January ACEO Paintings

During my 'vacation' ...
I worked first on getting my missing Internationals
remade and shipped...
got all caught up on the rest of my shipping...
painted a few new paintings
AND
I reviewed my Etsy Shop
from Day #1.

I started my Shop with a few prints and a handful of
ACEO paintings.

Over time I stopped doing ACEOs...almost entirely.

I wasn't sure what to do with the canvas scraps left over
from the Art Covers...sooo...
I decided I would start painting ACEOs again.
At least a few new pieces every month.

These are my January ACEOs....
"When You're Gone"

"I'll Put It Away...Until I Need It"

"Fly Away From Here"

"Don't Play With Scissors"

"Stronger Everyday"

"Far Away From the World"

"Hoot"

New Limited Edition ACEOs

I've replaced all of the ACEOs in

my Art Cards Wanted Shop

with a selection

of very Limited Edition

ACEO prints.

This is the first time I've offered these

prints as ACEOs

and Art Cards Wanted will

be the only site

on which these will be available.

New paintings in the Shop....

"The Necromantic"
is the newest painting in my
Rustic Goth Etsy Shop.

Jaime and I found some little pine wood plaques
on our outing to Hobby Lobby...
so I decided to do this little 'goth' painting
on one of those plaques.
(It really is much easier to paint on canvas.)

Anyway...my photos of this piece are 'wretched'...
maybe I need to sit down with the camera
manual and see if I can get some tips
on how to take decent pictures with this particular camera.

For one thing...the pictures are "HUGE" when I upload
them....so the photos pick up 'imperfections' that
are not noticeable to the 'naked eye'.
And...let me not get started on 'true colors'...

I'm thinking about 'photoshopping' this piece
and also offering it as a print...
I'll be able to smooth out the imperfections the camera picked up.

"Pumpkin Patch"
is a little 'Goth' ACEO I painted
as I begin to
"think Fall".

Again...it is so much better in person...
my photographing abilities being
as lacking as they are.

Art Cards Wanted

I have items in sooo many places that have
been rather 'neglected'
as I have paid a bit too much attention
to my Etsy shops.

Having taken this vacation time...
to redo the Rustic Goth shop...
has also given me a bit more time to concentrate
on several of the other sites that
needed 'tending to'.

One of those sites is
Art Cards Wanted

I've taken this time to offer Limited Edition
ACEOs of several of my most popular prints
that have never been offered in this size.

Go ahead and check it out
here.

Rustic Goth Etsy Shop

A quick update on what I'll be listing in my

Rustic Goth Etsy Shop

over the week-end.

I'm going to be listing some

Limited Edition ACEO prints

from both

former and current original paintings.

I'm in the process of making

a few digital enhancements, for best print quality,

and then I'll list them in limited editions of

25 for some and 10 for others.

I'll be posting a list of

the ACEO Limited Edition Prints

here, once they have been

completed.

I'm Back....with some very new pieces!

Well...I hopefully am back 'up and operational'. I ended up needing a new wireless router for my computers. Both my laptop....(which I do most of my "computer" work on)...and my PC...(which I upload my pictures..print my shipping labels, prints...etc.).........were both affected by my faulty router. I got a little behind, but I'm hoping I can be all caught up by the end of this week-end.

My "working vacation" was helpful as I was able to make some new decisions on both of my shops. CMZart is going to get a whole new look, over the next couple of weeks. I was very close to just shutting that shop down.

As for Rustic Goth...well, I'll just say...I'll be listing fewer ACEOs and even fewer ACEO prints.

I will be doing more photography, photo manipulation and digital art pieces. I'll be removing a lot of what I currently have in the shop to make room for the new pieces.

The photo I have with this post is an example of a combination of photography, digital art and photo manipulation. I really do like this piece and it made into a Treasury within a day of listing it.

Reworking The Old...Making It New

This is a 'reworked' piece from one of my ACEO paintings. I am still offering the Limited Edition ACEO prints of the original piece, 'The Girls Meet the Raven'...but I decided to take the girls and move them to a digitally enhanced setting. I do like it a lot.

This is something I found very, very funny....yes I am a Judge Judy fan....she makes me laugh, with that said, I couldn't resist turning some of her funniest comments into prints...and possibly

cards or something.

I was going to post a few more pictures, but I've been having problems with my Blogger the past few days. Since this is the first chance I've had to blog...I decided not to 'push my luck'.

I do like these pieces..

I do like these little ACEO pieces. I have four ACEOs, of my raggedy ragdoll on his little three legged stool...he looks so sad.

I don't know if I'll do anymore of these little guys...and they are a little sad-sack to turn into anything else.

So...this will probably be the last of this series. The original, 'A New Day' is still available in my Etsy shop.

I have sketched out quite a few new ACEOs...I really love them...but, they do look a lot different than what I have been listing.

I hope to have those pieces ready by Sunday or Monday.



In the meantime, the few 2007 Limited Edition ACEO Sale prints left, will end on March 15th.

Three of my little 'raggedy' ragdoll Limited Edition ACEO prints.

'All Alone In The Middle of Nowhere'

'What Am I Doing Here?'

'Alone On My Swing'

'Say A Little Prayer'

'Inside My Asylum'

Oh, I almost forgot this sweet little piece.....

My Paradise Lost

$5.00

Also.....look for several of my most popular pieces to become 5"x7" Open Edition Prints. I already have two of these now available in the Shop. They are....

'It's Here If You Want It'

'EveryOne Needs Some Time Off'


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