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VAST Treasury and Creative Every Day 2008-02-11 14:54:56 I have mentioned the VAST group (Visual Artists Street Team) that I belong to at Etsy. Here is the VAST Blog if you would like to know more. We also help each other market our art work - we are an online, international group that is creative, loves art, creates original art and has an Etsy Shop. Brush Treasury, Etsy Etsy has a very cool thing called a Treasury - someone puts together 12 items of people’s work with some common theme. This theme is Did You Get the BRUSH Off in honor of painting. I am so so excited because I am in this Treasury!! Dancing up and down with joy!!! I bet regular readers of this blog will identify my piece without reading my name. Here is my Etsy Shop. I realized that I never showed you the page and badge for Creative Every Day … so here goes. It is a wonderful blog that encourages everyone to be creative each and every day! I hope you will join in and feel free to take this badge and show it proudly! One good thing is that it is clear we do not ...

Illustration Friday - Choose … & Award 2008-02-10 10:25:33 Illustration Friday has a challenge every week. This week is Choose. My painting is in honor of Robert Frost’s poem, “The Road Not Taken.” That poem moved me a lot in the 6th grade. It penetrated my soul very deeply. Illustration Friday is a great way to showcase your work and a wonderful opportunity to meet lots of wonderful people! I encourage you to check it out! Lots of fun people and paintings! Choose, Digital © Diane Clancy Choose Each choice has meaning, Consequences, Good parts and hard Most choices can have value Following one’s heart and soul To choose correctly For oneself, for others There’s the rub Choose in harmony With the highest and best good For oneself, for the universe A way to find peace and harmony Choose for the greater good for myself and others But, Choose. Sweet Irene has given me something which I can only call the Mwah Award. It is a great big red kiss and its function is described as follows: ‘It’s a big kiss, of the cha ... Amp

Two Things Challenge - Night/Light 2008-02-09 10:09:12 I like to enter the 2 Things Challenge each week. This week is Night and Light. I sure hope you like it. This time I got an easy time!! YES! I thought you might like to see last week’s entries …. they are here. Anyone can join in, and I hope you give it a try!! We would love more people playing with us! Details are at this link above. Night Light, Digital © Diane Clancy I am going for an easy post today and I will go catch up on your blogs! ~ Diane Clancy ...

Your Art Marketing - New Forum 2008-02-08 12:34:44 I hope you will check out an exciting new forum - YourArtMarketing.com. Chris O’Byrne of Online Arts Marketing and I have been getting a lot of questions aboutart marketing - online and off. I know I am delighted that people think it is worth asking me questions! I like that a lot. We both have also noticed that many times we get asked the same or similar questions very often … so it made sense to us that we have a forum all of us can come together and ask questions and get answers. This way, people will also have a chance to hear other people’s answers. Your Art Marketing There are 15 members signed up now … it is exciting! We have laid out a grid work of wonderful topics ~ and started to fill them in with art marketing information. Several of you have mentioned that you are wanting to look into different kinds of online marketing. I have written brief, but detailed, overviews of selling at Etsy and CafePress. I plan to write more overviews of other sho ... Marketing

Another VAST Treasury and Angel Love 2008-02-07 15:38:28 I have mentioned the VAST group (Visual Artists Street Team) that I belong to at Etsy. Here is the VAST Blog if you would like to know more. We also help each other market our art work - we are an online, international group that is creative, loves art, creates original art and has an Etsy Shop. Red Treasury II, Etsy Etsy has a very cool thing called a Treasury - someone puts together 12 items of people’s work with some common theme. This theme is Simply Red in honor of Valentine’s Day (do you perceive a common thread here?) I am so so excited because I am in this Treasury!! Dancing up and down with joy!!! I bet regular readers of this blog will identify my piece without reading my name. Here is my Etsy Shop. Angel Love, Digital © Diane Clancy Today got away from me so I will leave you with this. I LOVE this Angel Love painting!! It makes my heart sing … Here’s to Angel Love for us all! ~ Diane Clancy   Technorati Tags: VAST, Etsy, Treasury ...

Pet Monologues & Awards 2008-02-06 14:19:17 This image is for the Pet Monologues which is the blog which I directed you to showing that incredible video about the lion hugging the woman who rescued him. I sure was moved and I think many of you were too!! Also they highlight art, poems and more that showcase animals every week. You can see there blog here. And this is the post for this particular challenge. I hope you enjoy the images there!! Anyone can join in this fun here too!! They put up a few of the images and then have links to the rest of the sites … perhaps you will feel moved to participate! Chi Chi in Butterflies, Digital © Diane Clancy Sweet Irene was kind enough to give me another award - the Creative Blogger Award!! I could get used to having this kind of appreciation!! Thank you so much, Irene. I feel honored!! Truth be told, I really love this kind of award … when these teaching, creative, inspirational awards go around, I am always hoping and hoping someone will give one to me. So, thank you, Ire ... Amp

Illustration Friday - Blanket 2008-02-05 10:13:25 Illustration Friday has a challenge every week. This week is Blanket. Here is my blanket of bubbles to hold you and keep you safe. I hope you agree! Illustration Friday is a great way to showcase your work and a wonderful opportunity to meet lots of wonderful people! I encourage you to check it out! Lots of fun people and paintings! Blanket, Digital © Diane Clancy Blanket Warm and cuddly Protecting and healing Heavy and constraining Overbearing and overwhelming Covering all Everywhere and healing This blanket Wants to Support and heal you Surrounding with Love and compassion. First of all, Chris O’Byrne and I have a project we have been working on .. he wrote a post about it yesterday … I hope you will read his post and check out our new project!! I will probably be writing more on Thursday. ~ Diane Clancy ...

One World, One HeART Give Away 2008-02-04 07:51:57 First of all, Chris O’Byrne and I have a project we have been working on .. he wrote a post about it today … I hope you will read his post and check out our new project!! Kara Jones of Mother Henna had a post a few days ago about the One World, One Heart GiveAway. I had never heard of it … I think thi sis the second year. Lisa Oceandreamer OWOH has a blog here which lists all the blogs involved and gives the details. Conundrum I, Collage © Diane Clancy Lots and lots of blogs are giving away items - to show love and build the blogosphere. So once I knew, how can I resist? My give-away will be one set of the cards that I had been telling you about in the marketing story - and we will get back to it. Reflections in Blue I, Pastel © Diane Clancy You have until February 13 (at least at most blogs) to leave your name and join in each blog’s give-away. If you want to win the give-away, leave enough information for me in a comment to this post so I can get a h ...

Love Exhibit and Red Treasury 2008-02-03 07:12:28 The February WWAO (Worldwide Women Artists Online) exhibit - Love is in the Air is hosted by a member. This is a fun show in honor of Valentine’s Day. This painting is in the show. New Romance entices you to step into the unknown and be enhanced and delighted by fresh and innovative experiences … in love, friendship, passion and life! This bubblescape is delight and uplift you! New Romance, Digital © Diane Clancy Besides being in the online exhibit, this is also listed as a matted print in my Etsy Shop. If you would prefer this as an ACEO, let me know and I will do one up for you!! Each of the paintings or items in the show can be purchased. WWAO on the site says “Worldwide Women Artists is an international collective of women artists showing and selling our work through the worldwide web. As women artists, we give birth to our ideas in a variety of styles and media. We embrace the diversity of each other’s work, celebrating the joy of creating our art and sharin ...

Two Things Challenge - Sign/Post & Award! 2008-02-02 09:53:53 I like to enter the 2 Things Challenge each week. This week is Sign and Post. I sure hope you like itI hope it is an ok entry! I thought you might like to see last week’s entries …. they are here. Anyone can join in, and I hope you give it a try!! We would love more people playing with us! Details are at this link above. Sign & Post, Digital © Diane Clancy This just came in - hot off the presses!!! Sweet Irene has very kindly passed on the Excellent Blog Award, originating with a Canadian blogger who says: ‘I love being a part of the blogging community and part of all the friendships that I’ve formed so I wanted to give a blog award for all of you out there that have Excellent Blogs. By accepting this Excellent Blog Award, you have to award it to 10 more people whose blogs you find Excellent Award worthy. You can give it to as many people as you want but please award at least 10.’ I will delightedly pass along this award to Neda Doany of Papiers Collés ... Amp

