New photos!

I took a trip to the botanical gardens this past weekend. I love this place...I have the membership to prove it! ;) They were having their annual plant sale so I figured I'd go check it out. After I picked out some new plants for my yard I decided to spend time in the gardens and take some photos. The new butterfly exhibit was up and running and I always love spending time in there. Here are a few photos...

Loved it!

I am RAW!!

I will be featured in next months RAW Artists show in Phoenix! Anyone in the area want to see some great varieties of art (along with mine!) and have a drink or two buy a ticket and come on by!!

Show Info & Tickets!!

Latest!

It's been awhile! Phew! I've been busy with work and all but I've been keeping up with the creating as much as I can. I just finished up a series of paintings for my cousin that I sent out last week so I've been able to focus on generating for the masses :)

I really love this painting and I happened to sketch this out a few weeks ago so I've been itching to get it done. It's hanging on the wall until it sells. LOVE

I'm off to the Sea Lifa AZ aquarium tomorrow so hopefully I'll get some awesome sea creature shots for prints. Happy Friday!!

Completed!

And so it has been finished! Finally! It's taken a long time...with the detail I spent a lot of time on this piece...and I really do like it...

Hopefully someone else will too! :)

New Listings!!

New photography prints and new paintings...

Orange Dragonfly with Damaged Wing

Saguaro Cactus

Beach Sunset, Rocky Point, Mexico

Turquoise cross-hatch and copper/orange swirls

Turquoise/orange/yellow cross-hatch and silver flowers

Black, red & white gradient

I also have a painting in the works...a flower painting I have left uncompleted for at least a year now..I will be excited to get ti completed. It's pretty and I may even hang it on my wall until it is sold! :)

How to begin??

Well this morning I decided that I should at least get ONE blog on my site...get started...what does one talk about in their very first blog? Well I dont' know! Ha.

To start, I'm going to share my work space...where all the work is done (the painting anyway).

 Looking in.

Work table that pretty much just collects things. Oh and that quilt...my grandmother made for me. I have cats and I don't want them getting it all hairy by putting it on the guest bed...so I decided to hang it so I can enjoy it...I love it. The Mao poster I purchased at an antique mall in Beijing while I studied in China in 2004...sweet.

Aaaand this is where the painting happens. Less than fancy but it gets the job done. My old architecture trunk (which still has a bunch of crap in it) is the main work area while my dell computer box holds the paint, brushes, and water. And an old sheet protects and as you can see I need it because I get paint everywhere :)

Now...it's a little messy and unorganized. I recently retrieved my cute children's painting from the boutique they were in to get better photos of them to enhance the listings on my etsy...so now I just have piles of paintings everywhere. I tried to make it sort of orderly...sort of.

The space seems to work well. I'm waiting for one of my friends to make me a painting smock I can wear while painting...I seem to get paint on my clothes a lot as well. For now I drape a towel over my lap while I paint.

So there it is...where the magic happens, haha. I suppose it's time I get to it so I can get more paintings listed on my etsy. :) Happy Saturday!