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
 

  I bought a little book decades ago and wrote this on the first page and presented it to my Mother on her Birthday.

...I asked her to occasionally write some words of wisdom in it and later when filled to give it back to me on one of my birthdays...WHY?

...so when she is gone (passed away), I could open it and see her writing to me and speak to me, and I would feel her around me.....and so she did.

...It was not totally filled when she passed away, but the pages she did write in (just for me) has been lasting me my lifetime while I am alive. She even glued in a few of her favorite photo's inside 

I have thousands of books here in my Library and love them all...but this little book is my fave 

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“LEAVE ME SOME WORDS”

Enter my page and leave me some words
So my world will be easier to bare
Engrave beauty and love on a page or two
Or a mystic Novella ~ if you dare

I will caress and protect 
Your thoughts in my land
For I know they were born 
From your heart, through your hand

Your dreams and your journeys
Whether lived or pretend
Are immortalized on my page
By your pen-©Sheila Wolk