hahah NOPE....it's me❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤
Here are my edited resumes of my art careers'... and ALL art done with soft pastels on paper.
...ps...the Fantasy Art career is still in progress with more to add soon

AN AMAZING AUTUMN DAY::::''EARTH''©Sheila Wolk 2001
​The wind is blowing, the temperature is chilled....golden leaves falling like like drips of paint from the limbs and branches of tree's. The breeze sings Autumn in the air....and I am loving every second of this GLORY*+*+*+***+
....Mother Nature is combing her hair
....enjoy!!!*•°.°•*•°.°•*❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤​

⚫️::::YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE::::⚫️

​Today infringement is rampant on the Internet facilitated by service providers who provide an almost uncontrolled forum. All artists are susceptible. While the DMCA protects the service providers, in most cases from suit, the perpetrators are not protected.
     In 2016 I discovered extensive infringement of my artwork, ‘’Metamorphosis’’ that was committed in England and the United States by Stephen Ormerod. I brought a lawsuit against him for his willful copyright infringement.
    I am pleased to announce that the Federal District Court in New York (Docket 18-cv-3020) granted judgment against Ormerod, in my favor for $100,000.00 for his willful and extensive copyright infringement.
   A copy of that Judgment is posted here. Ormerod is now serving a prison sentence in HM Prison in Preston, England.
    It is my intent to continue to protect my rights in the future.
Thank you
Sheila Wolk
💛💚💗💜💙

So I was at my corner ''Plant Shed'' Store re-potting my cactus into larger vase and saw ❤️❤️Peter Max sitting in back of Store in the cafe having a cake with some friends and I went up to him and said " excuse me but You Are Peter Max, right? ...and he nodded his head YES..and I reminded him how he met with me when I was 19 years old, alone in NYC with 500 dollars in my pocket, standing in a phone booth, looked up the word 'ARTIST' saw his name and called and needed a job . He said if I had the nerve to call then he had the nerve to say OK... he found my first job for me, and that was 53 years ago!!!!!!!!!💛💚💗💜💙
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Peter Is now older too and has dementia but I stayed and told him that he will always be in my heart where he helped me out in my time of need so long ago.
...He asked me how I did in the Arts and I said at this time in my life, it was rough but very good to me in the end and how I am setting up a foundation to pay it forward when I die to help other artists .

...He smiled, gave me 2 thumbs up and said...GOOD FOR YOU!.....I told him that he mattered so much to me and I was so very lucky to see him 53 years later to say THANK YOU
WAS A GREAT DAY! for the both of us. 💛💚💗💜💙-s.wolk 2020

How exciting...I  now have a wonderful coloring book page in Amazon known as the Sheila Wolk Author Page...come check it out :-)
It has all my new coloring books available there...and yes I will run sales later when closer to the holidays :-) 
 https://www.amazon.com/author/sheilawolk 

​my newest book "Fantasy Unleashed" for colorists to have fun and really get creative making exciting backgrounds too📌💛💚💗💜💙
Here is one I colored in with a grungy background and wow did I have fun!!!!
https://www.amazon.com/s?i=stripbooks&rh=p_27%3ASheila+Wolk&s=relevancerank&text=Sheila+Wolk&ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1
❤️🧡💛💚💙

So thrilled to  have my Mermaid  adult coloring books up with Amazon now!!!
 and here is where you  can find them...yay!!!!! 
https://www.amazon.com/s?i=stripbooks&rh=p_27%3ASheila+Wolk&s=relevancerank&text=Sheila+Wolk&ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1

   I have been painting with Soft Pastels and pastel pencils for 48 years in Sports art and Fantasy Art and now own a Publishing and Licensing company, 3 stores, I have products of my paintings from tapestries to puzzles to figurines, and just came out with my book...etc; selling through mass production with contracts throughout the world.
...  Was a long road and exciting journey and now that I reflect on my past 70 years, and with no children I hired a law firm and completed a TRUST with a created ''SHEILA WOLK FOUNDATION'' to commence upon my death to help other artists in need...paying it forward.
...  Now I organize my life and teach my executor how to keep my products and art going after my death as if I am teaching them from my grave..and when I tell them that we all laugh together
...  and life goes on and all I wanted from when I was a little girl in the arts, was to be remembered
....so QUALITY was always KEY...and working hard was the KEY TURNER. -s.wolk 2018

:::ATTENTION TO ALL MY FRIENDS WHO ARE ARTISTS AND/OR STORES:::
I am pleased that after I made ACCO Corporation and Derwent Pencil Company aware of their infringement of my art, Metamorphosis, we have come to a successful understanding. Below is their apology for their infringement.

