A New Day. A New Blog.

I have started another, second blog. This other second blog is dedicated to my mixed media art. It is called Trash to Treasures Art, as my mixed media art is built heavily upon recycled and upcycled materials that I found here and there and everywhere.

My mixed media art is created using not only traditional art supplies, but also recycled cardboard, old book pages, and other various finds.

This blog here, MissAdventureArt, will remain put and will be dedicated to my more traditional drawings and illustrations. I decided to create a second blog so that my drawings and my mixed media art could each have their own space, rather than being cluttered together in one hectic blog. As I've noted before, I also have two separate Etsy shops, one for my drawings and one for my mixed media art. My Etsy shops can be visited using the tabs at the top of each respective blog.

So, please also visit me over at Trash to Treasures Art!

Art in Honor

It has been well over a month since I last made a post here. One primary reason for my absence is that my beloved 21-year-old cat fell ill, and after a two-week battle I ultimately had to say goodbye to her following a diagnosis of heart failure and widespread cancer.

I had previously shared some drawings I created of her, and here is one of them again:

Her name was Rosie. She was one tough cookie of a cat. She was a true trooper and went through a lot during her 21 years, including an emergency eye removal surgery just this past January.

I have always been a huge animal lover, and my sweet 21-year-old cat was a big influence on that trait of mine. I'll age myself here by divulging that my family acquired this cat of mine when she was just 8 weeks old and I was just 4 years old. I grew up with her. I miss her immensely.

In her honor, I have set up a memorial corner for her at my house. My memorial for her includes a beautiful red rose (a fake one, admittedly, so that it will last forever) and none other than a piece of mixed media art that I created especially for her:

A rose and artwork to honor my sweet cat Rosie.

Creating this piece of art for my Rosie was one of the main ways I coped immediately following her passing. Art in itself brings me a great deal of comfort, and so creating art in honor of my loyal companion of 21 years was very consoling to me during that difficult time.

I don't believe I had ever truly appreciated the full power of art until I created this piece for Rosie. It all came together for me in an artistically healing process, and creating it helped me to feel and stay close to Rosie. I chose the purple and pink color scheme for a reason - my favorite color is purple and so (as a result of my selections) many of Rosie's favorite blankets were purple, and I always loved the adorable pink color of her paw pads and nose. Even the Distress Ink I applied was in direct honor of Rosie - she was a beautiful calico cat, and so I used my Black Soot, Vintage Photo, and Antique Linen Distress Inks to imitate a calico color scheme with the border and background. What's more, the white ribbon I attached to the top of the art piece was one with which Rosie used to play often.

And, of course, I wrote a message upon Rosie's art piece that rings very true for me:

Cats leave paw prints on our hearts.

More trash to treasures.

I finished three more mixed media art tags, and they are now available in my TrashToTreasuresArt Etsy shop!

"Keep calm and eat pie."

"Be U."

"You're a hoot."

Links to both of my Etsy shops can be found at the top of this very blog!

Happy Easter!

Cake and Chemistry

There are two more new mixed media art tags available in my TrashToTreasuresArt Etsy shop! Here they are:

Words to live by: "Keep calm and eat cake."

Instead of pages from old books, for this one I used an old chemistry catalog. Copper + Tellurium = CuTe!

I've really found a new passion in creating these art tags. I get to use so many different media and techniques, while employing the awesome practice of recycling/upcycling otherwise unwanted material. I'm also working on revamping some cardboard boxes using these same mixed media techniques, although the boxes admittedly take longer to make (but of course they're still fun!). My first box is almost completed, and I'll post some pictures of it here -- as well as put it in my shop! -- as soon as I've finished it.

Happy April, bloggers! (No, this post is not an April Fools' prank.)

Stocking up!

I am working diligently to stock up my TrashToTreasuresArt Etsy shop. These two art tags are now available in the shop:

"Keep calm and eat cookies."

"C'est la vie."

Today I started on a new batch of tags, which are still in the early stages of production. I also have a number of tags that are almost ready to be added to my stock in TrashToTreasuresArt. These are some of those almost-ready tags:

These tags are extremely fun to create. From start to finish, I'm having a blast with each and every one of them. If you want to visit either of my Etsy shops, just click the links at the top of this blog!

Web store news!

I'm excited to announce that I have opened a second Etsy shop, this one dedicated to my mixed media art! I am of course still maintaining my MissAdventureArt Etsy shop, which contains my drawings, but after some deliberation I ultimately decided that I wanted to manage my mixed media art and my drawings in separate Etsy stores.

My new shop's name is TrashToTreasuresArt. I chose this shop name because my philosophy in creating my mixed media art is to largely use recycled and upcycled goods, such as scrap cardboard and old books that are otherwise not being put to use. I am working on stocking up this new shop as quickly as possible, but these three art tags are already available at TrashToTreasuresArt:

"You make my heart tick."

"You're my cup of tea."

"You're the cat's meow."

To visit either of my Etsy shops, just click on the links at the top of this very blog of mine!

Good night!

Mixed Media Mess

My workspace is a mixed media mess today. I'm working on creating some more art tags as well as revamping some recycled boxes with some mixed media art. Fun times!

The scene of the crime.

In the upper right corner of that picture you'll see just a couple of my newest mixed media art tags. In the upper left corner is a WIP box I've been working on. Soon I'll share some pictures of the fruits of today's labor. Also, I'll be sharing some Etsy news sometime in the next couple of days. Stay tuned!

I hope everyone is having a beautiful weekend!