Well the weekend is over and back to work. I have been running some really good sales on etsy to raise money to buy my family gifts this year. Some of the prices I have offered are way below what I would ever want to sell them for. Some I had to put at a limited time because I just can't even stand the thought. So well, I think I am about done with the sales. I just can't offer them any less :) I'd rather keep them for my upcoming shows.

   I just looked at the calendar I think sales will run to the 15th and then done with that. I will be adding 4 new pieces this week, all less expensive pieces and then no more till January. Little break for me to work on other projects. Anyways if your in the market for art check out the etsy store.

     http://www.etsy.com/shop/sherryarthur

Today's Limited timed Offer SALE.  I have never put this piece on sale.
This piece has a lot of meaning in it. Certainly a one of a kind piece! I'll tell you more about it another time. I have got to get back into the studio and sign some paintings.
Here it is though: Castle Of Abandoned Fear

http://www.etsy.com/listing/83861412/sale-limited-time-crazy-landscape-castle

Today's newest and featured pieces. Both are abstract and textured.

First is : Swirling In The Wind

http://www.etsy.com/listing/88018429/sale-brand-new-red-swirly-flowers

Second is: In The City

http://www.etsy.com/listing/87932207/sale-textured-abstract-city-buildings
Sorry that's all I got time for today :) Have a great day.

       Good Morning. I haven't had a moment in the last couple days but here I am this morning. Thought I'd drop some info before going off to the studio. BUSY day ahead for me.
        Hope everyone had a terrific weekend! Yesterday I featured two pieces and put them on sale so let's address that first. later today I will feature another piece and put up its sale price. I honestly am not sure which one yet.
          Here is yesterdays featured pieces. The first is named: Reaching

http://www.etsy.com/listing/46818123/sale-abstract-space-planet-stars

This piece is truly and eye catching cool piece! Can be whatever you can imagine it to be. I have heard several different ideas of what people have seen. Just a beautifully colored piece! The reason this piece is named Reaching is, when I was painting this piece I was reaching down deep inside to find a new part of me to paint with. I believe it worked well because it started a whole new way in which I paint. I am always looking for new ways and interesting theories in the way I produce my artwork. As I say I am always in an experimental stage because I do not want to be labeled or stuck to one thing!

This next piece is: Quick Visit On Long Love Lake Whimsyville Series

 http://www.etsy.com/listing/76004056/amazing-sale-imaginative-landscape

This piece is one of my personal favorites and I waver whether it will become a part of my private collection weekly. For now this piece is still available for sale. I currently have it on sale for the lowest price I will ever take for it and it hurts! lol I kid you not since I am considering whether to sell it at all.

I am not sure where these pieces come from either. They are a fairy tale land that I live in my head! I would give anything to fall down a rabbit hole or something and end up here. What amazing scenery I would see in Whimsyville.  Oh, and who wouldn't want to live in that house? The swirly trees dangling their hearts, the glorious sky..... I live in an amazing place in my head. Probably why I never want to sell these pieces. I can look into them and take myself there any moment of any day. I even have little stories to them usually. I just never have the time to write them down. :)

That's all I got time for now. Take care and smile and make someone else smile!

  Hello Friday! Not feeling so good today. Trying hard to feel better. Got an abstract on the easel I need to finish and thinking about the show I have coming up in January. I have at least the next three paintings already planned out in my head! Really tired though.

  Today's Featured piece is:  In The Moment

http://www.etsy.com/listing/82820207/sale-mixed-media-woman-ballet-dancer

This piece is a mixed media piece. A collage with a painting, if you will. 

The colors in this piece are brown, white, black, and gray. The ballerina is dancing her way down the  musical staff.

