Windmill - watercolor

"Windmill"

I have lately been working in watercolors in a new style. I have a couple on eBay now. It's been a lot of fun. There's about 5 day's left on the "Windmill" if you're interested in bidding. 3.5" x 2.5"

Pastel

Looking For Ice

This one of my latest pastels. 24" x 18" on sanded pastel paper. I hope these majestic creatures will be around for many generations.

Artistic Emotions

How can emotions play such an important part in the creative process? So much of an artist goes in to the creative product that the emotions, or mind set can influence the outcome of not only the finished piece, but actually in being able to create.

It’s wonderful to be “in the zone” and just dance thru a painting. What happens when you slip out of that “zone”? Do most artist struggle just to finish, or just put it away until they get back on top of that mountain? Do all artists want to be on top of the mountain, emotionally? What about more of the complex or darker works of art-are they created on the top of the emotional mountain or halfway down? Or, perhaps by choice come from the valleys?

I personally have found during the last few months that I have to be on top of the emotional mountain or I cannot create anything at all. If I become depressed or melancholy at all I may as well leave my studio to gather dust.

I've been tagged !!

ACEO 2.5" x 3.5"

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World Wide Artist's Tag

Nancy Merkle has tagged me! It's a blog game of tag amongst artists. These are the tagging rules:1. List 7 random facts/habits about yourself.2. Choose another 7 bloggers to tag and list their names in your blog. 3. Leave your 7 tagged bloggers comments to notify them of their tagging and to direct them to your blog for tag instructions. Here are the seven random facts about me:

1. I can stay up all night reading a good book.
2. I love to listen to the sound of thunder.
3. I am a very eclectic painter preferring to paint to fit my moods.
4. I get very impatient with laws created for the good of the few to irritate the patience of the many.
5. I love the deserts and mountains of the southwestern United States.
6. One day I hope to travel to Alaska.
7. I’m ashamed to say I get kind of crabby when having a bad day. Makes me want to just howl at the moon.

Here are the artist I’m going to tag. If you’ve been tagged before, then just consider it a compliment because I like your work and additional advertising.
These four are all I can come up with now-most of you have been tagged already. I'll try to add more.

Linda Kukuk
Liana Turnbull Bennett
Tamara Dozier
Mary Hillier (sunladyART)

Pen and Ink

"A Picnic" SOLD

3.5" X 2.5"

It's been a while since I've posted due to a personal crisis (Mom's been in hospital), but I hope to get back to a routine soon.

One thing I have found while sitting in a hospital room is how relaxing it is to do these little ACEO cards. They are small and easy to pack up and I have personally gotten hooked on pen and ink. The little squirrel above is my personal favorite so far and even tho he has already sold I still wanted to show him off.

Scratch Art

ACEO 2.5 x 3.5

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I love doing these little scratch art ACEOs. Normally I'm not much of a detail person - I usually have to take a Valium just to sew a button back on, but for some reason these little things relax me. My husband likes this.

I've taken the big step and opened an eBay store. Haven't got it completely "stocked" yet since it can be rather time consuming. Actually, my husband Jim is doing all the work so I don't want to get to pushy or he may just up and say 'do it yourself'. Take a look at it and give us some feedback. It will probably be a continuous work in progress, but I hope it will at least pay for itself. I have yet to get some original painting posted, but perhaps this week will see that part done.

Watercolor painting of cherries

"Two Sweet" 2.5" x 3.5" SOLD

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Soon the cherry trees will be blooming - ah, spring is getting close.