Palette Knife Painting of Sunflowers

"Tall Black Vase"

20" x 16 ", Oil on Canvas

Received an email from Ugallery where a few of my pieces are exhibited that my painting "Tall Black Vase" had sold.  This is not a new painting, it's several years old.  There were times I could not part with this particular painting and would not list it as "available".  There are a lot of colors and textures in this that the photograph does not show.

 

But I'm also glad that it has sold and that there is someone in this world that likes my painting just as much as I do.

 

 

 

Website:  JudyMackey.com

Email: CLICK HERE

If you are interested in purchasing a painting like "Tall Black Vase", please email me at judy@judymackey.com.  If you like my work, I hope you will refer me to your friends.

Put a Little Yellow in your Life

"Put a Little Yellow in Your Life"

6" x  6", Oil on Canvas
SOLD and on it's way to Florida

There's only a few hours left of 2012.  So how was this year? 

I think that in order to plan for the coming year, I should look back at the things I did as they becoming the starting point for making plans to do better.

I studied various website hosting methods and finally found a super easy, easy template based website and hosting site, Weebly.com and created a website for the group I host, Palette Knife Painters. We already have a blog going for the group but having a website just seemed more permanent.  We have some of the world's outstanding palette knife artists on the site; I am constantly wow-ed by the beautiful work.  Sometimes I have to wonder, "is this really painted with the  Palette Knife?"  The styles are so varied and exciting.  www.paletteknifepainters.org  

This year, I have two new galleries to add to my resume.  I am now represented by Muse& Co Fine Art Gallery in Roswell, GA.  And an On-line gallery Ugallery.com.  Both venues have been successful for me and I hope this will grow.

The group I belong to, Contemporary Fine Art International has developed a new website which will allow their members to sell off the website.  It's in its infancy but by early next year, it will be live and I look forward to selling on that site as well.

I updated my website.  www.JudyMackey.com is hosted through Fine Art Studios Online.  A lot of artists use FASO for their own website and I really recommend it.  For the money, you not only get a website but you get an email marketing program.  I plan to use the email marketing a lot more in the coming year to reach out to my collectors and friends. 

To make sure your life is in balance with your Yin and Yang, for wealth, health, tips on Feng Shui - check out the Red Lotus Letter.

Need some inspiration?  I love some of the articles she writes, it makes me think, it makes me grow -  check out Daneille Laporte's White Hot Truth site. 

Want to make your blog better? - check out the Copyblogger

Want to learn how to market your art? - visit Alyson Stanfield's ArtBizBlog

Want to read more about art marketing and using the social media? check out Lori McNee's Art Tips blog.



Website:  JudyMackey.com

Email: CLICK HERE

If you are interested in purchasing " ", please email me at judy@judymackey.com.  If you like my work, I hope you will refer me to your friends.

Sunshine - Painting of a Sunflower

"Sunshine"

6 x 6 inches, Oil on Board

Avalable on Ebay.

Why is it that when you drop a buttered slice of bread it always lands buttered side down? When I was just finished taking a photo of this painting - of course in my impatience, the painting is fresh and wet - it drops! Plop! Face down. Gingerly I pick it up. Fortunately I had laid a sheet of disposable palette paper under the painting when I set it up to photograph, so not too much paint "stuck" and the painting was not ruined. My, my! I was lucky - this time.

Big Sunflowers

"Tall Black Vase"

20 x 16 x 3/4" inches - Oil on Canvas, Palette knife painting

I'm sure I've mentioned here in the past that I like the advice Linda Blondheim writes about on her blog Art Notes. She often writes about marketing and art business. I strived to follow her advice on customer service when I first started to sell on Ebay. Last month I participated at the New Vintage Art Show and visited with several artists. I bought a pottery piece from one. I really liked her work and was thinking I'd like a few more pieces, but when I got home and opened the bag she had wrapped the bowl in - there was nothing, no way to contact her. No business card in the bag, no contact information on the receipt. And on the bottom of the beautiful bowl was her initials!! No full name!!

So, note to self - make sure that I put contact information on everything I sell and give out!!

Marketing is such a learning experience!

Kindness of Strangers

"You Bring Sunshine"

14 x 14 x 3/4 inches, Oil on Canvas

Palette knife

Everyday we live our lives amongs friends and strangers.

And as we blog we make new virtual friends out of strangers who visit our blogs or whom we visit.

Thank you all for leaving me comments and thank you for sending me personal emails. I am so inspired and motivated by it all. I enjoy the friendship and kindness you've given me.

Hope you have a lovely day!

Lilac and Sunflower

This is something I painted last year with the palette knife. I'm putting it on Ebay for sale. It is larger at 20" x 16" - Oil on stretched canvas. Lots of texture. If you're interested, please click on the link below and you'll be taken to the Ebay site.

SOLD

Smile - a painting of a yellow flower

Why not? Smile!

The wildflowers are starting beautify the highways and gardens are filling up with bright colors! Can you belive it - we have freeze warning tonight. I've just put some flowers in the flowerboxes on my patio -- I think I better bring them indoors for the night.

"Smile" Oil on Board, 5 x 5" - because a small yellow flower is like a warm smile. : )

SOLD

Girasole

It was supposed to rain today althought the forecasted rain has yet to arrive.

Here is a ray of sunshine to brighten the cloudy day.

"Girasole" NFS

Holiday Art Show and Sale

Holiday Art Show and Sale

6pm to 8pm November 30, Friday

Sandella's Cafe, Southlake, next to the Post Office in Town Center

Original Artwork by Artists, Judy Mackey and Nancy Medina

Join us for an evening of art, music, refreshments, wine and shopping. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the Metroport Humane Society of Roanoke, TX and DFW Pug Rescue, Inc.

Sunspot - A Sunflower painting

"Sunspot" is a painting of a sunflower. I like painting sunflowers because there are so many many different "looks" to the sunflower. This one is another small one - 5 inches square - on stretched canvas.

Available on Ebay.

Click here to bid.

SOLD

Sunflower Painting "Sunburst"

Finished a little painting of a sunflower which I've titled "Sunburst" yesterday morning and posted it on Ebay for sale.
It measures 5" x 5" and is painted on gessoed masonite.
I like painting flowers up-close because I can capture the petals in a loose, textured impasto style.

Click here to purchase.

Sunburst, Poinsettias and Ebay