The second Sunday of each month means savings for you if you like the Erie Art Museum.
Admission to the museum at 411 State St. is free today from 1 to 5 p.m. and the fun includes tours and games.
To learn more, call (814) 459-5477 or visit www.erieart…

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Did you know that male Dark-eyed Junco’s are darker than the females. I did struggle a bit with this one because of the dark feathers. I let it sit overnight so it would be easier to see what I needed to do to improve it. I had it to dark and flat so…

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Several have asked how I de-emboss around my mini art work so here is my attempt to show you how. First of all I call it de-emboss because I am pushing the image back rather than forward. To me embossing means pushing a design forward.  So If yo…

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The Erie Art Museum is hosting a meet and greet this weekend with Gado, a political cartoonist from Africa. The free event will feature a brief talk by Gado on his artistic process, a Q&A and a casual reception with traditional African food, according to an e-mail from the art museum. The event begins Sunday [...]

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UPDATE: I am pleased to announce that the White-throated Sparrow has SOLD!
I am having fun with the new mini art!  Amazing what you can do in a small space. My first mini original of the Tufted Titmouse sold. So here is my second creation and …

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I have been wanting for some time now to work on small pieces of art in between larger pieces and other work that take me away from painting. I also wanted the work to be affordable and a nice way for the buyer to frame easily.

Taking a few sheets …

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I am really excited about getting back into teaching workshops again. Last fall I did a paste paper workshop at the North East Arts Council and now for this Winter going into Spring I have three workshops lined up. So if you are local and are intereste…

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Sunday the sun was out and Presque Isle was beckoning to me. To much time has passed since I last took my camera with me and wondered the trails on my own deep in my thoughts and watching for winter birds. Since it had snowed the day before I stayed …

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In yesterday’s post, I mentioned my mom’s art exhibit, Lake Effect Lace, at the Erie Art Museum being featured in the Erie Times-News Showcase. I provided a link to the online story, but what I didn’t say – and what wasn’t included online -&n…

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Yes it is still January but if you are one to make your own Valentine cards I thought I better share this with you now before it was to late. Last year for my newsletter subscribers I put together two pdf file kits to print cut and create cards. So if …

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Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas!  Ours was fantastic and the month of December was a blur with family coming home and the birth of my first Grandson. Yes I will be writing about him soon.

As for now I finally have my feet grounded and I’m…

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I am so excited! I created my first Etsy treasury. Sound silly? But it was fun exploring and finding new treasures.  Check it out.

Enjoy,
Toni

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‘Empty Nest’ 10 x 20 inches Watercolor on Canvas

On many of my walks at Presque Isle State Park I was able to witness a
Yellow Warbler dipping in and out of some Japanese Honey Suckle next to
the path. Carefully I pushed aside the leaves and foun…

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Have you heard of Fiverr.com? It was completely new to me till an ad agency we’re working with brought it to my attention at work. Essentially, it’s a site where you can hire people to do “gigs” for $5. People will sing songs, write poetry, make videos, create works of art … you name it. [...]

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In time for the holidays! I now have prints of my Letter to Chloe Series available in my Etsy Shop. You can purchase individual prints for $25 each or the a set of all four prints for $80.

Each image is 8.5 x 8.5 inches
All of my prints are printed …

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Caitlin from Hue and Hum recently shared her new painting, It’s Not Fair. It immediately spoke to me and I was so happy to see she would be offering prints of this piece. I had originally purchased the print to hang in my office; my office is in the basement and has sad, dark paneling [...]

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Five things I love that start with the letter C.1) Cheesecake. I don’t really like cake or cupcakes, but damn I love cheesecake. I know. I know. How can I not like cake? It’s too sweet and the sponginess doesn’t thrill me. I guess it’s not that I don’t…

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Tonight I am gathering materials for a demo I am giving on Wednesday evening on using clear gesso, acrylic medium, and DS Watercolor Ground when in my search for older material I came across images I took when I painted John Muir. This was done in 2005…

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Lets talk about the web site posts. You can treat the posts as part of your web site like a page or as an update to news or new art work release.

 First of all if you go to layout and click on post edit you will see several options that you can …

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Sometimes I just cannot let things rest for awhile. I was still after a certain look for my web site so I kept tweaking it. Searching for just the right scripts and codes I needed. At last today it all came together. So here is the home page now.

On…

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In my last post I said changes were in the making. Since I had my web site hosted on Apple’s Mobile Me and Apple is now switching over to iCloud and web sites will no longer be hosted I had to make a change. Change can be good! Because now I have my si…

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Five things I love that start with the letter A:Art: This weekend was Gallery Night in Erie, which happens monthly. We made it to three exhibits. It was fun, albeit brief. And as I mentioned before, my mom is an artist. It was been a pleasure to decora…

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 ’Birch Stand’  Watercolor and Collage on Gallery Wrapped Canvas

If you follow your intuition and trust your creative muse what wonder and excitement awaits you while working on your art and oh the creative end can be a delight. If you che…

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WOP  no title yet.

… and responding to spontaneity. I’ve been having this vague image popping into my head for some time now. It has never been complete in my vision but yet desperate to come out. I purchased this 16 x 20 gallery wrap canvas …

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Barn Swallows

The Barn Swallows are finished and ready for the exhibit coming up at the Stonewall Gallery. But I had to do a little fix first. Here is where you are going to love the new DS Watercolor Ground. If you loose  to much of your white…

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 The other day I was starting to feel as if my work did not belong in the art group I belong to where I live. Most of the members are focused on the abstract, and work large. I mentioned this to my husband and as my biggest supporter he made me …

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Finally you say! Yes I’m done with Letters to Chloe Series. Finished number 4 last week and they are all framed and waiting to be hung in a show opening the end of July. The NPAA Bienniel Exhibit opens July 28th.

For this last piece in this series I…

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Letters & Lace

Giclee Print in my Etsy Shop

I am excited to offer four new prints in my Etsy Shop. These four
originals were done for the NPAA Scholarship Event at the end of June.
Members from this art group created original works on 8 x 1…

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Song in my Heart – 8 x 10 mixed media on canvas
Don’t you just feel like singing when you see this!  I hope so. This is the third piece for the scholarship event coming up. I have one more mixed media piece to do yet and a watercolor piece.&nbsp…

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It just so happened that over this Memorial Day Weekend, I was able to take a few days off to spend time at home in the Lilypad.  It was delightful!

Now I am back to work at the Library.  Unfortunately, there are no Rabbits there (on a regul…

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