Oh...May is over! Crap!
I feel like I should have been far more productive this month. I'm blaming it on the fact that I've spent a lot of time tending to the gardens. I didn't even update my website galleries this month! I suck! Well, I suppose it can wait til June, and there will just be a lot more new art up there!
So, I do have some eBay auctions going on now- most of them are ACEO originals, though there is also one original dragon painting (7" x 5"). Each ACEO has a starting bid of just 99 cents, and some of them only have a day or two left! Here is the full list- links to the individual auctions are below the corresponding pictures, or you can view them all on one page here!
"Inchworm" original fairy + worm fantasy ACEO art
"Clowning Around" original mermaid + clownfish ACEO fantasy illustration
"The Note" original mermaid + seahorse ACEO fantasy art
"Along the Watchtower" original 7" x 5" dragon painting - starting bid of $15.
My motivation to get new art out of my sketchbook and onto canvas/paper has been somewhat low lately- not that I don't LOVE to create, but I do feel some interesting changes coming on, as far as my art goes. I've been in more of a pen and ink mood, and cartoons, too, and have been puttering around with some new Ralphie stuff, and some other cartoon creatures :) Very few final projects though. :\ However, I do have one brand new painting up in my darklingemily etsy shop! This piece is titled "Lurking Dawn" (thanks to Rebecca Brown Martinez for the title- you can check out her etsy shop here- TCsoApCo!)- a dragon perched on some strange plant, in my silhouette style...It is an original 11" x 14" acrylic painting, on gallery wrapped canvas (sides are 3/4" and painted black)- so it is ready to hang! To see more, and perhaps even adopt this painting into your home, please visit the link below the picture:
"Lurking Dawn" original dragon silhouette painting
One last important tidbit of info before I go...This Saturday, June 5, I will be out IN PERSON selling my art and other assorted goodies (prints, bookmarks, ACEOs, etc)...I will be at the Spring Craft Fair, located at the Wesley United Methodist Church in Hadley, MA. The fair runs from 8am to 2pm, and there will be vendors of all sorts, a plant sale/swap, pancakes, and a giant tag sale! I will be outside, at a small table loaded with my paintings and such, so come on by and see me! And bring all your filthy rich friends who love art LOL!! Once more- Craft Fair this Saturday, located at the Wesley United Methodist Church in Hadley, MA, from 8 am - 2pm, rain or shine! If you want more info, just email me!
Okay, I am off to get some more sketching done :)
xo!
Em
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Oh, man...
Sorry about being lame and not posting anything for a week! :\ I've been gardening my butt off, getting ready for a craft fair, moving furniture around...Tons of random chores and errands! Ugh, just thinking about it all is making me tired! But...I did get to mall with my girlfriends, and go out for drinks this weekend, so...I did get some relaxation in :)
Unfortunately, I don't have anything brand new as far as art goes, but I do have some eBay auctions running right now that I had not posted previously...So I will update you all on those right now!
The first is an original ACEO illustration- "Over the Rainbow" is one of my new favorites! A pretty (and tasteful) nude, sitting on a fluffy cloud, under a rainbow. On her parisol perches a little bird. She is an original ACEO (Art Cards, Editions, and Originals- 25" x 3.5") up for auction on eBay...She only has a few days left, and a few bids on her (but she is still under $5)...To see more info and details, please follow the link below the picture:
"Over the Rainbow" original nude ACEO
Another ACEO for auction on eBay- "Green Smile"- this ACEO is an open edition print of my original illustration...A sultry pin up, in green and black striped lingerie, holds a rather tantalizing purple hooka. She is also wearing a top hat, one of my favorite frivolous fashion accessories :) This print starts at a 99 cent bid...To see more, please follow the link below her picture:
"Green Smile" ACEO print auction
One last auction :) I've listed the original painting of "Raven 15" for auction- this piece was previously living in my darklingemily etsy shop, but I thought I'd try it in a different venue...This is indeed part of my ravens series, featuring simple black birds on colorful, abstract backgrounds. "Raven 15' is painted in acrylics on a 7" x 5" sheet of artist canvas, and is listed at a starting bid of just $9.99! To see the auction, and perhaps even bid, just visit the link below the picture:
"Raven 15" original abstract painting
Also, this is just a little reminder- my "Daydreaming Mermaid" original ACEO illustration ends tomorrow; she is still at a very reasonable price if you would like to make a bid ;) ;) To view her auction, just click the link below her picture:
"Daydreaming Mermaid" original fantasy ACEO
Even though I do not have any new art, I do have some new Zazzle products :) There are some new posters/prints available, as well as some nifty new zombie t shirts! To see everything I've got, please click the link below the picture:
New t shirts, posters, and more on Zazzle!
