Solaris Nebula Speed Painting Video

Hey all! Another little video update! :)

I hope you're having a lovely Friday!

Art Updates, Shopping, and a Video!

I've been busily working away on my 'Secret' themed paintings. The next one should be finished very soon, and I am SO excited for you guys to see her. I also made a little video preview of my artwork in progress that you can find at the bottom of this post.

Lately I've been experimenting with painting on Creative Paper Clay. I roll a hunk of it into a ball, then flatten it out into a coin shape, let it dry a bit, and paint directly on it with watercolours. I think acrylics would look better though, as the watercolours seem to just soak into the clay and lose their pigment. I then applied a layer of matte medium to seal the painting, and added sparkles for some extra pizzazz. Once that was dry, I glued on a pin back, and now she's ready to wear!

I've also purchased a lot of neat things over the past few months (either online, through thriftstores, and via craigslist) and have some posts planned to share those shopping hauls. :) But to start us off, here are two things I recently got in the mail:

1. Fabric tapes - for decorating the gift boxes and envelopes that get sent to my lovely customers.

2. Krylon Metal Leafing Pens (in 18kt Gold, Silver, and Copper)
(I can't wait to use these in my artwork, and jewelry!)
I plan on doing a video review of the Krylon pens, so look forward to that! :)

I experimented with the metal leafing pens, and drew on some black Onyx pendants. I really love the effect! What do you think?

And last but not least, my foxxy purse! I kind of want to get the light brown, and light pink ones too.

Lastly, here's the art preview video!

Hope you're all having a fabulous Friday! :)

Theme: Secrets!

A few little announcements today!

Firstly, my website has been re-vamped! Check it out here, and let me know what you think! Forgive the little welcome/owl sign, as it's only a placeholder for future things.

Secondly, I'm super excited about this new project I'm working on. It will be a series of up to five paintings (depending on time), that will be inspired with the theme "secret". This theme really appeals to me, and I think applies to a lot of my own artwork already. In every piece, I try to express mysteriousness in my characters, as well as eerie enchantment in their surroundings... so this theme kind of feels natural to me.

I've made a bunch of sketches, quite a few of them based off of ideas from you guys, that you supplied me with on facebook (thank you so much!!), and have three that I definitely want to use. The titles of these pieces, as of now, are Secret Garden, Mystery Behind the Masque, and The Trees are Watching.

If I'm able to get a larger memory card soon enough, I will record the painting process of these pieces and share them with you on youtube. :)

On jewelry news, the leaves from my previous post have finished baking, and look all glittery and fantastic. Tomorrow I will get started on making them into new ear cuffs, and hopefully soon they'll be in the shop!

Now, for your viewing pleasure, may I present...... Scarlet!

You can watch a little video of her creation, here:

Well, thanks for stopping by, and I hope you follow along with me and see how the new paintings turn out! :)

Artist Interview: Steph Sturm

Good morning everyone!

I interviewed my good friend Steph over the summer, and just put up the video this past week. She happened to be over at my house, lookin' all dressed up and fabulous, so I asked if I could ask her a few questions about her art and record her answers. 

If you watch, let me know what you think!