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Monthly Archives: April 2011
Janeite – a fan of Jane Austen
Here is a design I created for those who love the writing of Jane Austen. Shirts, mugs, gifts and more are here (click).
Posted in Art, Illustration, Jane Austen, Life, Love
Tagged alice flynn, darcy, designs, emma, illustration, jane austen, love, mansfield park, mr darcy, northanger abbey, pride and prejudice, regency, sense and sensibility
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My desk is an old treadle sewing machine
Last fall I decided to move my laptop and wacom tablet to an old Singer treadle sewing machine I’ve had since I was a girl. This is the sewing machine on which my mother taught me to sew. There is … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Illustration, Life
Tagged alice flynn, blogging, designs, exercise desk, illustration, Paintings, photography, sewing machine
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Easter Snow
Easter Snow is the title of a beautiful traditional Irish air. It is also an event that we experience here in my hometown in Montana around Easter every year. We have typically deep, wet snow in the spring, and to … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Birds, Family, Gardening, Illustration, Ireland, Life, Love, Nature, Oil Paintings
Tagged alice flynn, Art, bird watching, easter snow, folk music, folk song, illustration, Ireland, nature, Paintings, pipes, seamus ennis, snow, song, spring, tune
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Plant Sweet Peas When Daffodils Bloom
The valley where I live used to be filled with an abundance of wild sweet peas. In the early 1900’s the town began having a sweet pea carnival and parade with pony carts and buggies covered with thick garlands of … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Gardening, Illustration, Life, Nature, Oil Paintings
Tagged alice flynn, Art, illustration, nature, Paintings, spring, sweet peas
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Uncle Pete Flynn and the haystacks
My uncle Pete has been an inspiration for a number of my paintings and drawings. Here I placed him as a young man in a field I imagined from the Montana landscape. He was a veteran of WWI and a … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Family, Illustration, Life, Love, Nature, Oil Paintings
Tagged alice flynn, Art, farmer, fine art, illustration, Oil Paintings, Paintings
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Nature Stripe Watercolor, Large View
Here is a close-up view of the watercolor illustration on my Nature Cap.
Posted in Art, Birds, Butterflies, Gardening, Illustration, Life, Love, Nature, Watercolors
Tagged alice flynn, bird watching, cap, gardening, hat, illustration, nature, Paintings, watercolor
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Nature Cap for Gardening
Many of my clients over the years have been manufacturers of souvenir gifts and apparel for National Parks, destination resorts and tourist locations. If you have bought a coffee mug or souvenir shirt at a National Park, ski area or … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Birds, Butterflies, Gardening, Illustration, Life, Nature, Watercolors
Tagged alice flynn, Birds, butterflies, illustration, nature, Paintings, watercolor
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April Snow and Robins
Last month I posted a photo of March snow, much like the April snow I awoke to today. The robins were plentiful in the yard, looking for dried cherries and seed on the ground below the feeders. This robin is … Continue reading
Dragonflies, bees, butterflies
Dragonflies, butterflies, bees, thistle, rose hips, nest… this is the last in the series of three large watercolor illustrations. I love painting the delicate wings of dragonflies. There are unexpected colors that reflect from their wings and body. Although thistles … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Butterflies, Gardening, Illustration, Life, Nature, Watercolors
Tagged alice flynn, Art, butterflies, dragonflies, illustration, nature, Paintings, watercolor
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Butterflies, Foxgloves and Pansies
This is the second large watercolor in the set of three I described in yesterday’s post. One of the butterflies fits right in with the pansies at the bottom of the painting. The yellow and black butterfly is a Swallowtail, … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Butterflies, Gardening, Illustration, Life, Nature, Watercolors
Tagged alice flynn, Art, butterflies, illustration, nature, Paintings, watercolor
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Watercolor nature series
This large watercolor painting was one of three that I licensed to a manufacturer. Unfortunately, they lost the original paintings after they scanned them, so they were not returned to me. Such events are the bane of an artist’s profession.
Posted in Art, Birds, Gardening, Illustration, Life, Nature, Watercolors
Tagged alice flynn, Art, bird eggs, bird house, Birds, garden, illustration, nature, nesting, nests, painter, Paintings, raspberries, sunflower, watercolor
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Garden illustrations
This is a watercolor created as part of a nature series of illustrations. My home is in a mountain zone that takes a long time to warm up enough for gardening. Between snow fall and melting, I check for anything … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Gardening, Illustration, Life, Nature, Watercolors
Tagged alice flynn, illustration, nature, watercolor
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Jane Eyre my first favorite heroine
This design is available on shirts, mugs, and many other items in my cafepress shop at this link http://www.cafepress.com/aliceflynn/7654444 When I was in elementary school, I read Jane Eyre over, and over, and over again. She was the first heroine … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Illustration, Life, Love
Tagged air, alice flynn, Books, Charlotte Bronte, illustration, jane air, Jane Eyre, jayne, jayne air, literature, love, Mr Rochester
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Retro Influences from another era
Early in my career, I was influenced by a personal library of early 1900’s magazines, old illustrated books and children’s picture books. I love Jessie Wilcox Smith’s classic illustrations. My professors were abstract expressionists, beatniks from the 50’s, so my … Continue reading
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Tagged alice flynn, illustration, Paintings
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