Original Pink Rose Painting! 1st Tuesday Art Prints & ACEO Prints! June Sketches...

"Pink Ribbons" Original 18"x24" Painting on Canvas Here

On the 1st Tuesday of the month I am listing some prints at a sale rate for 30 days.  The theme this month is pink flowers...  Some of my pink floral pieces are available as open edition giclee art and LE ACEO prints here.

Most of my art is also available on my website at www.lisarusso.com; however, I like to put some art on ebay at a lower promotional rate for the duration of the auctions... I have been updating my website. It's an ongoing project, but there is now an excellent selection of art available!

Featured Image "Pink Ribbons"

8"x10" Open Edition print on Sale here

ACEO 2.5"x3.5" Limited Edition LE 1st of 25 on Sale here

I am linking this post with Inspire Me Monday
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Here is a sketch of a big eyed gothic maiden.  She is wearing a mysterious mask and glancing over her shoulder.  I think she is most likely a fairy angel, although she could also be a mermaid or a goddess.  I'm unsure if I'll paint her or not, but I did enjoy sketching her.


I've decided to try and do a sketch a day in June.  This is day 7.

This is a rough sketch.

New Year Musings and My Big Eye Gothic Fairy with a Rose...

I'm always hesitant to make new year resolutions, because making them is easy and keeping them less so...  I have a lot of ongoing goals that I hope I will continue to strive towards.  "Rose Immersion" is part of my big eye fairy garden guardian series I'd like to do more with.  That pink rose is one of our winter roses from our garden, I brought it inside to join some other flowers I'd bought for Christmas and when I put it in the vase realized it looked just right with that painting...

I hope you have a safe and happy new years!

"Rose Immersion" Original 16"x20" Painting, Open Edition 8"x10" Giclee Prints, & Limited Edition Giclee ACEO Prints are available on my website Here

A Photograph of Some Roses From Huntington Gardens & a Google+ Question...

I took this photograph outside of Huntington Gardens.  They have these beautiful rose bushes lining the path to the entrance to the gardens.  Yesterday I went to their plant sale in search of some more native California plants that will hopefully attract more hummingbirds and butterflies to our garden.  We bought a few plants, I hope they make it (I'm not much of a gardener).

I've been wondering about Google+, what are your thoughts on it?  I also have a facebook page that is almost identical to my blog, but it gets more traffic.  I've heard facebook is planning on making it so that if you want your page entries to be seen at all, you have to pay for it.  Right now it's a little bit different than that.  Paying does help with greater visibility, but there is some visibility even if you don't pay.  I don't mind paying something for some of my posts, but not so much for certain types of posts like sketches or works in progress or photographs...  I've heard Google+ may be the next thing, any thoughts?

Thanks for your kind words on my headache, it has improved, I think it may have been the shifts in weather we were having...

Just Some Roses From Our Garden...

Yesterday, I didn't do any art at all, but I still wanted to share some beauty with you today.  I ran some errands, read a little, and spent some time with Alex.  Some days are just like that.  These are some roses from our garden that I photographed.  There aren't a lot of roses blooming right now, but there are a few.  I think they are a bright spot in a winter day.  Although technically winter doesn't begin until the Solstice on the 21st of December (I know this because it is my birthday, I don't know when any of the other Solstices begin...), it feels like it is winter now.

An Original Painting of a Gothic Mermaid, a Pink Rose Art Print, & ACEOs!

"Looking In" Original 11"x11" painting directly on a porthole frame here

8"x10" print here

ACEO 2.5"x3.5" Limited Edition LE 1st of 25 here

This week I am listing "Looking In" my original gothic big eye fantasy mermaid painting.  I also have additional giclee art prints here.  

This is my newest mermaid painting, it took me a while to get it together to list, but here she is...  Alex helped me to add some rust drips to the prints, I hope you'll take a look! 

Most of my art is also available on my website at http://www.lisarusso.com; however, I like to offer some art on ebay at a lower promotional start rate for the duration of the auctions... 

"Alegria" Original SOLD

ACEO 2.5"x3.5" Limited Edition LE 1st of 25 here

5"x7" print here

My featured print for the week is "Alegria," two pink roses, one in full bloom, the other still a bud.

I also have additional giclee art prints on ebay here.  There are mermaids, angel fairies, two versions of a deep red rose, and a sweet big eyed Siamese kitten.