It's always an honor to be featured in someones Treasury on Etsy. Thank you DCHStudio for picking my "Drangonfly Dame" pendant for yours. To see it live, go here before it expires on 11/24/2008.

Love, Peace & Squiggles! and a Dove Rescue!

Today a kind fellow Etsy member selected my "Love, Peace and Squiggles" Pendant to be featured in a "treasury". I was honored to have my piece selected, but I admit I did not know what a treasury was in this context. I checked the Etsy Help and learned it is a member curated collection of other Etsy artists items that they publish as a small, temporary gallery for any reason they choose. Occasionally, the Etsy team selects a treasury to be featured on the front page which is a nice opportunity.

The treasury is called

"For Frankie" by "crookedlittlestudio" and is a collection of dove related art.

CLS writes "Frankie is an unlikely name for a dove, but after he survived the first night (he had fallen out of his nest and had been abandoned), I named him after St. Francis, patron saint of animals. He ate, flourished, and learned to fly. Yesterday he flew away. I miss him."

Sounds like behind the "crooked little studio" a tender hearted soul who is probably much loved by Frankie the dove. Check out her wonderful artwork at the studio link above.

Cool! Free Publicity! I'll take it!

Well this post is about 1 month overdue, but I'm posting it anyway because I am exicted. A fellow ImageKind member emailed to tell me that a daily art review blog called "Art Sweet" featured me as the artist of the day May 26, 2008. What a nice surprise!

Quote: "Today’s featured artist is Lisa Whipkey. Lisa is a wonderful multimedia artist. Her use of color, texture and layering is simply fantastic! My favorites are “Love Grows”, “Opium” and “Venice Vase”. - ArtSweet"

I have been blessed to have my work featured on many blogs in the last couple of years (love that free publicity!) and I have had a few kind art reviews, such as this one from the "Naked Genius", but I am always excited every time I am ego surfing (google myself) and find that someone liked my work enough to give it some special attention. I believe every artists work speaks to someone and we all like that affirmation that someone out there "gets" what we do. So thanks Art Sweet for making my day!

Metalsmith With Natural Found Objects

Hello,

Just a quick post for now...

Here is a video that is a short introduction to jewelry artist Laura Crawford of "Tangerine Tree House" that I found featured on Etsy.com. It is showing how she became inspired to move beyond bead stringing into something that she felt allowed her to be more creative...metal smithing. I like the video because it is well done and because I can sort of relate. I recently found that I was ready to move beyond regular beading into something a little different too. For me, I selected silver metal clay as a new form to explore.

Laura is inspired by found objects and nature. I am inspired by nature as well, so again, I related to her story.

They say the first one is the hardest...

Hi. This is my first blog entry here. What to say? What to say? Um, well... maybe I'll just share a bit about me and my plans for this space and go from there, 'K?

I'm Lisa and I do art n' stuff in my home studio. Yes, my 'studio' is sometimes my dining room as you can tell from the picture.

I'm a long-time art lover living near Seattle with my husband and four furry kids (cats). I have a "real job" from 9 to 5 and then I have a "semi-real" job running my own art business, www.kamerakat.com. I say "semi-real" because I am still a newbie business owner and still working out the kinks and because the work is all fun stuff, so how can it be a 'job", ya know?

This blog will feature blips & tips about the things I love, like...

• Cats
• Beads
• Drawing
• Painting
• Photoshop
• Writing Music
• Scrapbooking
• Graphic Design
• Rubberstamping
• Art Clay Silver/Precious Metal Clay Jewelry
• Knitting (OK. I admit it. I cheat and use looms)
• and whatever else strikes my fancy at the moment

Anyone who know's me is saying "But, what about photography?" after reading the list above. Well, that is so much a part of what I do, it get's it own blog, Kamera Kat Studio Photoblogography .

Thanks for reading my intro. I will be adding some cool stuff soon. Please subscribe to get automatic updates when the content changes! Ciao 4 now!