Sunday, November 8, 2009

Dress forms, cards and girl's night out

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Lost in designing cards again. My favorite thing to do.

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I love designing dress forms.

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and then there is always girl's night out.

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A night of fun in dress form land.

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Thursday, October 15, 2009




I just love working with Antique and Vintage photographs.



After creating this digital painting, I added a touch of glitter and created greeting cards.



I have neglected my little shop on Lolllishops, so my new goal is to turn it into a shop for my greeting cards soon.

Saturday, September 26, 2009

Digital Painting with Grandma



I think that my grandmother was a gorgeous baby. She was born in 1901.



Grandma made wonderful apple pie a great cup of coffee and...



She had a birdie named Michael.



Oh, and she loved roses.

Saturday, August 29, 2009

Thursday, July 30, 2009

The Quilting Girl



Now that I have found a design for a greeting card for Quilt Girl, I have been digitally enhancing my pencil drawing. Everyone loves quilts, and I have met so many quilters in The Land of Blog. Here is the original pencil sketch.


Saturday, June 27, 2009

Alice in Wonderland








I love creating artwork for Alice in Wonderland, so when Vanessa from A Fanciful Twist invited me to the Mad Hatter Tea, I couldn't resist.







For this design, I used a background from Pickleberrypop.



I also enjoy using my photograph as a little girl inside my watercolor, as Alice. This was designed for the Mad Hatter Party from 2008.








As a mixed-media artist, I just love to combine, my sketches, artwork, and photographs. For this piece I also used the background I purchased from Pickleberrypost.

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Brides & Blue Ribbons


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Creating designs with blue ribbons is always a favorite of mine. Especially when creating brides. Once upon a time, when I didn't know how to paint I fell in love with a bride painting in a museum.


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The bride portrait was lovely with blue ribbons blowing in the breeze against a white veil. I still love sketching and painting bride portraits.

Sunday, April 19, 2009

Mermaid Art


I love the sea and mermaids are such a lovely thing to create.

I painted a mermaid scene on clayboard and enhanced the texture using heavy embossing powder and embossing powders. Painted using watercolor and metallic paints.



Then a bit of photoshop enhancing...

Saturday, March 14, 2009



Creating dancing elephants for a Carnival Soiree at Fairy Enchantment today. I took a sheet music page and used the photoshop pattern to create the shape. Then I added a background and digitally painted a bit. I just love playing with digital paints.

Monday, March 2, 2009

Digital Paints



I love watercolor, oil and acrylic but when you take a creation painted in one of these mediums and then use your digital paints it seems textured perfectly.



I took a painting of Petunias, I photographed the painting and uploaded the work to my computer. Then using Photoshop I added just a bit of finishing touches.

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

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I found an old portrait that I sketched and then painted. Funny but I just noticed how similar it is to a sketch that led me to want to be an artist.

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My grandfather found an old sketchbook in his basement that had belonged to the previous owner. He gave it to me, and I must have looked at that book hundreds of times. I was twelve years old and I believe that was what made me want to draw. Funny how it's the little things that lead us to our destiny in life.

So, then I took the drawing and digitally painted the next ladies.

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About Me

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I was raised in Long Island, New York and in my early twenties, moved to Manhattan and worked there for many years in the computer field. I have been an artist as long as I can remember. I started painting in 1983 while living in Princeton, New Jersey. I found lots of inspiration when we moved to Hong Kong for my husband's work. Five years later, we moved to Toronto. We returned to New England in 2002 and I have enjoyed all the creative and inspiring resources that surround me. The Lord has blessed my life with a wonderful family and many gifts.