Diane Clancy's Art blog Diane Clancy creates vibrant paintings that feature color and vision to inspire and uplift people. Says Diane, “I feel that I am very blessed to have this opportunity to express myself through paintin Statistics Unique Visitors: Total Unique Visitors: Outgoing: Total Outgoing: 26 0 41 2315

Articles from Diane Clancy's Art blog

Two Things Challenge - Intricate/Interlace 2007-11-13 10:20:44 Susan Elkin posted yesterday for the first time in awhile. Her post will tell you what has been going on for us that has made the last 2 - 3 months pretty difficult. I hope you will stop by and say hi! Here is my contribution for the 2 Things Challenge. The deal is that anyone can participate and enter your own entry. This week the challenge is Intricate and Interlace in one image. I think this shows both in one image. But the image is so intricate I had a hard time with my signature … but it is so *intricate* that none of the colors from the painting really worked - they all disappeared. But eventually I tried a totally different solution that works for me. Intricate & Interlace, Digital © Diane Clancy Having joined Worldwide Women Artists Online (wwao), I have been inspired to tweak up my networking in general that I am doing. I have put up a first video at my YouTube. It is pretty clumsy - but I did something! And I did some work on my BlogCatalog which lists differ ...

Create Every Day - November Challenge 2007-11-12 14:10:00 Sue O’Kieffe on he Sacred Circle Mandalas wrote a post about creating every day in November with a link to another blog. Each November there is an encouragement to Create Every Day. It must be a companion to November being Writers’ Month where writers write every day. Leah Piken of Blue Tree Art Gallery has a blog where you can register to join in. I would think many of you would like to join in!! It can be any medium at all - what you usually do or a new one. I look forward to what you create! Poetic Mountain at Night, Digital © Diane Clancy This is the Scales image at a different time of day - or should I say night. And it seems to me that instead Scales that other painting has a “real name” of Poetic Mountain. Unless you have other suggestions … but I think it fits. I am pretty excited that you are enjoying the bubbles so much! I love creating them! And having an audience for something like this enhances the process so much!! I would love to ...

Keeping Up 2007-11-11 17:08:18 Have you ever let anything go for a bit and then it all pile up on you? I bet most of you have! I have usually been faithful about keeping up with business records, but I hadn’t been for the last 5 or 6 months. Things that I am SURE I will NEVER forget, I look at them and go “What?” And I use a database to keep track of all sales because I want to be able to show that there is a market for my paintings. So, there is an entry for every card sale, print sale, etc. - for each image that I have. So a little overwhelming. I am not sure if I am making things way too hard for myself … but this is the track I am on. It is no big deal if I enter data pretty quickly (for the most part). Peach Ponderings, Digital © Diane Clancy But I also have quite a bit of items on consignment in local stores … and so when they send me a check, most of them don’t say WHICH card or mat sold. So someday I should go figure that all out. I guess. Outright sales are mu ...

Illustrator Friday - Scale 2007-11-10 06:04:16 This weeks Illustrator Friday has a topic of Scale. I decided to do a little double or triple duty with the word scale. These bubbles are scaling the mountain. The size of the bubbles going up the mountain are in scale. And the texture of the mountain is scale. I loved looking at other people’s images this week because they have so many variations of the meaning of scale. Scale, Digital © Diane Clancy Out of the primal ocean The bubbles climb and roll Up the mountain In their ranks Rolling over the rough Hide of the slopes Reaching the pinnacle ~ Diane Clancy ...

Two Things Challenge - Nature/Civilization 2007-11-09 06:30:50 Here is my contribution for the 2 Things Challenge. The deal is that anyone can participate and enter your own entry. This week the challenge is Nature and Civilization in one image. I think this shows both in one image. I knew what I wanted to do but it took me awhile to get time to do it. I came across this chair floating in the ocean and just knew I had to get a photo! Perhaps you see a signature …. Nature & Civilization, Digital © Diane Clancy I came across A chair Floating in the Ocean The bubbles Took turns Resting ~ Diane Clancy ...

Illustrator Friday - Hat 2007-11-08 06:17:28 I decided to do my Illustrator Friday … and the topic this week is “Hat.” Here is my digital painting and a few words to go with it. I knew what I wanted to do but it took me awhile to get time to do it. Hat, Digital © Diane Clancy The Hat On a Journey Flies by the Ocean Delighting In the Bubbles ~ Diane Clancy Technorati Tags: Illustrator Friday ...

Freedom and Choice 2007-11-07 08:37:52 Many crave the idea of freedom - being about to do what we want when we want. Some of our countries are even founded on this idea and many of our countries certainly have freedom as an ideal. And it certainly sounds romantic to have no responsibilities and no demands! But sometimes lack of structure can be difficult. Let me be clear - freedom is important and necessary!! The lack of freedoms in many countries and the erosion of them in most others is not ok with me!! This is not what I am speaking about!! Freedom is actually quite different from lack of structure. Flowers and Eyes, Digital © Diane Clancy Yet, sometimes having fewer choices is actually easier than having many, many choices! I know with my creative work I often create artificial constraints to have a direction to go in … to basically give myself a problem to solve. I choose … and I am lucky to have the choice!! … to restrict things to make decisions easier. I took art classes at the university for ...

