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#MayTheFourthBeWithYou
For this special Wordless Wednesday,
I've curated a few of forceful artworks currently featured on Society6.
For this special Wordless Wednesday,
I've curated a few of forceful artworks currently featured on Society6.
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| Yoda, Mercenary Art Studio |
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| Idilliard Luke in Rebel Flight Helmet |
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| Leia, Seventh Wonder Witch |
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| Obi-Wan illustration, Tom Deacon
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Are you a Society6 artist, too?
Connect with me over there so I can see your work, too.
I love helping to promote beautiful work!
May The Force Be With You!
Connect with me over there so I can see your work, too.
I love helping to promote beautiful work!
May The Force Be With You!
April showers bring...
I'm busy as bee putting the final touches on paintings and framing work for the Mayfaire show this weekend in Lakeland, but I have created the first four printables for my Patreon Patrons.
May is full of flowers, and a few bees!
These downloads are free for Patrons, and they will be available in my Etsy shop sometime in the next week or two.
Now, I've got to get back in the studio!
There's lots of work to bee done. ;)
Imaginarium: Natural Wonder Reception
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| Poster art Green Turtle by Jeanette Schuerr |
This beautiful exhibit was curated by Arts Hub Org, and is hosted by Chapman/Leonard Studios from February to May, 2016.
It's almost the end of this inspiring show, and I'm honored to have my art hanging next to several other established and emerging Florida artists.
To view the art, an appointment must be made with an Arts Hub representative, so the artists' reception is a chance for many to see the art in this installation for the first time.
It's a family friendly event, and light refreshments will be served.
Artist closing reception for Imaginarium: Natural Wonder
will be held Saturday, April 30 from 6-9pm
For more information on this exhibit, event, and directions, click here.
Contact Jason Lee of Arts Hub Org for appointment to view the work outside of reception hours.
The Blooming of a Bird of Paradise; In the Studio
Here's a quick peek into the process of a small w-i-p painting using sennelier and mission watercolor on Yupo paper.
It is definitely a medium with a mind of its own.
I'm a bird nerd, so you know the Bird of Paradise is one of my favorite tropical flowers.
This flower symbolizes staying open to new possibility and seeking freedom wherever you can find it. It's also given in congratulations and in recognition of gracefully getting through a sticky situation.
Have you worked on Yupo?
It can be tricky, but I like things with a challenge and unique final outcome.
What do you like about it? Let me know in the comments.
Stay tuned for the finished piece. I'll be showing it during the Polk Museum of Art's Mayfaire by the Lake fine art festival in Lakeland next weekend with my other watercolor work.
Have a colorful day,
World Penguin Day!
Today looking a little black and white?
It better be.
Boom! It's World Penguin Day!
(Different from National Penguin Awareness Day, and still cool.)
"How adorably awesome", you say!
I totally agree.
It's also not complete arbitrary nonsense.
World Penguin Day coincides with the northern migration of penguins. They start to waddle north in March and April throughout the world. They can be found in Antartica, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Chile, Peru, the Falklands & Galapagos.
Yay penguins!
May your World Penguin Day be awesome, and if it's not, may someone or something carry you through it.
Searching for the Queen Bee
I'm a busy bee this month, with a show coming up,
finishing and starting new projects, and (ugh) taxes.
So, I'm posting a short clip of my latest preoccupation-
BEES!!!!
This clip from shows Lucyann looking for the queen.
(It's really hard to work a phone with beekeeping gloves, so excuse the vertical orientation.)
By finding the hive where the queen is located, and then relocating it, the bees will produce a new queen.
I won't go into all of the details, because I know I can go off on tangents with my nature/animal nerd jargon and ramblings, but
it's a process called splitting hives, and it's one of the ways that bees are really flippin' amazing.
This helps beekeepers to grow colonies in the spring, and is especially helpful because some are losing up to half of their hives every year to colony collapse disorder.
(so scary, sad, and not cool- don't use pesticides, especially systemic!)
The myriad of substances that these tiny creature create from flower juice and water boggles the mind.
They all have specific jobs, they are extremely practical, they are incredibly effective at communicating with each other, and know when to communicate certain things.
They dance out complex routes to the best food and water within teensy eensy itty bitty spaces.
It's absolutely amazing.
I need to get back to work, so I'll leave you with a quote from the 50+ year beekeeping veteran, Lucyann~
"If people worked like the bees, we'd have very few problems."
buzz buzz
wiggle wiggle
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