Diane Clancy’s Art Blog

Illustration Friday has a challenge every week. I have missed a couple of weeks for the first time since I have started. This week is Strings. I see a couple of different kinds of Strings here. Actually, I like this one! Illustration Friday is a great way to showcase your work and a wonderful opportunity to meet lots of wonderful people! I encourage you to check it out! Lots of fun people and paintings! Thank you for stopping by!

Strings, Digital © Diane Clancy

~ Diane Clancy

Illustration Friday has a challenge every week. This week is Packed. Notice this Packed is sort of beautiful even though it is Packed.  Actually, I think it is quite lovely!  Illustration Friday is a great way to showcase your work and a wonderful opportunity to meet lots of wonderful people! I encourage you to check it out! Lots of fun people and paintings! Thank you for stopping by!

Packed, Digital © Diane Clancy

I may be taking some time off for the first time since I started blogging a year and a half ago … to go to a healing workshop.  Thank you for coming by!!

~ Diane Clancy

I like to enter the 2 Things Challenge each week. This week is Green / Blue. This is my entry for Green & Blue. Colors always (so far anyway) work well for me. Here are the entries for last week’s Product / Label. Anyone can join in, and I hope you give it a try!! We would love more people playing with us! Details are at this link above.

Green & Blue, Digital © Diane Clancy

I have news for you … I have an opportunity to go to a healing workshop.  My brother unfortunately cannot go and he kindly offered me his spot.  I am thrilled!!  I will be gone Sunday through Thursday and Friday is my hospital day for the Remicade. I have not been gone for 4 nights in at least 11 1/2 years.  Either I will set up simple posts so you can remember me or I will actually skip some days for the first time since I started blogging about a year and a half ago.  This will give me the rest and rejuvenation time I have so much needed.  Thank you for coming by!

~ Diane Clancy

Each month Worldwide Women Artists Online (WWAO) have an exhibit (online of course) of members’ work based on a theme. This month is Wild. I encourage you to go on over and look at this great exhibit! I didn’t show the whole exhibit as I have before … I am sure it made the blog slower to load and it usually took me an hour to prepare …. better for you to just go view!!

Wild, September WWAO Exhibit

Besides being in the online exhibit, this is also listed as an ACEO in my Etsy Shop. Here is my Etsy Shop. If you would prefer this in a different size, let me know and I will do one up for you!! Each of the paintings or items in the show can be purchased. Thank you for looking at my being showcased!!

Purple Jewels, Digital © Diane Clancy

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.”

~ Diane Clancy

Illustration Friday has a challenge every week. This week is Clique. Notice this Clique is not so beautiful as those who are following their own dreams and paths. Those in the Clique are actually the same as the others … they are beautiful too … but their inability to be themselves makes them shine less … there is no room for their light. Notice that those not in the Clique (most of us) actually make lovely patterns with our dancing and dreaming.  And the best part of all?  Anyone from the Clique, at any time, can choose to start following their own light and let their truth and beauty show. Shine On!!   Illustration Friday is a great way to showcase your work and a wonderful opportunity to meet lots of wonderful people! I encourage you to check it out! Lots of fun people and paintings! Thank you for stopping by!

Clique, Digital © Diane Clancy

~ Diane Clancy

I like to enter the 2 Things Challenge each week. This week is Product / Label. This is my entry for Product & Label - I think it works - do you? … Perhaps I should explain it - though all of you seem to get it without my doing that!! These are products that are labeled - you can see those are labels on the cans, yes?  Here are the entries for last week’s Old / Fashion. Anyone can join in, and I hope you give it a try!! We would love more people playing with us! Details are at this link above.

Product & Label, Digital © Diane Clancy

~ Diane Clancy

The TV Show featuring both the AWE Project (Artists Window Exhibit) and 3 individual artists (including Susan Elkin and myself … was today. It is over!! I was slated to go last - I was pretty scared … and I got there and found out we were talking first for 10 minutes about the AWE project and… as coordinator … I was expectd to do the talking!!! ACK!! But I rose to the occasion - enough any way Now I am exhausted. Many of you know I have a physical illness … and it was all too much … but I will rest and recover..

TV Show © Diane Clancy

~ Diane Clancy

Yesterday the AWE Project went up … (Artists Window Exhibit) … most of them anyway. This is a month long show … with some stores having different schedules … so all the windows (except for a few) should have been up yesterday. A month is not that long so I wish the windows were all up now. But it is chaos at this point with some of the windows not up yet .. and people still changing windows. But this kind of chaos is there and I have to deal with it … but this is how I feel. Well, actually, I think this digital image is sort of lovely, even though the eyes are wild!!

Green Chaos, Digital © Diane Clancy

For the People’s Voice newsletter I am also working on, at the last minute things changed there too. I have had almost all the layout finished, and then … well, a bunch changed. I have still been waiting for the last pieces to come in. They came in this morning. The deadline for the articles being in was August 1 … yes, that was August, not September.

Now understand these people are not paid - these are volunteer organizations … so it is not as if I can reprimand people with bad evaluations. Given that I do have real responsibility, I don’t always know what to do. I do know I need to keep connecting with joy and delight and not get bogged in anger … but besides that, it is one foot in front of the other. Does anyone have any ideas of how to be firm, kind and effective in these situations??

Another thing that is on my plate - Thursday I am going to be interviewed with 2 other AWE artists on a local public access TV show. This is a first for me and I am fairly anxious about preparing for this. I get to set it up in any way that works for me. I need to decide how to do this and these other projects have been very distracting from my own work. I need to make decisions and then prepare a bunch of things based on those decisions. Thanks for coming by!!

~ Diane Clancy

I like to enter the 2 Things Challenge each week. This week is Old / Fashion. This is my entry for Old & Fashion - I think it works - do you? … Perhaps I should explain it - though all of you seem to get it without my doing that!! The bubble on the right is Old and tired (whoops I guess I projected my tired onto the bubble) and it starts to turn into Fashion. By the end of the progression the bubbles are in high Fashion and fit to go out on the town!! Bet you didn’t know what Bubble High Fashion looked like - now you do!! Here are the entries for last week’s Music / Note. Anyone can join in, and I hope you give it a try!! We would love more people playing with us! Details are at this link above.

Old & Fashion, Digital © Diane Clancy

Still getting ready for the AWE Project (Artists Window Exhibit) tomorrow. I am going to be part of 2 windows … As coordinator, I take what is left, if any is left … sort of like a mother. I will be glad when it is up!! Thanks for coming by!! How are you?

~ Diane Clancy

Illustration Friday has a challenge every week. This week is Clutter. This Clutter is beautiful in my opinion.  I think there is lovely Clutter and not-so-lovely Clutter.  Of course, as always, Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.   Illustration Friday is a great way to showcase your work and a wonderful opportunity to meet lots of wonderful people! I encourage you to check it out! Lots of fun people and paintings! Thank you for stopping by!

Clutter, Digital © Diane Clancy

~ Diane Clancy