New Web Site

This is the home page of my new web site...I am so excited to get it launched...thanks to my friend and computer Guru...Christy Sobolewski...she is the most awesome web designer on the planet.

Hopefully you will check it out and let us know what you think...it even has a contact page so feel free to send a comment. For some reason Blogger is not letting me enter a link so if you would just type in www.lindaeast.com in your address line it will take you to the site.

We are adding art work and new stuff everyday...so it is a labor of love and a work in progress. I guess you can tell I am really excited about this, and of course you can still find my jewelry on Etsy (New Spring Line is being photographed this week) should be up next week.

OWOH 2010 Winners

Well better late than never I guess...sorry for taking so long to post the winners of the Steampunk Heart Necklace drawing for OWOH...this yearly adventure is so much fun and we all get to meet new art friends. I really was surprised to see how many people don't have their "REAL" names on their blogs. But I just used the names that came up in the random drawing...????

So without further ado here are the 3 winners:
Kathy Sprinkle from California
Melissa from Pannsylvania
Shaka from Washington

Congradulations ladies...the necklaces will be in the mail as soon as I hear from you with your mailing addresses...awesome...:)

One World One Heart

I will be giving away 3 of my "one of a kind" steampunck heart necklaces... Besure and leave your email/contact information when you post a note for the give away....

This Steampuck heart wis made with pink and silver polymer clay and is embelished with a small heartshaped lock and key charm....it is hung on a silver chain.

This is a black and red swirl polymer free formed heart...it is embelished with small watch gearts, cogs, watch hands and a piece of vintage prayer beads...

This darling Steampunk Heart is made from purple an silver polymer clay. It is embelished with a small heart shaped lock and key.

Here we go again for another fun networking adventure...please join us.

A new collage...

This week is the 1st week of Lent and the assistant pastor has ask different people in the church to create a piece of art that represents the chosen Bible text for that week, so I went first (because I am so shy you know?lol) my Bible verses were Matthew 26:36-46....this is when Jesus went to the Garden of Gethsemane...so this is my interpretation of that scripture.
The canvas is 18"x24"...I used Perfect Paper for texture and then did layers of color using Golden Glazes... I had printed transparencies of the images that I wanted to use, and I trimmed them to fit in the areas that I had chosen...I applied more Perfect Paper around the edges of the transparencies so that it didn't look like I had just "glued" them on...I wanted their to be areas of texture and areas of smoothness...I used some glaze over the transparencies...then I used a Qtip to remove some of the glaze so it made more dramatic high lights...after applying 3 lays of glaze, I wrote the quotes from Jesus prayers on top of the last layer and then I then added the leaves and flowers for a real 3-D garden effect...I think it turned out pretty well. A lot of people at church liked it...:)

Ohmygoodness! I have been bad!

OMGoodness! I have really been bad about posting to my blog...but I have been so busy with creating new jewelry and the holidays and yes I have become so addicted to Face Book....I have reconnected with so many of my former art students and class mates and made so many new art friends...it really is addicting + it is so easy to post too. So I am apologizing to all of my followers here. But I do see and talk to a lot of you over THERE! LOL I also have a Fan Page on FB, and would love to have you join.

I am so excited to tell you that I will soon have a new Website created by the incredible "Computer Guru" and bestest friend Christy Sobolewski...I can hardly wait...we have been thinking of all kinds of things to put on the site...You will be able to see all of my art work and be able to purchase right from the web site with this awesome shopping cart that Christy created. I will still have my etsy shop where you can purchase my jewelry, but I will have special things that will only be available on the new website...it really is all very exciting...

#5 in Expression Series is Finished

This is the finished piece: #5 in my series of faces that I call "Expressions". This is a mixed media process of drawing, inking and coloring with Prisma Pencils and water color. If you read the post below it goes into the process a little more in detail. I thought this was going to be the last in this series...but!...I have already started #6..so I guess there will be one more...

This is a close up section of #5...

#5 in Expression Series

This is the completed drawing and the beginning of the inking process...not sure why it is turned vertically...but sometimes Blogger has a mind of its own????? This is the finished drawing and it has been completely inked. I have started the coloring process with Prisma Pencils.

Not quite finished with the face but I was really excited to start the water coloring so I will go back and finish the face when I get the watercolor part done...this is the first in the series to have watercolor on it. These seem to be getting more and more detailed and complicated...not sure why but I guess it doesn't matter. You know I was thinking that I have always loved to color in coloring books...now I just draw and ink my own drawings and color them...hummmm?

I really like the "bubbles" I got some new pan watercolors that have glitter in the paint, so I used it to color the bubbles...I don't think you can tell in the photograph...but it is really cool. I am wondering if the glitter will still show once the piece is matted and framed with glass...If you click on the pics you can see them really big and get a better idea of the detail. This piece is 28"x30" on Strathmore 180# watercolor paper.

This is a close up...so you can see the bubbles and the flowers.