I'm on Day 15 of #21daysinmyartworld (although at some point I got the days mixed up - go figure!) but today's prompt is "How I Title My Paintings." Is that interesting to people? Would you buy a painting if you liked the title but not the image? I have found that if I'm on the fence about [Read More]
Cherie's Art
Exodus
A special thank you to the Art Bar (MKE) for being such a wonderful supporter of artists. They sold some of my works at their annual holiday sale, and as my husby picked up the rest someone stopped him and bought this original on the way out to the car! This painting is titled "Exodus." [Read More]
Viva Magenta
The new Pantone Color of the Year is Viva Magenta, which I am delighted about! I've been painting with this influence for years because of it's vibrancy and warmth. Pantone says the color is "expressive of a new signal of strength" and that they drew "inspiration from nature and what is real" to [Read More]
Flashback Friday Sketches
#FF Sketches from when I was a kid. Subject matter was still girls and birds. š Back then I begged for the big box of crayons (64, with the sharpener on the back!) and would rejoice anytime I could get my hands on watercolors. I worked a lot with pencil on paper, because it's all I [Read More]
Art Show International Finalist
I'm excited to announce that my painting "Bohemian Girl" has received a finalist award in the Art Show International Gallery's most recent art competition "4th COLOR." The theme of this international juried art competition is COLOR. As humans, we see the narrowest range of wavelengths of the vast [Read More]