Much chaos this week at my place, with one family member now being sans appendix.

I have nevertheless somehow managed to start the Super Art-Scanning Fest I mentioned… and I bring you 2 new art Tshirts! The fancy hippy necklaces are not included. Rather, they are brought to you as invented accessorising suggestions by me, with the help of ‘Photoshop’ and ‘Illustrator’ magic! To buy, click the photo, which will take you to the preview page where you can try out different colour and style shirts.

The Green Leaf ‘T’
Note: Not, in this case, green leaf Tea – another wonderful thing, but different!

Whilst out running, I retrieved some fallen autumn leaves from the ground to try to paint -yoink! I am not really sure why this one fell, as the tree hadn’t gotten around to taking the chlorophyll back yet! I love the fresh green, it seems to enliven a lot of flattering Tshirt colours.

Four leaves, no weddings and no funerals

I composed this layout in my head as I continued my run, thinking it could make a good greeting card design. After previewing that the outcome is: hmm, not so much… BUT I think it looks pretty good for a unisex Tshirt design – this would look cool on its own, or under a jacket or a waistcoat, and clearly goes well with hippy jewellery too!

If you would like to put some more thought into things with four leaves, like lucky clovers, here’s a link to a new blog post by Christine Kane, which meant a lot to me this week when I was learning how best to be helpful to the member of my family who needed to be in hospital. My favourite part is:

… it is imperative that we learn to inhale deeply, to allow praise, to be special, to nourish ourselves, to feed ourselves, to absorb the abundance of love that is out there for the taking.

Often we are so busy giving and coaching and befriending and serving – that we lose sight of the simple truth that energy is meant to flow.

Big sigh. Smile. Did anybody else need a reminder?

Take care of yourself, and also accept care that is offered to you.
Have a wonderful week,
Love Meg x o

The new cards have arrived from the printer and I just can’t wait to show you…

So I am offering this just to you, lovely Bold Souls:

15 packs of the new Serendipity Mixed Packs of 10 Greeting Cards available now! For $35 (should I say “only”? Usually they are $5 each, you do the maths!) the first 15 Bold Souls can have a preview pack containing the new cards plus a selection of classic favourites. To give you some context: these new cards aren’t even in my Art Card Shop yet! To get free shipping too you can use the discount code: BoldSoul15

The Add To Cart button below will take you to a shopping cart where you can use either PayPal or Credit Card and get your Serendipity Pack of 10 greeting cards mailed to you immediately:

I’ll send you a good mix of 10 cards and will be sure to include the new designs, so you’ll be set with a cache of cards all ready for sending to your loved ones.

While you’re here… If this doesn’t interest you (or indeed even if it does) could you take a minute to go to my Facebook Tangerine Meg Visual Artist page, click the link under my picture to “suggest to friends” and choose some friends to recommend me to? Only the ones who you think would be interested! I appreciate your help reaching more Bold Souls

There are exciting things coming… New art, more card packs and the stories behind the artworks, too.

Oh, and I have a “photo shoot” with my son the photographer booked, so expect a groovy new portrait soon!

Love this quote I saw somewhere just this week:

Be You. Everyone else is already taken!

Take care,
Meg x o

Hope this finds you well, and enjoying your life with boldness and verve

Thanks to Sarah Wilson and her engaging blog for (on April 2nd) showing us this clever film clip. See if you can recognise the works of art the people have made out of their very selves. The music is cool, too!! Imagine how much work it would have been to set up!

That reminds me: Did you ever see the Gilmore Girls episode when they posed as living works of art? (This clip is 5 minutes at the end of the episode with a couple of examples of living art and quite a bit of the story!) That was the first I had heard of such a thing.

I hope your life has a little art and a little music in it today
Meg x

There’s an opportunity to get some art on shirts without paying postage!

Do  you need a gift for a fabulously bold friend? Someone for whom ‘the usual’ just will not do,

Or a treat for you? A celebration of your own bold soul and a vibrant reminder to savour the lush moments that abound in your every day?

Then it might be handy to let you know that RedBubble  (the Print on Demand place that prints my tshirts) are having a lovely “shipping free for 3 or more tshirts” sale for a couple of weeks.

So you can buy 3 tshirts for your bold self, for bold gifts, or get together with 2 bold friends if you don’t need 3 yourself right now, and you get free postage! Neato for Christmas shopping. I am going to get some for my family. Note the RedBubble Christmas order deadlines.

A ‘how-to’ with links:

Tangerine Meg tshirts at RedBubble – all my designs to choose from. You select the colour, style and of course size (see below) for the shirt.

Independant RedBubble tshirt review by tshirt and hoodie specialist blog – a worthwhile read, this is an independent and experienced impression of RedbBubble quality and customer service.

RedBubble guide to choosing tshirt size – Notes from me: The cotton quality is fine and lovely, the Ts are very well made, the artwork print on the front is very good and they arrive fast. I have been wearing the men’s cut as well as the women’s. The men’s is quite long with longish short sleeves. I find I buy 2 sizes up from my usual in the ladies fit; compared to the men’s they have a shorter sleeve, a less square line, and are not quite as long, but still generous. They easily machine wash with no particular care needed from the owner, however instructions are provided!

Here’s a picture of me at a Winter market with one of the ‘Sunflower’ design tshirts on:

RedBubble article about making the tshirts – if you want to know the process, and

A RedBubble photo essay documenting the receiving of your tshirt parcel – I think it’s pretty straight forward.

If you’ve ordered anything from the internet before the process should be pretty familiar. Having said that drop me a line if I can be of any help.

Have fun!
Meg xox

During July and August I am happy (and encouraged) to say that some of my printmaking work has gone to good homes, some locally, some via Air Mail.

As of today, I have also updated my Tangerine Meg etsy shop listings to include some new prints that are printed, painted and available.
For this here blog, I have fresh uploads too, which need a new theme maybe (as they are neither “Happy People” nor “Cat Prints”). They are a dove, mandarins etc, with pears to follow. Hmmm…How about Nature As Design Element? Too long perhaps? …Now I’ve decided, it’s called Design from Nature; feel welcome to have a look at my simple new page.
The next updating needs to be my own card shop. Will let you know when that is done.

More details later on my SALA screening that I mentioned a few weeks ago. I will tell the whole story when I get a link to a particular photo someone took.

Wishing you peace,
Meg

Firstly, I will give you a link to gouache at artslice which simply explains the difference between gouache and watercolours, and has a nice photo.

I am working on painting some prints. It is so lovely painting yellow, cadmium yellow to be exact (yummy-doodles). The smooth stroke of the brush and the colour materialises like liquid shiny sunshine. I just got the feeling to tell you that; in reality all of the colours give me a buzz, and when you put them next to each other…glee!

I was sorting out some prints and in doing so realised how many times I had printed “Joy Riding” in order to get the 9 that printed cleanly and blackly enough to be an edition. I counted them: 11 + the 9 good ones, + 3 APs (Artists Proofs – trials of progressing prints, in this case used to trial colours), so that’s 23. Crikey, it is a good thing I changed my mind from wanting to do an edition of 15!

I have changed track with Joy Dancing Within, remember her? I have been to-ing and fro-ing with the colour plan. The colour schemes (“stories” in fashion lingo) were originally to try to get the dress to stand out and contrast with the background. Now I am taking another tack, and intergrating the whole thing with lots of different greens, and maybe a sunny yellow background(!).

Quote of the day (attributed to Madonna): “The best thing about getting older is getting smarter”.

Keep your glass half full,
Meg