Diane Clancy's Art Blog

1000 Markets is a wonderful place for buying and selling!  It is organized into Markets … to make it easier to find things that you are interested in.  One of the Markets I belong to is Mind * Body * Spirit. I have been featured today at the Market’s Blog – here is the post.

Here is some information about Mind * Body * Spirit: “The purpose of the Mind Body Spirit Marketplace is to offer quality products that are designed to nurture, inspire, heal and honor the spirit inside all of us. This marketplace is positive in nature and non-denominational.” Thank you for featuring me in this blog post!  Here is a link to the Great Holiday Sale at Mind * Body * Spirit.

1000 Markets Blog Post Featuring Diane

Here is a link to my 1000 Markets Shop. Lots of my vibrant, colorful paintings are featured in this shop and available for sale.  I hope you will take a peek at this shop and look around 1000 Markets – I like it quite a bit – both buying and selling.

Thank you for stopping by!

~ Diane Clancy

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Only 24 hours left to enter the FREE giveaway – so make sure you go and check it out now – enter a comment in this post at this link and you are entered into the giveaway.  All you need to do is comment with a favorite item of mine … or retweet!! Easy as pie … well I never found making pies easy, just eating them!  Last time I will remind you – thanks for checking it out!

This is fun – I found another blog post about this giveaway!!  Here is the link at Etsy Giveaways!  I never knew about this blog – looks good!! Lists all sorts of Etsy giveaways.

You can win a FREE $20 gift certificate to any of 3 of my shops … with FREE shipping and handling. For those who like my art, I hope you will take advantage of this free giveaway!!  I am also willing to list another image if you win and your favorite isn’t there.

The Design Style Guide is a wonderful place that is bringing together thousands of items that are appropriate for Home Decor. Their main purpose is to promote the team and its members to Interior Designers (and like-minded consumers) through various promotions and advertising techniques.   This is part of the move to promote handmade items instead of mass produced things. Their focus is on marketing and branding “Handmade Home Decor” to professional Interior Designers.

Design Style Guide Giveaway #5

They are having a series of giveaways – the current one with Diane Clancy (yes, ME!!) at Etsy and 1000 Markets.  This is a free giveaway and I encourage you to join in and see if you can win!!  The Giveaway is through October 20 – so join in today!!  Here are the details about the giveaway on the Design Style Blog.  You know my art – I encourage to go join in the giveaway. Here are my shops Diane’s Etsy shop and Diane’s 1000 Markets Shop and Diane’s ArtFire Shop. This is a great opportunity and let’s hope one of you wins!

If you would like to join Design Style Guide, please click here:

Thanks for stopping by!

I am adding new things every day to my shops – I am getting back in the flow – so keep checking to see which one YOU want to take home!! Thank you!

~ Diane Clancy

Technorati Tags: Design Style Guide Giveaway, Etsy, 1000 Markets, ArtFire

You can win a FREE $20 gift certificate to any of 3 of my shops … with FREE shipping and handling. For those who like my art, I hope you will take advantage of this free giveaway!!  I am also willing to list another image if you win and your favorite isn’t there.

The Design Style Guide is a wonderful place that is bringing together thousands of items that are appropriate for Home Decor. Their main purpose is to promote the team and its members to Interior Designers (and like-minded consumers) through various promotions and advertising techniques.   This is part of the move to promote handmade items instead of mass produced things. Their focus is on marketing and branding “Handmade Home Decor” to professional Interior Designers.

Design Style Guide Giveaway #5

They are having a series of giveaways – the current one with Diane Clancy (yes, ME!!) at Etsy and 1000 Markets.  This is a free giveaway and I encourage you to join in and see if you can win!!  The Giveaway is through October 20 – so join in today!!  Here are the details about the giveaway on the Design Style Blog.  You know my art – I encourage to go join in the giveaway. Here are my shops Diane’s Etsy shop and Diane’s 1000 Markets Shop and Diane’s ArtFire Shop. This is a great opportunity and let’s hope one of you wins!

