ACEO: Woven Moments

ACEO: Woven Moments is now for sale through my Etsy shop.

This format continues to be a way for me to enjoy stolen moments of time to continue my work despite my busy schedule. Now, besides my bakery/cafe,I am about to build & open an independent cinema . Time to paint has become precious and that was what inspired this textural piece.

On A Clear Day

There are days when my palette just sings clear & loudly with pure color. How often an artist adds just one last brush stroke and it muddies the piece. Not here! " On a Clear Day" presents bright blues, clear purples,rich orange and reds and a touch of green to create a rainbow that carries you into this miniature landscape. An original watercolor ACEO ( Artist Collection and Edition Original), this painting is signed and dated on the back and mounted on a coordinating colored mat board format of 2.5"H x 3.5" W, enclosed in acetate envelope it is available for purchase from my Etsy Shop

Etsy Shop Reopened!

After one year away from my Etsy Shop,I have reopened it with a listing of 4 ACEOs.

In the past I have sold a number of small format pieces from this site. Since opening my bakery/cafe my painting time has been limited and the ACEO format has allowed me to quickly paint with my watercolors in small moments stolen away on weekends or evenings. I still prefer to sell my larger work from my web site and my prints from FineArtAmerica. I invite you to visit these sites, comment or make a purchase. It simply feels good to be painting again.

Holiday Gift Ideas

T'is the season.........

If you click on over to my web site , you'll view many of the original watercolor/collage paintings that are available as gifts for this holiday season.

Experience a random act of culture: buy a painting!

Remember many of these works can be purchased as prints on paper, canvas or as a greeting card by visiting my FineArtAmerica site and customizing your selection.

Pocket Art

I like to refer to the ACEO format ( 2.5" x 3.5" ) as "pocket art". As a grandmother I proudly carry around the grandbabies photos...but how many of my fellow artists "pocket" their paintings? It certainly makes more of an impression than flipping out the ol' business card! My watercolor/ collage techniques are right there to see & feel with my potential customer.

"Buds" my newest ACEO featured at left is currently available for purchase through my web site

I find myself with a day off from bakery/cafe. I'm treating myself to some painting time today + I hope to revisit some of my art marketing information that I've neglected too long during this past year because of the bakery. These past few years while working daily at my painting I'd developed quite an extensive marketing plan that encompassed a number of sites where my work was available. Now I find after working 12 hour + days at the bakery my available time to market on the internet or @ shows is limited. How to best use this limited time and effort is now the question I face for the coming year. Do I simply keep what I had ? Do I scale it down & concentrate on 1 or 2 sites ? Which is most cost effective? How do I reestablish my presence after being out of sight this past year? hmmmmmm... back to the drawing board.

The painting "Sugar Pines" at left is currently available as a print/greeting card . This makes a wonderful holiday card & currently is available at a 15% discount for a limited time only.

ACEO : Blue Notes

Moments stolen in this past week,sneaking in a few brush strokes created this new ACEO.

If you are new to this format, let me explain.

Artist trading cards (ATC) are miniature pieces of art that are traded around the world. When these pieces of art are offered for sale, it is referred to as an ACEO: Art Card Editions & Originals. The only criteria is that the dimensions of the card be 2.5" x 3.5".

A trade mark of my work is that the image is adhered to a complimentary colored mat board presenting the image as a finished piece measuring 2.5" x 3.5". This work is currently available for purchase from my web site.