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1. T is for Constellation

By: Patrick Girouard, on 7/1/2016
Blog: drawboy's cigar box (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags: constellation, tooth brush, tooth paste, Drawboy, illustration, illustration friday, space, fly, stars, sky, teeth, wings, tooth fairy, T, Patrick Girouard, Add a tag

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2. Soar

By: Patrick Girouard, on 12/17/2015
Blog: drawboy's cigar box (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags: illustration friday, fly, soar, umbrella, box, tarzan, Patrick Girouard, Drawboy, Add a tag

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3. Melt

By: Patrick Girouard, on 5/22/2015
Blog: drawboy's cigar box (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags: Patrick Girouard, melt, Profile Picture Project, Drawboy, hawaiian shirt, penguins, illustration friday, fantasy, snow, fly, reflection, Add a tag

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4. Taking Flight

By: Sara Burrier, on 1/9/2015
Blog: warrior princess dream (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags: artist, Jesus, Fly, Dream, Kelly Rae Roberts, Growth, Taking Flight, Life Changes, Creative Business, sara burrier, sara b illustration, Add a tag

For years I have felt clipped down.

Every time I jump to fly I get cut down by my circumstances and emotions.
I have allowed them control of my life...ALL aspects of my life. As an artist this gives me a lot of substance to work with, but it also holds me back. Way back.

I prelude this post with that because I want you to understand where I'm coming from. As a wife to an amazing man (they're rare and I was blessed with one!); a mother to a baby girl who loves to make you laugh and smiles so bright; a homemaker with a solid, strong house we just can't believe is ours; a gift that I truly just adore, drawing truly is my soul; but I've been depressed, unhappy, at my ropes end over and over again, and I'm beyond tired.

I have talked about this before in past posts, it's not a secret that I keep, and I willingly share it because I know I AM NOT ALONE. Especially as a woman. We all suffer greatly with the multitude of responsibilities gifted to us. And I use the word gifted, because I now remind myself "I GET to be his wife, I GET to be her mom, I GET to do what I love for a living!". Wow, amen to that!

Back to what I'm saying...
my point is I'm done trying. I'm finished. Ta ta, bye bye, no more. It's over.

What better time to say that than the beginning of a new year! Here are some highlights of "wow" moments for me about this year:

15 years ago I graduated high school.
I am 33 this year, the same age Jesus was when he sacrificed his life for mine.
My daughter turns one January 28th.
My husband has been supporting us for 5 years.

I am at a place where I know now is the time to just stop. Stop trying to take control, stop making excuses, stop thinking so darn hard about what to do, and instead DO IT. Commit to my life.

Commit to my life.

I want to fly. I realized after years and years, the truth behind why I paint fairies, angels, and mermaids (thank you Kelly for helping me get there). It's because they are free, or at least symbolize freedom. For a mermaid there is no ground and sky, they roam all of it. For a fairy there is not ground or sky untouched, they grace all of it. Angels can transcend time and realms between earth and heaven. Freedom. Flight. I'm inspired and take a deep breath. Amazing.

Commitment.

I purchased the abilities to have a shop on my website, and the whole site will be changing in the next couple of months. I am so excited to see the support from you, my followers, on Etsy, but to be honest the fees are starting to wear at the income I need to bring in for our family. Plus I will be able to offer so much more on my site, including my book, coloring book, and more. I can't wait!

I also purchased my first e-book, Flying Lessons, by Kelly Rae Roberts. I must say, I'm floored by how spot on she is as a teacher and coach. She's very airy, in depth, and in tuned with her creative spirit. I had mentioned her in the past ( read Life Inspired post here ), and how she inspires me....oh buddy does she inspire me. Her words, colors, textures, and how she shares being a seeker of Joy, filled with light, hope, and possibilities. As an artist I truly believe there are those of us who are called to be artisans of light. I KNOW I am one of them. I KNOW who I want to be, deep down inside, just waiting for the permission to FLY.