If you would like to join Design Style Guide, please click here:

Thanks for stopping by!

I am adding new things every day to my shops – I am getting back in the flow – so keep checking to see which one YOU want to take home!! Thank you!

~ Diane Clancy

Technorati Tags: Design Style Guide Giveaway, Etsy, 1000 Markets, ArtFire

Pam Baker of Magdalene Jewels featured me in a post!! Pam is featuring me mainly to help promote the Design Style Guide Giveaway #5.  In part Pam writes “Diane views her artwork as something to uplift and inspire other people For those familiar with her work know that her vision is to portray her artwork through her use of many vibrant colors.”  She also kindly featured me another time with a long detailed, lovely post on her blog.  Here is that post – called “An Artist with a Vision!”  Pam is such an incredible supporter … but make sure you get your entry in too to give you a chance of winning my FREE art at DSG Giveaway #5!! (http://designstyleguide.blogspot.com/2009/10/giveaway-5-featuring-diane-clancy.html)  Thank you, Pam!

Pam’s Blog, Magdalene Jewels

The Design Style Guide is a wonderful place that is bringing together thousands of items that are appropriate for Home Decor. Their main purpose is to promote the team and its members to Interior Designers (and like-minded consumers) through various promotions and advertising techniques. This is part of the move to promote handmade items instead of mass produced things. Their focus is on marketing and branding “Handmade Home Decor” to professional Interior Designers.

They are having a series of giveaways – the current one with Diane Clancy (yes, ME!!) at Etsy, 1000 Markets and ArtFire. This is a free giveaway and I encourage you to join in and see if you can win!! The Giveaway is through October 20 – so join in today!! Here are the details about the giveaway on the Design Style Blog. You know my art – I encourage to go join in the giveaway. Here are my shops Diane’s Etsy shop and Diane’s 1000 Markets Shop and Diane’s ArtFire Shop. This is a great opportunity and let’s hope one of you wins!

If you would like to join Design Style Guide, please click here:

Thanks for stopping by!

I am adding new things every day to my shops – I am getting back in the flow – so keep checking to see which one YOU want to take home!! Thank you!

~ Diane Clancy

Technorati Tags: Design Style Guide Giveaway, Etsy, 1000 Markets, ArtFire, Pam Baker, Magdalene Jewels

The Design Style Guide is a wonderful place that is bringing together thousands of items that are appropriate for Home Decor. Their main purpose is to promote the team and its members to Interior Designers (and like-minded consumers) through various promotions and advertising techniques.   This is part of the move to promote handmade items instead of mass produced things. Their focus is on marketing and branding “Handmade Home Decor” to professional Interior Designers.

Design Style Guide Giveaway #5

They are having a series of giveaways – the current one with Diane Clancy (yes, ME!!) at Etsy and 1000 Markets.  This is a free giveaway and I encourage you to join in and see if you can win!!  The Giveaway is through October 20 – so join in today!!  Here are the details about the giveaway on the Design Style Blog.  You know my art – I encourage to go join in the giveaway. Here are my shops Diane’s Etsy shop and Diane’s 1000 Markets Shop. This is a great opportunity and let’s hope one of you wins!

If you would like to join Design Style Guide, please click here:

Thanks for stopping by!

I am adding new things every day to my shops – I am getting back in the flow – so keep checking to see which one YOU want to take home!! Thank you!

~ Diane Clancy

Technorati Tags: Design Style Guide Giveaway, Etsy, 1000 Markets

Here is another two of these vibrant, colorful paintings – an Art Card, ACEO (2 1/2 x 3 1/2″).  I actually got these listed as originals in two of my shops!!  Each original is listed in only one shop – since I don’t want to deal with the possibility that at any original (so only ONE original) would sell at 2 shops at the same time!!  This one is listed at my 1000 Markets Shop – This Elegant Green pastel is for sale right here!  I might make some limited edition prints (that means, a certain number, not open-ended) … but there is just this one original!

