Category: Series

Before Christmas

by Amanda, posted in Abstract, acrylic, Art, Art Sabbatical, Artist, canada, commission, events, exhibit, For Sale, Series, Uncategorized

Twas a few weeks before Christmas and all through the house Chaos broke out.

Well hello, long time, no talk. I’ve been busy as per the norm. Working on homemade Christmas presents, etc.

Just wanted to pop on and remind those few followers that I have a Gallery Exhibit coming up in February of 2010 at the Dow Center in Fort Saskatchewan.

I’ll be posting more about it later but for now, here is a list of the pieces that I will be exhibiting and their list prices as always, in CAD$.

Acrylic Paintings on Canvas or Objects
Life series (5 triangle paintings) $825
Despair 24×36 $1850
Soul Mates 24×30 $1500
Dark Winter Before Spring’s Dawning 24×36 $1650
Afterglow 24×36 $1850
Catharsis 16×20 $705
Thursday Daydream 16×20 $705
Abandon 8×10 $220
Sara’s Prayer 48×24 ($2500)
Blue Strum [Acoustic Guitar] ($1200) {Not for Sale on loan from private collection}
Drifting Honeymoon [driftwood] $450
Tormented Waves 8×10 $200
Unexplained 12×24 $635

Watercolor Paintings on Cold Press paper
Hold Me 11×15 $225
Kiss Me11x15  $225
Save Me 11×15 $225
Cherish Me 11×15 $225
Support Me 11×15 $225
Play with Me 11×15 $225
Create with Me 11×15 $225
Three Fold Prayer 11×14 set of 3 watercolor paintings $550

More on this later.

For now I leave you with a Merry Christmas wish (since I’m not sure I’ll be on again until after the Holidays) and a new Profile picture.

Cheers,

Amanda

7 styles of—

by Amanda, posted in Art, art discussions, Artist, canada, female artist, ideas, ink, paint, Paintings, Series, Uncategorized, watercolor

I’ve taken a break from the “Curvy” series and started a new series focused on shoes.

More specifically, stilettos.

The series will be called “7 styles of  ————–”

Why the blank? Well that’s because I’m not telling just yet.

I want to see what you, the viewer might think it is.

What comes to mind when you think of high heel shoes?

The series will consist of 7 watercolor and ink paintings each 9″x12″ with a stiletto as the subject.

Here is #1.RED

And as per the norm, I was too impatient to wait for the ink to dry.

Let me know your thoughts.

Cheers,

Amanda


Supplies

by Amanda, posted in Art, art supplies, Artist, canada, creative, female artist, ink, photos, Series, Uncategorized, watercolor

As you can tell, I haven’t had the chance to create any more pieces for the “Curvy” series because (a) I’ve been working and (b) I was in need of more supplies.

Yesterday, I was able to rectify (b) by doing a bit of shopping after work.

I’d like to remove (a) as an obstacle as well  but that would require having more people contacting my Art Dealer Sharon at Gallery 45 to purchase some artwork.

Just in case you’re interested, you can reach her at gallery-45@mcsnet.ca or contact me directly at themilkeway@gmail.com.

In the mean time, I’ll show you what I got.

I’ll rant as I go along on how pricey Art supplies are getting.

I picked up an 8 pack of Winsor & Newton ink.inkGranted I only needed Black, but I like to have options and this set came with:

  • Black (Indian Ink)
  • Blue
  • Carmine
  • Canary Yellow
  • Emerald
  • Nut Brown
  • Orange
  • Violet

Nice set but it costs $50 regularly.

Quite the chunk of change.

At least they last awhile.

Luckily though, I had a coupon for 40% off a single item which helped cut the cost on that one.

Next, I found some Reeves Watercolours that they had on clearance.

I love clearance and reduced Art supplies lol it makes me giddy.

They were $5 so I picked up 2 regularly $15.

They’re about middle grade quality and for that price I figured I couldn’t go wrong.

Plus they keep forever.reeves

It has 12 tubes with your basic assortment of colours.

Finally, I grabbed some clear Rubber Contact Cement for my collages.

The small container costs something like $6 and comes with a brush attached to the lid.

white_rubber_paper_cement

I figured I’d give it a whirl, I’ve heard that it works really well.

Plus it, like the ink, is Acid Free and Archival worthy.

So I’ll see how that works out for me, plus extra bonus, hubby can use it for his miniatures when he’s making scenery.

Well that concludes my little shopping spree.

I’m hoping to finish the collage I’m working on and do up a few more Curvy’s in the next few days.

Cheers and have a great weekend.

Amanda

Oh one more thing, for those of you who wonder what I’m like outside of my artwork we (hubby and I) have started up another blog.

Everyday Adventures with The Milkes

It’s couple/normal life oriented and will have lots of miscellany posts so feel free to check it out. 🙂

Curvy no.3

by Amanda, posted in Abstract, Art, Artist, canada, female artist, For Sale, ink, Paintings, photos, Series, watercolor

The next installment of the “Curvy” Watercolor series.

For some reason, this one just did not want to be photographed this evening…

might have something to do with the fact that it wasn’t 100% dry yet

*shrug* What can I say? I’m impatient.

Anyway instead of fighting with it all night, I decided to use the not so stellar photo regardless.

So keep in mind that this photo does not do it justice but is good enough to give you the idea.

Here is #3 in the “Curvy” series.

Curvy no3

I’m enjoying the series so far but I’m not sure if I’ll get another one finished tomorrow night or not.

I need to do up a couple more backgrounds and pick up more ink so we’ll see what happens.

But for tonight enjoy and Cheers.

Amanda