Gift Certificate - Fine Art, Jewelry, Greeting Cards

A $45 Gift Certificate redeemable toward any fine art, jewelry, or greeting cards in my shop. The certificate can be sent to you or gift wrapped and sent directly to the recipient.

Complete instructions for redemption of the certificate are enclosed with the card.

If you want the certificate mailed directly to the recipient please include instructions in "note to buyer" and include your email address.

If you would like a Gift Certificate in an amount not listed, simply email me and I will set up a customized listing just for you! You may also choose from any of the images on the card seen above, just let me know which one you like.

The Best of Nature Photography at Meylah's Marketplace

Dappled Sunlight Original Digital Drawing Free Download

This is an iPad drawing created with the app Paper53, a wonderful tool. The tree is a live oak that resides in my front pasture that I've photographed, drawn and painted so many times.

The image will print out at approximately 8" X 8". You can adjust the size through your printer's settings.

I hope you enjoy this download and it brings a little of nature's magic indoors!

Want to see more of my iPad drawings? Follow my Pinterest board!

And make sure to like my Fanpage to keep up to date with what's happening at the studio!

Copyright Evelyn McCorristin Peters, 2013
Please note: all images are copyright protected, the buyer is not entitled to reproduction rights. Please do not print or reproduce my work without permission. The purchase of original art or a print does not transfer copyright. All rights reserved and retained by the artist. Thank you!

Three Upcoming Deadlines for Artist Opportunities

Deadline: May 1, 2013

PRIZES

More than $25,000 in Cash Prizes!
5 First Place Awards: $2,500 each
5 Second Place Awards: $1,250 each
5 Third Place Awards: $750 each
15 Honorable Mentions: $100 each

Winners will be featured and finalists’ names  published in the December 2013 issue of The Artist’s Magazine. Nine finalists will be featured in the “Competition Spotlight” in The Artist’s Magazine , 12 finalists will be featured as “Artist of the Month” on our website and the works of twelve finalists will be offered on our website as desktop wallpaper.

Plus, the Student/Beginner Division (for artists age 16 or over who (1) have been enrolled in a post-high school art program for no more than four years OR (2) have pursued art on

their own or in workshops/lessons for no more than four years):

5 First Place Awards: $150 each
5 Second Place Awards: $75 each
5 Third Place Awards: $50 each

Award Winners in the Student/Beginner division will be featured in the January/February 2014 issue of The Artist’s Magazine.

PLUS all Award Winners and Honorable Mentions receive a 1-year membership to the NorthLight VIP Program, which includes a one-year subscription to The Artist’s Magazine.

Visit The Artist's Magazine information page.

WorkingArtist.org

Deadline: April 30, 2013

$1000 Working Art Grant Purchase Awards

Working Artist Org. is a privately run charitable organization, interested exclusively in the support and promotion of great art and artists.In addition to funding artists through a monthly Purchase Award, any excess resources gained from your donations go to help artists from the local to the global community through special projects ranging from on site exposure to a vast audience - to more esoteric and personal gifts toward a selected artist's needs.

The Working Art Grant/Purchase Award is a meager one-time purchase award intended to disperse small but vitalizing bursts of funding to support an artist's ongoing art making process.

The Working Art Grant/Purchase Award is available to all domestic and international artists working in all media. As a stipulation for eligibility to receive the Working Art Grant/Purchase Award, we ask that each prospective recipient be willing to exchange one of their works of our later mutual agreement in return. We reimburse the artist's shipping costs.

If you are interested in being considered for one of these awards, please send 5 digital images/files of recent available work (total mail size no larger than 2 MB please) via email. No written proposals or CV's are required unless the artist would like to include them. Instead, please simply include in the body of your email current contact information and a link to an artist's website if available, and send to: grant@workingartist.org. There is no application form.

Cooperstown Art Association

The National Juried Art Competition

Deadline: May 15, 2013

T he annual National Juried show is open to artists working in all mediums residing in the United States, members and non members. Jurors are selected based on their merits and achievements. Past jurors have included notable nationally acclaimed artists, art administrators and art critics. You can easily download and print the prospectus as a pdf here or send a self addressed stamped envelope to The Cooperstown Art Association: 22 Main St. Cooperstown, NY 13326.