Elegant Green, Pastel © Diane Clancy

This Purple Dusk pastel painting is listed in my Etsy Shop – I am delighted to show you it right here.  Saarmst1on Twitter called this a Purple Deco – I like that idea a lot!  I am very excited to at last get 2 of these in the shops online!!  Making progress!  Thank you so much for coming by and looking at these!  The originals have no signature on the front – only the back – and the color is more delicate than it is here.  The prints I make will be a little more vibrant as the color is here.  I lightened the images for the shops of the originals to more accurately represent the color.

Purple Dusk, Pastel © Diane Clancy

Thank you for stopping by!!  I would love to hear how YOU are!

~ Diane Clancy

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In the last few days I have created 4 pastel ACEOs – it has been  a lot of fun.  After I painted them, then there is the putting them into digital form to market online.  That adds another whole element!!  Because I was scanning 6 ACEOs with similar colors, I think that is why I ran into so many problems … the colors all turned too much orange and I spent several hours trying to figure out how to deal with all that.

I had made 15 vibrant, colorful pastel paintings before and scanned them and I thought the color was more similar between the scan and the original ACEOs.  At last I found the only 1 of the 15 I still had – right in the place I had looked 8 times …  The color is slightly more vibrant than the original, but not that wholesale color switch …   Eventually I filtered the ACEOs and got them pretty close to the originals.  When Susan Elkin has time, I want to show her all of them and get her opinion … she is most helpful with those kinds of things.  You will be seeing the new ones in the next several days … and I will be offering both the originals and prints for sale.

Yesterday I was featured at Found Handmade. This blog features all sorts of finds from lots of different online shops – it is very cool.  Here is the Found Handmade Blog and this is the post where I and others from the ACEO Market on 1000 Markets are featured. There is lots of great merchandise that you can see (and maybe even buy) each day.

Featured at Found Handmade

1000 Markets is a marketplace that has Markets (instead of teams as Etsy does).  So there are individual merchants and then markets … which are merchants who come together with a common purpose ..  geography, type product, method of making items or styles of art.  The ACEO Market, which recently accepted me, is a market that showcases … guess what … ACEOs … Art Cards (2  1/2 x 3 1/2″) that are a fantastic, affordable way to collect an artist’s artwork.  I highly recommend them.  At the ACEO Market (http://www.1000markets.com/groups/aceos) you can see lots of different, unique ACEOS!!  You can see lots of my vibrant, colorful paintings at Diane’s 1000 Markets (http://dianeclancy.1000markets.com).  Please stop by!

Today I was featured in a Spot Light on Made By Hand. The site is Made By Hand – and another time I will share more about it.  Recently I have been accepted by the ACEO Market on 1000 Markets … and someone there made this Spot Light and included me.  I think it looks pretty cool.  They also have a script that you can use to insert the Spot Light into your site or blog.  I had never heard of this site before today but I made a profile and shop there and I will share these links sometime soon. (There is more about 1000 Markets below.)

Spot Light of ACEO Market

1000 Markets is a shop for people selling unique items.  Part of what they say is “Our merchants are small, independent, artisan businesses built by people who love their craft. They make and sell unique products, based on their own vision, personality and story.”  Unlike many of the other online shops, you have to be accepted by them to open a shop.  Anyone can join, look, comment and buy …  If you want to open a shop, you create a shop with at least 5 items and ask them to approve you. Here is my shop if you would to peek at it … Diane’s 1000 Markets (http://dianeclancy.1000markets.com). You can see lots of my vibrant, colorful paintings there!

Diane’s 1000 Markets

1000 Markets is a marketplace that has Markets (instead of teams as Etsy does).  So there are individual merchants and then markets … which are merchants who come together with a common purpose ..  geography, type product, method of making items or styles of art.  The ACEO Market, which recently accepted me, is a market that showcases … guess what … ACEOs … Art Cards (2  1/2 x 3 1/2″) that are a fantastic, affordable way to collect an artist’s artwork.  I highly recommend them.  At the ACEO Market (http://www.1000markets.com/groups/aceos) you can see lots of different, unique ACEOS!!  Please stop by!