I just had to paint a fairy today of all days!
I hope all your fairy friends are treating you well today. If you watch closely, you may see them out celebrating.
I’ve left a few tiny treats around the studio for all my fairy friends to celebrate today. 🧚♀️
I hope you have a wonderful, ✨magical✨ day, filled with joy, Janell
This is a video I created and posted to my Instagram account of me painting. It is a new painting I have been working on for the past few months, “Viola.” It is the first painting in my new series, “Musical Mermaids.” I’ve actually been creating sketches for this series for about a year, but this is the first chance I have had to create one as a painting.
I sped up the video with the app InShot. Ha! I wish I painted that fast! 🙂
Here is the original sketch, although it has changed a bit through the painting process.
Thanks for taking the time to visit my blog and view my art process. I hope to finish this painting this week, so I will post a photo of the final painting next week.
Have a wonderful, creative day filled with joy, Janell
This is my newest painting in my Wildish Spirit series. I was inspired to paint this after all of the fires in California and Australia.
FLAME, acrylic on gallery wrapped canvas, 24″ x 36,” ©Janell Mithani 2024
I started thinking about it when we had fires here in California last year. Then a friend of mine, who lives in Australia, had to evacuate from her home twice this last Fall. So I thought I would create a painting of one of my forest spirits rescuing animals from both Australia and California to honor all the animals that were lost in the wild fires.
This is my original sketch for the painting. I enlarged it on a copy machine.
This is the background of the painting.
Here are a few in-process photographs.
Almost complete…
And here is a close up of the character and animals in the painting.
In February, I had an event where I had a display of my art and fairy gardens for sale. Since I had recently had a couple commissions for baby animal paintings, I thought it would be a good idea to create a few small animal paintings for the event.
Do you have a favorite animal?
Here they are all together.
I have really enjoyed creating these sweet little animal paintings. I hope they brought a smile to your face.
Have a wonderful, creative, and joyful day! Janell
I was so happy to be asked to create a piece of art for the California Federation of Business and Professional Women’s conference. It was really fun to work with the women on their board and to create this piece. They wanted a leaping woman since their meeting was on February 29th, Leap day.
This is the front of their conference program.
Well, I better leap back to work! (Sorry, I couldn’t resist.)
Have a wonderful, creative, and joyful day, Janell
I really love to drink tea. I started recycling my teabags and painting on them shortly after my mom passed away last May. It started out as my art therapy, and turned into something I really love to create. It also gives me a chance to create smaller pieces while I am working on my large paintings.
I decided to adhere them to canvas and set them on wood easels.
Many of these paintings are of dresses and I have created a new series: Every Size, Shape, Color, and Age. I am titling them after suffragettes.
I have created so many, they now have their own page in my online portfolio. I am also working on creating an online store for my paintings, these will be my first to add to the store. I have been selling locally and have shipped my art all over, so I think it is time to set up an online store, you know, in my spare time. 🙂
This is a set I created of flower paintings. A collector stopped by the studio the other day and purchased the set. They are on a thick, wrapped, 3″ canvas. I can’t wait to see how she displays them.
This is the first one I created. It reminds me of a dress I had when I was a little girl.
Are you a fan of drinking tea? Herbal or black tea? I’m having a cup of herbal cherry tea at the moment. The pink stain on the tea bag is giving me an idea for a painting…
Have a wonderful, creative, joyful day! Janell
I am ready for spring! I’ve been feeding my spring fever by creating these adorable tea cup fairy gardens. It’s amazing how much time it takes to create each little garden and get everything set just right. It seems I am a fairy perfectionist! 🙂 Hmm… and I have no idea how moss got all over my studio!
My kitchen is blue and white, so I am not surprised one of my blue and white teacups became a place for fairy’s to play.
Here is a close up of the sweet bunny.
And a little butterfly perched on the blue flower.
Of course, we had to have a fairy having tea in a tea cup.
Here is a closeup of the fairy having tea.
This little fairy garden popped up in a shoe. 🙂 I sculpted the little house from clay.
This is a little fairy mushroom farm in a vintage milk glass dessert cup.
This horse themed fairy garden sits in a Thomas Kinkade tea cup and saucer. I just love the little trees I made out of moss “rocks.” After I took this photo, I added more moss and another horse to the saucer.
And last but not least, my sweet little dragon friend needed a little house and garden.
I hope my fairy friends and their gardens brought a smile to your face.
Have a wonderful, creative and joyful day! Janell
I have finished another painting in my “Wildish Spirit” series ,”Yearling.”
It is a mixed media, mostly acrylics on a wood burl. My dad gave me the burl when we were cleaning out his shop a few years ago. I sanded it smooth and put a couple of coats of clear gesso on it to prep it for painting. I am really enjoying painting on the natural wood and keeping the wood grain as a part of the painting.
Here is a close up of the face so you can see the wood grain.
I also painted this sweet deer on a wood slice for my niece for Christmas.
I did a quick little sketch on paper.
And then I transferred it to the wood slice or “cookie” to paint.
I hope March is off to a great start for you. It is raining here today, so I am getting lots of ‘catch-up” work done in the studio.
Have a wonderful, creative, and joyful day! Janell
A sweet fairy with her woodland friend.
Wood is becoming my favorite surface for painting pieces of my “Wildish Spirit” series.
It is also interesting to work with more organic shaped surfaces.
I have a stack of burl’s and slices of wood that I found in my dad’s shop that I am sanding and prepping to paint. I also have a few arborist friends who have cut me some slabs from dead trees they removed.
So, it looks like I will be exploring this substrate a lot this year. I am looking forward to creating lots of paintings in 2019.
Have a wonderful, creative, and joyful day, Janell
Happy New Year!
It seems I have been celebrating non stop lately. We have quite a few birthdays in our family and then Christmas. So it is a busy time of year for me. But I do enjoy all the celebrations and time spent with family. I created this snowman painting for my sis for her birthday. She loves snowmen.
I hope you are enjoying the holiday season and wish you a wonderful New Year filled with lots of creativity!
One of the fun things I enjoy this time of year is painting holiday windows.
Gnomes and reindeer were two of my favorite characters this year.
I’m looking forward to a new year filled with lots of new paintings and creative projects. January is one of my favorite months, I do a bit of reflecting on what I created in the last year and make a few lists of new or continuing projects for the new year. I enjoy the process and the feeling of a fresh start to new creative endeavors.
I hope you have a wonderful, creative, and joyful New Year! Janell
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