Visit The Cooperstown Art Association for more details.

Interested in more artist opportunities? Here's two terrific links where I post every week, check often, I'm always adding interesting new grants, residencies and competitions!

Artist Opportunities on Pinterest. Follow to stay updated.

Artist Opportunities Scoop.it.

and....please share!

My Favorite Things - This Week's Roundup

Here are my top favorite discoveries over the past week. There really isn't a theme, just some fun stuff!

1. I get the daily email from Dog-Milk, which is absolutely awesome. If you have pets, particularly dogs go over and check it out, tons of fun!

This week they featured this incredibly fun company Arrfscarf. They started as one of those food vendor trucks on the streets of Chicago with the great twist of being for dogs!

Check out their terrific products including Doggie Ice Cream!

2. I also follow Dog-Milk's parent site Design Milk, which is also terrific and a bit addictive. I used to have a canary growing up, three in a row in fact, all named Billy. Although this cage isn't really practical for birds it is beautiful and I might just get it to have!

Voronoi Bird Cage

3. And another item featured this week:

DIY Copper Geometric Pendant Lamp, on my list of projects now!

About Design Milk, I originally started following them because the creators are located the next town over from where I grew up. Just a weird slice of home for me.

4. The next item is an incredible funny video of a photographer being "shagged by a rare parrot." A must see from the BBC

Shagged by a rare parrot - Last Chance To See - BBC Two

5. And one of my favorite moments was this weeks' win of Tottenham over Manchester City. I know most of you will not have the slightest idea of what I'm talking about it being English Premier League Football (that's soccer for most from the states). But it was a BIG DEAL!!! One of the players to score is from the states if that helps.

6. Next is a video of Ira Glass from This American Life and the comedian John Hodgman. Cracked me up. Warning - there is a bit of improper language at the end.

VIDEO: Ira Glass and John Hodgman cameo in new music video from Thao & The Get Down Stay Down

7. Another piece of media is the Terry Gross interview with David Sedaris from Fresh Air. Sedaris is interviewed regarding his new book "Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls."

Sedaris always makes me smile and this is a fun interview.

'Let's Explore': David Sedaris On His Public Private Life

8. Now a few books to share:

Frida Kahlo’s Passionate Hand-Written Love Letters to Diego Rivera - just beautiful

9. Modern Art Desserts - if you love to bake and you are an artist this is one cookbook you have to have!

'Modern Art Desserts': How To Bake A Mondrian In Your Oven

10. And finally the beautiful work of Wendy Gold and "The World is, Quiet Literally, Her Canvas

What were you're favorite things this past week? You can find more of my favorite stuff over on Pinterest!

California Colors Fine Art Greeting Cards

Each blank greeting card is a reproduction of my original paintings created painting while at my artist residencies Dorland Mountain Arts Colony in Temecula California. The brilliant colors of California in all their glory!

All fine art greeting cards are printed by a professional printer onto heavy, FSC credited, PH neutral paper. Each card has a light satin coating outside and are not coated inside. Each is individually scored to ensure a crisp, clean fold. Cards are blank inside for your own personal message.

Each card comes with a white envelope measuring 152X108mm.

Card Size: 4.13X5.82" (105mmX148mm)
Image fills the space on card.

Cards will be packaged safely inside a cardboard mailer.

Other Greeting Card Packs:

Trees & Leaves

Zion Colors

Winter Snows

Copyright Evelyn McCorristin Peters, 2013
Please note: all images are copyright protected, the buyer is not entitled to reproduction rights. Please do not print or reproduce my work without permission. The purchase of original art or a print does not transfer copyright. All rights reserved and retained by the artist. Thank you!

Three National Park Artist Residencies still available to apply!

Badlands National Park

The Artist in Residence program at Badlands National Park was founded in 1996 and is open to all professional artists. Writers, composers and all visual and performing artists are invited to interpret this wind-swept environment through their work. The program provides time for artists to get away from everyday responsibilities to focus on their surroundings and their medium.

Open to Photographers, Visual Artists and Writers.
Residencies are a minimum of four weeks, a maximum of six weeks.