More Choices 2007-11-06 12:52:33 When I was a lot younger, I was delighted to be involved in things. I used to spend hours and hours embroidering mushrooms on denim jeans that had holes in them. It seemed enough to beautify. I was so happy to have a focus for creativity - though I didn’t use those words for it. Autumn Imagination, Digital © Diane Clancy When working for alternative energies and against energies that were destructive to the environment, I was so happy to have a focus to work with others to create a better world. Out of a school environment, it was hard to connect with others and find constructive projects to do. I thrived on finding myself in a community where we were working to better life. Things have sure changed for me! I don’t know how much the world and culture has changed and how much it is me who has changed. Now there seems no shortage of ways to create beauty and to make the world a better place to live! Also, now I am a self-defined artist and working to create community and i ...

Fantastic Comments in Last Post!! 2007-11-05 16:14:35 Your comments on prioritizing have been fantastic!  I have read each one as they come in.  Tomorrow is another day to catch up with blogs and comments.  I feel less alone in struggling with priorities and I hope you do too!  I encourage to read all the thoughtful comments in the last post. Wand Wielding Owl, Digital © Diane Clancy This owl is insisting I stop to rest my aching shoulder …  the wand is pointing toward me. And I would love to hear about you! ~ Diane Clancy Technorati Tags: priorities ...

Making Choices 2007-11-04 10:30:51 Here is another image from my Bubblescape series. It is more for the summer in some ways … but it can also be about feeling like the fire is lit under one … and the pressure is on! Prioritizing and making choices is my topic for the day. I am very curious how you prioritize. Sultry Reflections, Digital © Diane Clancy It helps when I feel well physically, emotionally and spiritually because then I mostly go within, look at lists of highest priorities and ask my guidance system to direct my next move. Then more balanced I am, the easier this is do to! I am so excited to be involved with the WWAO (Worldwide Women Artists Online) and VAST - Etsy (Visual Artists Street Team)! These new networks of women artists who are selling their work online is great for me! Such a wonderful addition to the fantastic people I have met through this blog! And it is another 2 whole sets of ways of doing things and learning about them. I think I have absorbed the beginnings of how to do ...

ACEO’s At Etsy 2007-11-03 17:39:33 Starting to get caught up … but not on your blogs yet! Today I put several ACEOs (editions) in my Etsy Shop. I would love it if you took a peek. I haven’t finished deciding about my signature yet, so I did not put any signatures on them. I am the one who will be sending the items so I can put my signature on the back and also send a business card. Tomorrow I should be able to see your blogs. I did read every single word anyone wrote lately … thank you so much!! Through the Screen, Digital © Diane Clancy ~ Diane Clancy Technorati Tags: ACEO, signature, Etsy ...

So Many Choices 2007-11-02 14:26:44 Thank you for all your help and feedback. I am thinking about what to do .. as I absorb your feedback. I am so grateful for your taking time to talk with me about your opinions. More tomorrow. So Many Choices, Digital © Diane Clancy ~ Diane Clancy Technorati Tags: feedback ...

Two Things Challenge - Poetic/Prosaic 2007-11-01 02:35:11 Some of our most faithful readers and commenter’s are very active in the 2 Things Challenge. The deal is that anyone can participate and enter your own entry. This week the challenge is Poetic and Prosaic in one image. I think this is poetic … and that chunk of rock is prosaic. I have started to join in on some of the different challenges that blogs sponsor to network and connect more with other artists. So this is my second 2 Things Challenge. Poetic & Prosaic, Digital © Diane Clancy ok … trying another signature …. so I am still very open to feedback!! I am very concerned about detracting from the painting!! Thank you for all your help!!! Poetic & Prosaic with signature, Digital © Diane Clancy This is an addition since I have been great feedback. This font is my font I use for the business … how do you like the font signature? Poetic & Prosaic with font signature, Digital © Diane Clancy Here is another version … with t ...

Mazes and a Question 2007-10-31 10:05:30 Thank you for all your thoughtful responses yesterday!! I have new things to try out now! I need to play catch-up today - including on your blogs!  I just made an addition to this post … I have put a version with my signature, so you can see the difference.  I am interested in your input now. Purple Maze, Digital © Diane Clancy Some days are like a maze Others like a straight-line sprint Some weeks are like a maze Hopefully we get to the center of the maze The center - of ourselves and of the maze Clarifies everything Purple Maze with signature, Digital © Diane Clancy ~ Diane Clancy ...

Question for You 2007-10-30 10:08:15 Some of you have bought work of mine and others have said you plan to. So, as my customers, I have a question for you. Last night I brought some of my cups tiles, postcards and more from my CafePress Shop to my art business class. They loved the merchandise and thought it looked great! But they has one problem with it - my name is not on the mugs and all at all. All Directions at Once, Digital © Diane Clancy When I ship from my Etsy Shop, I send a business card and they know it is from me. I can also sign the print or card if they would like me to. I explained to the class that with the merchandise from CafePress there was no way to put my name with the products. They get shipped directly to the customer. They then wanted me to put my name on the image itself that I upload for CafePress to print from. That is the only way to have my name associated with the image. I want to know what you think. I am of mixed minds. In one way I can understand their concerns - sure it would be gr ...