More....

Sick kids = little painting time

As much as I am itching to get back to my Fort Sewall painting, life has intervened. So I painted two more ACEOs when I had a few minutes - at least it is something, right??

Listings here:

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=44768361

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=44717523

Wow!

A few hours after listing the ACEO with the purple flower, it SOLD!! Yay! Strange to think of a little piece of my art on its way to the United Kingdom now....

I guess I will have to try to do a few more ACEOs this week. They sure are fun to do. I just need more hours in the day!

Here is a link to the remaining ACEOs in my shop:
http://www.etsy.com/shop/ShirleyArt?section_id=6938547

Two more....

Two more ACEOs!

Defintely a fun break....but now I'm ready to go back to my Fort Sewall painting.....

Who Knew?

Tulip - Spring 01 - ACEO
acrylic on 140 lb Canson Montval Watercolor Paper
SOLD 

I have just discovered what an ACEO is!

ACEO are Art Cards, Editions and Originals. They are little works of art, measuring 2.5" x 3.5" - the size of standard trading cards. I guess people collect them like crazy! I didn't even know that there was a whole ACEO-world out there.....artists, collectors, places to sell and trade them, supplies, etc.

Well, I was in need of a quick fix, a tiny project I could finish in one short session. So I decided to give it a try! Fun! I figure if I can do a couple of these, it would help put a few more items in my Etsy shop. It lets me take a short break from my painting in progress without getting tied up in another big project. Plus it give me a chance to work a little faster, a little looser, to try new things, and to experiment with new subjects or ideas or things that I might want to grow into a larger painting eventually. Or to visit old friends (like the tulip above).

ACEOs may have to be my project of choice for the summer when the kids are home and my already fractured painting time is reduced even further. A painting in one short sitting? I think I can live with that!

A Nice Surprise

Kind of a bummer of a week ... and did not get to paint nearly as much as I would have liked. However I was very happy to discover today that I had been included in two treasuries on Etsy!

I have also been accepted as a member of EtsyVAST (Visual Artists Street Team)! One perk is that I get to post on their gallery blog. It is a great blog and fun to check out everyone's work. Check it out here: http://vastgallery.blogspot.com/

This should be another crazy week. Being in need of a quick fix, I am considering doing a few ACEO's. Stay tuned......

Current Work in Progress

Not nearly done.
Based on the bunker at Fort Sewall in Marblehead, Massachusetts.
I'm plugging away at it a little at a time. I'm enjoying getting back to painting buildings again. Old, abandoned ones seem to hold the most interest for me. This will be the beginning of a series. I have a lot of ideas for series in my head right now! Not enough hours in the day.....

Works in Progress

I generally don't like to have too many paintings going at one time, because then they tend to sit and some of them never get finished.

Like this flower. It's been on my easel for over a year. I could probably finish it up in a few hours.

But here it sits.