Diane Clancy's Art Blog

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.

I am thrilled to report that I have been working in the studio … using real, non-digital, art materials.  This is one of the results.  I have created 15 ACEOs that I like … and by the end of doing them, I was getting back in the groove again of how I use pastels.  I have never tried to draw so small before – not in any serious way.  Some of you know I have been trying to get back in there (the studio) to create with traditional mediums … so this is quite a success for me!

Sunrise Bouquet, Pastel © Diane Clancy

On the last several ACEOs, I was tackling them as if I actually knew what I was doing .. it  was a great feeling!  I love working digitally and it has been wonderful for me to be able to … especially when I often didn’t feel well enough to be in the real physical studio.  But it was also miraculous for me to be able go into the studio … where there is no UNDO button … and start to feel good about creating this tiny little cards (2 1/5″ x 3 1/2″) …. it started to be a whole lot of fun!  Even though it is cold in the studio – the temperature is 63 degrees.

I hope you like this vibrant,  colorful painting! I know I do … I use pastels in a way unlike most people … but I use them the way that feels right to me … Delighted to be sharing this with you!  Thank you … I would love to hear about your own process in creating.

Susan Elkin and I have been working quite hard on her business and she has made incredible progress.   By the way, Susan has posted today!!  Thank you for stopping by!

~ 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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Robin Maria Pedrero featured me on her blog Pocketful of Colors a few days ago.  Here is the particular post.  Robin bought Inside & Out as a fine art card and she is thrilled!! I am thrilled that she is thrilled!! I love what Robin said!!

Robin’s Blog

Inside & Out is a pastel painting that I offer as prints, cards and ACEOs.  Here is the painting  – it is one that I love very much and I am so happy that Robin loves it.  Also so many of her readers commented and also really were moved by this painting!!

Inside & Out, Pastel © Diane Clancy

Here is Inside and Out as an ACEO If you would like this painting on a mug, check this out.  How about a tile coaster?  That is here.  Or would you like a tote with Inside & Out?  You can look at my Etsy shop and CafePress Shop if you want to see lots more paintings!!

I have now been tagged by 3 people so I am trying to get to that … Thank you for indulging my excitement about a customer loving this painting .. and for being directed other places with it!! Thank you for stopping by!

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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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Ths is a link to sign a petition against this act;
(http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/no-to-orphan-works-act.html)

Everyone everywhere on the planet many sign this petition – I hope all of you who haven’t will do it now. Below is another great link – but I want to make sure I give everyone something the can do to help! There is another international link below also.

Nature Reflections VI, Digital © Diane Clancy

This is a fantastic link!!! For people in the US this link gives you lots of options!! (http://capwiz.com/illustratorspartnership/home/) – you use their letters or personalize them – there are lots of versions – for supporters of artists, different kinds of artists – it is great!! Please take a couple (literally) of minutes

Here is a link to let people outside the US do more. (http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00267) … it deos not look quite as easy, but I hope you will go do it. Thank you!!

Here is the latest from the Illustrators’ Partnership

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FROM THE ILLUSTRATORS’ PARTNERSHIP
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Since yesterday (May 7th), over 31, 000 letters have gone out from our
Orphan Works advocacy site.

Q: What can we do next?

1. Write the House Judiciary Committee. We’ve set up a special alert to
contact members of this important committee.

Go to our Take Action/Alert site:

http://capwiz.com/illustratorspartnership/home/

Look for the sample letter labeled “Contact House Judiciary Committee
NOW” and send it.

If your Representative is not a member of the House Judiciary Committee,
this will send him a message asking him to contact his colleagues on
that Committee on your behalf, urging them to oppose the bill.

2. Ask for support from family and friends:

Please ask your friends and family (5 to 10 others) who support your
creative work to also go to the site. They can follow the instructions
to easily send a message of opposition to this reckless bill. Look for
the sample letter labeled “For Supporters of Visual Artists – Wrong to
Weaken Copyright Law” and send it.

3. Spread the word to the public: Photosharing on Web will now be at risk:

Please alert your friends who post photos to the web their personal
property will be at risk. Look for the sample letter labeled “For the
Image-Making Public – Protect Personal Property”and send it.

For more information about the Orphan Works Act of 2008:

IPA Statement to House Subcommittee March 20, 2008:
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00261

IPA Senate Mark-up Comments April 30, 2008:
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/ow_docs

Geneva/ May 7, 2008 Orphan Works Bill Catches Global Attention/
Intellectual Property
Watch/ http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/index.php?p=1028

MP3 Interview: http://www.sellyourtvconceptnow.com/orphan.html

YouTube:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=CqBZd0cP5Yc

All ammendments are listed here:
http://judiciary.house.gov/Printshop.aspx?Section=839

Please post this message or forward it to any interested party. You can post or copy and or all of this post.

