New Room Painting in Progress

I'm not-so hard at work on a new painting

                                                  from a magazine image of a nice little room
                                                         with a big comfy chair and a desk.

New Painting Finished!

Painting in Progress on Native Plants

I placed an order with Yellow Springs Nursery and I was so excited to see the plants I bought and to plan my garden at West Philly High School, I decided to make a painting of the plants we selected. The sketches came from looking at my garden in Spring Gardens and the Wildflower Guide helped me with the rest of them. I should be done by the end of the week!

The plants arrived today and we planted them in the beds!

Spiffy Blog Features My Paintings

I'm so excited to be featured on spiffy, a blog by etsy seller flapperdoodle:

Click on the image to go to the article!

Paper N Stitch Shop is Up and Running!

I really love this shop and I'm happy to be a part of it. The sellers have really nice looking stuff. Check out the shop and tell me what you think!

http://www.papernstitch.com/shop/allisons-paintings

Heart my shop if you like it. There is a prize for the shop with the most hearts!

Check Out My New Etsy Shop for Paintings

I created a new etsy shop over the weekend to make it much easier to find my paintings and reduce the number of pages in my etsy shop for photos. The new shop is AllisonsPaintings.etsy.com. Click on the images at the left and see how beautiful it is!

BIG OLD PAINTING SALE end of March One of a Kind!

I was looking at some paintings today and cleaning up older items on etsy when I thought, since things have been slow this month and I can't really get paintings framed by Mark until they sell, I would have a sale and take $15 off my original, one of a kind room paintings and branch paintings which regularly sell for $99 each. I love these paintings and I want them to find good homes soon. Each one has a simarly bright color palette, painting in acrylic on wood panels. I paint on wood because I want a super smooth surface and a matte/flat finish when the painting is done, so the shapes and color take center stage. If you scroll down on the page to look at the older posts, you can see details of the framing (not around but behind the painting) and features of the paintings.

I started collecting pictures from home magazines, tearing out my favorites and keeping them in binders, editing them down and after a while, I realized what I liked about some of the images wasn't the room or furniture, necessairly, but the colors and shapes. Then I thought I could paint simple versions of the images where I reinterpret the original. Here's my blue and red bedroom painting with the original.

This is a new one I'm working on now with the magazine page above. It still needs alot of work. I'm taking a break from it until I'm ready to fix it.

This is one of the branches paintings with the actualbranches I photographed in Elfreth's Alley. I'm always taking pictures of trees with interesting shapes.