Gabi the painter

Gabi the painter has been hiding.

When Gabi the painter started this blog in 2009 she didn't really know what she was doing, she needed a place to ramble randomly and didn't like Facebook notes, she wanted a place to post fun pictures and be able to write and do funny things with links... And a place to post fun pictures.


(he will ask me to take this down in 3... 2...)

Gabi the painter had recently graduated from college and was fresh with technical skill and art ideas from the classes she'd taken.  She didn't yet feel like an intruder in her parent's home, and wasn't feeling burned out from the ridiculous work that was ahead of her.  And she painted a few times, and posted about it...
And then Gabi the painter, like, died?  You know, shit happens.


👻  But now she's back!  And she's painting.  And drawing.  And she has this new modern thing called "Instagram", with upwards of 500 followers!  Which doesn't seem like a lot but it kind of is.  And is doing commission work, for people who love her work.  Who knew!

And this so-called "art studio" blog kind of returns to it's roots, because I want to paint, and I HAVE NO STUDIO.  Lol.  I'm desperate to go home and have a studio.  But this time, I will actually paint in it, AND melt glass.  Possibly even at the same time!  Who knows.  But I'm back, bitches.

Here's one more pic, because I can.  More on that later.

It's Moo!

It's like a cow's opinion!

JK they're actually the awesome company that does my printing for Pincel de Fuego, and I swear this is not an advertisement for them... I'm just excited about new stickers and plans.  

So... I bought packaging for Cali and put the little round stickers on all the little containers and ran out of stickers.  

I went online to print new stickers and oh man, it was Black Friday!  So I kind of went all out designing new stickers and I decided I was fiiiinally going to try their sticker books with adorably tiiiny stickers too.  

Have you seen my proper website gabiloraine.com?  Well anyway now everything is gathered there, so that's all the information needed for my new stickers!  I kind of wish I'd put the link in the small stickers too, but I kind of made those in a hurry, so next time.  

I ordered from their US store straight to Cali Colombia, and the order arrived SO fast!  Like less than a week.  I didn't have to order to Florida and forward to Panama and pay extra shipping or anything insane like that.  It literally got to my door.  I love Colombia.  Fuck you Panama, I'm never coming back.  JK of course I'll be back in July.

So cute!  I got super excited and started sticking them around right away and made super cute Christmas wrap.

ooooh, shiiiny - I LOVE this paper which I got at Bodegas Ilusión. 

Another thing I got excited about is that now Moo offers a sample pack, which is free and since I was already placing an order, I just added it on.  (It bumped my shipping fee by $0.75... which is not the end of the world)  Basically the sample pack is a pack of the business cards they make in most of the variations possible.  So you can physically appreciate the format, the quality of the paper, glossiness, etc.  And they're beautiful.  

This gave me the bright idea to change the format of the cards I've been using.  If you've seen my work, you've seen my tiny business cards with different pictures of my work on them.  ... well you might have also seen the little fliers I made a couple of years ago.  Anyway..  seeing the sample pack and comparing it side to side with my fliers gave me the idea to make new cards.  

And the next day I basically woke up and knew what I would do, and began sketching.  

See... in the sample pack they included these three cards... which demonstrate the textures they offer, which I haven't used before with the mini cards.  

 

So I took a 6H pencil and hatched in the parts which I'm going to want to be raised gloss...  I'm excited, but I'm not making these until I need them.  Because, economy.  And other reasons.

Fun times!  I really liked their square cards and the sample pack experience in general. 

Three new earring pairs...

Last night I made three new earring pairs!

Out of which two pairs are for sale... 

Check these out at my Etsy page.  Click here.

These beads are different on both sides :)

I love the coiled silver hoops.

textures...

Purple earrings!  Because we can't have enough purple... These are really long and flirty.  Check them out at the Etsy store!  Click.

 

The garnet is just gorgeous...

And finally these... which are not for sale.  These are mine!  This is the second pair of earrings I actually make for myself so far... :)  Aren't they cute?  Because... I am the walrus.

I fell in love with these beads... I don't even know why I love them so much... they weren't even that hard to make.  ...I don't know.

I am the walrus!!!

 Ta-da!

Lampworking day #354. Wire loops and cooky birds.

I made three new earring pairs on Tuesday!  Trying out something different.  :)  Let me know if you think these are cool!  :)

Super colourful!  Do they remind you of anything? 

Then with these I wanted to kind of continue the same idea of the wire loop from the previous pair, but in a different way...  (upside down)  These are very different from one another.  The loops are somewhat different sizes, for starters, and then also one has 5 beads and the other has 3.  The small purple beads are garnett.  Everything else is obviously sterling silver and glass. 

And last but certainly not least... COOKY BIRDS! 

The birds were very carefully crafted in glass!  The clear cubic beads are citrine. 

So full of character... these will be up on Etsy soon. 

Their little tails.

And with that... I go.  I hope you enjoyed.

Much love!