Sara Smile

Ooh, a love song for me, love the thought!
Except that's not how I spell my name, ha.

Artist of the month, Annette Ellis

The artist of the month is Annette, who has many cool photos to view on flick.
View her pic's on my other blog. Here is one of her many skull images,
reminding me of The Grateful Dead.

Learning to Fly

Here is a new painting that I listed as a print on my Etsy shop
Lately I have not been on the computer much getting ready for art fairs, rummage sales, decorating the house... May 17th, this Saturday I will be in a plant/craft art fair at The Paine Museum in Oshkosh called Festival of Spring.

Garda Lake

Recently I have been painting birds for some upcoming shows. More on that later this month. While looking at images of birds I found these amazing swans by gardawind. His images are so rich, I love em! He loves nature, me too. To view more images he took click here.

My paintings at St. Claire's Hospital.

A couple of years ago I sold these 3 huge
(huge for me, 32x42 and 32x26) paintings
to St. Claire's Hospital in Weston Wisconsin.
This week while in the area I took this video.

Walls of Wittenberg

This week I went to Wittenberg Wisconsin to view the murals. Here are some pictures I took. On the road trip I swung by Weston and made a video of my paintings at the hospital there. It's on Youtube and under a minute long.

Flickr photos, so cool

Here are a couple of photos by Chris (archi3d)'s that I love.
Click here to view more.

King Corn review

Last night I saw King Corn. Two guys grow an acre of corn in Iowa and learn
about how much corn is grown in this country and added to cheap foods
that we eat. There's more to it. It's well made, informative and worth seeing.
Click here for more about the film.

King Corn

This documentary will be on Public TV Friday night on Independent Lens, depending on where you live.

Picking Flowers and more giclee prints listed on Etsy

3 new giclee prints were added to my Etsy shop. Here is one of them. Click here to view my shop.

New Paintings

Here are 3 new narrative paintings: Castle in the Woods, Deer Isle and What is and What Could Be.
Later this month I'll have prints and cards made of them.

Newly listed items on Etsy

Here is one of my newly listed paintings on my Etsy shop click here to view more prints and paintings.

From Asparagus to Zucchini

In a couple of months, hopefully, fresh produce will be available in the midwest. To get ready an excellent book to read is, From Asparagus to Zucchini. First published in 1996 in it's third edition with over 420 recipes for fresh produce. More than a cookbook it includes essays on sustainable agriculture and more. You can buy the book at the Local Harvest website click here for more info.

Escape to the Tropics

Last night I went down a water slide, it's part of my job, ha. It was fun and reminded me of warmer weather and swimming outside again. Here is an image of a warm tropical place, nice fantasy. Click here to view more of Hussain Jinan's photos on flickr.

Oprah Winfrey Lookalike

This is so funny. It's an over the top exaggeration of her. I love it.
Hopefully Oprah would think it's funny, cause I love Oprah and her show.

Melvin McGee, April featured artist

Click here to view the featured artist for April Melvin Mcgee
on my featured artist blog.

Featured Artist and New Art Work

This week I will be posting the April artist of the month Melvin McGee.
I'm also working on new paintings that I'll post later this month, stay tuned.

New giclee prints on Etsy shop

Two newly listed giclee prints on my Etsy shop.

Dark Hallow

Love this version of Dark Hallow, sung by Dan Hardin.
It reminds me of part of my childhood
staying with family in Kentucky.

featured artist, YouTube video

Today someone sent me an e-mail to inform me that
I'm the featured artist on imagekind click here.
How did that happen?

Right now I'm busy with several projects,
and on a semi-vacation, dogsitting.
The vacation part is having
2 weeks off from my other job.

Yesterday I worked on making my first video,
which is on youtube, click on my name, sarahsolie7.
It's called basement tour. The next one will be
better and maybe I'll post it here.