Joshua Tree National Park

Joshua Tree National Park, in partnership with the Joshua Tree National Park Association, offers opportunities each year for on-site residencies through its Artist-In-Residence (AIR) program. The program offers lodging at the Lost Horse Ranger Station for two to six weeks during the months of March, April, October, and November each year.

In exchange for the adventure of living and working in a national park, the resident artist will have the opportunity to create a body of work and to share their work with the surrounding regional and Southern California communities. AIR artist proposals should be site-specific to Joshua Tree National Park, yet applicants are encouraged to pursue better understanding and dialogue about our national parks, desert landscapes, and the relationship between wildlands and the human spirit.

Selected artists for the Artist-in-Residence Program may propose to stay for a residency term preferably ranging from 2-6 weeks during the months of March, April, October or November.

Applications are being accepted for the 2013-2014 residency season.  The deadline for application is June 1, 2013.

For additional information about the program and instructions about how to apply for a residency, visit the Joshua Tree National Park Association website.

Winter Snows Fine Art Greeting Cards

Each blank greeting card is a reproduction of my original paintings created painting while at my artist residencies at Weir Farm National Historic Site in Wilton Connecticut and Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts in Wyoming. The brilliant colors reflected onto the snow  are inspiring to portray!

All fine art greeting cards are printed by a professional printer onto heavy, FSC credited, PH neutral paper. Each card has a light satin coating outside and are not coated inside. Each is individually scored to ensure a crisp, clean fold. Cards are blank inside for your own personal message.

Each card comes with a white envelope measuring 152X108mm.

Card Size: 4.13X5.82" (105mmX148mm)
Image fills the space on card.

Cards will be packaged safely inside a cardboard mailer.

Other Greeting Card Packs:

Trees & Leaves

Zion Colors

Copyright Evelyn McCorristin Peters, 2013
Please note: all images are copyright protected, the buyer is not entitled to reproduction rights. Please do not print or reproduce my work without permission. The purchase of original art or a print does not transfer copyright. All rights reserved and retained by the artist. Thank you!

Trees & Leaves Fine Art Greeting Cards Pack of Five

Each blank greeting card is a reproduction of my original paintings created painting en plein air. The brilliant colors of the summer trees  are inspiring to portray!

All fine art greeting cards are printed by a professional printer onto heavy, FSC credited, PH neutral paper. Each card has a light satin coating outside and are not coated inside. Each is individually scored to ensure a crisp, clean fold. Cards are blank inside for your own personal message.

Each card comes with a white envelope measuring 152X108mm.

Card Size: 4.13X5.82" (105mmX148mm)
Image fills the space on card.

Cards will be packaged safely inside a cardboard mailer.

Copyright Evelyn McCorristin Peters, 2013
Please note: all images are copyright protected, the buyer is not entitled to reproduction rights. Please do not print or reproduce my work without permission. The purchase of original art or a print does not transfer copyright. All rights reserved and retained by the artist. Thank you!

Sheep Horn Still Life Oil Painting

An original oil painting of a sheep's horn in all it's beautiful muted colors.

TITLE: Sheep Horn
SIZE: 6X6"
MEDIUM: Oil
CANVAS: board
SIGNATURE:Signed in bottom left corner
SHIPPING: FREE within the U.S.

Stay up to date on additional items being placed on sale through my Pinboard and my fanpage!

Copyright Evelyn McCorristin Peters, 2011.
Please note: all images are copyright protected, the buyer is not entitled to reproduction rights. Please do not print or reproduce my work without permission. The purchase of original art or a print does not transfer copyright. All rights reserved and retained by the artist. Thank you!

Tangerine Tuesday - Artists and Orange

Orange is one of my favorite colors. So expressive and joyful. Here is some energetic artwork in orange from some amazing artists.

(Clicking on the links below will take you to information about each of the artists). Enjoy!

Yuko Ueda

Stanton MacDonald Wright - The Prophet

Paul Klee

Mark Rothko - Untitled

Manierre Dawson - Fourteen

Joan Miro - The Birth of the World

Amanda McCavour

Frederick Carl Frieseke - The Garden Parasol

Frantisek Kupka - Untitled

Marc Chagall - Maternite Centaur

Do you have some tangerine artwork to share? I would love to see it, leave a reply, share a link, and I'll post it on my fanpage.

