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% OF INCOME FROM ART?: 25% or less
$ YOU SPEND ON ART SUPPLIES EACH YEAR: $100-999
MEMBER SINCE: 02/09/2008
LAST LOGIN: 02/13/2008 07:30:28
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country, celtic, folk, accoustic guitar, oldies, cajun, soft rock

anything by Dan Brown, Grisham, I like stuff with a good deep plot and well developed characters.

The Bucket List, Last of the Mohicans, Braveheart, Crash, Click


03/29/2008 14:54:30





I'm a self taught artist with a full time job in an Equine Veterinary Clinic. My last of 3 children left home last year- and I finally feel like it's my time to seriously pursue the development and sale of my art, and stop giving it away. I'm a marketing moron. Joining Scuttlebutt has been such a huge resource of inspiring creative people- many of whom are eager to share their ideas, techniques, and advice- all of which I wholeheartedly seek out and absorb like a sponge. I love having people respond to my posted pieces, and my hand is on fire for wanting to get the next idea on paper. As some of you have figured out- I'm nuts about trees. I'm intrigued with finding human features in branches, bark, and old stumps. I'm crazy about detail. The finest tip black ink pens were my friends for 20 years- and I'm trying to learn how to use color. I love seeing works that explode and are bold with it, that flow, and have light. Always I think "How did you do that!" A Scuttlebutt member suggested I buy the biggest filbert I could get and try painting something big. That hasn't happened yet, but there are more colors appearing all the time. I welcome any and all comments and advice- and I say thank you to everyone who has encouraged me to grow as an artist. You inspire me more than you know.

Trees! Bare feet and worn out jeans, my family, creative people,art supply catalogs, beaches, big skies, hiking, homemade bread, snowstorms, the sun, the moon, any mountain, anywhere. LIFE.

smoking, negative people, wasps, abuse of the environment, burnt toast

art, making art, looking at art, hiking, gardening, working out, travelling, everything outdoors


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From: taluse
03/17/2008 10:59:06

I am so extremely excited right now. I had to show all my co-workers your brilliant picture. You did an amazing job, is it terrible that im so excited?


 



From: taluse
03/17/2008 09:07:38

I cant wait to see what youve done with the photo(s). You can use either Taluse or Chris Schnepel for the credit. Youve gotten me looking for faces in every tree i see.


Chris



03/17/2008 06:19:12
I enjoyed looking through your work. I really like the stuff you're doing with the trees. I love the personalities that come shining thru. Keep up the good work.   Take care, Don


03/17/2008 06:17:07

Thanks for visiting my work and for your comments. Yes, the masks and mask paintings are hanging all over my house and office. Luckily my family doesn't mind. In fact, when my daughter was 3 she chose which mask represented each member of the family. She did have a problem with one of my recent paintings when she saw the early design for it. She told me "dad I had a dream about that one and it freaked me out". I told her that once I captured it on canvas it could not get to her dreams anymore...I think she bought it. It is appropriately titled "Christina's Nightmare". BTW she's 9 now.



From: smwillis
03/17/2008 05:32:42
Thanks I like the peck hole too. I am glade you could see that one. I wanted 12 birds and I got them. So I will need to try the next level of colored children pictures. That is the hardest for me. It has to be perfect.


From: karafree1
03/16/2008 17:02:16

Hey Selliot, I took the actual seed head from an echinacea and when the paint was drying but not completely dry I mushed the seed head into the paint and it left that impression...


cool eh!


 


thanks Selliot



From: karafree1
03/16/2008 12:25:17

Thanks Selliot......that's the beauty of abstract (and really any art form)  you interpret it as you wish... but you are right, my painting is landscape inspired....


thanks, kara


and as I write this I see another new tree


How long does it take you to do these trees, they are so detailed and intricate, and fascinating with all their nooks and crannies.  do you work from photos or memory or do you sit there with the tree as you draw it?



03/16/2008 11:50:28
Sorry, had it transposed.  Try it now: web.mac.com/lisatbenson.  Thanks for looking and thanks for the catch!  Lisa


From: cpwilliams
03/16/2008 10:19:07
Thanks for the comment about the Olds....its a 16x20 acryllic painting.....Craig


03/15/2008 17:19:51
Thank you for your wonderful comment on Blue Willow Coffee.  I am so glad you liked it.  I love your trees especially Minimum Wage Job. Where is North Manmonth?  Illinois? ~  Lisa




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