My ACEO cupcake painting sold today :-)

And I've got some new ones up on ebay........

My newest gift to myself, an ACEO watercolor from Vilnius, Lithuania off ebay.....

Isn't she charming.  I think she makes an even dozen ACEO's I've bought now, its fun to support other artists and an affordable way to collect art.......she was $7.

This is my 900th post!

I got a few pictures today of the restaurant in Florida that I painted those three 'porthole' view murals for.  Its nice to see them again........aren't they hung a bit crooked?

Anyone know of a good licensing company that would be interested in my ACEO images for magnets?

For some reason I can't picture them being used for anything else because they're so small and I think enlarging the images might just show imperfections.......of course there's always photoshop/editing?

Well I got little accomplished in the last few days, it was one of those times where the painting just wasn't flowing easily so it was put aside.
I got an unexpected day free today and I've been surfing the web looking for inspiration.  You know that I added some of my ACEO work to button magnets and I was wondering if I could do some in a circular format so I started searching for an easy online photo editor where I could crop images into a circle shape without having to deal with photoshop or similar perplexing applications.  I came across this site, tuxpi.com, where you can crop into several different shapes including a circle,

 but they also have some other fun effects to play with.
Remember this painting I did for the Florida decorator opening a restaurant?

I was able to with one click turn it into this......

What fun!  And I could easily do this, which I'll add to my sidebar as a link......

They even have a fake newspaper generator........I'm thinking I've seen some of these effects put to use elsewhere, wish I had discovered it sooner....share people, share!
Anyway, I'm going to go play with some images now :-)

Todays work.....

.....that and simplifying this blog lay out and look :-)

I've also got my CafePress shop of ACEO Kitchen Art Magnets up and running.  If you're interested you can click on the ad/photo to the right to visit the shop.