I think this is sort of a cool painting because you can see so far into – so deep – the image. Obviously it is a variation of the last few. I am very tired today. I had planned a nice relaxing day today where I could rest and catch up … and the discouraging work I was doing a few days ago got reactivated this morning. Which is fine. But I got notified that I needed to overnight printouts – that I did not have printed yet. I understand why and it was an excellent strategy – but just implemented at the last minute. And I understand why. But the post office and Fedex place closed in about 30 – 60 minutes … so I needed to go into hypermode. And now I am pretty, pretty sick. There is a reason I do everything pretty much early – I don’t function well that other way. So I am exhausted and needing to rest. Please tell me how you are.

~ Diane Clancy

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The Orphan Work Act has been filed in Congress.  I did not check this myself, but I heard it from a very reputable source.  I will work to have things for you to do tomorrow so you can help protect the rights to your own artwork and to others’ art. Even if you just fool around and post these images on your blog, someone can use them (IF this is passed)~ and potentially make millions while you get nothing.

Harem, Digital © Diane Clancy

I am going to put the original of this pastel (framed and matted) in my Etsy Shop .. as soon as I can get it to the top of the list. I absolutely love the purples, blue and teals … and the colors and the blends of that fabric in this pastel painting.  Thank you for stopping by … I still an at half steam … but so much better!

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Here are more links … This is compiling all that I could find about the Orphan Works Act to make it easy to find the info. Certainly it is only few places that is saying it is baloney (really only one) and another says we are over-reacting. So I would say that it is real – one is a US House hearing link – so hopefully it can get disappeared before it gets going … but it will only do that because we care and act.  I hope you will sign the petition – I am putting it first (you can sign this if you are from ANY country).  Please also contact your legislators (if you are US residents.)

The Empty Chair, Pastel © Diane Clancy

Ths is a link to sign a petition against this act;
(http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/no-to-orphan-works-act.html)

from this link:
“One thing to keep in mind, though, is that in law writing, as in law practice, the battle is often won in the drafting stage. Multi-billion dollar industries that stand to benefit from harvesting others’ intellectual property have been pressing Congress on this issue for years, and you can be sure that the pressure did not relent between 2006 and today. Speaking as a historian as well as a lawyer, I would observe only that the blogosphere’s insistence that artists wait in silence while elites write the law is not lacking in irony.”

(http://blog.newsarama.com/2006/07/?p=7811)

Orphan Works Bills Blog

http://orphanworks.blogspot.com/

Information: Crafts of Texture feels it so important, they put the article in today.  (Just information that other artist groups are taking this seriously.

You can read more about it here;

http://mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=Columns&article_no=3605&page=3

This is a link with the contact information for the president and all US senators, representatives, state governors and legislators;
(http://www.usa.gov/Contact/Elected.shtml)

US House Hearings
(http://judiciary.house.gov/oversight.aspx?ID=427)

Resource Page for Artists
(http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00185)

Illustrator’s Partnership is saying:  (directly quoting – I understand that they want this passed around)  

“The language in the draft confirms our warnings. If this bill passes, you’ll be forced to clear all your secondary licensing rights through at least two government certified databases –

“The language in the draft confirms our warnings. If this bill passes, you’ll be forced to clear all your secondary licensing rights through at least two government certified databases – or risk orphaning your art.

Despite its masquerade as the “last resort” to search for a rights owner, these databases will likely become the only source many users will rely on for finding a rights owner. Reason: it will give users the legal right to infringe any copyright not in the databases.

We’re working with our attorney now to prepare opposition letters.

We have contracted CapWiz, a service that will allow you to send these letters to Congress with a push of the button.

CapWiz will also provide us with “digital stickers” that anyone else – organizations, individual artists, blogs, etc. – can put on their sites that create a direct link to the command center to write their Congressman and Senators to defeat this radical change to U.S. Copyright law

Please stay tuned and we’ll tell you in a day or so what you can do to register your opposition.

For additional background on Orphan Works, go to the IPA Orphan Works Resource Page for Artists
(http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00185) “

Links that say this is baloney or Overkill

Baloney Link
(http://www.boingboing.net/2008/04/12/countering-the-fud-a.html)

Overkill Link

(http://blog.newsarama.com/2006/07/?p=7811)

You may copy this, forward this and/or post it on your own blog.  You may link your blog or forum or anything to here so that people may have access to these links.  I would like this word to get out!!!  Thank you for caring and being involved!!!

~ Diane Clancy