Friday, December 12, 2008

Working, working, working........and yet?

Well, I've been hard at work. In the last few weeks I have been sketching and brainstorming and just spinning ideas around in my head and yet I feel as though I am just spinning my wheels around and not getting anywhere.

I've been fortunate enough to have a new venture designing a logo for a small business and I'm very excited for it. So far this has been productive but I'm still working on the conceptual sketches. This is definitely new territory for me as I haven't done custom commercial work before and it's new. Very new and while there's a part of me that is incredibly nervous and critical of myself I am loving the challenge.

And tonight I came home to the first sale in a while of my work. I've been sitting on my work for quite some time and haven't been actively marketing it. In the true spirit of an upcoming New Year I will definitely be resolving to market my work more actively.

So much that is just on the verge of "breaking out" but yet so far.......well I will just have to give it a try and hope that it's successful and that others like my work even half as much as I hope they will.

Thursday, November 20, 2008

Mischief for sale


This is a piece that I painted over a year ago and I've been holding onto. I wasn't sure for the longest time as to wether or not I could part with it but it is now time. I have now listed this little guy on Etsy and you can view the listing HERE. While I still love the piece, I think it's time that it has found a new home.

Moonlit Reflection


Another step towards waking my long sleeping self and doing more traditional art. This piece is a watercolour at 5 x 7 inches in size. This piece is very much inspired by a previous piece that I had completed and sold months back. I loved the technique and was wondering if I could recreate it. The technique was easy though and I'm very glad that I was able to do it and hopefully it will translate to other colour schemes and ideas that I have in mind for a future project.

This piece is currently featured in both my facebook group Logan's Meadow - original artwork by Lisa Rodgers and is for sale in my Etsy shop HERE.

Saturday, November 15, 2008

Playful cat....a new series

Well the other day I managed to pull out my case of coloured pencils again in an attempt at being creative. Most of my creative efforts have been of the digital variety and the traditional pieces have been a little ignored. That seems to be the way with me; I get tunnel vision with projects and while I complete a spurt with one, the others get ignored.
Well, I'm glad that I've done a bit of the more traditional paper based artwork. I find it very refreshing to sit with my pencils and some paper and see what flows out. This week it was this little kitty. Maybe it was my own new little fur friend playing near by that inspired it, but I seem to fall back on cats as a subject whenever I'm stuck. Not sure if that's a way to stay in a safe zone but I'll take it.

Now for the artwork. The first one is titled "Playful" and the second "Alley Cat". Both are created using coloured pencils on Bristol paper and are 3.5 x 2.5 inches in size. I've also listed both through my store on Etsy.


I hope you like them!

Monday, October 6, 2008

Obscure Ire



I'm on a roll....or rather I'm finally digging up past work that I never got around to posting about let alone put up for sale. This piece was created about two to three months ago, but due to my insane schedule had never posted. This piece was created while I was particularly frustrated. My life needed me to be calm and yet there I was surrounded by all this anxiety and anger from certain parts of my life. And the fairy....well that's only due to the fact that I love fairy folk. I really liked this piece and it did help me get out a few things onto paper that I was otherwise unable to express. It's for sale in my etsy shop and you can view the listing HERE

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Beauty In Lisbon

I've finally done it....after a long long long dry spell I have finished my first piece in months and I'm pretty happy with it. Last weekend I have completed my first piece, a watercolour titled "Beauty In Lisbon" and it's 8 x 10 inches in size.


This piece is now listed through my store on Etsy. View the piece and purchase it by clicking HERE

This piece is one of few larger pieces that I have done, however I felt it suitable for this piece. It was inspired from a picture I took while on vacation this spring in Europe. I have a thing for decorated balconies and there was quite the abundance there.

Saturday, September 20, 2008

Logan's Meadow is now on Facebook!

Come and check it out, Logan's Meadow now has it's very own group on Facebook. The group is open to new members and I would love to have you there. Through this group I will keep everyone updated with new works, as well as a taste of the gallery I have up on my actual site.

You can join or simply view the group Here

Thanks for looking!

Site Update

Well folks.....I'm admitting defeat. I had grand illusions of having my own store within my own site but unfortunately due to complications known as life (ha ha!!) I don't have the time to design and maintain the webstore I had in mind. So for the sake of simplicity and my sanity, I have decided to re-launch my shop on Etsy. You can view my shop at http://www.logansmeadow.etsy.com.

I will also be launching a group on Facebook in the near future. I'll be sure to keep you posted.

Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Upcoming changes to logansmeadow.com

Well, I'm one month into my second year of the site....and I'm excited with the growth I have planned! So far I'm very happy with the new look and feel of the site. To me, it's simple and reflects the work beautifully. Last year I decided to stop selling on both ebay and etsy as I was getting tired of paying fee after fee after fee. I've had to step back and evaluate where I want to take the site.

