Well, I decided to try something new with my ACEO cards and create a group rather than just a single card. These cards are my rendition of the 7 Deadly Sins using my women characters.
Listed in my EBAY store


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Current Mood: accomplished

Here's my latest auctions listed - I'm really liking how these are turning out!
Listed in my EBAY store


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Current Mood: awake

Well, there I was just working away on my new EBAY store pages and I had to stop to paint something. It's really tough to be the all around everything and still try to find the time to do what your doing all this other stuff for so you can do it. Here I am advertising all my art work, creating new website pages, auctions, stores, etc. and by the time I get finished, I'm worn out and can't even think of painting anything. Today was different. The urge hit and rather than ignore it and move along, I followed it and here's the result. Title: The Diplomat

The Auction and the image of the auction

Current Mood: bouncy

Due to life, I have not been able to paint very much lately but what I did get finished is listed here.

Less than 2 hours left on this one!

The newest one added

Check out my new store while you are there - it's a work in progress but coming along! My EBAY Store

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Current Mood: accomplished

I took myself off on a mini vacation up to Calgary, Canada to visit with my sister and brother in law and had a great time. The main event was the big Stampede which drew in the largest crowds in history there due to it being Calgary's 100 year anniversary. A friend and I went to it and enjoyed the sights and sounds of all the cultures of people gathered there but more than that I enjoyed going through the art displays.

As I wandered through all the mediums and styles, I felt myself becoming more confident with my own art and even though I was exhausted after arriving home, I awoke early the next day and painted 5 new ACEO's and started a 6th one. I was amazed at how it just flowed out of me! It feels great to be in the space of painting without much thought of where it's going but rather to convey my emotions on the canvas through touch.

So, here are the paintings I have completed and they are listed on EBAY now HERE

If you prefer to see what they look like before entering the ebay zone, here they are:
I am donating 25% of the sale of this one to the Bids4Kids Charity for the Hole in the Wall Gang.





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Current Mood: artistic

You might ask why it's taken me so long to post a new message so here goes with the long line of events the past month or so:

1. The first thing that happened was my computer decided to throw a hissy fit <<<(defintiion- Southern speak...usage as a noun-"I just had me a huge hissy fit!"....meaning she screamed, ranted, paced the floor uncontrollably, pointed her finger at the offending party, crossed arms tightly over chest with a tight lipped and squinty eyed appearance towards anyone brave enough to defy her and made several threats which were not idle. Apply these human animations to an inanimate object in your imagination to get the idea.} So, my computer threw this hissy fit and totally balked at ever starting again. After throwing my own hissy fit towards her, I one upped her and said "fine, I'll just erase your ass!" and proceeded to format the drive. Fortunately, I keep backups regularly on important stuff so snuffing her as I did hurt her more than it did me. Now she knows who is the queen of the hissy fits....I'm still loading programs.

2. My brother was killed in a car accident the first part of June. He was 48 and had lived in Mississippi all his life. Everyone from my father's side of the family lives there so of course, that's where the funeral was held. So, I had to take off and drive there (494 mi. one way) and spent a few days helping to sort things out and be supportive to my parents. Although the fact of his death was sad, we celebrated his life and some wonderful family time together as we shared our memories.

3. I've been busy creating ACEO cards to sell on EBAY and because I am such a sloooooooooooooooow painter, I usually only get anywhere from 2-4 cards painted per week. My women characters seem to have caught on and I have several collector's who adore them (yippee!) so I do my best to have at least one new character per week and maybe a 2nd painting depicting an old character in a new situation. I've been working at a plan for these ladies and will hopefully have it all together within the next 2 months or so to announce to the world. Sorry, can't give anymore info than that. *wink*

Other events: I sold my Chambre ? Coucher painting this past week to a guy in the UK! I'm very pleased with that and really think doing the ACEO cards has helped me to get more people to view my art. Not to mention how they are helping me with the actual painting of stuff - like really paying attention to details I once overlooked.

So, here is a new character and her name is Carly.

This is Ruth and her cat Ralph in another little adventure.

See my Other Auctions!

