Be Mused Art

Well, this is my next project. Took all day just to get to this point and it is only 3×9 inches. I am hoping to get it painted so I can make some bookmarks from it before Friday.
Why Friday? Why this weekend is my first outdoor art festival in a [...]

I was up late last night working on this one. I was just too focused to set it aside and get the sleep that I knew I needed, still need actually. But I am very happy with the results. But to be honest those paintings that insist on being painted are usually [...]

Well, here we are at the inked stage of Flitter. Now I can paint it. What colors should it be?

Alright, it isn’t turning out anything like what I had in my head. But when I start thinking swirls, the drawings always seem to evolve into something like this. I am going to have to rely on my light table and some tracing paper to get the sketch symmetrical, but this [...]

This week’s Illustration Friday theme is “Detective”. I went with that old detective novel style fellow with a rumpled overcoat and well worn fedora. I still want to paint him, and he is on watercolor paper, but first I have this crazy fairy cat idea running around in my head, that [...]

See I finished it. This took longer than I expected, mostly due to the background elements.

I reached 100 fans on facebook. And i am celebrating by giving away some nifty gifts to a lucky winner.
First the prizes:
1. An 8×8″ print of my painting Lotus Blossom, that is matted to fit in a standard 11×14″ frame.
2. A Cute Dragonette Stamp, designed by me and produced by Queen Kat Designs.
3. A [...]

This week’s illustration Friday theme was “Linked”. I really struggled to come up with something for this one. J kept rolling his eyes at all the ideas I ran past him. I guess it wasn’t so much being able to come up with ideas, but coming up with a good idea.
This was [...]

The first week of the month is always my favorite because it is when the new stamps come at at Queen Kat Designs. And to wet our appetites for all the nifty new stamps coming out later this week, they are having a blog hop starting at the QKD Blog. There are some [...]

Sorry it has been so long since I posted last. I have been focusing on spring cleaning. And it seems that I have a bit of an obsessive personality. Today K was out of school for Good Friday, so I had to take some time off to go let her [...]