Her e-book not only helps the business end of things (which she lays it all down and hides no detail from you), she goes deep into facing your fears, finding your inspiration, your passion, your quiet whispering voice just waiting to come out. And then asks you to commit to your creative business. Merging both. Being both. Living with the joy it brings. Loving YOU.

Loving me as ME.

My spiritual path has started this year with a bang of AH HA, it's so much more than the e-book. We found a new church home we are so at peace with, the new messages being given, new tools handed to me, and renewed, meaningful relationships. It's all falling together amongst chaos, and I give all of the credit to Jesus. It's scary to say that in the open because I know what is attached to that in so many ways, on so many levels, but as a former practicing witch, spiritually seeking wanderer, and a highly curious person, it is by his grace I am where I am today. I have to squint to stay focused, but I'm committed. Committed to him and my life.

There is so much more for my business, and to share. Changes are coming visually for the blog (it will most likely be moving) and website, my approach, and you may even see just a tad bit of change in how I paint. Look for it, and let me know what you think. I hope you're just as excited as I am.
Happy New Year everyone!

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5. Jet crj-700 Business Card Sculpture

By: Petrina Case, on 12/1/2014
Blog: Paper Pop-Ups (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags: fly, jet, plane, cut paper, flying, model, mini, pilot, paper engineer, petrina case, business card sculpture, papier, paper crafter, glass dome, jetliner, wood base, fly boy, airplanae, crj700, Add a tag

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6. Lenny's Baby picture

By: Laura Zarrin, on 9/23/2014
Blog: Creative Whimsies (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags: sketch, fly, insect, children's book illustration, Add a tag

Sometimes a character shows up with his own story to tell. Lenny must have one, because he won't leave me alone. I think he just loves to share.

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7. Lenny the Collector

By: Laura Zarrin, on 9/20/2014
Blog: Creative Whimsies (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags: sketch, fly, children's illustration, collection, insect, Add a tag

I've had this slightly twisted idea in my head for a week, so I decided to sketch it up. This is what deadlines do to me, apparently.

This is Lenny the Fly. He collects things. Lots of things. He's very excited to show you his new Human Collection. He is especially pleased with his most recent addition, The Plumber, complete with plumbers crack. You're welcome ;-)

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8. Amityville Horror

By: sketched out, on 8/30/2014
Blog: sketched out (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags: illustration, drawing, humor, sketch, stuff, fly, children's illustration, sketchbook, sketching, flies, fly swatter, Amityville Horror, housefly, This House is Clean, Add a tag

At this time, every year our house becomes housefly central for a day or two and is affectionately referred to by my husband, Tom and myself as “Amityville Horror”. Those who have seen the movie will know what I’m referring to. If you don’t know what I mean, well, Rod Steiger plays this priest, he’s in this haunted house and he gets attacked by flies and, well you really need to check this out, man.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adFRKm9ezw4

But, I digress.

So, while attempting to prepare a meal today, several flies circled my head in this dreadful holding pattern, while many more of their creepy little comrades paced shamelessly across the cutting board with their nasty little bug feet. At least 50 or A MILLION flies crawled, flitted or buzzed over every inch of our kitchen. One poor unfortunate got himself stuck in the butter.

Gross! That does it!

We take up arms. Flyswatters and rolled up newspapers are picked up and waved wildly at the air in hopes of sending the tiny, vile vermin back from whence they came. The wild waving and syncopated swatting, followed by loud intermittent thwaps and kersplats, predictably sends our two kitties vaulting out of kitchen and into farther reaches of the house, each heading for their own piece of furniture to hide under and wait for saner times. Clearly the humans, usually such pacifists, have gone to a deep, dark place.

The carnage can go on for hours, sometimes days. But eventually this slaughter, the stuff of horror films, ends as abruptly as it began. Feeling spent, yet flush with cathartic relief, we turn to each other, blow the fly guts off our swatters and announce…

“This house is clean.”

