Happy Holiday From Organic Pink Lady!

2012 Trailer Camper Caravan Calendar

Check out my new calendar design for 2012!
Who can resist cute vintage airstreams and campers?
So many adventures happen in these happy colorful trailers all year long.
Do you love it? You can find it in my Etsy Shop right now :)

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Illustration Friday on Monday Afternoon

© 2011 Juliette Nelson

It has been aaages since I've contributed to IF. This week's theme is "layer".
A good handful of my paintings are layer or stack-like, aren't they.

© 2011 Juliette Nelson

This time I thought I'd share a couple of sketches from a page in my sketch book, where (yes, my sketch book is a place) I sit for hours and hours engrossed in creating and following invisible lines, colors and rhythms, rendering them visible. When I sketch, if I'm not out in the world, I like to sit at my drafting table, or on a couch, surrounded by pens, watercolors and colored pencils of all varieties. I love having them all at my finger tips, that way I can scan the array of colors and textures available and pick up the one that matches the moment :)

Make sure to check out all the amazing work on Illustration Friday!

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This One Is For Cyclists

Know any cyclists? Know any cyclists who looove climbing mountains? Know any cyclists who looove climbing mountains that get steeper and steeper, where their only companions are the pikas?

Something like

this :) ?

This is a card I designed for Organic Pink Lady. You can get it right here.
There are two slightly different versions in the set. If you'd like more than one of either design or both designs, awesome! Just let me know.

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Continuous ...

I just found this painting in my studio and was surprised. It obviously didn't make the cut when I was choosing paintings to show off. I don't know what I didn't see in it way back then. I love it now! I wish you could see it. A scan has absolutely nothing on an original. A scan is just an idea of the actual painting; all luscious nuance of color, brushstroke, and layer, mostly gone. That said, it is nice to be able to show you a glimpse of it anyway :)

When I was about 10, I drew a picture of a flower, a big daisy-esque flower on white drawing paper, whilst visiting my grandmother. I didn't think it was very good though so I threw it away. For years and years, every time somebody commented on it, hanging, framed, in her living room, my grandmother would tell the story of how she fished it out of the lixo (lixo is Portuguese for trash)! What a sweet love lesson she taught me.

These days in my studio, no finished painting ever gets the bin treatment. If it's finished, it stays, whether I'm enamored of it at the time or not.

How do I know when a painting is "finished" or "complete"? This is something that every artist must figure out for him/herself. The moment tends to be elusive. I know it by a sound, a feeling, a sensation. I call it a Zing. I play with this Zing sometimes too, moving it around according to whatever it is that I'm investigating as a painter.

Unfinished paintings will eventually be revisited. Even if it starts out, for eg, looking like an horse, and ends up looking like a spaceship, it's the same painting. All the layers of color, shape and brushstroke, inform and transform each other continuously; the underlayers as much a part of the painting as what you see on the surface. It's certainly not like throwing a painting in the trash and starting over with a blank. It's continuous. We're continuous.

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Last Two of Eight

WinterTree
FireTree
Here are the last two, completing this series, at least for the moment. That was fun. I really like WinterTree. Oh, and see what else is new? Up top you can see the whole series together by clicking on the Tree Series tab. Cool, hey. I don't know how long I'll keep it or what I'll add but I like it for now :)

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Two of Last Four

LovelyTree
JazzTree
Here are 2 of the last 4 of this tree series. By the way, if ever a title for one of my paintings occurs to you, please do let me know! My friend, Bethany, titled this one and I LOVE it!

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Two More!

SavannahTree
WaterTree
I didn't intentionally set out to paint a series of trees. I paint what happens. Looking at them together though, I began to notice what they had in common. It seemed to me that they (the last 4 I've shown you and there are 4 more coming) all have a certain treeness about them. I do love trees, so it's not surprising that what's in my heart, is painted out. Then again, maybe they're not trees. The one I've titled (always subject to change) 'WaterTree' often looks like balloons to me, or seaweed, or an amoeba, or funny people or a big storm.

What do you see?

I'd love a child or writer to be drawn in by this magic and write a short story inspired by this painting.

