What I have been up to lately!

I have again neglected my blog, shame on me! I do have some news though, sold a few paintings, and one to the TV show "The Beast" staring Patrick Swazyee that will air on A&E channel in January. It will be in episode 6. One of the set designers saw the small one I did on ebay and ordered the same but larger, 18"x24" and much tighter. Pretty neat eh?


Here are a few that i have recently sold on ebay:

I have also started doing Pet Portraits

I have a few other new paintings but i will leave them for another day. November wass a pretty dry month for me, i am hoping it will be a more productive December! Feel free to leave comments, i absolute value everyones opinions and critiques :)

Old Glory Sunrise, Red Cross Fund Raiser!

Old Glory Sunrise
5"x7" pastel on matboard

I am donating 25% of the sale of this painting to the American Red Cross to help victims of recent hurricanes, you can find it for sale on eBay
Thanks for looking!

REMEBERING

5"x7" pastel on matboard

Here is my latest, not quite a "daily painting" as i worked on it for 2 days. This is my friend Gary's pup Lewis, an adorable boxer.

13.5"x10.5" pastel

I have allowed life, work and a tropical storm to get in the way of doing my daily paintings but I am back at it. This is actually one I started on Saturday and finished this morning. It is of my birthday flowers that my friend Tassia gave me. :)

5"x7" soft pastel on matboard
Birthday Flowers

I listed it on eBay

Summer Sunset

SUMMER SUNSET

This is todays daily painting, a sunset I captured a week ago from the balcony of my apartment. It is 5"x7" soft pastels on primed matboard.

I also have listed my daily paintings on ebay

New Daily Paintings

Wow been ages again since i posted here. Now that the summer crazy schedule is over and I have a bit more time i am planning (once again) to start daily painting. I began tuesday September 2nd.


I really need to work harder at my art AND at marketing my art. I am planning on doing some plein air painting, in fact i am going to cape cod for a few days sept 22-24 to do just that. Im very excited to take my first painting trip :)



Anyway, here are my first 2 daily paintings.


Swan and Baby, 5"x7" pastel


And this one is a study for a future larger painting
Shark River Boats, 5"x7", pastel

NJ photos for fall painting..

I know, im aweful about keepin up with this blog!

Anyway, I'll write a catch up blog soon, today I went out and about all the way across the state of NJ lookin for decent fall foilage and just general cool photos of natural New jersey. Everywhere I have ever lived I always get some people who believe that NJ is just one big city. Today i drove around for 4 hours and didnt see a single city :)

Anyway, here are the photos taken in various spots in Central Jersey today, i plan on using some of them for paintings in the future.

Im still here!

Hola! Im still here, I know I havent posted in eons but Im hoping to get back into the routine very soon. This has been a busy summer, between work and spending time with family and doing outdoor things i feel like i havent had much free time at all lately!

I need to get my but into gear for making money this fall/winter and im hoping to work on making ebay work for me this time. Also starting on Monday August 27th Im planning on starting a year of daily paintings. Im planning on starting a newsletter and taking the chance I have right now to build up a following and reputation.

Big plans, now to get them into motion...... more to come

Im Moved!

it has been a crazy month with moving across country and the move is finally done!!! I am now living on the new jersey shore :). for now Im staying with my parents as a way of saving a bit of money and plan on having a place of my own by this fall. What i need to do is to work out a place to paint right now, my parents place is abit crowded.

Next week I start my job airbrushing at seaside heights, hopefully that will be a profitable summer. Anyway, the move wass exhausting and long and i have a little journal of sorts on this site http://www.artandartistry.com/index.php?showtopic=7912

Once I get back to making some art I can get back to posting here!!!

its official, im in a gallery

Not been getting too much artwork done recently, but on the good side, I spent alot of time this past week or so packing and mailing about 12 paintings to LMR Gallery in Pahrump Nevada. Here is a newspaper article announcing the opening and listing me as one of thier artist http://www.pahrumpvalleytimes.com/2007/Apr-27-Fri-2007/news/13872873.html

Still working on housing arrangements for when I move to NJ, I *think* I will be mostly living at my sisters, at least for the summer. Will need to organize her porch as a studio for me. After summer I will most definately have a place of my own. Anyway thats whats new today... going to do the Scottsdale artwalk tonight I think as wont have too many more oppertunities to do so.

back to packing... i hate moving.. i will be glad when it is over! :)

keeping busy....

Not finished yet but getting there, i think i last worked on this on Sunday. This has been a busy week, I had a 90 shirt order to do and I finally finished packing all the paintings getting shippped, hopefully they will all arrive safely. Went and saw a really really really really bad movie with Brian on wed, good thing it was free. It was Day of the Dog or something. Just really bad.

Anyway, hopefully i will get a chance to paint this weekend.. tomorrow I need to take back my house, it is a DISASTER. I'll post an update soon as I get to paint again....

here duck duck duckie!

I started a new painting today. Something nice and soothing after a troubling week.

16"x16" gallery wrap canvas

checking in

Well no new art this week, got bitch-slapped by the IRS monday night, went to the zoo and got alot of photos, got a friend visiting from out of town and sinus headaches because of the 7% humidity. Excuses, excuses......

Getting my paintings ready to ship to the gallery, hopefully Monday or tuesday. Just waiting on the contract. Im also going to get busy doing some more packing and thinning out of my belongings beforfre moving back to NJ. 42 more days.....

Hopefully i will get some art made in the next couple days......

Desert Morning

Another offering of my mini Arizona series in Pastels.

Desert Morning 9"x12"

Arizona Orchard

Think I might do a small Arizona Series before leaving so here is my first offering,

Arizona Orchard 9"x12" pastel

I have not forgotten you....

bad Joni!!! Letting the blog go this long! Well the past is past...

Happy Easter! I have done a few pastels this week. I meant to do one today but I got lazy.. well it is a holiday so I guess im entitled to an occassional lazy day.

This past friday was first friday Artwalk and I brought some old paintings and put them out for $10 - $30 just to get rid of them... I made $90 on paintings that otherwise would have gone too the dumpster. It was a good nite :)

I got some good news this week but... Im not going to go into details just yet but it looks like I got accepted into a Gallery. More details on this later :) Im excited though!

So anyway..... Here are the last few pastel paintings I have done in the last week.

Mossy Beach 27"x21.5"


Lilies #2 9"x12"


Beach Grass 9"x12"

big big big pastel

Yesterday i went to a yardsale at an artist home and although there wasnt very much there besides a ton of art magazines, books and frames, i did get 3 large sheets of sanded pastel paper. So I decided today to try a large pastel painting. The paper measure 27"x22" (i think ... i'll have to remeasure to be sure)

Here is where i got today, this is the easy part, the hard part is next...

hmmm well I got a bit of ....advise concerning my latest painting of the boats so I made some changes, think you can tell whats missing? :)

Dinghies and baseball butts :)

finally finished the dinghy painting, this one was alot harder then i initially thought it would be. Even so though i enjoyed doing it.

Dinghies 16"x16" gallery wrap canvas

Ever since I got to Phoenix almost 3 years ago I have wanted to go to a spring training game but never had anyone to go with so never did. Today i went to my first spring training game and i went by myself. In the nick of time cos i think today was the last day of spring training here. I saw the San Diego Padres vs the AZ Diamondbacks. The Diamondbacks kicked booty! 14-8, it really was a great game and even alone i had fun and took alot of pictures. No art today but i had fun anyway... :)