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moonlight mavens 11x14 acrylic on canvas ©the enchanted easel 2014 |
truly this week's
IF theme was created just for me....and little maggie. ;) two little insomniac BFFs painting themselves a
whimsical night sky. ' cause while the rest of the world sleeps, we paint. :)
{throwing back to last july 2014 for this one...my website's home page image and the *face* of
the enchanted easel. a bit more about this painting
here....}
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"moonlight mavens" 11x14 acrylic on canvas |
to one year ago yesterday...and this painting, "
moonlight mavens".
hard to believe this piece (and the newly designed
website, by me) are exactly one year old! how do i know this? it was website renewal fee day yesterday (
squarespace is awesome, by the way)....and, i have a memory like an elephant. ;)
here's the
story behind this painting as well as a bit more about
me (in case you didn't already know)...
{and, just because it's throwback thursday, well i thought i'd share a picture of a very small Nicole with lots of dreams behind those big brown eyes of being the bestest children's artist she could be! :)}
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a little Nicole...circa. 1975/76 |
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a crop of my painting "moonlight mavens" ©the enchanted easel 2014 |
love,
me and maggie
xxx
{almost forgot. good thing i didn't. not quite sure maggie would have ever forgiven me. :(
whew!}
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moonlight mavens ©the enchanted easel 2014 |
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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©the enchanted easel 2014 |
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" ©the enchanted easel 2014 |
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* ;)