IrelandBrady - Musings To Ponder

Here is another Beta!  Only this time I have used zentangle designs in creating this little gem of a fish.  Been feeling kinda sluggish lat...

I think I have an ACEO Fairy Series in the makings!  Just finished two more of the Monarch Fairy ACEOs .... Each of these detailed ACEOs...

I seem to be favoring fairies lately ... my latest ACEO piece is a take on the monarch butterfly, a Monarch Fairy!  Perhaps she is the prot...

I belong to several teams and groups on Etsy and eBay.   In one of the groups, one of the younger artists just had her first baby girl and ...

The subject photo for the Colored Pencil Magazine's April Challenge  is Crocuses!  I decided, however, that a dragonfly would look pret...

One of our favorite flowers is the "Bird of Paradise" and I thought it would be fun to create a Bird of Paradise Fairy ACEO.  Th...

One of our favorite flowers is the "Bird of Paradise" and I thought it would be fun to create a Bird of Paradise ACEO complete wi...

Here my latest ACEO which I have titled "Blue Dragonfly". I really like Dragonflies ... they remind of something pre-historic and...

It has been awhile since I created any fairy illustrations, so yesterday I did! With this piece, I wanted to see how much detail I could...

Hi!  I recently finished two new ACEOs and thought I would take a minute to share them with you. The first is "Crocus" with a Z...

Here is my second entry in the Colored Pencil Magazine March 2013 Art Challenge .  There were some areas that needed improving on the firs...

This drawing was done on a 5" x 7" sheet of Stonehenge paper using Prismacolor Verithin colored pencils and a LePen technical...

Paper work for taxes: Done!   Time to create a new ACEO: Done! "Bald Eagle" Things are getting semi-organized and I was ...

I am loving my "Orbital Easel"  more each time I use it ... it is truly the dream easel of all easels! Another plus, because of s...

I have been checking out the "Orbital Easel"  for the past two weeks and finally on Tuesday I decided to go ahead and order one f...

OK ... as you can tell ... I'm not avidly "gleaning" as I said I would!  Keep walking past my art area and  those darn colore...

I started out "gleaning" (new word for cleaning and getting rid of) the house today and thought I'd start by cleaning up my a...

I belong to a team named "ACEO ~ Art Card Editions and Originals on eBay" (this is their Facebook Page) and each month they hold...

Finally, I finished my Beta inspired mermaid!  Added a little fantasy sea horse, some sea weed, mussels, a star fish, a sand dollar, a bit ...

The series is complete!  Here is the final little charmer ..... "Bitty Betta 12" Hmmm, he seems to look a bit sad that...