About the Artist: Krize by Kristina Sabaite - Happy smiling shop

Kristina Sabaite is a children´s book illustrator and a dreamer for sure.
She was born in Lithuania, but now she is living in the north of Spain with her husband, their dog Chino and cat Bjork. 

When destiny brought her to Galicia she had a lot of free time for creating. She felt absolutely in love with the green forests, culture and people, so she thinks it was a big influence for her work. Her husband is a composer and pianist, so they have created a little cozy home studio to work together and be surrounded by art, music and colors!

She has opened her shop on Etsy in 2008 with the advice of her friend Claudia Moya (from Mundogominola) and since then she is very happy to create and to spread her positive point of view towards illustration. She loves creating happy and funny things and imagine people smiling while wearing her creations.

Handmade means something warm and very personal for her. It means something that is unique and made with care and with calm. A handmade object is a thing with a soul. It is very important to her.
You can find illustration, wall art, prints, original paintings, jewelry, toys, happy animal brooches and lot of funny art in her shop. So many colorful gifts for adults and children, for animal lovers, gifts for cat ladies and vegan friends. All her work has some hint of whimsical and cute.
 

Her shop: krize.etsy.com
Her Facebook page

The Art of Gwen Meyerson

Paints, brushes, pencils, paper, and canvas. These are the tools Gwen Meyerson wields with so much skill. Inspired by city life and human activity, her paintings are studies of the everyday. Snapshots of daily life immortalized.

a busy street in New York City's Chinatown   

people out and about

Can you name the 3 cities in which these 3 bridges are found?

The Southwest also features in Gwen's imagery...

as does a day at the beach.

                                   step into Gwen's world, and you may feel right at home... 

GwenMeyerson.etsy.com

color is the connection

Tucked away in her Tel Aviv studio, Leah Lerner designs and crafts her beautiful leather handbags. 

  

elegant clutches and pouches...

...in a wonderful array of colors, some embellished with her original screen printed designs.

I love these metallics...

...and her large totes will handle just about everything!

You can see more of Leah's colorful bags in her etsy shop.

Go crazy!

And across the ocean from that sunny studio, to an apartment in Queens, New York, is another artist who loves color...

Gwen Meyerson's colorful cityscapes and figurative paintings truly capture the activity of the city and the people in it.

 In Gwen's etsy shop, you'll find original art as well as prints and notecards, all alive with color!

Scenes from around the US, Gwen works in several mediums,

but always, her focus is places and people... all in glorious color! You can purchase your own masterpiece here!

the art beat

A house feels like a home when there's art on the walls... ok, and in every nook and cranny. But for this post I want to concentrate on the walls. In these etsy shops you'll find original art, collage, prints, digital art as well as vintage prints. I've chosen one example from each shop, just click on an image and enter a shop full of beautiful work! You may find just the piece for that blank wall next to your favorite chair...

Spotlight on CynART

Cynthia in her light-filled studio

Painter, Cynthia Reid grew up just north of New York City, but has spent most of her life in Texas. Currently living about 40 miles north of Houston, on the edge of the piney woods, on 6 acres with her artist husband, 2 cats and 2 dogs. Her workspace is in the old 2-car garage, now converted, and which she describes as ”wonderful”!

"Wavelets" original watercolor 29 x 41 

 It seems Cynthia has always been an artist, making art since she was a child, and upon graduation from college, became a high school art teacher. As an educator, she has acquired a wealth of knowledge in many art processes, but her personal favorite, and the one you will find predominating in her etsy shop, is watercolor.

yum!

It was in 1985 after a bout with breast cancer that caused the then young, single mom to reflect on her life and make the decision to pursue her passion more fully. She took a leave of absence from her job and headed back to school full time where she pursued an MFA in painting, concentrating in watercolor.  She got that degree and has been cancer free for the past 26 years!

trees, a favorite subject

As seems to be the case with many artists, Cynthia describes herself as a much better maker of art rather than a marketer of art. “In the past I did large outdoor shows and was in a few galleries.  These days I do only a few local shows per year, but for the past year I've been working on establishing an online presence.” Nowadays, she says, “My biggest challenge as an artist, and as a person, is time management!” Well, she’s got a lot going on!

Abstracts

You can visit Cynthia’s online etsy shop at CynArt.etsy.com

On Facebook

Her blog

Her dogs blog! (extremely cute!)

And her tumblr page under construction with the help of fellow etsyian and practically neighbor, Paula of PaulaArt, subject of a recent Spotlight Interview!