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9. Bugs. Bugs. Bugs.

By: Chuck Dillon, on 1/25/2013
Blog: blog 30 x 30 - Chuck Dillon's blog. (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags: pillbug, bugs, praying mantis, cricket, fly, ants, ladybug, bee, dung beetles, Add a tag

And the strongest ladybug on earth.

I drew this on a scrap piece of paper while I was making dinner over the past two nights. They aren't the most accurate bugs but some are recognizable, such as the dung beetles holding out on the ball of poo at the bottom. All bugs like poo, right? For the sake of this sketch they all do, okay? Good.

Click here for a larger view. This blogger preview thing is terrible for artwork. Hear that blogger? Fix it.

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10. Friday Milk

By: Jane Mack, on 10/25/2012
Blog: Saipan Writer (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags: fly, Governor Benigno R. Fitial, flattery, spider, corruption, political cartoon, party politics, new republicans, Add a tag

It's just past midnight and pouring down rain.

I have been trying to figure out how our Governor continues to lure voters to his side. This image just popped into my head. It is, of course, a twist on the poem-step into my parlour, said the the spider to the fly. Although the fly resists many advances, in the end, he gives in to flattery when the spider speaks of his mirror and how good the fly will appear if he looks into it. Politics in the CNMI is sort of like that. Promises of better times, how good people will see things, the lure of what they want to hear and believe. Flattery (and other forms of corruption) are at the core of what is happening here now. Unless and until we change it...

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11. Just floating around and around

By: baggelboy, on 9/22/2012
Blog: Sugar Frosted Goodness (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags: fly, float, baggelboy, Add a tag

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12. Lilly and Bunny go to the Fair!

By: Katie Cusack, on 8/21/2012
Blog: Scribble Chicken! Art and Other Fun Stuff (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags: illustrator, Illustration, picture book, fun, pet, picture, parenting, fly, play, plane, rabbit, playing, park, line art, horse, living, toy, social, line, ride, rider, stuffed toy, Add a tag

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13. Illustration Friday: “Return”

By: Paula Becker, on 4/3/2012
Blog: Whateverings (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags: going south, winter, Illustration Friday, mexico, fly, florida, paula j. becker, paula becker, geese, return, ducks, flying, north, Cartoons & Comics, mallard, Add a tag

An Illustration Friday submission for the word “return”. Duck is all nice and tanned from his stay in the sunny south!

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14. Illustration Friday: “Beginner”

By: Paula Becker, on 5/11/2011
Blog: Whateverings (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags: birds, Illustration Friday, cartoon, comic, fly, paula becker, Cartoons & Comics, beginner, Add a tag

A real quickie for Illustration Friday.

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15. ILLUSTRATION FRIDAY ~ PERSPECTIVE

By: Ginger Nielson, on 2/26/2010
Blog: Ginger Pixels (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags: nature, fly, Ginger Nielson, perspective, trout, Add a tag

Taking a page or two from My African Bedtime Rhymes, by Brettell Hone, published by Shamwari Publishing, the first illustration shows a fly resting on the water.

Soon to be chased by two young trout he finds a safer resting place above.

©Ginger Nielson

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Krista said, on 2/26/2010 8:08:00 AM

Wow, Ginger, who knew a fly could be so beautiful! Lovely color and movement, too!

Connie said, on 2/26/2010 8:11:00 AM

His resting place in the tree offers a safer and better perspective! Amazing colour.

k.h.whitaker said, on 2/26/2010 8:14:00 AM

very nice, he is a pretty fly

Vanessa Brantley Newton said, on 2/26/2010 9:00:00 AM

This is beautiful!! Oh my goodness look at al the beautiful detail!! Great work Ginger. It's fantastic work.
Yes Dear heart we are snowed in and now they have just declared a state of emergency for the whole state! my daughter of course is HAPPY!!! We will be digging out for days. Pray! he he he he! Smart moving out of Jersey. You must have seen this coming! LOL!!!
Have a wonderful day my friend.

