Art on Palm Fronds

Who Knew?
Recently I started getting back into my art. I had shipped a small box of acrylic paints with brushes and 2 canvases to help me pass time on the island. So far I have yet to touch the canvases lol. However I came across an old palm frond that had fallen from a palm tree when Greg and I were out and about. It was dried up and hard and looked like it was the shape of an elephant. Instantly I wanted to paint it. Here's a first glance at what it started out like and 2 pictures after showing my progress:

So as you can see it was just the base of a palm tree branch and had dried up. I just brought it inside and washed it up and started painting. It ended up workout out really well. When I was finished with it, I thought was okay but didn't expect the response I got when word traveled around the island that I had been making these. I started out with a safari theme. Next I did a tiger and a giraffe. 

Multiple people on the island have come up to me with interest in purchasing so now I am trying to push myself to work a little every day on them. Every couple of days now we will put the wagon on the bike head out with a knife and cut some good dried palm fronds that we find, bring them home wash them up and get them ready to be recreated into masterpieces. It feels great to get such positive feedback on my work especially since it's been years since I've made the time to get back into my artwork. I forgot how much I love it. I used to be an artist back in high school, took a lot of art classes, voted best artist in my class, hell I took a trip with my art teacher and a few other students to Italy to see all the art museums around there, it was wonderful. (Thanks to my parents for making that possible and letting me go and a shout-out to Mr. Kling!) 

I even made myself an art studio out of my 3rd bedroom at home when I bought my house so that I could no longer use the "I don't have space" excuse and still never made the time to get down there and create! So out here there is no excuse I am unemployed for 2 months, the space isn't exactly here and poor Greg's kitchen table has turned into my art studio LoL but hey it's working out well. With all the compliments I have been getting I hope my motivation to keep creating stays with me and follows me to my studio back home! If I can figured out a way to ship them over 6,000 miles back to the states then I even have some pieces sold back home too. So if you are reading this and are interested in a piece let me know, I am selling them for $50-$75 a piece and am willing to knock the price down for purchasing more than one. Maybe a dream can come true and I can sell art for a living and live on and island with the love of my life.....crossing my fingers. Help me get there by buying and sharing my artwork! =) THANKS and here is one more picture of my Safari art!