Hand-built Water based Clay Sculpture: Baby African Elephant
Here’s a water-based clay sculpture of a baby African elephant I did. I call her “Bridgette Needs A Break”. The photos aren’t great, for which I apologize. I’ll take better ones tomorrow, once the rechargable batteries for my digital camera are done recharging.
Bridgette Needs A Break, Baby African Elephant
Acrylic Portrait Painting
Have I mentioned yet that I do portraits in a variety of mediums? Well, I do. And not just of people. I like to say I can paint a portrait of your house, your horse or your honey! Whether you want an acrylic painting, a watercolor or a graphite pencil drawing, I can do it. If you’d like to commission a portrait, contact me at artsesue@hotmail.com to discuss oh-so-many options. 
Acrylic Portrait Painting
Another ArtDeco Painting
Here’s another little 5 x 7 painting done with the paint I discovered and retrieved from the recycling place. I love this paint! Need to get (or make) some new stencils though.
ArtDeco painting
What a Find!
Last week I was out marketing my notecards and did ok. Sold 4 each of 27 different designs to one shop and 6 each of 6 designs to another shop. On my way home, I passed the local hazardous waste drop-off place. It’s where you can take things like unused paint and other chemicals for proper disposal, AND you can get totally free paint in these huge 5 gallon buckets. Of course you can’t “order” a specific color, but still, the entire inside of my home was painted with this free paint. Even though I don’t need any five gallon buckets of paint, I decided to zip in and see what was available, one of those spur of the moment decisions.
WELL……..you’ll never guess what I found! 60 jars of ArtDeco paint of all varieties. For an artist, this was like finding diamonds in the coal heap. I’d never heard of this paint before, so when I got home I looked them up online. OMG! This is wonderful stuff, and had I purchased it thru the online store, most of it was $9.99 a jar. Let’s see……$600 worth of paint for FREE! How blessed am I?
I spent the entire week-end playing with this new paint, and posted below are just a few of the creations I came up with. The one is an Altoids box that was sitting on my desk. Hey, recycling is good! The other, the one with the dark green leaf (made using a stencil) is painted on a 5 x 7 canvas board. Have no clue what I’ll do with all these new pieces of art now, but geesh, what a fun way to spend a long week-end.
New paint discovery
Watercolor Painting of Creek in Spring
I’m so glad spring has arrived. This gouache (opaque watercolor) painting is of the creek north of my home. The trees are just now sending out new leaves and everything is beginning to bloom again. I’ve got to get out with my camera again today!
Spring's Arrival at the Creek
Gouache Watercolor Painting: Long-haired Kitty
This is a gouache (opaque watercolor) painting of my kitty, Angel. She isn’t with us any longer, but the photo I snapped for this painting was taken one day while I was busy folding laundry on the bed. She accompanied me to every room of the house, which was unusal. That’s a dog thing, isn’t it? Anyway, she had perched on the window sill and was intently studying something, or someone, outside. To me, she looked like a very intense yet contented daydreamer!
The Daydreamer
Graphite Pencil Sketch: Irish Setter
Here’s a quick graphite pencil sketch of my neighbor’s Irish Setter, Blue. He’s terrific, very friendly, always waggin’ that big tail. He was staring at me for attention when I snapped a photo of hem, and when I saw the photo I laughed right out loud. Blue has one of those “sunbleached” looking noses, you know, kinda whitish/pinkish instead of brown. It looked like an enormous Rudolf nose, to be sure. This sketch is an attempt to capture that nose, which is, afterall, one of the breed’s finest features!
Graphite Pencil Sketch of Blue the Irish Setter
Gouache (opaque watercolor) Painting: Roses
It’s still too early this year for the roses to be blooming, but I had hardly wait! I love painting and drawing them. This is a gouache painting I did of some fantastic pink/yellow roses growing in my neighbor’s yard. (Someone said they are called “peace roses”, but I don’t know if that’s accurate.) Although I do love them as subject matter for art, actually tending to them as living beings is far too time and energy consuming for me. I leave it to others to do that part, and am grateful they do!
This painting is available as a giclee print, on paper or canvas, in various sizes, at http://www.fineartamerica.com/profiles/suzanne-schaefer/html You may also get it on a coffee mug or as a greeting card at my Zazzle store… http://www.zazzle.com/zannie947.
Original Arabian Horse Graphite Pencil Drawing design as a T-shirt
Here’s one more item I added to my Zazzle store (http://www.zazzle.com/zannie947). It’s an Arabian horse graphite pencil drawing I modified to go on the front of a t-shirt. I’ve also done an acrylic painting of this drawing, which is colorful and bold. It’s available as a giclee print, on either canvas or paper, at http://www.fineartamerica.com/profiles/suzanne-schaefer.html. I will post both here for your review.
- Arabian Horse Drawing as a T-shirt Design
Graphite Pencil Drawing:Polar Bear Design as a T-shirt
My wordpress guru came through again. Thank you, Rob. You’re a genius.
Here’s the polar bear drawing I did and then put on my Zazzle website (www.zazzle.com/zannie947) as a t-shirt design. I’ll be adding lots more as time progresses now. What fun.
Enjoy.
Graphite Pencil Drawing of a Polar Bear as a T-shirt
