"Orb Fairy" - Acrylic Diptych On Gallery Canvas

"Orb Fairy" an acrylic diptych, is the latest piece of art to come out of my studio and my first piece of fairy art in a very long time. I really enjoyed the experience so much that I plan on creating more fairies in the future.

If you read my last post, this was the piece that I mentioned was supposed to be a garden sculpture painting. I had wanted to do a series of pieces with different garden sculptures and also fairies but had decided on sculptures first. Once again the canvas spoke to me when I was creating this painting and I realized once the sky and ground were painted, they looked too mystical and magical to not be a fairy painting so.....here we are, my first fairy in quite a while. I then had to decide what kind of fairy I was creating and focused in on glowing , floating orbs of light, some even radiating from the ends of her hair and suddenly, Orb Fairy was born.

I hope you like "Orb Fairy" as much as I enjoyed painting it.

"Epiphany" - Abstract Acrylic Triptych

Recently I've had the great desire to start painting abstracts and "Epiphany" was my first completed piece. Sometimes you can really surprise yourself with what interests you as well as the new directions creativity can take if you just let yourself run wild. I'm really having so much fun with abstracts that I'm currently working on my 3rd one right now. Anything is possible if you just open your mind to new ideas.

This painting measures: 12" h x 21" w x 1 1/2" d and is currently at Celebrations Gallery:

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Harbinger Of Spring Acrylic Painting

First of all I want to thank everyone for the well wishes for little Dudley. He has recovered from his Vestibular Disease and is back to his old self again. In his mind he is probably ahead of the game because he got two new talking toys out of the deal.

I've been working on 3 new canvases, 2 tree scapes and this smaller multi-canvas painting, "Harbinger Of Spring" which was inspired by some beautiful tulips I saw at the spring bulb show at the Botanical garden a couple of years ago.

Each canvas panel measures 8" square for a total of 16" h x 8" w x 1/1/2" deep.

This painting will soon be listed in my shop at: www.artfulcreations.etsy.com Back I go to work on my tree scapes.....

"Garden Visitor" - A Contemporary Bluebird Garden-Scape

I just completed "Garden Visitor" a contemporary bluebird garden-scape. This was the painting I had to dust off and just finish already..... It was inspired by my own collection of garden Iris.

Painted on 3, 1 1/2" deep gallery canvases, this piece measures 6" x 8" for each individual canvas and a total of 18" h x 8" w. Available at my ETSY shop: www.artfulcreations.etsy.com The next piece I'm in the middle of painting right now is called "Stargazing", it is a very large canvas, with a night time scene......the rest I'm afraid, will have to be a bit of a surprise until it is fully completed.

Spheres Of Light

A brand new year.....but an older painting, well, not old but this multi panel acrylic painting was my last of '09.

"Spheres Of Light" is a dreamy and colorful contemporary tree-scape painted on 2 14" x 18", 1 1/2" deep gallery canvases. The total size is a large 18" h x 28" w.

High up in the treetops, spheres of colorful bright light are growing from the branches to produce a lovely glow in the sky.

The sides are painted a sleek black to go with any interior.

I hope you've enjoyed "Spheres Of Light" and that the colorful sky brings you cheer and light on a winter's day. www.artfulcreations.etsy.com Happy New Year!!!!

Among The Branches.....

I finished this set of paintings after I got back from my trip to Mohonk.... I wanted Among The Branches to be a piece with earthy tones and lots of different looking textures.

It is amazing all the textures and designs you can create with lots of fun and unexpected tools. For instance, my husband's old shirt made its way out of the basement again to create the swirled blue and burnt sienna background.

I have to admit that instead of going for a clean piece of shirt, I reached for the paint encrusted piece I saved from last time. It was mostly stiff as a board but somehow it worked beautifully to help me create the background.

Luckily we have many more of these old and torn shirts in the basement as we like to use them to wash the car and any other wet and messy chores that come along. Anyway, a few cut pieces of shirts will not be missed but my paintings sure enjoy and benefit from them.

This painting is available on my ETSY site at: www.artfulcreations.etsy.com

A Dark Forest....

A new painting just emerged from my Studio ...... "Dark Forest".

I can see now why artists love to paint tree-scapes, they are quite zen and the possibilities for how they are painted and structured are simply endless.

The middle panel is 11" x 14" and the side canvases are 6" x 8"....put together it all measures 14"h x 23" w. The background is very textural and I had a lot of fun painting it. Would you believe it was painted using pieces of one of my husbands' old shirts??

I was at a crafts fair this past weekend and while eating our lunch under a shady spot, Chris and I got to see a bird handler, he had hawks and owls and other wild and exotic birds. Just seeing him gave me so many ideas for future nature paintings. That just goes to show that inspiration can come from just about anywhere and when you least expect it. "Dark Forest" is now in my ETSY shop:

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Fluttering Out Of My Studio.......

"Flutter" has just lifted its wings and flown from my studio. I love watching Hummingbirds in my garden each year, they seem especially drawn to my Cascade Geraniums, which I have hanging right outside my back door.

These tiny, quick moving and very graceful birds are amazing to watch and I knew I wanted to create a painting to capture the delicacy of their movements.

Flutter is a contemporary garden-scape painted on 1 1/2" deep gallery wrapped canvas.

Each canvas panel measures 6" x 8" for a total size of 8" h x 18" w. I decided to go with a black background to highlight the white/gray flowers and the Hummingbird in its full color, for what I hope lends itself to a contemporary feel.

I hope perhaps that this painting might inspire everyone to look for Hummingbirds in their own garden each year. Enjoy!!!! This acrylic painting is available in my ETSY shop:

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