New Poppy Painting

THIS New Poppy Painting...

...was inspired by this Poppy Digital Painting.

Actually, someone had emailed me, to see if I could

do something similiar, but NOT exact.

Anyway...it IS listed in the Shop...

a 6" x 6" original chunky painting.

go..have a look.

Led By The Spirit

I wanted to share these little treasures with you.

They are little pendants and magnets

put together using,

microscope slides and lead free solder.

Aren't they just charming!!!

They are soooo reasonably priced and

can be found in the Etsy Shop

Led By The Spirit.

CMZ Art Shop Announcement

Sunday...that will be the

day I'll be listing

some new pieces in the

Shop.

I'd hoped I'd have them ready

today..but, a little household

emergency set me back a couple of days.

Within the next week or two

I want to have some

Valentine pieces ready to list..

I'll let you know when I'm able to

get them finished.

Free Photo Editing

This is a picture of a painting I did this

last year. I am thinking that I want to turn

it into a print, but I need to do a few things

before I can do that.

I started working with a few photo editing

programs last year. But, there are a couple

that I use more than others.

The program I use most often is GIMP.

It works very much like Photoshop, (another program

I use regularly)

but I find it better for some applications.

It's a free download and you can

find a lot of 'how-tos' on You Tube,

to help you get a faster start.

Another of my favorite photo editing programs

is, Picnik.

They have a bunch of wonderful

fonts on this FREE site, that I use when creating

banners...I used their fonts

to create the banner for this blog. I think it

is really cool!

It allows you to size, color and place the

font where-ever you want it.

Then, you can 'copy' the exact wording, over

the top of what you've just placed, and tweek the color

a bit, to give it somewhat of an 'embossed' effect.

Check my banner to see this example.

Anyway, I just wanted to share a couple of the programs

I use to create new art...the best part is...the only

paid program I use is the Photoshop..and I can get the same--PLUS

with the free programs.

A brief note...

I'm finally back to work

on some new textured acrylic paintings

and some regular acrylic paintings.

For some reason, I enjoy working

on more than one painting

at a time. I tend to get 'side-tracked' while

waiting for paint to dry and this way,

I can just set one aside and pick up another.

Hopefully I'll be able to have

several ready to put into the shop

this week-end.

Jaime and I have planned a new

line of fine art pendants

that we are both quite excited about.

We want to have them

ready by month's end

if all goes according to plans.

My CMZ Art Zazzle Shop

has a new look

and new merchandise.

I will have lots of new items

in the coming weeks,

including,

Birthday Greetings,

Valentines,

Easter,

Mother's Day and much...much more!

Drop in and check it

out sometime.

Vintage Fifties

I grew up in the fifties,

graduated in the sixties,

started a family in the seventies,

and welcomed the first of my grandchildren

in the nineties.

Every now and then, I enjoy

a little trip down 'memory lane'..

..to share my little trip

please visit my latest

Squidoo Lens

and enjoy!

Change Gonna Come

Well, the New Year is here...and I look for lots of change.

Certainly, we will see history made with

our first black President.

Hopefully, we'll see a positive

swing in the economy.

For me...well

I have added some

new digital art prints

in my shop

that I like..a lot.

A series of birds.

I currently have six different

prints in my new birds series...

and I'll continue to add more,

when I have six new ones finished.

I've reworked a few of my

character paintings

into new, digitally enhanced, prints

and have a couple of these

in the shop

as well.

In the Pendants Plus Shop

I have added some brand new prints

in a

'Robots' Series

and some wonderful little

'Dog' Prints.