Rejoice!

So after a long period of slacking, I have developed a working concept for a new set of postcards! ( It's seeming more and more like i'm going to have an abundance of postcards?) But I was thinking that I really need to turn out more product for my etsy shop as I've more or less turned a blind eye to it as of late. So in celebration of the upcoming holiday (Halloween!) i've sketched a bunch of wonderful doodles for some postcard designs! Also possibly bookmarks or buttons, but for sure postcards... I actually can't wait to get home and start working on them with my paint and pens!

Bi-Weekly Draw Fest: Alter Ego

I'm your Number 1.

So I went for more of a photo shoot feel than for a live performance, but I think it turned out very well. I enjoy the mix of obvious watercolor with the extreme flatness of the background and color, but how they still blend well. While not a sell-able item as I don't expect anybody to yearn for a wall piece of me as a rock star...It may be something I can offer as a custom item? I wonder. Would you buy something like this if it featured you?

Postcard set: Ladies of Wonderland

Description
These little ladies will help you in telling your friends whatever it is you need to say!

The postcards come as a set of four, featuring

*The White Rabbit
*The Red Queen
*The Lost, Alice
*The White Queen

Postcards are coated with a lovely matte finish, much like the ones you find in stores. On the back of each postcard is plenty of room to write whatever your heart desires, and if requested, they can come complete with four 100% recycled brown envelopes that each feature a pocket watch stamp, and a special frame to write your address in, if you're not comfortable with just sending the postcard as is.

* notecards are sized 4x6 and professionally printed
* Brown envelopes are %100 recycled

These are perfect for keeping in touch, breaking up, or inviting your friends out to a tea-party~

Miche Bag Designs

So these are the designs I plan on submitting to Miche to see if they'll accept them into their line.

To those who are not aware, Miche makes purses that you can switch the cover to, so as to match your ourfit or the occasion without having to completely change over all the stuff you've been carrying inside the purse (which if you're a woman i'm sure you can appreciate the amount of random material that somehow manages to accumulate inside those dark voids.)

As luck would have it, Miche allows people to enter their own custom designs to be printed on the "shells", be it photos, drawings, etc etc. In some cases, depending on how the product is entered, you can submit your own artwork to be considered for their line of products. If they accept your art, you then get commission from each piece that sells through the Miche website, as well as your work out there! Sounds good to me, so I figured I'd give it a shot.

For your own Miche bag, visit :


http://www.michebag.com/

Japan Bookmark

Just the painting, but you can see where its going.

Bookmarks...

So I've decided to work on my bookmarks and try to get those produced...I'd like to have a good set of things on my etsy site soon (which involves spending money to get the products made, ugh-) to show a more rounded set of products. Basically all I have on there is the Ladies of Wonderland and my Valentine/Retro set.

I've had this idea for my places of the world bookmarks for a while and for some reason, drew up a bunch of sketches, annnndddd then did absolutely nothing with it. So i'm looking forward to this. It could be a good step, I believe.

I've started on my Japanese one first, of course, mainly because it had the most established and fleshed out sketches.

1. Japan
2. Korea
3. India
4. Phillipines
5. America
6. France

Those are the ones I have sketches for...I'll upload my Japanese one soon.

Cheshire

The Cheshire

Start of the boy's series to compliment the Ladies of Wonderland set.

*throws arm out-*

Something i've had painted for a while and then just refound on my computer the other night, lolz. I'm gonna order it as a small print I think, or maybe an ACEO series...might do more to expand on this sort of theme but as of right now, its a one man show.

Yay for good print quality!

Stefani and Jorel's Engagement Announcements have arrived!

And if I may say so myself, they look "very niiicceeeee." I'm really happy with them, and I can't wait for the couple to see them as well. If I had people actually following my blog these photos nor the jpegs of the art concept would have gone up before they are able to mail them out themselves, but since the two who are following don't care either way regarding this matter, it's all good xD


Congratulations to Stefani and Jorel though!



In other news, scanned in my paintings of the fairy and of my Star piece so I can get started on the digital parts of those...things are progressing well I see! I hope to have them completely finished as far as work to do to them so I can send them off and hopefully get the prints back before the 27th...not sure if that'll work out though unless I want to expedite the shipping...who knows. Well...time to get started!

Etsy Shop Up and Running!

So at the moment I only have four items listed on my etsy shop, and they're actually only two different pieces offered in various products, but the shop is up and running.

