I love holidays! I’ve been getting so much done 🙂
Today I’m delivering a commissioned painting to its new owner. I’m looking forward to seeing it on the wall!
I have been working on a large triptych for a friend, and doing a few watercolours.
“Summer Field”
“Bright December Day”
“Growing Family”
Hopefully in the next few days I’ll be posting up some new wearable art pendants too 🙂
You would think that now I’m on school holidays I would have gotten my act together and had my Friday Favourites published on time… but you would be wrong. So this is more like Saturday Favourites (but that doesn’t have the same ring to it!).
I’ve been busy working on a commissioned piece so that’s my excuse 🙂
Next Friday as you know is Christmas day, and I will be busy cooking up a storm (or setting things on fire) in the kitchen – so I won’t be posting a Friday Favourites. So this week I’ve decided to do a Christmas themed set of red and green items.
First up this week are these beautiful Christmas Cards by Moonmum (who is a fellow Aussie!). I love the fact that these are something a little different to what you normally see on Christmas cards. The birds are cute and the stitching really adds another dimension.
I know it’s probably a bit late to be thinking about Christmas cards now, but Moonmum has lots of other cards in her shop for all occasions which are just beautiful, so make sure you check it out!
Next up are these cool Amoeba Kelly Green earrings by Under Glass. These unique earrings would be lovely for any time of year, not just Christmas!
Time for another red item – This wonderful bracelet titled “Blooming Garden” by Blue Dove Studio. I think this bracelet would go perfectly with my red Christmas dress – but like the earrings it’s not Christmas themed so would be pretty at any time of year. I just love the antiqued brass branch charm in this bracelet.
Next up in my little red and green pattern (did you notice?) are these lovely Green Holiday Earrings by AZ Bead Girl. I just love the little diamantes!
Finally, I have to break my red-green-red pattern because I just couldn’t resist including this beautiful soap by Aniselle Bath & Body.
Isn’t it just gorgeous!? Would be wonderful to have in the bathroom as a handsoap around Christmas time when guests come around. The soap is Sage and Pomegranate with Olive oil and Goats milk, so it sounds like it would smell and feel as lovely as it looks.
Well that’s it! My last Friday Favourites for 2009! I should be back with another blog post before Xmas though – I’m hoping to do a painting for Monday Artday if I get to it in time.
Have a lovely weekend!
Christmas is sneaking up on us once again!
We put our Christmas tree up this weekend, and I’ve started thinking about Christmas cards.
Last year I painted a Christmas picture and used the image to make my cards:
I’ve finally gotten around to painting something for this year’s cards. Its a bit different to last years, but I hope people will like it all the same. I’m going to get the prints made up sometime tomorrow and I’ll post a picture of the cards when I’ve made them.
Don’t forget to enter my giveaway if you haven’t already done so!
Yes, I have even more trees!
This painting was inspired by one of my favourite quotes:
“In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.”
~Albert Camus~
In other news, I have posted my first fan special on my KL Bailey Art Facebook Fan Page. If you’re not already a Fan, become one today – I will be posting weekly specials on paintings!!
Could there be an Inspire Me Thursday subject more suited to my work than “Tree”?
I have always loved trees, ever since I was a child & spent most of my free time climbing the huge tree we had in our backyard. Trees feature heavily in my artwork.
I don’t really need an extra excuse to paint trees, and was planning to paint some trees this weekend anyway. I think I’ll be contributing more than one painting to this weeks theme!
My first painting:
What I wanted to do with this painting is to represent the fact that beauty does not mean looking like everyone else. Being an individual and being yourself is more beautiful than becoming a carbon-copy of the ideals projected by the media.
This week’s prompt on Inspire Me Thursday is “Spain”. Having never had the opportunity to visit Spain, this was a tricky one for me – I was forced to resort to Google.
I typed “Spain scenery” into Google, and this is the first image that I really loved:
This photograph was taken by Graham Pritchard. You can see some of his other photographs here.
I used this photograph as inspiration to paint a watercolour of this beautiful scenery.
As you can see, the painting is not exactly the same as the photograph – I used the photo as a jumping-off point, and let the painting develop in whatever directions felt right to me.