Notecards now Avialable!

Now available in my Zazzle!

Darwin the Mer-Hamster!

Notecards and Greeting cards and other such Darwin stuff!

WIP - Traeth Llyfn, Wales

well i've been a bit awol the last few days... working on a bigger piece...

this is a place in Wales called Traeth Llyfn. It's kinda haunted feeling there but i needed to do a bigger piece to stretch me wings as it were... also showing a bit of the dining room there... light was better out here today, rather overcast..

Here I've placed the Mat over it to check size of the overall image.

It's coming along nicely!

amazing how..

amazing how some people just don't know how to remove you from their mailing list.... take for example Stephanie Chandler who owns sever scam sites and is trying to network herself from places like LinkedIn and Fastpitchnetworker... what had happened is that while on elance, this woman invited me to give a quote to do her website, and I did.. a quote fair for the work requested. she came back and slammed me saying i charged 4 times the amount required however she obviously does not understand the web designer market in chicago... nor the rates involved for first class service or work for that matter. so she led me along for a good month before finally chewing me out for daring to suggest an honest wage for her rediculous project which involved scamming a ton of people into believing the "get rich quick" crap you normally see on late night info-mercials...

several times i politely asked her to remove me from her SCAM list and to quit emailing me... did she? NO.... just today i got another "invitation" for one of those networking sites that I DONT BELONG TO!

is there any way to get this woman to LEAVE ME THE F*** ALONE?!? I've already reported her to Yahoo (where her domain resides) and both LinkedIn and now Fastpitchnetworking.com...

is there any way to GET RID OF HER?!?

if you ever get any email from this bit** just report her... next on the list Internet Fraud.... *if* i get another spam email from her!

New Cookbook!

The ACEO ~ Art Cards Editions and Originals group I belong to has just released their first ever cookbook! It entails many miniature pieces of art corresponding to a recipe! I have ordered it and am waiting it's arrival! I will let you all know how it is! I am so excited over it and can't wait!!

Click here if you want your own copy!

Featured Artist on ArtFest!

I just made Featured Artist on ArtFest on Facebook!!!!

another fine mess...

i was playing with templates for my blog here and mucked up my widgets and links... it's going to take a bit to reconstruct the list i had so if you want, feel free to post a comment to this thread if I forgot you please?

Sorry folks!!

My Current ACEOs

OSWOA Work

This is from a photo I took when my husband and I were on our honeymoon in Buchart Gardens on lovely Vancouver Island. I found out that the gardens are celebrating their 100th year this year!

2 New ACEOs - Wildlife Challenge

"Early Bird"




"Chumly Our Neighborhood Squirrel"

Plate Grafitti

I completed this piece for a kickoff for a book that was created by my ACEO group on ebay. The winner will win a copy of the book.

It also fits in with a painting a day. I used watercolor on 140lb paper. Sushi is quite a different thing to paint when you've never physically eaten it.. altho some of it looked yummy... so long as its cooked... :)

the thumb is linked to the listing. highest unique bidders wins.. :D so please go bid! :)

new aceos

I have 2 ACEO listings today for your viewing (and hopefully bidding) pleasure:

Isabelle






Rose Walkway at Butchart Gardens, Victoria, Canada

My Favorite ACEOs

2 new ACEOs

I'm on a roll here with little sunflower peoples... they amazingly simple to do with a limited palatte. I used med. cad. yellow, yellow ochre, and raw umber in places for the petals and for the stems a mixture of lemon yellow, blue cobalt, and indigo (just a dot of color or it will muddy up) Then plenty of water to thin out the pigment onto the paper!

Little Sister



This was a new style for me using paynes gray and indithyrine(sp?) blue in varying densities... the reds in the skyline are indian red and alizarin. After i shaded the buildings I had realized I did not leave any white paper showing for the windows so I used chinese white and it did make it look more realistic. I plan on doing more of these!

Chicago Skyline at Dusk