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Betty Franks Art Class Online
It is never too late to learn something new! I have admired Betty Frank’s art for a long time and when I saw her course offering, I jumped at the chance to learn from her. I will let you know how it goes!
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Making a teal and scarlet wind chime/wall hanging.
Almost finished with this teal blue and scarlet red wind chime / wall hanging! Featuring felted wool, obsidian shards, and beads. $100 tomorrow at Lunaria Gallery in Silverton.
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A little (very amateur) video of me making Valentine’s Day cards.
Here is a little very unprofessional video of me editing my AI art on Photoshop.
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Lovers Card for Valentine’s Day
Click here to see my card for sale online. This will also be for sale at Lunaria Gallery in Silverton, Oregon. Click here to see this card in my Zazzle store.
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My Goals for the Year
We just finished a week with Teresa Haag coaching us on setting goals. We learned to set goals, then plan the way will will make them happen with a backwards perspective, It works like this:
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Death as an Advisor
As I get older the reality of a limited lifetime looms larger in my mind. What do I still want to do? What do I want to share with the world?
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Valentine’s Day card #2
Valentine’s Day card bright and colorful full of hearts and flowers for your loved one!
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Valentine’s Day is almost here! Woot woot!
Valentine’s Day is one of my favorite holidays so I decided to make some sweet Valentine’s Day’s cards! Here is the first one!
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All Laid Our and Ready to Felt
This piece is ready to felt and will be going into my daughter’s apartment.
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New Project!
My daughter Jess, who is in nursing school, asked me to create some art for the bare walls of her room. I am loving the new “assignment”.
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The One Who Remembers
In the Solveig tribe this man has remembered things most do not. He wonders how his life would have been different if he had had this knowledge when he was a younger man. So he teaches ways of remembering, and how to explore the depths of one’s soul, hoping others will gain understanding earlier than he did. The elders gave him a new name: Minder.
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Making Images of Men using AI
Here’s a wizened old guy. I love these handsome older men! I may create a bunch of them! Hahaha My sister Cheryl gave me feedback about what a chieftain should look like when building a character. He ought to look like he has fought a few battles, and has some scars. The older the man, […]
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Rich and Luscious Holiday Card
This holiday card features rich colorful images of holiday gifts and fruit on autumn tones and real.
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Lusciously Rich Christmas Card Klimt Style
Beautiful rich looking Christmas Card Klimt style
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More than our 5 Senses … Happiness, Depression
More than our 5 senses … happiness, depression
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Work, work, work! Getting things ready for Christmas Card sales!
Work, work, work! Getting things ready for Christmas Card sales!
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Which Would Make the Best Iconic Chieftain, and Why? You Vote in a Comment.
Vote for who you think would make the best chieftain for the Solveig tribe of old Scandinavia and why. Make up a personality to go with the character if you like.
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Gorgeous in Blue and Gold Klimt style Christmas Tree
This Christmas Card is made using artificial intelligence programming and my words to create a Gustav Klimt style Greeting card. I love the gold and colorful decorations on the trees. Each side of the card has a different Christmas tree.
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Gold and Green Christmas Card Klimt Style
This Christmas Card is made using artificial intelligence programming and my words to create a Gustav Klimt style Greeting card. I love the gold and colorful decorations on the trees. Each side of the card has a different Christmas tree.
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Another Gorgeous Christmas Card I Made for You to Send to Someone You Love!
This Christmas Card features an evening gathering in a snowy forest among the trees with glowing lights overhead. The art is artificial intelligence aided watercolor, and stylized to Alphonse Mucha style.
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Beautiful Christmas Card
This is a Christmas Card I made using AI on Midjourney bot on the app discord. This card is decorated with lights and features a community gathering in the snowy evening woods. Watercolor look in the style of Alphonse Mucha.
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Christmas stickers
Making stickers for Christmas sales! Another learning curve! Finding the right blank stickers, or finding the right print on demand site. Still working on it, but the Avery site will make them and it is cheaper per sticker when I buy them in bulk to sell, but that is … with the hope it will sell. On speculation, I would say. Here are some that will be for sale at Lunaria Gallery in December. 2″ x 2″. $6.00 each sheet. I am curious which sheets will sell best.
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Emma, Elder, Medicine Woman, Shaman, Crone, Beautiful!
This Christmas Card features watercolor pictures of Emma. Emma, the wizened Elder is the Medicine Woman of the Solveig Tribe in old Scandinavia. Her heart and soul are connected to the plants and to all of Creation. She is a conduit and generator of healing for her tribe. Here she is searching for roots to gather for medicine.
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Anna, Medicine Woman of the Solveig Tribe
This beautiful Christmas Card features the iconic character Anna, the beautiful red haired medicine woman of the ancient Solveig tribe in Scandinavia. She stands in the snowy forest at night, with stylized snow falling. Watercolor art. Anna has the gift of compassion and mercy, making her the obvious choice as caregiver of the sick and afflicted.
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There are no Ugly Witches
Tom Brown Jr, my Trackerschool instructor, says, “There are no ugly witches”. That is because the dark side knows that in order to entice, lure, and distract, there must be attractiveness. Attractiveness triggers desire. Attractiveness draws us in.
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Christmas Card with Rich Colors and Sparkling Lights at Dusk
Click here to see this card in my store.
