Holiday Plannin' Sale

Update! 

Now a belated Cyber Week Sale. On sale today through Dec. 9th 2013. 

New Coupon Code: ADASHOFSPICE 

More items will be posted today and tomorrow 

that I was unable to get up during my 

Black Friday and Cyber Monday sale due to illness etc..

Enjoy!

Festiveness

The holidays are sneaking up on me. I thought for a moment that I should hide from them, and get through them with the simplest gifts and plans possible. That didn't last long as gift project ideas would force their way into my hibernation. Instead I have plunged into several gift projects from knitting to quilting to painting to jewelry making. (I know, jeez louise, I'm crazy.) You see in my mind creating + giving = festive.

Gifty Things

And I've made plans to improve my gift offerings available for sale. I have some new jewelry styles I'm hoping to add shortly after Thanksgiving. I even plan to share several paintings. In the mean time I decided to share this token towards gift shopping.

"Why, Hello There..."

"Why, Hello There..."

8" by 8"

Oils on Panel

Ms. Jack-o-Lantern

I carved this pithy lady too soon to be out on Halloween (She rotted dramatically about a week ago, with long harry white mold coming out of her eyes and her whole interior fuzzily black.). She is my favorite attempt I have ever made at a jack-o-lantern. Her face was inspired by the pumpkin that I intentionally picked with a dent skewed upwards that made a great start for a crooked smile. My favorite halloween styles come out of the 1930s so I kept that in mind as I styled her eyes to look up and her eyelashes to be dramatic. Finally I realized she must be looking at something and added a friendly mouse.

'Tis a happy halloween thing I am sharing!

Next

I must do a Whole Piece series painting. If you'd like to add your facial feature to my series, read about it here.

"Humble Blush," Daily Painting # 49

"Humble Blush," Available (click here)

8" by 8"

Oils on Panel

Pink Pumpkin (Well, sort of...)

When I was told there was a pink pumpkin variety I have to admit I wasn't sure I'd like the looks of it. I was imaging a sort of Cinderella Barbie pale fuchsia perfectly round pumpkin, what I found seems much more suitable to an earthy version where Cinderella might have to carve a door for herself and sit below dangling pumpkin seed ornaments. 'Tis my kind of pink pumpkin.

Now the reason I actually bought this was because I have been told it is the best pumpkin eats around. I actually bought another pumpkin to paint and a colorful squash. But the longer I had this pumpkin the more it's pink blush spread over it's lumpy-cream surface and I saw it's imperfect shape from different angles the more it was drawing me in. So I painted it first. :P (There is a jack-o-lantern painting waiting to be posted.)

Composing

I chose to closely crop the composition around the pumpkin to emphasize it's uneven base and allow our eyes to scan the color shifts across the surface of the pumpkin. Enjoying it's imperfection, even glorifying it seems very much in keeping with Halloween where we can try out oddity and villainy with no regrets.

Next

My favorite jack-o-lantern ever painted up. I've got a new pet portrait to share and I'm antsy to start up on the Whole Piece series again. I'm hoping to get many more daily paintings in soon. That's the scoop for now.