the ART OF THE day...

Yay o joy o yay! I painted with Elizabeth this week! Two times! It can be so hard to find time to fit the creating part in with the business-ey part, and I had some canvases that had backgrounds all ready for me to do... I wanted to do faces - ladies, in fact... so I did this girl, and called her Persephone:




Then Liz challenged me to do a whole alphabet series of these girls, and I accepted the challenge! Did she throw down the gauntlet? Or lay down a gauntlet? Something like that... anyhoo, I immediately changed her name to Apersephone, and she shall be the first in my new series. I'm so happy - now I need to buy a bunch of 8 x 8 canvases - and Jerry's didn't have any!

I don't know if I'll call the series ABCDLadies?, or maybe MNOLadies... or maybe....something I haven't figured out yet!

ThE ART OF THE day...

today the art of the day is making a couple of personal pieces for people... I made a bat mitzvah pendant for the temple in Sandy Springs... hope they like it. The birdie I used is called Rocket girl - 'cause I think her little feet look like she's shooting off into the air!

THE ART OF THE day...

Today the art of the day was realizing that I needed to stop making certain sayings, so I can free my brain up to make new ones. That's going to be the best way to get rid of a creative block, methinks... so I sent out a note to my lovely retailers, and another note to my lovely customers, and now I already feel FREE to make new art! I can't wait ti the old ones are sold out - I'm going to put them in their own spot on my table...

the art of the day...

Today the art of the day is this parrot on a turquoise background. I couldn't figure out what she was saying for the longest time, then finally I must have channelled a little Dr. Seuss, 'cause I came up with this: