Black Friday sale and Art Every Day Month - day 29!

I forgot yesterday to wish everyone who is celebrating Thanksgiving a joyful holiday. I hope it was happy :-)

I've been working like crazy trying to get my Society6 shop stocked. I still don't have very much in there, but I'm working on it. You can have a look here already. This weekend is also free shipping, so you might want to take advantage of that!

In the meantime I finished another one of my boxes. It is my goal to have everything ready one week before my market, instead of working like a maniac up until the morning of the market, like it usually goes .... I'm pretty much on track, thanks to the AEDM-challenge. I only have a very small stall there, so I won't need that much anyway.

It's the first time I've had this shape of box, and while I love the shape it's a bit more challenging to paint. The rectangular ones I can just put on one side and paint everything in one go before moving on to the next side. With this box I need to hold it all the time which is a bit tricky trying to stay away from wet paint ....

This is the top. Felt like making a whimsical bird ;-)

And guess what!? Last night I found out  Lulu has free shipping until Monday! So if you'd been thinking of buying my calendar NOW's the time!

AND I decided to have a Black Friday/Cyber Monday sale in my Etsyshop. It's a concept that is unknown here in Australia, or in Europe where I come from. But since I sell a lot to Americans I decided to offer this sale. If you buy one A4-sized print, you get one of your choice for free! And all my postcards can be ordered as A4-prints as well! The sale is on until Monday. By the way, it's not only for Americans ;-)

And now's the time for the last weekly overview of my Art Every Day Month-challenge!

Day 23: lyricsgirl

Day 24: oneliner

Day 25: doodle

Day 26: rocks

Day 27: wooden box

Day 28: journalgirl

That's it for now! I want to thank you all so much for visiting and commenting. I love the interaction going on in artistic blogland :-) I'm linking this as always to Paint Party Friday, and also to Art Every Day Month. Hope you're having a fantastic Friday and a restful weekend. I'll be back tomorrow for the final day of AEDM! ♥ ♥ ♥

Art Every Day Month - day 28

Only 3 more days to go! A month sure flies by this way!

Again not much time today as I'm still struggling with my Society6-shop. I sent an email to the helpdesk to see whether I misunderstood something, and I'm still waiting for an answer. Thanks so much for your tips and suggestions!

Today I finished a page in my artjournal. Felt like playing with shapes again ....

I scanned the girl and added the background (again one of my paintings in progress) in Photoshop. I kinda like the contrast between the black and the coloured background.

That's it for today. Last night I had lots of trouble with the internet. Uploading my post went really slow, and when I wanted to visit your blogs it took ages to open, and then I got a message it wasn't possible to open. So in the end I gave up. I'll try to come by your blogs tonight, if not certainly tomorrow.

Thanks so much for visiting! Linking this to AEDM. Tomorrow is Paint Party Friday again, and I'll be back!  Hopefully I'll be able to share my Society6-shoplink! Stay tuned ... ;-)

Art Every Day Month - Day 27

I got very little art done today. Although, in between finally getting up-to-date with all my paperwork and quenching little fires all day long, I managed to work a little bit on my boxes. And one of them is (almost) finished. Still need to do 1 side and the inside, but it's as far as I've gotten today.

I also uploaded some images to my Society6-shop. But it turns out that, although the resolution of my images is big enough for large prints, it is not big enough for pillows and totebags and mugs.... Huh!? I have my camera on the highest resolution setting, I can't make it any bigger, so I really really wonder how the other artists do this. When I scan my images in a really high resolution I can do it too, but I can hardly scan my bigger paintings. Plus a lot of my work is gone already, or is in the gallery so I don't have it with me.

Hmm, a bit frustrating, I'd hoped to get it stocked this week. We'll see, I might be able to get something in there, fingers crossed ....

Linking this as every day to AEDM. Thanks so much for your visits and your comments, it's greatly appreciated ♥

Art Every Day Month - Day 26

Finished 2 more rocks today, but only now that I see the pictures I notice that they are a bit blurry. And since it's night already, I can't take any other ones, because then you get the glare from the flash. Oh well, I'll make new pics tomorrow, but I'll post these as they are for now:

Working away on my boxes too, so hopefully tomorrow one will be ready ....

I want to start another mosaic as well, but I don't have time, boohoo! Could it be that I try to do too much? I just wish I could create from morning till evening, without having to worry about household duties and other work.... When I got back from holidays, after not having created anything (well, almost) during 4 weeks, I had a really hard time getting into it again. But now that I'm doing this challenge, the ideas flood my brain and I can't keep up with them.

But still, I'd rather have it this way than having no ideas at all. I'm linking this again to AEDM, and hopping over to your blogs now to have a look at your creations. Thanks for your visit and comments! I'll be back tomorrow  ♥

Art Every Day Month - Day 25

It looks as if I'm getting back into my doodles :-)  A few months ago I was sick and tired of them, but since I finished the last one a week ago I feel like drawing and doodling them again. So here's another one:

I've also been working on my boxes, but they're all still in progress. My art table looks like some kind of explosion happened there. Paints and boxes and magnets and canvases and rocks everywhere .... The nice thing about doing so many different things at the same time is that each day I can choose what I want to work on.

Today I brought 2 of my paintings and my mosaic to the Redcliffe Cultural Centre. They will be on display in the foyer there from the 25th of November until the 23rd of December. So if you're in the area: hop on in! These are the paintings I brought in:

 "Celebrate yourself" - 60x60cm (23,6" x 23,6")- acrylics on canvas

You can see this painting from start to finish in this blogpost here

"Still, like air, she'll rise"- 60x60cm (23,6" x 23,6") - acrylics on canvas

You can see the "birth" of this painting in this blogpost ....

That's it for today. Linking this again to AEDM. Thanks so much for visiting today! See you tomorrow :-)

Art Every Day Month - Day 24

When I don't have much time to do something creative, I usually make a lyricsgirl or a oneliner. Since it's ages ago I did a oneliner, I chose that for the 24th day of AEDM.

Don't remember how I did the background, I had these pages prepared a long time ago and then forgot all about it. For those new to my blog: oneliners have this name for 2 reasons: the drawing is made out of one line, meaning the marker stays on the page the whole time until the drawing is done. I can go over one line more than once, but I can't lift the marker. Second reason is that they are all accompanied by a oneline quote (well, okay, sometimes two lines ... ☺).

The reason I started making these was because I wanted to learn to draw "ugly". I tend to be a bit too perfectionist when I'm drawing, and with these girls I can't, because I have to work really fast, and when one line isn't good I still need to keep going (I work with ink on watercolour paper, and when I stay too long in one spot I get a big black dot ....).

Anyway, this is my contribution to Art Every Day Month. Thanks so much for visiting, I'll be back tomorrow!

Art Every Day Month - Day 23

Well, weekend again, and you know what that means if you're a regular reader of this blog: not much time for art ....
But I managed to finish a lyricsgirl, so I'm still keeping up with this challenge. Yes ;-)

Lyrics are from Adele. I love her lyrics! Well, I love her songs too, but especially her lyrics. Don't remember which song this is from though. Girl is done with markers, background with panpastels.

I'll be back tomorrow. Thanks so much for visiting!