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Christmas Card Alphonse Mucha Style
Alfons Maria Mucha, July 24, 1860 – 14 July 14, 1939 was known internationally as Alphonse Mucha. Mucha was a Czech painter, illustrator and graphic artist, living in Paris during the Art Nouveau period. Mucha was best known for his distinctly stylized and decorative illustrations, advertisements, decorative panels, as well as designs, which became among the best-known images of the period. This Christmas Card is a digital watercolor rendition emulating the style of Alphonse Mucha, using Artificial Intelligence and me. Colorful and fantastical, Mucha, along with many other artists, choose to view and paint the world in rich painterly imaginative ways. Our own imaginations are no less able and we can look on the world around us with a unique perspective as did they,
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Merry Christmas Amalia!
I was making this card and the bit of humor I recklessly threw in made me think of my Trackerschool sister Amalia who said I was funny. We had so much fun in one of the classes we took with Malcolm Ringwalt, he had to place a moratorium on all talking and laughing for one […]
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Throw Pillow Klimt Style Art … perhaps?
This stylized Christmas Tree throw pillow reflects the influence of the art of Gustav Klimt who lived between 1862 and 1918 in Vienna, Austria. Klimt was best known for his paintings of Women, and the interesting backgrounds featuring gold and other colorful shapes all around the subject and her clothing. Klimt took the everyday and painted it extraordinarily. We can choose to look at the ordinary things in our own lives with the same awe and imagination as Klimt, and enrich our world with fantasy and glorious appreciation. This Christmas throw pillow reflects Klimt’s style, a world of delicious delight with rich colors and painterly impressionism.
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Christmas Card so Colorful and Pretty!
This stylized Christmas Tree card reflects the influence of Gustav Klimt who lived between 1862 and 1918 in Vienna, Austria. Klimt was best known for his paintings of Women, and the interesting backgrounds featuring gold and other colorful shapes all around the subject and her clothing. Klimt took the everyday and painted it extraordinarily. We can choose to look at the ordinary things in our own lives with the same awe and imagination as Klimt, and enrich our world with fantasy and glorious appreciation. This Christmas Card reflects Klimt’s world of delicious delight with rich colors and painterly impressionism.
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Christmas Card with Tree, Klimt Style
This stylized Christmas Tree card reflects the influence of Gustav Klimt who lived between 1862 and 1918 in Vienna, Austria. Klimt was best known for his paintings of Women, and the interesting backgrounds featuring gold and other colorful shapes all around the subject and her clothing. Klimt took the everyday and painted it extraordinarily. We can choose to look at the ordinary things in our own lives with the same awe and imagination as Klimt, and enrich our world with fantasy and glorious appreciation. This Christmas Card reflects Klimt’s world of delicious delight with rich colors and painterly impressionism.
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Christmas Card featuring a Christmas Tree Gustav Klimt Style in Watercolor
This stylized Christmas Tree reflects the influence of Gustav Klimt who lived between 1862 and 1918 in Vienna. Klimt was best known for his paintings of woman, and the interesting backgrounds featuring gold and other colorful shapes all around the subject and on their clothing. Klimt took the everyday and painted it extraordinarily. We can choose to look at the ordinary things in our own lives with the same awe and imagination as Klimt, and enrich our world with fantasy and glorious appreciation. This Christmas Card reflects Klimt’s world of delicious delight with rich colors and painterly impressionism.
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Aprons for a Gift?
Cook and bake in style in this apron with a watercolor painterly forest scene print decorating the front. Beautiful.
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Santa Card Impressionism Mucha Watercolor Style 😀😀😀❤️❤️❤️
(Inside card) “Please, Please, Please, Have a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy, Happy New Year!!!” (On the back) “What does Christmas mean to you? It’s up to you! Who creates Christmas in your life? You Do! May you create the most loving and Merry Christmas EVER!”
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A Beautiful Christmas Card for Your Special Boy!
Here is the card I made today that would be a beautiful Christmas or Holiday card for a special boy. Inside the card is a description of this young boy’s character and his name, as well as what his name means in the “old Scandinavian” culture. This is Hoyt. The name Hoyt means: Descended of […]
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Fynnor, Wife of the Chieftain
This is Fynnor, Wife of the Chieftain. Taught from childhood the ways of her people, Fynnor’s wisdom and tact calms others. Aware when help is needed, Fynnor works behind the scenes, subtly creating the best possible outcomes.
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Snow Queen Amalie on a mug!
This Christmas mug is decorated with an image of the Snow Queen Amalie. The snow queen Amalie embodies all that is strong, powerful and wise while at the same time knowing the pain and difficulty of life. Amalie reaches out to the poor and downtrodden, offering comfort and understanding to the suffering, with a promise of a better tomorrow.
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New Paths in Creativity: Artificial Intelligence Art
The snow queen Amalie embodies all that is strong, powerful and wise while at the same time knowing the pain and difficulty of life. Amalie reaches out to the poor and downtrodden, offering comfort and understanding to the suffering, promising a better tomorrow.
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Snippet from my new book “Changes”!
After listening intently for at least 30 minutes, I just had to look.
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Leafy “Cape” Collar of Merino and Silk
This new piece is almost finished, with just some dark brown stitching to add for emphasis here and there.
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More Love through Valentine’s Day cards.
More love through Valentine’s Day cards.
Michele Ballantyne 