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For starters, I am working on fulfilling my dream on making this freelance art hobby into a freelance art business.
It has been more of  my life-long dream that I will experience  a very good "exposure", fame, and not to forget, many sales as an artist. So far, I am putting out more and more of my paintings and signs for people to both see and to buy.

Thank you and blessings,

Mary Compton Aikens, Artist  :-)

Be Who You Want To Be: Learning From Mistakes

Be Who You Want To Be: Learning From Mistakes: Picture this: While walking in the mall, you see a toddler struggling to walk properly. In your mind you think, "Isn't she so cute ... oh, c...

Bass Fishin'

Bass Fishin'

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Simply Soaring

                                          (Note: This painting (top) replaces the one below
                                           because I put more emphasis on the dragonfly as
                                           well putting more "Pop" in the painting.  Thank you!)

"Simply Soaring"


This painting is about a dragonfly that is just "simply soaring" over water lilies and pads that
are sitting over the water.   Around fourteen years ago, my husband bought a necklace with
a dragonfly pendant which he still has.  At first, I was not exactly fond of dragonflies which 
is mainly because of its name, but I saw that it is actually a beautiful type of fly that I forgot
what it actually symbolizes.  However, I have for a very long time found that there is some-
thing very special about water lilies beside my strong liking to Monet's paintings of water 
lilies.  It is that those beautiful flowers went through some slime and muck before they ever 
blossomed.  Now, that is inspirational to me because it is a comparison of how we must 
go through the "yucky stuff" before we can ever blossom from the help of the Lord, Jesus Christ.  

P. S. I redid this painting because the one on the bottom gave me a rather incomplete feeling as well
 I strongly felt as though I needed to add some extra "pop" to this painting.  This is what I call my
 "Painting Revival" which is to add more "Uumph" & "Pop" to the original painting.)

* Size: 8" W X 6" H

* Medium: Mixed with Oil on Canvas Panel
   (*NOTE: I painted this picture tonight, and the paint is wet since I painted it in oil. - 06/21/2012)

* Price: $50.00 (Currency Converter)

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Mug, Favorite, Polka-Dot Challenge, Daily Paintworks Challenges, Prized item

                       "Favorite Prized Mug"

     This was a real prized mug to and for me since my husband, George, gave it to me as a gift.  If I correctly remember, both of us saw this and other mugs in a shop in Fairhope, Alabama around December 1994.  I really "oohed-and-aahed" over it as well begging George to buy it for me - which he did.  It was around Autumn in 1995 when I entered in a contest named "Favorite Mug" through WALA, then Channel 10, Television station in Mobile, Alabama.   All I need to do was to send the picture of the mug, myself holding the mug, and write a story about why does this mug hold such a very special meaning to me.  Then, I went ahead with all of the necessary requirements.  One day within a month or so, I received the letter stated that my mug was the winner.  It was hard to tell who was more elated, me or my husband, George.  My prize was a bag of coffee along with the recognition on that same television program on a weekday morning show.  For more pictures on me and this mug, please see this FaceBook reference address below:

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1455957966573&set=a.1213804632891.2028319.1462056450&type=3

* Media: Acrylic on Masonite Board                                     

* Size:  4 3/4" W X 6 3/4" H

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Loch-Nessie

"Loch-Nessie" is actually a study of the "Crumpled Paper Challenge" from Daily Paintworks.  This particular "monster" had a model which was a brown paper bag from a sandwich shop, and I tore it into uneven three pieces.  After that, I twisted and formed them into the image close to what I wanted of them.  The main reason why I am finding intriguing about the Lochness Monster is that "she" arches her body both above and beneath the water's surface.  Yes, I did see many programs including "Unsolved Mysteries" on television regarding this particular "beast" and her sightings...

* 7" W X 5" H

* Acrylic on Clay-board

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* $10.00 (S/H)


    

Green Apple In Red Lunch Box

"Green Apple In Red Lunch Box" is from the "Pare Down Apple Challenge" that must be painted with the least amount of paint strokes.  I consider myself blessed to have taken a summer course on tole painting when I was still a teenager in the 1970's.  This type of painting method made it more simpler and enjoyable.
I also started to do "finger-painting" on the red lunch box to make the colors and folds to "pop" out more in this picture.

* Acrylic on Gessoed Masonite

* 6" W X 6" H

* $45.00 (Currency Converter)

* $10.00 (S/H)