Soar: white horse art

"Soar"

available for sale as a print or on a number of products HERE

Here are some of the products that come in this listing:

This is roughly a 15" x 20" print.

The frame is under black frames and is GL8

The mat is Arctic White with Black Core

Available for sale HERE

choose sizes, frame, mat, etc from drop-down

Here is what it looks like above a couch (and yes, as a 15" x 20" print):

Next up are some products:

Here is a how it looks as a greeting card (packs of cards are also available):

choose background color.

choose as a single or in a pack

This one is: #1b03ea

available for sale HERE

Here is how it looks as a weekender tote (note, the background is still #1b03ea):

Weekender Tote Bag

use slider to fit picture in

available for sale HERE

Here is how it looks on:

The original is acrylic on paper, 11" x 14" and for sale in a 16" x 20" silver frame. It is in a local gallery, but you can contact me if you are interested: sales((att))LiseWinne.com. 

Here is the best I could do with appearance (the real frame is less towards the beige spectrum and more towards true silver):

Here are the symbolic meanings in the piece:

* horse: balance of wisdom and power
* white horse: transformation, beginning and ending, freedom without restraint, purity, sometimes a sign of wealth and prosperity
* stars: inspiration, intuition, dreams
* vines: the eternal, infinity
* white trees: connection to our true identity, revolutionary wisdom, enlightenment

Until next time ...

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Vigilant Unicorn

Vigilant Unicorn

available HERE for sale

I tell how to customize below

This piece is from 2012, and I still have the original ACEO (without the border) for sale HERE.

Here is another version:

CUSTOMIZING IT:

Here is how to do it:

On the right, click on prints, and then find framed prints.

Alternatively, go HERE where the framed prints are

click the arrow where it says framed prints on the right hand side

Then you'll see a tab come up just underneath it

You'll see a bunch of tabs running underneath the "framed prints" 

(and underneath the tab, you'll see the framing possibilities --

note: the frame defaults to a black frame -- yuck, but you can change that)

Anyway, up where the tabs are, click on 1. for the size print you want.

Then click on 2. for the frame.

You'll notice right before all the little square pictures of frames, you can choose a frame color.

*The first one is in the gold section (click on VN7).

*The second one is in the gold section too (click on 4VS).  

Then click on 3. for a mat color

*The first one is "Mist matte" which is in the second row towards the end.

*The second one is "moss green matte" -- in the fourth row all the way to the end of the row. 

I usually go for the Somerset Velvet paper. It has the best picture quality for my taste,

but if you want to save money and it is going in an area where sun will hit it part of the day,

or in a bedroom, then the archival matte paper is fine.

Here are some pillow possibilities using the same kinds of sliders and swatches
(pillows here):

using the customization colors and sliders it is:

R (105) G (98) B (58)

or #69623a

Here are some other possibilities you can get by playing around with colors:

The reason for all of these possibilities? To go with your decor.

Here is a greeting card with a light green background:

This background color is:

R (215) G (220) B (193)

or #d7dcc1

Here is how it looks as a tote bag

(tote bags are $19.98 for the smallest, and 

$24.25 for the largest):

Here is how it looks as a shower curtain (cool, yes?):

More products are available in this design HERE.

My continually growing on-line shop is HERE (note as of this writing it is a new shop).

Again, the original, a very tiny drawing, as of this writing, is for sale HERE for $25.

Thanks for looking!

fairy riding an egg and Easter bunny

Fairy Riding an Egg and Easter Bunny

© 2015

Newest Easter card design.

For those who happen upon this blog, I am moving listings like this to my own website for purchase. For those of you wishing to purchase wholesale or retail, contact me at sales (att) LiseWinne.com (use the @ symbol instead of att, of course ... disguise needed to keep out e-mail miners) until I am fully moved. 

Thanks! 

Unicorn Heart

Unicorn Heart

© 2013
giclee prints available for sale HERE

greeting cards will be available SOON, hopefully by the end of the day

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

(copyright watermarks don't appear on any actual products of this work)

Background on these pieces:

- This is part of a series featuring a Renaissance style unicorn with millefleurs . It is inspired by The Lady and the Unicorn Renaissance tapestries (viewable HERE from wikipedia). The whole series of this kind of work can be found HERE (read from bottom to top to see the first to latest in the series). This is the third in the series, although I made a birthday card years ago in the same kind of vein (still unpublished).

- Painted around Valentines Day in 2013 (greeting cards can be used for Valentines Day for the unicorn lover). 

There is also a hummingbird in this piece if you can find it.

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MY ETSY ON-LINE STORE

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!

WEBSITE

ARTFIRE ON-LINE STORE (largest selection)

ETSY ON-LINE STORE (seasonal selection)

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

FACEBOOK SITE  

Autumn Tree of Life

Autumn Tree of Life

© 2012

available HERE as a greeting card

may also be available in my Etsy shop

In celebration of Samhain, Lughnasadh, harvest, autumn equinox, fall, Halloween, Celtic knots and trees (as well as tree huggers!).

The design is my own (including the knotted border, tree and cloudy sky).    

I just finished this piece just yesterday. It was a miracle to get anything like this done since this year has been the most crisis ridden year of my life with barely enough time to catch my breath between unexpected (and emotionally catastrophic) events.

WEBSITE

ARTFIRE ON-LINE STORE (widest selection)

ETSY ON-LINE SHOP (minimal/seasonal selection)

Maple Witch

Maple Witch

© 2011

If you've been following me from my previous post, my intention is to produce more statement-oriented work in the future.

But in the meantime, I have "Maple Witch" to show you which is in my usual line of art work. She is part of a series of witches that fly through the sky with the autumn leaves. (The last one I made was "Oak Witch" which can be found on this blog post).

She is for sale in my Artfire shop year round as a greeting card (and possibly as a print in the near future) and in my Etsy shop during the Autumn months and in all of the usual brick and mortar stores listed on my website.

MY WEBSITE

MY ART IN ON-LINE STORES:

Artfire (widest selection)

Etsy

MY MUSIC LINKS (hear clips):

Music MYSPACE

My band, Saratoga Faire’s MYSPACE

My Renaissance band MYSPACE: The Spirites Consort

MY MUSIC IN ON-LINE STORES:

CD Baby

Amazon

InandOutRecords (Europe)

My band, Saratoga Faire, on CD Baby

treble clef greeting cards

Since I am a musician, I decided to do a series based on music. The treble clef is widely used. I painted the design in 2010, but this is the first time I am offering it as a greeting card.

Look in my on-line shops for it or follow the link HERE to a direct listing in my Artfire shop.

I already made matching tags last year. Here they are again:

That's it for now!

links:

MY WEBSITE

MY ART IN ON-LINE STORES:

Artfire -- widest selection

Etsy

MY MUSIC LINKS (hear clips):

Music MYSPACE

My band, Saratoga Faire’s MYSPACE

My Renaissance band MYSPACE: The Spirites Consort

MY MUSIC IN ON-LINE STORES:

CD Baby

Amazon

InandOutRecords (Europe)

My band, Saratoga Faire, on CD Baby



girl baby feet cards, boy baby feet cards

Girl Baby Feet cards
© 2009
newly available on-line through this link

used for congratulations or baby shower with your own insert

Boy Baby Feet cards

© 2009

newly available through this link
used for congratulations or baby shower with your own insert

WEBSITE

MY ARTFIRE ON-LINE STORE

MY MUSIC LINKS (hear clips):

Music MYSPACE

My band, Saratoga Faire’s MYSPACE

My Renaissance band MYSPACE: The Spirites Consort

MY MUSIC IN ON-LINE STORES:

CD Baby

Amazon

InandOutRecords (Europe)

My band, Saratoga Faire, on CD Baby

Joy in Spring

Joy in Spring

© 2011
original size: 7" x 10.5"

Available through my Artfire on-line shop through this link as a greeting card. Made just after my Mother's Day card (which is similar in many ways). The word "joy" is written in small letters in the center of the design.

links:

WEBSITE

ARTFIRE ON-LINE STORE

MY MUSIC LINKS (hear clips):

Music MYSPACE

My band, Saratoga Faire’s MYSPACE

My Renaissance band MYSPACE: The Spirites Consort

MY MUSIC IN ON-LINE STORES:

CD Baby

Amazon

InandOutRecords (Europe)

My band, Saratoga Faire, on CD Baby

Mother's Day card with Spring flowers

"Spring Flowers and Mom"

card design for Mom or Mother's Day

© 2011

This is the last card I will make for Mother's Day this year. Out just in time! I've been out putting these in a number of stores and just listed it on-line in my Artfire store. The card is available directly through this link.

I have one more greeting card design to finish and then I will be taking a short break from card designing since there aren't any more major holidays until Halloween. Whew!

I am making something special for my mother.

I do have a lot more cards to list on-line, though, and I'll also keep you informed here. And also coming up are one of a kind folk art pieces-- stay tuned! But for my art-making time, I feel that I can finally get back to subjects that really ignite my creative passions (one is almost finished and has been neglected-- from November of last year!).  

WEBSITE
ARTFIRE ON-LINE STORE

MY MUSIC LINKS (hear clips):
Music MYSPACE
My band, Saratoga Faire’s MYSPACE
My Renaissance band MYSPACE: The Spirites Consort

MY MUSIC IN ON-LINE STORES:
CD Baby
Amazon
InandOutRecords (Europe)
My band, Saratoga Faire, on CD Baby

Spring Maiden

Spring Maiden

© 2000



In keeping with my last blog, I have uploaded another greeting card design from the old days, this one from 2000. I created this at the beginning of my greeting card-making days. Previously, my art-making was primarily about handthrown high fired pottery and large oil painting (though in my teaching days I had to teach a potpourri of arts from stained glass design to advertising design and everything inbetween).

In making this card (and the whole "season series"), I was still influenced by how I added drawings and designs to my pottery: I had no models or references and just created the image from my imagination (and remembrance for how things looked), in other words it was a spontaneous painting. I used classroom materials for the painting: drawing paper that wasn't acid-free (seriously yellowed now), markers, inexpensive non-archival student colored pencils, pilot pen, a bit of watercolor and student crayola crayons. The paper was 11 x 17, the typical size I gave students for their assignments. Luckily, I scanned the season ladies before the non-archival qualities of the materials started to degrade.

So, moral of the story is: use the best quality of materials. This particular series will never be anything other than greeting cards.

The card is available through this link through my Artfire on-line shop and through a number of local brick and mortar stores.

Here is a pic of the whole series:

the whole series

MY WEBSITE

ARTFIRE ON-LINE STORE

MY MUSIC LINKS (hear clips):

Music MYSPACE

My band, Saratoga Faire’s MYSPACE

My Renaissance band MYSPACE: The Spirites Consort

MY MUSIC IN ON-LINE STORES:

CD Baby

Amazon

InandOutRecords (Europe)

My band, Saratoga Faire, on CD Baby

card for Mom

Mom

© 2006

Now that Easter is over, I'm busy listing and making Mother's Day items.

This is an older design, but it is the first time I am selling it on-line (it has been in brick and mortar stores since 2006). It is a 5" x 7" greeting card on CS2 cover stock with a satin finish on the outside and mat finish on the inside. 

And you can get it directly through my Artfire on-line shop through this link.

MY WEBSITE

ARTIFE ON-LINE STORE

MY MUSIC LINKS (hear clips):

Music MYSPACE

My band, Saratoga Faire’s MYSPACE

My Renaissance band MYSPACE: The Spirites Consort

MY MUSIC IN ON-LINE STORES:

CD Baby

Amazon

InandOutRecords (Europe)

My band, Saratoga Faire, on CD Baby

new mother's and father's day greeting cards

Heart Flower for Mom
© 2011

Dad, Light of My Life

© 2011

These are my latest creations for Mother's Day and Father's Day (and probably the last for this year). They match (a bit) as I had symmetry in mind when designing them.

I have them for sale in my on-line Artfire shop. The mother's day card is through this link and the father's day card is through this link. I will also have them for sale in a number of brick and mortar stores in my area after the Easter holiday has passed.

WEBSITE

ARTFIRE ON-LINE STORE

MY MUSIC LINKS (hear clips):

Music MYSPACE

My band, Saratoga Faire’s MYSPACE

My Renaissance band MYSPACE: The Spirites Consort

MY MUSIC IN ON-LINE STORES:

CD Baby

Amazon

InandOutRecords (Europe)

My band, Saratoga Faire, on CD Baby

Fuchsia Egg with Bunny

© 2011

This is probably the last Easter design of the year and is available through my Artfire on-line shop in packages of 3 cards each (it can be ordered in different quantities; just read the directions on the listing description).

The original design is 10.5" x 15" and I have saved it in this size just in case someone wants a full print of it. 

I have a lot of easter designs in stock where rabbits have full features, so I decided that this one could be featureless, like a flash of lightening leaping across the suspended egg.

MY WEBSITE

MY ART IN ON-LINE STORES:

Artfire

Etsy

MY MUSIC LINKS (hear clips):

Music MYSPACE

My band, Saratoga Faire’s MYSPACE

My Renaissance band MYSPACE: The Spirites Consort

MY MUSIC IN ON-LINE STORES:

CD Baby

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InandOutRecords (Europe)

My band, Saratoga Faire, on CD Baby

Egg with Two Bunnies

Egg with Two Bunnies

© 2011

(copyright watermarks do not appear on actual greeting cards)



As a greeting card designer, I am always at least one holiday ahead. I have finished shamrocks for the year and this is the first in a series of new Easter designs (for this year).

Here is a close-up of one of the rabbits:

close-up

This design is actually a whopping 11" x 16" which I shrunk to greeting card size. But I retained the full size just in case anyone loves it as a print.

I have the greeting cards available in my Artfire shop through this link. I may also have it available through my Etsy shop in March or April (note: greeting cards in my Etsy shop are seasonal, so if you want a wide variety of cards to choose from, it is best to get them through my Artfire shop for the time being).

MY WEBSITE

MY ART IN ON-LINE STORES:

Artfire

Etsy

MY MUSIC LINKS (hear clips):

Music MYSPACE

My band, Saratoga Faire’s MYSPACE

My Renaissance band MYSPACE: The Spirites Consort

MY MUSIC IN ON-LINE STORES:

CD Baby

Amazon

InandOutRecords (Europe)

My band, Saratoga Faire, on CD Baby

Shamrock with Leaves

Shamrock with Leaves
© 2011

My newest design! Available as greeting cards here in my Artfire store. I will also have them available in my on-line Etsy store in March of this year.

links:

MY WEBSITE

MY ART IN ON-LINE STORES:

Artfire

Etsy

MY MUSIC LINKS (hear clips):

Music MYSPACE

My band, Saratoga Faire’s MYSPACE

My Renaissance band MYSPACE: The Spirites Consort

MY MUSIC IN ON-LINE STORES:

CD Baby

Amazon

InandOutRecords (Europe)

My band, Saratoga Faire, on CD Baby



Shamrock with Faerie

Shamrock with Faerie
© 2011

My newest design! This one is up in My Artfire shop as greeting cards here and will also be available as prints shortly.

It will also be in my Etsy shop in March (a little closer to St. Patrick's Day-- not good to list them there now).

This is a closeup of the faerie:

links:

My Website

MY ART IN ON-LINE STORES:

Artfire

Etsy

MY MUSIC LINKS (hear clips):
Music MYSPACE

My band, Saratoga Faire’s MYSPACE

My Renaissance band MYSPACE: The Spirites Consort

MY MUSIC IN ON-LINE STORES:

CD Baby

Amazon

InandOutRecords (Europe)

My band, Saratoga Faire, on CD Baby



Intricate Heart, before a greeting card design, now a print

I have had this design available as a greeting card for quite awhile, but decided it would make a nice print too.

I have it for sale in my Artfire shop as a 5 x 7 print.

I have been in a number of treasuries on Artfire and on Etsy.

The treasuries on Artfire are:

1. Autumn/Fall... Aren't the colors gorgeous?

2. Leaves... To Return Again

The treasuries on Etsy are:

1. Terrific $10 Temptations

2. Shops from Saratoga Springs

I also made a treasury recently:

1. October Beauties (have a look: you know you want to!)

Tonight I am framing some work for a gallery exhibit.

My Website

MY ART IN ON-LINE STORES:

Artfire

Etsy

MY MUSIC LINKS (hear clips):

Music MYSPACE

My band, Saratoga Faire’s MYSPACE

My Renaissance band MYSPACE: The Spirites Consort

MY MUSIC IN ON-LINE STORES:

CD Baby

Amazon

InandOutRecords (Europe)

My band, Saratoga Faire, on CD Baby

Dreams Series I, (pottery and sculpture)

THE STAR

I am influenced by dreams, especially for my art and music. I decided that in addition to posting my work, I would start blogging about my dreams too.

Someone once told me that eating leafy greens every day will make a person dream. If that is true, then I am no exception: I eat a hefty salad of mixed greens every day for lunch.

I studied under Robert Moss, the dream expert, at Kripalu, a yoga center, years ago. My dreams had become difficult to ignore and I was introduced to his writing by a friend. When I saw that he was going to be at Kripalu, I sought out his help.

The experience of the workshop was something right out of Be Here Now by Ram Dass (when Ram Dass first meets the guru, Neem Karoli Baba). It was just as wrenching as the experience in that book, except the *guru* at the workshop took me by total surprise, an unsuspected young woman in typical western US dress of only 19 years old who saw all of the traumatic events of my life in the private corners of my mind... in another unsuspected place-- a dining room! I had the same experience as Ram Dass did too: racing mind, falling down, unable to speak, crying my heart out, etc, etc. A friend who went there with me told me that we should probably never speak of what happened to us at Kripalu because... who would believe it? It's just too *out there* for most people.

So, I won't ask you to believe anything, but I will say that the experience was a life-changing event that seemed to leave a distinct break with my past, past relationships & old habits of deny, deny, deny, don't look too closely at that phenomenon, don't listen to what you can't explain, pay no attention to that hunch, dreams are just churning out stuff from the day, and so on. The "deny habit" came from wanting to please intellectual doubters, left brained types who believe that the only realities in the world are what the five senses can perceive.

But... the one dream area I never spent time trying to ignore before or after this experience was with my art and music.

Usually when I dream of an art form or ideas, I delve right in. Of course, there are too many images that flash through my mind when I am sleeping, so some of it I simply write down for later (like, for instance, at this moment in time, I am working on 14 pieces at once).

Anyway, when I was in college, I was busy thinking of myself as a sculptor. These are the kinds of pieces I was making (note: the images are from scanned slides, not high quality, & the lighting is a bit funky, but that's the best I could do then):

And while I was making these sculptures I had many dreams of making these kinds of pieces:

Anyway, after I had 3 somewhat identical dreams, I got on the potters wheel and it took many, many years before I could tackle the pieces I dreamt about, but I kept true to "the vision" and never looked back.

My Website

Music MYSPACE (hear clips)

My Etsy on-line store for purchasing some of my CDs and some of my art

My band site: Saratoga Faire

My Renaissance band MYSPACE: The Spirites Consort (hear clips)