more dragons in the snow

  • Nov. 30th, 2009 at 10:18 PM

Yuletide Dragon and Snow Fleas are also up.


 


Hope to get them up at my Zazzle shop and deviantArt prints in addition to the CafePress one... if anyone has preferences as to which outlet they like the most, I'd love some feedback.

painted presents, printed.

  • Nov. 30th, 2009 at 1:16 AM
New art in Whimsical Dreams, plus holiday designs and a revised 2010 calendar. Enjoy!

An Unexpected Present Mouse with Ornament Beware Imps Bearing Gifts Jessica;s Shearwater: January 2010 image for Whimsical Dreams' wall calendar

"Mermaid Dreams" featured...

  • Nov. 29th, 2009 at 11:30 PM
  • 22:45 is grateful for my "Strange Pillows" mermaid watercolor being featured in a #deviantArt news post: fav.me/n95342
Admittedly, this happened in October, and I"m so behind I only just now noticed. Didn't result in any print sales, either. **sigh** I need to coordinate my offerings better... not that much sells (yet, dammit, yet!).

barter with someone cool: Ellen Million!

  • Nov. 24th, 2009 at 11:30 PM

Gotta Good Con? Let me know!

  • Oct. 12th, 2009 at 11:30 PM
  • 10:59 just updated some SF/Fantasy Convention Listings at emg-zine.com/calendar.php for Oct- Feb.
    Always looking for additions/changes!
Are these women more beautiful afterward? Not to my eyes. Certainly the first one is more polished and cleaner-appearing afterward, which is pleasant, but still I think a uneceesarily exaggerated. Would I have seen it, just looking at the billboard?

How shall I help teach my children to see real people, to (if they choose to draw and paint) to include both the real and exaggerated (I certainly do the exaggerations, but not always these directions), to celebrate all of it, in themselves and beyond themselves? Given that so much of the art about faerie and such has for so long (centuries) also had some exaggeration in this way, what does that mean about us humans and what we seek to see? (I mention that more because that's the slant my own art takes, usually, not because I think that's the sum total of art worth seeing by any respect). It's how we internalize our image of ourselves as bodies, but more than that.

Bless Rubens and Paul Gauguin, and that's just the first two that come to my own mind, and they too exaggerate as I think all artists must somehow...

daily scatterstatus: a gift online

  • Aug. 25th, 2009 at 11:30 PM

daily scatterstatus

  • Aug. 18th, 2009 at 11:30 PM

Lo! LoudTweeter is fixed!! Now, if I can get in and adjust my settings...

One of the things that impresses me about Jessica Douglas's work is her use of references in wings, and her ability to work large and fine enough to get just about every darn feather. Not to mention what David Sibley can do (have you seen his bird guides??!!)

I was noodling about on a 4"x6" piece of paper meant actually for printing cards on inkjet printers. As such, it moderately sucks for watercolors, but once I laid in a background (while vaguely thinking I might work at some of Linda Kemp's techniques), I switched to mixing colored pencils and gouache and thicker watercolors, and kept thinking of Ursula Vernon's advice that people will "believe" any lighting and skin tones if you get the shadows right.

Well, I'm not in their class, on any of those counts. I'm not even sure there are enough shadows (there often aren't, in my stuff). And I know I'm working too small and too impatiently to even get halfway to some of their techniques, let alone toward their deeply practiced skills and cool creativity.

On the other hand, they're all teaching me stuff, I keep going when I can find some damn time, and I'm grateful, and pleased with this as a step towards their levels (say, as of a couple years ago; I may never catch up and that's OK too).

It was a sooty shearwater, by the way.

On gear: Shirts and gifts through cafepress; different mugs and totes and doodads at zazzle; and various print sizes at deviantArt.

another wee step

  • May. 13th, 2009 at 4:11 PM
Thank you, R in IA, for finding and choosing this!


I wish I could organize my time (find more time? motivation? would quit reading novels?) and give this stuff (art, sales) the time they deserve. I must change somehow...

Two Queens

  • May. 8th, 2009 at 9:29 PM
This one is for [info]lepi: http://puimun.deviantart.com/art/Queen-of-Pentacles-89204454

This one is for [info]raven_albion: http://puimun.deviantart.com/art/Queen-of-Wands-93383316

I wish I could paint this well... and I suppose if I could practice and study as much as Stephanie Pui-Mun Law does, I might get there. I am so in awe. Her work is so rich.

Sorry, I'm not including thumbs; it's not my art. Please click 'em!

beautiful AND useful: my favorite combo

  • Mar. 21st, 2009 at 11:30 PM
from ping to twitter to LJ with LoudTwitter

Recommended highly. Get both together if you didn't already.

Gnome's Clover

  • Feb. 20th, 2009 at 4:16 PM

So I had this gnome I painted the other day (he's a bit less than 3" x 4" -- just a bit too large to crop into an ACEO/ATC). But ... he was just this guy. On a plain background. I'm trying to have backgrounds, really I am.

And I had this digital photo of a four-leaf clover, the only one I ever found (I ran home for the camera that day).

And I've not tried digital collage.

So I did. But oh! I really wish my scanner actually could SEE blues. I can't photoshop them to make the digital file look right enough (it's way closer than the scan, mind you). Does anyone know of a scanner than sees blues, for the someday-upgrade-daydream?

As always, suggestions welcome.

Let me know if you want prints (I find myself too impatient, and I want to show the art before implementing prints) -- the original painting is available too, but remember, there's no background, just the gnome.

Thank Yous

  • Feb. 8th, 2009 at 11:34 PM
My friends & Mom are encouraging my vices. Chocolate, PITT pens, iridescent watercolors, mats, and gift cards to art supply shops. Awesome!

Bellflowers

  • Feb. 8th, 2009 at 6:29 PM

Fiddling again with that cool technique of Linda Kemp's -- the negative space, front-to-back stuff. Plus colored pencil. Working on this while waiting for other stuff to dry. Didn't turn out as I'd thought I was planning, but that's OK.

Original is 3"x7" on cold press paper of some kind, watercolors and colored pencil.

Prints can be available, of course. Original is also for sale (very occasionally something sells and I don't get the image page updated soon enough); email me!

Hayfever Imp

  • Feb. 6th, 2009 at 8:14 AM

Soft pencil and watercolors on the backside of some cold press watercolor paper.

Original is about 3" x 5" (I have a sleepy feverish child on me, so I can't actually measure it right now).

Available for prints, magnets, and much more at deviantPrints, my Zazzle shop, and Whimsical Dreams. If you don't find what you're looking for, please let me know!

As usual, original is also for sale (very occasionally something sells and I don't get the image page updated soon enough); email me with an offer.

Copyright © 2009 Kirsten Talmage



[Edited to note I've set up STUFF with it. Sheesh.]