One more thing....because the ACEO's are really catching on and becoming such a HOT item for everyone, I am helping with the beta testing of a new Auction site specifically directed to ACEO's, collectors and artists alike. This is more than likely where I will be listing my ACEO's once the testing is finished and it's ready to run and I wanted to share it with you. Just remember, although you can see things and navigate around the site, it is still in test mode but this will give you an idea of how great it will be! http://www.artcardauctions.com/index.php

Well, I think that's about it for now except that I am painting some new stuff which I hope will be finished by next week. Some larger works that I am really pleased with at this point. *smile*

Well, I have been busy painting ACEO's and they are selling great so far! I decided to list a couple of larger things too and one has a bid. The other one I just listed today. It's an oil landscape titled "Early Summer, Late Afternoon".

To view all my auctions.

Other than being tired, I am doing really well. Weather here is warm but cloudy with storms predicted sometime today or tonight. Lots of nice cloud formations to look at.

Current Mood: tired

This past week has been really kind of weird.  First I got this little tickle in my throat which turned into a massive headache, which then became ears killing me.  Then, I couldn't hear with all the crap in my head, coughing, hacking, spitting...you know, all that wonderful stuff that comes with coming down with some sort of cold type thing.  My room mate got it too with the only difference being that he isn't coughing as much - probably coz I smoke more than he does.  So, anyway, here we both are feeling pretty lousy and then it was like all these weird things started happening all around us.  Noise.  It was like everyone in our neighborhood decided to be as loud as they possibly could be with yelling, cars drag racing down our street, kids everywhere with whistles blowing.  Then, my computer started messing up and wouldn't boot.  I tried everything to get it to boot up and it wouldn't work.  I ended up having to format it ...grrrrrrrr.

Vaughn and I just kind of finally looked at each other day before yesterday and laughed and decided that we would just join in with all the ruckus going on and make noise too.  The t.v. got turned waaaaaay up, we opened the doors and started talking very loudly to each other from opposite ends of the place.  Basically we just made as much noise as we could and stopped resisting the fact that it was unpleasant.  After about 30 minutes of that it all of a sudden stopped.  I mean like every noise that had been going on for the past week just completely stopped and it was as quiet as it gets right before a tornado comes.  We looked at each other and just smiled.  See, we have this belief of "what you resist, persists" and we feel that by our joining in with the noise makers we had stopped resisting it.  Once we did that, it stopped persisting.  Anyway, we found that to be kind of weird and cool all at the same time.

So yesterday, things started to calm down and get back to normal.  Now instead of sitting here getting my computer back up and running, I can get back to my painting.  Fortunately I had a couple of my Rebecca series cards painted ahead of time so that at least worked well.  I have 2 more to do to complete the series and I have to get them done by tomorrow so I can list them to end on Sunday.

Well, that's what has been going on in my little world.  Oh yeah, I went to the eye doctor yesterday and found out I have this little basil cell carcenoma (have no idea if any of that is spelled right), or in other words, a little cancer growing in the corner of my eye.  Now I have to go to a plastic surgeon to have it removed.  Yippee...

Current Mood: weird
Current Music: Birds singing and a gentle breeze blowing

I've been bitten by the bug to make these eensy tinesy little pieces of art on 2 1/2 X 3 1/2 inch cards! I didn't think I would keep doing them after really screwing up 5 of them - well, they looked just sucky to me anyway. However, I decided to keep on working at it because by the time I got finished with the 5th card, I realized it was getting easier. So, one thing led to another and I now have a series going of one character, Rebecca, and I must say they have been a lot of fun to create! Here's the first one called Finding Zen and has already sold.

The second one in the series along with the 3rd are still up for bidding at Ebay...here's a preview of them

To read more about this character and bid, you can click HERE

There will be a total of 9 in this series so keep looking for more to be posted at Ebay! Thanks for looking!

Current Mood: good
Current Music: The sound of my washer and dryer

Well, it's Nibblefest contest week and with the theme being Alice in Wonderland, I finally came up with something.

Alice in Wonderland

A new ACEO card created today called Finding Zen

All these are for sale HERE

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Current Mood: hopeful