Cyanaa - ART, a mouse click away....

CYANAA  is a Contemporary Art shopping website.  It's sort-of-like Manhattan’s Chelsea art district at a mouse click. If you're like me & collect art (for my future dream home) this is a great site to go ART shopping!  Take a peek (below) at some of the art work featured on their site. For more go here.

Dressed in Watercolor by Laura Trevey...

Have you seen the new watercolor artwork by Laura Trevey? These are so cute!! I love the vivid colors and the patterned backgrounds. These would make great artwork for a little girl's bedroom! You can pick anyone of these up here. Enjoy!

An Original Vincenzo Rizzo Painting....

Many of you may recall I wrote about Italian Painter, Vincenzo Rizzo back in March. Well, I can now say I own 4 of his original pieces. One of those includes a custom piece he did of me (below).

GIVEAWAY NEWS:
A blogger friend of mine Tam, from 'Get it Girl Style' blog, is having a GIVEAWAY that includes a painting from Vincenzo's collection !! Click on this link & leave a comment on her blog for a chance to win one of his original paintings from Italy!
(Deadline Saturday 10/17)

Shabner & Tretchikoff

So many amazing artists out there & 2 that I really LOVE are, Lou Shabner & Vladimir Tretchikoff. The pin-ups girls are by Lou....his style is mesmerizing & I am still looking to get my hands on one of these via Ebay. In the meanwhile, I'll also hunt down an affordable, original Tretchikoff, but I'll take a reproduction. I also love J.H Lynch, of course, their styles are strikingly similar. Anyone out there own any of these beauties?? Where did you get yours?

Below Tretchikoff in his studio with his paintings
(via NY Times)

Also shown above (lady in the water): 'Nymph' & 'Tina' by J.H Lynch.

Image above also via : Tretchikoff the Gallery

Shabner pics via : Girl Whimsy

Thanks Lauren....!!

After blogging about Lauren Nicole Love's work here, I was pleasantly surprised to find these 2 prints in my mailbox from her! Thanks to Lauren Nicole Love for sending me her artwork, they're now hung up on my art wall, loooove them! Check out Lauren's work here.

Lauren Nicole Love.....

I love this simple watercolor by Lauren Nicole Love, who is also a talented photographer. You can see more of her work here. These go for $20, please visit her shop here.

via Design Work Life

Another one of my paintings... 6 1/2 hrs later

Here's another thing I spent time doing this weekend.....painting. This one will hang in my living room as soon as the frame I ordered arrives. Can't wait! This painting took me a total of 6 1/2 hours, I'm so exhausted right now. But, painting is very soothing....do any of you paint??!? Feel free to leave your site in the comments, I'd love to take a look.

Watercolor cuteness by Paola Zakimi

These are so sweet! All done in watercolors by artist, Paola Zakimi. The colors are so calming....you can purchase these and other art here.

Nice Treat for your wall (Treat Zone)

Treatzone has some really cute 5x7 gocco prints. I can totally see these in my home on my art wall. Each of the prints are printed on a piece of vintage floral textured wrapping paper....love this idea! What do you think?

My Family room in process...

Anything else you think would look great with what I have so far?? Art, painted mirror, another cushion? Feel free to comment. See below to see where I got most of the items...

Light blue Sofa (I purchased a few years ago in a furniture store for $425 on sale. I just moved in into my family room so I could make space for my upholstered french provincial sofa in my main living room).

Elk Cushion - Feed the Dog AU

Small Deer Head - Hart and Helm in Australia

Butterfly Fabric Print - My Etsy shop at MadeByGirl

LOVE Embroidered letters- Chez Sucre Chez

Paris Vintage Map -Touch of Europe

Uk Flag Cushion- Karen Hilton

Looking for more art...

Remember I said I was adding new art on my walls??? Well, I'm still working on it. I have quite a few more frames to fill. If anyone out there makes ART and has a shop on Etsy, please let me know about it. Leave your website in the comments section please. I'll take a look at it & see if it goes with my current decor. This is a portion of what I have so far.... Enjoy your weekend....!

From left to right: (Top row to bottom)

Hijiri Studio
Ruthie Designs
Brandi Strickland
MadeByGirl -(butterflies)
Ruthie Designs
Sarah Ryan Studio

More good stuff....

A few more items arrived in my mail & I LOVE them! Can't wait to hang them on my wall. First, more art from Brandi Strickland & Sarah Ryan Studio, and then glamorous looking Hollywood Regency clutch from La Vita Lola. Check these girls out, lots of good stuff! Thanks Ladies!

Brandi Strickland Art
Sarah Ryan Studio Mini Love Print
Hollywood Regency Clutch La Vita Lola

I neeeeeed some new A-R-T....

I am in the process of changing out these old empty frames and adding some ART, then placing the UK flag painting elsewhere in my home. I think the empty frame trend is just about done.....don't you? However, I want to add a bunch of frames placed close together...this time with art in them, including some of my own. Here are 11 pieces (with the exception of 2 that are mine) that I'd like to see on my wall. What do you think of my selections??? Any art you'd recommend?? I'd also like to keep all the pieces relatively small. Would love to hear from anyone....please leave some links or comments thanks!

