Thursday, February 26, 2009

Patterns and Books

I got a hold of some inventory from a closed store. Dozens of patterns and books for cross stitch, knitting, tatting, ribbon embroidery and more are 10%-50% off! Many popular brands, some now out-of-print.

Patterns and Books

There is a nice variety of designs for all skill levels, from small to large designs. Learn cross stitch and start making next years Holiday gifts now! :)

Themes for men, babies, weddings, family, Christian, animals, fantasy, floral etc. In the "more" category, learn to make your own tassels and fringe or felted purses etc. Only one of each is available unless otherwise noted.

Spread the word!

Friday, February 13, 2009

Print Sale

DeviantArt is having a print sale. That's where my photos are sold.

"For a limited time we're offering 15% off on all our photo prints. Beautiful matte, glossy or lustre finish, professional-quality Kodak Endura prints at their lowest prices this year. Don't delay, the sale ends February 19th at 11:59 PM Pacific!"

My deviantArt store is at: http://kerstitch.deviantart.com/store/

Here you can find beautiful flowers and scenic landscapes/waterscapes along with a couple of cute cat photos.

Including:

Fancy Pink Cosmos


Magic by the Lake


Snug as a Bug

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Art Class Reminiscing 2

Part one didn't make it to this blog. You can see it here: Art Class Reminiscing

These are my earliest attempts at dragons

Pencil drawing from grade 10 or 11 (15 or 16years old). I received a grade of 46/50 with a comment "good composition and detail". I still do like the composition and may revisit this again someday when my painting skills are improved.

Like most of my artwork, this was not stored properly and just folded in half, so what looks like smoke coming out of the dragons mouth is really an imprint from the wing. You can see the other parts if you look. However, it did add a little bit of shading to the head that was lacking. lol
The top got cut off by a small amount in the scanning - the little dragon in the background does have wings. lol

dragon

See larger version: Dragon

This is my first and only oil painting. I think I was 16 or 17years old. Art supplies were one of the first things I bought once I started working at 16. We didn't get to try oils in school.

oil painting with dragon

Larger version here: Oil Dragon

After this I had started another painting and did a dark blue and black background. I taped the canvas to our glass dining room table since I didn't have any other kind of set-up available. I left for a short time and our cat walked across it and then onto the pale pink fabric-covered chairs. So that was the end of my oil painting experiments.