Summer, Cool Morning , ACEO

Summer, Cool Morning, watercolour ACEO, Vivien Blackburn



Another tiny painting, this time of a cool summer morning, clear blue light, with a breeze blowing the clouds, walking down towards the surf, the blue of the sky reflected in the pools and on the wet sand. My idea of heaven :>)

If you are interested in buying this or any of the others I've shown, you can here: http://tiny.cc/dvy4e only $18 :>)

It's amazing how many of you that I know online, I've come across at Etsy - I've bookmarked you as I meet you there :>)

I haven't seen the news yet today - has the spider moved?

and hey!!! I've managed smaller urls :>)

More links:

the book: http://tiny.cc/ZbARW

Imagekind for prints of my work: http://tiny.cc/y3rkt

Katherine Tyrrell of http://makingamark.blogspot.com/ had the excellent idea of offering to put anything on Imagekind that someone wanted a print of - garbled English there but you know what I mean! if there is anything I've shown that you would be interested in a buying a print of, just email me and I can arrange to upload it there, :>)

website: http://www.vivienblackburn.com

Comments

Kari Gibson said…
I love your blog! Having a wonderful time wandering around and these tiny ACEOs are adorable!

Kari x
8:16 pm
vivien said…
thanks Kari :>) your work is lovely
8:50 pm
Chris Bellinger said…
Lovely painting, notice you have not tried the short link yet!
Do you have the icons on your blogger screen?
7:52 am
Chris Bellinger said…
Sorry not awake they are smaller but you can just use the name of people no need for htpp!
i will wake up soon!
7:55 am
Gesa said…
hm... another great one... i keep looking at these and ask myself should i, should i not... but currently still struggling to recover framing costs for all those paintings that didn't sell in june... :(
8:40 am
vivien said…
I tried to follow the short link instructions Chris - but couldn't quite work it out - someone else kindly gave a different set of instructions and they didn't shorten it!

So ..... I went to Tinyurl and that works :>)

Maybe someone can explain a better way?

Gesa have a go! I'm actually really enjoying doing them, which surprised me as I generally like to work much much larger.

Framing costs are a killer :>( some ACEOs might recoup some of the cost?
9:00 am
Gesa said…
hihihi... i was contemplating of buying, rather than selling. i have a few aceos on my etsy - but had last year decided not to so stuff merely to put on etsy (too little time for the other things)... but maybe i can revisit that idea?
9:30 am
vivien said…
oh!!! in that case you should!!!!

>:>D
9:46 am
harry bell said…
Vivien, it looks like TinyURL has changed its system to include a forwarding page because of the refusal by some servers to accept their shortened URLs. You might try Metamark (http://metamark.net/). Using their system, your book is at http://xrl.us/oqphu
and the link takes you straight there.
1:53 am
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