Happy New Year GIVEAWAY!

Happy New Year Wonderful People! :)

I hope it's the best one yet. I've got so many fun resolutions to break in it (eat healthier, sleep more, cook better... you get the picture).

Here is one though, that I mean to start fulfilling right away: share my art with more people and give some away for free :).

Over the Holiday Season I got a chance to design and paint a set of little fairy/ballerina mug for 4 very lovely girls. Each one was personalized with a name and hair color to match its new owner. I will be working on three more in the coming weeks: two for my own daughters and one for one of yours :)

The winner will get to choose the design out of the 4 pictured, as well as the skin tone and hair and dress color of the fair. I will also add your little one's name to the handle. At 4 oz, these mugs are just perfect for little hands to hold.

Here are the rules of the road:
1. Share this post on your social media
2. Comment on this post with a link (or any other reference I can track) that shows where you have shared.

3. Each share will count as one entry. A mention on a blog will count as 2 entries. You can share as many times as you want and comment each time that you do. If you are sharing via Facebook, do it as a public post so that I can see it without being your FB Friend.

4. A winner will be selected using random.org on January 13, 2013. I will announce the winner in a separate blog post on that day.

5. Good Luck :)

 

https://www.etsy.com/listing/118673733/personalized-childs-cup-hot-chocolate

Panda and bellerina duet

This was a commissioned piece that left for itd new home last week.

IF - Surprise... oops I meant Secret

Ellie was surprised to find such a willing dance partner in Mr. Fluffington.

This topic gave me the push to try this old sketch out in watercolor. It looks better than it did in its digital incarnation but I am still not 100% happy with it.

Edited to add - I just got some time to look through the other IF entries and realized that the topic this week is not "surprise" but "secret." Oops...  Maybe Ellie and her cat are sharing a secret before their performance?

Ballet Partners

My sketches tend to turn out a lot better than my finished pieces. Somehow I always manage to lose the movement and the depth somewhere between the sketch and the final color version regardless of the color medium I choose to work with. I am particularly happy with both the idea for this piece and the way the sketch turned out so I wanted to post it here before I went ahead and ruined it. Practice makes perfect and I will post the final version when I am done even if doesn't live up to the sketch's potential.