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Moleskine with Watercolor Pages

noreply@blogger.com (Rozie) — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 10:43:00 +0000

We have been going up to the mountain on the Skyline Drive. We have been enjoying the beautiful views, wild flowers and wildlife {we saw bears and deers}, and the many waterfalls in the Shenandoah National Park. I've taken beautiful pictures {which I will share}. I miss doing my watercolor drawings on site. So, this morning, I ordered this Moleskine with Watercolor Pages one for my daughter and one for me. I should be fun to sketch the mountains. I will keep you posted. I am so ready to start a new project.

New Seascape oil Painting on canvas on Etsy

noreply@blogger.com (Rozie) — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 00:27:00 +0000

Expressionist Landscapes & Seascapes on canvas.

You can find these on my Etsy Studio550 Art Gallery

This lovely painting comes matted and with backing.
Details bellow.

Seascape Painting on Etsy! Nice series of Expressionist Landscapes&Seascapes on canvas.
Comes matted and with backing. Paintings on this series can also be framed without mat.

This is a true one-of-kind Original impasto oil painting. My oil paintings are of the highest quality and museum quality.

Title: “Escaping ”
Painting Series: How I See.
Medium: oil painting
Support: canvas (not stretched).
Dimensions: 11" X 11 1/4" inches – 28 cm X 29 cm
Mat and backing: 16X20 inches. Window opening is 8X10inches. Artwork will come mounted ready for framing.

Style: Modern Abstract Expressionism
Origin: Direct from artist studio
Impasto oil painting.

This painting comes matted and with backing. Painting will will fit standard size frame 16X20 inches.
Mats have a double thick, same-color bevel with a dramatic off-center opening that draws attention to the artwork. Mats are museum grade, made of 100% archival 8-ply rag. Archival mounting board is included with each mat. Not Framed.

Group picture is for demonstration of other works on this series. See other works on this series by checking my other listings.

Painting will be carefully packaged to ensure safety during transit. I've been successfully selling my paintings online for ten years. I have excellent feedback on more than five hundred original paintings sold. You will find my artwork in collections in North and South America, Europe and Asia.
I package well and never received a complaint of artwork damaged during transit. Artworks are shipped insured.

Shipping price quoted is for the continental U.S
For international purchases, please send me zip, address and country to calculate shipping. Buyer is responsible for customs and shipping fees.

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Blue Bird Modern Design Card from Zazzle.com
Award winning Modern baby design. Customizable makes perfect baby announcement, baby shower , baby first birthday and much more. Great promotional tool for child & baby related business.

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Butterfly Valentine's Day tiny ACEO card Business card from Zazzle.com
cute little Valentine's Day Card.

Fresh from easel new paintings on etsy

noreply@blogger.com (Rozie) — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:53:00 +0000

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Valentines. Love never Fails
Wedding Vows

c'est la vie c'est la viec'est la vie twitter got me.

noreply@blogger.com (Rozie) — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 01:30:00 +0000

C'est la vie.
I gave in an painted a little birdie. Actually, It was two little birdies. Maybe I've been spending too much time on Iwitter. Maybe-- I can blame on Etsy. Or, perhaps, It was the thousands of birds that invaded my yard the other day. It could be the little birdies who came by my window. I don't know, but here they are!

I confess, I am hooked and I am painting more. The little birdies - they make me happy.

New paintings on my etsy shop.

noreply@blogger.com (Rozie) — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 04:45:00 +0000

I've been busy working on my etsy shop. Please come by and visit. Prices are low - quality is superb.

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Bail out Santa Mug from Zazzle.com

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Handyman Tool Pliers Mug from Zazzle.com
Nice gift for the handyman & service man ( lady)

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Bike Drawings -- Bicycles on ink - at zazzle.

noreply@blogger.com (Rozie) — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 01:04:00 +0000

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Four Bike Drawings

noreply@blogger.com (Rozie) — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:34:00 +0000

Done working on these for today.
At this stage - I have to be careful not to overdue.
I prefer drawings free and fresh looking.
Maybe I am done, Maybe not.
I need time to decide what to do next - if anything.

Close up on wash on one of the drawings.

Bike Drawings. Bicycles on ink.

noreply@blogger.com (Rozie) — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:59:00 +0000

Working on bike Drawings {{{{ bad pictures}}}}. Not sure what I am going to do with these.

