New Jewelry and Magazine Feature!

 

I have a TON of new jewelry for sale!!
I made a lot of new Dog Tag Necklaces! These feature many of my newest paintings. The entire garden series is currently available, ONLY these have a small matching crystal rhinestone attached to the corner of them! :)

I finally have some cameo rings available again! These were pretty popular the first time I made them, but I had trouble finding some of the parts for them. I'd been on the lookout ever since and finally got everything to make them again! :)

And just for fun, I made some other filigree rings that are topped with beautifully detailed resin chrysanthemum cabochons! These are available in a few different colors!

ALL of this jewelry is now available in my Etsy shop: http://www.etsy.com/shop/elvenstarart

Other Art News: My second sheet of Rubber Stamps is now available for pre-order at Sweet Pea Stamps!!  Pre-order yours and see all my stamps HERE!

 I have a feature in the current issue (June 2011 Issue #70) of ImagineFX Magazine!! So keep an eye out for it. It is on sale now the UK, and a month later everywhere else. :) I need to get my hands on a copy! You can buy a digital copy HERE or the actual magazine HERE if you can't find it in a store.

"Black Rose Immortal" and "Black Winter Day" are now available as Cross Stitch Patterns at Heaven and Earth Designs!

I also have a couple new pieces of handmade jewelry for sale!!
I have a chainmaille choker done in the dragonscale weave!  This cute necklace features a butterfly pendant and extender chain!
 The second piece is  a simple multi-strand bracelet made using a couple different types of chain and a chain of wire wrapped beaded links!
Both are available in my etsy shop!!

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And a small update on my kittens... all seem to be recovering well from their surgeries and all cats are now getting along fine again! :)

New Painting and Products!

"From the Dark Depths"
This is my newest painting, finished earlier this week!  I actually painted a mermaid this time!  It is not a subject that I get inspired to paint often for whatever reason.  I just don't get that many mermaid ideas.  :)

I wanted her to me more of a dark mermaid, and even though she is up on the beach, I didn't want it to be beautifully sunny.  So I opted for a cloudier atmosphere.

Watercolor and white goauche, as usual.  5 x 7"
Prints are available on my website!

New Products!
I'm pleased to announce that my artwork is now available on a couple of new products!

Some of my art is now available as Iron On Transfers from Kat's Magical Patches!! These can be used for all kinds of fabric crafts!

Also, You can now get some of my art as Rubber Stamps! Pre-order my first sheet now at Sweet Pea Stamps!!

Other...
We got the kittens spayed this week, and they are now at home recovering.  As it turned out, all 3 off them are girls!  I thought for sure that at least Loki was a boy.  Oh well, I guess we'll just have to have a girl cat named Loki, because I couldn't get used to another name at this point.  lol

They seem to be doing well, except for the fact that they don't recognized each other's scent and keep hissing at each other.  This also includes their mom.  She hisses if one comes anywhere near her.  I've heard this is common and should pass.  I sure hope so!

Spring Sale!!

I have a sale going in my Ebay Store for the next week!  Get up to 20% off on EVERYTHING!!

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I've started the sketch for a mermaid painting, of which I showed a little concept sketch of a few weeks ago in this blog post.  It is kind of slow going because I've been sick with a cold this week.  This cold has been going through my family for the last few weeks, and I thought I was in the clear but it hit me last.  :(  It's actually the first cold I've had in several years, so I've been lucky.  I hope that it will pass soon, so I can get some real work done!  I hate being sick.

New Painting, new website and more...

New Art:

 "Broken Halo"
11 x 14" watercolor and white goauche.
This is my newest painting that I finished a couple days ago!  I'm really happy with how she turned out.  The billowy storm clouds in the background took the longest!  Backgrounds often do take me longer than the figure to paint, maybe it's because I find the figures way more fun to paint!  But backgrounds are a necessary evil.  lol

I was originally going to make her wings turning from white to black, having the feathers falling out being the white ones.  Like after she "fell" everything was darkening and volatile around her, as with the storm clouds building up around her.  But by the time I got to the wings, I just wasn't quite sure how to successfully pull that off how I'd imagined.  And I wasn't sure if it would have looked as good if I'd tried, so I decided just to go with all black instead.  :)

Prints are available on my website!

New Website:
I made a website dedicated to my handmade jewelry! The shopping cart is connected to my main art website, so you can shop at both in one transaction! :)
You can visit  it here:

jewelry.elvenstarart.com


Bookmarks!

I now have the Garden Series available as bookmarks!  They're only $2.50 each!  I also have many other designs available in my Ebay store.









And Just because they're cute:
Almost 5 1/2 months now...

Bear's Pretty Green Eyes

More Bear cuteness

Loki's Sweet Face...

Loki again

Sleepy Loki

Storm

Storm and Loki taking over my drawing table

Special Auctions!

I have several special auctions going right now! 2 older original paintings! These are a couple of male portraits I did a few years ago.

I also am auctioning 3 different huge sets of ACEO prints! These auctions start at only 1¢ for up to 19 prints!

Broken Halo WIP

A couple days ago I did a couple of quick, messy concept sketches.  I almost always do these before doing my more refined sketches, just to get my composition planned out.  Then I wasn't sure which I wanted to start with, the angel or the mermaid, so I asked my Facebook friends to help me decide.  The majority voted for the angel, which truthfully I was leaning toward myself.  :)  But I fully plan on doing the mermaid soon too, if not immediately after the angel.

So I got started on the angel sketch.  I worked on it for several hours yesterday.  While I was working on it, I took some progress shots.  While this isn't really a tutorial, I thought some would still find it interesting to see how it came together.

And I had a little visitor while I was working.  Loki had to investigate what the heck I was doing!  I guess he wasn't too impressed because right after this picture was taken, he began to chew on my drawing board!  lol

"Broken Halo" final sketch

Here is the finished sketch!  The photo washed out a lot of the background detail, but I was too lazy to scan it.  This is a fairly large picture, at 11 x 14"  I plan to transfer the sketch tonight and hopefully get started on the painting too.  I hope that the painting goes as smoothly as the sketch did.  :)

New ACEO!

I have a new ACEO for auction!

"Feral" -- #9 in my continuous Animals series, this one featuring a Canadian Lynx.
I'm really happy with how this one turned out and I think this is one of my best animal paintings yet.  I hope you like her too!
She is for auction on Ebay for the next week. You can find the auction HERE
Limited Edition ACEO prints are available of her on my website HERE.