September 11th. 10 years later.

10 years ago, it was a sunny morning for us in California. My younger one only 3 and watching TV. My friend called me to ask me if I heard of the accident in NY. She had just moved from there to TX and while we were on the phone the second plane crashed. We cried and cried. Nothing made sense. Not the action, not the reactions. And even when we were so far away, I still felt scared.

10 years later, with less freedom, less privacy, and rights, it still makes no sense to me.
Enjoy your day to the fullest.

Pineapple oil painting, 9th day of Art

Feels more like a whole month with all this technical drama I had, but today is only the 9th day.
I am about done with this oil panting, but will still add a bit here and there.

This is actually a re-work. It's one of those that I was happy at the time, then I looked at it again and I didn't like it anymore, but I didn't know what to do to it. Destroying art is not my forte. Plus I like the pineapple :o) Although it feels right for others,  I think each person has to do what feels right, but it is really hard for me. I rather repaint, re-work, or maybe give away to someone that likes the painting as it is, even if it's not "me" anymore. (I know, some people will irk at the thought)

This is how it was:

This is how it the transformation:

This the way it's looking so far:

 

And now, talking about puffy clouds, I bid you Adieu, because there's a bad thunderstorm and I don't want to fry my computer!

Back in the saddle again, 8th day of Art

My computer is working again!! yaay! (running all over the room yelling, flailing arms)  I spend a good part of the day trying to grab an image for my post in the old portable, and it was very close to impossible, because I took a picture kind of far, and the program there doesn't crop, so I was about to start clonking my head on the desk, until super man came to the rescue with a magical box, plugged some wired did some magic, and voila! I'm able to go back to my stuff.

Funny how a piece of metal with plastic can make us feel so happy :oP

OK, and onto the art!
Remember I mentioned a painting I had not included in the video? Here it is:

And a close up showing the yummy texture and tons of layering:

However, I still couldn't catch the "interference" with it's delicate shimmery sparkle on the wings. Maybe with outside light? I just didn't want to wait anymore. And just for the record: it's such a pleasure to be able to crop! LOL  I'm on a roll baby!! \(ツ♥)/

I hope you enjoyed today's Art.Please let me know what you think!

You just have to love her (7th day of 30)

I first met Deb Company sometime around 2004. In those days we were hanging in the ebay groups and laughing our heads off about silly postings and artsy stuff.
We have been in contact in different networks and no mater what she does, I try to keep my eye open for any video, any news because she is simply GREAT.
At the end, even if I did not paint, if I didn't do a single important thing that day, I still feel good, just because I heard a joke, a quote, or a whatever she posted.

I want to share this video with you, as my art post today.  If you have seen it, you'll enjoy it again, and if you have not... you'll feel like you found a treasure.
You just have to love her!
Through the years, in couple of different occasions, I have received pretty mean comments about my work. Now, I can take a critique well, and like to hear an honest opinion; I can see how someone won't find my work pleasing to their eye... same as I don't like every single thing I see of art works, simply because we all have different taste, but to post online a semi-anonymous mean comment, that has no excuse... nevertheless, you just have to digest it, see if there's a base for the comment, or was it a random act of jerkness, and then move on. But it's in moments like that that you grow, believe it or not. If you learn to keep going.

See you tomorrow!

Drama and 6th day of 30

As of today, I will call these series, the "30 day soap opera" Which consists of a determined nutty artsy woman, and her terrible bratty gadgets. Before showing you the art, let me tell you last night I received an email from Shelle, my friend in Australia, letting me know she could not access my blog due to a virus warning. I panicked and went to check, but it wasn't showing anything to me.
All I could think was: first the computer, then the programs, now the blog?? (o_0)

So I went to the blog forum and after hours (literally till this morning next day) I could find an answer.
Turns out a little twitter button I had in the side bar, came from a site that had been hacked. I deleted it, but don't worry, there was no chance for any visitors to catch a virus, unless they were to copy and use that particular twitter button, which hardly would be the case.... nevertheless it s gone!
And come to think of it, that's probably why Lorrie could not access my blog sometime ago!?

Who knows really... my antivirus never told me anything, so go figure.

Now as for the art part of this post: Since being in the laptop is such a pain in the neck, I have done the very basic online stuff, which turned out a very productive time actually. I have some images to share today, yaaay! I painted the other ACEO:

This is the way I was feeling last night lol

 And finished the "Inspire" painting as well. Finished another painting that was not in the video (I will show it later) and started another. Hey, I even finished the laundry!

 

The colors don't look the same as in person.It's hard to work with what I have at this moment (you guys would laugh if I tell you all the circling-around I had to do just to get this images.... but 'tis part of the soap opera I guess.
See you tomorrow!

