Art Plunge

(Hammering out all the things that haunt me) Up early having my morning brew and feeling pretty accomplished with this week so far. I managed the Herculean task of updating my WEBSITE...and I don't mean just refreshing some new photos...I mean a complete overhaul and rebranding. It was painful.... Theres a lot I had to cut to make my site CLEAN, CURRENT and easy to navigate. That means not having everything I've ever painted clogging up the galleries but a nice smattering of the most recent and my best (albeit older) works. Got everything linked in for anyone wanting to purchase art or prints and any of my art merch.  Made an available art page with pricing (crucial) and had to read up on some DO'S and DON'TS for art websites. I think it's pretty clean and I love it A MILLION TIMES BETTER. You can peep it here and can even give me feedback ☺ MY NEW SHINY WEBSITE CLICK CLICK At some point Im doing a Wordpress site but for now Im happy with this. So wi...

Photo of me in my studio before the photographer showed up! Had a wonderfully productive weekend in the studio. It started Friday with me doing a MAJOR cleaning session at my house. The Dallas Observer peeps were coming by to take photos of me for an upcoming interview. I'll post a link when it's out- should be a couple of weeks. In the background is "Safely Away"- my newest piece and it's since been picked up by the collector so my studio is EMPTY of magic right now. This means....time to paint more! "Safely Away", 36" x 48" acrylic on canvas. Kimme Collection Just got this one back from being professionally scanned and put it up in my Shopify as LIMITED EDITION SIGNED PRINTS. I get these printed on RIVES PAPERS, a beautiful French paper with just the right amount of texture- sign them and ship them off. You can pick up your print here (theres a 10% off code at the top of my site!)  https://tigerbee-arts.myshopify.com/ I...

"Safely Away" Completed my latest and pretty much had it sold before the paint was dry. What a great feeling when the right person connects with your art and values it enough to WANT it in their home. Big thanks to my collector Emili who will be getting her lovely egrets this week. Dropped the painting off for proper photography yesterday and will be offering prints soon.  Emili visited the studio to peep her new acquisition!  It has been awhile since I've gotten to work on my personal paintings and it felt great- flowed naturally and reminded me...THIS IS WHAT YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE DOING DING DONG! Its sooo easy to get lost in the business of business. Swept away in the hustle and strife....but that ain't life! So actively making time for my art on top of the "making rent" work I do-is necessary. And its nice being actively collected and sought after without a gallery even getting involved. If I could keep this up-how fantastic!  I ori...

Well guess who is back in the studio again? Me. And my blog is still orange and green because Ive had no time to update yet. But I started a new painting and Im loving being back in the swing of things. You might recognize the pink cloud stuff from when I was working on pink clouds for my Idaho trip. The canvas kept staring at me with its pink clouds and I kept envisioning white birds set against that periwinkle blue. I'm cranking on it some more today (that is just a detail shot btw its a 48" wide x 36" height canvas). This weekend is some serious nose to the grindstone work on paper leaves project for work. Just wrapped up 3 of these layered wood pieces for a hotel project. I like the way they look and I got to design them from scratch and paint them... and they were a pain in the butt- but rewarding to see in the end. They totally remind me of my wood art project that I need to get back to. (Tomato plant my friend gave me) Enjoying slightly cooler temps tod...

Electric eels painting from a few years back has become new fresh Bucketfeet design in my Threadless shop! Big thanks to fellow artista Cynthia Ann Miró McDaniel for being my first shoe customer! She's an artist,designer and arts educator and I think these are just perfect for my artsy  peeps! It is time for Spring cleaning- just wrapped up a big arduous project for a hotel and while Im still in the middle of another one (a million paper leaves!) I do have a little time to do an important task- update my sites! For instance- this orange/green retro blog theme is SO OLD and not my current vibe. Time for an update. My website that I hate- don't get me started on the major undertaking that will be ...but I can at least update it for now. My Shopify and Threadless stuff isn't even on there. I need new business cards, a logo and to try to sync a lot of stuff up. I haven't been tagging my blog and that's not helping my Google ranking. There is SO MUCH TO DO as a...

Had to step away from the work work workaday world for a second and do some FUN and still productive work for my business. I've been steadily stocking my THREADLESS shop with new Bucketfeet Shoes and I also designed a fun lil shirt for the ladies....the CHINGONAS. Just in case this is a new term for you- the interwebs defines it as: Noun [ edit ] chingón   m  ( plural   chingones ,  feminine   chingona ,  feminine plural   chingonas ) ( Mexico ,   colloquial )  Someone who is very smart, intelligent and can do things quickly. ( Mexico ,   colloquial ,   vulgar )  A tough, uncompromising, or intimidating person. ( Mexico ,   colloquial )  Someone or something that is cool, awesome and very good. So Yeah...I know I'm one and you might be too! It's a gorgeous Spring Day here in Dallas, Tx and last week was so hard and trying that I'm just gonna take it easy today and go hang outside. Maybe cook, definite...

The quote "Wherever you go -there you are" has always stuck with me. It could be attributed in some form to Confucius but I came across it in book form by author Jon Kabat-Zinn, "Wherever you go, there you are". It was a very powerful book for me and I read it at a time in my life when I needed all the help I could get. I was dealing with the ultimate negativity in the workplace, an injured back and although I didn't know it at the time- a profound loss was heading towards my life. It was a time for great changes and they all had to start within me, first and foremost. The book is about mindfulness/meditation and knowing yourself. Every human on the planet should know themselves but unfortunately most don't. They do everything to avoid this because it's one of the hardest and most humbling experiences one can undertake. The rewards are so GREAT though. Imagine no longer being led by outside sources towards things that don't really serve any purpo...

It's the first day of May and a great day to do a necessary thing- check in with yourself. This is something you should do often. If you made any "resolutions" or goals you need to see where you are at on them and have you maybe slipped? Its ok- you're getting right back on it now. April was super busy with work-traveling to Idaho and jumping right back into work when I returned. So much work that I got stressed and I got sick (endo is affected by stress, yay) and some things fell by the wayside... One was my gym routine which I sorely miss as a part of my health care and mental health boost. The other was my reading- one book a month was my loose goal and I missed a whole month. I did a little socializing in the midst of all the work and that is GOOD but it was also stressing me out because I was behind on projects. I feel like a hundred distractions keep me from getting stuff done daily. I'm a person who needs to get in their zone and knowing I have to sto...