I had a few wood panels sitting around the studio and I decided to bust out the oil pastels and do a little landscape painting.  These are really fun for me.  I love blending and layering colors with the oil pastels.  I may try a few more of these soon. First, I laid a coat of gesso down and then did an undercoat of red-orange acrylic paint.  I then used Sennelier oil pastels to finish it out.  It's like painting with lipstick. They are the best oil pastels I've found!  The picture above doesn't quite do the colors justice....I need to figure out some better ways to photograph these.  I really didn't make a point to photograph it perfectly but any photo suggestions or tips would be greatly  appreciated!!
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Here is an photo envelope I collaged for one of my ETSY customers.  I try to put some of my own artistic flair into my packaging for my customers.  This was one I sent out to Switzerland.....Looks like Junky Trinkets has made it to Europe!

I have decided to buy the domain name www.junkytrinkets.com and have it link up to the blog.  I wanted to make it easy for people to remember and streamline it a little bit. Previous JT bookmarks or typing in http://www.junkytrinkets.blogspot.com/ will still get you here too...so no worries!  I'm in the process of some serious brainstorming sessions for what I want Junky Trinkets to ultimately become.  I am going to try a few new things next year with the blog and I'll be asking for feedback from my loyal readers (if I have any).  So spread the word and try out the new address.

Here are a couple of my Old 97's t-shirt designs that I came up with for their contest which ends today.  I've got a few others entered with different color schemes.  Big thanks to Cory over at Dusted Juke who helped me with some of the computer graphics stuff. So if you win the contest, they mass produce the shirts and people all over the counrty will be sporting them.....that would be sweet!  Even if these don't win, they may end up being some of the guinea pigs for the new YUDU machine which is still in the box!  Wish me luck!

Above is my latest original artwork purchase.  It's a small 3 x 5 oil painting titled Down That Road painted by Erin Spencer.  I can't wait to get it.  It will be my second Erin Spencer piece to own.  Here is the other one.  Make sure you check out Erin's cool blog and her Etsy shop.  I have a feeling I'll be picking up a few more of these in the future!