Playing with an Amazon Store

NOTE:  It was a good run while it lasted, but Amazon cut loose their Missouri Associates.  So...no store any more!

I've been wanting to do an Amazon store for some time, where I could recommend books and other goodies--art, nature, creativity, art marketing, and yes, even cooking, since we've been doing the "Starving Artists in the Kitchen" series on my original blog, here: http://katequicksilvr.livejournal.com/. So I decided to keep my original layout--the one I use here!--and tweak it to show books (and more, of course!)

If you click on the image, it will get big enough to see, I think. Let me know what you think?

The store is now online at astore.amazon.com/httpcathyjohi-20--I'm having a blast adding my favorite art books in addition to my own work--as I get the chance, I'll write brief reviews to tell you why I recommend this particular selection of books!

"Poorhouse Road"

"Poorhouse Road" watercolor on cold pressed archival paper 5" x 7" This little painting would go very well with some of the ACEOs listed earlier, in an arrangement on your wall. $45  

"Chicken of the Woods Fungus" nature study-SOLD

"Chicken of the Woods Fungus"
nature study
watercolor on archival cold-pressed paper
9" x 12"

This autumn fungus appeared at the base of a tree across the creek from my cabin. When the sun struck it, it ws as if a light had been turned on, or a fire kindled! I had to gather my art supplies and go paint it, where it grew. I worked quickly, before the light changed!

Notes of the day make this a true field study.

Every effort is made to capture the color correctly in the scan, but in this case it proved more of a challenge than my scanner is up to. The true color is much more pure yellow and orange against that dark, moist earth...

SOLD to a good home, and thank you!

"Beauty and the Beast" collage and ink off-white pebble-textured mat, gold frame 8" x 10" The image of the princess and her beast is from a 19th Century book of fairy tales; the text is my own "Beauty and the Beast in imagination if not in fact-- He, so strong and strange, as if another species entire-- And we, so fair and frail and yet, somehow... Mistress"

$65

This one is framed and glazed as you see above; it will be insured to ship to you.

 

"Japanese Iris"

ORIGINAL watercolor on Fabriano cold pressed paper 8 1/2" x 11" I was staff naturalist and contributing editor for Country Living Magazine for many years--through the late '80s and much of the '90s, writing my own nature columns and illustrating the words of others. This painting was one of a series of iris varieties done for that magazine; after all these years, I am finally ready to find good homes for some of these! This painting is offered un-matted and unframed to keep costs down. It will come to you carefully wrapped via Priority Mail, in the US. Insurance included in the shipping cost $100

 Gift the gift of original art!

"Potash Mountain, New York's Fourth Lake"

ORIGINAL ink and watercolor 7" x 7"

This little painting was used as a demonstration in my Ink & Wash mini-demo on YouTube--you can see it here: http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=tZQN9zuVg1g&feature=channel_page along with my other art-related slideshows. (I was going to insert the video and then realized how slow that would make the download for you!) New York's Fourth Lake is a glorious place to camp--I did sketches and paintings for my newest North Light book, Creating Nature in Watercolor--you can see it at right or "look inside this book by clicking the Amazon link, here: Creating Nature in Watercolor: An Artist's Guide

This painting is offered unmatted and unframed to keep costs down. It will come to you carefully wrapped via Priority Mail, in the US. Insurance included in the shipping cost $45

 

Gift the gift of original art!

Sold, and thank you!

I'm delighted with the response this blog has gotten--thank you SO MUCH, it's wonderful to be able to design a new "sold" montage! I'll leave it in the sidebar and update it when necessary, and when I get a chance take down the posts that have these images in them to make room for newer work.

You won't have to scroll through so far, perhaps...

And again, thank you. I am delighted and touched by your comments and your support.

"Crow Barn" ACEO

ORIGINAL watercolor 3.5 x 2.5 inches

I've been fascinated by these tiny paintings for several years, and because of their small size and affordability, have been able to own original paintings from several artists whose work I admire a great deal. ATCs are artist trading cards, and that's how the phenomenon started out--but many people who were not artists wanted to collect these little jewels, too. So ACEOs were born--still the size of a playing card, but "artist cards, editions and originals" to meet this need. Some ACEOs are prints and some are still original, as is this one.

I'm offering three of these, shown together above. (To appreciate the detail, click on the image above to see them larger-than-life.) These were painted about the same time and would make a lovely set--please look around! People are collecting and displaying these tiny paintings in ingenious ways--framed and grouped together, piled in baskets, in scrapbooks--however they want! I hope the idea allows you to own an original work of art--get your feet wet... $20

  Give the gift of original art!