Diane Clancy’s Art Blog

This vibrant, colorful painting is Dance of Life.  My heart is very heavy about my cousin … prayers are still very much appreciated.  I hope you will hang in there as a reader of this blog during this tough time.  Life is so strong and alive and yet so fragile … love is so strong yet so sad when it looks someone looks like they may transition to the other side.  Thank you for caring!!  I promise I will write about other things … I just can’t today.  Thank you for stopping by!

Dance of Life, Acrylic © Diane Clancy

~ Diane Clancy

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Win 2 free cards!! It’s that time of year again! For the worldwide One World, One HeART GiveAway – I am pretty excited!!  There are already over 400 blogs giving away gifts to people who enter their giveaways!!  You need to leave a comment to participate – of course with a way to contact you. Details for you to join in your own blog are here.

Lisa Oceandreamer started OWOH 2 years ago and she has a blog here which lists all the blogs involved and gives the details. If you are thinking of joining in and having your own giveaway, please go there and get the details.

Conundrum I, Collage © Diane Clancy

Lots and lots of blogs are giving away items – to show love and build the blogosphere. So once I knew, how can I resist? My give-away will be two of any of these cards of my vibrant, colorful paintings. You choose which ones and I will send them to you – for FREE. (and yes, you can choose 2 of the same).

Reflections in Blue I, Pastel © Diane Clancy

You have until February 11 (at least at most blogs) to leave your name and join in each 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. Remember your email is hidden so it is safe with me.

Reflections in Blue II, Pastel © Diane Clancy

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!

Mother Watching All, Oil © Diane Clancy

I will accept all entries until midnight eastern time on February 11 and then the winner will be announced on February 12 … and then your gift will be coming your way! To ANYWHERE in the world!

Sight, Collage © Diane Clancy

Here are more details if you would like to participate. There are tons of blogs participating … so gone on over and check them out! I know I plan to!! Also this list will stay up for 6 months after the event ends – so it is a great way to find wonderful new blogs!

Anticipation, Collage © Diane Clancy

The prize is any 2 of these cards. The size is 4.25 x 6″ and they are professionally printed. I look forward to seeing who wins!!  Starting in March I am going to be doing a monthly giveaway of one of these cards – your choice – in exchange for allowing me to put you on my email list … this is NOT for this giveaway – but for the one starting montly in March.

~ Diane Clancy

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SO … here it goes … drum roll please …. drums banging away!!! And the WINNER IS …. Kate of HeronKate. HeronKate (known to me as Kate) is a fantastic artist that I know through may of my online ventures. Kate is a very lovely woman and a great artist.  I hope you will check out her work .. and perhaps buy something.  Kate’s Etsy Shop is here.

Congratulations, Kate!!

This is one of my very, very favorites!! I have featured it in many of my treasuries at Etsy.

Kate’s Lotus & Fish, Acrylic © HeronKate

And this is a fairly new WILD one I love!!

Kate’s Pearl Diver, Assemblage © HeronKate

The prize is one 6 pack of these cards. The size is 4.25 x 6″ and they are professionally printed. These are my cards – I am thrilled so many of you wanted to win these cards … I will have all the different images up so you can see them again. Near the top and at the bottom of the post there is an opportunity for you to purchase the cards (identical button) at a discount if you really want to take them home with you, but didn’t win.

Conundrum I, Collage © Diane Clancy

Reflections in Blue I, Pastel © Diane Clancy

Reflections in Blue II, Pastel © Diane Clancy

Mother Watching All, Oil © Diane Clancy

Sight, Collage © Diane Clancy

Anticipation, Collage © Diane Clancy

To thank you for your interest and participation in the give-away of these cards, I am giving you a sale price of $12.99 which includes shipping and handling for these 6 cards. If you would like to purchase this pack of 6 cards (4.25 x 6), please use this PayPal button. PayPal accepts lots of credit cards – you do not have to have a PayPal account to purchase. Anyone can buy – you didn’t have to participate – you just got lucky!! ~ Thank you!!

~ Diane Clancy

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I am so glad you are signing that petition .. I am still looking into things about this (yesterday’s post). I worked with a client (friend) today for the first time in 2 months and walked around the block.  Please tell me about you!!!

The Empty Chair, Acrylic © Diane Clancy

~ Diane Clancy

Here is one last Alice. I don’t know why I think of Alice in Wonderland … but I have always thought that looking at this painting. So much so, that I named it Alice. I think part of it is the bright colors .. and perhaps the other part is that it looks like entering a new world – as a very little person.

