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http://www.brandygerber.com/

New Website

Hi everyone, I'm happy to announce the launch of my Fine Art website.  I hope you'll hop over and investigate. It's still being worked on, but the start is up and I'm excited.  I'll continue to blog here in my sporadic manner, but all of my fine art will be on the other site.  Hopefully I'll be able to add a blog there too.

Brandy Gerber's Fine Art

A Seal Hello

Here's another of my recent paintings.  Most of these are acrylics on 16" x 20" gallery wrapped canvas.
I must admit this one is not my favorite, but its gotten a lot of really nice feedback.  This one challenged me quite a bit.

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My favorite painting

Here's another painting that I did not to long ago.  This one is the largest I've painted.  It's about 2'x3'.  I've wanted to paint this picture since my first visit to Hawaii over 10 years ago and just did it.  I love Hawaii and am fascinated with sea turtles.  I was fortunate enough to see tons of them and took lots of pictures.  This painting is based from my favorite pic.  I also got to snorkel in a few areas where there were many turtles swimming.  It was incredible!

I love how this turned out and it now hangs over our couch.  I think this is my favorite painting I've ever done and love that I get to see it everyday!

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Manatee

I love manatees.  I had the great pleasure of one surfacing right underneath us while we were sitting on the pier at Mallory Square in Key West.  It was an amazing moment.  I think these gentle creatures are so loving and adorable.  I tried to capture those qualities in this painting.

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My first art show!

I haven't posted in awhile but that doesn't mean I've been idle.  I set a goal for myself this year to get my art  into a shop or a gallery.  I've been painting a lot trying to get together a nice repertoire to present to places.  Today, my work paid off and I am still stunned to say that I will have a month long art show in May of 2013!!!!

It will be held at Pentamere Winery in Tecumseh.  It even includes an artist reception!  I am very excited and encouraged by this acceptance of my art.  I promise I'll update more soon to show the work I've been doing, but just wanted to let any and all of my readers know the good news now!

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St. Patty's Day Top Hat Fascinator Tutorial

I saw these adorable little hats at Claire's and I really liked them.  I thought about buying one, but decided I'd try to make my own and then maybe I could continue making them for different seasons and holidays.  I started by cutting out 2 circles, one bigger than the other, and a long rectangle.  These will form the visible hat.

Taking the long rectangle, I cut the edges and folded them up so I would be able to tape them to the top and bottom circle.

 Here you can see the rectangle taped together to form the main part of the hat.  I simply taped the cut edge down inside the hat.  Later I went back and reinforced beneath this with glue to make the bond more secure.

 I found some leftover sticky back black felt and I cut out a thin long rectangle to form a hat band and attached it slightly up from the hat "joint".

 I also cut out some shamrocks from the glitter paper and glued these onto the hat band.  I used a circle of the sticky back felt (cut the same size as the larger green circle), cut a slit in the felt and put a barrette (I changed this over to a hings style barrette to make it easier to open and close and attached the circle to the tophat.

I added some glue to areas that seemed to have gaps from the tape and let it dry with a bit of weight on top.  Now I've got a fun new hat to wear for St. Patty's day!

Thanks so much for stopping by.  I'll be linking up to some of the parties found in my sidebar and also here: