New painting! This is 8x10 inches, watercolor and ink on watercolor paper.
For Sale in Abstract Floral and Cat Art by Melsky
I'm pretty busy at work but finding a small amount of time to paint. I'm going to take some time off this weekend, maybe take a 4 day weekend.
This is a paining I finished last night. It's 11x14 and done with watercolor, acrylic and ink on watercolor paper.
I started this painting when I was doing the Art on the Porches festival. For some reason I had the idea to do a painting with a woman's face, a guitar and a cat. The painting was going to be kind of serious and somber and have darker colors in it.
The cat and the guitar turned out good but the woman's face turned out horrible. I wish I had taken a before picture of this painting! When I took it out and started working on it again I painted over the woman's face with green and white. Do you see the part in the middle with yellow paint and copper colored stripes with the sunflower in the bottom part? That was part of her hair.
I like how it ended up but of course it's not somber at all. I can never seem to paint things that don't look happy and bursting with good cheer.
Anyway I put it on etsy:
Summer Fragments painting on Etsy.
I've finished a new painting. I decided to paint with acrylics today and see what happened. This is the result and I'm very happy with it.
This one is 8x10 on watercolor paper.
Summer Night Sky Cat painting for sale
I'm going to be doing the Art on the Porches festival on June 14th. It's really exciting to be doing a festival again, I have not done one in a long time. I hope the weather is good.
That's one thing I miss about California, the certainty that it would not rain on festival days. It doesn't rain in the Summer in most of California. I do like that it rains in the summer here in New York, it's just that I would like to be able to choose the days!
A new painting. This one is a watercolor and ink, but with brighter colors.
I've listed it on etsy:
Summer Day Watercolor Painting for sale
I've been working a lot with my Wacom tablet. That's a method of using a pen to draw digitally on a big tablet so you can do drawings that will show up in an illustration program. It's hard to get used to drawing and painting with it but I am getting better.
I plan on starting a new watercolor soon, something with a cityscape theme I think.
I also went horseback riding last weekend which I enjoyed a lot, and to a picnic.
I did some gardening, mostly pulling up weeds. I'm not sure if I'm going to have any sunflowers in my garden though. I found a lot of sunflower hulls where I had planted them. In related news the birds and squirrels around here are looking fat and happy. Maybe I should try again and bury them deeper.
Spring even makes me happy, grouchy old lover of winter that I am. But I am enjoying doing some gardening. Most of what I planted is seeds and I can't wait until they come up. I planted four varieties of sunflowers, dill, marjoram, basil, cilantro, chives, mint, cosmos, and a a bunch of packets of mixed flower seeds.
I've also been doing more watercolors. They are coming out great, I'm very happy with them. This one is for sale - Spring Makes People Happy Painting for sale on etsy. It's an 11x14 watercolor.
I just finished another painting. It's good to be back to painting again!
Orange Sunflower painting
I've cleaned up my studio too, so it's a lot more pleasant to paint in here.
Today I was walking to the library and I walked into a branch on the sidewalk and it punctured the top of my foot. That really hurt! So now I am trying to stay off it and I will go to the doctor tomorrow if it doesn't get better.
Oh and I quit my job, if I didn't mention that already.
This is a mirror I just finished and put up on etsy
Sky Fish mirror.
I passed my written drivers test this morning on my first try with 100 percent correct. Now I have to take driving classes and then the driving part of the test.
I already know how to drive, I learned when I was 16 and drove for 20 years, so I'm not worried about it.
This is a new painting, another one in the Sky Fish series. All of the other Sky Fish have sold so far. It's kind of like the Pieces symbol too, so I'm hoping someone might buy it for that.
Pieces Sky Fish Heart painting on Etsy
This is one of them, a collaged card with Frida Kahlo and a deer.
I've made another item with that same picture. This is made in the lid of a paint can. The color around the rim matches my bedroom walls. It's kind of a steampunk look - that is something that has a Victorian or Edwardian kind of aesthetic mixed with a kind of machine age modernism.
Miss Gabrielle Ray magnet for sale on Etsy
This is a greeting card I made with a photo of the Edwardian actress Miss Gabrielle Ray (a lot of her photos say Miss Gabrielle Ray on them, so I always put the Miss in there because that's how I think of her.)
She was a very popular actress and postcard model. There are hundreds of postcards of her, if you Google her name you will see lots of them.
The border and background is hand painted.
Miss Gabrielle Ray card for sale
This is a new painting in my Etsy Store, Crown Martini.
I'm still having my Melsky art 2008 New Years Sale
I just sold two paintings privately, both fish paintings to a very nice person who lives in England but went to my same high school, but different years.
I took a break from listing stuff on Etsy while I thought about where I was going artistically. I had though about not selling any more of the smaller paintings, to possibly do nothing smaller than an 8x10 on canvas. I was thinking about just doing larger, more expensive paintings and selling mainly prints in my etsy store. But I've decided not to do that, at least for the time being. I'm going to start doing larger, more complex expensive works and make prints from that. But I will also keep doing my smaller, simpler paintings of fish, cats, martinis and those sort of things. When I get ready to sell prints more complexly I may get a seperate etsy store for them, like Melsky Fine Art, so I will have a craft painting division and a fine art division.
I marked down some things in my Etsy store, some by as much as 50 percent. Since it's the new year, I want to get some old stuff out and get new stuff in. I do have a lot of new paintings to put in and those should be going in over the next couple of days. I listed that red cat one today.
Sale will be going on at least until the end of the month.
Visit the SALE at MELSKY ART STORE
This is my first painting of the new year. I haven't put it up on Etsy yet. I'm not sure if I'm going to. I may stop selling the smaller works of art online and just sell larger paintings and then prints or greeting cards of them. I'm not sure where I'm going.
I'm on a sign painting rampage! I love these signs. They look so cute in the house all together. I guess I should take a photo of that.
This isn't a new item. i didn't finish anything today! I just thought I would post this because it's one of the things I'm surprised hasn't sold and I think it turned out really well, especially the green pod parts.
Pink Peony Mirror
I did sell a bunch of stuff to someone who was my very first Etsy customer! He also bought stuff from me on Ebay. I think he owns some of my flying saucer paintings. Anyway, I was thrilled to wake up to a big sale.
Today it rained, then a big snowstorm came in, the kind with lots of wind where the snow looks like it's snowing horizontally. I had to walk to the post office in that! I kept putting it off, then as I was finally getting ready to go Dave came home early and was able to give me a ride. So procrastination paid off for me, for once.
When my husband saw this martini magnet I just painted he commented that it made him want to eat olives. He really loves olives. I like the black ones ok but I don't like the ones with pimentos, the ones I paint all the time. I like the way they look though. I like martinis but probably have about one per year.