1. Marmee Craft 2. MadeByGirl 3. Groundwork 4. Project8256 5. I love you, blogs & tea by Made By Girl 6. Day of my Deadly Hearts by Ruthie Designs 7. Queen Screen Print 8. Hijirik Studio. 9. Lisa Congdon 10. Laurie Coyle Designs 11. Hadley Hutton

Ballooooooons

I was over at Decor 8 reading Holly's blog and I came across this post and was so inspired to paint again. I haven't painted or drawn in quite awhile....probably ever since I made the UK flag canvas painting for my family room. I love balloons and Holly's post inspired this 8 x 10 painting below. She mentioned that Joy from 'Oh Joy' had blogged about balloons being the next trend....hmmmm I have been seeing balloons in many places, maybe. Anyway, hope you like it.....I may place re-prints in my Etsy shop on Monday, not sure yet. So, what do you think of it ? I know its not what you all are used to seeing from me, but I do have a softer side and I kind of like it! Have a great weekend!

P.S. Now available via my Etsy shop for $9.50 each! 

Talented Dallas Shaw...

Dallas Shaw is a designer...she makes some really cool artwork! I remember seeing her work for the first time a year & a half ago....she was one of my inspirations. DALLAS has been lucky enough to been featured on many blogs as well as magazines like 'Domino'. Here's a small peek at her stylish art, take a look at her site for more. Go here pleeeeease!

* Also be sure to check out the Dallas Shaw blog 'Dilly Dallas'.

Life & Style Magazine...

I've never been in a tabloid style magazine, but I know so many people read them. I love to open them when I'm waiting in line at the supermarket, mostly to see what celebs are wearing. I can't help it, I LOVE fashion! This time I opened it & there I was, part of the "Top 10 Custom Shopping Sites" for best art! I was aware I was going to be in the next issue, but I was so busy this weekend, I totally forgot. Thank you to Life & Style Weekly for having MadeByGirl in your issue.

BEWARE...

I don't get mad too often, but this is the kind of behavior that is so disrespectful I can't help but get upset. Luckily, I received 2 emails today from readers telling me they saw my 'ABC KIDS print' photos being used on an Etsy store. I had someone write to Etsy this morning on my behalf letting them know my images were being used without my consent. Not to mention, technically stealing my design & descriptions. We as artists/designers work hard at what we do, so when someone thinks its ok to do this, we need to make sure they know its not! I tried looking for Etsy's phone number but had no luck. As of right now we've asked the seller to cease and desist as well as filed a complaint against the seller. I wonder if the other art/images in their Etsy shop are being used without permission. This is the link to their shop. All I ask is that you 'do not buy' from them, because they are breaking the law and cannot be trusted. Thank you.

*UPDATE: The seller has written me an email, stating they thought the images belonged to someone else. I don't get it? Does that make it right? It seems they removed their shop. The name of their shop was 'Bella Bub' (items for babies).

**UPDATE 9/16: Apparently this person has more then one shop, a blogger just informed me the shop is still up at this other Etsy address, you'll notice if you click on their sold items, they sold 3 posters with my design using my images. So far they have removed my images, we'll see if they try to add them again. Their shop here.

Can you believe this?

ART by Dead Pony = L-O-V-E

Raphael is a self-taught illustrator who works out of Brussels, Belgium. He is one of my top 3 FAVORITE illustrators. To me, his work is exceptional, emotional & raw... & I sooooo wish he'd send me a FREE print. : ) Here are a few of the ones I LOVE......I wanted to share with you. Please visit his awesome site at My Dead Pony to see many, many, many more of his beautiful pieces. AND yes, they are for sale!! (Have a lovely weekend)!

Pretty ART

Speaking of ART, after all the requests to have some of my greeting card designs converted into digital prints, we now have some available! Here are the colorful Chandeliers and Rococco chairs! Available in other colors and in 8x10.. If you desire a larger size just email me. Via MadeByGirl. *UPDATE: we will be adding a set of 4 for a discounted price this evening!*

(If you'd like to blog about my products, please do so, thanks!)

Art project for my home

I took on a small side project of painting a UNION JACK onto an old canvas I've had in my home for a year now. Here I am putting it all together. It turns out it wasn't a small project, it took me a few hours to get this done! But in the end I was pleased. I have been trying to add more ART into my home and I love making my own paintings because they are so personal and it gives me a sense of accomplishment & joy every time I see it on my wall. Speaking of Union Jack, check out my recycled and colorful Union Jack greeting cards via my shop.

The ugly red and green design (above) which I painted over!

Yay! It's all white now (above) and this is just the beginning!


This beautiful shot (above) is my guide.....


Even my boxer wanted to check out the artwork, although it took me awhile he got sleepy!

Well here it is, sorry the pic is so blah....but it was night time already. I will have a decent picture soon!