Taking Time from Being Busy Busy Busy....

Hello Friends!

It's been awhile! Life is happening as with everyone else.... Busy, busy, busy.....and I just want to slow down....... 

Well, one big piece of news is that the shop I have a booth in decided to close!!  It was a surprise to all 27 merchants....and right before Christmas.  Eeek!!  The bad news is that we have  ALL have of our merchandise out by the 21'st of December.  The good news is, I get to slow down!! yay!!  and breath, and enjoy the Season!!

Now here is my slowdown version of slowing down....My Etsy shop is back!  This time instead of all art, there will be some fun vintage/antique finds for sale.  I decided to add the vintage because its a part of what I love to do.  Pick/junk/find.....repeat.  Our home has a nice mix of new and vintage, mostly items that are passed down from family, but also not cluttered with too many things...some collections definitely, just not overdone.

Below are some of the things you will find in my Etsy shop.  If you want,  go check it out and give it a 💚.  I appreciate everyone who has supported me over the years with purchasing, encouraging words or simply showing up!! It really means a lot to us small business people!!  

Barclay Skier dude.  I'm letting him loose on Etsy!  look these up!  the skaters are my favorites I decorate with around a vintage tinsel tree.  

Of course I'm still hooked on painting vintage Bingo Cards! 

 

These little scrappy tree ornaments  are made out of vintage Sugar Sacks! and also vintage buttons that I have collected for years, as well as scrap material.  These where fun to make.  I'm not a seamstress and these are pure randomly stitched and some embroidery. They would also be fun with some ribbon on gift packages. 

I found some pretty Christmas cards in an antique shop.. This one has an almost silky fabric texture to it and sweet graphics of a toasty fireplace setting....inside say's "The Season's best wishes and a New Year of Happiness"  Walter and Edna

Whoever Walter and Edna where, I give the same sentiments to you all as I will be having a slowdown version of slowing down... and at the pace that I blog here, it will be next year.  Maybe.  

Cheers to slowing down, and Thank YOU!!

Renee

Master Painting- The Goldfinch

 

The Goldfinch - Master painting study by Renee Brennan Art ~ 

 8'x10" oil on canvas board

Trying something a little different. Painting the masters!  Wow, it is so much fun and  interesting to push paint around that mimics a painter such as Dutch Master Carel Fabritius  1622 -1654  

It's such a great learning tool to concentrate the subtle color changes of his brushstrokes.

I did leave out the chain on the birds leg as in the original. (see below).  There is a tutorial by

Miss Mustardseed on how to paint this.  Her's turned out wonderful...AND she has other > tutorials < Check it out!  (I did print out a copy to go by as well) ;)

Here is the original painting with signature and chain on birds leg.  

Carel was born in the Netherlands 1622.  

He was a pupil of Rembrandt during the Dutch Golden Age movement

Fabritius died at the age of 32, in 1654, the same year as his painting.  

He was caught in an explosion that left a large portion of Delft in rubble.

His painting now in the collection of the Mauritshuis in The Hague, Netherlands.   

I hope to visit someday.

Another note is Author Donna Tartt wrote a thriller book about this painting 

and has been adapted into a movie.  Both called The Goldfinch- of course!