The things I do for fun

What does a commissionable artist do for fun? More art. I will be doing some celebrity paintings of some of my favorite tv stars so that my potential clients can relate when they see them.

So I decided to finally paint something for myself and have a little fun. Here's HOUSE.

Hugh Laurie who plays Greg House on Fox. Enjoy!

My First Wholesale Order!

Even though I have my jewelry for sale in my studio, Kelly's Artbox, in Occoquan, I also sell online at etsy internationally.

I just sold my first wholesale order of a mix of my (upcycled) guitar string rings to this awesome studio/store in California. Here is a link to their website http://www.jenniferpricestudio.com/

I think they'll go very well in here modern, yet vintage styled store!

Watercolor: In Love with Gouache

"What's 'gouache'?" You may be asking. Well gouache is a type of watercolor. I love it because I think it has the best of both worlds with typical watercolor, and acrylic (also another form of watercolor), in that gouache is still workable after it dries like watercolor, but has a white pigment like acrylic and can be very opaque.

In this recent painting of mine from my original photo, I decided to take more of a translucent approach, but used the white pigment in parts of the nest. The only dowfall to the white is that it can "muddy up" easily, so I reccommend still trying to use the white of the paper as your true white in the piece.

You can buy this piece and other gouache pieces of mine online or at my studio Kelly's Artbox in Occoquan, VA.

Pendant Crazy!

So with the suggestion from my good friend Lisa (http://www.lisajuliaphotography.com/) I decided to try making these pendants using my photos and artwork. I really like how they turned out, and you can purchase one for $10. I may be writing a new blog about how to make them, since I couldn't find that anywhere when I was trying to figure it out. However, you can purchase your own little kit to make 6 pendants here: http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?ref=sr_list_3&listing_id=13878441

New Clutch Pattern

Some of you probbaly remember my wristlet making frenzy a few months back...well I just purchased a pattern http://www.etsy.com/view_transaction.php?transaction_id=9679158

and will post the results whenever I have time to make one of them!

More photo frenzy

I am an artist in the Northern Virgina area, but my current hobby has been trying to get back into using my Pentax K camera! I am trying to branch out on my artsyness with my photography I think-- but I still love photographing anything nature.

A great Northern VA children's photographer is Lisa from LisaJulia Photography. http://www.lisajuliaphotography.com

Photo Crazy

I forgot about my love for photography! I purchased some new lenses and tried them out last weekend. Here is one of the photos.... Can you tell I like nature?

I am based in Manassas, VA, but I travel to the Hudson Valley area in NY often. This was taken there at a nearby park.

You can purchase this print on my etsy site http://www.ofnaturedesigns.etsy.com