Living In Limbo

As some of you may already know, life has taken some very unexpected and challenging turns since last July. After our family suffered a job loss last year, our house has been on the market. My husband Joe has also joined the Navy reserves and will be leaving in less than 2 weeks for nearly 6 months. When he returns, we have no idea where we want to leave. Should we stay in Nashville, move to Knoxville where my family is, or pick up and go somewhere completely knew like Austin or Charlotte? I can whole heartly say I have not a clue.
The good side of us staying in Nashville is I've already made some headway artistically here. Going somewhere new would mean I'd have to start all over. I had originally moved to Nashville in 2002 for singing/songwriting. Little did I know I was in the middle of a city with 10,000 other people who had the same dreams as me! YIKES. But, I have for the most part layed that ghost to rest. I still like to sing, but have not actual reason to be here other than friends.
So life is in limbo, and what that means for my artwork is I kind of have to reshift and just work on getting better and not try to book a bunch of shows, because I don't know where I'm headed geographically. So, I'll dive back into my books and continue painting over everything that I don't like as I try new things!

Month of JULY-All about fruits and veggies!

Friends,
In preparation for this years Tomato Art Fest, I am painting lots of fruits and veggies. You will definately see tomatoes, and maybe a few other tasty fruits. Put the Tomato Art Fest on your calendars this year. It is located in East Nashville, and the website is http://www.tomatoartfest.com/
Date: Saturday, August 11th
Time: 10am to 10pm
What: Art, music, food, crafts, produce and more!

June 24th-"Barney"

There's not much to say about this little guy other than I thought he was cute so I painted him. Just sitting alone on a tree branch, he surveys the neighborhood. Walking around my street the last few days I've noticed how many birds there are. Also, at dusk all the bunny rabbits come out. Sometimes I leave left over fruit under the big tree outside our kitchen window for a snack for them. I left a pineapple core out the other day.
Title: "Barney"
Size: 3 x 4 inch
Acrylic on wood

June 17th-COASTERS!

One item I've recently added to my merchandise table is coasters. Some of them are hand painted like this little creature, and others have incased pictures inside them. I sold all the cottage ones before thinking of sharing the images with you, so...sorry!
I'm still working on perfecting there assembly, trying different things. I sell them in sets and as individual items. This snowman is part of the My Frosty Friends. He's a one of a kind coaster (hand painted).
Lately I've been doing a lot of artisan type things like this; I've even made some necklaces from some of my bird paintings. I will share those soon.

June 10th-Cabin On A Hill

This week I thought I'd include what I've been up to as of late. As some of you may know, I've been living in limbo for the past few months, waiting to hear whether I've been accepted to some fine art shows.
While I'm waiting, I've been busy planning my Summer Bazaar and SALE, and just recently again started drawing. Once I start delving into some detailed paintings again, I want to put these kinds of cabins perched on hills, and surrounded by spring trees or fall foilage. I'm thinking of doing some paintings with the same house but different seasons and/or color tones. Night, daybreak, etc. This is just a suggested sketch.

June 3rd-"The Jackpot"

In continuing with the theme of Christmas, I thought I'd post this painting I did for one of this years 2012 Christmas Cards. This piece was truly a blast. Each time I paint snowmen, I am increasingly enchanted with them. This card is also part of the

My FROSTY FRIENDS™ brand.

Come to the Summer Bazaar and SALE on June 10th from 1-4pm. The sale is at my house, and lemonade and cookies will be served.

My FROSTY FRIENDS™ will be available at the sale as well.

Title: "The Jackpot"

Size: 5 x 7 inch

Medium: Acrylic on panel

A fun little tidbit about this piece. When I finished painting the gumdrops, I added glitter to them. After printing out some cards, I was very happy to see the reflections of the glitter on the final print out!