VIRGIN MARY PAINTING/SKETCHES

I probably should have broken this up into two posts because I've never been able to figure out how to post more than one image at a time and make it look right. Boy do I ever miss my Design Team at a time like this, you girls spoiled me!!:)

I have been involved in a month long retreat this month with my church called, "33-Days to Morning Glory" and the sketch below was inspired by the book cover image called, "Immakulata" (copyrighted by Rektoratskirche St. Peter, Kunst und Kultur Referat) I created my own version of the Immaculata that I wanted to share with you (sketch/book cover below).

The retreat is wonderful and there are about 80 of us altogether and we are broken into smaller groups of 6. Our "small" group has the most wonderful people in it and I am grateful to be sharing this blessed event with all of these special people.




During the last week I was also inspired to paint my first ever Virgin Mary picture (above:)). Its created with watercolor, pen and ink, diamond stickles and gold ink pen. And an artist that has always inspired me is Flor Larios who creates the sweetest and most whimsical Madonna's, have you seen her work? I would really love to create more of these and frame them with little colored frames. It was so fun playing with my watercolors and using a bit of mixed-media, too!

To see my latest digital stamps and to grab a cute little Easter bunny freebie please visit the Michelle Perkett Studio Blog here!

Hugs,

Michelle

NEW "LUCKY THE LEPRECHAUN" STAMP NOW AVAILABLE!

"Lucky the Leprechaun" new digital stamp is now available at MY ETSY SHOP!

Thank you to Kristen for suggesting I draw a leprechaun, I had SO much fun creating him!

LUCKY THE LEPRECHAUN SKETCH

Here is a little sketch of my new digital stamp called, "Lucky the Leprechaun" and thanks to Kristen Hermanny's suggestion for my "Design a stamp" Contest at my Facebook group, she wins this little guy when he is finished, thank you to Kristen and to all of you who suggested a stamp design, they were all great!

I had so much fun with this little man and cant wait until he's a full grown stamp:)

NEW CORAL MERMAID NOW AVAILABLE!

I FINALLY finished my new "Coral" mermaid digital stamp and she only took me a month!:) Thanks so much for all of your support while I'm going thru my creative desert at the moment!

Coral is available here at MY ETSY SHOP. I hope you like her, it feels really good to finish her!

MORE CORAL MERMAID SNEEK PEEKS

Here is another Sneek Peek at Coral, I have been trying desperately to get my creative mojo back in action and besides my weekly freebies I have had a little bit of creativity that I managed to squeeze out of myself.

I hate this feeling of such creative "dryness" I've gone thru worse times before this. I remember a few years ago I went 4 months without creating anything so this is nothing compared to that!

Anyhow, please keep me in your prayers that it comes back soon because I REALLY miss it! Until then here is another peek at Coral, she's almost finished! Yay!

ANOTHER SNEEK PEEK AT "CORAL" MERMAID

I've been making progress on my new "Coral" mermaid, so much detail but I'm loving that my creative mojo is slowly coming back to life:) Work is pretty busy this month which is a good thing but it sure does get in the way of my creative process!

Anyway, I hope you like Coral so far and I hope to get her finished soon and up in my Etsy shop. I hope you and your creativity are enjoying each other's company and I want to wish you all a very Happy Valentine's Day and hope you're day is filled with lots of love and hugs! XXOO!!

Hugs,

Michelle

NEW MERMAID DIGITAL STAMP SNEEK-PEEK

Hi Friends! Its so nice to be blogging again after so long, my creative mojo has been hijacked over the last month and I think its slowly returning, thank God! I missed it!

Here is a little sneek peek of my new digital stamp image called, "Coral" who is living up to her name because she is loaded with coral all over!

I hope you are all having a great new year filled with lots of joy and creativity so far!

Hugs,

Michelle

50% OFF ALL DIGITAL STAMPS AT MPS!

Happy New Year everyone! I thought I would help your creativity to get back into gear with a 50% off sale at MY ETSY SHOP!

Sale is from now thru January 15th at 5PM PST! (No codes needed, I will refund your account after your purchase)

Happy New Year and Happy Shopping!

15% OFF ALL MPS GIFTS AT ZAZZLE TONIGHT ONLY!!

Come and check out all of my new gifts at my new Zazzle shop! this evening! Any purchase made before midnight PST this evening will be 15% OFF with the code below!

15% Off All Products! LAST DAY!

Enter code: DECDELIGHT11

at checkout in the "Zazzle Coupons/Gift Certificates" box

15 percent of the product net sale price will be deducted when one or more qualifying products are purchased and the coupon code DECDELIGHT11 is applied at checkout. Offer is valid until December 7, 2011 at 11:59pm PT. This offer does not apply to past purchases and may not be combined with any other Zazzle promotional or volume discount offers. If a volume discount applies to your order, you will receive either the discount set forth in this offer or the standard volume discount, whichever is greater. Offer valid on Zazzle.com only.

NEW CREATIONS

Hi all! I have been busy lately working on a couple of things, the first is a birthday gift that I finally framed for a friend and I added diamond Stickles glitter glue to the print and the outside of the frame, this was so much fun I'm working on some little ATC's of the same for my Etsy shop:)

And I finally finished a really fun job for my church that I so enjoyed working on. Our parish is building a new church that is due to be finished on 12/12/12 and the cross on top of the church will be going up in a few weeks and my artwork is going inside of the cross as a kind of "time capsule" and will be signed at the bottom of the scroll with my artwork by over 2,000 parishioners. The prayer is the Apostle's Creed and the scrollwork was such fun to work on I used a gold calligraphy pen to touch up the leaves and the outline of the cross. I will also be featured in our upcoming church bulletin:) You never know where your creativity will take you, do you?:)