"OUR LADY OF LOURDES" SKETCH

Happy Sunday everyone! My computer troubles are over thank goodness. My Mac completely died and I had no access to Photoshop except at Kinko's and I was getting super discouraged. But last week a friend of mine gave me her old PC and I was able to load Photoshop Elements on it and at least work on my digital stamp designs.

On Friday, I found a PC at the Salvation Army store for $50 and it had a ton of memory on the Hard Drive so I couldnt pass it up. I didnt know what programs were on it but something just told me to buy it and when I hooked it up it had Photoshop and Illustrator and In-Design! The complete design package was on it! 

Needless to say, I am grateful for being able to work in color again! I wanted to share this sketch of "Our Lady of Lordes" that I will be coloring in pink, blue and white. I have drawn at least 5 sketches of her in my sketchbook before I drew the perfect one and this is her! I hope you like her:)

NEW "CHEERFUL GIVER" STAMP NOW AVAILABLE

I just posted my newest Faith image at my Etsy shop called, "Cheerful Giver" I hope you like this one.
These days, my newly restored faith has given me so many inspirations in my sketchbook and I will be sharing them as soon as I get them scanned:)

Hope you enjoy this one and I hope you are all having a wonderful and creative week!

Hugs,

Michelle

CHEERFUL GIVER STAMP "SNEEK PEEK"

This is my first post with the new blogger/Google Chrome, I like this version, how about you guys?

Photoshop is giving me trouble again so I'm posting a "sneek peek" of my new "Cheerful Giver" image. I still have to do alot of clean up so I hope to get that done over the weekend.

I think this one would be fun for Mother's day or a Mom's birthday:)

OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE SKETCH

Happy Friday everyone! I have been walking dogs in the pouring rain all day and am finally dry and warm. We got lots of snow in the mountains and it is seasonally cool here in Southern California but I love it:)

Over the last couple of weeks I have been getting prayer cards and rosaries from friends with the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe which is such a beautiful image. My Mom went to Mexico about 5 years ago to the church with the original image of Our Lady displayed there and brought me back a plaque with her image on it so I have started a little collection:)

I've sketched 4 different OLofG images over the last week and finally finished one I liked and found a picture of one with the colors I really like. I was playing with my watercolors trying to get the perfect teal color for her cloak. I really think this image would make a great stamp, too. I am also working on a pretty freebie for Tuesday's freebie day that I think you guys will enjoy:) Have a wonderful weekend full of lots of creativity!

Michelle

NEW MPS EASTER DIGITAL STAMPS!

Happy early Easter everyone! Do you have an Easter egg hunt planned for the kids next week? I know how much they love to look for the eggs Mom and Dad hid in the yard:)

I just listed two new images at my Etsy shop, "Easter Lily Fairy" and "Easter Bunny Parade" I hope you all enjoy them as much as I enjoyed creating them:)

50% OFF SALE AND NEW FAIRY SKETCH

Happy St. Patrick's Day everyone! I'm going to get my annual Shamrock shake at McDonalds today:)

I am having a 50% off sale at MY ETSY SHOP now thru tomorrow, Sunday March 18th at 5PM PST.

I also wanted to post my newest little fairy sketch called the Easter Lily Fairy. I am so excited about this one, I havent created a fairy image in a while and cant wait till she flutters into my Etsy shop:)

Have a wonderful day, I wish you a day full of Irish Blessings!

Hugs,

Michelle

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!