So in rememberance of my Roma trip......

...I am featuring one of my ACEO art cards. It's a miniature mixed media of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It's entitled "Mary Queen of Heaven". She is available on my Etsy shop for $8.99 (free shipping)
jywheeler.etsy.com


Today was my first day back to work after 2 weeks.....one week in Roma and one in Ocean City at a Decorative Painting Conference. I really didn't want to go to work. I took some fun workshops from some talented artists while at the conference. I did an oil seascape, acrylic portrait on scrapbook paper, acrylic still life on a wood box, and a lighthouse in acrylic on a very large piece of brown paper cut into the shape of a maple leaf and then mounted and framed.....WAY COOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLL...I will put up pictures of them this week sometime.


Stop by my shop. I also added a couple new pieces of porcelain.

Today's Feature an ACEO

I'm ready for summer and I figured some of you might be too!

So what is an ACEO...some call it an art card.

ACEO stands for "Art Cards, Editions and Originals". These cards are always 3.5 inches by 2.5 inches which is the size of a trading card. Cards will be sold either as originals or editions. Make sure you know which you are buying! If it is a print it should say so, and it should be numbered and signed, usually on the back.

Art Cards were intended to be traded! In the past artists would swap these trading cards. It was difficult for the public to obtain these cards. Now you can bid or buy the fun original pieces of art. You can obtain these little precious pieces of art from artists from all over the world in different mediums and of different subjects and in all style of art work from Realism to Abstract and everywhere in between. Frame them or trade them. These are collectable and now very affordable.

Today's featured ACEO is an acrylic called Tropical Night. It's available at my shop on Etsy.com for $8.99 http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=10320417

To Blog or Not to Blog....

....that is the question? So many of my crafter and artist friends blog. They tell me, it's the thing to do, the place to be.....be seen girl, they say. Well I AM a chatterbox or that's what my Mom always told me so maybe I will be good at this!

So who am I, what am I, what do I do? Hi, nice to meet you I am Joann Y Wheeler of Pasadena, Maryland. I am retired and working part time on contract back for my former employer. I have a wonderful husband of 32 years and 2 grown children in their 20's who I am very proud of.

My passion is painting. My joke is I will paint on anything, stand still long enough and I'll paint you too! I am a decorative painter, a china painter, a watercolorist. I enjoy pastels and colored pencils and drawing of course.

Over the past year or so I have gotten into painting miniature art, ACEO's. Sell my things on Etsy.com....come visit my shop jywheeler.etsy.com Here's one I really like

I hold memberships in the Society of Decorative Painters, Chesapeake Bay Decorative Painters, International Porcelain Artists and Teachers, China Painting Artists of Maryland.

On Etsy I belong to a team called Old Farmhouse Gathering....search for OFG for all the beautiful Primitive and Cottage style things from these talented women. I lean towards the cottage side of "the gathering".

I also belong to a group called the Designing Artists Women's Group. This group is a very talent bunch too, mostly painters, our friendship formed as a result of an Ebay Group called AOTC-Artist of Trading Cards. Many of these ladies do more than just ACEO's. Some do larger pieces of art. We also have some who do religious art, photography and even poetry. Please search for DAWG on ETSY.com you will not be disappointed.