The orange and indigo fish complete my rainbow betta fish project. These pieces are currently hanging at Casciano in Hammonton.
The Roy G. Fish complete set:
Orange and Indigo
July 19, 2013 at 3:12 am (art news, watercolor on paper)
Tags: animal, art, artist, arts, beautiful, betta, bright, brush, color, fish, fish project, indigo, ink, jen tracy, life, nature, orange, paint, painter, painting, paintings, pen, pet, rainbow, water, watercolor
I’m Alive!
May 15, 2013 at 10:06 pm (art news)
Tags: alien, art, artist, icecream, jen tracy, life, news, paint, painter, painting, pink, print, reddit, reddit gifts, redditgifts, sale, spill, splat, strawberry, you broke reddit
I am alive, but it was a close call. Due to a kidney ordeal and an emergency c-section, I spent some time in the hospital. We also bought a new house. My scanner is missing in some yet to be opened box. When it rains, it pours I guess.
No new art, due to missing scanner. BUT I am selling at a new venue. My Etsy shop is still running. Now I also sell at Reddit Gifts! My first month on Reddit Gifts was very lucrative. I hope for a bright future.
‘You Broke Reddit’ print available here!
Thought You Should Know
October 17, 2012 at 1:25 pm (art news)
Tags: art, artist, baby, ink, jen, life, mom, mommy, mother, new, new one, paint, painter, painting, paper, pen, positive, pregnancy, pregnant, stick, test, tracy, watercolor
A Few Things to Mention
August 30, 2012 at 4:53 pm (art news)
Tags: blog, bright, color, etsy, fire, fun, gamer, geek, ghast, ghost, ink, jen tracy, little big planet, minecraft, nether, nexus, paint, paintings, paper, pen, promotion, sack boy, social media, tumblr, watercolor
I’ve started a tumblr. If you’ve seen all my blog posts, my tumblr will not offer you anything new. Mainly, I am posting paintings that I feel are worth revisiting. In blog format, a lot of my work gets buried. I understand my tumblr will eventually face the same problem. But for now, consider it a highlight reel for pieces that I am particularly fond of.
Also, I still participate in The Etsy Gamer’s Game of the Month. Prints and originals of my Game of the Month entries are available in my Etsy shop. Below are my entries for Little Big Planet and Minecraft.
Alley Art: Discovering Wabi-Sabi
August 3, 2012 at 7:42 pm (art news, watercolor on paper)
Tags: 2012, alley, artist, bright, color, event, gallery, great bay, great bay art gallery, ink, jen, jen tracy, lane, miller, new jersey, paint, painter, painting, paper, plein air, reception, sabi, shore, somers point, summer, town, tracy, trash can, travel, wabi, watercolor
The Great Bay Art Gallery’s summer show is opening this evening. The reception is 5-8pm. I’m honored to be one of the twenty something artists and poets participating in the invitation only exhibition. Each artist or poet was assigned one of Somers Point’s allies. We each created art or poetry about the alley. Our focus was to find beauty in decay. The alley I was assigned was Miller Lane, the closest alley to the gallery. Here are the watercolor paintings I created on site this summer:
Green Bins. Watercolor and Ink on Paper. 5″ x 5″
$200.00
Purple Bins. Watercolor and Ink on Paper. 5″ x 5″.
$200.00
Sun Kissed. Watercolor and Ink on Paper. 5″ x 7″
$275.00
And my least “Wabi-Sabi” of the four:
A Glance Down Miller Lane. Watercolor and Ink on Paper. 5″ x 7″.
$275.00
A Break from Sin
February 3, 2012 at 2:57 am (art news)
Tags: art, artist, beauty, dead, died, dies, dorothea, life, news, sad, surrealism, tanning
I’m interrupting the seven deadly sins project for a very sad announcement. Earlier this week, Dorothea Tanning died at the age of one hundred and one. She was a founding member of the surrealist movement. She was an influential in the art world for eight decades. I do not say this lightly, she is my favorite artist of all time. The world is a little less beautiful without her.
Thank you, Dorothea, for doing what you did.
Censorship Ruins Everything
January 18, 2012 at 11:38 pm (art news)
Tags: action, art, artist, black, blackout, censorship, etsy, freedom, google, hair, ink, internet, nude, paint, painter, painting, petition, pinterest, pipa, protest, reddit, senate, sopa, woman, wordpress
My freedom to express myself is precious. Today, I closed my Etsy shop and stayed off Twitter. I was a proud participant of the blackout to protest SOPA and PIPA. Other participants were Google, Reddit, Etsy, Pinterest, Imgur, WordPress, and Wikipedia. This is a big deal. The Internet is very important to my career. If these bills pass, I will no longer be able to show my work directly to my audience. If you’ve been following my blog for the past few years, you know I feel the Internet is the creative person’s best friend. Please take a moment to sign this petition. If you have a couple minutes, call your Senators. Our freedom of speech is at stake.
Battle Bot
November 10, 2011 at 6:17 pm (art news, Concept Art, ink on paper, Sketches)
Tags: art, artist, bear, black, brunette, cartoon, cat, celebration, chair, comfy, cupcakes, decoration, feature, fine, gallery, glamour shoes, green, illustration, jen, life, paint, painting, purple, robe, robot, self portrait, shop art direct, steam punk, tea party, tracy, white, woman
Nothing to see here, just me and my giant Ham-bot.
When it rains, it pours. Not only do I have two separate gallery openings this Friday night, but today my work was featured in Shop Art Direct and Glamour Shoes. Look at me go!
November News
November 2, 2011 at 10:30 pm (art news, watercolor on paper)
Tags: announcement, architect, art, artist, blue, branch, chimney, city, exhibition, fence, fine, flag, gallery, gate, home, house, jen, leauge, leaves, life, marmora, ocean, orange, plant, porch, show, sidewalk, sky, street, tracy, tree, victorian, wash, wire, woman
Two of my paintings were accepted into the Ocean City Arts Center‘s Annual Juried Art Show. I also have a few pieces showing at the Ocean City Fine Arts League‘s Anything Goes Show. Both receptions are this Friday evening, so if you’re in the area please stop in.
Maybe Marmora. Watercolor and ink on cotton paper. 7″ x 5.5″.
Unframed: $225.00
Dribbble Dave
March 25, 2011 at 1:02 am (art news, Graphic Design, photoshop, portrait, watercolor on paper)
Tags: abstract, art, artist, ashmen, blue, color, design, draft, dribbble, Facebook, friend, graphic, illustration, interaction, internet, invite, jen, life, networking, paint, painting, portrait, shot, social, social network, tracy, twitter, yellow
Artists today are some of the luckiest of all time. The internet has afforded artists the ability to speak directly to their audience, without the filter of an art dealer or gallery. Immediately after finishing a work I can post it online. The work will be seen by hundreds of people before it is even a day old. While there is nothing like looking at a painting in person, social networking allows artists to share exactly what they are creating while they are creating it.
I am a huge fan of what sites like Twitter, Facebook, Deviant Art, My Space, and Flickr have done for contemporary creatives. Recently, I was invited to join Dribbble. Dribbble is like Twitter, but for designers and illustrators. Updates are called “shots,” as they are small screen shots of your current work. There are a lot of basketball references (not all of which I understand). I was lucky enough to get “drafted” to Dribbble by the very visually talented David Everly. To show Dave my gratitude, I painted the following abstract portrait of Dave’s current Twitter avatar.
Dribbble Dave. Watercolor and ink on paper. 6″ x 5″.
Jennifer Tracy 