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moonlight mavens
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the new *face* of the enchanted easel!
and...wait for it, wait for it....the new website is done too! I'm a girl on a mission! :)
so, now the back story for this painting (because isn't there always one.)...
well, i knew i wanted something different...something to represent the new style i seem to have evolved into with the start of 2014. i also knew i didn't want an easel in the image, knowing of course that this would be the new front page of the website.
so...i had to include my stuffed elephant, maggie into the design because she is my partner is creative crime, after all. couple that with the fact that i am an insomniac and do my best work after midnight (don't all of us artists?!) and the fact that i'm obsessed with chris martin and the coldplay song "yellow" ("look at the stars, look how they shine for you....i drew a line, i drew a line for you and all the things you do, and it was all yellow") well, there it is.
a little coldplay, a little insomnia, a little nicole and a little maggie, of course...and so "moonlight mavens" was born. from my head to the sketchbook to the finished painting.
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and because this song was such an inspiration to me....
it just doesn't get any better than this...or him.
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a peek at "moonlight mavens"
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just a glimpse at the new *face* of the enchanted easel. this business is my proverbial *baby*. I've built it all by myself and have done most of the legwork after not one, not two, but THREE cervical spine surgeries in the last four years. 'cause that's just how i roll. ;)
I've had the painting done for over a week but i'm doing my best to re-build a new website hosted by squarespace...which, by the way, i HIGHLY recommend. i didn't think such wonderful and cooperative corporations existed anymore. they are fantastic. it's just a matter of getting acquainted with the new site and how it works as well as adding watermarks and shrinking images for the web....mundane stuff like that. let's just say, i would rather be painting. but then again, what else is new?!
hoping to be done by the end of this coming week. if not sooner....*fingers crossed on that one* ;)
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"moonlight mavens"
©the enchanted easel 2014 |
well, my little elephant, maggie and i surely do. ;)
"monnlight mavens", the new *face* of the enchanted easel. painting finished, scanned and ready to post.
next up? website re-do. (teeth grinding just typing that...)
{p.s. and btw, maggie is really real. sleep with her every single night.....for the last 14 years. :)}
now THIS is pure talent...;)
an illustration i did last year for the magazine Stories for Children. entitled "teamwork". i thought it was fitting for this week's IF theme.
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I went looking through my archives to see if I had an appropriate image to use for today.
I did this painting five years ago when I rented a musty old room in someone's house as my first studio. I wanted to paint a nest, but then I thought about a little sparrow bringing an 'offering' to my painting because he thought the nest was real! Talk about self-flattery!
Anyway, five years later I see a lot wrong with the painting. Still, someone in Southern California is enjoying it as part of their bird art collection.
Apologies to those of you who may have already seen this. I haven't had a whole lot of time to do new stuff lately. I'm working on changing that though ;)
Happy Animal and nesting Wednesday!
I think this may be the most precious thing i've seen in a long time...
i totally agree with cori. whatever you think is wrong with this painting isn't! it is charming and precious and so very creative.
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I love this. I think we are our own worst critics. This looks great.
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i totally agree with cori. this is charming, precious, creative.
whatever you think is wrong with it isn't...
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OH, I so love this. It is so beautiful and peaceful at the same time. Great work
Lo, it looks perfectly lovely to my eyes....
Your work always brightens my heart and brings joy.
Love,
♥ Robin ♥
Poor confused bird. I'm sure the person who owns it now is happy to have it and does not see any imperfections. I sure don't.
I think this picture is wonderful. I am glad you showed it again as I have never seen it before. It looks like the "blues" come over you ever so often. ;) HAW.
I have seen it and I still love it! Thanks for bringing it back.
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He's LOVELY lo,,,,just wonderful
very sweet so realistic looking too.
Beautifully done. :)
:) well I looked at this and went away, then came back and clicked on it and had a lovely surprise, another sideways twist :) Glad I came back
I love to see your "old "work since I haven seen all yet!But even though I could just see it over and over again!
There is nothing wrong with this one , but I know that feeling your art and techniques have grown over the years and that is what you see probably.
To me it is perfect just as the bird sees it!
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this is so cute and evocative of giving...
Funny, dogs used to bark at photos we had framed on our waiting room wall when I worked at a mixed practice...but cats never hiss at the cat prints we have here at the cat hospital.
Though I did have a kitty that hissed at a tole painted cat that was painted like a cat she didn't like...