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These two vibrant, colorful paintings are identical except for their colors … So their structures are the same, their composition, but the hue (color) is different.  Which one do you like?  How does the difference in color change the feeling of the image?  I get such dissimilar feels from each of these.

Name VIII, Digital © Diane Clancy

Is there anything you would like to share about how each of these affect you?  Do you have any names?  When I am working with a digital image, often I play with shifting the whole hue/color of the painting to see what grabs me, which version sings to me.  This was one where 2 very disparate versions each spoke to me very loudly, clearly and insistently.  Usually I choose one version and then that composition is locked into that color for good.  All other versions are banished forever.

Name IX, Digital © Diane Clancy

When 2 distinct translations each speak very strongly to me, then I wait until the allure of one disappears … then we have a winner.  Neither of these deferred …  they each insisted … so I am sharing them with you to hear what you say.  I would love to hear how the different colorations speak to you .. and of course, if you have any ideas for names, I would appreciate hearing them. Thank you for stopping by! I would love to hear about you!!

~ Diane Clancy

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Every week Illustration Friday has a challenge for a specific word. It is a great way to showcase your work and a wonderful opportunity to meet lots of wonderful people! Anyone can join in with their entry to Illustration Friday. I so much enjoy doing this challenge. This week is Poise. This vibrant, colorful painting of Poise shows that someone with true internal Poise lifts up everyone around them.  This poised bubble brings all the bubbles around to a higher place as they are inspired by her … not threatened by her Poise.  This might be one of the key differences between Poise and arrogance.   I encourage you to check Illustration Friday out! Lots of fun people and paintings!

Poise, Digital © Diane Clancy

I am at my wits’ ends again.  But things have now been stretched out until tomorrow (without our doing) and hopefully this super-high stressful situation will be over with by tomorrow afternoon.  I am having a very hard time focusing today and accomplishing things.  This has been rescheduled 5 times over a 2 1/2 month period and they tried again today to reschedule tomorrow’s appointment.  This has been very harmful to my art business this year. It is unbelievable to me that this is allowed and supported to go on! There are still lots of hard things to deal with after this, but this one takes the cake!! What you are up to at this point of your life? Thank you for stopping by!

~ Diane Clancy

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Today is SWAN Day (Support Women Artists Now) – today, March 28, 2009 is the second year of this “new international holiday that celebrates women artists.  It is an annual event taking place on the last Saturday of Women’s History Month (March).” The executive director, Martha Richards says  “Together we will build a world where women artists get the respect they deserve!” There is a website SWAN Day (http://swanday.org) which lists 160 SWAN Day 2009 events in 11 countries!  WOW this is quite something to see all these people, women, working together together to make this world a better place for all us women artists!

Buying something from your favorite woman artists is a great place to start!  I am very active and involved in networking and supporting other artists online and at least 90% of the people in the artist teams and groups I am active with are women.  We are all working and searching for good ways to get our great work out there to YOU in a way that is affordable to you and gives us decent payment for what we have created.

SWAN Day (Support Women Artists Now)

At this website, there are some very cool resources.  Many of them are focused on raising money and publicity for SWAN Day … but they can be useful for us as women artists as we promote ourselves, our artwork and our art businesses.  We are starting to write press releases for the next AWE Project (Artists Window Exhibit) (Greenfield, Franklin County, MA, US) and I think we will be using these resources to improve what we send out to promote this event that features mostly women artists.

I am going to share some of the other resources that were shared with me.  I am quoting here from an email sent to me by Julie Forbes, Associate Director, SWAN Day.  Here is a very extended excerpt from her email.

Explore www.womenarts.org. Here’s some of what you’ll find:

**Grants/Resources Information**

Search our well-researched, annotated lists of arts funders, categorized by art form, at www.WomenArts.org/fund/fundlists.html. For answers to many of your funding questions, see our Funding FAQs page at www.womenarts.org/fund/FAQ.htm.

**Funding and Resource Newsletters for Film/Video and Theatre Artists**

These free, bi-monthly newsletters are chock full of current calls for entries from competitions and festivals and requests for proposals from funding organizations. Read recent issues or sign up for free subscriptions at www.WomenArts.org/fund/EmailNewsletterSign-Up.htm.

**The WomenArts Network**

A one-of-a-kind showcase of the diversity and creativity of women artists in all the artistic disciplines, the WomenArts Network is a webspace where woman artists or women-run arts organizations may post free profiles about themselves and their work. With over 1000 profiles of artists living in every state in the U.S. and 23 countries around the world, the WomenArts Network is helping women artists connect to each other and acting as a clearinghouse for those looking to hire a woman artist. Go to www.WomenArts.org and click on WomenArts Network to search the profiles or to get started creating one of your own.  End of the quote – and there was more … check out these resources and you will find them!

I hope you have enjoyed finding out about this, as I have.  And remember, today is SWAN Day (Support Women Artists Now), but EVERY day is a great day to Support Women Artists!!  I hope you read this today and also keep this for yourself and woman artists in your life! Thank you for stopping by!