Passion in Etsy 2008-02-01 09:29:29 I am a member of VAST at Etsy. VAST stands for Visual Artists Street Team. I think many of you know Etsy is an online store. It has at least many hundreds of sellers there. My shop is here …. VAST is a group of sellers at Etsy who get an email list and support each. People have been great about answering questions and sharing experience! Shimmering Passion, Digital © Diane Clancy VAST has a blog where members can show an image of an item and link to their own shop. Occasionally someone will also come up with an idea to encourage members to participate. This month it is making things in red for Valentines Day. I am more of a pink person than a read person, but I have come up with a few reds … here is one. This is an ACEO listing in my Etsy Shop. ACEOs (Art Card Editions and Originals) or ATCs (Art Trading Cards) are collected as an inexpensive way to own original art. They are always 2.5″ x 3.5″ which is the size of trading cards. If you have never been t ...

Pet Monologues 2008-01-31 07:19:02 This image is for the Pet Monologues is the blog which I directed you to showing that incredible video about the lion hugging the woman who rescued him. I sure was moved and I think many of you were too!! Also they highlight art, poems and more that showcase animals every week. You can see there blog here. And this is the post for this particular challenge. I hope you enjoy the images there!! Anyone can join in this fun here too!! They put up a few of the images and then have links to the rest of the sites … perhaps you will feel moved to participate! Lady in Butterflies, Digital © Diane Clancy I am going to keep this short today after yesterday’s very long post - both to prepare and read!  I would love to hear how you are doing!! ~ Diane Clancy ...

Thumbnails for Illustration Friday 2008-01-30 07:00:14 Thank you for all your wonderful comments on my Illustration Friday entry yesterday!! You Really Made My Day!! Beverly said she had an entry ready to go but got stuck on making the thumbnail for the challenge. Obviously I would love to see her entry and would love to see Bev enter this challenge!! So I am going to share how I make the thumbnail … in-Photoshop there are usually multiple ways to do things … here is the way I do it. It takes a lot longer to tell how to do it (and read about it) than it does to just do it .. so please give it a try! Please forgive the large files … I thought want to make sure you can see the details to be able to follow. Selection First, I am bet you know the selection tool … the tool that allows you to choose a part of your image … it is circled in red. Choose this tool. Fixed Aspect Set it to the fixed aspect ratio … highlighted in red … and set it to 1 to 1 ratio. This makes it so you will have a ...

Illustration Friday - Tales and Legends 2008-01-29 07:51:55 Illustration Friday has a challenge every week. This week is Tales and Legends. To me this gives a sense of legend and stories. I hope you agree! Illustration Friday is a great way to showcase your work and a wonderful opportunity to meet lots of wonderful people! I encourage you to check it out! Lots of fun people and paintings! Tales and Legends, Digital © Diane Clancy Tales and Legends Mystery, unknown and unknowable Stories passed on From olden days Based on something … Experiences and fears Prejudices and behavoir Twisting and turning Spinning and twirling Who knows how they started Often, not always, A nugget of wisdom remains. ~ Diane Clancy ...

The Universe Wrote Me 2008-01-28 07:47:08 I found this wonderful site that sends me messages every day … from the Universe. “Thoughts become things… choose the good ones! ®” is their slogan. The website is www.tut.com. I find their sayings often very helpful … so I figured I would share this with you. It is a free newsletter. So I share today’s thought with you … Yellow Mist, Digital © Diane Clancy From the Universe: When you understand, Diane, that your disappointment in another’s behavior or choices always stems from their immaturity, or yours, rather than their unkindness, or yours, it becomes much harder not to keep skipping through life, giddy with joy, smelling the flowers. Moreover, when you understand that with enough maturity on your end you can always find peace in all of your relationships, it becomes much harder not to run down the street kissing everyone you meet on both cheeks. Kiss, kiss - The Universe Wisdom, Diane, is the real deal. Back to Diane &hell ...