Alice, Digital © Diane Clancy

Sweet Irene has given me the Blog of Distinction Award. Thank you so much – it is also a wonderful award. Many of you have seen Irene’s great blog – go check it out if you haven’t. This award is for having a Blog of Distinction and I am thrilled! Thank you, Irene! Right now I am going to give this award to Neda Doany of Papiers Collés for her fantastic blog. More to come later.

Thank you for this award!! A brief update … the snow and ice are GONE!! The AWE (Artist Window Exhibit) is up – at least my part … and these things are good! Just taking more asthma medicine and accepting it – so I can breathe a little better again.

~ Diane Clancy

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Today I have been preparing and printing bubblecapes for the AWE (Artists Windows Exhibit) Project. I am printing the 11 x14″. I think I have figured out how to blow up the bubbles large enough. I have started designing how my exhibits are going to look. You may want to check out my other blog – I created a new Treasury today.

Dance of Life, Acrylic © Diane Clancy

This is an Acrylic painting – you know, not made on the computer… I hope you enjoy!! I hope you are well!! I appreciate so much that you are still commenting when I am so behind. I am hoping to catch up … thank you!! And I am so glad you are in my life.

~ Diane Clancy

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Neda Doany has a challenge on her blog, PapiersCollés. Some people say they want to know the artist behind the art more … so I figure this is one good way. So here it goes.. I have no idea of the answers to most of these! Thanks, Neda.

Candy Coated Skies, Digital © Diane Clancy

Here are the questions with my answers:

1. If you owned a bookstore, what would you name it? Wings of Words

2. Which literary hero (male or female) would you like to be? Harry Potter

3. If you were given the chance to be born in a different decade, which one would you choose? perhaps the ’60s to get the advantage of them. Perhaps the ’30s for the roaring ’30s.

4. Who would play you in a movie? Lawrence of Arabia, Emma, Dr. Zhivago and lots and lots of others!!

5. What was your favorite toy of all of times? the computer

6. What do you like to collect? art supplies, books and movies

7. What is your guilty pleasure? This one is easy – chocolate

8. If you had the power the change one thing in this world, what would that be? that people would understand and feel that we are all connected – which would stop war and hurting the environment

9. What is the worst book/movie you have ever read/seen? I walked out of “Silence of the Lambs” and “Last Tango in Paris” – I don’t know if I would now

10. What is the worst kind of music, in your opinion? any music which promotes hate

11. What’s the only food you will not eat? probably lots. caviar looks gross.

12. Tell us 3 things about yourself (2 of them true, and 1 untrue) and let’s see if we can figure out which of these is fantasy.

1. I get cold easily
2. My room walls are white
3. I play music all the time

Thanks, Neda! And how are YOU???
~ Diane Clancy

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The name of this digital painting says it all – “Overload”! I created and named this yesterday and it didn’t feel very personal, but now it does … so here is the painting! In the next town over – Turners Falls – we are going to put up yet another window show in the morning unexpectedly … that is part of the extra today I hadn’t planned on.

Overload, Digital © Diane Clancy

And I hope you will take time to look at yesterday’s post – I thought my questions about creativity would get people commenting … but maybe you will today.

~ Diane Clancy

Yesterday I started a shop at Imagekind …. my shop is DianeClancysArt. There is always so much work to set up something like this. It looks like a good shop (Imagekind) … it is new and it is very reasonably priced. They do matting and framing besides printing prints if someone wants. It is easy enough to start a shop and you can have a basic gallery for free (unless you make less than $5 a year and then they charge you that … something like that). I have one image up – take a guess which one!

What’s Up, Doc?, Digital © Diane Clancy

This social networking is all a little strange to me. I mentioned that yesterday I started a My Space page … but haven’t put anything (except my icon) on it. So I set up for the You Tube thing too – my You Tube … There is nothing on these things yet … but I have started.

All the marketing advice I am reading talks about using these social networks. I don’t really know what I am doing … but who knows what will happen if I put one foot in front of the other.

And it is time to get back to working on this Fanciful Animal Images website and learn how to do shopping carts and such. At least I can accept both PayPal and I think I signed up for the Google Checkout too.

I’m back … I am now signed up with Google Checkout – I wasn’t before. The amount of small print with all these things is a little overwhelming. But I skim them looking for red flags … and more importantly, hear from people beforehand which are trustworthy. The nice thing about the Google Checkout, until the end of the year, there are no fees for sellers. It is hard when many of these places (like Etsy) have a listing fee, take a percentage and then PayPal takes a percentage too and has a fee. It eats into the profit margin which isn’t that large to begin with.

But I feel guided to keep moving ahead. Thanks for witnessing this process – and thank you for your encouragement … this blogging community has become quite important to me.

~ Diane Clancy

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