Illustration Friday has a challenge every week. This week is Poof!. This one is Poof! Poof! and you never know what happens!! 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! I have a give-away to celebrate my 500th post. You can still enter to win!! Here are the details. It is FREE to enter! Thank you for stopping by!
This image is for the Pet Monologues which is the blog which I directed you to showing that incredible video about the lion hugging the woman who rescued him. Here is that other lion video I told you about the other day. This video is absolutely amazing!! If you loved that lion video I showed you before - and who didn’t? Then you will LOVE LOVE LOVE this video … it is utterly amazing … some of us have cried from the beauty. I know I could put the video here … but it slows things down more - so I wanted to link you to it. It will open in a new window.
Right now there is a post about Preniptutuals and dog weddings - check it out! This is those great photos with the bears. There is a funny story about a bear today. Also they highlight art, poems and more that showcase animals every week. You can see their blog here. And this is the post for this particular challenge. I hope you enjoy the images there!! Here is a wonderful post about Polar Bears being designated endangered - check it out! Anyone can join in this fun here too!! They put up a few of the images and then have links to the rest of the sites … perhaps you will feel moved to participate!
I have a give-away to celebrate my 500th post. You can still enter to win!! Here are the details. It is FREE to enter! Thank you for stopping by!
I am taking my vacation by playing with some images and not writing very much … but I want to at least give you a smile each  day.  Thanks for coming by!
This looks like a Goddess Mandala to me. Â It looks mythical and deep with layers of meaning. It looks like a scared symbol of an earth culture. For me it is a sacred symbol - I see a goddess created from ancient, significant symbols. There is a human aspect and also a nature deva facet. And of course, the colors have profound spiritual implications. Absolutely amazing the way the unconscious speaks in art!!
You may have heard of the Blue Dog series … you can see George Rodrigue’s work here. I came across him years ago and have always wanted to do a series about my kitty in a similar way. Â I love his work - I found him before I painted at all and this art inspired me greatly! So here is a green dog in sunglasses!! My own version of the Blue Dog. I was playing around and this image popped right out!!
I like to enter the 2 Things Challenge each week. This week is Up / Down. This is my entry for Up & Down - well, I believe it started as Over & Under … so I did this for that idea - but Up & Down works too.  … Here are the entries for last week’s Corner / Stone. 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.
Last Monday was post 500!! Â I have a give-away to celebrate my 500th post. You can still enter to win!!Here are the details. It is FREE to enter! Thank you for stopping by!
This image is for the Pet Monologues which is the blog which I directed you to showing that incredible video about the lion hugging the woman who rescued him. Here is that other lion video I told you about the other day. This video is absolutely amazing!! If you loved that lion video I showed you before - and who didn’t? Then you will LOVE LOVE LOVE this video … it is utterly amazing …  some of us have cried from the beauty.  I know I could put the video here … but it slows things down more - so I wanted to link you to it.  It will open in a new window.Â
Right now there is a post about Preniptutuals and dog weddings - check it out!  This is those great photos with the bears.  There is a funny story about a bear today. Also they highlight art, poems and more that showcase animals every week. You can see their blog here. And this is the post for this particular challenge. I hope you enjoy the images there!! Here is a wonderful post about Polar Bears being designated endangered - check it out! Anyone can join in this fun here too!! They put up a few of the images and then have links to the rest of the sites … perhaps you will feel moved to participate!
I have a give-away to celebrate my 500th post. You can still enter to win!! Here are the details. It is FREE to enter! Thank you for stopping by!
Illustration Friday has a challenge every week. This week is Canned. This one is Canned - I am not sure WHAT is Canned - but something is! 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!
Ok … Today is the big give-away …. I am going to collect names here in comments until at least 20 people have taken advantage of this give-away … then I will pick a number and the person whose comment corresponds will win this give-away! You may enter more than once, but I am going to wait to get at least at least 20 different people. I would also like your permission to add you to my e-mailing list for when I get a newsletter together to send out. Entering constitutes permission - I will not spam you and you can ALWAYS remove yourself - and no hard feelings.
You have until I end the give-away - at last 20 different people - to leave your name and join in this blog’s give-away. If you want to win the give-away, leave enough information for me in a comment to this post so I can get a hold of you.
Make sure your email address is a valid one and not one of the no-reply ones. Please do not leave sensitive info like your address or phone .. I can get your address when you win!
I would love to have you participate … I am excited to have something to give you to help build a mailing list so I can share what I have been doing with you and give you special promotions.
I like to enter the 2 Things Challenge each week. This week is Corner / Stone. This is my entry for Corner & Stone. This is started out as a corner stone of a building but I had more fun making the Stones stand on their Corners … Here are the entries for last week’s People / Watch. 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.
Tomorrow is going to be post 500!! Â That is when there will be a give-away from this blog to celebrate. What shall it be? I hope you care excited and want to come by to find out what it is! Thanks for coming by! And see you tomorrow!!
At Etsy there are many shops that are having a Christmas in July sale … I belong to a cool team called the Visual Arts Street Team (VAST) and many of us are also have sales. Â Here is a post on our blog detailing some of the sales … Â Susan Elkin has activated her shop again … and she did post on her blog the other day. My Etsy also has a sale … check here …. If you email me, you can get a special sale for blog readers only - buy 2 ACEOs and get a third FREE!!!! Â
If you would rather buy through the blog for this buy 2 get one free sale, email me (or leave a comment) and we will work it out!! Thanks for stopping by!!
In a few days, it will be my 500th post on this blog - I have posted every day since I started. Others have inspired me by their generosity when they have hit milestones … so I am going to be giving something away. Â Another give-away. If I can, I would also like to be able to sign up people for a mailing list soon. Â I don’t know whether those things will happen together or not. I really like this image - I think it is mysterious … it reminds me of one I did quite awhile ago (Behind the Screen) even though it is quite different. Â Thanks for coming by!
This is a digital rework of Conundrum I. Â When I first used this program of Studio Artist several years ago, I worked with this piece to start with - since it is one of my very favorites. Â I am pleased that this one I created today, has so much more depth and meaning to me. Â Clearly I am mastering both the techniques and the substance much better of digital painting. I am pretty excited!! Â Here is a demo of Studio Artist if you are interested.
Diane Clancy creates vibrant paintings that feature color and vision to inspire and uplift people. Says Diane, "I feel very blessed to have this opportunity to express myself through painting. I love that people say my artwork enhances their lives."
Diane belongs to Worldwide Women Artists Online, an international collective of women artists showing and selling our work online. For more original art direct from the women who create it, search WWAO.
Diane Clancy creates vibrant paintings that feature color and vision to inspire and uplift people. Says Diane, "I feel very blessed to have this opportunity to express myself through painting. I love that people say my artwork enhances their lives."
