canvas paintings - Art of Angela DeRiso

New work & Instagram

Sorry for the long wait between posts. I had to deal with the death of my Grandmother a few weeks back, and a lot has been going on after that. I will dedicate a post to her soon. I’m just not ready yet. Have to get everything written down for it.

In the meantime, I did get myself an Instagram account to spread my work out in the world. You can find me at the screen name “angela_deriso“. If you want updated art on the go, that’s where I’ll be posting it.

I’ve been working on some new pieces on canvases ranging from 11″ x 14″ to 12″ x 16”, and larger. Here are a few unpainted but drawn designs I have going at the moment.

Manta Ray. Remora fish were added later.

And since I had extra canvases… Dragons. 😀 I’m excited to see how they’ll turn out.

I also ended up making a gift of one of my paintings to my brother. He has loved my previous octopi paintings, so I sent him one in secret! He loved it, and called me just to say so. Definitely going to be trying this color scheme with a few other octopi.

I have been working on all of these in the last week, and my wrist has been twinging. Went and got a wrist wrap-thing to help. Only problem is that I can’t wear it to do the work. It restricts mobility somewhat.

More finished paintings will be posted soon.

PS:

I forgot this one was done.

Seaturtle with Jellies 16" x 20" — Seaturtle with Jellies
16″ x 20″

Last Week’s Event & More Site Updates

Last week’s 3rd Friday went well again, though the turnout was a bit less on account of rainy weather. Sold about half my stuff, and still made decent cash. Instead of going nuts with the small canvases each month, I’m planning to have other products with artwork printed on them for each event, and to expand my overall base of sales. Going to try small quantities at first to see how each product type does.

In the meantime, here are photos from that evening. They are a bit low quality due to glare and my phone.

I have also done some updating to the pages on the site. The Pricing & Shipping page now has information for the canvas paintings, commissions, shipping, etc. The Portfolio page has been edited to reflect my best paintings, and a new page (Color Pencil) has been added for information and examples of my color pencil work.

I have to get busy painting, and figuring out the other products, costs, etc.

I’ll post again soon. Thanks,

July 21, 2015 by Angela DeRiso Categories: UncategorizedTags: 3rd friday, acrylic painting, art, art blog, artist blog, beach, canvas paintings Leave a comment

Seaturtles & Painting

A long while back, I did a few paintings for my bedroom after deciding that most wall art I wanted was out of my budget. I had several canvases laying around, and had a decent set of acrylic paints from painting sculptures in years previous.

I wanted something unique, and turtle themed. These are the pieces I painted.

The largest one is 22″ x 28″, and the other is 10″ x 20″.

The large canvas hangs just above my bed, where most people get a good view of it. More than once, people have asked me if it was for sale. Stupidly, I said no.

Well, after putting plenty of effort into my colored pencil work and marketing that, I get a call from someone specifically wanting paintings like these, but with a yellow background. So, I make these on 8″ x 10″ canvases, and make some extra cash. Later, I made more this size thinking maybe it would be worth it to list some for sale, and see how they did. Well, as of this writing 6 of them have sold. At $25 for an 8″ x 10″, they are both easy to make and seem to garner more attention than my other work.

It’s frustrating in a way, because I put so much effort and skill into my color pencil pieces and they barely sell. I believe they are harder, at least, to find the right buyers for. Not because of the subject, but because of the price tag. Someone has to be willing to invest in the work I’ve done, and those people seem the hardest to find. Especially now, everyone is tight on money, and art is a luxury purchase. I will find them eventually, but for now, I’m seeing where this new style will take me.

This style certainly seems to fit well with Florida and tropical themes in general, and the vibrant color schemes are very eye catching. I have done seaturtles, freshwater turtles, and a few box turtles so far. I plan on adding geckos, frogs, and some marine mammals to my collection.

This is the collection of paintings so far. More are being painted.

These in particular have been sold.