Satisfaction

Can you tell that I really like cupcakes and fruit? And cupcakes with fruit are the best. This little dragon seems to agree since he seems to have finished off his cupcake pretty quick and is saving the cherry to have just as soon as he doesn't feel so very full.
Until I started to look for what I wanted to post about this week, I didn't realize how often food seemed to be featured in my work. Tiny dragons and fairy cats with berries and cupcakes or a nice hot tea. I will confess that the fruit is more common for me to paint in the warm months when we are finding such beautiful berries and such in the grocery stores or growing wild on the the side of the road. And hot tea? My favorite winter treat.
Okay the apricots in the kitchen are calling..... At least I don't have cupcakes in the house to be tempting me late at night.

Sea Dragon's Treasure

Sea Dragon's Treasure is my latest stamp design being offered by Queen Kat Designs. I originally painted this cute little fellow as a book mark design. Hence his most prized possession is a book.

Lazy Dragon

My newest stamp with QKD came from an Artist Trading Card ink drawing that I did on tinted paper. My favorite thing about this drawing is how the tree becomes the frame and the little dragon's tail wraps around it. I think this is the first piece I did that with, but it has become something I have done in several of my drawings and paintings since. I like the formal framing and then having the subject blend, interact and flow beyond the frame.

Kiss The Cook

Here is another lovely card design using one of the stamps inspired by my dragon art.

Pop Dragon Card

I love this card by Kimme from the gallery at QKD. It is such a happy card with the pinks and greens. And I love how she reinforced the bubble design with the circle pattern paper.

Happy May Day

Here is a cute little dragon picking flowers for May Day. This is another fun card that can be found in the Royal Gallery over at QKD. The gallery is a seriously good place to get ideas on fun things to do with your stamps. They have a wonderful selection of designers putting their heads together to make really cool stamping projects.

End Of The Rainbow

This fellow was the result of a contest I ran on my facebook fanpage. The queen herself won with the craziest idea for a dragon painting. Our wonderful queen liked it so much he was released as a stamp before I had a chance to put a single drop of paint on him. He is an punk Irish dragon. Can you see his upside down shamrock medallion? He guards that legendary pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. And he is here just in time for St. Patrick's Day.

I am at ConDFW in Dallas this weekend showing off my stamps and artwork. So instead of the usual, here is some eye candy that I have been working on at the convention. Be back next week and I promise to be more chatty and to show you some art that inspired some cool queen kat stamps.

Dragon Sweets

I seem to be painting a lot of cupcakes these days. I have chosen to share this one with you all, because it is how I am feeling right now. We spent Saturday making pink iced cupcakes for my daughter's birthday party today. And I am tired. She got to help decorate them. She manned the sprinkles much better than I did the icing.
Dragon Sweets was created for a Pay It Forward Project that I did on my facebook fanpage last month.

Rubber Ducky

Rubber Ducky was created for the ebsq Rubber Ducky online exhibit. And of course I had to go with one of my whimsical fantasy creatures. My husband insisted that a fairy cat would not like a bubble bath, and I already did a mercat in the bath. So we have dragon. I really like his little rosy cheeks and all those bubbles.

Star Gazer

Star Gazer the painting is actually rather large for me at 11x14". I love the soothing cool colors of this one. I imagine him to be this little house dragon dreaming of what it would be like to be wild and free. But with those delicate butterfly like wings, he really is only suited to be a well loved house pet. Sort of like a well pampered house cat.
Would different colors change the feel of this design? Why don't you fine out and post your different color choices for this stamp here.

Framed Dragon

Well here is another Art nouveau inspired painting. I love the swirly things. I love an excuse to add swirly things. You might have also notice a trend of mine to pair dragon flies up with dragons. And of course pairing a fancy golden frame with cutesy dragon also makes me giggle. A bit of silliness is often a motivator for me.

Christmas Dragon

I hope you all are having a wonderful holiday season. This is my favorite holiday stamp. Is that wrong for me to admit that, when it is my own design. I made so very many gift tags last year, and I am making more this year. I have colored it so many times as tags, that I just haven't gotten around to making a painting from it. So I am sharing one of my tags instead with you all.
I hope you all are having a wonderful holiday and some joyful crafting. I need to get back to some tag making and gift wrapping myself.