Taking a break..

I haven't posted in a while and I haven't been able to paint much at all. :( Theres a lot going on right now.. getting the kids adjusted to a new school and moving among other things so painting has been put on temporary hold for now. I have been trying to slip in some paint time here and there so maybe I'll have something new on eBay within the next few weeks. And of course if I do I will post about it here. My dane Lexi is at a friends house until I get settled somewhere more permanent. Ludo was taken over by my pseudo mother and lives with his brother Blue now so he's happy. =D HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

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Hearts for Anna

To all of my fellow artists please considering making a Heart for Anna, everyone else please consider buying one! I have known Anna for several years, we met through the art fair circuit. She is a such a gem of a person and wonderful artist, please read on and help if you can. (And I'm sorry for the short notice...I just found about this wonderful fundraiser today).

Anna Millea, a longtime Guild and Artful Home artist, is fighting breast cancer - again. The disease has returned aggressively and is now in her bones, requiring an extreme sixteen rounds of chemotherapy. She has no insurance, having been deemed uninsurable due to her "pre-existing condition."

When we at Artful Home learned of this we knew we needed to do something to try to help her through this situation. What we have come up with is an event we are calling "Hearts for Anna", to which we hope you will contribute and donate a little bit of your time and talent.

Artful Home will hold a 5-day online event, "Hearts for Anna", August 12-16, 2009 in which miniature artworks, no larger than 5" x 7", will be sold. The items will be sold first-come, first serve, with all items selling for $100 on Day 1, $75 on Days 2 - 4, and $50 on Day 5. All money will go to a fund that goes directly to Anna Millea to help pay for her medical bills.

Follow this link to participate!

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Its been since May 18th since I last blogged? Wow.. Where does the time go. :P
The 20x20 I posted below sold pretty quick and the other 20x20 with the bright orange background just sold. I FINALLY finished one of the commission paintings and I'm almost finished with the 10x30. My stained glass weimer painting sold this weekend and I'm thinking about doing more of those in different breeds.
I'm having a hard time finding a good place to paint around here. The upstairs bathroom is huge and has been where I've done most of it so far, but its roasting up there! I need to invest in another fan. I was going to include some pictures, but they're on a different computer. Hafta do that later..

Painting again!

I'm able to paint again! Yay! Here and there I've managed to find time and I'm moving things around trying to make space so I can paint more often. Its hard to keep the little peoples tiny fingers off my paint and brushes right now too. I did a couple 20x20's and now I'm working on a 10x30 and a 10x10 commission. I had one of my loyal customers ask if I could reproduce paintings they had donated for dane rescue so I'm finally able to work on that. Hopefully it won't take me long to get those done.
I'm going to whip up some paintings of different breeds and get back with the art gallery in toccoa. I think that would be a fun road trip and theres a cave up there! Toccoa Falls...that'd be fun. :)
Here's pics of the new 20x20's and they're both on eBay right now.

Update..

I am really not in the mood for blogging, but wanted to update whats going on. I doubt I'll be running any new paintings for a short while. I lost Sampson (my blue harl dane) Monday morning to bloat, I got thrown out of my home Sunday and half of my paintings were destroyed in the process. So if anyone wants to send any positive energy my way I can sure use it!!
I do have something positive to share.. Hannah got adopted about 2 weeks ago and I held my breath until I heard from her adopter a couple days ago. Shes doing great, has been spayed and updated on her vax and shes being spoiled and loved.
That makes it all worth while! All the nights of leash walking her in the rain and freezing cold because I didn't have a fence.. but I knew she didn't deserve the pound and there was a great home out there for her somewhere.
Yay!!!
Geez.. can ya tell that was half hearted? I can't even fake joy over the internet. lol
Ok.. so.. I have plenty of things to do to keep my mind off the negative.. its just a matter of getting out of my pity party and doing them.

Can't Sleep..again..

I've been having trouble sleeping here lately. Not good considering I need to be up to take my oldest son to the doctor tomorrow. I've learned one thing though.. Don't try to stay up all night thinking thats better than getting one or two hours of sleep. I did that before Jr's surgery Monday night and boy did I regret that! I think I got a total of 4 or 5 hours sleep while at the hospital with him. You'd think I'd come home and sleep like the dead, but now I'm having trouble going to sleep at night.
I never did hear back from the lady who had the wreck so I ran her painting on eBay. Can't wait forever! :/ If she happens to contact me in the future I'll whip up another one for her.
During my insomnia last night I painted a cute 8x10 of a merle great dane and tonight I did a cobalt blue lab/dane lookin dog. Its also an 8x10.. I think its the last of that size that I had here. Doesn't seem to be a very popular size anyways. Here lately everyone wants these ginormous 20x20's and what not.
I worked on the 20x20 inch commission for about 10 minutes tonight. I gotta get motivated to do more on that thing. I have a decent amount of time to finish it in, but I don't want to keep throwing it aside while I do other things.
I need to get some smaller canvas..some 9x12's and 11x14's.. I'm out of those.
I wouldn't mind having more 4x4 inches too. Those sell pretty good.
Maybe I can swing by blick next weekend..I'd like to take Jeannie there for her bday anyways.

Friday!

Tomorrow is Jr's pre op appointment. They called today and ask if we could be there an hour earlier than scheduled and then his surgery is Tuesday. I thought it was odd that the pre op was so far from the surgery, but oh well.
I tried a new paint technique yesterday and wasn't real happy with the results.. I liked the first layer, but as I added on I found certain things I didn't like about it. It was an experiment so I'm going to keep messing around with it. I'll attach a picture of it. I guess it falls into the abstract category, which is one that I'm not really comfortable with. I love attempting abstracts, but I'm never happy with how they turn out. I have some ideas I want to try with this technique so we'll see how it goes..