New Collectable Artworks

I’m often working on smaller projects in the middle of larger ones. It’s something for me to do while I watch tv in the evenings and it takes my mind off the pain I’m usually in sitting for an extending period of time on the sofa. That’s how these new Watercolor and Pen Bookmarks came [...]

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A Ginkgo Path

I first fell in love with Ginkgo trees while living in England. Their unique leaf shape and color in the fall are just amazing. I’m only now getting around to expresses this in my artwork. Today I finished the first new pen and ink drawing of the 2009. It depicts Ginkgo leaves strewn across a [...]

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More Works in Progress

I was slow to get motivated today, but I did manage to work on my painting, ‘Well Traveled Memories’. Here’s where I’m at:

If I’m able to find the time I might just finish this over the weekend. I had a stomach bug during the week and that really set me back, but that’s life. In [...]

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EBSQ Art of the Day

What a suprise to find my drawing, ‘Nature’s Canvas‘, featured on the front page of the EBSQ website. I’m so grateful and honored they chose my artwork to be a part of this weeks AOTD.
Each week the editors at EBSQ decide on a theme and then choose artwork to represent it. This week’s theme is [...]

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Flu = Sales? I wish!

Though I have to wonder . . . did being sick over the weekend have anything to do with all of the sales I had? I doubt it but it did bring a bit of brightness to my life. The remnants of the cold or flu (not sure which it was) is still lingering with [...]

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Less than 24 hours left!!

Above is my Pen and Ink ACEO titled ‘Out for a Stroll’. There is currently only 1 bid for $1.99 and only 1 day left! Don’t let it slip away. A percentage of the final sale goes to benefit AmphibianArk.org.
Be original – Buy original art!!

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Limited Edition Prints to help AmphibianArk.org

Limited Edition prints are now available for my ACEO The Daydreamer. These are ACEO size prints. Each comes hand-signed and cost only $6.00 (shipping is free). To help the plight of Frogs and other Amphibians around the world $1.00 from every sale will go to AmphibianArk.org.
You can purchase these prints directly from my website gallery:
http://amandamakepeace.com/pages/gallery.php

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On a Bed of Lace

Here’s my latest Pen and Ink drawing that I call “On a Bed of Lace”. It features the Queen Anne’s Lace Flower(s) with a Dragonfly and Ladybug. I’ve decided to enter it in the EBSQ Flower of the Month Show – voting begins on October 1st!

Here are a few close-ups:

This Pen and Ink drawing was [...]

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Ready for Take-off!

Here’s my latest ACEO Rainforest frog that I will be posting around the web later today. I call it ‘Ready for Take-off!’ and like my other ACEO’s its a Pen and Ink on enviromentally friendly paper. There is an ever growing collection of ACEO’s in my Ebay Shop MakepeaceArts – so be sure to check [...]

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Just finished today

Here are 3 more Frog ACEOs I finished off this morning. If you are wondering. . .I have 2 more to finished, but I think tomorrow I will work on my earthscapes painting.

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