Hope-filled Art - portable & easy to share

Artist Trading Cards

- they were popular in the 1800's -- and in recent years made 

a wild resurgence due in large part to the artists on eBay 

(who renamed them ACEO; Art Cards, Editions and Originals). 

No matter what, remember that they are 

ALWAYS 2.5" x 3.5"

I have taken my bird series of paintings 

(visit this post HERE for details about the original art) 

and added scripture - and reproduced them 

in miniature as Artist Trading Cards!

You can get 

ALL 5 

art cards for just $5.55 right now 

- in my etsy shop (HERE)

This special price is for a limited time

 - ENJOY!

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Silent Reverie

Mixed Media Painting & Collage over Antique Pages

http://www.blueyeduckstudios.etsy.com/

~*~SiLENCE~*~

Sometimes
you just have to be
silent....
even when
it makes no sense
to anyone else
even if they say
it is
unreasonable
even though
you want to shout
even though
it hurts

Sometimes you just have to be silent.






featured art:

~Altered Art~

handmade necklaces

created from actual dominoes
See my eBay store for more info
(top left)

joy in the journey,
~ katey-D

Evening Prayer...

"Evening and morning and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice."

Psalms 55: 17

I was playing around with putting vintage photographs on transparency sheets. I messed them up big time - the color was all wacky and I was discouraged. I set them aside - a bit frustrated at $1 a pop to run a hi-quality transparency sheet through the printer - and $75 to fill the cartridges is never pleasant… and that doesn’t even address the expense of art supplies and time - blah blah blah-- whine whine whine.

Sometimes things are right under our nose - and we miss them for all the sniveling and carrying on we do… if only in silent (heart attitude is everything). Having set the botched transparencies aside I moved onto other things. Last week I returned to the transparencies and looked at them as exercises in just creating and dancing with what I was partnered with. It didn’t set the music or the rhythm - it just began to happen. Expectations were not high. I painted some wood - applied the transparencies - painted some more - gathered some other treasures - and there began these series of little square prayers and dreams to hang on the wall and remind me yet again, it is not about me - it is about Him. Without the sniveling as background noise - I heard that still small voice leading me. The transparencies became “beauty from ashes” and I was able to let go of this “waste” and freely meditate on the message while the art just made itself.
A portion of scripture kept playing in my mind as I noodled with my project without pressure and without care - a song we sang in church long, long ago - from the Psalms: "Evening, and morning and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice."
An old prayer book from the late 1800’s - already falling apart - gave me freedom to tear it into more scraps... as did an old song book. I have created many of these square art treasures - which will be in my eBay store though out the coming months.

http://stores.ebay.com/Blueyeduck-FOLK-ART-PAiNTiNG-ETC_W0QQcolZ4QQdirZ1QQfsubZ2901718QQftidZ2QQtZkm

Joy in the journey,
katey

PS ~ Yes! Those are REAL water spigot handles!