I ♥ the art of Lindy Longhurst

I happened upon Lindy Longhurst when I went searching Etsy for mermaids. She is an artist from the Blue Mountains west of Sydney, Australia.

I kept coming back to her work and I ended up buying this, this and this. The colors, the designs - there's just so much to look at within her work. I keep finding something new in every piece, even though I've looked at it a dozen times. Bear with the links, they take a bit to load up...or maybe it's just my internet is slow today.

Check her out! Here is her website, here is her blog and here is her etsy shop.

I'm off like a dirty shirt for the next few days. My office is having a staff retreat at Marcia's camp. We're heading way the heck up to Millinocket (about 2 1/2 hours from where we work) to Ambajejus (pronounced am-bah-gee-jus) Lake. I've never been, but this is what it looks like. I'll take lots of picts. It's just 2 days, then it's off to the Lake (to my folks) to pick up dear Sadie, who has been hanging out with them all week. On one hand, it's been nice not having to get up at 5:00 every morning to take her for a walk, but on the other...I miss her. I keep thinking I hear her collar jingle *sigh*.

Have a fabulous rest of the week and weekend. I'll catch up with you all on Monday!

Homework

So you'd think that with Christmas just around the corner, I'd have a ton of bags in the house to put gifts in...and to complete my drawing homework! Or at least a couple of paper bags from the grocery store. But no...I had to search for a bag (and my homework was to draw a couple of bags, rendering light and shadow). So I dug and dug and finally I lucked out and found one lingering in the boxes of decorations:

"Hark the Hearld Angel gift bag" - willow and regular charcoal

I have to admit that I like what I draw better in a photo than in person. I think because you can't get close up enough to scrutinize :^)

Well, I'm off to a dentist appointment (having 4 fillings replaced. UGH!) Wish me luck!

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Almost forgot, if anyone is interested:

These little guys are up for sale in my Etsy shop, Faery Tree Creations.

furthering the creative endeavors through etsy

so here it is...i'm so excited! i have an etsy shop!! and i'm so psyched! click the picture and have a gander.

thank you thank you thank you to Jelene for the etsy banner. it is simply amazing and beautiful. i love it!

i'm still new to it, so i only have one item in it, but i will be working on others!

yippee!!

aspiring artist with a day job

so i've never wanted to be a starving artist; i've been a starving college student...it wasn't fun. i've also been a waitress, a substitute teacher and worked in retail - all jobs i've experience, gained insight from and moved on from with no wishes to return. i want to be a financially stable artist and if that means working a day job to afford my creative endeavors, i'll do it...but only if i enjoy said job.

that said...i love my job, but it's pretty well the opposite end of the spectrum from my creative endeavors...it's politics oriented. i don't consider myself politically motivated...at all! but i pretend (obviously very well to do be able to do my job :^) and unlike many i work with, it does not consume my life. i have no interest in fund raisers, calling people for support, or going door to door bothering people with political information, but my job gives me the opportunity to help advocate for maine's creative economy, for the environment and for research, development and innovation! it also allows me to write. this makes me happy. growing up i wanted to be an artist or a writer (there was also that short stint when i wanted to be a marine biologist and study sharks, then i realized that science wasn't my strong point). my job lets me write, my life outside of work lets me create. it is a very nice compromise. and this is what i create (mostly), among other things:













i'm happy with my creations and will be putting them on etsy soon as they don't seem to have a market on ebay (my guess is that there is just so much on there that they get overlooked), besides i like etsy better, it's all homemade creations.

so anyhoo, aspiring artist with a day job...which, this week, seems to be a night job too! a late night job.