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    Thinkin’ About a Sale!

    April
    26
    2005

    I’ve been tossing around having a June sale since the month is wide open on my schedule.

    I’d like to expand my monochromatic gallery, as well as paint s’more custom wildlife pieces. (Maybe even enough to build them their own category!)

    What do you guys think? Time for all of you quiet peeps to speak up! I’d really like to know if this is something that my readers would take advantage of if I were to book the entire month of June with custom paintings. That’d be 22 painting days, and 15-20 potential openings. Is it a good month for you? Bad one? Did I miss all the birthdays and anniversaries? Too early to think about holiday gifts?

    Of course I’ll be sure the price is right for everyone’s budget, just keep me painting wouldjya? (Couldjya?)

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  • Lion : Final Scan & Details!

    April
    26
    2005

    Are you ready for this?! ONE MORE TIME, I will show off my newest masterpiece. Man-o-man. 3 hours to scan, my computer kept misbehaving so I called Dell for more virtual memory. (That’s right, another gig of VM just for the lion!) Then I had to reduce my scans by 50% just so my programs wouldn’t crash out on me. More memory will arrive tomorrow, then I can piece the original full size scans together and it will be large enough for a near-full-size print.

    I thoroughly enjoyed painting this guy, and hope many more people consider custom wildlife paintings. It gives me a great opportunity to broaden my gallery and get to the zoo for some photography sessions!

    Click “read more” for all of the detail images. There are plenty, and they rock! (Toot, toot, toot – it’s so unlike me, but this piece does deserve it!)


    Lion
    16×20 Oil Painting
    Gallerywrap Canvas
    © 2005 Leanne Wildermuth
    All Rights Reserved

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    Filed under: Chit Chat, Completed Paintings, My Fondest Memories, Wildlife Paintings

  • Two-lips Are Better Than None!

    April
    25
    2005

    This morning I’ll share two-lips with you. :kiss:

    There are two ways that I view things around me, one is “oh how beautiful” and the other is picking it apart to see it for its components, what makes it what it is. These tulip shots represent each way that I see things. First, the composition, the beauty, singling out one tulip and looking at it as a whole. Appreciating how when everything is brought together it is just really daggone pretty.

    Then we have the way that I see things when I get closer to them. I notice the gradiating colors, and the contrast against the background. Even when it’s dying out there are beautiful things to see in a gracefully drooping plant. The shape made me thing of a wine glass, cropping it the way I did is abstract, which is unusual for me, but I liked how my eyes moved around this area.

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    Filed under: The Great Outdoors, The Photog in Me

  • Completed Catfish Pics!

    April
    21
    2005

    Yayyyy finally!! I’ll have professional pics to share as well, but for now, these are my final pics. He’ll be picked up tomorrow and clearcoated, then photographed professionally for the brochures & whatnot that they’ll have out all summer. He goes on display in a couple of weeks for everyone to see (and mess up, the worst part, grafitti jerkoids) for the entire summer. In August he’ll be auctioned off to the highest bidder (C’mon, Bass Pro Magazine guys!) Click “read more” for the remaining pics.

    I added metallic gold along his side, highlighted his eyes, and put reflections over the “fisherman” to make him look more like he’s inside the fish.

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    Filed under: Catfish Project : Rock Island, Chit Chat, Completed Paintings, Large Scale Projects, My Fondest Memories, Wildlife Paintings

  • Beach Dude

    April
    13
    2005

    I forgot to tell you the story of Jax Beach Dude! For shame!

    Mark had taken the girls for a stroll along the beach as I was finishing up my goofy sand sculpture, so I grabbed my camera and headed down to catch up with them and take some pics. Me, in my modest one-piece suit, strolling along the beach with my camera. No big deal right? Well Beach Dude ran up behind me and asked me to take his picture in the ocean. Uh, okay. He says “You’re so beautiful, take my picture swimming in the ocean!” I said “Sure, but how will I get your picture to you??” He said “Oh you keep it, you are so lovely! You keep it!” So off he went, into the ocean. Feeling a little awkward, I pick up a shell and holler for Caitlin as he’s on his way into the water. So he’s out there, falling in, getting up, splashing and posing. And here he is for your enjoyment, Beach Dude.

    When he came back to the shore, he asked Caitlin her name, told her she was beautiful too, and kissed her hand. I hope the sea salt washed away the cooties? LOL (kidding!) He was a nice guy. Coulda been my sugar daddy I guess, Mark asked why I didn’t run away with him. I said he had too much chest hair (it musta moved down there from his head).

    heh!

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  • Happy Easter Everyone!

    March
    27
    2005

    This past week has been awesome, having my hubby home has really calmed my nerves as you can imagine!

    The only bad part is that my fall last Saturday on my way out the door gave me whiplash. I’ve had a headache every day, and have seen the chiro twice this week. I really did a number on my head! Scar under my chin, put a nice hole inside my bottom lip, yadda yadda. What a mess! It’ll be one of those days I never forget though, huh? LOL

    He missed last Easter, so this morning was really special. I don’t know about you, but our Easter Bunny leaves pawprints all over the house. He’s a crazy little bunny, the girls can’t figure out how he can climb on them while they’re sleeping and not wake them up, leaving pawprints on their foreheads and hands. hehe! He even played the piano while he was here!

    HAPPY EASTER!!

    XOXOXO
    Leanne & Family

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    Filed under: Chit Chat, Home n' Hearth, The Great Outdoors, The Photog in Me

  • We’re Burnin’

    March
    25
    2005

    We’ve been coding, downloading, shopping, and burning the last couple of days. We downloaded several full CD’s from Walmart.com and I’m burning them now for our roadtrip. Gotta share the tunes, you know? So here’s what we have:

    CELTIC WOMAN / CELTIC WOMAN
    FIVE FOR FIGHTING / THE BATTLE FOR EVERYTHING
    MERCY ME / ALMOST THERE
    MICHAEL BUBLE / IT’S TIME
    NORAH JONES / FEELS LIKE HOME
    RASCAL FLATTS / FEELS LIKE TODAY
    RASCAL FLATTS / MELT
    RASCAL FLATTS / RASCAL FLATTS
    RYAN CABRERA / TAKE IT ALL AWAY

    We downloaded a CD’s worth of individual songs, too, but they’re already lost in my media library. LOL!

    Back to the burn… I will have more news a little later on today, I promise I won’t leave you all hangin’ with nothing to do while we’re away!

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  • First Pix – New Camera!

    March
    23
    2005

    Sexaaayyyy man, look at those eyes. Mmmm!! I’m playing with my new camera now. 🙂

    I’ll keep updating with more new camera pics & put them behind the “read more” tag!

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  • Final Scan & Detail : Purple Tigerpixie

    March
    23
    2005

    HERE she is. You can also see the close-up of her eyes, which I think turned out just purpley!

    This is going into my monochromatic series. I use a limited palette of 3 colors (normally), Carrie’s consists of indigo, violet and flesh. I did end up using just a smidge of white as well on this one. I wanted this series to be a little more “loose” than my regular works, with more visible brush strokes. It’s hard for me to let that happen, but there are some visible here! LOL

    Also, if you don’t know the “who” of who this is, you can visit the Purple Tigerpixie’s website here, or her blog, here. She’s an artist and friend, so you can see her work, too!


    Purple Tigerpixie
    8×8 Oil Painting
    Gallerywrap Canvas
    © 2005 Leanne Wildermuth
    All Rights Reserved

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    Filed under: Completed Paintings, Monochromatic Paintings, My Fondest Memories, Still Life
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