Featured on Blog!

I woke up this morning and I checked my blog...(something I have started to do every morning like a ritual of sorts) and low and behold I received such a wonderful letter from JMLArt. It seems like she was Pouncing around on etsy and found me. I am so lucky to have been featured on her blog. Please visit her blog, she has wonderful artists that she features on her "Feature Friday". It brightened my day! Her etsy store has so many colorful custom works of art.
Thanks so much Jane! Have a charming day!

FIRST ETSY ORDER!

I'm so excited I received a potential first customer through etsy! Its for a custom ornament...I can't wait to get started. Here is one I did for my boss for her birthday! I completely customize it to whatever you want.

Have a Charming Day everyone!

Shelley

SUPER GREAT GIVEAWAY!!!!

OOO Wonders of Whimsy is giving away a super cute ipod carrier....Hop on over to Jenny's site to enter and check out all of her colorful, cute handmade items....

Award

Wow, Thanks so much goes to Julie-Ann at Heavenleigh art for giving me this ever so wonderful award. I am truly honored. Thanks so much for thinking of me.
This Renee award was created by Bella and Ces in honour of their friend Renee.

In Bella's own words "this is a brand new award and I have the pleasure and honor of spreading the seed, watching it grow. I hope it finds it's way to those who are like Renee: the acorn, a small package becoming a tall and sturdy oak, giving more acorns, becoming tall and sturdy oaks, giving acorns..."

Now to pass it along I am going to nominate 8 women who I love so much and thank every time they take some of their time to visit and comment on mine and everyone else's art. Check their work out they have so much talent and amazing creativity.

Julie

Ang (gotta love that island music)

Jolie

Suzie

Vania

Flor

Kimmie

Nina

Love you all!

Newest Painting on Ebay

I was so excited to paint from my sketches that I finished a painting and put it up on Ebay.

The First Reader

This was the original "The Reader" .

Its done on a 16 x 20 stretched canvas, with tons of coloring and collage work. I also added sparkles and beads.

Sketches

Here are some new sketches that I plan on making into paintings. I can't wait to get started. I am calling these, "The Thinker" The Gardener" The Reader" and "The Chef"

I did "The Reader" a while back for my daughter, but I am redoing now in a different style. I think I will be making these with a little bit of collage paper and tons of different techniques that I have learned recently. I will post the final paintings when I get them done.

Ever seen a Folk art Cricket Before????

Hi,

I did this little folk art cricket custom for someone. Just thought I would post it for fun. It was trial and error with Corel trying to get a transparent background. I thought I did it at least 6 times only to pull it up with a white background. Not sure what I was doing....

Enjoy!

More angels!

I also found this photo copy of my many angel aceos i used to sell, i remember a customer in England who bought them all. I still sell a lot of these as cards. I did these in 07. Of course I sold the originals, and this is all I have left....just the .jpgs....hahaha

I just found these in my drawer!

These are a few of my favourite paintings i just found while doing some spring cleaning. They were in an old blog post too i think feb 2008. I thought I would post them again for all to see.

I remember painting the whole background black first, and then sketching the figure. After I painted all the colors and used the black for the outline. I used to paint like that many years ago, but found that the colors were muted a bit from the black underneath. Looking back, I think the colors are bright and vivid. I might start a series of these ones. These were done on heavy bristol acid free board, but I think I will do the next ones on canvas ready to hang. I just love them.

Thanks for looking.