The Design Style Guide fabulous Holiday Giveaway Event

   The Design Style Guide fabulous Holiday Giveaway Event

There are 12 very talented sponsors and 12 awesome, beautiful prizes. Talk about the 12 days of Christmas!
To enter this fantastic giveaway – all you need to do is go to the Design Style Guide website and post a link to one item you liked in your comment here. One post about the listing you chose and you are entered into the drawing!!!
  The first prize is one of Kenna Fosters's wonderful photograghs and that will be in just a few days. Each day until Dec. 24 a brand new winner will be chosen.
   Now this is the spirit of giving and showcases some of the many talented artists and designers of Design Style Guide.

Message From Miami

Miami says, "Hurry, our spring sale ends today!"

Yes, my spokes horse is at it again. She must really want those new shoes.

The sale is at our Etsy shop Lancaster Art

http://www.etsy.com/your_shop.php

Corky is continuing to improve daily after getting kicked in the head a week ago. I got Tonka neutered this week and he is now four and a half months old and forty pounds. After four trips to the vet in the last week and four portraits, whew, am I tired.

New Painting Tepee on the Hill

Tepee on the Hill
4” x 9” x 1 ½” Acrylic

$45
shipping $9.

I've just listed this painting in my Etsy shop Lancasterart. Please visit it to see more of my art.

http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=6068156

The tepee sits on a hill on a perfect spring evening. This small painting, an acrylic landscape study depicts the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas and a traditional Native American tepee. The art is painted in a loose impressionistic style in soft yellow, pale green and sky blue with just a touch of purple in a dark cloud. Could it be another spring shower moving through?

This gallery wrap canvas can be used as wall art or to sit on a shelf or for a touch of spring on your office desk. Tepee on the hill will arrive ready to hang. The 1 ½” deep canvas have the edges painted black.

This is the quick sketch I did sitting out beside the tepee on a beautiful evening between the almost constant spring showers we have been getting. I don't know if you can see the notes on the underpaintng colors I added to the sketch. The colors this time of year are so pretty. The hills and fields are 27 colors of green.

Painting My Tepee

I have spent the last week painting my tepee. It has been a huge undertaking. I had no idea it would take so much time and paint. It was tricky finding a dry enough time and a poop-free zone to spread it out. Gosh it looks huge. See the tiny little horses. I used a tent stake, string and a charcoal pencil to draw the circular bands on the tipi. I had to work quickly before the chickens came to help with the decoration.

Back in the studio I had more helpers. I spread a section on my table and painted it using watered down Golden Liquid Acrylics. When I painted the liner I could use painters tape on the straight edges, but this was all at so much of a curve I free handed it. The top section is a gold ochre followed by suns which are traditional for Kiowa tepee's. I used a stamp for this I bought on clearance. The next small band is metallic copper.

Then there are the hummingbirds, lots and lots of them. My Indian name is Little Hummingbird.

The blue row is phases of the moon. The bottom row is wolf tracks. In between will go the horses which will be 3'x4'. I will do them after the tepee is up.

The poles are 24' long and there are 17 of them. I am still working on sanding and sealing them in between spring rains.

The plan is to have it up by mid April. I am so excited!

White Flight

We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting.

Kahlil Gibran

White dragonfly soars across a neutral grey textured background.

One inch deep gallery wrap canvas 6”x6” painted deep gray, ready to hang or set on a shelf. Finished with protective gloss varnish and signed in the lower left.

SOLD

http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=6068156

Tonka Wins Reward

I named my pup Tanka, Souix for great and today he was. I was washing out the stock trailer on this fine spring day. Dad was out enjoying the sun in his electric wheelchair. I went to turn the water off and noticed something in Tanka's mouth. The last time this happened I ended up prying a dead bird out off his piranha teeth. But this time it was money!

Dad had dropped his money clip out of his pocket and Tanka had found it. It would have been better if he had brought it to me. We'll have to work on that.

New Rule: From now on any money I pry out of my critter's mouths is mine.

Red Mountain

There are three in the fading light

Looking at the red mountain

Waiting for answers

6"x6" gallery wrap canvas

edges painted neutral gray

$30

SOLD

member of Design Style Guide

Waiting For My New Toys and Paintings on Canvas Paper

I ordered a massive amount of art supplies from dickblick.com and turned around and busted the handle off my canvas pliers the very next day. I had to place another order with more shipping charges.

The canvas pliers were at least 25 years old. I was beginning to think they would last forever,but I guess not.

I am waiting for all my new toys to arrive and not all that patiently. I should be working on my website but painting is so much more fun.

I have pulled out some canvas paper I bought at Hobby Lobby on clearance. The first few paintings I did on this went straight into the wood stove . It is not like painting on canvas or paper. It seemed to suck the moisture out of the paint. Wetting the surface didn't work either. I started adding some slow dry medium to the paint and things started going much better.

Blue Rider is a study for the Spirit Horse series. I really like the feel of this 9x12 study. I hope it will translate into a bigger painting. I'll have this one posted for sale soon, but y'all get to see it here first.

Beach Bliss is a small festive painting in aqua. It is for sale for only $25 in my etsy shop lancasterart http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=21357834

Beach Bliss is from the same sketch as a painting I did called Jubilee. When I took Jubilee to a gallery, the owner just hated it. He took it anyway and sold it that week. I started trying to choose work for his gallery that I thought he would not like. The paintings he likes he NEVER sells. This new strategy worked very well and I increased my sales dramatically. Go figure.