"Am I Dead Yet?" Pen & Ink Found on Harstine Island, Washington September, 2026 Artist unknown. I live in the woods, surrounded by trees, trees, water, deer, and more trees. There's beauty, but no room for the spontaneous art I found when I lived in Chicago. Or so I thought. I began
Y'all! Ohmygawd, ohmygawd, ohmygawd! I talked my husband into stopping by the thrift store this week (I'm still on the hunt for a stand-alone CD player), and I browsed the available art. Behold! A paint by numbers picture on canvas for $1, USD. I love the subject matter, which fits into a Western-ish
I caved into my husband's request for a Jimothy portrait, but I made it FERAL. Feral J. This will guarantee it's the first thing that sells tomorrow. I made a smaller one in a tiny little frame that's not for sale. He better be surprised on his birthday.
Getting towards the end of garage sale season, so of course that's when I decide to get serious about documenting things. This haul included some FREE speedball inks, which I'm really excited about trying. I don't do prints, but this may be the gateway supply that gets me into it. I should've taken
The thing I'm proudest of here is the evenness and cleanness of the grid! I did a combo of rulers and eyeballing the sections, and it wasn't a bad result. Except...ah, yes, except I didn't leave any space around the edge, so I can't put a matte on top of this because it
I live west of Seattle, which is close enough to claim a Jimothy connection, but not close enough to ever have a sighting. What we do have are plenty of banana slugs. I hope you see where this is going... Yes! Banana slug art. I painted this one with a garage sale purchased
I completed my birthday self portrait with a box of free acrylics, graphite, derwent wc pencils, a reused canvas, and repurposed subject. The results are as expected and a metaphor for the coming year, I think. I chose the least flattering angle possible because that was the best way to balance my phone.
Behold the before and after of Dark Sails, a 16x20 canvas I picked up at a thrift store for $1. I'll venture that the original artist did not have any white paint, which is the only reason I can think of for this relentless field of black and blue. I liked the size and
I'm new to merchandizing my paintings, but I took a few lessons from last year's art show. One of my fellow artists (thank you, Miranda!) gave me the skinny on what I needed to do. Scan. I scanner for Christmas, so I was able to start digitizing my watercolors and things. It's a Canon
We haven't been to many garage sales lately, but I did get a chance to pop into the local thrift store. I picked up this pour-over acrylic painting for fifty cents. On the back, it's stamped "Dana's Pour Expressions," which is funny to me because it's a pun, but a really bad one.