Battling techology and 5th day of 30

One thing I have learned with this episode of my dead computer is that technology can be wonderful when is working, and an annoying nightmare when something goes wrong. You would think that everything is very much mix and match, but no, it isn't.

I have been battling this goofy programs, gadgets and computers that don't seem to like to work together.

I finally found a camera that can plug to the portable, just to find out the movie maker doesn't like that particular gadget because they don't speak the same format ugh!

So here I am experimenting to see if I can upload a tiny video directly into the blog. Hopefully it will work and will not be too heavy to open.

Of course that with no editing program, the video is raw and pretty much soundless hehehe

Oh well...

The whole purpose is to show the Frida ACEO I finished. My 5th day of 30 days of posting art:

I used water mixable oil pastels. I never used them before and in fact didn't even know about them till I saw them in the craft store.

They look velvety, you can water them to look like watercolors, very transparent, like in the skin area, or make them really thick like in the background.

I don't see myself getting addicted to them like with acrylics, but they are fun to work with.

Now lets see how this post behaves. I might have to do it again if I can't come up with something else before the part gets here and I have access to my usual ways.

I better keep this short. If it works they way it should, I will go and update the other post from yesterday the same way :o)

Please let me know if it takes a long time to open! Thanks!



Broken computer and 4th day of 30

I was going to post one of the ACEO that are ready but to my dismay, my computer is not turning on...!! and ALL my pictures, scanner, blah-blah, etc are there so...... I'm lost. I have no idea what happened to it.
Right now I'm in the kids portable and I do not like it, but that's beside the point, even if I liked it, it still doesn't have my documents sniff-sniff (emotional violin music in background)

So well, here I am, in a picture-less blog post :oS. If later on, when my husband comes home, and if he's able to fix it.... I will post a picture.(after making him an extra delish dinner) If not, well, then I will update tomorrow. This sux! aghh!!! If nothing else, I could use my daughter's digital tablet with the pen-mouse, to draw, because not even the camera thingy will fit in this portable's port holes!  :oP

Now, for the proper subject of the post, this is my 4th day of 30 days posting art. I finished the ACEO with the little bald guy holding his hand to his ear; I used a juicy blue/green fluid acrylic by Golden for the background, very dark. The rest is painted with watercolors in different flesh tones. I called it "At night I can hear the stars".

Oh! And yesterday I went to Michael's with my handy dandy 50% off coupon. Bought an awesome acrylic color called cobalt turquoise from Liquitex. It is beautiful and pricey... 16.99, compared to the other colors around 5.00 to 7.00 bucks. Don't be too surprised if you see lots of turquoise in my paintings heheh Actually, that is one of the colors I seem to use the most. Along with ochre, brick and purple.

Well guys, sorry for the lack of images today. I will make it up tomorrow, cross your fingers!

Update: Well, it's 8 pm. After testing several things, seems like the power supply (which is some mysterious box inside the pc) went dead, and it will have to be ordered, so shipping time etc... ugh! I will see a way to plug the camera into this thing or something. So frustrating :o(

Another update next day: So I was able to grab an image for this post, which is a tiny video. Better than nothing right? Here's the little guy. He will be listed as soon as my pc finishes having an spastic episode.

Bottled... 3rd day of 30

Better late than never!
This was supposed to be  my "if" piece for the "bottled" word theme, about 5 months ago.:oP I have no idea what happened that made me stop, but it was probably a household mini drama. Life's like that, right?

As I showed yesterday in the video, I have some ACEO to finish and this one is the first to be done. What do you think? I like the green in the glass, and I left the eyes without a color on purpose, to make him feel more desolate and bottled. "If I could save time in a bottle..." comes to mind.

This is quite far from my usual style, but for whatever reason the IF theme cought my attention and this is the result. Here it is with more shades and deeper colors:

Click to see listing on Etsy

Have a nice Sunday!

Painting projects and 30 days of art...

Here's a few things that I aim to finish withing the next few days. I have other pieces I want to work on, but they were too big to fit in the space where I had set my camera... I will post them soon.

This is my second day into the "30 days to get your art on" project:



I hope you are enjoying your weekend. Long weekend in the US.
See you tomorrow!

eeekkk! September! 30 Days of Get Your Art On

Time keeps on slipping into the future. Hold on, isn't that a song? OK, Never mind hehehe

This is one of those long posts.... so sit comfy. I want to tell you about:


*Being relevant in Etsy.
*30 days of posting.
*The OWOA (Our World Our Art) event .

Here we go...You know, with all this changes in Etsy, the "relevant" new way of searching and be found... we all have to remember to have the right TAGS, the best TITLE in our listings and the first few words in the actual text of the listing, 160 characters which will show up in a google search.

Keep reading...