Do you like Tangerine? Then follow my Pinboard!

Don't forget to like my fanpage to stay up to date on happenings at the studio!

Blue Monday

Monday's are always a little blue for many people starting the new work week. So today I'm celebrating the wonderful blue paint colors of some of our most famous artists!

Click on the artist's name below to learn a little more about them, or give yourself a refresher course of these amazing artists!

Camille Pissarro - Montmarte Night

Paul Cezanne - Victoire

Alfred Sisley - Inondation Port Marly

Vincent Van Gogh - Irises

Pablo Picasso - Self Portrait

Edgar Degas - Dancers in Blue

Paul Serusier - The Talisman

John Hoyland - Abstract Composition (Green, Blue, Red)

Yuko Takada Keller - Prismatic

George Rodrigue - Blue Dog (yes, I did have to get a dog in here).

What are your favorite works of art in blue?

You can follow my "Blue" Pinboard!

Please share, I would love to hear about others' favorites!

Juniper Tree Photograph

This photography is from my time spent at Zion National Park this past February for my awarded artist residency.

I've been creating many paintings from my time there but wanted you to have the opportunity to enjoy some of my photographs.

Go ahead and download, it's free!

“My goal is to capture the fleeting illuminations and restless color of that moment when the light makes magic.”

Want to see more of my photographs from Zion National Park. Follow me on Flickr!

Copyright Evelyn McCorristin Peters, 2013
Please note: all images are copyright protected, the buyer is not entitled to reproduction rights. Please do not print or reproduce my work without permission. The purchase of original art or a print does not transfer copyright. All rights reserved and retained by the artist. Thank you!

Wild Turkey Brawl Original Oil Painting

An original oil painting of wonderful wild turkeys. These turkeys were in front of the Zion Lodge each morning. I was able to capture a multitude of photographs during my artist residency at Zion National Park in Utah. This particular image is of one of the turkeys rising up to go after another. Very lucky shot!

To view the full image please visit my website Evelyn McCPeters Art.

TITLE: Wild Turkey Brawl
SIZE: 24X24
MEDIUM: Oil
CANVAS: Gallery wrapped canvas 1 1/2" Framing not required
SIGNATURE: Signed in bottom left corner
SHIPPING: FREE within the U.S.

(Financing is available upon request).

Check back often to see new items. You can follow my Fine Art Pinboard on Pinterest! And make sure to sign up for my newsletter to learn about what's happening at the studio!

Copyright Evelyn McCorristin Peters, 2013.
Please note: all images are copyright protected, the buyer is not entitled to reproduction rights. Please do not print or reproduce my work without permission. The purchase of original art or a print does not transfer copyright. All rights reserved and retained by the artist. Thank you!

Beach Landscape Oil Painting

I created this little piece while soaking up the sun on Seista Key Beach in Florida. It has the most wonderfully soft sand and it's where my husband asked me to marry him! A favorite place.

TITLE: Florida Scrub Pine
SIZE: 5X7"
MEDIUM: Oil
CANVAS: board
SIGNATURE:Signed in bottom left corner
SHIPPING: FREE within the U.S.

Check back often to see new sale items. You can follow my SALE pinboard on Pinterest! And make sure to sign up for my newsletter to learn about what's happening at the studio!

Copyright Evelyn McCorristin Peters, 2011.
Please note: all images are copyright protected, the buyer is not entitled to reproduction rights. Please do not print or reproduce my work without permission. The purchase of original art or a print does not transfer copyright. All rights reserved and retained by the artist. Thank you!

Florida Scrub Pine Oil Painting

SALE

TITLE: Florida Scrub Pine
SIZE: 5X7"
MEDIUM: Oil
CANVAS: board
SIGNATURE:Signed in bottom left corner
SHIPPING: FREE within the U.S.

Check back often to see new sale items. You can follow my SALE pinboard on Pinterest! And make sure to sign up for my newsletter to learn about what's happening at the studio!

Copyright Evelyn McCorristin Peters, 2011.
Please note: all images are copyright protected, the buyer is not entitled to reproduction rights. Please do not print or reproduce my work without permission. The purchase of original art or a print does not transfer copyright. All rights reserved and retained by the artist. Thank you!

