I have a glowingly colorful new kitty fairy to show you:
ACEO- CLIMBING CHERRIES
2.5x3.5” Watercolor on 140lb hot press watercolor paper.
A feisty little tabby fairy cat is climbing atop bunches of glowing red cherries, not at all worried that she might fall.
And, I have some new prints up on my website! As some of you now know, I have decided to close the Ebay print store in favor of sanity :) and focusing my creative energies more effectively -- so I am concentrating my prints and Buy-It-Now originals on my website instead. I will now be updating new prints there quite often; there are a huge amount of new prints there now, including all of the kitties. See them HERE! And, of course I will continue to have auctions for originals on Ebay as before! If you win an Ebay auction of mine and also wanted to buy prints with combined shipping, just let me know. I'll be happy to accomodate. :)
Now, on to the very latest prints:
DAINTY MISS 5X7 & ACEO PRINTS
PALE BEAUTY 5X7 & ACEO PRINTS
SOFT 5X7 & ACEO PRINTS
Thanks so much for looking!
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Sorry for the repeat of the website update for those who have read it before :).... had to make an "official" announcement.
So! I've been mostly painting today and naught else. I'm doing the next couple of installments in the new Field Mouse Orchestra series. Oh yes, and remember my art tantrum a few days ago? I think I'm getting the hang of one of the techniques that was giving me so much trouble then. In "Climbing Cherries", no less -- I was trying to learn underpainting so that colors glow more. I really like how those cherries turned out!! And the leaves! Maybe if I tackle one thing at a time I can get them down better. I also wanted to do more with light/shadow, but all in due time I guess.
On LibriVox.org I've been listening to Five Little Peppers and How They Grew by Margaret Sidney. I have always loved that book. My grandma has it at her house and I've read it a couple of times whilst staying there. It's so sweet. I love stories of simpler times like that. Maybe one of these days I'll volunteer to record a book or part of one at LibriVox... I'm not sure how grand my reading voice would be ;) but it sounds like fun. And some recordings are even made into audio dramas, especially the plays. Can I tell you all how much I've always thought it would be splendid to be a voice actor!! Except I'd probably be more on the ridiculous side, as I like to make funny voices. My brother Trav is even better at it than I am. We have numerous amounts of our own little homemade "radio dramas" to prove it, haha. I'm sure I've said this before.
I want to make cookies, but there is no shortening. Blah.