I swear, later this week I will have brand new art to show off, and more information regarding the craft fair I will be attending- offering lots of art (originals, prints, ACEOs, etc) and other goodies like bookmarks and free smiles, of course! But, for now, I am going to watch a movie about Jeffery Dahmer, eat some M+Ms, and futz around the studio.
xo!
Em
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Greetings all!
Let me see...I've got the latest zodiac dragon to share today, along with two new mermaids! I've been in a bit of a mermaid mood lately, if you couldn't tell! :)
First, though, allow me to unveil the "Gemini Dragon" illustration! A two headed, double winged, dual colored dragon, with big purple eyes! I'm very pleased with how this particular beast turned out- it was a bit of a challenge to put two heads on one body! A very special friend was the inspiration for the purple eyes- gothic and fantasy artisan Natalie VonRaven (who happens to be a Gemini herself)! You can check out her fabulous works through her Facebook page here:
Natalie VonRaven *Magisterian*
The original "Gemini Dragon" illustration is available for purchase, or just a peek, through my darklingemily etsy shop...To see/read more details, please visit the link below the picture:
"Gemini Dragon" original fantasy zodiac illustration
Also newly listed in my darklingemily etsy shop is an original 5" x 7" mermaid illustration titled "Freshwater Mermaid". This piece was inspired by the small pond behind my studio. I realized that the vast majority of my mermaid art is ocean based, and wanted to create a mermaid that could potentially be found in the middle of the forest! "Freshwater Mermaid" is available for purchase at the link below her picture:
"Freshwater Mermaid" original fantasy illustration
One more wee mermaid piece- This one is titled "Daydreaming Mermaid", and she is an original ACEO illustration. Slightly cooler colors in this one, and her long lashed eyes are closed, as she is really envisioning something marvelous :) She is listed for auction on eBay, with a starting bid of just 99 cents! To see more pictures, read the details of the art, and even make a bid, just follow the link below the picture:
"Daydreaming Mermaid" original fantasy ACEO
I do have one important new development to share, and it is about shipping costs. So, if you are a buyer, or are considering buying a piece, please read the note at this link, which is an overview of my new shipping info:
Important shipping information
Okay, time for a little bit more art and then bed! I have a rather long rest of the week, so I have to get my beauty sleep tonight!
xo!
Em
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Sleeeeeepy! hahaha!!
Aside from being sleepy, I am *really* craving chocolate, and I don't have any. So...I suffer without :/ On the upside, I think the garden/yard is really starting to look decent, and is not as frustrating to deal with now. Yay!
Now, for some art...I have actually completed the latest zodiac dragon- Gemini- however, I have not listed it or posted it anywhere online yet, as I have a bunch of other art that I have not updated on :) So, I did not want to overwhelm anyone with too much art, heh heh! I have two new ACEO illustrations, and an older painting, all up for auction on eBay!
The first new ACEO is titled "Low Tide"- I really love this piece, it reminds me of a fairytale- a mermaid sits far off shore, at low tide, witht he sky darkening behind her...This is an ORIGINAL ACEO (Art Cards, Editions, and Originals- 3.5" x 2.5") created in acrylic paint and archival inks on bristol. She is up for auction starting at just 99 cents, with free shipping! To see more details, and even make a bid, just follow the link below her picture:
"Low Tide" original mermaid ACEO art
The other new ACEO is an illustration of Pandora, her box, and her dragon pet- titled "Pandora's Pet"! The colors in this piece are very bright, and Pandora has a bit of a Latin flair to her (at least, I like to think so :)). Created in the same acrylic paint and ink combo as "Low Tide"...She is also up for auction on eBay, starting at (yup, you guessed it!) 99 cents! Free shipping as well. To view more pictures, read the little blurb I wrote for her, and make your bid, chech out the link below the picture:
"Pandora's Pet" original fantasy ACEO art
And last, but not least, I have listed my original "Mervamp" painting ofor auction (on eBay)...This original acrylic painting is on the darker side of fantasy- a lovely, big eyed mermaid vampire creature, swimming in a pond, just off the cemetery, under a full moon :) She is a 12" x 9" piece, on gallery wrapped canvas (sides measure 1", and are painted black). Ready to hang, no frame necessary, but certainly frameable if you wish! To see her listing and perhaps make a bid on this curiously fringhtening creature, visit the link below her picture:
"Mervamp" original mermaid vampire fantasy painting
Of course, I have a bunch more ACEOs and other art up for auction, most of it starting at $10 or under...if you'd like to see them all on one page, click here!
