http://thaneeya.com/wordpress www.thaneeya.com Thu, 09 Jul 2009 03:26:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en How cool is this?! It's a set design for the musical THE WIZ, performed at West Haven High School in West Haven, CT, USA. The director was Margi Maher and the set designer was Sean Maher. Sean took inspiration for his beautiful set design from my painting, Shiny Happy Landscape.  I absolutely love ... http://thaneeya.com/wordpress/the-wiz-set-design-for-the-musical/ I just finished writing a new tutorial for Art is fun.  This is a drawing lesson about How to Draw a Rose! Here are the basic steps that I demonstrate in the drawing lesson: Many thanks to Tambako for allowing me to use his lovely rose photo as a reference for this ... http://thaneeya.com/wordpress/how-to-draw-a-rose/ Lately I've had Day of the Dead on the brain, mainly because I've been working on Day of the Dead articles and tutorials for Art is Fun.  The other night, after I'd been preparing tutorials for Day of the Dead art projects, I laid in bed thinking about skulls and those ... http://thaneeya.com/wordpress/day-of-the-dead-thoughts/ Fancy a splash of color in your Twitter background?  My colorful abstract paintings will add a fiesta of color and fun to your Twitter page!  There are many different images you can choose from.  You can see a sample of my free Twitter backgrounds below. Download your free Thaneeya McArdle Twitter ... http://thaneeya.com/wordpress/thaneeya-mcardle-twitter-backgrounds/ Boy, do I feel a bit like a dolt... I've been on Twitter since last October (4 months ago now).  Just now I was just fiddling around on it, and I happened to click on @Replies for the very first time, thinking, "Hmm, what's this?"  And I was flabbergasted to ... http://thaneeya.com/wordpress/twittering/ Many thanks to Jed & Brandy at LuellaLuella.com for featuring my artwork!  Glad they liked my About Me page as well.  Click the image below to check out this fun site:   http://thaneeya.com/wordpress/my-art-on-luella/ Fiddling with Photoshop the other day, I put together this photo of me that was taken this past Christmas, with my drawing Unraveling the Telescopic Mind Incident.  I made two versions, and I'm not sure which one I prefer.  Any opinions?  I like them both!  http://thaneeya.com/wordpress/self-portraits/ I recently received an email from an art student who wanted to ask some questions about myself and my art, so I thought I'd share the answers here! Why did you decide to become an artist? I've always loved art, and it always came naturally to me.  I also have a lot of ... http://thaneeya.com/wordpress/art-questions/ Hi there!  I hope 2009 is treating everyone well so far.  I'm thrilled to announce that my new art website is now officially live, on the air, on the interspace and zooming from my fingertips to your noggin!  Yeah! Please do check it out: www.art-is-fun.com ! This site is a true labor ... http://thaneeya.com/wordpress/art-is-fun/ I just designed a groovy new t-shirt featuring the spiral of psychedelic eyes from my drawing, Unravelling the telescopic mind incident: Available for purchase here. Looks pretty cool in black and white too: Available for purchase here. http://thaneeya.com/wordpress/cosmic-eyes-t-shirt/