Although not listed yet as I have yet to get it back, I am offering all images as prints for sale. They are printed on very high quality paper that looks and feels as if you're getting the actual painting itself, so its very nice. Personally for a watercolor piece anyway, I think having that texture is important. As I have already posted information about this in a previous blog, I will repaste that here for your convience:

"Giclee Prints:

Fine art prints are very popular with artists who need to reproduce their artwork to sell at art shows or galleries. Please note that fine art prints are often referred to as Giclee Prints, and are high quality prints of the product. Somerset Velvet Giclee, which I use for my shop, have the authentic "look and feel" of high quality watercolor paper and are produced with Somerset Velvet paper and Epson Ultrachrome professional archival inks, so your product won't fade. Sizing and prices are as follows:

4x6 - $8.00

5x7 - $10.00

8x10- $20.00

8x12- $27.00

11x14- $40.00"

Hopefully this information helps some of you better understand the high quality of these prints. As an added offer, as well as costs, prints can include mat board. This needs to be specially requested however in "message to seller" otherwise I won't know to include it.

So, heres to a new start in a new year!

Take care~

Christi Thomas-Fealy

Bi-Weekly Draw Fest

Theme 1: Cherries

So my friend, RoboSuplex creator Chrissy Powell, and I have decided to do a bit of a bi-weekly drawing challenge, which we've thusly named the Bi-Weekly Draw Fest.

Theme for the first one is "Cherries" -  This is open basically.  Such as, it can just be cherries, it can be cherry trees, it can be dryads, etc.  I'm going to go about this from a spirit stance, I believe.  We're designing a stationary set, which means the page to write on, and then the envelope design.   More to come!

Okay two things....

God bless Eddie Izzard.



Secondly, God bless Lewis Carroll for giving me so much to work with. I've decided I rather kind of freakishly love Alice in Wonderland, which is fair to say, I think. While working on some paintings for buttons/stickers, "White Rabbit" by Jefferson Airplane came on and I think that that rather describes my idea of my wonderland. A little twisted and disturbing but interesting at the same time...why? I'm not sure. Hell, why not.



Anyway, I developed this Alice series about a year or two ago (the concept sketches, etc) and am finally developing them. In my world, the Red Queen is slowly taking over by poisoning the inhabitants of Wonderland...she marks each one of them in one way or another. For my mad hatter, she took his eye...but with him its a bit of a wonder on if he's twisted or not, as she more so took from him than scared him. Thats still up in the air. The one person she really wanted was the cat (think Queen Beryl with Endymion) but he had no interest in being involved in, well, basically anything. I have some drawings where he is with Alice, in some weird twisted relationship, and I have some drawings where the Queen has finally marked him and poisoned him. I think originally I was just developing my own manga, lolz. The Rabbit is twisted, I believe, and more or less as much of a trickster as the Cheshire is. To me she doesn't really talk, just smiles and does creepy things like leading people down rabbit holes, lolz.



Alice has gone through a variety of looks...still not sure i've settled, lolz. Long hair, short hair, long dress, short dress, who knowwwwwss yet. I still have people to be drawn as well, such as the march hair, the little mouse in the tea pot, the white knight...I *have* got sketches or finished drawings of the cat, the red queen, the white queen, the hatter, and the catepillar.



I dont really understand the point of this ramble, and suppose its all thanks to Baileys, but whatever. Heres a sample of what i'll be painting for my Mad Hatter.

Magnets

I promised better pictures, and here they are!

These are the standard 2 1/4 round magnets, just one of the sizes I will be offering. Other magnets will be offered in:

Round, Square - 2 1/4 for $4.00

Or larger magnets ( 3 inches) for $5.00 The larger magnets are only available in round.

Magnets are in!

Woo hoo - woo hoo!


Just got my first shipment of magnets in, and I must say, they look preeetttyyyy kick-ass. I ordered a set of magnets featuring the Ladies, to be sold on my etsy shop starting Jan 1st.

They are your standard 2 1/4 size, round, with a durable scratch and UV-resistant coating. Each item is printed with vibrant colors, and features a powerful magnetic backing to ensure that it stays where you put it, be it your refrigerator, microwave, your friends knee brace, or the metal cap your dog always wears to prevent aliens from reading his mind. So get yours today! Or on the 1st! Whichever!

I apologize for the quality of the photo, and I plan to take a better picture soon but I want to post it up on here anyway. Camera phone, while high quality, is so freaking sensitive that it doesn't matter how high quality the picture is, cause no one gives a damn about a high quality blur.

Valentine Series completed.

Valentine Series

Alrighty ladies and gents! The Valentine Set of 2010 has arrived, fresh out of my hand! Remember when you were a little kid and it was so exciting to go pick out valentines that you were going to give to all your friends and loved ones? Or even the excitement of going through the ones in your box that you got that day? Well that can happen again, with an adult spin! These sexy ladies will be happy to pass your valentine wishes along in the form of glossy postcards, and lets face it, who doesn't like to recieve mail that isn't a bill?

Also, i've included three of the images on a two tone mug for sale on my shop. Get it at ChristisImagination.etsy.com while it lasts! Mugs will be on sale through end of Feb! After that, mugs can only be purchased at special request having already been officially 'retired.'

*The Ladies of Wonderland are also going to be offered as a limited edition mug, but on a solid white one as opposed to the two tone.

