HOT OFF THE EASEL

Long time no post!  Sorry to all my fans, but I have been so busy painting!  I have really been exploring my love of painting fish.  I am an angler at heart and admire the strong creatures of the sea.  I hope you enjoy these too!  A few are still not sold if your interested, please email me soon!

Starting a new series today

Its Turtle Tuesday!

Today I have decided that I will start a multiple sized series of turtles.  So we will have from 12" x 12" up to 30" x 48" !! Nice!  Look for lots of green, orange and blues in this one!  I have had a request to see some olive drab neutral tones.  Look for that one soon, I have a feeling that one may have a buyer, so look often!

Lots of people have messaged me in regards to pricing on my paintings.  So let me just throw out some estimates for yall!

   Fish, Turtle, Wildlife
       12" x 12"    $75 - $120

       16" x 16"    $105 - $475

       24" x 36"   $500 - $875

      30" x 40"    $575 - and up

Nursery Art

       Full range of sizes starting at $75 up to $250.

Please remember you can contact me with custom job requests, such as subject and colors used.  Just shoot me an email and I will get back to you asap!

Thanks again to my loyal followers.  Spread the word about my blog, share it on your facebook pages!

Original Sold

Tuna Time

Finished this Beauty up last night! I sat and stared at it so long trying to figure out a background. I finally came up with this light textured one. Check out those teeth!

Yellow Fin

Started the second fish of my trio for a friend. Got the yellow and some green on today before I had to leave the shop. I'm really getting into these fish! In case you have not noticed, I really like to put my subjects in motion rather than portrait style. Something in motion is more interesting to look at. You can picture where it's going next.

A new series

This is the first in a series I'm doing for a great friend of mine. It is still in progress! Critiques....

Members!!

I was so excited to see that I have 3 members since my last post!  I want to extend a warm, "Thanks" to those interested in my art and in what I have to say and share.  Currently I am preparing my supplies to start a mural.  I am doing it for the Isle Mail-n-More, where I have sold some of my pieces.  For the mural I will be doing a landscape with the ocean in the background with the foreground consisting of a boardwalk to the beach over some dunes and an old weathered mailbox on a  driftwood post.  Im excited to see how it turns out and really more curious to see how long it will take me to complete.

Again, a big thank you to my followers and members.  Let me hear from you all now and then!

Diana

I leave you with some photos by me of some of the sunsets right here at home!

Laguna Madre Boat Hole Drum Run

Snoopy's

Taken from car on the causeway looking toward Laguna Shores Rd.

From Beach Hotel on South Padre

South Padre Pier

Mustang Island looking back to Causeway to Corpus

Hot off the Easel!

A redfish for my long time friend! Her hubs is a pro angler and this is her anniversary gift to him!

Up and Running

Good grief!  What a busy week I have had since my last post.  I have my studio put together, and have shipped out my first two pieces from it now!  Im catching up on orders over the next few days, and then you can start to expect to see some new pieces coming out.  Im excited to get to paint what has been in my head for a while now.  What would you like to see as the subject matter? Sea Turtle, Sea Horse or a Tarpon?  Im leaning towards Tarpon as it is a popular fish for sport anglers!  Would love some feedback!

Part of my little space

Excited!!!

I rented out my new studio space yesterday. I have been so excited I cannot sleep. I have been a stay at home mom for 6 years and now having something to do, outside the home has me floored! I move into my new studio tomorrow and Monday, then I hit it hard with three orders to finish in 2 weeks! After these orders are out, I get to start on my Costal Bend series. Any suggestions what to paint first? Sea Turtle, Sea Horse, Snook, Sheep Head, Gull or marsh birds?

A Good Day

I heard my daughter's door open this morning and I was up to head out for a walk.  I went to see if she would join me.  She was back in bed, and sitting there and said to me in her sweet matter-of-fact voice, "It's a good day".  I agreed with her and hugged her.  She was hot and for sure has a fever, but the lesson I learned from that very moment was that no matter how I feel, or what the day may hold, I have the opportunity to still create for me and my family a Good Day!

Thanks for taking the time to read my post!  Have a GOOD DAY!

First things first!

Well, this is my first blog.  My site here will be committed to my love of art and the small business I am starting in order to make some much needed money!  I believe that if you love something, you might as well make money while you do it, right? About 1 1/2 years ago I started a page on Etsy selling nursery art.  I had done some art for my children as well as some friends kiddos.  So I got a suggestion from a friend to start an Etsy page.  I had NEVER heard of it.  After about 2 minutes on the page, I knew what I had to do.  I got PayPal set up, set up my shop and 2 weeks later had my first Sale!!!  Since then I have had roughly 30 sales on my site and countless commissioned projects off the site.  Because I cant figure out how to display a gallery of ALL paintings I do on my Etsy page, I have created this blog.  Whaa Laa!

Im excited about sharing my tips, treasures and ideas.  I look forward to a bright future, lots of comments and learning from my followers.

Here is one of my recent pieces!

Laguna Madre Red

36" x 24"

Acrylic on Canvas

SOLD

I sold this one out of Padre Island Mail and More on SPID on North Padre Island.  I use them for all of my shipping and their staff is amazing.  I will not use anyone else.  I am planning on doing a whole series of fish from the Texas Coastal Bend.  

In more exciting news I am pleased to tell you that I think I am about move from my dining room to a small studio I found in Flour Bluff.  More to come!!