I am not real sure where these paintings come from. This is my third mixed media ballerina. I just really like these pieces. I also have two gears, mixed media pieces. One day I just felt like doing this and it snow balled into these pieces. They are interesting and different. That makes them special. I happen to love the way the human body moves in dance and the beauty of a dancers body. I think the obsession with ballerina's is when I was a little girl I wanted to take ballet so badly! I never got to and still regret it to this day. I would always look at the ballet slippers at the shoe stores and dream. Maybe I should buy me a pair to hang on my wall and dream about. What do you think? Till then I will continue to paint ballerinas and dream. I think that is where a lot of my paintings come from. Dreams of all the things I wanted to do as a child. I wanted to take art classes too. I never did however but at least i achieved that dream on my own. I also taught myself to play the piano.... another dream and well I could go on and on but for now, I will be quiet =D

Right now as we speak my artwork is on its way to a new home in Virginia and I am awaiting word that another has made it to its home in Australia.
When I ship a painting they come with a certificate of authenticity registered with me and I build a box for each painting at time of sale. All my paintings are shipped next day unless holiday or a Sunday. I normally ship USPS priority mail. Little facts for those of you wondering :)

Today's featured piece that is also on a holiday sale is: Blissfully Blue

http://sherryarthurdreamweavergallery.blogspot.com/

As you can see this piece is pretty much all blue. I love to pick a color that represents my mood and just go with it. Forget the fact that our world is not all blue. Maybe it should be at times, hmph. lol This is the second landscape that I have done in all blues. The first is sold and at its new home. I like the drama and depth that this piece gives off. When I look at this piece it makes me feel comfort, soothing sounds of water, and a curiosity of what is up around the bend. I am hoping up ahead is a little cozy shack that I can live in. When I painted this piece I was in a somber mood and I think this piece somewhat reflects that. Below is the first all blue landscape I did. That piece is called True Blue Through And Through, that piece is sold. Take care.

New Artwork

Good morning. Hard for me to keep up this blog when I am in the studio painting a lot! I will try my hardest though.
Have you ever just wanted to run away? I mean really wanted to run away, the kind where you would never be found. Maybe like to another time and place, maybe like an Alice In Wonderland? I would have to say if you do then you might just get a small peek into my mind.
Lately I have been living inside my head a lot. Plowing the fields of memory and emotions. I should think it is one of the reasons I'd like to run away. Run away from the past, from thoughts, and from the feelings the past evokes.
For some reason it has made me feel rather abstract, possibly because thoughts no matter how organized are pretty much abstract themselves. I mean no matter how you look at things there are always so many other ways to look at the same thing. The mind and how it interprets things is sort of like the facets of a diamond. There are just so many ways. Well anyways I should stop my minds ramblings and get on to the newest artwork.
The title of this piece is Soulful Satisfaction.

http://www.etsy.com/listing/87460810/textured-vibrant-knife-painted

This piece is appropriately named. I started painting this piece with a very strict design in mind, well that didn't last! Before I new it my mind and soul took over and created what it wanted as usual. I find painting to be an escape, running away if you will. I mean how else can I describe the process. When I am asked it is always really hard for me to describe because it just happens. 

I remember a time when I sat down at the easel with a scene in mind and no matter what I stuck to it and painted just that. That is also when I wondered how abstract art was created. Now I sit down at the easel, on the floor, or where ever and just create from my soul. No control, and now when I try to control it... it just rebels anyways :) So glad it does because I love this piece!!!! This one definitely satisfied what was inside me at the time. When and if my soul leaves me at some point it will be as vibrant and colorful as this. I think it will be able to be seen as it will demand your attention . Take care all.

Cyber Monday Featured Art

http://www.etsy.com/listing/46816247/sale-lighthouse-original-vibrant

Today's featured art piece and sale.

This piece is Pigeon Point Along The Pacific Coast Highway. This is an actual lighthouse in California. I find this lighthouse to be very charming! I enhanced the scene with a bit more bolder colors and detail but all in all it stays pretty true to form. This is a favorite of mine. Beautiful vibrant captivating piece. This piece draws attention and really makes a statement. The detail and crisp vibrancy just can't be ignored. I know I can't help but look at it in the room it is in. Just makes your eye wonder across it every time. :)

Thinking about many things today. Holidays seem to do that to you, now don't they? I guess being it is almost Thanksgiving you are expected to find the things you are thankful for, however, the thoughts plaguing my mind today are more about another year has almost passed. I find myself rethinking things and looking upon my life and wondering many things, including dwelling upon some regrets that I never even thought I would have. Lately my mind has been looking over my life. Usually happens around this time of year, so I can think about all the way through the New Year. Lucky me, however every year I learn another new thing about me. Sometimes they inspire change sometimes they just confirm why I am who I am.  Yep the ever emotional artist. I prefer to take these things out on a canvas but today the only art I have is baking for the holiday. Oh joy! I'd rather be painting and releasing these feelings instead. I hate feeling emotions. Probably why I paint, then they are there and not in my head!

