Follower of Jesus, lover of nature and all things creative. To see and buy my art go to ann-pimblott.pixels.com.
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Marketing: A Whole New World
Since I started to sell my art a few weeks ago I have been exposed to a whole new world of marketing. My iPhone and iPad are full of google searches with questions about how to use Pinterest, how to link Facebook posts to Instagram and what are the best photo collage apps to use.…
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Travel Posters
Blue Mountain Blue mountain is a mixed media piece inspired by a 1930’s travel poster. About 5 years ago I purchased a file of about 40 travel posters from the 1920’s and 1930’s. I love the bold colors and often geometric shapes that they contain. So far I have only painted two of them but…
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Selling my Art
It’s taken me a long time to pluck up the courage to sell my art, but a few weeks ago I took the plunge. I opened a Fine Art America store with my own website where anyone can buy prints of my original paintings or decor items like pillows and tapestries. I am really enjoying…
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Keeping a Sketchbook
Keeping a sketchbook helps to keep track of creative ideas that can be used in other works of art. It is also a good place to practice drawing or new techniques. It doesn't have to be pretty or perfect it's a great place to make mistakes and just experiment. If you don't draw you can…
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CREATIVITY
Kevin “You know that mustache stamp you bought recently.” Me “yes” Kevin “well it's now part of the car door”. It turns out that the window of the car had fallen inside the door and the mustache stamp was the perfect fit to hold it up again. A $1.50 short term fix for a…
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Create time to Create.
Something I have learned in recent times regarding creativity is ” You don’t have to wait for inspiration before you begin. Inspiration comes when you begin.” For me once I make a start whether that might be cutting out pictures from magazines, painting a few canvasses with background colors or looking through my art materials…
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How sweet it is ………
Here is my latest picture most of it is a painting and collage on a canvas but then I finished it by taking a photo and importing it into the Sketch Club App. I colored in the letters and added some finishing touches. Posted with Blogsy
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Hiding Place
Woke up with these words in my ears yesterday, “Hide yourself in Me”. As I was pondering this I thought about the purpose of hiding places, to hide from an enemy, to hide from a storm, to hide from distractions in order to focus. God wants to be this kind of shelter for us all.…
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Autumn Morning
“Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the tawny leaves and withered hedges, and from repeating to herself some few of the thousand poetical descriptions extant of autumn–that season of peculiar and inexhaustible influence on…
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Blessings of the Season
The cooler weather is coming, the nights are beginning to draw in and soon we will turn our clocks back. Every year I struggle to work out whether I lose an hours sleep or gain an hour, it’s gain an hour, isn’t it? It’s the time of year for getting together with my friends at…