An original oil landscape painting of a snowy winter road in Wyoming. The lovely colors of the sky reflect onto the snow.

TITLE: Winter Road Landscape
SIZE: 10X10"
MEDIUM: Oil
CANVAS: board
SIGNATURE:Signed in bottom left corner
SHIPPING: FREE within the U.S. Shipping

Check back often to see new sale items. You can follow my SALE pinboard on Pinterest! And make sure to sign up for my newsletter to learn about what's happening at the studio!

Copyright Evelyn McCorristin Peters, 2011.
Please note: all images are copyright protected, the buyer is not entitled to reproduction rights. Please do not print or reproduce my work without permission. The purchase of original art or a print does not transfer copyright. All rights reserved and retained by the artist. Thank you!

An original oil painting of the pearly blues and white of a clam shell.

TITLE: Clam Shell Still Life
SIZE: 6X6"
MEDIUM: Oil
CANVAS: board
SIGNATURE:Signed in bottom left corner
SHIPPING: FREE within the U.S.

Copyright Evelyn McCorristin Peters, 2013.
Please note: all images are copyright protected, the buyer is not entitled to reproduction rights. Please do not print or reproduce my work without permission. The purchase of original art or a print does not transfer copyright. All rights reserved and retained by the artist. Thank you!

Art & Color at Meylah's Marketplace

There are some wonderful artists on Meylah's Marketplace, here is a sampling of just a few!

*all images featured above by Evelyn McCorristin Peters

To see more work by Evelyn please visit Evelyn McCPeters Art on Meylah and Evelyn McCPeters Art Website.

Please follow me on Facebook and Pinterest to stay up to date with new work and events!

Brenna and Nico

Saxophonist and Composer Brenna Noonan

I am simply thrilled to have a musician to share with you for Fur Friday! Brenna saw my tweet looking for creative people and their pets to feature on my blog and contacted me, I’m very glad she did! So first here’s a bit about Brenna, (she’s very impressive!).

Brenna is a North American and European performing artist. A native of Boston, MA, she began her studies at The Boston Conservatory and the Berklee School of Music. She later moved to France and studied with Jean-Denis Michat at the Conservatoire National Rayonnement de Lyon. She has performed at such venues as Boston’s Jordan Hall, Lyon’s Opéra Nouvel, and Santa Fe’s Lensic Theater. Brenna also attended the Université Européenne de Saxophone in Gap, France and ­­the Curso Internacional de Saxofón in Montefrio, Spain. A proponent of new music, she has given premieres of new works by numerous composers. Brenna has also performed internationally alongside Claude Delangle, Dennis Shafer, and the Harlem String Quartet, among others. She has participated in several master classes, including those led by Claude Delangle, Arno Bornkamp, the PRISM Quartet, and the Quatour Habanera. Her primary saxophone teachers have been Phillipp Stäudlin, Kenneth Radnosky, and Jean-Denis Michat.

As a composer, Brenna has received commissions from artists such as percussionist Colin Woodford, saxophonist Pete Leung, and the duo Transient Canvas. She has participated in master classes with numerous composers, including Robert Lemay, Nancy Zeltsman, Sam Solomon, Tristan Murail, and Hans Abrahamsen, as well as the Del Sol String Quartet, the QX String Quartet, and the Zodiac Trio. In 2012, she scored the film “Relative,” a selection for the Cinema du Monde Film Festival in Rouen, France. Most recently, she is selected as Artist-In-Residence at the Arteles Creative Center in Haukijärvi, Finland. She studies composition with Gary Lee Nelson.

Now let’s meet Nico!

(She’s pretty impressive too! And I love that she’s named after Neko Case!)

Name: Nico
Nicknames: Freako, Neko Case
Age: 10 months
Breed: German Shepherd & Black Lab
How did your animal come to live with you? What’s her story? We adopted Nico from a family with three other dogs and four children, so needless to say they were a bit overrun! We had been planning to adopt a dog since our last, Cooper, passed away the year before. He was a Great Dane, and he was such a tremendous dog that we really wanted another Dane. However, we went to meet Nico and she was too much of a sweetheart to resist! We brought her home with us the same day.

