I have a separate page just for my art on Facebook. Connect with me there! I will try and keep this blog updated, but I occasionally post more frequent updates on my Facebook page. Here's the link if you want to "like" it :)

https://www.facebook.com/JeleneArt

I hope to see you there!

Also, I'm been updating my zazzle shop with new products, since I've neglected to do so for so long... They have some pretty cute items they've added! I love the new watch styles. So cute! Go check it out if you can... http://www.zazzle.com/jeleneart/

See some samples below!

I'm so excited about my designs that were produced into shirts for Palmetto Traditions! I was asked to make some exclusive "Carolina Girl" designs for the store. The sketches started off with this design shown here to the left...

The other designs are shown below, including two designs with "southern sayings."

If you are interested in purchasing one, you can through the Palmetto Traditions website here.

Hello again. Let me reintroduce myself. My name is Jelene. I was a former artist. I made things. Lots of things. All mediums. On all types of surfaces. My favorite and most simple of mediums, was a Black Sharpie and some white smooth card stock.

What happened? Why am I no longer creating? I'm sitting here on a Friday night, well... Saturday morning, at 2:18 am. First I was watching Ghost Adventures in the dark, but that's beside the point. What got me finally thinking about my website, after it's long 10 month neglect, was finding a simple drawing of mine. A drawing I made of my grandfather and me fishing in Lake Murray. I was about 9 years old. It was a pencil drawing on a tiny notepad. I thought that I needed to make something again... but I first thought, I really need to do something to my poor old website that I've had since 1997.

I've always drawn things, ever since I could hold a pencil, or crayon, or whatever that first writing device was that my parents first gave me. I remember drawing in church. I remember doodling in my notebooks in school, all up through college. Art always has, and always will be a part of me.

Where did it go? It's never left me. The ability to create. My passion for it has just been submerged into other venues right now. One being my full time job that I have 5 days a week.

I cleaned out my studio a couple months ago. Everything is still the same, but my studio is cleaner, more organized and I hope to make a fresh new start of it. Baby steps though. With a full time job, I just can't suddenly get back into doing a huge painting like I used to. I might start off with something small. Maybe a sketch or two. But it will be a start.

I haven't forgotten about my long lost friend, Art... I'll be back soon.

I just looked at my blog entries and I don't have very many entries for 2012! So many things happened last year, with work, and then other things that came along. I'm sad to say, that I don't have much time to create any new art. With my job, there just aren't enough hours in the day!

What I will be doing though, is continuing selling my printable items in my etsy shop, as well as always having items for sale on Cafepress and Zazzle! So find me there.... I have also gotten back a few minipops from a local shop that closed, so I will probably be listing those in my etsy shop soon. I will post information here when I do.

In the meantime, here are 3 sets of Valentines for you to enjoy! Share with friends!

Print as many as you want for your kids! Enjoy!
valentines1-http://cl.ly/381j1o2a2R2C141g0Y3i
valentines2- http://cl.ly/0N1M2y292D2R0R0g312c
valentines3- http://cl.ly/2B0R3V0s1o1Q1f1V0J1X

Hi. It's been awhile. I haven't made any new art in about a year. I was asked to participate in a show called Volumes 2 at my friend's new Gallery V, in Five Points. It was a last minute invitation, so I had to come up with something in about a week. My first thought was to stack books together and paint all over them. My second idea was to just paint the outside covers and hang those. I also thought about just painting on loose canvas pieces about the size of a book page, and sew them together in the edge like a book. I flipped open the inside of a book and I realized that's what I had to do. Use the interior of the book as my canvas and then hang the like paintings. I hope to make more of these soon... If you are in the Columbia, SC area, you should stop by Gallery V and see the show. There are 15 book artists. Gallery Zv is located at 631 D Harden St. in Fives Points above Good for the Sole Shoes. The show will be up through Oct. 18 and that Thursday we will be having a closing reception from 5-8pm.

Connect with me on pinterest, the highly addicting pinboard website! A friend of mine told me about pinterest last year and I didn't think anything about it, until around the first of the year when I joined. Now I'm addicted! I've always bookmarked or put my ideas on a tumblr blog, but now I can organize them much better on my pinterest page. It's so much fun finding amazing photos and putting them together for inspiration! Add me!
http://pinterest.com/jelenemorris