~ Diane Clancy

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Today was a glorious spring day – just perfect!!  And also it was my hospital treatment of Remicade.  So I am resting … but I thought you might enjoy letting me know what you think and feel about this vibrant, colorful painting – including any possible names.  Thank you so much for all the times you enjoy my images!!

Name VII, Digital © Diane Clancy

Thank you for stopping by! I would love to hear about you!!

~ Diane Clancy

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Quoting from the site “In an effort to remember them, Holocaust Museum Houston is collecting 1.5 million handmade butterflies. The butterflies will eventually comprise a breath-taking exhibition, currently scheduled for Spring 2012, for all to remember. As of Summer 2008, we have already collected an estimated 400,000 butterflies.”

You can read about and participate in this incredibly powerful and important project.  You can read the details on the site or at the site of Staci Rose of Staci Rose Designs. Staci is a creative artist and she is coordinating the contributions to the Butterfly Project from WWAO (Worldwide Women Artists Online).  Here is her post where she shares details that any individual or group can send their creations to.  Anyone, anywhere in the world is welcome to contribute … and the guidelines are simple and clear.

Butterflies I, Digital © Diane Clancy

These are 2 of the contributions I am making.  I have 5 digital paintings of butteflies that I am giving and 4 little ones in traditional mediums.  They are all ACEOs.  I felt pretty clumsy using the watercolors, markers, pastels, ink and crayons that I did use, but I figure that what really counts in something like this is the intent.  And I wanted to really contribute to this Butterfly Project.  Sometimes I do create in a naive style I guess … but that is often what comes out.

Butterfly Project IV, Sketch © Diane Clancy

As I mentioned, we of WWAO are going to make a contribution toward the Butterfly Project.  Here is some information about us: WWAO on the site says “Worldwide Women Artists is an international collective of women artists showing and selling our work through the worldwide web. As women artists, we give birth to our ideas in a variety of styles and media. We embrace the diversity of each other’s work, celebrating the joy of creating our art and sharing it with the world. We welcome female visual artists from all over the world who create and sell their own original art.”

I would love to hear your thoughts about how you might honor this process of acknowledging this event to recognize all these children perishing.  Such pain to the soul of this earth and humanity! The deadline isn’t until June 30, 2011 … so you have plenty of time to get involved.  I want to thank the museum and people for giving us all this opportunity.  I would love to hear from you!

~ Diane Clancy

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Every week Illustration Friday has a challenge for a specific word. It is a great way to showcase your work and a wonderful opportunity to meet lots of wonderful people! Anyone can join in with their entry to Illustration Friday. I so much enjoy doing this challenge. This week is Subtract. This vibrant, colorful painting of Subtract I think is obvious about how it subtracts  … I encourage you to check Illustration Friday out! Lots of fun people and paintings!

Subtract, Digital © Diane Clancy

What you are up to at this point of your life?  Thank you for stopping by!

~ Diane Clancy

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Thank you for stopping by!!  I am very tired but want to share this with you … I love the colors and the design – it seems very rich and royal.  This vibrant, colorful painting is my gift to you today to brighten up your life!

Cobalt Quilt, Digital © Diane Clancy

Tomorrow I am hoping to get more on top of all the work that has been sliding of late with all the other parts of life – those things have been interfering with my work.  I have almost finished the quarterly People’s Voice … a great publication of local writing and art.  Then I will be going to work on the current AWE Project (Artist Window Exhibit) that needs work to find more artists to exhibit in May. And there are lots of other things too. I am so sorry fot emails that have piled up – hoping to get to them tomorrow! Thank you for stopping by!

~ Diane Clancy

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This is one of the vibrant, colorful pastel ACEOs that I created a couple of weeks ago.  I thought you would enjoy seeing it.  And an update on my life also.  I had mentioned that a very highly stressful event was promised to be over by last Friday afternoon at the latest. That didn’t happen.  Instead it has been dragged out for another week and a half.  I am not very happy about it … but there is nothing I can do to change that.  And I am doing much better at handling my stress now that the process has been started.  Thanks for all your support!!

Sunrise Blossoms, Digital © Diane Clancy

Today I was featured in another Spot Light … this time with 2 of my images .. I am sure you recognize them if you are a regular reader.  This is a cool thing similar to a treasury at Etsy.

I would love to hear how you are doing and also how you deal with circumstances that are less than ideal.  Thank you for stopping by!

~ Diane Clancy

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WWAO (Worldwide Women Artists Online) is a great group of women artists that I belong to.  We had an ATC swap this spring of 2009. ATC are the same as ACEOs … a 2 1/2 x 3 1/2″ piece of art.  ATC is the Art Trading Card … so that name gets used for when they are traded instead of sold.  That is partly why I have started calling them Art Cards, ACEO in my shops … I think that is a clearer name for these delightful little works of art!

The WWAO Collaborative Gallery shows the incredible work of many talented artists from WWAO.  This gallery (http://wwaogallery.blogspot.com) showcases ATCs from 16 artists in an incredible diversity of styles and mediums.  It is worth taking the time to look through these posts …  I know I have enjoyed seeing lots of work from one artist, each after the other … in some deep way it taught me something I can’t verbalize yet … about both the continuity and range a single artist can have and still have her style look coherent.