Nico watches

Favorite toys: Nico lives for tennis balls. She also has a rolled up skin of a soccer ball that she plays with. When she carries it around, it hangs out of her mouth like a cigar.
Favorite food: Sadly, Nico’s previous owners didn’t discipline her very well (if at all), and told us her favorite food was the Big Mac! Needless to say, she doesn’t get any Big Macs at our house!
Favorite place to hang out and or sleep: We got Nico a big fluffy bed that probably any human would be happy with, so she normally camps out there.

Nico and her bed

Weirdest quirks or behavior: Nico is a little bit of a diva. She has a very wide range of attitudes and emotions, that she does not hesitate to make abundantly clear to us. One of the most obvious of these emotions is indignation, which I’m not sure I’ve ever encountered in a dog! This usually happens when we block her from getting on furniture (as she isn’t allowed), or when we’re eating delicious human food that she cannot have. She responds with a stern glare and a very specific “ROW ROW ROW!”
Pet Peeves: Besides our denying her of Big Macs and free run of our furniture, there isn’t much!
Best Tricks: She’s a very adroit catcher – I don’t think I’ve ever seen her miss a ball.
Are you a gear head with your animal, i.e. do you buy “accessories?”: Not really – Nico is very low maintenance. Really all she wants to play with are tennis balls!
If your animal was an artist or another animal who/what would he/she be?: Maybe Edie Sedgwick. They’re both beautiful and charismatic, but also a little impetuous and entitled.
If your animal has any health issues could you share and give recommendations of treatment to share with others?: Due to Nico’s aforementioned eating habits, she is a bit overweight. Not obese, but there’s certainly an extra layer of fat around her. We’ve been combating this by keeping her on a strict dry dog food only diet with frequent exercise, up to a couple of hours a day. She’s much healthier already!
How does your animal help and inspire you in your life?: As a composer, I am pretty solitary. I spend a lot of time alone cooped up in my house, working on various projects. Having a pet provides a link to the outside world during those particularly intense and reclusive times. I’m also a very nurturing person, so it brings a lot of happiness to my life being able to care for something other than myself. We’ve had pets literally my entire life; many, many dogs, but also cats, gerbils, hamsters, fish, and horses. I could never pick a favorite pet, or even a favorite species. All the animals I have known have enriched my life deeply, both as receivers and givers of love.

Nico smiles

Nico with Brenna’s siblings Katie and Will

Please take a moment and visit Brenna’s website! You can also follow her on Twitter. All artists look for ways to support their work. Last year I ran an Indie gogo campaign to raise funds for my residencies. Brenna is also raising funds for an awesome project. Take a look, contribute if you can and please share! As artists we are very fortunate to have these platforms to help us reach out to our wonderful fans!

Brenna is also a featured composer on The Composers Circle.

Please share with your art loving, music loving and pet loving friends! If you’re interested in being featured on Fur Friday, give me a tweet!

Next week we will visit with artist Lauren Terry and her dog Jackson! Until then Nico says keep it pawsitive!

By Evelyn McCorristin-Peters on January 25, 2013

The Welcoming Party

Jackie Curtis and Marsh

This week’s artist and her dog Marsh come to us from across the pond. Here’s a little bit about Jackie and her art in her own words:

I started to paint and draw seriously in my early teens continuing through university; producing posters and artwork for college events and magazines. My first job took me to Cumbria where I first started to use watercolors joining evening classes and finding inspiration in the fantastic landscape around me.

Bawdrip

When I moved to Somerset I became more self-sufficient painting on my own with a variety of influences from the Somerset levels, wildlife and nature, marine painting and scenes from our travels. I nearly always travel with a sketch book, paints and a camera to capture the scenes around me. I still attend the occasional course, it is good to experience new influences and meet other artists and share ideas.

I love painting with watercolors, they are so immediate and lively (although unforgiving) each color with its own properties. The colors are vibrant and can be built up to give real depth. I particularly enjoy painting water and boat scenes and love the effects of reflections in water. There is nothing better than a beautiful summer’s day with Indian Yellow for the sunlight and some strong purples in my pallet for warm shadows.