       Anyways here is my featured artwork for today. The name of this piece is To Forgive Or Not Forgive

I think this piece explains itself quite well.
http://www.etsy.com/listing/59002665/sale-ooak-black-white-gray-red-woman


Also here is the pic of my newest release. My 2011 Holiday piece.
Named At The Peppermint Pole

http://www.etsy.com/listing/86843036/ooak-holiday-2011-artwork-very-unique

All I have time to say today. 

Take care one and all and have a wonderful Thanksgiving.

Good morning on this Tuesday morn. Thanksgiving is fast approaching on us. Are you a fan of the holiday? I really am not, I am not for stuffing food in me to I bust. I am not a huge fan of food anyways. lol Never was. Anyways I think I will start off my day with the featured artwork of the day.This featured piece spotlight will continue till cyber Monday.
Today's featured artwork is named "Retraction Abstraction".

The colors in this piece are tan, off white, black, white, brown, gray, and burnt sienna. Where did the name come from? Well that is always an interesting process. I have to tell ya most paintings tell me their name before they are finished. In this case I finished the artwork. Took it to photograph it and while taking pictures that is the name that came to me. Why? Don't know. As I have said many times to people, I refuse to control the creative process, if that's what comes to me than so be it. Some artwork I just have a tough time naming. Nothing really comes to me or to many, it is at that point that I seek help from others. I believe that those paintings are meant to be named by someone else and usually the name  that gets decided on fits the piece perfectly, so hence meant to be!

This particular piece of artwork was born of frustration. I was feeling that all my emotions were twisted into a knot and I was trying to untangle them as you would untangle hair.  Did this painting untangle my emotions? To a degree, but being me I think my emotions stay in a tangle most of the time. There is always a struggle to a freedom within . Always seeking freedom of my mind and of my work. Always seeking to understand what it takes to be an artist and always wondering when I will feel I am there. Sometimes I believe I am and others not quite. My job creates frustration. On that note I am going to paint . Take care and make someone smile today. Good for your soul.   :) 

Thinking of doing a holiday painting giveaway again this year.

What do you think, should I do it and what should be the criteria of entry???

Here is its link.

http://www.etsy.com/listing/72100584/sale-contemporary-abstract-neutral

This is my featured piece for today. I am featuring a piece every day. Those featured pieces I am also putting on sale for the holidays. Hope you enjoy. This piece is named "Wondering Through".

Let me tell you a little about this piece. The colors in this piece are red, black, and white. I created this piece when a person I did not like very much was coming back into my life, when I did not want them there. This person was a horrible person to me and I did not appreciate the way in which they treated me, so long story short this painting was born of that emotion. The original title for this painting was Wondering Through Hell. I just shortened it and made it less offensive I guess you could say. I consider this painting to be an abstract landscape and I would say you can see different things in this painting depending on who you are and how your emotions look upon it. I will point out one thing to you if you look to the left you will see two shadow people wondering through. This piece was originally much darker but I went back and toned it down. Looking back now I think I shouldn't have but at the time it seemed right. I always just go with whatever my heart and head tells me, sometimes later I regret that, sometimes I am glad I did. I often do not know how I feel about the painting to at least the next day and sometimes not for a month later. There are some paintings that sell before I even know.:) For now I'll be quiet and let you decide about Wondering Through and what it feels like and what it means to you the viewer.

Here is the link where it is currently on sale.
http://www.etsy.com/listing/46824518/sale-enchanting-abstract-landscape-red

Starting my first blog ever

Hi and welcome to my blog. Not sure that I can keep even the most bored mind occupied with my ramblings but I am going to give it a whirl :) My blog will cover my wanderings in my mind, my art, my writing, and all the musings along the journey of life. I am a full time artist, need I tell you I am an emotional being. So buckle up your seat belt. Make sure you are securely strapped in and no getting off this ride to it comes to a complete stop. Your just going to have to bear with me till I get my sea legs but I promise you. I''ll try as hard as I can to let you inside my crazy mind. This ride leaves in 5-4-3-2-1. Here we go........

Lets start by a link to my etsy store. That way you'll know my artwork.
http://www.etsy.com/shop/sherryarthur