Been busy & "Songbird Solo."

Whew! It's been busy.

I just finished up the 4 office
paintings (I'll upload them soon), finalized some of my jungle animals & submitted them to a company for consideration on their next project, and I am getting ready for my first art class I'm teaching for adults tomorrow morning...yikes!

The painting here is called "Songbird Solo" and is available on ETSY.com. It is done on paper using acrylic and pencil.

Take care, everyone!

Custom Art for a business...

Just wanted to show you what I have going on in the studio...aka my kitchen island!

These paintings (plus a larger one I haven't started) are for a practice that offers
children and young adults Speech Therapy, Occupational Therapy, and Physical Therapy.
A woman who works there was visiting the elementary school my Mom works at and noticed the paintings I did her office. She said these are just what she was looking for. I'm so glad she found me :)

Fall Leaves in Water

Yes, these are fall leaves soaking in my corning ware dish! I did this to preserve the colors as much as possible so I could use them in my artwork somehow.

My neighborhood has no trees so I picked these leaves up at my kids preschool. It is located in a college town with beautiful old homes and tons of gorgeous trees. I just love the fall and its colors and wanted to capture them. My last two attempts to bring leaves home resulted in them drying out as they were left in the car. These were starting to dry so I wanted to try to save them. I will share the art with you when I am finished :) Take care!

The Green Chair painting

This is a painting I did back in college in Charleston, SC. It was just before spring break when I found out that we were not allowed to stay in our dorms. My home was in NJ and I didn't have a car to drive home, or money for a train ticket, and couldn't find someone to carpool with. Thankfully, friends of mine lent me their apartment downtown. I had it all to myself!

The weather was unusually cold and rainy. All I had with me were shorts and t's! I definitely should have checked the weather. The apartment was freezing because I couldn't locate the thermostat in the 100+ year old house. Even the neighbors who live in similar homes couldn't find it. Since I pretty much had to stay in the house, I worked on a painting of the family room. They had this fun green chair and great "bowl" table. The perspectives are off but it definitely wasn't meant to be perfect. I was sad that I was pretty much alone (friends were visiting family) and wished I could have seen mine but also happy to have privacy and my paints with me on that cold spring break :)

Almost finished BD card...

Last week I submitted some Birthday and Get Well card
designs to a card company. I really wanted to submit this elephant and mice illustration as well but thought it needed some more shadowing...and tusks!