I have also become interested in printmaking and have experimented in a variety of techniques, mono, block, reduction, etc. I particularly enjoy collage prints, always on the lookout for different textures, fabrics, sandpapers and veneers to make the blocks from. The contrast in the print making and watercolor disciplines helps to keep both fresh.

ammonites 3

I participate annually in Somerset Arts Week which is a fantastic experience and it was great to discus my work with visitors and to have some feedback. I now have my own website www.jcurtisart.com. I have started to run a few print making workshops primarily for mono printing which have proved very popular.

Let’s meet Marsh!

Marsh

Name: Marsh Mallow known as Marsh
Nicknames: Yappy
Age: 13 in March
Breed: Good question – terrier – probably lots of long haired Jack Russell
How did your dog come to live with you? What’s their story? Marsh has been with us for three and a half years. He came from a couple that were splitting up and moving to small flats and there was no room for Marsh – a friend persuaded us to go and visit him and he came home with us.
Favorite toys: Things he can have a tug of war with.
Favorite food: Treats, denti sticks, bonios – if I have been to the pet shop he will sit by my bed and wait – then bark if nothing is forthcoming.
Favorite place to hang out and or sleep: He has various beds but basically he likes to be with us, not on his own. He loves going out in the car.
Weirdest quirks or behavior: How much space do you have?
He gets in his smallest basket, buries his head and then starts to chunter and bark continuously
He steels things – underwear, pens, anything really he thinks you may exchange for value (i.e. for food)
He has a real problem with matches – if you try to light a match he barks and tries to grab the matches.
He chases the lawn mower, wheelbarrow, brooms, hoover, duster.
He barks at the telephone, hammers, electric drills, staple guns….
He loves having a shower and has been known to go and sit outside the shower if he thinks he is dirty from a walk.

Pet peeves: Assuming ‘peeve’ is something he doesn’t like? Dogs that have bitten him – he remembers where they live and won’t walk by. Being left at home to ‘guard the house’.
Best tricks: Begging for food sitting on his hind legs.
Are you a gear head with your dog, i.e. do you buy “accessories”? No!
If your dog was an artist who would he/she be? I don’t know who but it would involve sculpture using destroyed things – pens, pencils, lighters, pill boxes.
If your dog has any health issues could you share and give recommendations of treatment to share with others? He is very fit no problems.

Pig

How does your dog help and inspire you in the studio?
He isn’t really a help in the studio – he doesn’t like me being outside in the studio – he barks at the back door to come out; when I come to let him out he turns round and goes back into the front room hoping I will follow.
He loves ‘Open studio events’ – he likes to sit with us in the garden waiting for visitors – hoping to be fussed. See picture ‘The welcoming party’ – only problem is he tends to bark if he’s not fussed.
The real inspiration comes from dog walks – inspiration for my pictures often comes from our walks – I am nearly always armed with a camera; and sometimes sketch/paint on my walks, I also collect seed heads etc. and beach comb and use materials directly in my print making in mono prints and collagraphs as well as using them as subject matter e.g ammonites.

Thanks so much to Jackie and Marsh for sharing their stories! Make sure to visit Jackie’s website to see more of her beautiful work! You can also follow her on Twitter!

Please share with your art loving and pet loving friends! If you’re interested being featured on Fur Friday, give me a tweet!

Stay tuned next week for saxophonist and composer Brenna Noonan and her dog Nico!

As a Meylah Marketplace seller we are now able to make wonderful and unique collections at the Handmadeology Market! I've have been honored to be in several already. The one below features one of my paintings from my Weir Farm National Historic Site Artist Residency!

Visit often to see lots of great collections featuring very talented crafts people and artists!

Evelyn McCPeters Art is having a sale! For the month of February I have been awarded an artist residency from Zion National Park in Utah! I am putting these works on sale to raise funds for my travel expenses and boarding my doggies!

These pieces are from an earlier time but just as wonderful. Check back daily for new pieces being added. I will be leaving on February 3rd for one month. So if you're interested in a Valentine gift, now is the time to order!

Sierra Madre Triptych

An original plein air painting celebrating the Sierra Madre Mountains and all the colors of the west oils. The light creates a magical palette and luminous shadows across the snows in Wyoming. All the beauty of the Wyoming landscape.
This work was completed during my artist residency awarded from Brush Creek Arts Foundation in Saratoga, Wyoming.

(To view the full image please visit: Sierra Madre Triptych)

To view other fine art please visit my Pinterest Board!

TITLE: Sierra Madre Wyoming Triptych
SIZE: Each canvas is 24X24"
MEDIUM: Oil
CANVAS: Gallery wrapped canvas 1 1/2" Framing not required
SIGNATURE:Signed in bottom left corner
SHIPPING: FREE within the U.S. Shipping will occur within one week of order. Please contact me regarding international shipping fees.
PAYMENT: PayPal or major credit card.

Copyright Evelyn McCorristin Peters, 2012.
Please note: all images are copyright protected, the buyer is not entitled to reproduction rights. Please do not print or reproduce my work without permission. The purchase of original art or a print does not transfer copyright. All rights reserved and retained by the artist. Thank you!

Conch Shell Oil Painting

A little touch of the sea to grace your wall.

TITLE: Conch Shell
SIZE: 8X12
MEDIUM: Oil
CANVAS: board

Copyright Evelyn McCorristin Peters, 2012
Please note: all images are copyright protected, the buyer is not entitled to reproduction rights. Please do not print or reproduce my work without permission. The purchase of original art or a print does not transfer copyright. All rights reserved and retained by the artist. Thank you!

Winter Trees Fine Art Oil Painting

An original painting celebrating all the colors of the west in oils. The light creates a magical palette and luminous shadows across the mountain vista. All the beauty of the California landscape.
This work was completed during my artist residency awarded from Dorland Mountain Arts Colony in Temecula California.

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TITLE: Winter Trees
SIZE: 24X24
MEDIUM: Oil
CANVAS: Gallery wrapped canvas 1 1/2" Framing not required
SIGNATURE:Signed in bottom left corner
SHIPPING: FREE within the U.S. Shipping will occur within one week of order.

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Copyright Evelyn McCorristin Peters, 2012.
Please note: all images are copyright protected, the buyer is not entitled to reproduction rights. Please do not print or reproduce my work without permission. The purchase of original art or a print does not transfer copyright. All rights reserved and retained by the artist. Thank you!

Fall Mountain Shadows Oil Landscape Painting

An original painting celebrating all the colors of the west in oils. The light creates a magical palette and luminous shadows across the mountain vista. All the beauty of the California landscape.
This work was completed during my artist residency awarded from Dorland Mountain Arts Colony in Temecula California.

(view full image here: Fall Mountain Shadows)

TITLE: Fall Mountain Shadows
SIZE: 24X24
MEDIUM: Oil
CANVAS: Gallery wrapped canvas 1 1/2" Framing not required
SIGNATURE:Signed in bottom left corner
SHIPPING: FREE within the U.S. Shipping will occur within one week of order.

Check back often to see new items. You can follow my SALE pinboard on Pinterest! And make sure to sign up for my newsletter to learn about what's happening at the studio!

Copyright Evelyn McCorristin Peters, 2012.
Please note: all images are copyright protected, the buyer is not entitled to reproduction rights. Please do not print or reproduce my work without permission. The purchase of original art or a print does not transfer copyright. All rights reserved and retained by the artist. Thank you!

Fall Clouds and Mountains Original Landscape Painting

An original painting celebrating all the colors of the west in oils. The clouds create a magical palette and luminous shadows across the mountain vista. All the beauty of the California landscape.
This work was completed during my artist residency awarded from Dorland Mountain Arts Colony in Temecula California.

TITLE: Fall Clouds and Mountains
SIZE: 24X24
MEDIUM: Oil
CANVAS: Gallery wrapped canvas 1 1/2" Framing not required
SIGNATURE:Signed in bottom left corner
SHIPPING: FREE within the U.S. Shipping will occur within one week of order.

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Evelyn McCPeters Art

Copyright Evelyn McCorristin Peters, 2012.
Please note: all images are copyright protected, the buyer is not entitled to reproduction rights. Please do not print or reproduce my work without permission. The purchase of original art or a print does not transfer copyright. All rights reserved and retained by the artist. Thank you!