Featured Artist - Barbara Furlong

Riverside Escape 282 oil painting

Lilacs & Butterfly #819 oil painting

Poppies original oil painting #809

I'd like to introduce you to a very talented artist named Barbara Furlong. She is a 4-star member on Design Style Guide. Barbara first started doing tole paintings many years ago, but soon found and fell in love with oil painting and has been using oils ever since.

Barbara Furlong not only paints beautiful paintings, but she also teaches painting classes and has done so for several years now. "Barbara took the Bob Ross certifications, times 3. After 360 hours of training she got certified in landscapes, classes from Joyce Ortner, Buck Paulson, Susan Jenkins and soon from Valerie Stewart. She also is certified 4 ways with Donna Dewberry and has taught for Donna in the past at the BEE Painting and Crafting Expo in Florida."

You can see in her paintings, how much she loves doing what she does. The beauty in her work, the soft color palette she chooses, I believe, comes from the heart of a romantic.

Going to the beach.....more artists

Still planning my trip to the coast and I found these great artists here with interiordesignteam and etsy.........

Seagull Original Oil Painting
This is an original 8x10 oil painting. Framed in an oak frame, ready to hang. I started this painting when my brother wanted to whatch me paint. Copyright remains with the artist, Brenda Thour. All rights reserved. http://luvs2paint.etsy.com

Glorious Skies - ACEO Edition
Glorious Skies is a celebration of beauty, life and hope. This image is to uplift and inspire you and remind you of all the beauty that can be found in the oddest places. Glorious Skies is in honor of that feeling of enchantment. This bubblescape is to delight you and bring you joy!ACEOs (Art Card Editions and Originals) or ATCs (Art Trading Cards) are collected as an inexpensive way to own original art. They are always 2.5" x 3.5" which is the size of trading cards. http://dianeclancy.etsy.com/

Heron, original watercolor painting

This Heron is painted colorfully, the way I like to see inside and transfer to my artwork. It is composed of many layers of blues, violets, magentas, some texture, and a touch of yellow.Heron is painted on 140 pound arches watercolor paper. It is sized to fit either an 8x10 or an 11x14 standard mat and frame. It measures 8 inches tall by 10 inches wide. http://jeanhood.etsy.com/

I hope you will visit these artists at etsy or at least search for your favorite artists with using the team tag of interiordesignteam the next time you visit etsy. Well I had better get back to painting...you may visit my etsy shop at http://paintwithbarb.etsy.com/ for all types of oil paintings.

Member Spotlight - Quilts With Heart

My member Spotlight goes to Quilts with Heart, it was a hard choice, so many members now to chose from (500 members strong). Located in Canton, Michigan, United States, they have had their etsy shop open since Feb 15, 2008. Check out their shop, http://www.quiltswithheart.etsy.com/ for great quilts of all sizes...

Here are a few of her items...

TROPICAL PUNCH QUILT (30x40)

This quilt is perfect for the baby girl who's more than just "sugar and spice and everything nice!" A really cool baby girl. Perhaps a baby girl who's mommy loves the beach, the tropics, or just hot colors! Pinwheel block fabrics are grape vine prints on turquoise and hot pink backgrounds. Split rail block fabrics are hand dyed hot pink and lime green. Backing fabric is a pale green polka dot. Binding is hot pink and lime green leaf print. Quilted in an overall vine pattern with variegated green thread.All fabric, batting and thread is designer quality 100% cotton. Quilt is machine pieced and hand-guided machine quilted, then bound by hand. Comes with new, 12 inch "TY Beanie Buddy" lamb (Meekins) holding her own, coordinating quilt. This combo makes a great baby shower gift -- guaranteed to get oohs and aahs!

RADIATING STARS QUILT (40x40)

This stunning wall hanging or lap quilt is 40 inches square and features multiple hand-dyed cotton batik fabrics. It consists of nine 12" Radiating Stars of green, purple, blue and copper on coordinating pastel backgrounds. There is a narrow gold batik inner border, and a wider green and purple outer border that matches the quilt backing. The pieced binding echoes the colors of the nearest star block. The center of each star is quilted in a square maze pattern. All background areas are densely stipple quilted, which makes the star points really "pop out" for a 3-D effect. A variegated green thread was used in the bobbin, which blends with the backing and sometimes gives a "dotted" effect on the front to echo the batik dots.The neatest thing about the Radiating Star block is the secondary patterns that emerge when the blocks are joined together; each time you look at it you see something different!

Hope you check out her shop and let her know that you heard of her thru this blog.