Meet a Wonderful artist - Gail Miller

The point Being © Gail Miller mixed media; Acrylic inks, watercolour, artists' permanent black marker pen

Gail Milller: Her artwork is quite amazing: full of life and colors, with figurative elements, treated in an abstract expressionist way.
The syle is modern, colourful and sometimes thought provoking.

What inspires you ?
"I have a fascination with colour and fluid, expressive shapes and line, which are evident in my explorations. I paint with gusto and passion each time I begin a new work and I always marvel at the unlimited opportunities available to me for discovery and personal expression. Each piece I create has boundless energy and movement, bright colour and interesting line work. My style could be described as surreal, outsider, art brut, lowbrow, primitive, hipster .... or just plain weird! "

Where can we find your work ?
" My work hangs in private collections all around the world including countries such as Australia, Italy, France, Greece, Israel, Germany, France, Canada, The USA, as well as all over the UK."

I have exhibited in; Dock Gallery, Goole ~ Goole Museum ~ Pink Gallery, Helensburgh ~ Burlington Gallery, Bridlington ~ Gallery 49, Bridlington ~ Christo's Gallery, Glasgow ~ Whitby Galleries, Whitby ~ Priory Gallery, Bridlington ~ Vibrant Arts, Stow on the Wold ~ Seasalt & Passion, Bridlington, The Spa Theatre Gallery ~ Bridlington, Triton Gallery ~ Sledmere.

Muse © Gail Miller

Has you work been published ?
"I have also been featured in several publications, including Picture Business, Hull Daily Mail Culture Supplement, Prestige Lifestyle, and Artist & Illustrator."

You can see, follow and collect Gail's artworks  at
http://www.etsy.com/shop/alteredimage?ref=pr_shop_more
and on her
Website; http://gailmiller.moonfruit.com
Blog; http://gailmillerartblog.moonfruit.com
Facebook; http://www.facebook.com/GailMillerFunkyArt
Twitter; http://twitter.com/gail_miller_art

Thank you Gail and looking forward to see more creations.

A lady 99 times

Let's meet Judy, the designer behind the brand Catldy99
B.A. University of Minnesota Magna Cum Laude in Technical Theatre
Coursework in Graphic Design at the Academy of Art College in San Francisco, CA
Coursework in lampworking - Portland, OR
Member of the International Society of Glass Beadmakers
seller on ebay for 5 years - over 500-100% positive feedback


Judy Richards resides in Portland, Oregon where it rains this time of year. A well kept secret is that it doesn't rain all year around.

Judy is a member of the Portland Bead Society, the ORBS (Oregon Regional Beadmakers Society) and the ISGB (International Society of Glass Beadmakers).

Judy makes lampwork beads and designs jewelry - unique and hopefully artful jewelry. She is always striving for new ideas, new shapes in glass.

Judy is inspired by nature (flowers, birds) depicted in glass. She loves abstract lampwork most of all with layers of glass and complexity. She is always striving to that goal.

She has done the work of reasonably exact glass beads - but yearns to break out of that toward something more complex and deep in an artistic sense. She also has a sense of humor and doesn't take herself too seriously - she is the owner of 2 cats, hence the cat beads. Judy likes to laugh and make others smile with her work.

Judy's dream buyer is the Sundance catalog.

Probably the best things she has made are jewelry with her own lampwork beads and semi precious stones that have sold thare are really pushing the envelope of what we think of as jewelry and adornment.

Buttons for the nerds!

Nerds around the world, Unite!
Great buttons have arrived with quirky , exciting and silly messages for us to look fab, always.
I am just showcasing a little selection, but who knows what Liz Staley will come up with next?
In the meantime, let's hear what she has o say about her and her motivations
"I grew up in Baltimore, but am now living in Greenville, NC. My mom got me into arts and crafts when I was really little (I wanted to help her paint ceramics when I was a baby, so she'd give me a paintbrush, a cup of water, and a rubber ducky. Took me awhile to figure out that it's supposed to change colors when you paint it though!). Ever since then I've loved to draw and create things.

Now, I love doing art, crocheting, and am getting into making ACEO cards and sewing. I've been crocheting and drawing for years. I also love to make button pins. I tend to go on what I like to call "craft binges", where I'll make a whole bunch of a certain thing, so if you see long stretches of buttons or crocheted items in my listings, you'll know I've been on one!

My hobbies when I'm not creating things are watching anime, playing tabletop role-playing games (Dungeons and Dragons; Big Eyes, Small Mouth; D20 Modern, West End Games' D6 System, etc), building web-pages, and playing on GaiaOnline[dot]com. I also have a gallery on DeviantArt and Flickr, both of which you can find with the user name lizstaley as well.

I find that I really enjoy blogging abou tmy crafts as well! You can visit my blog at http://livewirechick.blogspot.com

In addition, I also write and illustrate a story that I publish to the web, and have been working on since I was a senior in high school. It's gone through many, many versions and updates, and I'm eventually thinking about having it published. You can check that out at http://www.oap-studios.com/akaryuu

Oh, and I'm an emote junkie, so... BE WARNED!!
"

Lots of fun :)