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Sami's Art has evolved from many years of varied experiences and experimentation in different forms of art.

Announcing Sami’s Art Shop

 

 

Introducing My New Art Store

hydrangeas watercolor painted by Sami

Hi Again!

I am so excited! I’m like the energizer bunny that just keeps going! I am learning resilience, not return and this is a new chapter in my life. Continuing my art but in new ways. Choosing the new me after the traumatic brain injury. I am so excited to be painting again. I’ve been hard at work setting up my new art gallery store this past month.  It’s been a lot of early mornings and late nights to get the look I wanted, but I’m really proud of the results. My shop focuses on nature in places, animals (cats, dogs, horses, miniature donkeys), flowers, and wildlife including my favorites, wolves. I have added some adorable miniature donkey ink sketches and new photography. I am also working on two commissions, one, an adorable set of dogs and the other a portrait of a beautiful horse.

Below are some of my favorite images in my shop.

Enjoy!

Susie

P.S. I don’t have sales often, but I have a big one planned for Black Friday. Stay tuned for more details!
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My Favorite Pieces

 

Temple Bar, Dublin, Ireland

I visited the Temple Bar when my granddaughter and I went to Ireland after her graduation. It was a magical trip as I had always wanted to see Ireland. Many of my paintings are from that visit.

Starting price: $38.50 dollars

Available on stretched canvas, acrylic, aluminum, and fine art paper.
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Wallace the Golden Doodle

I met Wallace on my first trip to the Rockland, Maine area. He has a personality to match his name. The next year I took Brandy, my young doodle to meet Wallace. It was a comical adventure with Wallace roaring his delight and my shy baby trying to hide. I will be adding some other pictures from my doodle adventures later.

Starting price: $37.33

Available on stretched canvas, acrylic, aluminum, and fine art paper.
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Wolf Park in the Spotlight

I have always loved wolves and had the opportunity to visit Wolf Park in Indiana. The original of this print is a watercolor and ink painting. I gave a 30″ x 40″ reproduction of it for the 35th anniversary auction at Wolf Park.

Starting price: $69.51

Available on stretched canvas, acrylic, aluminum, and fine art paper.
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Florida Vacation

Florida Vacation

Last week I visited a friend in Naples Florida and had a wonderful time visiting the Everglades and walking on Barefoot Beach looking for shells. I took my little camera and was able to use it for the first time since my accident, September 23, 2014. It was so much fun and I got some great photos which I played with all weekend. The featured image is an untouched photograph, but the others I played with in Photoshop and Painter. I usually go for more realistic art but really liked my abstract stork this week.alligatorhead

No visit to the Everglades would be complete without an alligator picture and this one was sitting right on the edge of the road just asking for us to take pictures. And there were birds of every kind.

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

My small camera is an Olympus OM-D. I took two lenses, a 45-200mm and a 12-50mm.

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OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

I think this photo of the Great White Heron is my favorite although Barefoot Beach is a close second.

A walk on a beach wouldn’t be complete without a conchconch shell shell. I didn’t realize there were so many different varieties.

 

 

barefootbeach_01_001The day was perfect and you could see forever. I hope you enjoy.  Safe journeys until we meet next week.

History: Annie Puckett

History: Annie Puckett

This week I am going to change things up a bit and look at a little history. I have mentioned that I am a third generation artist, so I thought I would show a few of my great aunt, Annie Puckett’s watercolors. It is interesting that the watercolors are actually sketches for later oils.  She was in Paris in the late 1800’s to early 1900’s and these paintings are of Versailles, Madame du Berry’s bedroom and other locations in the area that are not identified. I have not been able to find the locations, even after a trip to France with my granddaughter several years ago.  The featured image above is an over the door drawing in Madame de Sevigne’s home in Paris. Continue Reading…