Watercolor - Garden ACEO - 2.5x3.5"

Southern "Colonial Garden"
Love the darks and lights of filtered sunlight in this.


2.5x3.5" ACEO watercolor

To be listed 4.15pm PST (ebay time) Friday.

http://stores.ebay.com/Art-of-Jillian-Crider
Painting is better than the scan. *sigh*
~Jillian

2 small ACEO watercolors - antiques

I love visiting antique shops. This is from an antiques store in countryside of Georgia (by Callaway Gardens).
"Left on the Shelf" It's watercolor, ACEO (2.5x3.5")

I loved playing with the colors in it.

The next challenge was some old wooden drawers from the same place.
"Old Drawers" Also watercolor, ACEO (2.5x3.5")

Visit my ebay listings.
I'm posting more today!
I am determined to get some houses done. I've already done one.
Thanks for looking!
~Jillian

R.I.P. Thomas Randall Crider

I guess this is the place also for me to share personal news. Randy Crider, my son Dustin's father, and ex-husband, died Sunday 6th January after a brief illness.

~Jillian

Goodbye 2007, hello 2008!

So glad to see the end of 2007, but 2008 isn't showing improvement. But I'm painting.
This 5x7" Watercolor painting of an appaloosa horse is from the Rogue Valley, Oregon. Title: Appaloosa Rogue. There is 8+ hours work in this.
I'm pleased with the results, but was tired and it became tedious near the end, and was scared of ruining it.

This is my most recent SFA (smallformat art) other than ACEOs (always 2.5x3.5").



~Jillian

Revamping, revamping. Again??????

Well, if you don't like where you are in life, take life by it's tail and change it.

I've re-vamped my website:
http://www.jilliancrider.com
Please take a look. I'm particularly pleased.
I've included a slide show of ACEOs (art cards) at the moment it's HOUSES.
Thank you to artist friend Ellen Morrow in Oregon for showing me the script.
Here is her work:
http://ellenmorrowarts.cafepress.com

I've also started upgrading my Cafe Press store.
I'm having fun creating some graphic images for sale on clothing and gifts and more.
I LOVE these items. Please look:
http://jilliancrider.cafepress.com
I'm hoping to do more changes in future.

I also used a slide show on my website for my miniature art gallery.
It's a roombox. 1/12th scale. If you love miniatures. Take a peek. All the work there is hand-done.

Thanks for dropping by.
If you could send some positive energy this way, I'd appreciate it as there are a lot of things that aren't going the greatest at the moment, and some hugs and prayers would help. Thank you.
~Jillian

YouTube video of ACEOs - please watch.

You know that I do a specialist type of artwork.
It is an exciting new art movement.
Fun and collectible - trading card size - collect in albums or display.
Wonderful and affordable original art.
Collect by artist, theme, media or ...?

Each is just 2.5x3.5"

Members of the 'ATC & ACEO Enthusiasts' group on eBay have now created our first youTube Video

Please take the time to view it on:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJcUrsDSRwo

Be sure to rate it - we really want to take this to the highest ratings.
Thank you.

Jillian

My favorite cowboy - again! ACEO watercolor painting.

Another cowboy study of the same guy.
Did this and another this weekend.

Hope he gets to see these!
The other I posted on my blog recently..
Watercolor.
Both ACEOs - just 2.5x3.5" (yes! inches).
Currently listed on ebay.


Hope to do some indians tonight and maybe an afghan (dog) and horse.
What's the bet I don't get them done!
:)
At least I'm inspired to paint.
Thanks for looking.
~Jillian

ATC & ACEO Enthusiasts group on eBay

Update ...

The ebay group 'ATC & ACEO Enthusiasts' has now grown to 2,400 members, and growing daily. If you'd like an invite, email me with your ebayid, so I can send an invitation, same with SFA.

My most recent photo adventures are of cowboys and indians as I attended 2 festivals in the last month. Now I just need time to paint! I got some wonderful reference photos.

Stay tuned ...

~Jillian

UPDATE:
30th October 2011.
Membership is at 7,700+

Cowboy artwork - the story continues...

A lump in my throat ...
Saturday I went to a cowboy symposium, north of Atlanta. I went to the same one, last year. Last year I talked to many of the exhibitors, there were some great 'characters' showing the crafts of yesteryear, I took hundreds of photos. I told some people about my art, there were artists there, but also spoke to the people I took photos of. Not long after that visit I did an ink sketch as an ACEO of one of the 'cowboy' characters who had posed for me. I listed it, it didn't get much attention, but did get one late bid, and sold. When I went to pack it, the address was North Georgia, the emails I got seemed like the person knew me, but I was too embarrassed to ask 'Do I know you?'
I wondered if it might have been 'my' cowboy subject. No sooner did I arrive at the symposium than I was face to face with my subject. 'Do you remember me?' I asked. He did. So I asked if he had bought my ACEO. No. He knew nothing about it. He wanted to see it and took my card with website so he could see it.I walked away puzzled - ok, if he didn't buy it. Who did?Was I imagining the feeling that someone I 'knew' had bought it? Not long afterwards I was walking towards the blacksmith's stall, and I saw his name in amongst his signs, and knew it was he that had bought it.
I talked to him, and thanked him. He told me how much he loved it, how he 'had' to have it. He told me he loves handmade items and usually only buys handmade items for his house/office. My work is framed and in his office, he even told me where, and how everyone comments on it. But what he said, after that was the reason I'm writing this. He said to me...I only buy handmade things. Anyone can go into a store and buy a picture, etc. for $20. Walk outside the store, and you would be lucky to get 50cents if you put it in a garage sale. "Your painting is different. It won't be going in no garage sale. It is already earmarked to be passed on to my grandson when I'm gone, and he knows that it is something to be treasured, and I am sure he will pass it on to his heirs, too - your art will live forever, and I was so happy that you gave me the opportunity to own your art."
Talk about a lump in my throat. ~Jillian

UPDATE: 30th October, 2011
I think this is the artwork I'm talking about.

ACEOs and now SFA, too! Small Format Art - and other ventures.

Haven't posted in a while.
Sometimes life becomes a jumble, especially when you have no clear direction, and things you believe in, suddenly are found to be not what you thought at all.

Still pursuing making mainly Art Cards (ATCs/ACEOs) - 2.5x3.5" I still believe in them as an exciting art movement.

I have a group on ebay 'ATC & ACEO Enthusiasts' that is now 1,400 members strong, and growing daily.

I also promote SFA - small format art. That group is 280 members strong. This is artworks, no larger than 14" in any one direction. I also have a new website that backs up this group.

My latest venture follows through from me teaching this past few months, second graders at elementary schools, about Australia. This is in conjunction with the Australian Bakery Cafe which is about 3 miles from where I live. It is fun listening to the kids' questions. ...."How do you brush your teeth in Australia?" :)
I am putting my Australian photos, and will be drawing some typical Australian themed works to put on items. I have a website to back that all up - http://www.oz4usa.com.

Recently I went to a circus and photo'd clowns, and to the Georgia Renaissance Festival, where I took over 700 photos, and I'm starting to turn them into art cards featuring these characters. I love doing them. So hope you'll look at my 'Art Trading Cards' tab on my site, to take a look.

Have a great day!
Thanks for stopping by.
~Jillian