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Two New Paintings

ReflectiveTree
SufiTree
These two are acrylic on paper 9x9". I think I'll be mounting them onto wood panel boxes. I love painting on paper. Things happen on paper that don't happen on canvas. The trade-off is that then I have to think about mounting and/or framing them.
I hope you like these :) I'm loving this series. There are more to show you soon!

Here's How It Happened

I stacked mySpanish/PortugueseEnglishFrench/EnglishPortuguesedictionaries.
I opened each one to a page at random and wrote down the page number.
I added the individual numbers together (that's the 34). Then I flipped a coin to see if I should keep it a two digit number or reduce it further by adding the two individual numbers together. Best of 3. Heads won. #7. Then I went to my FB FAN page, opened up the list of cool peeps, and counted up to 7 from the bottom. That's how Victor Warring became the WON!

Drumroll Please ...

(click the image to enlarge)
To find out how it all happened, scroll UP or click here.

Point Five!

That's TOMORROW morning!Just getting here? That's okay. There's still time. Scroll down to Giveaway to find out what's happenin'!

Win Free Art In 2.5 days!

To get in on the action read Giveaway!

Giveaway!

This GIVEAWAY is exclusively for Organic Pink Lady's FACEBOOK Fans; so all you have to do is become my FAN on Facebook and you'll automatically be entered into the drawing!

If you're already into FB, becoming my FAN is an easy way to keep in touch with my blog entries, new art in my portfolio, new art in my shop, contests, photos, projects (I've got lots of them in the works, some of which might involve YOU), giveaways, shows I might attend ETC. BEST of all though, you'll be able to meet and interact with other cool peeps!

Please invite your friends! The more, the merrier. Once you're on my PAGE you can do that easily by clicking on "suggest to friends" just under the profile picture. If you're not on FB, but you have a friend or acquaintance you know would love my art, and to be a part of this fun GIVEAWAY, please send them this link: http://www.facebook.com/organicpinklady. It takes them to my FB page. Or you can use this link http://organicpinklady.blogspot.com/2009/12/giveaway.html and send them to this entry.

Oh Right! Want to know what you might win? Visit my ART SHOP and start deciding! The winner could be YOU! You know, if you wanted to give the gift to someone else, you could do that. I'll even send it to them, if you'd like!

Feeling left out hey-no-fair-just-cuz-i'm-not-on-fb? No worries ... I'm going to have a giveaway for Newsletter Subscribers too. Yes, you can be on FB with me AND sign up for The Newsletter! Why not! More chances of winning that way! And you'll get different news and fun treats anyway!

So WHY am I just giving away art? Because I want to build my online community. Because I seriously want to give something to somebody. That's mostly why I make art in the first place, for you. And also because hey, December is my birthday month and I like December.

Bold Beauties! added to the Art Shop

These cards have just been added to Organic Pink Lady's Art Shop. They're even awesomer in person!



Look for these cards, amongst many more, in the Art Shop too! What fun! I hope you like them.I have a friend sending out Thanksgiving cards! What a great idea! Maybe you'd like to, too!

Clutters of Petals

IF's theme of the week is 'clutter'. I guess these petals aren't really clutter. Clutter has a somewhat negative connotation, conjuring up images of disorder and confusion, the objects demoted to junk. These petals are not quite that, but I really want to contribute to IF, so we'll say clutters of petals are like clusters of petals!

Veronika, Katarina, Giselle & Mariana

Where do you suppose these four are going?! To a picnic tea party in a garden? A walk in the woods? A bici ride along the river? You KNOW they all have baskets on their rides! And joy. And lots of laughter together!

Faboo!

"Scarlet Butterfly"

This painting was titled by Bethany Sandvick, author of an awesome blog, "Nobody Listens to the Blonde", but we do, and you should, because she has really good things to say and she says, writes, them soo well!

I'm working on a post about a solar powered project I recently completed! In the meantime, here's a photo of a new painting. I'm finding the colors quite FAB! What do you think? I wish you could see these paintings I've been showing you in person, they're soo much more delightful and yummy!

A new series! Bellied Vessels

Can you see White White milk in these? What else do you see?

Isn't It Always Sunny?

Happy
Chocolate Covered In Assorted Colored Tin Foil, Sometimes Lying In Fake Grass In A Basket
Day!