Original Art by VAST ETSY team

I created this collection of Original artworks by my friend Artists from the VAST ETSY team.Feel free to click on each image to go to the individual artist shop.You will be amazed at the variety and quality of their work.

Tulips

Spring is in the air.The temperatures are rising, the trees and flowers are blooming.
Tulips, one of my favorite flower.
There is a place not too fahr from where we live in the Fraser River Valley, it's called VALLEY OF THE TULIPS. My husband and I took our dear friend Bill to see the tulips. What a show, breathtaking.

Art-By-Betty-Refour

It is time to feature another great artist and WWAO friend, Betty Refour.




I have been drawing for as long as I can remember. My favorite color as a child was yellow orange. It had to be on everything I drew. I wanted to be a Fashion Designer. Coco Chanel was my idol. I loved the classic style to her designs. I went to design school and after I finished when I couldn't get a job as a Head Designer :), I pursued other interests. Some 15 years later after a back injury I started painting as a form of therapy. In the years since attending school I continued to draw, but I had never painted. When a friend asked me to design a card for her baby shower I got the idea to put my artwork on cards.
I lost my grandmother to Breast Cancer, my mother to Myeloma and my sister Rose has Autism so I am always looking for ways to advocate for these causes.

Rose and I are both primarily self taught and our work can be found in collections around the world. Rose is mostly non verbal and will often use art to express herself.

Visit my blogs: artbybettyrefour.blogspot.com
noteworthycrafts.blogspot.com

My eBay Store: http://stores.ebay.com/Art-By-Betty-Refour
My websites: http://www.noteworthycrafts.com
http://www.bettyrefour.com
Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/brefour
Trunkt: http://www.trunkt.org/bettyrefour

Jean Levert Hood

Jean is a very talented artist, whom I admire greatly.




I paint with bold, clean strokes, thick with rich, sometimes surprising, colors that express what I see and feel when painting. My hope is that in the end I have engaged the emotions of those who look at my work.

I begin long before I pick up my brushes using design and composition principles to outline the work. I then paint with abandon and joy. The resulting work shows my personal application of impressionism with a minimalist quality.

Often inspiration comes from what I see walking on my ranch on the historically rich, brushy edge of the Texas Hill Country. Here daily, I encounter constant contrasts and variety in texture and color - the dichotomy of harmony and discord; lushness and barrenness; serenity and energy.

My challenge is to show the complexity of creation by painting intimate, personal portraits of nature. Whether choosing a landscape or still life, close observation reveals the ordinary as extraordinary.

My website shows my larger works:
www.JeanLevertHood.com
my blog address is:
www.jeansartblog.com

Favorite artist

This is one of my favourite artists.