Blackbird's Learning To Fly

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

New Lush-ious Photo Prints and Photo Earrings

I received a milkweed plant during a Green Fair here in Bordentown, NJ. Milkweed attracts monarch butterflies and since we have a huge butterfly bush that brings forth purple flowers, I thought this would be great to have in our yard. They had already started it in a little pot, so I brought it home and put it in a larger pot and set in a sunny place in the yard.

My father waters the plants in the evenings and so it grew pretty tall and yielded this beautiful orange star like flowers. I photographed them outside and worked on the images on my computer.

I love the different variations that I was able to achieve from this plant that is essentially a weed!

I print these on my Epson R2400 printer in my studio. I can actually print up to paper size 13"x19". I like to leave a white border around some of my full frame prints to allow ease of matting and framing without the lose of any part of the original image like you sometimes get while creating an 8x10. This is why my 8x10's have the image centered within the sheet so that no part of my photograph is lost.

I added more earrings:

This is what they look like on the back:

Each piece is is hand signed by me, my husband assists me in the sanding down of the edges of the prints so that there are no rough edges. I don't make the glass, but I do my best to purchase high quality glass and findings for all of my jewelry items. Not all glass pieces are perfect and this is why I love working with the medium.

I have more items in the works(meaning inside my brain), it's just a matter of time :D

Have a wonderful day and thanks for checking in!

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Really In Love With Artfire

I am really loving Artfire more and more. I've been with them for some time, but I've been with Etsy longer. However, the only thing that has kept me on Etsy is my teams and the people on my teams.

My life needs to be scaled back a bit. I'm building up my photography business, and I want to continue with my fine art online business as well. I have been going to networking luncheons and evening events locally, my daughter is in Pre-K and I need to focus on what's important.

So I think it's time to put my shoppe on Etsy on permanent vacation and let all my teams know that I will no longer be on Etsy. I'm sad, but I'm excited and happy too.

Artfire's been having a HUGE promotion on it's Pro account:

Some of my items from my Blackbird Fine Art Shoppe and my supply shoppe called Blackbird's Closet have recently been added to member curated collections.

Vibrant Blue