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The 2010 Art Calendar is in limited supply

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There are six 2010 Art Calendars remaining in my studio as of today. I will not be making more until I create the 2011 art calendar! And earlier this year, I made a video talking about the art calendar.
This fourteen page twelve month calendar features a different illustration for each month, including the Sassy Sea [...]

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We Series – because it’s all about family!

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Aren’t they pretty? I completed this series of illustrations late last year. They are available in both 5×7 inch (12,7cm by 17,7cm) and 8.5×11 inch (21,5cm by 27,8cm) sets.
The set is comprised of We Flourish, We Grow and We Reproduce.
I ponder life often during this time of year as the trees and flowers are all [...]

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Loaded Christmas Cactus!

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Have you ever seen so many buds on a Christmas Cactus?
My mom gave me this cactus when I moved into my house a few months ago. She has three or four of them growing in her house. I sat the cactus in the sun room and forgot about it. I really did forget about it. [...]

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Happy Thanksgiving

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Today I am thankful to be alive albeit sick with the flu.
Today I am thankful to have you in my life.
Today I am thankful to be earning a living with my art.
Today I am thankful to own my own home.
Today I am thankful Missy is better and blinking that eye again.
Today I am humbled.
And there [...]

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2010 Art Calendar (12 month handmade archival print sampler)

Earlier this week I finished designing my first ever calendar featuring twelve of my most popular prints. It looks lovely hanging on the wall or sitting against a window or on a shelf.
This fourteen page twelve month calendar features a different illustration for each month, including the Sassy Sea Urchin and the Four Seasons which [...]

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4 NEW SETS of miniature greeting cards added to the line including one limited edition set

Beautiful Florals #3

Mushrooms (Pastel Edition)

Mushrooms (Earth Edition)

Limited Edition Dark Hearts

The above Dark Hearts set is limited to an edition of three sets ONLY due to an odd printing error I experienced! I kept a set of four for myself and the other three sets of eight are available in the shop. MAN they are sweet!
Each [...]

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A friend said these flowers look like breasts

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He did.
I laughed, and the name kind of stuck.
Size – 4×6 inches / 10,2cm by 15,3cm
Medium – India ink, Prismacolor colored pencil and Windsor & Newton watercolor on Arches watercolor paper.
The original A friend said these flowers look like breasts is for sale in the shop
And just a note on March 6th, 2009 [...]

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Two New Sets to Introduce to the Mini Greeting Card Line

Beautiful Florals… no.1

Beautiful Florals… no.2

Photographing these itsy bitsy greeting cards was no easy task. If I breathed to hard, looked at them the wrong way or simply touched them they fell over like dominoes.
Each Greeting card set includes:
•8 cards (2 of each flower card)
•8 white envelopes
•8 seals (colours may vary)
Greeting card size – 1 3/8″ [...]

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Lost at Sea – Series of four fab abstract fish

Lost at Sea… no.1

Lost at Sea… no.2

Lost at Sea… no.3

Lost at Sea… no.4

Each was created using a combination of Pilot Hi-tec C pens, Windsor and Newton Watercolour, Faber Castell India ink and/or gold flec ink on either Arches watercolour paper, flower petal textured paper or cream coloured heavy cardstock.
Size of each original illustration is 3.5 [...]

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Look What Popped Up from the Ground

Medium – Windsor & Newton Watercolour and Pilot Hi-tec C pens on heavy cream coloured textured card stock
Size – 3.5 by 2.5 inches (8,7cm by 6,4cm)
Look What Popped Up from the Ground made the front page of Etsy not once but twice. Wow… thank you! It is an ACEO which stands for Art Cards, Editions [...]

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Radiant Melana – NEW Illustration

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Melana was created with sepia hued India ink, Prismacolor Verithin lightfast coloured pencils and Windsor & Newton Watercolour on heavy gorgeously textured cream coloured card stock. She measures 5×7 inches (12,7cm by 17,8cm). The original illustration is for sale at $115 and prints are available for purchase at $15.
Matting is available here. Simply specify in [...]

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We Fourish and Reproduce

…but first we grow.

We Flourish (above) made the front page of Etsy last week. Thank you LillyYella. I think We Grow did at one point to. All three originals in this series that are named We are on exhibit at the Klausen Gallery in Uptown Saint John. I created prints of them in three sizes; [...]

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Amelia (Sunshine Edition) because it’s Summer!

Newest art available in my shop. This is a re-creation of an india ink and gouache painting originally posted here. She is so pretty in yellow! I removed the background as it was two much yellow…
I like her with white.

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We Grow

Series – We Series of 3 illustrations
Title – We Grow
Medium – sepia india ink, watercolour and coloured pencil on watercolour paper
Size – 3.5×2.5 inches (*ACEO size)
I’ve been experimenting through scanning my miniature illustrations at extremely high resolutions, 1200 dpi to be exact, and printing them out at 8.5×11 inch size. They look wonderful. We Grow [...]

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Do You Love Me?

She says "Do you love me?" as she grabs his curled foot…
Wow I illustrated this 7 years ago! It is also one of the few illustrations that bear my married name as I am divorced now. It is signed with a tiny tiny "JB 2001" down on the bottom right rather than a "JD 2001". [...]

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Censored Art Giveaway… erm Contest! …or Censorship by Bananas?

I have art to give away to you, my readers and friends.
UPDATE The contest is now closed. No more entries will be accepted. I’ll announce the randomly drawn winner tomorrow . Thanks everyone.

The rules are simple
Leave your name, blog address (if you have one), and email (which I will not share) and comment on [...]

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The Indigo Sisters

Let me introduce Emma, Dorothy and Louise!
Title – The Indigo Sisters
Medium – Watercolor, India ink and colored pencil on Arches cold press watercolor paper.
Prints are available in my art shop.

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Let me intoduce Amelia who made the front page

This is Amelia.

And this is her little sister Becky.

Both were drawn with india ink and painted with gouache on red Canson paper. Amelia measures 5″ by 5″ while Becky weighs in at 3″ by 3″.
Amelia made the front page of Etsy today!

Go Amelia!

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Triplets Floral – miniature painting

Size – The Standard *ACEO size of 3.5 by 2.5 inches. It is probably appearing larger on your monitor. Get out your ruler!
Materials – Black, Red and Green Micron (005) pen, Windsor & Newton Watercolor
I drew this on Hand pressed, handmade paper stock that I purchased many many years ago in New York City while [...]

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