"Bunny Nest with Red Flowers and White Butterflies", new from my studio

"Bunny Nest with Red Flowers and White Butterflies"

© 2018

available for sale as prints or on products through this link

contact me if interested in the original: sales (att) lisewinne.com

This is part of a series of bunnies taking naps. 

For this one, I had in mind a child's room. The parents are trying to get their little one off to sleep and point to the bunny on the wall: "See how that bunny is sleeping and smiling because he is having a happy dream?" Hint, hint ...

These parents don't really like the usual decor of bright neon colors that a lot of children's rooms have. They want something more subtle, more in the tradition of the Renaissance, or older English illustrations for children's books. So they pick this piece for their child's room.

Or this piece because it's even more subtle: 

"Bunny Nap with Red Flowers"

© 2018

available for sale as prints or on products through this link

A pillow might send your loved one off to sleep too:

pillows available for sale through this link

Or how about a nice soft blanket to curl up with?:

two types of blankets for sale through this link

or a duvet cover:

duvet cover available through this link

what about a round beach towel that your kid can take into his room fort (or, on second thought, to the beach):

 round towel available for sale through this link

Or this journal to write his dreams in:

notebook available for sale through this link

Baby Onesie:

kid's teeshirt:

an idea for framing:

framed prints available for sale through this link

choose frames with drop-down (including all of the various frame colors)

this one is around 11" x 14" with a MQ9 frame found under silver frames (in drop-down)

and a mat that is arctic white with black core mat (in drop-down)

I tend to think people are attracted to artwork sometimes through the symbolism (subconsciously), and this piece has a lot of positives in that department:

* white bunny: new perceptions and manifestations; signifies something at work for the highest good
* white butterflies: protection, fortune, messages from the spirit world
* vines: continuity, traditions in ones life
* red tulip-like flowers with thorns: true love, eternal love, undying love, yet with a few protective measures
* small yellow flowers: happiness in the small things, friendship
* purple daisies: dignity, pride, success
* bountiful fauna: material well being

Here's another piece along the same lines (with all of the same kinds of products):

"Bunny Nest of Yellow Roses and Blueberries"

available for sale through this link

a lot more art and products for sale via

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I'll be back soon enough ...

new direction and the last unicorn

"September Unicorn"

© 2017

for sale here as an art print

if you are interested in purchasing the original, contact me via sales(att)LiseWinne.com

It is a 5 x 7 in an 8 x 10 gold frame 

(symbolism for the piece is at the end of the post)

I have some big news to tell (on all fronts, including my music), but there are still some fantasy art pieces I am still listing in my shop.  

So I will take some time to list them here before revealing my new direction and, for all intents and purposes, "my new life."

The "September Unicorn" original is available at a gallery at the moment. I can always take it out if you are interested in purchasing it. Contact me if you are interested: sales((att))LiseWinne.com. 

Here is what the prints of it look like framed and on various products:

framed prints are available HERE

using the drop-down on that page to the right, this is a GG8 frame (in the copper bronze section)

and a manor white mat

If you like a little more bulk and detail to your frame, 

here is one I found that is also in the drop-down:

in the drop down on THIS PAGE

go to the tabs "frame" and in the drop-down choose gold

it is VN5 with a mist mat

If you like your piece more "airy and light", here is another kind of frame:

in the drop down on THIS PAGE

go to the tabs "frame" and in the drop-down choose gold

it is J7 with a bright white mat

Here is what it looks like as a pillow

pillows are available for sale HERE

you can customize colors

the default color here is black

This is what it looks like as a tote bag:

tote bags available for sale HERE

you can customize background colors for this too

This is what it looks like as a mug (I put in stars on this rendition):

mugs available HERE

you can order small or large

(note: there is an image on two sides of this mug)

As for symbolism:

I have noticed that when talking to clients, they identify with the symbolic meanings as describing themselves. What a great discovery! I will describe what that means, but first, the symbolism itself:

unicorn: purity, innocence, spiritual messages, enlightenment, magic. The unicorn has been known to be an independent creature of high intelligence who swoons at the sight of a fair maiden who is pure of heart, and to even fall asleep in her lap. The unicorn's horn has been known to purify water. The unicorn was described during Renaissance times as an extremely wild woodland animal that was independent and could not be tamed.

full moon: the feminine, peak of clarity in a subtle way, reflection on events, insight from dreams

vines: continuity, tradition, eternity (note here that the vines are going dormant)

I often find that a client who is attracted to this piece enough to purchase it is usually a woman who is independent and of high intelligence, cannot be tamed, feels an attraction to the occupation of healing, is perceptive, and who likes the company of other beautiful women like herself who are pure of heart. She is likely to be against the DAPL pipeline or other causes where pollution of water is an issue. She is reflective and clarifies matters for others in a non-ostentatious way, gets insight and creative ideas from dreams, and may respect tradition even if it might be going dormant within her soul for a time (or she may be breaking with tradition altogether depending on whether she wants to cycle back into the traditions prevalent in her life).

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new fantasy art blog!

the banner for the new site

designed by Lise Winne with art from Ali Oppy and David Griffith
© 2017

This is just a quick post to introduce you to a new blog that I started called "Fantasy Art for the Home and Office" ... view-able HERE.

It is about a group of fantasy artists on the Fine Art America site and the art they make. I am the administrator of that group. 

The blog is made with a separate account, so you will not be able to see it via my profile. You will have to come back to this post, for now to get the link. The reason I went with a different account is that I may not always want to run it, or I may not be able to for what ever reason, and this way I can hand over the reins to someone else without it being muddied up with my profile, and my other blogs.

We also have a Google Plus account HERE. If you love fantasy art, think about following us on that platform.

I have been trying to launch a Twitter site for the group too, though that is proving difficult (I already have 3 Twitter accounts; this one would be a fourth one, and I'm running out of e-mails to use -- perhaps it is all too much). So I may choose Instagram instead, we'll see.

I have at least 6 new art pieces to post that I completed recently.

Until then ...

Fairy Queue

Fairy Queue

© 2016

available for sale as a print (in a multitude of sizes), and as home decor and other products through this link at LISE WINNE.NET

or available for sale as a 11 x 14 hand signed giclee print HERE 

If you have been following along, I started a series featuring altered photographs. The last one was "A Dragon Confides in a Fairy" (viewable HERE). In this piece, I feature a procession of fairies with flowers, a butterfly  and fairy orbs. 

Here are some details of the piece:

detail: at the back of the queue

detail from the middle of the queue

detail from the beginning of the queue

(notice how their clothing is adorned with butterflies)

Here are just a few framing options that you can customize through LiseWinne.net (many more combinations are available, but these are some samples):

gold frame with mist mat

green frame with snow white mat

beige frame (plc8) with mist mat

 purple frame with purple mat

This is the original photograph that it came from. It was a windy day, which is why the hair is flying and the Wizard's cape is blowing back. You can tell I changed a lot including clothing colors, putting wings and pointy ears on the figures, taking the glasses off of another figure, and putting them in a different background with all things associated with a tiny fairies (big flowers, large butterfly, orbs, nature):

derived from an original photo

a dragon confides in a fairy

A DRAGON CONFIDES IN A FAIRY

digital art

© Lise Winne 2016

new! Prints available in any size, from 6" x 8" up to 30" x 40". Available on 

canvas, acrylic, giclee, etc. Through the same link, products are also for sale with this item (cell phone cover, apparel, etc). Go HERE for both prints and products).

For a home printed giclee print which is hand signed, I will be putting that up for sale soon (check back on this page)

For the rest of this post, I describe a little of how I made this piece by showing "work in progress" details.

This is how it all started, by spotting these two figures having a tete a tete at a Renaissance faire:

A DRAGON CONFIDES IN A FAIRY

(raw photo)

Naturally I hated the background, so I took the figures out of their environment.

Why did I do that?

Does a sidewalk that mere mortals walk on belong here? No, of course not. Do fairies enjoy gravel? No way. Though I did save a touch of gravel here and there in the final piece. 

Fairies are small creatures, and they do best in an environment where plants are bigger in size than they are. Dragons tend to be huge, but since this one has sneakers, he could be a dragon at the toddler stage.

This is the basic environment I gave them (I decided to save the basket and chair too from the original photo):

A DRAGON CONFIDES IN A FAIRY

(preliminary I)

Better. They seem to fit in naturally in an environment of weeds, brambles and small flowers.

You may not be able to tell, but I also gave the fairy more of a complexion; she was looking awfully pale.

There was still something missing. 

The dragon's suit, though cute, resembles a workman's coverall a little too much. So, I gave him more reptilian skin. The scales on his tale also needed some texture, so I took care of that. Then his wings were a little too drab, so I brightened them up and put a few sparks in them.

The fairy still wasn't magical enough (for me). So I made her wings glow and put some luminaries around her. 

If you look closely at the next enhanced photo, you'll notice that the fairy's basket has some sparkles too.  

The background and foreground needed a lot more flowers. So I grabbed flowers from a photo shoot I did in Maine awhile back at this magical little garden with exotic flowers. Not that you can tell they are exotic. What mattered was that I could incorporate them.

Also, when a dragon talks, he has to have fire coming out of his mouth. A dragon would not be a dragon without that element, so the fire was a necessity. So I took a photo of a flame on a light background and put it on its side. The fire part of this piece was the most difficult to master. Fire is not a solid object. There are places where you can see through it and places where you can't. It also does not shoot straight out, which is what it looked like when I first started. So making it curve toward the sky was another challenge.

Also, around the dragons face, it needed to be brighter, since fire would light it up. 

The dragon also seemed to need smoke around it. After all, its innards are full of fire (right?), so it has to be smokin' from head to toe in some manner!

This was what I thought would be the final piece:

A DRAGON CONFIDES IN A FAIRY

(preliminary II)

And I was happy with it for awhile. 

Then I wasn't happy. For days I couldn't tell what it needed. It just seemed to be missing something! 

Then it dawned on me: the chair had nothing on it. A fairy wouldn't just use it to sit on, would she? She would place something on it while she went to talk to the dragon. Fairies are very busy, so they have to multi-task.

What would be the perfect thing for the chair? A flower, of course:

    A DRAGON CONFIDES IN A FAIRY

(preliminary II)

That is a real flower, just in case you wanted to know. But here it looked like a pom-pom.

No, no, no, that wouldn't do. 

It took an entire evening to put that flower in there too, but it just wasn't the right kind of flower.

So, out it went. 

So I searched my files and came up with this one instead:

 A FAIRY's CHAIR WITH A FLOWER

Better. And I did put some shadowing under the flower and its stem to make it sit and belong in its environment. But if you check the final piece (first picture above), I made the flower a little more purple so that it wouldn't detract from the fairy and her companion. Here it seems to be shouting out; it is just so neon -- and the dragon does not need to be distracted by the fairy's bright flower. 

Next time, I'll be attempting to do something with this photograph: 

FAIRY, WIZARD, KNIGHT and FAIR MAIDEN QUE
(preliminary I)

Until next time ...

   

A Unicorn in Moonlight

A Unicorn in Moonlight
© 2013

original 5" x 7" drawing

(available for sale HERE)

If you have an Etsy account, you can also check HERE to see if it is available on the Etsy venue.

(copyright watermarks do not appear in the actual work of art)

Background on this piece:

- This is an original (not a print). It is drawn with fine points.

- It is drawn with india ink and artist grade colored pencils.

- This is part of a new series which can be found HERE (read from bottom to top to see the first to latest in the series). This is the fourth in the series and is the largest one to date (though I'll probably be making others soon and getting larger as I go!). The previous ones were tiny  at 2.5" x 3.5".

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Unicorn Basking in Moonlight aceo

Unicorn with Full Moon

© 2013
(available for sale HERE)

(read here what aceos are: basically mini works of art 2.5" x 3.5"; this one includes a border)

If you have an Etsy account, you can also check HERE to see if they are available on the Etsy venue

Background on this piece:

- This is an original (not a print) drawn with fine points.

- It is drawn with india ink and artist grade colored pencils.

- This piece is part of a new series which can be found HERE (read from bottom to top to see the first to latest in the series). This is the first with a sepia tone treatment and the third in the series.

- Aceos and other miniature artworks became popular on E-Bay because of the affordability. They became available on other selling venes too (particularly art and handmade venues).

MY WEBSITE

MY ARTFIRE ON-LINE STORE

MY ETSY ON-LINE STORE

unicorn aceos (mini drawings)

(read here what aceos are: basically mini works of art 2.5" x 3.5"; this one includes a border)

FROM LEFT TO RIGHT:

left: Unicorn with Full Moon (available for sale HERE)

right: Illuminated Unicorn (available for sale HERE)

If you have an Etsy account, you can also check HERE to see if they are available on the Etsy venue

Background on these pieces:

- These are all originals (not prints) drawn with fine points.

- All are drawn with india ink.

- These are part of a new series. These are the first in the series (the black and white one is the first and the colored one is second. To view the whole series, go HERE and remember to read the blog entries from bottom to top. 

- The series is also viewable HERE from my website.

- Aceos and other miniature artworks became popular on E-Bay because of the affordability. They became available on other selling venes too (particularly art and handmade venues).

MY WEBSITE

MY ARTFIRE ON-LINE STORE

MY ETSY ON-LINE STORE

Unicorn V print

Unicorn V

© 2012

5" x 7"

(available as an art print in my Artfire on-line shop HERE
or in my Etsy on-line shop HERE)

New from my art studio!

The story about the piece: the greeting card design has been available since 2009. In order to make a print, I widened the design to include more meadow and also put in stars. 

Here is how the greeting card looks:

Unicorn V greeting card
© 2009

(on cream colored linen cardstock)

And these were both made from my original ceramic sculpture from 2006:

 Unicorn V

© 2006
hand thrown unicorn sculpture

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MY ETSY ON-LINE SHOP (seasonal and limited selection)

November 2012 sale: horse holiday cards

horse holiday cards on sale only through my Artfire Shop for November

wholesale prices: 25 cards for $25 (excluding shipping costs)

from top to bottom (click to be taken to listing or to buy):
Spirit of Winter

Spirit of Christmas

Christmas Horse

Most of 2012 is the year of the Chinese water dragon, a year marked by sudden and unexpected events and changes. For me, that's an understatement! They haven't been pleasant events and have impacted me and every close family member in my life. It has been overwhelming, a juggling act that it is teetering on failurse at every moment, without a shread of normalcy in anything: work, home, relationships with family and friends, events. Phone calls with my mother often begin with "The water dragon strikes again!"

That's how the Chinese year/astrology is effecting me. Now for those of you into western astrology, I have a Uranus exact square Pluto on my native sun (also exact) most of this year. What does that mean? Well, it means sudden and unexpected events and changes. More of the same, apparently. So, does that mean I get a double whammy since both eastern and western seem to match in this case? It would seem so.

Anyway, since I am unable to get much work accomplished, I thought I'd have a sale of some designs from the past. Enjoy!

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and oh, yes, I launched a facebook professional site recently:

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Arrival of the Hummingbirds

Arrival of the Hummingbirds

© 2012

original watercolor and ink painting on Arches Watercolor paper

10" x 15" (size of painted surface)

I may have prints in the future; this is set aside for an art show in my area for now

This rounds out the fourth (and final painting and largest -- at least for now -- of the series). If you haven't been following along, the rest of the series is HERE. The theme is "farm animals in the garden" and the reason for focusing on this theme has to do with personal experience: I grew up in the country next to a farm. Sometimes the farm animals would break through their fencing and be in my parents flower garden eating everything in sight.

This is my favorite one out of the series and it reflects my style the most. I wish I could have taken more time to do more elaborate paintings like this one for the series (and perhaps will in the future). I like the fantasy-like aspects of this one, the big flowers, the hummingbirds coming in for a landing... it seems to tell a story (which is what I like my original paintings to do). 

I actually used the same sheep model from the previous painting, but prefer how the wool is depicted in this one over the last one. Watercolor paint just has a magical way of translating the texture of wool that I couldn't quite capture with acrylic paint. 

As for the "Rooster in the Garden"... I had to change that to "Hen in the Garden". Jim, my significant other, pointed out that roosters have a much bigger crown than hens. Unfortunately, when I submitted the art work to the art show for jurying, the old title was part of it. Now they'll know I don't know my farm animals (**wince**)!

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