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!
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!! 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!
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!! 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!!
Illustration Friday has a challenge every week. This week is Enough. This one sure seems like Enough! Ok - maybe more than Enough - but certainly Enough. 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 like to enter the 2 Things Challenge each week. This week is People / Watch. This is my entry for People & Watch. This little bubble (whoops person) is bubble-watching (whoops people watching) as people stroll by. Here are the entries for last week’s Litter / Bug. 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.
Here is some Winter Silence to refresh those of us in the northern hemisphere …. it has been another beautiful sunny day - with a lot of heat - so here is some refreshment!
I opened my mouth - or rather my email fingers - and put in foot today and have hurt someone’s feelings - totally unintentionally. So I am a bit discouraged tonight. I have apologized but I am very sad to have someone hurt from my actions. I have done what I can and need to let time pass … but I still feel terrible … and worried that long term damage may happen. So I am feeling blue like this painting too!! Thanks for coming by!
Illustration Friday has a challenge every week. This week is Foggy. This one is right up my alley … Here is the bubble garden in fog and mist. This is what foggy looks like! And I feel pretty foggy today because I am on overload. 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 like to enter the 2 Things Challenge each week. This week is Litter / Bug. This is my entry for Litter & Bug. This is humankind carreening through space, littering as we go … or is it each of us being thoughtless in a daily way as we litter the planet with our overuse of resources. Here are the entries for last week’s Work / Book. 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.
Diane Clancy creates vibrant paintings that feature color and vision to inspire and uplift people. Diane says, “I feel very blessed to have this opportunity to express myself through painting. I love that people say my artwork enhances their lives.”
It is easy to see Clancy’s work enhancing decor in a variety of settings.
Conundrum
These “Bubblescapes” are delightful.She often incorporates her favorite colors of aquas, pinks, and purples into these digitally created scenes.
Evening Stroll
Ocean Dreams
Peach Fantasy
Diane works in a variety of traditional mediums creating radiantly colorful paintings. Her variety of mediums, styles and sizes give you a huge selection to pick from.
Diane also has a line of “Fanciful Animal Images.” What an imaginative way to celebrate your special animal, and enhance your interiors.
Freckles
Lady
These “Fanciful Animal Images” would be adorable in any children’s room with a special pet, or look quite wonderful in sitting areas.
I find Diane’s work to be energetic and yet peaceful. Her color choices, design and composition show a sharp eye for a creation sure to grace your walls! With work priced from $4.00 to well over $1000.00, you easily find something for every budget, any room, or that special gift.
Diane Clancy, a long time resident of Western Massachusetts, is active in peace, environmental, health, social and economic justice issues. In addition to her artistic pursuits, Clancy is a graphic designer and web designer who enjoys working closely with clients. She is gifted in understanding clients needs, and as a painter she brings an artistic eye to projects.
Her blog features an original work each day both in digital and traditional mediums. Discussions involve her tools, techniques and inspiration.She is a member of WWAO (Worldwide Women Artists Online), an international collective of women artists showing and selling original work online. Clancy is also a member of the Interior Design Team at Etsy, as well as the Visual Artist Street Team, and the Boomers and Beyond Street Team.
Check out this to find more of Clancy’s wonderful art:
She is a member of WWAO (Worldwide Women Artists Online), an international collective of women artists showing and selling original work online. Clancy is also a member of the Interior Design Team at Etsy, as well as the Visual Artist Street Team, and the Boomers and Beyond Street Team.
Check out these links to find more of Clancy’s wonderful art:
Jean Hood was kind enough to allow me to share the full text of her article. She wrote this wonderful piece about me. Jean’s website is here and her blog is here. My Etsy Shop is here.
Illustration Friday has a challenge every week. This week is Fierce. One of the fiercest emotions in the world is a mother’s sense of protection toward her little ones - especially against a threat. Here the little ones are basking and glowing in mother’s love as the mother is fiercely all geared up to protect her little ones against this menacing bubble. Perceived or real, most mothers will protect at all costs!! 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 love the way that changing color changes the whole feel of a creation!! This color reminds me of cotton candy - hence the fair or carnival. I changed the sky and not the colors of the bubbles and square themselves. So just by changing the lighting .. it all looks so different!! We know this of course, day by day, as we watch the sun, clouds, rain, night change our environment all around us. But sometimes things get clearer when they are in someone else’s (the bubbles) space and environment. Enjoy!!
I like to enter the 2 Things Challenge each week. This week is Round / Square. This is my entry for Round & Square. It is pretty basic - but I think it does the job. It seems sort of fun … I think it came out very pretty. It actually took quite awhile to do to find patterns that would show off the square shape well. Here are the entries for last week’s Parallel / Perdincular. 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.
It is very disturbing to read the below info - it certainly suggests that those who are pushing this bill clearly understand that according to international law (that the US has agreed to), that what they are doing is illegal and wrong. This shows more of a devious attitude than I has expected - I thought they went overboard without understanding what they were doing. Please read and act!!
Backers of the Orphan Works bill are circulating their Talking Points:
“Neither the House nor the Senate drafts of the bill contain the word “registries,” [they write] but rather they require users to search non-governmental databases of copyrighted works. The purpose of any database is not meant to take the place of copyright registration, but to have a way to search for visual images. Any participation in such a database would be voluntary.”
But this doesn’t mean what it appears to say. Take it point by point:
Talking Point #1: “Neither the House nor the Senate drafts of the bill contain the word `registries.’ ”
Response: Correct. They contain the word “databases,” a synonym:
Registry: register: an official written record of names or events or
transactions
http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
Database: A database is a structured collection of records or data
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database
Q: Why a synonym?
A: Because international copyright law forbids member countries to impose registries as a condition of protecting copyrights: Berne/Article 5(2) “The enjoyment and the exercise of these rights shall not be subject to any formality.”
http://www.law.cornell.edu/treaties/berne/5.html
In other words, if they used the word “registries” in the bills, it would be a red flag to other countries that the US is flirting with non-compliance with international treaties.
Talking Point #2: “…rather they [the bills] require users to search non-governmental databases of copyrighted works.”
Response: Non-governmental databases” means databases maintained in the private sector.
For users to find your work in these commercial databases, your work would first have to be in the database. Work not in the database would be orphaned.
Talking Point #3: “Any participation in such a database would be voluntary.”
Response: Congress cannot pass a bill making registration mandatory because that would violate Berne/Article 5(2).
And that would state explicitly to other countries that the US no longer intends to honor its international agreements.
There are red flags all over these talking points.
Summing up: The Orphan Work bills would mandate the creation of
registries by commercial interests. You would not be legally forced to place your work with these for-profit registries. But failure to do so would orphan your work.
The deceptive talking points accompanying this bill are another red flag.
˜ Brad Holland and Cynthia Turner, for the Board of the Illustrators’ Partnership
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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."
