Behind the studio
Posted in Reference Photos
I have some new pansies that were not blooming when I bought them. Yesterday they burst into bloom….. wow! Isn't this one beautiful?
I had no idea what the colors would be. What a gorgeous surprise. I love the color combination of purple, yellow, and pinks
Such detail on this flower – the purple vein lines and the tiny bit of white along the ruffled edges. Just beautiful. I am swamped right now, but I will definitely be painting this lovely pansy in the future.
Posted in Art Work, and Peeking Behind the Easel
We have lots of bunnies in the yard year round. There are at least four right now that hang out around the yard. They are a blast to watch when they start playing and chasing each other around the grass. They are very comfortable…. ok, overly comfortable…..
and show little fear when we are around the yard. When the dog is out and about in the yard, they stay where they are, nestle down in the flowers or grass, and just watch him. Often they continue to munch on grass while they keep an eye on him. Occasionally the dog spots them and then the chase is on. The bunnies always win and slip away through the fence. I had the image of the bunnies nestled down in the flowers, keeping an eye on the dog, when I painted this little miniature painting:
And that is a peek behind my easel for the story behind the painting. : ) You can find this painting in my Etsy shop.
Brand new to Etsy is a wedding registry. Very cool idea. If you've poked around on Etsy, you know you can find wedding rings, custom wedding dresses, purses for the bridal party, invitations, hand decorated shoes for the bride and her bridesmads, and much, much more. You can also find just about anything you could imagine for the wedding, the reception and for the home,
Here's the link for the registry.
I had a chance to paint for a wedding from an Etsy customer and it was great fun! A bride contacted me for a series of miniature paintings as gifts for each member of her wedding party. She and I worked out what she wanted and I got to work. What a creative and personal idea she had and I loved being a part of it!
For lots of information and ideas, here's the wedding page at Etsy. And if you are on twitter, I see lots of excitement at #etsyweddings
And lastly, there are lots of real life Etsy weddings to read about here
Sometime ago, I found the most beautiful Monarch butterfly wing fabric. It was a little remnant that I fell in love with. Unfortunately, that was all there was left …..just that little remnant. Just enough to make a border for a small quilt or wall hanging. I've had an image in my mind and finally got to work on making that image a reality. Below is the butterfly painted on lavender cotton.
I used a heat sensitive pen to sketch out the butterfly, then painted it with Jaquard acrylic fabric paints. You can see the butterfly wing fabric on the lower right. Below the border is sewn on, it's sandwiched with batting and a backing, pinned, and ready for quilting.
I used free motion stitching and mimicked the fanciful flitting that butterflies do as they move from flower to flower. The border is quilted to loosely look like a the monarch wing. Here is the finished wall hanging:
That is all there is left of the butterfly wing fabric. It turned out exactly as I had pictured. : ) You can find this at my SibStudio Sewing shop.
I'm back! I've been working on getting a second shop up and running on Etsy. I forgot how long it takes to set up a new shop – banners, writing policies and welcome messages, writing out the description of new items….. And now my second shop is open and I am working on loading items into it.
What's in my new shop about you ask? I've been sewing most of my life and started playing with painting and fabrics together a years ago. I had a few painted purses in my Etsy shop and I wanted to expand on that idea. The results ? SibStudio Sewing is now a new shop on Etsy. I have a number of new items that need photographing and descriptions written. Over the next week or so I will be adding new inventory to the shop and will adding more weekly.
I will continue to paint canvases, wine glasses, etc for my SibStudio shop and locally. I have new artwork to load on SibStudio shortly as well. I'll be blogging about both here. The thought of trying to write for two blogs and two twitter accounts is overwhelming and, really, do people manage to do that? I know how that will work out for me……. disaster! That was part of the reason I named the new shop with the SibStudio branding, to make it easy. One blog and one twitter account to handle both SibStudio shops.
Do any of you have more than one shop of selling venue ? Any tips on handling multiple online shops?