Figurative Expressionist impasto oil painting - Madonna meets Picasso.

noreply@blogger.com (Rozie) — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:09:00 +0000

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Series: " Figurative "
Title: Picasso meets Madonna
Medium: Impasto Palette knife Oil Painting
Support: Gallery wrap canvas with sides painted. Ready to hang.
Dimension: 22" X 28" inches
Style: Contemporary Expressionism
Origin: direct from Gallery & Studio.
Available for purchase

Art Calendar new site: craftercircle.com

noreply@blogger.com (Rozie) — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 15:17:00 +0000

CrafterCircle is the online art community sponsored by Art Calendar magazine .
It offers free profile, unique Web Address, blog, live chat to artists, crafters, galleries and creative people. Sounds like a good place to be.

I've enjoyed Art Calendar Membership - it is one of the most useful subscription in my bookself.

Trunkt portfolio Updated today

noreply@blogger.com (Rozie) — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:53:00 +0000

Fresh from the easel - modern abstract landscape

noreply@blogger.com (Rozie) — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 00:03:00 +0000

Fresh from the easel. Listed on my etsy gallery.

Abstract Landscapes on Etsy

noreply@blogger.com (Rozie) — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:53:00 +0000

Sold to a collector in England

noreply@blogger.com (Rozie) — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:39:00 +0000

SOLD! To a collector in the UK.

Title:" Colors of Autumn "
Figurative
Painting Medium: Artist Grade Oil painting and Mixed media collage of Bach music sheet..
Support: Gallery wrapped canvas. Not framed.
All painting materials used are of museum quality.
Dimensions: 8" X 10" inches
Style: Figurative Expressionism, cubism
Origin: From artist studio.

Buy it Now

Woman with Red Dress - oil painting

noreply@blogger.com (Rozie) — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:16:00 +0000

Painting Series: Figurative Conversations
Title: Gathering
Art Medium: Professional Artist grade oil painting.
Support: Gesso Primed wood board
This painting will need to be framed. It comes in standard size
Artwork Dimensions: 20" X 16" inches
about ( 51 X 41 cm)
Painting Style: Modern Abstract Figurative Expressionist
Origin: direct from artist studio.
Colors: Various colors.

Availabe for purchase

Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night at Moma

noreply@blogger.com (Rozie) — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 03:30:00 +0000

Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night

September 21, 2008–January 5, 2009
Special Exhibitions Gallery, second floor
View the online exhibition

Vincent van Gogh's The Starry Night is currently on view at MoMA as part of this special exhibition. The exhibition, including The Starry Night, will go to the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam with views from February 13 to June 7, 2009.

Working on Landscape paintings and thinking of Ralph Waldo Emerson

noreply@blogger.com (Rozie) — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 16:29:00 +0000

For about a month, I've been working on this series of paintings on paper.
I am working on the images and getting ready to offer these as originals and prints too. I find great joy in painting nature and I am particularly happy with this series. I hope you will enjoy them as much as I have enjoyed painting them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson on nature:

Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning, and under every deep a lower deep opens.
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Everything in nature contains all the power of nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
Presently we pass to some other object which rounds itself into a whole as did the first; for example, a well-laid garden; and nothing seems worth doing but the laying-out of gardens.
The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
When I go into the garden with a spade, and dig a bed, I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands.

New Paintings on my studio550 etsy shop.

noreply@blogger.com (Rozie) — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 10:42:00 +0000

Rain, Rain, Go away - come back another day....

noreply@blogger.com (Rozie) — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 21:39:00 +0000

Maybe you do, but maybe you don't!!!

Do see the raindrops in my painting?

Bummer! I set up to photograph my paintings. I usually photograph in batches and carve a large amount of time to do this. Today is a good day - no soccer practice, no band, no high school football and no chauffeuring anybody around after school ( mommy life, you know?). But, oh no, the rain had to come to rain on my parade.

It is rain.......ing and I need to photograph my paintings. I like to photograph paintings on open air out of the sun, but rain - oh, no ... no, that is not the plan. That is a disaster.

Well, at least, I am looking foward The twittermoms wine tasting tomorrow.

