New things and featurings

After months of a kind of creative block, the past few weeks has seen me creating in wire again. Suncatchers featuring some of my favourite themes - hearts, skulls, the rainbow, stars and bats - have been popping up all over the shop.

















In addition to this, I have also had my work featured in two places - the 'Gift of Art' Gift Guide campaign on Etsy's front page, in which they've used my 'Turquoise Star' piece:



And also on ACEO Showcase, the new blog from the creator of Cuteable, who has featured my 'Midnight Moon' ACEO:

UK Street Team on Etsy

I'm a member of Etsy's UK Street Team, (although I really don't do enough promotion!). Some members of this street team are doing a trunk show at Etsy headquarters in Brooklyn, New York. To raise funds for this show, and other events, they've opened a UK Street Team shop. Click the banner to go there:



There are some amazing items there, including beautiful jewellery by Kalicat, BlueMarmalade and Sakurajewellery, a cute little zip-up bag by Urbanknit, fantastic collages by Rosehip71 and Bunny, a pretty little pin cushion by Bombus, a gorgeous felt flower brooch by charlottenarunsky and an ace Little Mr T by Kezzaroo :D

My first art cards

I've just listed a new ACEO diptych in my DaWanda shop. It looks like this:



and is for sale here.

It's a mini version of a favourite composition of mine, which I've used here and here. It depicts a tree spreading across two cards. The first card shows one side of this tree in daylight, and the other shows the other side of the tree at sunset. The tree on the daylight side has been painted using a mixture of copper poster paint and black acrylic, giving it a metallic sheen that looks different in varying light. The sunset tree is in silhouette, painted in black acrylic, a striking contrast to the bright acrylic colours of the setting sun. As I believe is standard with ACEOs (I did say these were my first!), both of my cards measure 6.5cm (2.5") by 9cm (3.5").

I've also painted a circular art card, on display here: