New Horse Art

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I've been wrestling with my studio - its divided between two rooms, which feels like it divides my brain! Never a good thing!  I've paid my son to paint the upstairs room I use as a natural light filled studio. Really, its just a drafting table and a couple of storage pieces for now.  I share this room with three cats and their various perches. They insist on possessing window sills, so each of the five windows has something on which they may recline to view the world. I also share this room with a hand-me-down out-of-key piano, which my daughter plays on occasion; and two or three guitars hang upon another wall. Oh yes, one of the windows is occupied by a bird cage with three budgies.
Its a busy room.
No wonder I'm distracted in it!
I did manage to create one drawing so far (above)...I posted it as a Work In Progress on my facebook page.  Come on by and check it out!

Georgia Horse Rescue Art

A few weeks ago I was approached by a representative of "For The Love of a Horse", a new charitable organization in Georgia, USA, dedicated to rescuing horses otherwise bound for euthanasia or worse. They had purchased business cards with my pen & ink foal "Innocence" on them and were interested in possibly licencing this artwork to represent their organization, selling it on t-shirts etc for fund raising. I was honoured to have my art so highly considered, but since I'm unfamiliar with licencing and already sell "Innocence" on other products etc. I decided to offer them artwork created just for their organization. At this point I've completed a charcoal drawing of their "poster horse", Grace. You'll be able to read more about the organization and Grace on their website, though its under construction presently. I'm humbled and please to be part of such a worthy cause.

New Foal Design at Skreened

Its very interesting to adapt my art for t-shirt design. The fun really comes in at Skreened where the artwork can be printed on nearly the entire front or back of the shirt. In this example I've used an adaptation of a pen and ink pointillism drawing of a three day old Paint foal and included text: 3 Days New the beauty wonder delicacy of a foal is Magical. It creates an artsy equine art t-shirt for the horse lover. I rather like things that tend toward the unique rather than the rote, so the combination of off-centre image and text appeals to my horse crazy heart!

Such Fun!

I'm having such fun at Skreened in the POD world. Though not as flexible or extensive in product range as Zazzle, the printable surface area of the products is very large. This really gives a lot of area to design. I'm using just the head of the Norwegian Fjord painting I did on this tee. On others I've used a tooled leather design. So cool! Challenging to think in terms of this design area. The possibilities are endless!

Ravenwood Studio at Skreened

So I've found another Print on Demand site to work with and though it has fewer products to offer, it has the added benefits of having an ethical mind set (the company has committed to donating 10% of their profit to charity), excellent quality and a much larger print surface. The larger printable area opens up many new vistas for wearable artwork and design. Check out the RSS feed on the sidebar: Ravenwood Studio at Skreened to see my new shop.
In a few short words: This is FUN!

Another sale!

First Love: Horse Lover Kid's T-shirt by ReneeFukumoto
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Happy Dance!
Well, there is a sale on at Zazzle, which must account for some of this activity.
17.76% off all shirts - sale ends today - use code ZAZZLEUSAUSA when checking out

You know, this is motivating me to do more artwork...:)!

Love Me Love My Horse!

Here it is finally. I've really reduced the image quality and size. You can check it out on T-shirtmonster at my store, Ravenwood Studio!)

I have a friend who is so "horse proud" she makes it fun and easy to come up with artwork and designs that suit her attitude. I've painted and drawn her horse a few times now. One of the paintings is presently living on my kids' orthodontist's office wall in Georgetown. A couple of the designs are on products and t-shirts on my various online shops. I'm trying to post one of the most recent ones - we'll see if the link works, as I'm new to computer-ese and blogging! I'll describe it though. One Sunday afternoon we took her boy to the arena to let him blow off steam and I snapped a ton of pictures while he galloped around. I chose one to create a digital painting, which was rather a lot of fun to do! Now I've put it on t-shirts, mugs, aprons etc. If you are Canadian, then check out http://www.Tshirtmonster.ca/designer/RavenwoodStudio to see it there on tees.