What a Wonderful Day

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Robin Maria Pedrero

ACEO on Etsy

Pink and Swirly ACEO by Robin Maria Pedrero

Check out the framed idea in my listing of Pink and Swirly

Robin Maria Pedrero

A perfect pinkalishous Mother's Day gift

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It's a Purple Pony!

I need a little sign that says "Make Hay While the Sun Shines" because then it would remind me to do more productive things when our wacky weather is behaving nicely! For instance, I should have taken a photo of this ACEO outdoors on Saturday when I had the chance.

I drew it a few weeks ago at an artist trading card get together graciously hosted by Studio Todorovic at Art Central. Originally it was going to be one horse, but I didn't have an eraser, so I thought I would just go ahead and make it two horses in tandem. I used Copic markers for whole card. This line of markers is just wonderful to use, unlike Prismacolors. The nibs are replaceable and they have no odour.

The original card is for sale on Etsy - I do believe it's the first new thing I have listed in a long time!

Painting A Day Challenge

Persimmony Drops

by Artist Rita Squier

Original Watercolor Painting

ACEO - Art Card

Size: 2.5 x 3.5 inches

I began my Painting A Day Challenge on February 1st and it still continues. I still have not missed a day! I love to paint everyday and by challenging myself to complete one entire painting in one day has enabled me to paint every single day.

You can find this one and more in my Etsy Shop.

You can also follow my Painting A Day Challenge on my blog.

New Bird ACEO's

Hello to everyone. I haven't posted here in a while but I wanted to shear my new ACEO paintings and say that I hope everyone had a nice Easter.

This first painting is titled ''Harmony Bird".

This next one is titled "Sweetheart Birds".

And my last one is titled '' Cattail Bird".

Thanks,

Julia Finucane

Custom Pet Portrait

"Joe the fat Cat"
ACEO: Acrylic on Handmade canvas board

I Just finished this custom ACEO for my friend Christy DeKoning of her cat, Joe. She wanted him to be a fat cat! I hope she isn't disappointed with my rendition, Al Capone style!

Christy also did a custom portrait for me at Christmas.
Here's the portrait of my nephew that she painted in case she hasn't posted it here for you all to see her amazing work!

"Samuel The Pirate"
Watercolor, by Christy Dekoning

We both love to do fun custom portraits, of pets, kids and whatever! I hope you'll visit our shops!

Thanks,
Rebecca
Smelly Rhino Studio

ACEO Limited Edition Print - Birds in Fall - Triptych I

This is my latest 3.5” x 2.5” inch ACEO Print [Edition of 50] from my "Birds in Fall" series incorporating creative art photography and digital art.

They are inspired by photographs I took in my neighborhood and travels in upstate New York along the Hudson River.

I hope it captures a love for nature, peace, and freedom!

To see more examples from the series please visit my Etsy shop here.

Thanks for visiting and regards to all the wonderful Acetsy Team members!

Spring IS coming!

  “Coral Daffodil” ACEO

© Melanie Pruitt 2010 Please do not copy or reproduce – Thank you

 

I completed this new ORIGINAL watercolor ACEO (2.5”x3.5”) today. I’m enjoying the beginning signs of spring here in the NW – but so many of my dear friends across the country are still snow bound!

So this is for all of you! May Spring touch you soon!

You can find it in my Etsy shop – The Creators Palette

#1 Impressionism; 31 days of Rhinos

March is going to be fun! Today, I invite you begin a journey with me into the history of art, as seen through the eyes of Smelly Rhino Studio.

Each day in March on my blog, I will post a new painting using a specific technique or style and giving a brief history of that style.

Not all the paintings will be ACEOs, so I will only post here the ones which are!

If you want to have some fun seeing Rhinos represent art in history, visit 31 days of Rhinos on my blog today!

Fondly,
Rebecca
Smelly Rhino Studio

Green Glory Aceo by Robin Maria Pedrero

"Green Glory" by Robin Maria Pedrero

Original new watercolor painting – Large Still Life

I’ve just added two new ACEO’s to my shop.

I created this first one as a part of a challenge in my watercolor group.  “Lemon-Lime”  was painted with just 3 pigments – a red, a blue and a yellow. This was really fun. I often rely on the fantastic pigments produced by my favorite companies, but it was a great exercise to create with a limited palette and mix my own colors.

This is a scan of the ACEO before I trimmed it. You can see the three pigments I used on the side and under it are some of the mixes I created and used.

You can click on either picture to find this ACEO in my Etsy shop!

While I had my palette prepared with these three colors, I decided to try painting a landscape I had sketched out. It is the view of Mt. Hood, Oregon, that we get when we have a clear day! I’m really pleased with what I could do, again, with just 3 pigments!