Jack Foster said, on 2/26/2010 9:35:00 AM

Wow Ginger! The detail on that fly is fantastic. The texture and the colors are so perfect! You simply amaze me how you can take a thing like a fly and turn it into a wonderful work of art. Love your "perspective." (the artwork and your outlook on life :o)

Jared said, on 2/26/2010 10:02:00 AM

Amazingly gorgeous fly Ginger, the detail is wonderful!

Teri C said, on 2/26/2010 10:05:00 AM

Now THAT is a perspective! Beautifully illustrated!

theartofpuro said, on 2/26/2010 10:30:00 AM

Great illustration!This is a perspective:)

cally jane studio said, on 2/26/2010 10:59:00 AM

Wow! Fab work!

Diana Evans said, on 2/26/2010 11:27:00 AM

oh wow wow and wow!!! this is fantastic Ginger!!!

Dayle's Painted Diary-Dayle Dodwell said, on 2/26/2010 12:53:00 PM

Beautiful amazing work.

. justin segal said, on 2/26/2010 2:15:00 PM

beautiful, love the close-up — and the colors just make my eyes glow!

Andrew Finnie said, on 2/26/2010 4:13:00 PM

Hya Ginger, there's a wonderful luminous glow happening with these two, Bonnard used a similar luminous green in some shadows. Must write that in my notebook! Thanks for sharing this work.

INDIGENE said, on 2/27/2010 12:09:00 AM

Hmm...WOWEE! I love the movement and colors...Wowee again! :)

Vicki Smith said, on 2/27/2010 6:19:00 AM

Such beautiful detail and colors!

thedoodlegirl said, on 2/27/2010 6:36:00 PM

Truly amazing work. You are so good at what you do!!! I just love the snow tester down below, too! Ginger, you are so very talented!

ValGalArt said, on 2/28/2010 8:21:00 AM

WOW! the details on the fly's face are stunning! The close up and details make this fly pop against the beautiful background that gives a faraway land perspective! Love this Ginger :)

NANCY LEFKO said, on 3/1/2010 2:34:00 PM

love it !! as does Brian :)

Ginger*:) said, on 3/1/2010 4:29:00 PM

Thanks Brian*:) I know it sounds odd but I think of you every time I find a really interesting bug.

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16. Illustration Friday—Modify

By: Laura Zarrin, on 8/4/2009
Blog: Creative Whimsies (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags: Illustration Friday, pen and ink, fly, watercolor, insect, Add a tag

It's been so long since I've created or entered anything for Illustration Friday. The first thing I thought of when I read the word Modify was "Mod-i-fly". It was so much fun to create this. Of course, my sons helped me develop his modifications. It's their specialty. He's ready for anything.

While you're here, please check out the prints and hand painted birdhouse framed collages. Click here.

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17. Drifting (for IF)

By: ARIS, on 6/23/2009
Blog: Aris blog (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags: illustration, boy, children's art, fly, watercolor, world, sky, tricycle, Add a tag

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18. Impossibility (IF)

By: ARIS BLOG, on 4/18/2009
Blog: Aris blog (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags: illustration, girl, IF, fly, watercolor, Add a tag

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By: Julie Fortenberry, on 7/11/2008
Blog: Children's Illustration (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags: Betsy Bird, Miriam Katin, Lauren Weinstein, Leslie Stein, Rebecca Donner, Fly, Sara Varon, Add a tag

Women Working in Panels

Date : Monday, July 21st

Time : 7pm

Location : Huckleberry Bar, 588 Grand St.(near Lorimer St.), Williamsburg, Bklyn. 718-218-8555. . Nearest Train: L/Lorimer Stop, G/Metropolitan Ave. stop, J/M/Z to Hewes stop.

Suggested Donation : $10 at the door, to benefit Behind the Book.
Your $10 donation entitles you to 1 free draft beer.

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20. Scrumptious