New artwork.

I have a few new paintings to show youuuuuuuu. 

Ok this first one, I did for Shae, the friend who passed away from Hodgkin's Lymphoma.  His cousin organized a fundraiser for his family and to raise money for Lymphoma research, so I made this painting for her to auction off.  The ribbon for Hodgekin's Lymphoma is purple, and Shae's favorite 'print' was zebra, so here ya go:

This next one is a present for my friend who is getting married, and I'm not really sure yet if I'm finished with it.  She had originally had the idea of putting peacock feathers in all of her bridesmaids' hairdos, later decided against it, but she still likes them.  Her home colors are very neutral, she likes browns and golds and silvers with just hints of green or blue.  So this is what I have so far.  I have to say that it looks better in person, but I still don't know if I'm satisfied with it yet.  The wedding is this weekend so I may play around with it some more.  What do you think?  Constructive criticisms are always welcomed :)

New website!

Instead of writing in my blog like I should have been, and I always feel guilty when I don't (why I wonder?), I made myself a new website that has all of my art information and my hair information.  Go check it out! 

http://makeitartsy.com/   

Let me know what ya'll think and if there are any things you would change or just do differently.  Thanks! 

Update post coming soon...  I really just need to make the time to sit down and blog again, on an actual usual basis.  I loved it when I did!

Paintinggg

So I finished this painting a couple weeks ago.  I had put an ad on craigslist for my paintings, and that I was looking for new work if someone was interested... and this guy emailed me back that day and said he had been looking for a local artist to do 3 pieces for him.  This was the first of 3:

First...  let me say that I am a wee 5'1.  this painting is almost as big as I am, to the point where it was difficult to get from one place to the next.  it's 36in by 48in.  Biggest painting I've ever done. Here's a close up of her face (keep in mind that this face is way bigger than an actual human face!)

 It took me a total of 32 hours to complete it.  He sent me a picture of what he wanted, and I did it, adding a touch of my own in places here and there.  It's a 'Dia de los Muertos' painting, and when I was all finished, it was difficult to let go of.  So far, this has been my 'Mt. Everest' of paintings, and when you spend that much time with something, creating something, and putting your heart and soul into it, it becomes a part of you.  It wasn't even really my style, but it didn't matter in the end.  I love it.  and best of all, he LOVED IT.  And i loved the super big payout that I got for it hehe.  And now I'm totally excited because since he's seen what I can do, he has all these other ideas for the two other paintings, and it's gonna be awesome.  I can't even tell you how much satisfaction you get out of getting paid to do what you really love.  It's an amazing feeling.  And I'm starting to feel really great about my abilities and where they're going to take me.  I feel so completely blessed and lucky, even if I'm not religious haha.

Here's another one I did last month, this was for a client of mine, and she loved it too.

This one's a little smaller, only 28in by 34in (or close to that i think).  The texture on it is paper mache, and crushed seashells.  The purple was done because it's her nephew that has Hodgkin's Lymphoma (I talked about him in a previous post, Shae), and purple is the awareness color for it.  She's redecorating her house, and quite a few rooms have a lot of purple in them. 

Some new art.

I finished up some paintings over the weekend.  Have a looksie.

This one is for Shae, our friend who is in ICU right now (14 days so far) with Hodgkin's Lymphoma.  I made this to put in his room.  His nickname is Cheetah Smurf :-) 

I made this for a coworker to give to her boyfriend for their one year anniversary.  Her instructions were as follows:  "his favorite color is green."  haha.  He loves it.

This picture does not do this justice by any means.  This painting is 24in by 32in.  It's much brighter and more colorful in person.  Also, if you look closely, you can see that there is some added texture in some spots,  I have strips of sequins on it that I painted over.  They shine more than the canvas.  I painted this to match some vases that we got for the salon:

Pretty huh? 

As always, my art is for sale.  Visit my actual art page here.