Janis Zroback

For all my American Friends on the 4th of July....

Posted 5 days ago

This is an extract from a book that supports “creative growth” called “The Artist’s Soul” by Linda Coons…

The “Home of the Brave” reminds us of the great gift of courage, that helps us to mend and nurture relationships with ourselves and others, and express our art and grow in many ways…here we are free to express our lives and our art in the way that only we can..
We can courageously …

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My Featured Work for the Month of June...

Posted 10 days ago

I am very pleased that my work has been featured in the following groups during the month of June….

All Things Orange.
Mature Woman..
Rocks and Bones.
Abstract Realism..
Two Word Challenge..
All Things Poetic, Prose and Philosophical..
Live Love Dream..
Painters in Modern Times..
Illustration-Artwork for Narrative Content…
Artists of the Orient…
Stillness Speaks..
Domestic A…

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Now I know for Sure

Posted 25 days ago

Now I know for sure I will never use Photoshop….

I was at Apple today buying a back-up hard drive as I have so much art stored on my computer…
The young guy there persuaded me to stop, and said he would give me a personal photoshop demo….in vain did I try to tell him that I’m a painter, not a photographer or digital artist..but he said I might want do photos one day and create all sor…

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Tales from an Artist's Journal

Posted 28 days ago

I have been making continuous sales for a while now, [made some more today] and it makes me quite happy…but it means I will be thinking more of what buyers like as cards and prints and showing it on my pages…

As a result, I have been deleting paintings on a regular basis…that being s…

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Featured on A Class of its Own

Posted 29 days ago

Today ” The Potting Shed” is featured on A Class of its Own..I’m so pleased…

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My Journey on RedBubble so far.....

Posted about 1 month ago

Today I started to reflect on my Journey on RedBubble since I joined in March 2008, and I came to the realization that it has taken many unexpected turns….

I had found RB through reading the posts on Empty Easel, and thought “why not?”
I was already listed on a number o…

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I need your feelings, impressions, notions, ideas and perceptions......

Posted about 1 month ago

I will be adding some new work that’s a bit different from what you have seen so far….some of them are views of sky from earth and maybe earth from sky, some are landscapes, but by and large, they are dark and brooding works…many are abstract in style..

As you have noted, I paint in series and while some paintings speak clearly for themselves as in The Potting Shed series, others call fo…

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We're on the Home Page

Posted about 1 month ago

Congratulations to all the Oriental Artists who made it to the Home Page today…I was so pleased to see my painting Early Morning Feed among them….

Thank you Home Page…

RedBubble as part of The Journey

Posted about 1 month ago

I have added a page on my blog “The Journey” with a slideshow, to promote RedBubble…although I do have links through out my website, this is a special page, which will be read by all viewers to my website…..for those of you who have a separate website and have not added a link to Redbubble, I am posting this as an example of how I have done it….Janis

See it here...

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A Novel Idea Feature Friday, features Janis Zroback

Posted about 1 month ago

“Every Friday we will feature authors whose work has been chosen as being representative of the talent found at RedBubble and at A Novel Idea.”

I am so pleased that I was chosen as representative of the talent on RedBubble, and showcased on Feature Friday of the Novel Idea blogazine….

See it here