One more last thing before I "go"...There are a bunch of mew PSP tags of my images up at MyTagArt, and a few of them are at a special price for their "Mer-May" celebration :) To see what they've got of mine, just click here!
That's all I can manage for tonight. I have 4 new ACEOs sitting on my desk, all inked out, but waiting for color, so...I'll be getting to at least one of those tonight, and maybe even a really bad horror movie, too! Have a good weekend all!
xo!
Em
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It's sort of hard to draw when you have gardener's hands...
After about 40 applications of lotion, they are now moving like hands, and not like metal clamps covered in paper...Sometimes I forget to put lotion on, like last night, and I just start drawing. Not the best idea; I messed up two small pieces so terribly, I just put them right in the recycling basket. There was no fixing them. What a travesty. I wonder if it had anything to do with the dry-skin-sliding-across-paper felling- it is a lot like nails on a chalkboard to me. Ugh :) Of course, I do have some art worthy of sharing today! Another new dragon painting, a fairy ACEO, and another older illustration up for auction.
So, this newest dragon painting is titled "Nightengale"- a pale gray dragon, with purple spots, watches twilight descend from a strange, dark flowerstalk...I don't really know what it is about this piece that immediately makes me smell flowers, but it does. The original painting, measuring 4" x 6" on a canvas panel, is available for purchase in my darklingemily etsy shop...To see more detail pictures, and read a bit more about this piece, please visit the link below the picture:
"Nightengale" original dragon fantasy painting
So, after messing up a few ACEOs last night, I did manage to pull one off that is not horribly embarrassing :) This new art card is titled "Flower Throne"- a little fairy has found the best seat in the house (or in the garden, rather)! She is an original illustration, in ACEO format (2.5" x 3.5")- created in a mix of acrylic paint, archival inks, and colored pencils..."Flower Throne" is up for auction on eBay, starting at just 99 cents (with free shipping). Please visit the auction listing for more details- the link is below the picture, of course!
"Flower Throne" original fairy ACEO
There are a whole bunch of older original works up for auction as well, as I have mentioned in the previous blog post :) The latest of which is "Rogue Princess"- one of my favorites, because it's got a sexy warrior princess,two dragons, AND a castle squeezed in! I also love how the colors of the sky turned out :) This is an original 5" x 7" illustration, up for auction on eBay starting at just $5. To get more info on this piece, and perhaps even make a bid, please follow the link below her picture:
"Rogue Princess" original fantasy illustration
If you are interested in taking a look at all my current art auctions on eBay, you can see them all on one page here!
As far as art to come in the near future, I am working on the latest Zodiac Dragon- Gemini! If you'd like to follow along with the work in progress pictures, you can view them in my facebook album here...I am also getting a few new fantasy ACEOs illustrated, and a mermaid piece, among other things. :) So, I will be off to work some more...Have a great night all!
xo!
Em
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Happy Friday!
So...I am a little bit sleepy today, because I had a bit of a coffee fiasco this morning...Looking back, I'm glad that I was able, at least, to fend off a caffeine headache, but I did have to take a short afternoon nap!
I have (surpise surprise) some new art this evening! Well, there is one new piece, and two older pieces ;)
The first piece, the brand new one, is "Dragon and Raven"- an original acrylic painting (6" x 4") on a canvas panel. I *love* the colors in this piece!! A dark purple dragon, with big, wide eyes, and feathery black wings, stares at a raven who has perched on his tail. This piece is available for purchase in my darklingemily etsy shop...To see the listing, more pictures, and details about the art, please follow the link below the picture:
"Dragon and Raven" original fantasy art
Also, two new eBay auctions today! These are both older pieces, created a few years back...They are both mixed media pieces, in archival inks, Prismacolor pencils, and some acrylic paint on bristol...more details at the individual links...Each is up for auction at a $5 starting bid, with free shipping...To see more details, pictures, and even make bids, please visit the links below each picture:
"Liquid Lavender" original mermaid illustration- a blond-ish mermaid with multicolored purple scales sits in algae saturated water...
"Winged Witch" original fantasy illustration- a dark witch, with dragon wings, hangs out with two little orange dragons...
Of course, there are a bunch more auctions going on; to see them all on one page, just click here!
So...other than the coffee incident, it was a pretty uneventful day. Went to the grocery store (woo hoo) and when I got home, I had a slew of ideas running around in my head, so I got most of those sketched out...Tomorrow, I am dog sitting and weeding gardens all afternoon, but I do have plans to get the remainder of my zodiac dragons sketched out, and then hopefully get one started for real- at the moment, I am leaning towards Gemini, as that one is already fleshed out in my journal.
xo!
Em
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Hello all!
This is sad, but...I don't even remember the last time I posted...sometime last week I suppose. I had a very busy weekend visiting my mother, who was up from Atlanta...We took a day trip to the Salem/Marblehead area to visit with my Nana and spend some time by the sea...okay, the harbor, but close enough :) So far, May has been an awfully busy month for me, and it looks like the craziness will continue all month long, into June...Yoy! At least it's nice out, though the warm weather always makes me sleepy.
So...it's art time! I have not had a lot of time to make new pieces, however I do have two new ones to share (why is it always in twos? Who knows...) The first is a mermaid and sea dragon illustration- "Napping Sea Monster"- some of you may have been following the work in progress in my facebook album, but for those of you who haven't, she is all finished up now and listed in my darklingemily etsy shop! A bit about the piece: an original 10" x 8" illustration, in mixed media (acrylic paint, colored pencil, and archival inks on bristol) featuring a beautiful mermaid and a sleeping sea dragon in her arms! Also, a bunch of fish and two seahorses, all packed full of color. Like an underwater rainbow, I guess. To see detail pictures, read the blurb I wrote, and perhaps even purchase this fun art, please follow the link below the picture:
"Napping Sea Monster" original mermaid + dragon illustration
Also brand new, a dragon silhouette ACEO! "Out on a Limb" is an original acrylic painting on a small sheet of artist canvas (2.5" x 3.5")- a swirly, abstract purple-red-ochre background, with a black dragon silhouette perched on some strange curly vines...It is a simple piece, but I just love the challenge of working in silhouette...it is not as easy as it looks to give an image a decent outline and still have it look like what it is supposed to represent...Sometimes a pose that would look fabulous with details will just turn out to look like a black blob in this style. Blah blah blah heh heh! At any rate, this piece is up for auction on eBay, starting at just 99 cents with free shipping- to see more, please follow the link below the picture:
"Out on a Limb" original dragon silhouette ACEO
Speaking of eBay auctions...I'm still going through my cleaning phase, which means I am listing some older art for auction...Though I have sold most of my older ACEOs, there is a generous handful of (slightly) larger illustrations that I will be posting for auction this week...The first of them being my little "Monkey Woes" piece...I really love this tiny gypsy and her monkey, but it is time for them to find a new home, so...she is an original illustration- 3.5" x 5"- up for auction, starting at $5 (with free shipping)...To see her listing, visit the link below the picture:
"Monkey Woes" original gypsy fantasy art
There will be more older art going up each day this week, and into next, so if you would like to bookmark the page that displays all my eBay listings at once, here is the link: http://shop.ebay.com/merchant/darklingemily
I am hoping to get myself composed enough to be able to post more often, and ramble about silliness, because I know there are those of you out there who love my art, but you have also stated you enjoy reading my random thoughts...I really don't consider myself to be all that entertaining, but of course I spend all day, every day, with me...so I may be a little biased. I do love myself, however...there are times where I can annoy the crap out of me. But...anyhoo...back to work I go!
xo!
Em
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