On a random note, I like whales. I also like coffee. I think i'd like a whale that likes coffee.

Information on my Shop!

Alright, so I just got a message this morning from VistaPrint confirming that my order has been printed and shipped, and that the estimated date of arrival is on the 28th of December. Ordered it on the 13th, so assuming I got it on the 28th, that would make 16 days as opposed to the 21 day option that I picked. Not too shabby.

Etsy Shop Info:
printing services and pricing

In other news, theres been some interest among a couple of people of having my Ladies series printed and sold to them! I'm really happy about this as I've been working hard and as a professional illustrator, it's always nice to see when other people admire what you've put so much time and effort into. I plan on having several different options on my etsy site, but think i'll go ahead and list what im planning here.

Firstly, if its on the site, you can get the image in any of these formats, even if its not specifically listed as such. All one has to do is ask, and it shall be done, lolz. Okay! So for the products, keep in mind this is not a complete list, simply a list of various products I plan to have available:

• Bookmarks
• Magnets
• Giclee Prints
• Poster Prints
• ACEOs
• Stationary

Okay, so to explain, as im sure some of you are looking at this list and wondering what some of them are...

Giclee Print

Fine art prints are very popular with artists who need to reproduce their artwork to sell at shows or galleries. Please note that fine art prints are often referred to as Giclee Prints, and are high quality prints of the product. Somerset Velvet Giclee, which I use for my shop, have the authentic "look and feel" of high quality watercolor paper and are produced with Somerset Velvet paper and Epson Ultrachrome professional archival inks, so your product won't fade.

Sizing and prices are as follows:

4 x 6 - $8.00

5 x 7 - $10.00

8 x 10 - $20.00

8 x 12 - $27.00

11 x 14 - $40.00

ACEOs

ACEOS is a short way of simply saying Art Cards, Editions, and Originals. As stated by a fellow illustrator, "They bring original art into the grasps of all art collectors at an affordable price" -- Most of what I intend to be selling are Editions, which will all be signed, dated, and numbered. ACEOs are printed in a 2.5 x 3.5 format, and are the size of traditional trading cards, making them perfect to collect or trade. Pricing varies and will be set accordingly for each piece according to size, number of prints, or if its an original.

Poster Prints

Poster prints are an alternative I offer to Giclee prints for those who would like the art, but maybe looking for something a little cheaper. This is a service I will offer for any of my pieces. These images are printed on a professional laser printer using smooth acid-free paper. The resulting image in vivid and beautiful like a Giclee print, but without the watercolor texture. Its a wonderful, afforable alternative to a Giclee, and look fantastic framed.

8.5 x 11 - $10.00

11 x 14 - $15.00

12 x 18 - $20.00

16.20 - $25.00

20 x 30 - $30.00

Larger sizes are available, but pricing changes and will need to be discussed.

Stationary

This portion will include postcards to start with, but will expand into notepads and paper sets in time. The postcards will all come with envelopes, which will be (for the most part) 100% recycled brown envelopes, which you're welcome to decline should you have other options you'd like to consider. In some cases, certain designs will be placed on the envelopes to cordinate them with a series (for example, the Ladies of Wonderland come with tea party stamped envelopes).

I hope that helps with those of you looking to make a purchase. If theres something you want or need, message me and i'll be sure to get back to you. Thanks for looking!

Christi and Jedi <3

Valentines Set

So ive started my work on my next set. I was thinking how I'd love to do a holiday series, and since theres no possible way for me to make Christmas or New Years, so I'm going for Valentines, which just lends itself perfectly to my style. Either gonna have a set of four or five girls solo'd with Valentine themes, not sure which number yet. Again will be burlesque, as I seem to enjoy that style of drawing. Think they'll make some pretty hot postcards for people to send out for the big day ={P ....mustache typo? Works for me. Anyway, thinking i'll have them up early to mid January. Look for them on my etsy shop, to be opened for the beginning of January.

http://www.christisimagination.etsy.com/

Some excitement on the home front.

Alright so, the good news is this:

All my little ladies are painted!  Im hoping to enter them in this "anything goes" show in Ormond Beach this upcoming Feb.  Bad news is that they have a 24 x 24 x 1.5 size requirement which the cheapest i've found for that sort of printing has been in the 80s, with a 20+ shipping fee, so basically a 100 dollars by the end of all this.  Have we forgotten the starving artist scenario? Seriously, the fuck?

Anyway.  Tomorrow i'll be scanning them in via kinkos (death to my scanner) and proceeding with the computer editing.  I'd LOVE to get some physical prints done soon...the plans are postcards or individual prints.  Also discovered a place where I can get my stuff printed on actual cards, which seems all too obvious with an Alice in Wonderland set, so I may be extending the series even more.  By the end of this my entire portfolio will be Alice but I can't help it, the whole concept is rather liberating. 

Far away, this ship is taking me far away, far away from my memories, of the people who care if I live or die - Muse