To my dear artist friends in Internet: Please make sure you copyright all your successful pieces of artworks and also watermark your images before you put them in internet.

To customers now and in future: Please make sure you check out the artists claim as being the creator by asking for their copyright to that said image.

::::Statement by Derwent and ACCO Brands Corporation::::
For generations, artists around the world have chosen Derwent for their art materials. Artists are our customers and collaborators, and it is our passion to support artists worldwide. That is why we regret that we unwittingly used an image in our marketing materials that an artist believes infringed the copyright in her own work.

In 2017, the artist Sheila Wolk notified Derwent and its parent company ACCO Brands Corporation for the first time that she believed that an image used by Derwent in its marketing materials copied her pre-existing work, Metamorphosis.
The image used by Derwent had been commissioned by Derwent in 2005 to demonstrate the capabilities of Derwent’s Graphitint pencils.

The image was created by Stephen Ormerod, an independent contractor not employed by Derwent. In 2017, after Derwent posted Mr. Ormerod’s image on its Facebook page, Ms. Wolk pointed out similarities between Metamorphosis and Mr. Ormerod’s image, as well as a 2005 online statement by Mr. Ormerod that he had been inspired by Metamorphosis.

Derwent was not previously aware of Metamorphosis or Mr. Ormerod’s 2005 statement. Indeed, after Derwent was contacted by Ms. Wolk in 2017, Derwent quickly removed the work from its Facebook page and endeavored to have it removed from other locations that were not in its control. Nonetheless, we understand that Ms. Wolk was offended by Derwent’s use of this work.

Although it was unintentional, we sincerely regret and apologize to Ms. Wolk for any negative impact that Derwent’s actions may have had on her.
Derwent is committed to supporting artists at every stage of the creative journey and we respect the intellectual property rights of others.

"METAMORPHOSIS" © SHEILA WOLK 1997
one of the paintings that I did, that made me cry with happiness and serenity while I worked on it, and when completed...she is very special to me.
 
…you should have seen this painting when I first started it, she had whales, sharks, squid, dolphins, and all sea creatures coming out of her hair.... it got so top heavy, after working on it 8 months I wiped it all out and stuck in the red fish ( easy to correct the painting while working on it because all my art is in soft pastel dust and with a paper towel I can remove what ever I want and work over it)
...BANG!!!! I knew where to go after that…the painting told me what to do. In total this concept and painting took 2 years to create and accomplish

“METAMORPHOSIS” POEM © SHEILA WOLK 2003
 
 IT IS ELIMINATION WHICH MAKES COMPLETION
WHEN YOU CAN SEPARATE YOUR PIECES TO SEE THE ALL
AND THEN RE-UNITE TO BE IN HARMONY;
ONLY THEN CAN YOU FEEL WHAT IS AND WHAT IS NOT

THE MORE SEPERATIONS THERE ARE,
THE MORE THE COMPLETION PURIFIES

FOR WHEN WE ARE ASLEEP ~ WE ARE TRULY AWAKE
THE BODY IS RESTING ITS DECEPTION AND THE REAL IS.

Painting1997© Sheila Wolk~poetry2003© Sheila Wolk
 

Question: does anyone really want to speak the truth?
Or do we leave ourselves so vulnerable that we result in writing truth on paper and tucking it away so no one can see it?
Do you really want truth revealed?
Is truth so sacred that it must be hidden?
 
Does our own Truth, destroy the self, when truth becomes too hard to bear?

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QUESTION: why can't we believe truth when it is gifted to us?
.... And if we do accept truth at that every moment, should we settle on that, that is the only truth?
.... Or will the next moment of the Earth's axis turn, turn even that truth around so another truth can take its place the next minute, or hour?
 
QUESTION: How truthful is truth?
 
I guess my ANSWER would be, truth is at that very moment of reflection as to what lead you to that conclusion, BUT, it can change if any event happens, even a blink of an eye...so this leads me to this...
 
QUESTION: HOW MUCH FAITH DO YOU HAVE IN YOUR OWN TRUTH?? -s.wolk2015