Queen of Hearts - Video of me Painting

Queen of Hearts
Originally uploaded by carriejoyart

Hi all - I made a video of the painting process. I am hoping to post this painting on ebay this Sunday. The video is cut off half way through - I am still getting the hang of this.  I am trying to get the whole 3 1/2 minutes up.  In the meantime --- I hope you enjoy it.

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Originally uploaded by carriejoyart

Happy New Year Everyone! Whew.... it was a lot of activity for the holidays. We had family and family and old friends and new friends. We are truly blessed. The last of our travelers left early last Sunday morning. I thought I would be back to work full force but I felt a bit zapped. I needed to breathe in before I could breath out. In the meantime, I thought I would share this little video I took of the studio/room where I paint. Perhaps it is a bit boring but I know I like to peek into other people's spaces. I am thinking tomorrow I will be back at the easel!

Open The Door

14 x 18 Acryclic On Canvas

Open The Door

Up on ebay tonight

I was thinking about taking the opportunities presented in life and using our wisdom to figure out what those opportunities are....opening our doors and going places that are new but a little uncomfortable. 

The colors are so much richer in person but with the winter light it is not so easy to get good pix...

Thanks for coming by!

Oh back to work I go!

Secret Garden

16 x 20

Up on ebay tonight.

I hope you all had a wonderful Holiday!  Christmas was wonderful here, although I was hoping we would get some snow.  I painted so much in December that it was strange to not create for the last week.  I cleared my creative throat yesterday and got back into the swing of things.  Felt good to get back to work!

This is another painting I am working on right now.  She has a soft, distressed, sort of shabby feel.  It is hard to see in this photo but her face is made of rough blocks of color.  I think I am going to leave it like that- I usually do a smooth over layer but I am feeling sort of "rough and beautiful"  we'll see.  I haven't filled in the foreground yet.  I just love the background it has such a raw, romantic feeling.  I hope to have her up for auction tomorrow. 

Thanks for stopping by!

Jingle Bell Booby Trap Worked!

Just thought I would let you all know that Finn gave a wide berth to the Christmas Tree once we hung the rope of jingle bells around the tree.  He really doesn't care for them at all!

 We just got new furniture so we thought we would hang them around the furniture too since it worked so well with the tree.  We have had a bare livingroom for almost a year and it is so nice to have "real" furniture.  This was our Christmas present to each other and I couldn't be happier.  We are starting to build a home!

The wall unit came with the house we are renting.  It had a great fold out shelf - I thought it was just made to be a bar and source of books.  It reminds me of old 50's or 60's shows and movies where there are always bookcases and fold out bars.  Excuse the mess we just had company!

Booby trapping the Christmas Tree

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Sorry the quality is horrible on this... I still don't understand my camera but thought you might want to see a little bit of my silly domestic life.