New creations on the go!

Hello again everyone!

Well I just wanted to log in and post a bit of an update.

I have been creating a little but, I finished a small and yet fast painting (which I will post later when other creations are done!), I have been drawing and going a long with the book I mentioned in an earlier post, found HERE. I am really enjoying the book, I have also been reading a Renaissance book of old famous art. It's called The art of the Renaissance Nathaniel Harris, I was looking for a link so I could post it, but I couldn't find one! It's only 80pages long but I really am liking it! Plus it has some of my faves in it! :-)

Well have a great day everyone and I hope your weekend is going great too!

I want to thank you all again for coming to view my updates on my art blog and I also would like to thank those who have viewed my art on my website!

AnnJ
PS-Be Well!

Backgrounds and added information content UPDATES! NEW PHOTO ADDED

Hello everyone,

I just wanted to let you know I am updating my site a little bit. The site isn't changing too much but it does look as if it has gone through a major change, because I am changing the backgrounds and borders. This means that the look and feel looks way different, as I am changing those things. Nothing else has changed, the layout is exactly the same.

However I am adding a bit of informative content to a couple pages, as I feel that some little explanation needs to be added due to new sites that get added to the "Links/Other" page. It is just an short explanation that some artist pages listed there "may" contain graphic/nude content. I only added it because some people can feel offended by it, because some as non-artist don't understand the concept of nude art to be a beauty and another expression.

I also would like to mention, that I do not place nude on my site, simply because I am a mother and have an 11 year old boy, who enjoys my art and I have found him looking through my books. Knowing this about him I do not have any nude drawings, painting or any form of nude in any of my art, due to his wandering eyes in my work. I'd love to explore, drawing nudes, but knowing he will see it, I do not. He is 11 after all.

So if you take a look at my site and go through the pages(which can also be found on the right side bar) you might slowly see my updated pages.

Have a great week everyone!

Ann J

PS- You'll also find a surprise on this page that I newly added today!

A quick few words with some updates and pictures...Edited and more added to bottom of this post! Thanks!

Hello everyone!
I noticed I have some more followers! Thanks so much!
I also would like to let everyone know I have a new WIP(work in progress) I am adding to one of my art pages. It's just something of a quick sketching practice for me right now until I perfect it. That way I can just improve on my skills and feel more confident in my ability to replicate from photo, still life or live model references. It's an area where I feel most challenged as of right now. Please find edited added info below!

I have also been thinking of losing some of the ads on my site (except the hosting ones added by bravenet of course) and possibly add a donate button. It's in the mind as an idea, but not quite a set on page thing yet.

I will be editing this post later when I finish with my webpages in order to post links to the pages I have worked on today, so with that in mind, please feel free to come back here to my Art Pages blob and see if it has been updated, so you see if I have finished my webpage working today!

I hope you all are having a wonderful weekend.

Ann J

PS- I am also looking for some great learning links for others to use to better their talents and skills as an artist.

Find these on Page 3 and Page 4:
You can find one new addition here : Titled Salt.

You can find one here also: Angel water color painting:  please scroll down to find her!

You can find another new addition here: Titled Fox WIP on the main page and here is a look for yourself.

You can find a few newly added photography here
I am also adding some more, I just need to locate them and add my CR mark to them so that I can add them!
Only 3 are added right now, please scroll down to find them near the bottom!

A huge problem to worry about! Website...

As a free web hosted site, and all of my pages growing as I grow. I am in the process of worry that they might take my website down. It is getting bigger and probably one of the free hosted of many that is using a lot of space on their servers..I need to figure out how I can get a registered yearly plan, but right now I am not making any profits off my affiliates as I am still new. Furthermore I just started this blog thing so obviously I don't have enough traffic either! If someone could please point me in a direction so that I can fix this problem that I am so worried about, I'd hate to lose my website after getting it so far and building as big as it is now.

I'd ask for donations but I am not sure how to go about that either.

PLEASE IF ANYONE CAN HELP!!!?? This is why I haven't posted, I have been searching and searching without finding an solutions.

Many thanks in advance to those who off help and guidance!

Ann J

I got two new ARTISTS books! Strokes of Genius and Wonderful Landscape s! DRAWING AND PAINTING!

So I was at the books store and got two wonderful new artist books, I've decided to post a little bit of a review of the books in-case anyone else might be interested in buying one or both of them! I got both! I was looking for some inspirational books and wanted something newer and I got these both at a lower cost than their original prices!
The first one is "Fast & Fun Landscape paining by Donna Dewberry"


This books looks great and I took a few glances in it and I just love it! It's FILLED with Landscape paintings as well as some WIP(work in progress) explanations for artist wanting to try it themselves. She makes it looks so easy I think I maybe try a few small paintings and hang them on my walls because honestly my walls could use some pictures to fill up some empty spaces.

The next book I got is "Strokes of Genius the best of drawing Edited By Rachel Rubin Wolf"


This book is FILLED with drawings done by many different artist with a wide verity of drawing mediums and techniques. This is a big books so all the images within are very easy to make out. If an artist was wanting to try to do a copy version for personal skill enhancing the visual is big and clear enough to see every stroke! I can definitely see why it says strokes of genius! These many different artists have been drawn from hundreds of submissions all over the world!

I can't wait to get started on both of them! Seriously looking forward to it, but I am so excited, I am unsure which one I will start with. I was so excited about getting them, I had to share thew NEWS! :)


Online Hair / Beauty Experts - Shop Now

Information about my site

Since this is my first real blog posting with more information about my site. I am just going to tell you the story of how everything came about, in a nutshell!

My website; showcasing my art, has come a very long way! The website itself started as just me playing around with html and creating a website for something to do. I didn't have any topics or any general idea of what the website would be about. But now that I have put more focus on my creativity, it has become so much more than just a regular website!

Over the years I have entered free HTML courses online; to learn more about website creation, for personal knowledge, of course! I had also join groups online for graphics programs, I gained knowledge and bettered my creativity in the process. These all being FREELY learned online, as a personal hobby. With these courses I took, I gained certification of completion! Even though those certifications were small, they gave me a sense of pleasure, knowing I had finished something I wanted for myself. Just simple things like that can give someone confidence to want to do more and better things for themselves!

I am going through my pages on my website and than when I am finally done that I will post what is new, my next blog posting with be a bit of an introduction.

Happy Easter!

Ann

Online Hair / Beauty Experts - Shop Now

The reason for this blog!

You are probably here because you followed a link from my website! Thanks for viewing my art pages! I have been working on it so much off and on lately, that I decided to create a  blog, in order to show my progress while working on it. I can keep this blog for posting the what's newly added for the new Art and the new pages I might need to add as well.

About this Blog

Hello!
And this is my blog for my art website! This is the place you would want to be if you wanted to know if anything new has been added, and to where. Without this blog you would have to go to the website and go through all the many different pages to find anything new and try to guess what or where it might be!

This is also a great place to leave comments and or feedback about what you think, what you might like to see, or maybe even some opinion of changes you wouldn't mind seeing! You can make requests, set a challenge for me( if I am up to the challenge) or anything else you might have in mind for my art pages!

Please have a look around while I am still working and will add some new added updates here later one!

Thanks for taking the time to view!