Original Ocean Painting

I wanted to capture the quite solitude of the ocean in the evening with this 5" X 7" small format painting. I love color especially the vibrant color of the ocean on a sunny day but this was my effort to bring the colors and values to reflect a night time sea.

"Find It"

When it comes to beautiful art and accessories,you just have to "find it, love it, and buy it. These finds are some of my favorites....

Lets Stroll Over to "The First Friday Art Walk"

One of my favorite events on Etsy is the First Friday Art Walk sponsored by the Art Walk Etsy Team.

The featured treasury is just a small example of the teams beautiful work.

Original Art and Finding Fine Art Team Treasury by JC Strong

The “Let’s Redecorate in 2011" treasury highlights The Finding Fine Art Team. The goal of the team is providing art lovers the opportunity to acquire original art. The artist’s talents within this team are diverse. You'll find original paintings, drawings, mixed media, collage, printmaking and photography.

The best part of viewing and purchasing original art is you can see the hand of the artist in the strokes and texture of the work. I like to think original art has the spirit of the artist within the painting. An artist leaves the best part of him or herself on the canvas.

Sometimes you can see the serene stroke of a watercolorist, the deliberate or swift stroke of the oil and acrylic painter, the strokes with abandonment and joy, and complexity of assemblage, woodcut or printmaking. At times you wonder how did they do it? Then you have the opportunity to see "happy accidents" that happen in every art form.

So when redecorating in 2011, have fun searching for original art on the Etsy web site.

Etsy Updates/News
Other teams and tags on Etsy with original art:
Vast Team - Visual Artist Street Team
AWE Team - Artist Walk Etsy Team
firstfridayartwalk - First Friday Art Walk