Again, you can click on the picture to see the Mt. Hood ACEO in my shop!

Thanks for stopping by the ACETSY blog!

~Melanie  from             The Creators Palette

© Melanie Pruitt 2010 

Please do not copy or reproduce – thank you!

February Challenge

Eleven Fifty Six

by Artist Rita Squier

Original Watercolor Painting

ACEO - Art Card

Size: 2.5 x 3.5 inches

I'm on day 26 of my Painting A Day Challenge for the Month of February. It has been going so well. I haven't missed a day yet! Although I did come close one day, I remembered at 11:56 pm that I had not done a painting. I jumped out of bed and went right into my studio and whipped up this little floral painting. I looked at the clock and it read 11:59 pm. Phew! One minute to spare! Out of all the paintings I have created this month, this one is a keeper for my private collection.

More of my Original Watercolor ACEOs from my Painting A Day for the Month of February Challenge can be found in my

Squier Etsy Shop: http://squier.etsy.com

Thank you all for the support and camaraderie!

Painting A Day Challenge

Forest Gems

by Artist Rita Squier

Original Watercolor Painting

ACEO - Art Card

Size: 2.5 x 3.5 inches

This little painting was created on February 5th. I am doing at least one Painting a Day for the Month of February Challenge. So far I have been successful at painting at least two paintings each day. Today I was able to create 4 ACEOs. You can follow my challenge on my blog if you like:

http://ritasquier.blogspot.com

Insects & Flowers

This is the "Honey-Bee".  A 2.5” x 3.5” inch Limited Edition of ACEO Print [Edition of 50] of a Digital Collage from my Insects & Flowers series – incorporating old engravings and photographs of flowers taken during walks in my local botanical garden.

 

 

To see more from this series and other ACEOs please visit my Shop.  Thanks for taking the time to look! All the best to all the wonderful ACEO artists out there.

-Daniel

Raphaella's Valentine ACEO featured in FEST Treasury

My ACEO "Heart of a Sailing Vessel" was featured in the Florida FEST Valentine's Treasury! See it here:
http://www.etsy.com/treasury_list.php?room_id=108301 - Wouldn't it be nice if everyone bought or traded ACEOs as part of their Valentine's Day gifts this year? Here's "Flower" - my latest ACEO creation:

Peanut The Elephant Lady

"Peanut The Elephant Lady"

Another version of the Elephant lady.
A little softer, aged and faded!
Love those actions

Cute Art World's Specials in all Etsy shops
All orders of $20.00 will receive a free mystery glass pendant for your favorite necklace! Order three ACEO Cards and receive a free 5x7 design U-pick your favorite! Plus as always all the extra free goodies with every item purchased!
How can you refuse such a terrific offer!

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Mixed Media Madness

Here is a fun piece I did as a precursor to a large commission I've been wracking my brain over for 6 months. I finally got the "recipe" the way I want it. I was really going for the ancient Raku Chinese theme....

This ATC was given in a monthly swap for the eBay Aceo group for December 09.

I will be posting all of them shortly in my Etsy shop!

Enjoy and Have a wonderful weekend.

We are without water for the 7th straight day in our home in Atlanta. I never would have imagined a problem with frozen pipes in the south!

Regards,
Rebecca
Smelly Rhino Studio

Getting your artwork out there

I have been selling on Etsy for some time now, and have just started to sell my work and get it out there for the world to see. How? I have a fan page on Facebook and Twitter. I am starting to seek out Gallery's locally and make sure that even my  home page on facebook is constantly showing my work. My aceo's and my other Photography. So far it has helped me to get hundreds of hits on my Etsy. I have to admit it was a lot of work at first and keeping  it going is time consuming. But the out come is sales, sales and more  inquiring about my work.

 

Etsy Buy Handmade TheCamerasEye

I just wanted to add a special thanks to all my etsy friends who supported me during my recent Crisis with My 14 year old when he was hit by the car on 9-11-09. He is out of the wheel chair and really doing well.

Valentine's Lovebirds

I painted these last year for Thing a Day 2009 (gotta check now to see if there's going to be a Thing a Day 2010!) and the originals are still for sale on ArtFire.

Prints, however, are for sale on Etsy - choose from snuggling lovebirds or billing ones. $5US each - click to view the listing.

Alberta Spirit ACEO Prints

Happy New Year everyone! It seems like ages since I posted here, but I have added a new ACEO print to my herd of horses (as well as renewed ones that expired...things sure lapse over the holidays!)

The original Alberta Spirit is about 11x14", but it's faithfully reproduced here in miniature on glossy photo paper. I use a top of the line HP printer with HP inks for all my ACEO prints.