Introduce yourself, tell us about your creative passion, post photos of your favorite creations

[Sherri Westfall]

I'll start the ball rolling:)
My name is Sherri and I am an artist, I mainly paint on canvas, and use oil paint, But I also use acrylic, and dry media from time to time. I've sculpted stone too.
I love painting Hawaiian themes, Landscapes, florals,still life, people, and pets. Every now and then I like to let go and do an abstract too. I have several websites now, one is the artistsalongallery where I've gathered a group of people to show off their work, network etc. Here is one of my favorite paintings

[Dale]

Sure Abigail. I'm sure we can figure something out. I'm going to take a few pics of what I've made so far, maybe a video? And post it. As well as my Xmas tree, the progression of the tree. But last year's tree was my masterpiece so far and I could not get any still pics of it (too bright) had to do video which is on my youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/LolaDoggie

That's the link to my youtube chanel. The first video is my tree. LolaDoggie is my youtube ID after my dog Lola who sadly passed away of cancer in Oct 2007.

[Dale]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6yUF1nBZqA



This is the video I made to show my supplies and projects for my beads.

[Dale]

http://www.firemountaingems.com/

This is the site I use for instructions. I haven't made an order from them yet, but I'm sure I will at some point. They do awesome videos. If you do a google search for video tutorials you'll find lots out there.

[Sandra aka mytruestory85]

Hi, I love drawing and have done that a lot when I was younger. Somehow due to school I stopped but I need to get back to it. Just last year I drew a picture of my brother and just look at the outcome. ;) I think you will recognize him

[Dale]

I'm going to try to post individual pics of my bracelets. It's from photobucket, let's see if it works.

[IMG]http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j293/LolaDoggie/IMGP0257.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG]http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j293/LolaDoggie/IMGP0270.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG]http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j293/LolaDoggie/IMGP0269.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG]http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j293/LolaDoggie/IMGP0267.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG]http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j293/LolaDoggie/IMGP0262.jpg[/IMG]

[Ginger]

Hi my name is Ginger and I am a creative soul. At this moment, I am into photography.
Most of my photos can be seen here jetsetaphrodite.deviantart.com

Here are a few of my photos.

[LisaLI]

hi Sheri, What a wonderful group for this site! I am a graphic artist and illustrator as well as an author (Recently! Grin!) My graphics and illustrations can be seen on my languishing site: http://www.lihertzidesign.com. My book is Art Doll Adventures and the site is here: http://www.artdolladventures.com. I have been in an art journal phaze and will post some on my blog. I just recently joined here and wonder if there is a way to put videos onto the blogs? Yes?

Play everyone, draw, stitch, make, just make something! Smiling, LisaLI

[Sandra aka mytruestory85]

Hi there, you all here in this group are so creative, here are some of my other drawings I did in the past few years.

[Kimmy]

Hi everyone! My name is Kimmy and I like to make art . After much fear and trepidation and not knowing where my future will lead me, I've bitten the bullet and made a plan to acknowledge my artistic self and try to make art every day.Once I've finished my undergrad time at uni and I've mustered up enough money I'm planning on going to art school. Until then I'm working on learning things on my own. I like playing around with charcoal, acrylics and oil pastels. I know I still have a long way to go and a lot to learn, but I'm having a pretty good time doing it so far!

[stephen]

these are my instruments

[Martin]

Hello, I am so glad there is a group for artists. I have made art my life for the past 15 years or so. I try and make my work accessible by bringing it to as many people as I can. One project I do is called my Portrait Project where I go to peoples homes and paint their portrait. They keep the piece (free of charge) and I document it. I also do ChicagoArts where I interview artists and collectors and gallery owners and post them on YouTube to help expose art to more people. I am also a painter. One of the things I want to manifest is to try and find ways to make money at all of this that I do. I sell paintings sometimes and that’s great, I recently sent out a few invitations to people to try and help me with ChicagoArts and maybe try and get it syndicated.

[Gaia]

Hi guys!
I'm new to the Challenge and new to this group so let me introduce myself. I explore as many areas of creativity as I can. My main creative outlet is acting, it's what I do, currently studying at an acting school and loving it. Apart from that I sing, write and compose songs, play the piano, I write short stories and poems, I sew, knit (still learning) and crochet, I draw and paint and keep an art journal and dabble in photo art. And I dance. I love learning new arts and crafts, creativity is really what my life is all about. I haven't always allowed myself to live that but a little over a year ago I realized that I AM an artist and I decided to follow my heart and live the creative life I had always wanted to but had never allowed myself because other people warned me that it was an unsure path or because they couldn't understand my dream of living a more "untraditional" life. I made the choice for me and finally experienced true joy, my true self and I am manifesting great things! My life is becoming the life I always wanted and I feel so blessed. I'm excited to see your creative expression and be inspired!

Love,
Gaia