Fresh from the easel - new paintings on my ebay gallery

noreply@blogger.com (Rozie) — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:21:00 +0000

original Painting Modern ART Abstract canvas woman nude - eBay art

noreply@blogger.com (Rozie) — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:00:00 +0000

I listed one of my mixed media ( linocut painting) on eBay yesterday. Feel free to visit.

Original Painting Modern ART Abstract canvas woman nude - eBay "
Original abstract Figurative Expressionist canvas painting with linocut relief printing.

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Series: Shifting
Title: Madonna 3
Medium: Professional Artist painting and relief ink
Support: gallery wrap canvas on wood strechers.
Canvas Dimensions: 11' X 14' inches about ( 28 X 35.8 cm)
Painting Style: Modernist Figurative
Origin: direct from artist studio.
Colors: Black and white.
Due to the nature of digital images colors vary from monitor to monitor.
signed and dated on back.

This new series if fresh from my studio. This is a mixed media of original painting and printmaking.
Printmaking was done with linocut. Each impression is an original print.
Printmaking term definitions from wikipedia:

Printmaking --is the process of making artworks by printing.

Relief Printing -- where the ink goes on the original surface of the matrix.

Linocut -- is a printmaking technique, a variant of woodcut in which a sheet of linoleum
(sometimes mounted on a wooden block) is used for the relief surface.
I processed the relief Print on canvas and completed the work with painting.
Each mixed-media media is one-of-a- kind"

on becoming a professional artist

noreply@blogger.com (Rozie) — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:48:00 +0000

Follow up on previous post.
It peaked my curiosity and I Google searched : becoming an professional artist

Art eXposed Blog : debunking myths

noreply@blogger.com (Rozie) — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:36:00 +0000

I was twitting around and stumbled upon Art Exposed Blog's attempt on debunking a few myths that usually hold artists back.

Art eXposed Blog : Becoming a Professional artist
Bellow are the deadly myths, but to get the full picture go here.

Myth 1: Artists should stick to art and leave business to the “suits”
Myth 2: People expect artists to be unprofessional
Myth 3: Artists must be solitary
Myth 4: Art dealers and buyers don’t understand art
Myth 5: If the work is good enough it will sell itself
Myth 6: My art is unique and most people don’t understand it

A good read and the author didn't leave me empty handed. The blog post ends with a glimpse of hope - pointing to new upcoming posts that will help artists to understand the business side of art. I will be looking forward to reading more on the subject.
Definitely a new bookmark.

More linocut printmaking in progress.

noreply@blogger.com (Rozie) — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:34:00 +0000

I took the pictures of the progress & process of my linocut routine.

Starting out with a simple drawing.

The back of the linocut plate.

Cutting and cutting and cutting....
I didn't cut my fingers or stab myself this time.

I use a smaller roller for the proofs.

First proof on brown paper.
I like the composition and design, but
it needs a lot of adjustments and fine tuning.
More cutting and...

.... inking again.

Transfer proof again.

Wash and dry lino with a soft t-shirt.
Get ready for more cutting -- more corrections and fine tuning.

Second Proof. Ummmmmm.
Not happy. Need more adjustments.
Cut, ink and press.

Third proof. Almost!
Repeat everything - cut , press, fine tune -- one more time.

I am happy now. Finished cut and press.

Calling Independent Collectors of art

noreply@blogger.com (Rozie) — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:02:00 +0000

Good morning Collectors of art!

Have you joined the Independent Collectors? Check the new collectors worldwide.

Here is a copy and paste of The Independent Collectors Manifesto - it is a pdf and some people don't like pdf's so I am copying here. Read on.

Independent Collectors – Mini Manifesto
We believe that collecting contemporary art is driven by one key factor:
passion. Increasing that passion is our aim. To achieve this goal, we strive to
share our passion with as many people as possible. Everybody is invited: to learn
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mission, but if we can excite others so much that they start collecting themselves,
we’ll grow even more passionate.

We are convinced: The most important skill that contemporary art collectors
rely on is instinct. But information and contacts are a great help. Independent
Collectors is about making these accessible to everyone eager to share. We want to
compile the perfect set of tools that we think all collectors should have at their
disposal, whether they are new to collecting or experts: instinct, information and
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For us, collecting is closer to hunting than to gathering, because that’s where
the thrill is. And hunting is at its most thrilling outside traditional and protectionist
structures. We are out to open up a new playing field full of fascinating opportunities
and with a different set of rules. That’s why we created Independent Collectors.