Card Designs: Valentine's Day or General Love, and 50th Birthday

Photographing candy and candles, and editing with Picasa, resulted in these card designs.

Birthday Cake Still Life Painting

I made this cake for my boyfriend's birthday (50) and within 24 hours it became a model for a still life painting! 

It's acrylic paint on a 12" square stretched canvas. Done in one afternoon! I like doing quick paintings--leaves less time for mulling it over, artist block, and negative thinking to creep in. Just set it up and DO it! That's what works for me lately. 

Got "featured"

My "Cupcakes with Rainbow Sprinkles" got "featured" in the Acrylic Painting group on Red Bubble--an artist website. I just joined recently and was surprised and happy that it got noticed. :)

I am ordering some greeting cards made from some of my paintings or photography to see how they print out. Usually things end up darker than they appear online. If so, I'm going to have to adjust the brightness from now on on the photos of the art & photography I upload. 

There's another artist website I belong to, and I just wish I could tell it somehow to sift out all the "manga" or whatever that is. I'm sick of looking at it! I know, I'm just too old and don't get it or like it, lol.

Chocolate Cake!!!

Acrylic on stretched canvas. 18x24". First time I'm painting "white" with color in the shading and highlighting rather than just brown. Probably could've done it with more intensity, but I'm just getting started. Next, I have to finish my pair of yellow cupcakes!

 Close-up