Lighthouse, Seascape, Storm painting

As storm starts brewing. The lighthouse stands as a lone sentry to guide ships safely passed the rocks. Painted with acrylics, this aceo (2.5" x 3.5") is signed and dated on the back. You will find it listed here

Valentine painting - dolphins

Fish aren't romantic? They aren't a symbol of love? Pish Posh I say.....They are when they can swim and dance and form a perfect heart! :) An aceo (2.5" x 3.5") acrylic signed and dated on the back. I have taken a whimsical look at dolphins doing their Love Dance, while swimming into the sunset. You can see "Love Dance" listed here

Swans - Valentine painting - Work in progress

This is just a fun little ditty in time for Valentines Day. It wasn't going to be a work in progress, but I photographed each stage so I thought I would put it on the blog as one. I did the background first and then the outline of the swans. You can't tell at this point even what they are going to be.

Put in some details. It's not a perfect mirror image (that would be pretty much impossible unless you were doing digital art. But I think it's pretty darn close.

Some finishing touches to the water, and there you go.....Love's Reflection. Swans mate for life and when posed such as they are, their necks make a beautiful heart. The heart shape is reflected in the water. An 8" x 10" acrylic that I will list somewhere. Just not sure if it will be local or on Ebay.

I also painted a similar aceo that will be listed on Ebay. You will find the aceo (art card editions and originals 2.5" x 3.5") listed here

Stat counter - Seeing where my visitors are from

I just added this really cool visitor counter so everyone can see where my visitors are from. It's the really neat square on the right with fireflies (I love fireflies) It makes my blog look like it just opened, when in fact it has been around for over a year. I wish I would have seen this sooner. No matter, it will fill up in no time! In the mean time I am painting away. I've started a painting for Valentines and also another one in my bird series. I will add the bird one here as a work in progress later.

sunset and Tall ship in Storm - new for 2009

After a short Hiatus, I painted some art cards today. I've been focusing on larger art lately, but am back to painting miniatures. Both of these are aceo size (2.5" x 3.5") The sea painting is very "blue". Must be in the warm Caribbean.

This one is of a sunset just after a storm. Colours are always so vivid at dusk right after a storm. You can see both of these listed on Ebay here

New Pastels

I received a set of beautiful soft pastel pencils for Christmas. They are really going to take some practise! It is going to be fun learning though :)

Bluejays - Finished

I finished the bluejays this afternoon. I learned the hard way that you can keep tweaking the painting forever and ruin it in the process. (when are we ever satisfied with out art work) so today I decided that it was done. I had fixed the pines and added the snowflakes etc so I decided to quit while I was ahead. Enjoy!

bluejays - work in progress

Background work today. This is going to take some time I think. I have to make some of the pine needles bigger.

Blue Jays - Work in Progress Day 3

I didn't work on this much today. Still working on the birds. I probably won't tweak them anymore now until after I have them standing on the tree branches. (or whatever I decide they are standing on) It's snowing so hard out today that I'm leaning more and more to snow covered pine branches. I had to erase a ton of lines out of the picture. They were confusing more than helping and I had already decided I didn't want the birds on mountain ash branches anyway, so got rid of them. I'll start fresh tomorrow (or tonight)

Bluejays - work in progress Day 2

I managed to get some very preliminary birds started today. I'm not to sure what I am going to put them on. either a pine bough or a stump. I will have to see. I may put a chickadee in near the top just so that you can see the size of the jays. I also changed the background a bit. I wasn't happy with the montain ash berries, so I made the clumps larger. They won't be so pronounced after I add the pine branches anyway.