Busy, Busy!!!

Hydrangeas and Fruit

16" x 12"

oil on gesso panel

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Grassy Marsh

8" x 10"

oil on gesso panel

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Life has been crazy busy lately. Between, painting, marketing and yes, you heard it people, selling art, I barely have time to do anything else. Lately, I have been hitting marketing hard on Etsy, Twitter, Facebook, and any place that'll have me and it has paid off!! I have seen a bump in sales like I have never seen before. Finally!! 

Hope everyone is having a nice summer and not too hot, too wet or too dry. :)

Gardenia in Blue Cup

5" x 7"

oil on gesso panel

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Somewhere in the Midwest

10.5" x 5"

oil on gesso panel

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Oyster Shell with Green Bowl

7" x 5"

oil on gesso panel

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First Gardenia

"First Gardenia"
13.5" x 11"
oil on gesso panel
View in Etsy

In my garden, I have about six large gardenia bushes and every year they burst with fragrant flowers and childhood memories of my grandmother. I try to paint at least one every year and this is the first of the year. 

Good Dog

16" x 12"

oil on gesso board

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Hilda and Desk Project

"Hilda"

10" x 10"

oil on panel

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Desk Project

This weekend we proved to ourselves we have woodworking skills. We put together drawings, made a model and brought this desk to life. Thought I would share some photos. 

our model

finished!!

"Hilda" Progress

10" x 10"

oil on panel

Studio project done!

"Hilda" in progress

10" x 10"

oil on panel

Although I think about painting 100% of the time, I haven't been doing much lately. Have been needing to take a break for awhile. Really enjoying the jewelry making and all the new techniques involved. 

We are currently doing a garage makeover and as you probably know, it is a long involved process with lots of dust and dirt. I'm just glad it's not hot yet. 

Here is a photo shortly after we cleared everything out and did a little painting. As you can see Guy is hard at work (he loves projects).

Banjo

8" x 10"

oil on panel

SOLD

At The Cameron Museum

My painting "Wonky Bumbershoots" is on display at the Cameron Art Museum along with 800+ artists throughout North Carolina until October, 2011.

It is a fantastic show!

Here are some articles...

My painting is mentioned here - yayy!

http://wae.blogs.starnewsonline.com/17257/madness-at-the-cameron-art-museum-the-opening-reception/?tc=ar

http://wae.blogs.starnewsonline.com/17237/madness-at-the-cameron-art-museum/?tc=ar

Oyster Shell

7" x 5"

oil on panel

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Pink Camellia

8" x 5"

oil on gesso panel

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New Jewelry

www.fullmoonmetal.com

Happy Easter everyone!

Taking a break

Although I've been taking a little break, I've been working a retouching a large painting that I had completed about 5 years ago. In May the Cameron Museum is having an open call to artists to celebrate the spirit of art maverick, Walter Hopps, where they have "no jurying, no selection (or rejection), and no entry fee" and I plan on bringing this painting once I finish it and it will hang there until October. 

I also have been enjoying making metal jewelry. 

I now have an Etsy shop called Full Moon Metal Jewelry Designs

you can find it at

www.fullmoonmetal.com

Here are some recent pieces - some will be in a show at Botega - will send more info on the show later. 

Spider Wort

10" x 8"

oil on gesso panel

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This is this week's Daily Paintworks Challenge

Angel Descending

I have finally finished "Angel Descending" and the client loves it! I have worked on this painting so long I had forgotten when I started. After going through a tons of frames, this is the frame I have picked out for it. 

Here is another finished piece of jewelry - I have been having so much fun with these!

Copper Butterfly Wing

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Three Hens

10" x 8"

oil on gesso-panel

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This is this week's challenge painting from dailypaintworks.com

I have a new shop open on Etsy called Lapidary Lounge. It will feature the new jewelry that I have been have so much fun with. 

You can see it here. 

http://www.etsy.com/shop/lapidarylounge?ga_search_query=lapidarylounge&ga_search_type=all&ga_facet=

Something Different

I decided to take a little break this weekend and do something different. So I made some jewelry. 

Here's what I came up with. 

Copper Dragonfly Wing Necklace 

with Turquoise Beads

Copper Dragonfly Wing Necklace 

with Turquoise Bead

Copper truly is an amazing material. When it is heated it turns these amazing iridescent colors and you can roll patterns into it like this dragonfly pattern. Oh, and it's inexpensive so you can play around with it and not worry about messing up. 

Wilmington Spring Art Show

Well, I am happy to say I had two paintings accepted into the Wilmington Spring Show, "Summer Azaleas" and "Leap of Faith". "Leap of Faith" won the "Dick Blick Award"! 

Here are some photos.

"Summer Azaleas"

"Leap of Faith"