Artist Alice Flynn
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Artists Have Bills & Can’t Work For Free
I was inspired by a similar poster to make this design and offer it on mugs, tees, cards, prints, magnets, and more at Cafepress. Too often, creative workers are expected to give their work away. We have bills to pay … Continue reading
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What ho, Jeeves!
Do you like P. G. Wodehouse? Wooster and Jeeves? What about Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry? Or, maybe you are a hipster from Portland sporting a mustache. Here is a new design for the new year of 2012… I can’t … Continue reading
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‘Printing for Kingdom, Empire & Republic’ – Review – NYTimes.com
Do you love type? I cringe whenever I think of the boxes of letterpress lead type I sold in a yard sale in the ’80′s. The person buying it planned to melt it down. The New York Times today … Continue reading
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Out Of Chaos – Art
On the left is a plastic basin and lid I use for acrylic painting, and on the right are the palettes of my watercolors. In the cold winter weather we have in Montana this time of year, I tend to … Continue reading
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Commission A Painting – Small Business Shopping
It’s small business Saturday for shopping, so don’t forget the one-person businesses of artists and artisans (like me) who sell custom work directly to the buyer. You can give the gift of a gift certificate for a painting or have … Continue reading
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Wildflowers and Tetons Watercolor
This is a watercolor on my drawing table right now, almost finished. I have only to paint the Western Tanager bird that is pencilled in on the bottom right. You may recognize this as another version of a view of … Continue reading
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Tagged alice flynn, Art, bird watching, Birds, Daily Painters, fine art, gift, grand teton national park, illustration, life, moose, nature, painter, painting, Paintings, watercolor, western tanager
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Energy Conservation Illustration, Bike and Pool It
Illustrated and designed to promote energy conservation, biking and car pooling, this poster was created for AERO and the Montana Dept. of Natural Resources and Conservation. pen and ink copyright Alice Flynn
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Art Trading Card Pinecone Watercolor by Alice Flynn
This is an art trading card, ATC, I painted yesterday. It is pen and ink and watercolor. If you have not yet heard of art trading cards or ACEO’s, here is a bit of history courtesy of wikipedia. The dimensions … Continue reading
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100,000-year-old art studio uncovered – Light Years – CNN.com Blogs
100,000-year-old art studio uncovered – Light Years – CNN.com Blogs. Wow! Abalone shell containers with pigment and tools for grinding ochre… a painter’s studio in a cave in southern Africa, 100,000 years old. See the CNN blog post.
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Call Me, Telephone, A Mixed Media Painting
This is a painting on canvas that is 16 inches by 20 inches, just finished today. It is a mixture of acrylic painting, ink, and heat transfer (no paper). It isn’t a traditional collage. I experimented with a photo I … Continue reading
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The Girls
This is another drawing done with a Venus Velvet No. 2 pencil on Arches rag paper. It is matted with a muslin wrapped mat, framed under glass.
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Pencil Drawings, Making them Public
In the 1970s, I started creating very detailed, large pencil drawings, No. 2 Venus Velvet pencil on Arches rag paper. I think it’s time that I post the pencil drawings on the blog. This will take a bit of time … Continue reading
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Embracing Mid-Century Modern Style
I was born in 1951, and I live in a house built in 1951. You may recognize this photo from an earlier post about my Fiesta Ware in the corner of my kitchen counter. It has taken me decades to … Continue reading
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Solitude, The Pasture Tree, My Art On Zatista
The livestock graze beneath trees in the pastures, shaping them in to rounded lollipops. The painting of this lone tree is titled Solitude. Dimensions are 11 inches by 14 inches. Solitude is one of a group of works on canvas … Continue reading
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My Oil Palette
This is a photo of the old, engraved brass bowl that I use for my oil painting palette. It has a piece of waxed paper folded inside. The bowl is so heavy, it has a wonderful solid feeling, staying still … Continue reading
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“What Font Should I Use?”: Five Principles for Choosing and Using Typefaces – Smashing Magazine
“What Font Should I Use?”: Five Principles for Choosing and Using Typefaces – Smashing Magazine. Read the article. I don’t have much to add to this, except don’t forget to look at the pictures!
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Inside Google Search · Search by Image
Inside Google Search · Search by Image. Here is another tool to find unauthorized use of your art and design on the internet. There are 4 ways to search… drag and drop, upload the image, copy and paste the image … Continue reading
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Are You An Artist And Reference Hoarder?
I just listed these vintage vocabulary picture work sheets in my Etsy shop of old stuff, Mistress of Merlin. I am both fascinated and repulsed by the current trend of “reality shows” that depict the lives of hoarders. Every cable … Continue reading
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Who Stole My Pictures Is a Firefox Extension That Helps You Locate Copied Images
Who Stole My Pictures Is a Firefox Extension That Helps You Locate Copied Images. This is an extension you add to Firefox to quickly search your images online to see where they have been used.
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Jeff Fisher LogoMotives: LogoGarden.com harvests pros’ logos – including Jeff Fisher designs – and sells images on site
Jeff Fisher LogoMotives: LogoGarden.com harvests pros’ logos – including Jeff Fisher designs – and sells images on site.
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