Views and Visions 2012 Entries



Straw Market Nassau

(David & Alice Metteri Memorial Art Award)

Shore Petit Four



Equine Play Time

 

These are the three entries I submitted into the

VFAA's 2012 Views and Vision Show

at the Huron Valley Council for the Arts

 

Straw Market Nassau received the David & Alice Metteri Memorial Art Award

 

When you purchase an item from MY STORE, 10% of your purchase price will be donated to my favorite animal charities; Last Chance Animal Rescue and Horses Haven, both in lower MI. Which charity the donation goes to, will depend on the item purchased and I will love you forever from the bottom of my little black heart. ...and even if you don't purchase anything from me, you can go to their site and make a donation! They deserve a chance too!

Have a seat and browse through the pages of my website here:

ArtQwerks

IF ~ Magnify

Her mother believed her beauty would be magnified

by the the size of the lovely green ribbon in her hair...

Illustration Friday is a weekly illustration challenge. A topic is posted every Friday and then participants have all week to come up with their own interpretation.

When you purchase an item from ArtQwerks, 10% of your purchase price will be donated to my favorite animal charities; Last Chance Animal Rescue and Horses Haven, both in lower MI. Which charity will depend on the item purchased and I will most certainly appreciate it.

See my store and galleries to the right--->

IF ~ Parade

Celebrate Mother's Day indeed!

(click on illo to enlarge)

Illustration Friday is a weekly illustration challenge. A topic is posted every Friday and then participants have all week to come up with their own interpretation. Read more about it here: http://www.illustrationfriday.com/about_p.php
When you purchase an item from ArtQwerks, 10% of your purchase price will be donated to my favorite animal charities; Second Chance Animal Rescue and Horses Haven, both in lower MI. Which charity will depend on the item purchased and I will greatly appreciate it.

See my store and galleries to the right.

Big Toys for Little Boys

Some us in the snowy north, need a reminder here and there that it is actually still fall. Technically, winter has not even started yet! Go figure. You would never be able to tell that from looking out MY window at the several inches of the white stuff on the ground right now! Not to mention the 20 degrees that blast me in the face each and every time I walk out the door! Being the glutton for punishment that I am though, I have to say I do love the beauty of it all.

So for the rest of you who are still enjoying the crisp fall air, here is an 11" X 14" pastel portrait of a little guy I finished last month taking time to enjoy an autumn ride on his favorite tractor! Ah...those little boys and their big toys!!!

You can see most of my art in MY GALLERIES at: http://www.ebsqart.com/Artists/cmd_20424_profile_portfolio.htm or view my slide shows to the right. You can purchase my illustrated children's book (and the companion mouse puppet separately), prints and original art or request commissions and at the same time have 10% of your purchase donated to animal charities here: http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5663698

Goodbye Summer...

Moving right into cooler weather, this little caramel apple can't decide whether it's time to keep her sunglasses at the ready for the bright sun of summer or don her favorite pair of overalls for walking through the corn mazes of fall. Maybe she'll just venture out on a warm afternoon with mom and dad, to the nearest Cider Mill and enjoy the best of both worlds. As a matter if fact...what are WE waiting for...I think we should do the same! Just goes to show you, EVERY season has something great to offer. Happy Falling!!!

http://www.ebsqart.com/Artists/cmd_20424_profile_portfolio.htm or view my slide shows to the right. You can purchase my prints and original art or request commissions and at the same time have 10% of your purchase donated to animal charities here: http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5663698

It's out of my hands!!!

The illustrations have now left my hands, to be printed and bound and dispersed through the land! As soon as I get my twisted little fingers on it I will show it to you here. Just the cover mind you, you'll have to actually buy it and read it yourself (or to your children or pets) to see the final creation in full. But until the mean time you can read up on it here http://www.heartandharp.net/book.html. She will be announcing it before I do, since of course she wrote it! You will be able to purchase the book by clicking on Diane E. Dunn's website at that same address. I can't wait to see the finished product myself! Keep watching!!!

I've already started on my next book project, more on that as we move along!

You can see most of my art in MY GALLERIES at: http://www.ebsqart.com/Artists/cmd_20424_profile_portfolio.htm or view my slide shows to the right.

Holiday Latest

OK...

Here is a holiday commission I completed before Christmas, just one of MANY. It's really been busy around here so I haven't been able to post as often as I had intended. Let's face it though, you get what you pay for and you came here for free right? Ha Ha Happy Holidays...my gift to you and all that!

The holidays are always a time of special meaning to me. I love my husband's huge Italian family and this is when most all of them, grandparents, mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, cousins, aunts, uncles, babies and pets, come together and take their lives in their hands at my cooking skills. They fawn all over me telling me how beautiful my house is and what a good cook I am... liars lairs pants on fires! If they only knew (and they might have but were just being polite) how much stuff was kicked under beds and thrown wadded into closets hidden out of sight! Not to mention how many spoons were licked and doubled dipped for tasting as I tried desperately to get the recipes "just right."

My favorite part though is just being with them, from the grumpiest oldest (which quite frankly there was none of THAT day) to the delightful youngest and to my daughter's precious elfin Pomeranian that thought the youngest children were brought to HER as Christmas presents. I have mixed emotions about the day being over, I'm wrung out but empty hearted as I look back at a day that will always be a part of what life's memories are all about. These moments pass and are all too often quickly forgotten, so it's a good thing to at least sit for a while and write about them, savor the pictures taken from them and laugh out loud about them so they can be remembered as they should be.

Merry Christmas to all and to all...all things right.

You can see most all of my portraits in MY GALLERIES at: http://www.ebsqart.com/Artists/cmd_20424_profile_portfolio.htm or view my slide shows upper right.

Donna Pellegata Artist

I needed a place to show photos and inform customers about the latest and greatest goings on. I paint virtually every day so there will always be something new to see. I won't finish one everyday, but as I do I'll post them here for viewing.You'll can see most all of my portraits in MY GALLERIES at: http://www.ebsqart.com/Artists/cmd_20424_profile_portfolio.htm or view my slideshows upper right.