Lizzy D's Art Blog|My art, projects, and life in general

What all have I been up too lately? I must apologize for the absence. Since my son got out of school for the summer it’s been hard focusing on my work, but once school starts again everything should settle back into place again. But it doesn’t mean I haven’t done any art, I actually been working on small projects.

What a wonderful weekend! Hiya and welcome to my blog! I had so much fun working the Tiny Army Booth during the Phoenix Comicon. There were so many people to talk to and so many different costumes! To tell the truth, I never been to a convention before (at Leprecon I just put art in the art show and didn’t participate in anything else – that was a mistake) so everything was new to me.

This weekend is the Phoenix Comicon, and I’ll be helping with the Tiny Army Art Group booth on Friday from 2:00 – 5:00 and on Saturday from 1:00 – 4:00. I’m planning on selling prints of some of my fairies and other works and telling people about the Tiny Army Art Group.

Leprecon 36 started started yesterday and my art is now in the art show there! It was almost scary though getting there yesterday. I had neatly packed all the pictures in the car, some in the trunk and the rest in the back seat. A lesson in packing pictures in the back set, DO NOT lean them upright in the back seat, you lay them flat instead. Which is the smart way to do it but I wasn’t the brightest crayon in the box that morning.

Tomorrow is the first day of Leprecon! So if you are in town come check it out, it’s at the Phoenix Mesa Marriott here in Mesa, AZ. I have spent this last week trying to get everything ready, with the one thing that took up most of my time was trying to finding mats for the pictures.

First I finished my painting titled ‘Lightning Sprite’. There were so many times I wanted to give up and quit but I couldn’t. For one, I would kick myself for the rest of my life knowing I failed at a piece, but the main reason I kept going because my husband wanted to see it finished. I know I say this so many times on this blog but I consider myself a very lucky woman to be married to such a wonderful supporting man.

There you go! “Stubborn” redone. This is done in acrylics and took me about 40-50 hours to paint, compared to the 15 or so on the original (it was a speed painting contest). It definitely looks like I imagined it to be and I’m very happy with the way it turned out. I’ll be including this at the upcoming Leprecon 36 here in Phoenix next month.

With the help of my wonderful husband my website is finally complete! I am so lucky to have such a supportive husband he sacrificed a lot of time into the website and to help me get started with this blog and other things to help get my art out there! So please take a look around and tell me what you think.

It’s been a while but I’m back. This has been a pretty busy month! My In-laws came down and we actually did some National Parks hopping. I didn’t realize how many Indian ruins there really are here in Arizona!

The Art-a-thon was a lot of fun and I sadly had to part with this beautiful fairy:

What a week!  And this next one is going to be about the same! My sister came to visit from Idaho this past week.  It was wonderful seeing her again, but I also had to be a mom to a sick little boy. He got Pink eye and a cold at the [...]