Moving Along...

As you know, things have been changing for me.

I got a 4.0 this semester, five A s!! I am excited about my future for the first time in 20 years...

I am moving on....

My future blog posts will be HERE ... feel free to subscribe. I will be focusing alot more on art and how it affects our world and how our world affects art.

Feel free also to add me to your friends in Facebook. The badge on the right will take you there.

Peace and love to you all, I send you the most positive of energies.

Vicki Bower ~ Artist, Mother, Student, Protagonist!

Ahhhh, art Prints!

The First EVER art print of Garden Fence, numbered 1 of 100, signed, and framed in oak and glass. 3.5 x 5.5 inches.

Sure to cheer the dreariest of days! This is printed on Kodak Acid-free glossy photo paper with high quality Vivera inks that are said to last a century or more.

Shipped Priority mail and Insured. Please email with any questions. We will gladly make additional prints for you.

In the spirit of the Season...

I wanted to post these cute art cards from my shop, DrawnNQuartered on Etsy:


"Wrong Turn" and "Kitty" ACEOs






Mr Bones' First Date" and "Wicked"original ACEOs

All Art Cards measure 2.5" by 3.5" (the size of a baseball or playing card) and come shipped in a protective plastic sleeve and rigid mailer.

Visit DrawnNQuartered for more of my original pieces.

my mind is maxxed out

OMG my mind is maxxed out bc I am learning sooo much!

I can't believe what's happening to me. I am but a babe in this world, and I feel as if I knew nothing at all and have so MUCH I want to know!

Anyway, I have been doodling and have also started a new my-art-only shop on Etsy besides the one you all know about...

http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=7924192 Also just got an awesome new professional printer that I can make art prints with, feel so excited to be here :)

Punk, if you read this, your painting is here propped up by my desk and as soon as I get a minute I'll put it together (oh yeah, it's also part collage!). Everyone else... I will post pics and possibly sell prints as well :)

I want to hug you all, I haven't even twittered in like two weeks, haven't blogged but am just starting to get acclimated to the student/mom/partner/oh yeah artist/thing!

I hope you are all well and being good to yourselves...

A Quick "What I'm up to"

I'm making a cool picture for my friend Elizabeth, of Circle T Ranch Designs (on Twitter as PunkEBodin) and swapping her for some of her awesome notecards.

This is Lucky, the handsome guy I'm doing a portrait of:

and I'm basing it on this pic:

This is the sketch that I did this weekend, but then I got alll creative, so wait 'til you SEE!

It's been tricky because I never drew a black furry animal before... Hence the creative part taking over! I should have it done by no later than next week :). Thank goodness Elizabeth is patient and understanding. I think she knows it will be worth it :)

BLOSSOM Original Drawing with free Vintage Upcycled Frame 5x7

NOT the show featuring Mayim Bialik and all her funky hats... (I know, I just gave away my "eighties baby" status!!)


But something kinda nice I had drawn that finally found a niche in a vintage frame...

Finished Garden Fence Picture

GARDEN FENCE Coloring Sheet PIF Pay it Forward

This is a digital copy of the original file of my Garden Fence drawing

You may have it for .20 to color yourself or share with an aspiring artist. If you REALLY love it, we will also have the original for sale; see our shop in the next couple weeks for the completed, colorized drawing.

If you buy this item, please upload your own PIF listing, or if you do not have a shop anywhere do something nice for someone!Of course, our watermark is not in the file you receive. You will receive a nice clean, high-resolution .jpeg file via email for your coloring pleasure :)

When you pay for this item, it is emailed to you (as soon as I am notified) as a digital file and you print it out for your enjoyment in the comfort of your own home/studio :).

I thought it would be fun if you show it to me when you're done. The 10th person to show me a colorized Garden Fence drawing will get a surprise one of a kind artwork sent to them via First Class US mail !!

Motherhood and it's ... ahem ''joys"....

Bear with me, I am parenting a very wonderful beautiful teenager who knows everything :)

If anyone has any encouraging words on the ordeal sometimes imposed upon parents which label is "TEENAGE DAUGHTER", feel free to share ...

Yes, I know, it's not forever... and I DO love her....

I read this on yahoo answers, it helped a little:
I am having problems with my teenage daughter and a boy she is dating, I dont know what to do.?

But we are beyond that. Anyway.... I think I'll do some coloring of a very special picture I have been working on. I'll post a picture and link to the coloring sheet of it that you can get for 20 cents :).