More Randomness

I hope everyone had a happy 4th of July! I know I did! We made another trip down to Alabama to visit family and had way too much fun, as usual. Sadly I left my camera at home so there are no photos to share, but I'll leave you with a painting I finished last week instead.

I love the succulent from this post so much that I decided to paint it. Our walls are pretty bare, esp. for an artist living here, so I'm working on fixing that. However, most of my paintings will end up being for sale at the Monte Sano Art Show and Art on the Square in September (my thinking is that I can always make more, right? AND buy other peoples' art with my potential earnings). I kind of like the idea of art rotating out...

I'm having trouble getting back into the swing of things here at home. I blame the visit to Bama. I spent a whole weekend with people I love, visiting and chatting and catching up; and now find myself alone for most of the day. Sometimes it is a hard routine to fall back into. I'm working on getting through it (spent all day yesterday "deep cleaning" the kitchen to make it feel more like a place I want to cook in)...cleaning generates creativity, sometimes, if I'm in the right mood. It's funny what can trigger the creative spark...seemingly mundane household activities really do it for me. Haha.

Well, the week is halfway over. I hope you all are feeling much more productive than I am!

A Preview

Some more small paintings that I've been working on lately.

"Ghost Tree" Series: Painting Preview

It feels good to be back home after a hectic (but fun!) weekend in Atlanta. Daniel and I met up with my sister and Drew and had a lot of fun exploring the city after the Dunwoody Art Show was over, but I'm just not used to the big city. It's nice to be back in the mountains again.

I have some paintings that I'm getting ready to list on my Etsy shop this week. These photos are a sneak preview of some of them! If you are interested in specifics on these pieces (or one piece in particular) feel free to email me about them. (You can find my email address in my profile, I believe. I don't list it on here because it's amazing how fast trolling devices will pick it up and spam the crap out of you!)

I will also be busy listing leftover pendants from this weekends inventory as well. My goal is to list about five new ones per day this week. They won't all be appearing here on the blog so make sure to check the KeelyB shop regularly if you are interested in any jewelry.

I've got a lot of other new things/ideas in the works as well. It's all very exciting. I'm glad the show is over now so that I can focus my attention on other things! I won't be doing another art show until September of this year so I'll have a lot of time to focus on the Etsy shops, this blog, and my new projects.

I hope everyone's week is off to a lovely start!

Tree Paintings

I created some small acrylic paintings to take to the Dunwoody Art Festival with me. I wanted to share them with you all before I go (the festival is this weekend!). Whatever doesn't sell down there I will be listing at my KeelyB shop when I return home next week!

The red and green trees are 5 by 7 inches in size. Custom orders for pendants and/or jewelry are always welcome.

I think the turquoise trees are my favorite. They're small, at just 3 by 4 inches each, but would look great as a pair together on a wall. I've been on a huge turquoise kick lately. My old studio in Florence had turquoise walls and I miss that room so much! I think I'm going to paint our old wooden kitchen chairs a lovely turquoise color one of these weekends...

In case I don't get to write again before the show, I hope you all have a lovely weekend!