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I’ve added two new poppy themed prints to my Etsy store – brighten up your week and your walls with some new art!

And use the coupon code POPPIES to take 15% off ANY order, just in time for the holidays. Code is good through December 21st, which is also the last day I’ll be shipping orders until the new year!

It is seriously this easy. Register online and vote!

I’m having a giveaway with some awesome art, because I got such an amazing outpouring of support from my sales posts last week and I wanted to do something to say thank you! Besides saying, THANK YOU!!

I’ve got an original pencil drawing and some posters with the artwork I did for Rosin Coven’s last album! And a previously unavailable print! And gift certificates to my shop!

The giveaway will run from now until 10pm PST on Sunday, September 2nd.
I will randomly select 3 winners from all entries:

#1 will receive the original pencil drawing, a poster, an 8.5×11 print of “Eve”, and their choice of one free item* from my Etsy shop.

#2 will receive a poster, an 8.5×11 print of “Eve”, and their choice of one free item from my Etsy shop.

#3 will receive an 8.5×11 print of “Eve”, and their choice of one free item from my Etsy shop.

How do you enter the drawing??
Each person can have up to 3 entries, and there are 4 possible ways to enter!

1 . Purchase any item from my Etsy Shop and write “GIVEAWAY” in the notes-to-seller! Or if you’ve EVER made a purchase from my Etsy shop in the past, drop me a message/email/etc to let me know and you will be qualified!

2. Reblog! 

3. Tweet!

4. Share on Facebook! 

Limited to 1 entry per method (so no need to be spammy!) and up to 3 total entries per person. If you choose the Twitter or Facebook sharing, please hit me up with a note or message so I don’t miss your entry!

And if get over 200 entries, I will draw a total of five winners and add more previously unavailable prints to the prize! More details on that if it happens! ;)

*Prints listed as a set will count as ‘one item’

I don’t sell my originals very often – and they are few and far between since most of my art is digital – but money is tight this month so it’s time to let some go. I’m also offering a HUGE 50% discount in my Etsy Shop – read on for the coupon code!

I’m offering three original paintings:

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Just got back from seeing “Attack the Block”! I love a good sci-fi horror flick, especially when it’s something different. To set the scene without too many spoilers, we encounter our main characters in the act of a mugging – a young nurse, Sam, is accosted by a group of teenage thugs while she’s walking home late at night. In the midst of this, something blasts down from the sky, smashing a car and interrupting them long enough for Sam to escape. The boys investigate and discover a monkey-like creature, and when it attacks their leader, Moses, they hunt it down. And so the invasion begins, and more and more creatures begin to hurtle down from the sky like the meteors. Sam and her teenage assailants end up having to work together to defend themselves and their home, a housing project in South London, from a terrifying alien invasion.

I enjoyed the fact that the heroes in this movie weren’t really heroes. I did find them to be sympathetic, because even if they weren’t necessarily good people, they were represented as real people. The kids were forced to face and take responsibility for the things they did, both mugging Sam and killing the first alien that arrived. It was as much a coming of story as it was a sci-fi horror. And I like movies and stories with unconventional, anti-heroes. I’m seeing it billed as a comedy, and it did have a few good laughs, but unless there was a lot going over my head because I’m not British (or unless a straightforward British horror is not allowed to have any comedy in it what-so-ever?) I wouldn’t go to see it expecting a comedy, even a dark one. Most of the jokes are in the trailer.  But also don’t go expecting a movie that takes itself too seriously. It’s not a movie to be over-analyzed. It was a fun, tense horror movie, with a lot of jumpy scares and action, just enough gore to make you squirm, and a great soundtrack by Basement Jaxx.

I also have to mention the fantastic minimalist poster design above. I haven’t been able to track down the name of the artist who designed it, but I will add that info when I find it.

Good friend and brilliant artist Kitsune encouraged me that the too-dark background of the first attempt at painting The Messengers would be great as a texture, and I decided that I wanted to share it! Click on the image above for the zipped PSD, 2508×2738 at 300dpi

Or click here!

Meredith commissioned a chrysanthemum tattoo design from me a short while back, and she just sent me a photo of the finished product!

How awesome is that? I love the vibrant colors! Thanks for sharing, Meredith!