Fat Cat Cards

New fat cat Cards. Watch for more Fat Cat Images.

Another New Card Deer

IT'S NO BULL CARD

It's No Bull card at GCU so far one is for Business customers, inside verse is We Want Your Business. The other card is Over the hill Birthday.

More NEW Cards

Two New Card Design for Greeting cards available at GCU.com click on hot link to take you to my card shop. All cards I design may be personalize, I also will do cards just for you. I will also do design for you at home, I also do in house printing, over 25 cards same design, this is great for small parties, weddings, we've moved, or company Christmas cards. Email for prices with phone number and name. I will call you back.

Sunday Feb. 22

My oh My! woke up this morning with about 2 inches of snow on the ground, great day to watching the telly and work on the blog, post new greeting cards, eat.

These card images are available Happy Birthday, Father's day, Mother's day and a array of cards.

More NEW images at GCU

New card images up on Greeting Card Universe, Happy Easter/Happy Birthday. one just Happy Birthday ( same Image) Cat and Chickadee Birthday card. These cards are only $2.79 great deal in this slow time.

Photos Cades Cove

My New camera and I are still in the learning curve stage. I did get a couple nice shots of the mountains and deer, there was more people in the cove than in the summer months. I did take one panorama shot, that came out nice.

Did not get to Cades Cove Today RAIN!

Some days I guess we should just stay in bed. Best made plans of mice and men day, got up early to fix us some ham biscuits to take with us to Cades Cove, raining, so we waited, watched the weather channel decided to fix breakfast, ate, decided we would go tomorrow, good thing as the fog rolled in later in the day but we did go to the Capt. Galley for a late lunch, good sea food, took a back road on the way home, mercy me! Longhorn cattle some with calf's got a few shots of them, these guys had some awesome horns.

Try again tomorrow hopefully some good shots in the Cove, will show up on the blog later this week.

New Easter birthday card.

2 new cards GCU

Two new cards up on my card shop.

Snow bird is a Birthday card and the spruce cones

and Chickadees are an Anniversay card.

working on card designs

Finally getting to do some design work on greeting cards, these will be submitted to card publishers with the hope they will like them, I really like doing winter scenes best. Oh well I did posies before.
Still working on a big 12 x 24 canvas spruce limbs with cones with some snow birds, will post when I get it finished. I guess I like working with a one hair brush on spruce needles.
Since my first show is not until July I still have plenty of time, just need to really get mind on painting.

This Saturday Bill and I are spending it in Cades Cove, got a new digital camera looking forward to getting some good photos for reference. Probably eat supper in Gatlinburg.

Only 7 days till Valentine's Day

Don't forget to buy that special someone in your life with a Valentine card, my newest card is on Greeting card universe or just click on the link to the right of this message, the cards are only 2.79 each and they will mail it for you too.

This is the strangest weather, we are in the 60's today it will like that for the next couple of days, may get that dirty lil' white car washed on Monday or Tuesday.

We are still feeding about 9 stray or neighbor's cats, they come and go, sleep a while on one of the chaise lounges or a chair. At least they are not hungry.

Need to get more cards painted, this means getting my mind in gear, April Fool and Easter will be next. You all have a great week-end.

New Valentine's Day Card

This image has been selling so well as a Birthday/Valentine card that I have done it as just a Valentine day card. You can purchase it at my card shop, just click on greeting card universe.

Give it a day to be posted on the shop please, Feb.7th. Don't forget your love ones on this special day.

More snow on Feb 3rd

Guess we are finally having winter, more snow in East Tennessee today and calling for more for the next 2 days. We have done the grocery run, got out the crock pot, fixed a roast beef, this just in case the electricity goes off. Of course any left-overs will be soup in a couples of days.
I will get a chance to do more painting tomorrow, working on a 12 x 24 canvas landscape of the mountains with spruce cones and junco's, love those little snow-birds.
My Valentine cards are selling well on greeting card universe, click on the link on the right, this take you to my card store with them.
Happy Winter Snow Days To All!

Two New Prints

I really love Photoshop and what you can do with your photos and paintings. My two newest pieces.

Remember you can click on the images for a larger view. These will both be made into Giclee' prints.

Febuary 2nd snow

Snow, finally in East Tennessee, Bill and I left about 9: am for Knoxville this morning, it was just sprinkling rain which quickly turn to mush on the window. About the time we hit Knoxville we had snow and the temperature was falling rapidly, since we were heading for the other end of the city, the farther we drove the worst it got, Dang, we need a Best Buy on this end. Pulled into a Cracker Barrel for breakfast by the time we had ate the parking lot was about 3" of the white stuff and huge flakes coming down at fast pace and here we are in our HHR not the big SUV with 4 wheel drive. Murphy's Law strikes again. We hurried to Best Buy Bill got my birthday present New Kodak camera, now the snow was slacking up a little, stopped and filled up with gas (needed some weight) Bill said. He's driving so a fill up is fine. HOME Safe, Thank you. Now I am trying to figured out this new camera, even though my birthday not until the 14th, he is letting me learn how to operate it. Took me 1/2 hour to figure out where the memory card went. So now its charging. I can watch this beautiful snow falling and read instruction book. Look for some snow pix's tomorrow.

East Tennessee had snow

We finally had some snow today, most of

the day, it was great, been a while
since we had any snow, it melted
midday but about 4:00 it started to
lay on the ground again. I braved the elements
long enough to get some pic's of our spruce
tree's with the cones and snow. Now
to get to work on some paintings, snow does inspire
me to paint.

Just in time for Easter

My latest small Giclee' print, wild bunny in front of a flowering tulip tree, printed on archival paper, with best inks Epson offers. Appox image size is 8 x 8 inches on a 12 x 12 sheet. $30.00 plus s/h.

More new images

Several more card designs have been added to my card shop.

New card at Greeting card universe

I do hope that you all know that you can click on one of my images and it will open another window where you may see it larger.

Looks like I have finally got time to create and paint, guess all the rain we are having here in East Tennessee may have something to do with.

Several new cards have made their card shop apperance. Enjoy

More New Greeting Card at Greeting Card Universe

These images I have used on different cards, Birthday, friendship, etc. Remember the tree designs are in a series of 4 as Giclee' prints. $10.00 each plus s/h.

New Greeting Card Images

New Greeting Card Images at my card store. Please click link to the right: Greeting Card Universe( Kay's card store. )
There are 4 tree images that may be purchased as Giclee' mini prints, $10.00 each print plus s/h. They are about 2" x 8". Just give me an email kaymurphysstudio@yahoo.com for details. These prints look great in any decor.

18 day show

Well, for 2 old people we did ok, butts dragging we finished the 18 day show at Gatlinburg, packed up our display headed downtown to Bubba Gumps for supper, great shrimp. a little on the loud side, music and people. The show in this tough time of our enocony ended ok but only because we did not have an hotel bill, we can sleep in our own bed and we ate at home part of the time.

Gatlinburg Craftsmens Fair October show

Home our butts a dragging, booth set-up, easy unload, we had a great porter to help us. I thought we would never get the display racks set-up and then the hanging of art work Wheeee! Rest tomorrow, show starts on Thursday Oct 9... We will have at least an hour work to do on Thursday morning if not more.

We hope to see a lot of you all at the show, doing your Christmas shopping, Fiss on the wall street and their bad management, I vote for lets have real feel-good Christmas...

Gatlinburg Craftsmens Fair

Here we are days away from setting up the show, my bones ache to think about doing it, my left knee is still giving me a fit.

All the crap going on in wall street and they tag this bill with the Orphan's Law which literary takes an artist's copyright and throws it to the wind, leaving us artists running around like a chicken with our heads chopped off, any one can steals our art we created, this takes our jobs as free-lance and art show artists away. BaaHumbug on the people in Washington and shame on them.

One of my greeting cards you can find at greeting card universe/kaymurphysscardstore.com

Any who back to business I will have 7 new christmas cards images with bookmarks, 6 for sure. That is if I can get myself to working on the last card image. Here's hoping you guys come to the Gatlinburg show to shop and forget about this crap for a day and enjoy ourselves.

Gatlinburg Craftsmen's Fair

Well, here it is getting down to the wire for the fall show in Gatlinburg. If you are planning a day trip to the mountains to look at the leaves, spend a couple hours at this show, held in the convention center downtown Gatlinburg 10:-7: each day Sunday 10:-5:. Do your Christmas shopping at this show. Meet and talk with the artist who does the work. Buy something special from them, you sure can not find this quality of work in cheap imports. Support you USA hand -made art and crafts. We will be there for the full 18 days.

I will have Christmas cards #10, envelope with printed image on the outside and with a same image on a laminated bookmark inside the card NICE GIFT for anyone, especially a book worm. Also my images on laminated magnets, NICE GIFT art gallery on the front of your ref. Called Kitchen Art. This year you can remember your friends and family without spending a fortune.

I will be having a special on my children's book, buy both for $40.00 with free bookmarks.

Cards

Visit my card shop, I have a lot of NEW ones up, my old collectors may find a different slant on these cards, please feel free to order from this site. I feel you will be pleased with the finished product.

CLICK ON THE KAY'S CARD SHOP ON THE RIGHT. "Greeting Card Universe". This will take you to my cards. "Under Kay's Art links"

Have fun. Feel free to email if you need something special. I have Birthday, wedding invite's,Christmas, missing you..Check it out.

New Stuff

I have been working on NEW gift ideas for my clients, I am offering "Gift in a Card " tm. A Christmas or greeting card with a Bookmark inside, also magnets with small print images of mine on them, "Kitchen Art"tm. Magnets are big enough to give the client a nice piece of my art, one of my prints. Decorate that ref..

See 2 of my magnets images above. Great gift idea for this coming Holiday season, don't break the budget this year, buy from Kay Murphy's Studio, give a wonderful gift for a small amount. Bookmarks, Cards,and Magnets are designed and produced in house by Kay Murphy's Studio.

Here we are back home

Tear down is hell, too many vans, trucks/trailers and motor home/trailers in the building at one time, let so many out and then let the same amount in, would help..They do have great porters to help but you have to ask for one. All in all we can live with it and will be doing this show again in October. The promotors are wonderful people and they do their best to help with any problems.

The show was like all art and craft shows in 2008 (slow) people not spending money but Gatlinburg had more people walking the streets Sunday night then I have seen in a long time. We talked with a lot of locals and new comers just moving into the east TN area. Back to the drawing board, maybe I can find something they just can not live without, one can hope!

Visit my website http://www.kaymurphysstudio.com/ for new art work originals and giclee's

Show is set up in Gatlinburg

Set up was fairly easy, pulled almost to our booth, Yipeee! It takes so long to get the display racks up, must be our age showing...Great thing with this show is we can sleep in our own bed, driving back and forth is a little pricey but then so is the motels anymore and I have to go in and clean everything after seeing the 60 minutes special about how the house keeping does not clean..
Lots of tourists in Gatlinburg today, streets were crowded even in the heat of the day. You all come see us at the show...

Sunday July 13th

Oh My here we are on count-down, just days away from setting up for the Gatlinburg Craftsmen's Fair, we are doing the full 10 days July 18-27. Cargo trailer needs to be unloaded and then reloaded, making sure only the right boxes of paintings are unloaded inside the convention center, once unloaded there is only so much space for your back up boxes.

Looking forward to doing this show again, great people run the show, many nice people show and sell their work at this show. Good food, good music and great art and craft. If you are visiting the Smokies, spend a day or two enjoying the shopping at the Craftsmen's Fair.

Visit my website for a sampling of the art I will be selling. http://www.kaymurphysstudio.com/

Bill and I do our matting and framing plus over 7 years ago I decided to purchase an Epson printer now working with my 2nd Epson running 9 inks and still loving doing my own Giclee prints. Once in a while I do get a little crazy and do some fun stuff with Photoshop or Corel....Come see and pick yourself out a nice piece of art work for your home, we may as well spend our money on our nests instead of on oil, feathering some-one-else's.

Back from the Cullowhee show

Nice show, too little money made, about 40 exhibitors too many. Money seems to be tight at all the shows, motels are charging way too much for their rooms. Most people attending were not that interested in art/craft.
Off to the next show Gatlinburg Craftsmen's Fair, we are there for the full ten days, you all stop by and help keep us awake. Our New Bookmarks were a big hit, 4 of them went on to Germany, many stayed in the US. Our framed ACEO cards are doing very well, especially the horses. Gatlinburg show is July 18th-27th, 10-7 each day except Sunday closes at 5.

Cullowhee NC show

Looking forward to the show in Cullowhee NC this 4th of July week-end, hope the weather is cooler, it can be hot set-up, thank goodness a/c inside. This show is close enough we can and do drive back and forth, gas will cost as much as a motel room there, at least a nice motel. Our 2nd year at this show, really enjoyed last year except it was hot and humid setting up and tearing down.

Come see us and enjoy the day and take something home that's made in the USA. Hope to see you at an art show.

Price for Bookmarks

Finally after much thought and a little math I came up with a price for my Original Art Bookmarks, they are 2 x 8 size, laminated. $5.00 each or 4 for $18.00. Please feel free to email to order yours.

Many are from either my paintings, photos and or digital art..

More cats

Two more cat prints. Hope to see some of you at The Cullowhee NC show held in the Western North Carolina Univeristy, a great little mountain town. If you can't join us there come to Gatlinburg TN for the Gatlinburg Craftmens Fair held in the convention center, downtown. I will be there the entire show 10 days. This is my Fat Cat series....Available in Bookmarks too.

Cats prints for children's rooms

Work, Work and more work. New cats prints for children's room and of course on my new bookmarks for cat lovers.

Gearing up for 2 art shows

Here I am less than a month from a show, getting back in shape is the big thing. I have not done a show since March, boy oh boy. We do a 2 day show in Cullowhee NC our second year there. We will come home from that show and take on the ten day show in Gatlinburg, TN. this is a laid-backed show with local artists and craftspeople. Lots of great one of a kind pieces. Very talented locals and few traveling pros. If you are in Gatlinburg on vacation, be sure to check this a/c fair (Gatlinburg Craftsmen Fair) out and take home something nice for yourself. I am working on NEW Original Art Bookmarks. They are laminated and have really turned out great. New original oils and Giclee' s. I will also have for sale at this show. Still working on Otter Woman, need to finish her and start on something new.

See image of one at the right.