i love...

Head in the Clouds by printmakerjenn

too balmy an evening to be reading sartre, by baboucherouge

Mighty Sun by veronicadiego

Finally! Something new!

It feels good to say I have something new in the shop! They're all listed, so if you're interested, go check them out! I'm also planning to have the originals for sale soon, once I figure out how to hang them flush with the wall. :)

Nameless paintings

So here are the last in this set of paintings. I think my favorite one is this one with all the colorful flowers. I decided that I would do 4 in this set instead of 5, because I just couldn't decided how to do the last one. You might notice that the painting with the blue flowers is different than in the previous picture. I sanded that one down and did this one instead. I like it a lot better now. I still need to put the varnish on the last two paintings, and I'll be ready to photograph them and list them in the shop! It feels so nice to finally have something new for the shop...it's been neglected for too long! I'll let y'all know when I get them listed. So do you have any ideas for what I should name them? I am so awful at naming my paintings, so if you guys want to help me, then I'd love it!



Here are all of the paintings in this set:

I'm still alive...

I just wanted to drop in and let you all know that I'm still alive and kickin'! I've been very busy lately with classes and studying. I'm just about done with all of that for awhile, so I'll be able to start painting again. I really miss it! I do still have plans to do 2 more to go with the 3 I showed y'all a while back. Hopefully by next week I'll be back in the swing of things with my shop. Thanks for your patience!

Vote for me!

I've been included in an Etsy voters poll for May flowers. Please go vote for me!
http://www.etsy.com/voter_list.php?ref=voter&room_id=50

New flower paintings

These are the new paintings I've been working on. They're acrylic and india ink on wood. They're not all done yet as I still need to tweak some things and put a coat of varnish over them. I did the two smaller ones first, and this morning have just about finished the larger one. I've got plans to do maybe 2 more, so i'll list them all when I'm done. The rest of this month will be super busy for me, so i'm not sure how much painting i'll get done. What do y'all think?

Hub's Art

I may not have mentioned it before, but my Hubs is a talented artist himself. He's the one who actually had art classes in high school and college, so he knows way more than I about art. This is a piece of art that he did that is on our fireplace mantle right now. He actually made it as a wedding gift for a friend, but since the wedding was like 5 years ago I'm claiming it as my own. He loves to pick up interesting trash off the ground (which is ironic b/c he's an OCD germ freak) and use it in his art. I love the effect and wish he would do more of it to sell!

This one is over our bed in our bedroom. Hubs thinks this is really funny. For this piece, he and one of his art buddies went on the DART rail train and asked random strange looking people to take their picture. Then he took the pictures and drew them over the trash collage. He's quite the illustrator, don't you think? And there's nothing like strange guys staring at you while you go to sleep. But it's better than a blank wall in my opinion. He has lots more art stashed away in his portfolio under our bed, but these are his most recent pieces. He and one of his best friends used to have "Art Nights" where they would get together and work on their art late into the night. But then his friend moved far away to get his master's degree, so no more Art Nights and no more new art. Hopefully that will change someday though!