I am currently in the middle of setting up a store through the site. Right now I'm still in the starting stages researching layouts and ideas on how to present it. I'm close, very close. Keep looking and checking out the site. The new store should be launched in the next two weeks.

And as for ebay and etsy.....well I will do the occasional listing to help compliment the site. I'll be sure to keep everyone posted when this does happen. Thanks to any who do follow my work and the evolution of this site as you support is very greatly appreciated!

Sunday, May 4, 2008

Logan's Meadow receives a new "look"


Tonight I finally did it. I finally relaunched the new look for my website Logan's Meadow. After a while of researching a colour scheme and layout I feel reflects me a little better than the old. After many nights of edits, re-doing the layouts and transferring code, it's done.

the only thing left to do is to launch my own shopping cart/store for the site. Ultimately I wish to be free of relying on others, just as I stated in my last posting. This major addition though will have to wait until next month due to a major lack of time until then.

So, with that said, please visit my site and feel free to let me know what you think!

http://www.logansmeadow.com

Thursday, May 1, 2008

Stepping forward......

The last two nights I have become very happy with myself. Well, let's not quite say happy but definitely more accomplished. The last two nights I have found myself actively revamping my website. I am done talking and I am actually doing. The first step was renewing my domain logansmeadow.com, and next will be the hosting. All will be done soon and you'll be happy to know I will definitely be sticking around for at least another year.

Not only that but I have found a design that I can work with and the site will be undergoing a MAJOR facelift and change once my hosting company finally settle moving it's servers. I've done away with a few pages and tweaked those that remain. I'll also be exploring new ideas for selling my work directly from my site and doing away with paying others to showcase my work. Don't get me wrong, I do plan on keeping my Etsy shop, but it will help direct traffic to my site directly rather than be the main storefront for my shop.

So if you take anything from this entry above all else let it be that I'm sticking around and I'm only going to get better!

*now excuse me while I get to some housework that has suffered while I threw myself into the site design ~lol~

Friday, April 4, 2008

Diggin' those big blue eyes.....

Okay, I'll be the first to admit. Cats are NOT an unfamiliar subject. These folksy creations seem to be a constant with me but for good reason. These cuties help get the creativity going and they are really fun to create. I'm hoping to create enough of these to consider them an actual series. Once that is done I'll be able to incorporate them into my plans for my website in the coming months......

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Royal Eyes

Thanks for looking!

Thursday, April 3, 2008

Dusting off my art supplies....

....and creating! This week my husband has been really stretched at work with late late nights that have left the kids and I pretty stretched as well. Tonight instead of stressing I brought out my trusty ol' watercolour pencils, markers and acrylic paints. While the two pieces I came up with weren't anything of a real challenge to me, it was very therapeutic.

Windy Tree
Windy Tree

AngelEyes
Angel Eyes

Now if only this creativity will hold and produce some more ideas......

Sunday, March 16, 2008

My adventures in Digital Art....

Well I have finally gotten my butt in gear and painted something! Although this is not to be considered "traditional" art, it is however still art. This piece was created digitally using my wacom pen tablet, Corel Painter 4 and Corel Paintshop Pro. It is completely drawn by hand with the exception of the bursts of reflective light and light bursts, which were created with Paintshop filters.

I am very proud of this piece. I feel that I am expanding my art even more by learning this new method of creating and I am thrilled with it!

Sunday, March 2, 2008

The future of Logan's Meadow

Hello everyone.......

Well things have stopped completely regarding my art shortly around Christmas. Well that is until just last week. I have begun getting more into digital art in the form of signature tags and learning to design my own digital scrap kits (to use in signature tags). Unfortunately due to that and life I have grossly ignored my more traditional art and the site, this blog and my effort into sales has since stopped.

That truth out of the way I would like to offer my most sincere apologies. I feel as though I have not only neglected my art but any who have been following it. I never intended to ignore it as much as I have....but that is changing.

Logan's Meadow, the website will be undergoing some large changes in the next two months. The gallery will be going through some renovations and I will be eliminating the auctions page as I have no desire to list through ebay anymore due to the recent joke of an enhancement that they have announced will be made to their feedback system this coming May. I will be looking into adding my own shopping cart and I still have yet to decision wether I will continue to list through Etsy.com

So please, stay tuned and I am hoping to get this all figured out in the near future. I will be sure to post updates as soon as they are available.

Thursday, January 10, 2008

Cycle for Darfur

Once in a while, if we're very lucky, we meet someone who is incredibly inspiring. I'm not talking about inspiring as in "that art moved me and inspired this next great piece of art". The kind of inspiring I am speaking of is the kind that makes you want to change the world.

Recently this friend of mine has taken on one huge effort to help raise awareness for Darfur. She intends to do this by cycling all the way from Ottawa to Toronto while stopping to help raise awareness for the people of Darfur's situation and dire need of assistance.

To learn more about Lee's cause and how you can help her raise awareness for such a humbling cause you can visit the following links:

http://www.givemeaning.com/community/World/type/All/page/1/cause/4333/darfur