art-o-mat® Update C08

This time tomorrow 49 boxes of art will be on their way to the North Carolina for the art-o-mat®.


Puzzle No. C08
63 pieces of a Winter Sunset Painting in oil.


I would like to thank SweetWolf, a seller on etsy who kindly sent me a dozen or more empty cigarette boxes for this project.
I upcycled them by spray painting the boxes gold and a black stencil of my initials RG on the backs.

There are 39 single boxed pendants and 10 surprise boxes that have two interlocking puzzle pieces.
Kinda like the old Best Friends Forever necklaces.

This time I only kept a few. One for me, one single and one double for sale through my estore.


One to keep and One to Give,(see more pictures and purchase) they will be shipped together in the recycled gold box with two mini copies of the original painting and silver plated 18inch necklaces included.

Here is the single pendant available now.


Click here for more info and pics.

I wish you beauty every moment this week.
Rebecca


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Winter Sunset Puzzle Painting

Here is C08 Winter Sunset
brand new jigsaw puzzle painting.
63 pieces
8.5 in x 11 in
in oil plein air






I have already rung them into pendants, signed and sealed.
( will post more pictures soon)
Just have to get my boxes ready and some printing of the mini's I include with each piece.
This time too instead of the white craft boxes I'm altering used cig boxes.

Good news for those who asked I am going to be offering two or more pieces that fit together.
One to get- one to give, kinda like the friendship pendants.
They will be sent in to the art o mat fairly shortly as well as having some available for direct sale.

I have two more paintings that I have been working on and I'm very refreshed by the second one. You'll see why.

Take care
Rebecca

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Puzzle Pendants are available now

Prize Surprise


See the listing for A07


See the listing for B07

Pull the knob,
Kerplunk,
and you will receive an original hand painted mystery surprise jigsaw puzzle pendant.

Wear a part of the big picture.

These pendants come from original jigsaw puzzle paintings
A07 and B07 8.5” x 11”, painted from my love of Black-eyed Susan's in oil and a beautiful Fall day plein air.

Every puzzle piece is signed and sealed, ooak and actual size varies approx. 1 1/2" x 2" - 1 1/2" x 1 1/2".

Each piece is numbered for you to easily find which puzzle it belongs too. Stop by my website to see larger pictures of the original painting, try to find where your piece fits, solve the mixed up pieces online and leave a comment.

These come from my accepted submission into the Art o Mat.

The artomat has taken old cigarette vending machines and refurbished them into vending original pieces of art in boxes that are the same size as cig packs.
They are across the country and around the world.

To learn more about the artomat please see artomat.org

I only have a handful or so of these pieces for sale .
The remaining 100 pieces are only available through the artomats vending machines.

So in the fun addictive tradition of the artomat and gumball vending machines everywhere you will receive one piece of this puzzle completely at random!

I don't even know which piece you will get, they are packaged and ready to go!

Included with every pendant is a mini version of the original painting.

Shipping will be first class in cig pack inside a bubble mailer.

Many smiles,
Rebecca

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Full Puzzles and Solve with online fun

I'm happy to let you know my puzzle pendants have been accepted into the ArtO mat.

Here are a few pictures of the completed puzzles.
Each piece has since been signed and numbered loosely on the back completed with a jump ring for wearing on a necklace.














These two partial pics are clickable and will take you to jigzone where you can actually try to put the puzzles together, change the cut OR click the auto solve and see the scattered pieces come together to complete the paintings.

Having fun :)

All the best,
Rebecca

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New Jigsaw Puzzles coming soon

As some may remember and for my new readers.
Last year about this time I submitted a 2 painting 53 piece jigsaw puzzle to the Art O Mat you can see them by clicking here.

(The artomat is a really great project, the inventors have taken old cigarette machines and refurbished them into vending unique pieces art around the country and internationally.)

All of my puzzle pieces have been sold. It has take me some time deciding what I wanted to make next. I knew I wanted to do another puzzle, but wasn't sure how I wanted to go forward.

Well I'm happy to say I have two new jigsaw puzzle paintings finished and will be posting them sometime next week.

Each painting is 8.5" x 11" composed of 63 pieces for a total of 126 that I have made into pendants.
I sent in my prototypes yesterday and either way am very happy with how this project has come out so far.

Here are two sneak peeks.




What's been fun too is that Monday I sent out three paintings on Monday. One to Washington State and the other two were mailed to Cyprus.

All the best,
Rebecca

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I got my Golden Green Ticket!

I love it when surprises come in the mail!!

I got my first golden green ticket from the art o mat today.
See my art o mat submission here
53 pieces 2 paintings the official plein air puzzle.

It's so cool it tells me where my puzzle pieces have gone so far :)
and that my supply inventory is running low .

Here is where they are .


5 at Ursus Gallery, OH

5 at the Gravity Lounge, VA

3 at the Musuem of Contemporary Art, OH

5 at The Kentucky Center for Preformance Art, KY

10 Caruso Home, MI


So neat!!
I am cooking up a similar but new idea for my next large submission this summer!
Have a beautiful day!

Rebecca

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On TV, The Art O Mat, Laura Gentry and more!

Here is a very special photo of Laura Gentry - The Mighty eggplant creator for the Art o Mat. She has made over 700 of the little gems.
She sent me my lil eggplant with the surprise inscription just for me "Drunk on Nature" that now overlooks me at my desk.
But what a surprise for her to send me this picture of her holding my little painting "Sun Path" I sent her as a thank you :)
Neato to see my art in someone's hands.

We make art and set it free through giving, selling or trading, it's not often we see the person we give it too, with it.

Laura is a going to be on the Official Oprah Winfrey show this Wednesday, April 11. The producers decided to do a short, pretaped segment about laughter yoga for a show about happiness. They were interested in how she is bringing laughter yoga to her church :)
I can't wait to see it, watch it if you can.

More about her art swaps.

The art o mat also made it on tv last month on the Rachel Ray show.
You can watch the segement on google video by clicking here.

"Art" can't be explained but we know it when we see it.

Making Stuff:
I love sharing whatever I make, My giving often keeps pace with my selling. On etsy they have a wonderful thing going called pif's Pay it forward. A seller picks an item and lists it for no sale price, giving it away to whomever wants it with the hope of the buyer paying it forward. They receive something and give something to someone else with no expectations. I listed one of my little pendants as a pif yesterday, the buyer pays nothing. I'm shipping it today:) Which got me thinking ..
" with my art.... I would give it all away if I could!" RGrantham

For the month of April I will be giving away a free pendant with the purchase of any original painting available through my etsy store Natural Abstracts, or by contacting me.

Make it Beautiful,
Rebecca

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My Eggplant!

I am so happy to share my eggplant I just received from Laura Gentry!! especially made for me with the text "Drunk on Nature".
She couldn't have made a better one for me. Laura understands me and my art better than some people close to me. I am so thankful to have met her.

If you ever get the chance to buy one from an art o mat machine near you, go for it.
here is a link to the locations of art o mats http://artomat.org/machinesbystate.html
or you can hop over to her website and buy one right now.

Have a great day,
find the beautiful it's everywhere around you!
Rebecca

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Art-O-Mat and more goodies

I found that my link is up on the artomat

artist page.
Super cool since I have wanted to be a part of this for a very long time.
I made a great friend Laura Gentry that I met on myspace who has produced hundreds of interactive eggplants for the Art*o* Mat, the owners then send in photo's of themselves with their little eggplants. Laura is going to be sending one especially made for me, I can't wait, Thank you Laura;) here's her blog http://strayeggplant.blogspot.com/
many thanks to her I'm going to be making another piece (s) of artwork for the art*O*mat and am stirring ideas now.

I admit I've never seen a YouTube video,
so this one was my first, sent by my dear friend Robin Lemon,
Thank you girly,
I invite you to see it
here is the link,
FREE HUGS, I love the music too by sick puppies;)

I am finally getting off my cp, my website is done for now....
there are still some firefox kinks to work out and as many web authors know
~A website is only considered finished, for a moment~ then you update it.
I am glad to have learned over this past month some needed steps in css design and the beauty of using an external style sheet that will make updating the overall design of the site much easier!
I have had many loose ends that are now almost tied up and been reading a lot too.

Despite the bitter temps here in Ohio I'm heading out to paint!!! finally and am excited to begin so I'll leave you now with the fortune from my fortune cookie a couple days ago.

"Be patient, even an egg will walk in time"
All the best,
Rebecca;)

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Plein Air Puzzle Update

I am happy to share with you that my Plein Air Puzzle has been accepted into the Art O Mat .

It took somewhat of a leap of faith completing the puzzle and then submitting the prototype.
When this process should have been done in reverse .

My dear subscribers you know something the buyers won't.
In order for the puzzle block owners to know what the finished pieces look like they will have to come here to see where their block fits and the finished paintings.
Now I'm looking forward to the fun of them checking and will be posting updates as soon as I know where the blocks will travel to.

I am going to be finishing the acetate wraps and info sheets for the blocks and sending them to Artists In Cellophane early next week.

This project has spurred some more puzzle ideas and I will keep you updated with the new works as they come.

My sunset triptych is on hold as the weather hasn't cooperated with constant cold drizzle and overcast skies the past few days.

Am going out today to capture this foggy, muted, rainy Autumn Day.

All the best,
~Rebecca

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Original Plein Air Puzzle Paintings

each image is clickable for a larger view

I am very happy to present these two Original 53 piece Plein Air Puzzle Paintings created especially for the Art*O*Mat Project from a total of 53 wood blocks that make up two paintings for sale now through a cigarette vending machine that have been converted to vend art.
Painted in oil, each block measures the same size as a cigarette box - 2 1/8" by 3 3/8", and each block is coded and signed.

I painted the first painting horizontal completely plein air from my flowering Rose of Sharon, and what's funny is my two year old knocked over the blocks after the first painting was done but right before I coded them. It truly was a challenge putting them back together while the second was created from some photo reference as well as onsite studies during my Black-eyed Susan series.
I am looking forward to finding out where these pieces go.

If you are one of the puzzle block owners let me say a big Thank you! for supporting art, artists and the art o mat, I look forward to and appreciate your feedback very much.
Please leave a comment below or email me about you, why you bought a puzzle piece, where you purchased your block and what you think of the surprise completed paintings.

I have also created a special section in my artful gift store featuring these two completed art works on a select array of gift items, including Framed prints, coffee mugs, posters, calendars and more.

Please visit Plein Air Cafe, my modern art gift store to see the entire collection.

Again Thank you so very much,

All the very Best,
~Rebecca Grantham

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53 pieces of Plein Air sneak peek

here is a sneak peek at a piece or I should say 53 times 2 = 106 plein air pieces I have been working on.

The hard part is done and I will be posting more details soon.
So for now I leave you with these two teaser's.




If you haven't already, Subscribe to see the finished plein air paintings.

~Rebecca

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