Category Archives: portrait

Cyber Monday Sale!!!

November 28, 2022 By in art at the speed of life, art sale, artwork, mixed media, pam carriker, portrait Tags: , , , , , Leave a comment

 

Time to stock up on stencils!!! Head over to Stencil Girl Products to see the latest new designs and for a complete line of my own stencil designs.

Also I have a few original paintings available and I’m offering a 20% discount on top of already discounted prices, needing to make room in my studio for new work! If you are interested send me an email at pamcarriker@gmail.com and I will answer them in the order they are received. Here is what I have available, the listed price does NOT reflect the 20% off  discount which is in addition to the discounted price,  happy shopping!

 

 

 

Silver Christmas Ball with Red Ribbon 5×7 oil on cradled hardboard $55

 

 

SOLD Red Christmas Balls 5×7 oil on cradled hardboard $55

Red Christmas Ball 6×6 oil on cradled hardboard $55

Cookies for Christmas 5×7 on cradled hardboard $55

SOLD Pumpkin Spice 6×6 oil on masonite framed in black deep wood gallery frame, wired with dust cover $90

Cherry Picking 6×8 oil on masonite framed in black deep wood gallery frame, wired with dust cover

$125

Pair of Pears 6×8 oil on masonite framed in black deep wood gallery frame, wired with dust cover                                      $125

 

Two Cloves of Garlic 8×10 oil on masonite framed in black deep wood gallery frame, wired with dust cover $175

 

Berry Full Bowl 9×12 oil on masonite framed in black deep wood gallery frame, wired with dust cover $200

Halo 8×12 mixed media acrylics on panel, framed in wood floating frame with hanging hardware

$125

Trust 11×14 mixed media acrylics on 2” deep cradled hardboard with wire for hanging, no frame needed

$225

Within 9×12 mixed media acrylics on panel, framed in wood floating frame with hanging hardware

$125

‘Called Home’ 11×14 Mixed Media Acrylic on 2” deep cradled hardboard with wire for hanging, no frame needed

$225

Shipping costs will be determined at time of sale.

New Work

November 11, 2022 By in art, art at the speed of life, art every day, artist, original art work, ornaments, painting, pam carriker, portrait, portraits Tags: , , , , , 12 Comments

‘Wishful Thinking’ 11×14 oil on board

My journey into oil painting finally lead me to do a portrait. I’m really loving exploring this medium that I have avoided for most of my art life. I’ve been heads down painting for many weeks and also busy  participating in local gallery shows, pop up art events etc. It’s a different path than the one I was on for so many years, but I’m really loving it.

Close up of dandelion in ‘Wishful Thinking”

I’ve updated my Gallery page with new work. If you see something you’re interested in you can contact me at pamcarriker@gmail.com  I don’t want to open a store or list them for sale because some are in gallery spaces or other venues and I don’t want to create confusion if it gets sold before it’s updated here. All of the work is framed in a gallery style, black wood frame, wired and ready to hang.

‘A Golden Opportunity’ 11×14 oil on board

I’m especially enjoying still life painting. I love using objects from around my home in them to add sentimentality to the work.

“Christmas Past” 6×6 oil on cradled board

Capturing reflections, light and shadow and painting metals and glass are especially intriguing to me.

Drawing the Bath 16×20 oil on masonite SOLD

 

I hope you all are finding inspiration around you to keep your creative life vital and growing.

xo,

Pam

Lost and Found

July 24, 2022 By in art at the speed of life, art every day, artist, birds, feathered nest, mixed media art, mixedmedia, original art work, painting, pam carriker, portrait Tags: , , , , , , , 10 Comments

Found 16×24 mixed media acrylics

Finished this piece a few weeks back and it’s in a gallery show right now. The bird was inspired by a picture that a neighbor took, and you could clearly see it had something in its mouth. I have it holding one of the pearl buttons from this woman’s dress and if you look closely you can see the loose threads where it fell from. Hope you are enjoying summer, it’s sure hot in Texas! I will share my oil paintings in a future post. Trying something new and loving it.

Best,

Pam

New Work

May 22, 2022 By in acrylics, art, art at the speed of life, golden paints, mixed media, mixed media art, original art work, painting, pam carriker, portrait, portraits Tags: , , , , , , 2 Comments

‘Guardian’ 24×36 acrylic on cradled hardboard

I’ve been busy working on some new pieces for some upcoming art events. This is my most recent piece still finishing it up but it’s mostly done. This has been sitting in my studio for literally the last 3 years, only as an idea sketched on the substrate. I have just not been inspired to finish it so I started working on it a face at a time and it began evolving. I removed some of the faces and added the ‘Guardian’ on the left as the last change. I now feel it’s what it was meant to be. It’s so weird that when inspiration strikes the painting is so easy. I guess everything has a time.

I also worked on this smaller piece. I just love it and may end up keeping it.

‘Called Home’ 11×14 collage and acrylic on cradled hardboard

I keep forgetting to post here as I try to build my Instagram page back after losing it. Please follow me there at pamcarrikerart

 

Crowning Achievement

March 24, 2022 By in art, art at the speed of life, mixed media, pam carriker, portrait Tags: , , , , , , 8 Comments

‘Within’ acrylic on 9×12 hardboard panel

 

I’ve been busy getting ready for a pop up art show in my community. I haven’t done one of these types of events in years. Nothing like saying ‘yes’ to something to give you a little motivation to create new work! As often happens for me, the work at hand leads to new ideas and directions I want to explore. While adding frames, tags, and hanging wire to my work, I was also pulling out the things I need to make up my display table and I stumbled on my portfolio of published magazine articles. Of course that distracted me for a bit as I took a trip down memory lane lol.

I have felt that I already ‘achieved’ my goal(s) as an artist by writing books, articles, teaching and developing product lines but as I’m getting artwork ready to sell I realize that I won’t ever be truly done ‘achieving’ my artistic goals because I’m constantly growing as an artist. I’m a ‘practicing’ artist, there’s always new media, new techniques, new inspiration so I’ll never be done. That brings comfort to me. I don’t want to ever be done. Even if the venue I’m working in looks different than what I was previously doing, it’s all good. Things change. Needs change. The need to find your space to create never changes.