Art – Page 17 – Amanda Milke

Farmer’s Market

July 7, 2013 by Amanda, posted in Art, Art Events, Farmer's Market 2013, For Sale, My Creations

Contacted the Chamber of Commerce Friday and have made arrangements to have a table at the local Fort Saskatchewan’s Farmer’s Market for the month of August!

I will be showcasing and selling some of my smaller art pieces and prints as well as my jewelry.

Should be fun and I’m hoping for a good reception.

In the mean time I will be making and prepping a good supply of merchandise to have on hand.

Waiting for a few new supplies to come in and then we are good to go!

Some of the cool things I’ll be carrying (assuming I get them all done in time) will be painted wooden bracelets, plethora of earrings, pocket watch pendants, hand painted pendants, bookmarks, block prints, mini abstracts, watercolors and a chunk more stuff.

Plus every week there is a gift basket draw that I will be contributing discount vouchers to, to go towards a commission piece.

So it should be a good time.

You can come out buy some jewelry, art and fresh veggies 🙂 how can you go wrong!

Cheers,

Amanda

A New Creation

July 3, 2013 by Amanda, posted in 2013 Artwork, Art, Artist, Birth, commission, Etsy Shop, For Sale, God, Life, Pregnancy, pregnancy art

I am pleased to announce that the Milke Family has started a new creation!

We are pregnant again.

Create with Me "11x14" — Create with Me “11×14”

It’s very early on in the First Trimester but it is exciting news that had to be shared.

🙂 I’ll be sure to update as we see how this new little creation is progressing.

Cheers,

Amanda

This is where I get to plug my Artwork and say buy, buy, buy cause we will have another baby to feed, feed, feed 😉

I also have some great deals on custom work at the moment so why wait 😀

Reject/Face-lift/Painting

June 20, 2013June 20, 2013 by Amanda, posted in 2013 Artwork, Abstract, acrylic, Art, God, God/Religion, Home Studio, Jewelry, My Creations, Paintings

So I got my “Thank-You but…” letter in the mail yesterday for my submission for the city hall art project.

The letter listed all the mediums Artists had proposed and one was metal work.

My money is on that artist getting it, something about small cities trying to look bigger and metal art fixtures seem to go hand in hand.

Mind you I could be wrong and it was just another wet media artist but I doubt it, time will tell.

Either way, it wasn’t me and that kinda sucks but what are you doing to do right, meh.

So I’ve been crazy busy this week babysitting munchkins along with my own so I haven’t gotten a chance to do a whole lot except in the evenings after my monkey has gone to bed.

Those observant among you, (and I hope that’s all of you seeing how you’re on an Art site) should have noticed the change in webpage appearance and the new address.

I am now amandamilke.com which is pretty cool and the site is morphing into something I hope is a bit more suave.

Lately, I’ve been spending my limited spare time in the evenings placing orders for supplies or working on my new jewelry line, but tonight I just wanted to paint.

So I finished my electric guitar commission, just have to put it all back together and clear coat it a bazillion times and it’s good to go!

I also went back to work on my Tree of Knowledge painting.

So here is a peek at how that is coming along.

Also above it you can see my new Studio motto 😉

I thought it was fitting.

Well I should go pass out because I have one more day of munchkin sitting before I’m free for awhile.

Cheers,

Amanda

Creativity is switched ON

June 3, 2013 by Amanda, posted in 2013 Artwork, Abstract, acrylic, Art, canvas, For Sale, God, God/Religion, Jewelry, Life, My Creations, Paintings, photos

Ever have those nights where you’re laying in bed and you have something come to mind and you KNOW that if you don’t get up that instant and write it down it’ll be gone in the morning.

That happens to me ALL the time. I don’t know how many nights I have scribbled on a piece of paper in the dark hopping by morning I’ll understand what the heck it was I wrote down.

Well last night I didn’t have my idea book by the bed SO after Blinding myself with my cell phone I typed my thoughts out on my notepad.

What were they? It had to do with my Genesis Tree of Knowledge painting and I’d tell you my ideas for the piece but as they say “Spoilers Darling”.

Needless to say I went back to working on it tonight and though I didn’t work on the really exciting bits I did block in my next layer.

Transforming the painting from this: