New series in the works

It’s been awhile since I’ve posted. After the Brookfield Arts Festival, I took a much needed break from everything.

My next series of drawings will be all dog related as it’s been forever and a day since I’ve drawn one. I ask myself now, have I ever finished one? If I have it’s been way too long. Well, a few weeks ago I started on my official first dog drawing and I plan on finishing it this evening when I get home. This weekend I will start on the next series of dog drawings. I hope to have them posted to my website in the next month. Keep coming by to visit and if you like my work tell a friend or two!

Prints available!

The miracles of the internet continue to astound me most especially as an artist. So many possibilities  abound for artists and its a matter of researching and spending time on the internet.

I’ve posted many of art works to Imagekind.com and FineArtAmerica.com available as open edition prints.These are  great sites for artists to market and post their artwork as prints for sale.  I’ve opened a store with Etsy.com where I will be selling my limited edition fine art prints and original drawings. This site is probably my favorite for it is cheap to list my artwork (.20 an image), very customizable, and I have complete control over my shop. I have the ability to contact customers directly, and that is key! DeviantArt.com is a great site for networking with other fellow artists both young and old, as well as another place to catalog my artwork. I have more here than anywhere else. They do have a shop, and I have some prints available there.   I will say DeviantArt.com has been the most rewarding, since one; I’ve been there the longest, and two it’s HUGE! The feedback from other artists and art admirers is incredible. I have a paid account with them which has allowed me to customize my account page and upload high resolution images to be sold as prints.

Many plans are in the works to upload more artwork to other sites. The goal is to saturate the market!

The Art Fair Booth

With the Brookfield Arts Festival coming up next weekend, I thought I’d take a little time and talk about the art booth. There was no way I was going to be able to afford a completely new art booth using conventional professional quality art panels and such, so my boyfriend and I decided to make our own. We found a great site that included a step by step instructions on how the artist built her booth using lattice panels, 2x4s and 2x10s. A very keen set-up, and albeit leaving out some minor details that left us guessing what we needed to do next came up with a functional booth to hang my artwork for the show! We have one more piece to assemble and then we can do our test run to see how it all fits together. I truly hope to not have to travel much for it is a cumbersome business of storage and these aren’t the most portable. More to come!

UPDATE: 07-11-2010 The art booth was a success at the Brookfield Arts Festival. We received lots of comments on it and it definitely served its purpose for displaying my work. Set-up and assembly took just under an hour, even after my boyfriend made a few last minute adjustments. The only issue is storage and transport, so my boyfriend wants to do a redesign and perhaps sell the current version of the booth. For my first arts festival it was a quite successful if nothing more, I met some great artists and great people who all were courteous and appreciative of my horse drawings. Next time, I will have more variety and include other pets and animals and my colored penciled works.

Here’s a photo of my booth set-up at the festival:

My first Art Booth set-up

The Suburban Life; Brookfield Arts Festival article

The Suburban Life in Brookfield, IL featured an article about the Brookfield Arts Festival this coming July 10th and July 11th. I was one of the two artists interviewed! A very exciting moment for me and a mile marker in my art career!  Brookfield, Artistic Venture

Third Pegasus drawing for Things with Wings

It’s a little late for this, but I felt I needed to post it anyway. The below Pegasus drawing is currently hanging at the Vogt Visual Arts Center in Tinley Park, IL, along with the two others I’ve completed. If they do not sell of course, I will be showcasing them at the Brookfield Arts Festival July 10th and 11th 2010. What an exciting year for artwork!

Fly with me to where the sky ends. Fly with me and you will know freedom.

The show at Tinley Park ends June 30th! If you’re interested, and in you’re in the area, I recommend seeing it. Lots of great local arts have participated and it’s worth the visit.

Brookfield Arts Festival, Preparations and Anticipation

Okay, so it’s now time for me to muster up the motivation and energy to go full pencil tilt into creating several new drawings for the upcoming Brookfield Arts Festival in July. With the Tinley Park show in full swing this month, I can focus my attentions on getting my equine series put together. It’s going to be a fun ride!!

My first completed drawing for the Brookfield Arts Festival is of Keegan; the Friesan Stallion who lives in IN that captured my full attention on deviantart.com through the magnificent photographs of Larissa Allen. She has graciously provided some of her photos as free stock for artists to use! Just follow the rules is all any stock photographer asks! I couldn’t be more thankful to this group of dedicated individuals. Anyway, I present to you, probably the best drawing I’ve done to date, “Keegan, Friesan Stallion”. It took me 18 hours and I learned a few new things in the process and I’m not afraid to admit, I’m pretty proud of it!

The Friesan is the epitomy of equine perfection!

Interview by Paige The Equinest

In 2009, I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Paige the Equinest, a very talented writer who is passionate about horses and created a great site for anything horse related. She asked me a series of questions about being an equine artist and an artist in general. Feel free to read my interview as an equine artist with her!