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mermaid painting part 1

part one of my painting video....

I will try and record and post part two tomorrow : )

mermaid drawing

the youtube video version... what I actually got the photos from.

Drawing version on canvas

Ok...my digital camera is on the fritz first off. I couldn't get a good picture of drawing at all so I thought well why not try recording it and see if that works. So I recorded a video of the drawing, then captured the screen image off the computer, pasted the screen image into paint, and finally saved it. *sigh* so a lot of effort for these little pictures. Hope you like the before the paint goes on sometime this week.

ok after a long absence...

I am back. So I had all kinds of fun stuff going on the past four months, but after going to a few different doctors we finally got it all fixed and I am patched up and ready to roll again. I haven't picked up a brush with in the four month period because most of my time was spent in agony....

New stuff... I have found a free to use website! holy cow
so my www.valariewade.com site is now being routed to my new website I am trying to put together. There are a few pages and some stuff up. Nothing special at the moment, just something other than the blog. I hope to have some originals and other offerings like digital stamps up sometime in November.

I need to take the time to scan my newer paintings, but here are a few bad camera shots to give you an idea.

drawings

I thought I should post to tell everyone that I am still around. I am still not feeling that fabulous but am slowly trying to get back into some sort of a schedule.

Here are some previews of possible stamps in the future. I will be working on making them into acrylic paintings as well. If all works out, I will post the originals for sale on my website.

cupcakes

I am slowly getting back into the swing of things. Here is my newest set for mygrafico. This is the digital stamp version of the cupcakes. I will try and get a colored version out by Saturday night. I just couldn't decide how to color each of them. I may make both vanilla and chocolate versions. : )

The set is at mygrafico under Beccakay and is priced at $2.95. The set includes 3 large 12x12 digital papers that can be resized to 8x8 if needed.

I will try and get back into a schedule again. I know for the rubber stamp buyers you may be wondering what it going on! Well I have a definite back log of line art for fairie song art stamps... I am working on the rest of the line art today, tomorrow, and Saturday so a new set can be released soon. As for my own line, I am putting that on hold for a little longer while I get ready for the only art show I have left this year and I am so far behind in painting *sigh* but I shall keep going and will get it all done.

Update

K I went to the Doctors office yesterday night to see if my new cramping on my lower right side was appendicitis or not. I had been having extreme cramping there for 3 days until finally breaking down to go and get it checked out. No I do not have appendicitis, yes the new doctor said the bladder infection is finally over, I have occasional stomach cramping and lower abdominal cramping that goes away when I stop stressing about it all. So, I am going to try and put good bacteria back into my body with dannon yogurt, try! and this one is really hard lately <---- to stop stressing so much about everything and see if I can get the cramping to stop.

I am going to try and paint something later tonight and see if that can help lower my stress level to stop the cramping.

That being said... if you have facebook here is my new face book address:

http://www.facebook.com/Valarierkwade

still fighting something

Bactrim Ds didn't work
cipro. didnt work
amoxicillin (allergic reaction, my muscles still hurt)
now on levequin (doesn't seem to be working)

I will be calling into the clinic again tomorrow morning. I just got off the phone with a Doctor who pulled my chart and told me it might take 14 days to get rid of the amoxicillin allergic reaction and to take an allergy medication for it and to call back after 10 am tomorrow to talk with the Doctor I have been seeing. I hope all is well. Wednesday when I went in, I was told that the infection wasn't as progressed as it was before. *sigh* crosses fingers that this will all be over by the end of this week because tomorrow July 6th makes one month that I have had this.

not much done this week

I absolutely hate going to the doctors office but I finally had to break down and do it Wednesday of this week. I have had cramps and have been extremely tired since the 6th of this month. I thought it was at first a stomach virus, being that my other family members all had a brush with intestinal bacteria that healed in a few days... no!! the pain and the cramping kept getting worse so I went in and ended up having what the doctor said was a massive bladder infection, thank goodness it wasn't advanced enough to be a kidney infection. Anyway... most of last week and this week I have spent 80% of my time sleeping and the other part cramping like crazy. But the good news is I am feeling a lot better. (I can actually join the world of the living and the online)

But I haven't done anything all week art wise and I'm still a little tired. I will have to think about what to do about the art show next week. I guess we shall see if I still feel up to it all.

new clip art set fairies at mygrafico

I just added this to the shop today. Just click the title to the post to go to the shop. It is also on sale for a limited time at $2.00 off my usual clip art set pricing of $4.95...so get it for only $2.95.

I also priced my just ducky digital stamp set to $2.95 and the weather papers to only $1.95 for the 8 paper mini pack. 8x8 inch mini digital papers to print out or use for projects online.

I'm still working on paintings and drawings for the show.

Just a note

I thought I needed to write something on my blog. This is just a short note to say I am working on several new paintings (for the art show in Fairview... and some not so expected mail-in shows I found online)

I have a few doodles I need to squeeze in some time to scan and digitally color for mygrafico. Oh and I have started to make a new layout plan for the reopening of my website. For those who have been routed from www.valariewade.com , it is almost time for that to end and you will finally have an actual website to visit. (I need to do this and have it finished before I start going to all of these shows I have scheduled. Believe me, nothing can close the door faster on buyers than going to the website url and finding nothing really but the blog or a very slow load rate... <--- I've been known in the past to just leave a site if it takes to log to load. *guilty*

There should be a huge update this fall when I decided I would release all 20 + paintings on my website and show some on the blog.

Digital stamps will be slow because of the time it takes to do these paintings. I will try *TRY* to get some out possibly every 2 weeks...but no guarentees that it will be a bunch at a go. (maybe just a couple every 2 weeks)

To fill in the gaps on my blog, I think I will start showing some fabulous tutorial sites or clips I have found. I really need to go finish a painting I have been working on for almost a week. (the reason why I've been so slow on this one is I have spent most of the week in bed. I've had some strange sinus infection again and while trying to get over this run with it, I decided I needed to take some multi vitamins with a calcium tablet (from carbonate) <------ That one! The calcium tablet (from carbonate) caused an allergic reation. I am never taking that one again. I spent the past two days with a very ichy and sore rash on my face and other random areas. I still have some spots on my face that are taking some time to go away.

So...

With that explained, I'm going to go paint.