Welcome to my page about ME!
A few years ago, I moved from Central Texas to Portland
Oregon and I'm loving it!
I enjoy living in new places and discovering different areas of
the country.
I've lived in places as different as Florida and Hawaii to
Texas and Oregon and have spent a lot of time traveling all over the
US.
I have always loved the arts and can remember being pretty serious
about working with my pastels and charcoals before age 10. At the University of Texas at Austin and at Texas Tech University,
I studied photography, drawing, and sculpture.
In the past 2
years, I have sold my art in all 50 states in the US, and in at
least 17 countries across the globe!
I would like to give a BIG THANK YOU! to all my customers and fellow
artists who enjoy my art.
Recently, I was very honored to receive 2 awards from my
artist peers on eBay at eBay's annual Artist Choice Awards.
Please visit my website where you can see nearly all my past works
at
artbyljgrove.com
My aim as an artist is not so much about
seeing how creative I can be, but more about capturing the true spirits and
personalities of animals, and sometimes expressing other slices of life. I
don't seek to be the most realistic artist I can be, but often enjoy the
expressive brush stokes and and excitement of paints mixing on the canvas.
About Commissions:
My 2009 schedule is
already becoming very busy, so at this time, I'm not accepting custom
orders.
Bookmark and check out my auctions on eBay! I
list new original works of art as often as I possibly can!
Here's the link to
MY EBAY STORE
I'm always looking for new and exciting ways to express myself as an artist,
and my latest endeavor was to design a line of T-shirts to showcase
my graphite drawings and paintings, as well as offer some really WILD and FUN wearable art.
I belong to a wonderful group of artists on ebay: "Animal Loving Artists."
For fun, we started having monthly and weekly challenges. Please check out
my ebay auctions on the weekends where I provide a link to all of our group
entries. We have a blast and always have a great collection of art to show
off each week. I've won
first place a couple of times with my entries, and here are the little award pics that they made for
me :-)
COMMENTS FROM BUYERS
"Laurie, they are beyond my expectations & SO VERY WONDERFUL!
Thank you, thank you, thank you so very very very
much for all the care and feeling you put into them - it really shows! Of
course I cried when I first saw the little one because you captured my sweet
angel Mishka's beautiful eyes, face and expression so perfectly! I love
looking at it more than anything and remembering all his sweetness,
gentleness and love. Snowy Mishka is simply adorable and makes me laugh and
smile and remember some of his best fun times! I'm so glad I asked you to do
both and not just one or the other as each shows Mishka in an equally
important and wonderful way. So again, from the depths of my heart, I thank
you."
"Yipeee! I opened the box with the Snow Leopard today! As
great as it looked in the photo, it just blew me away in person! Honest - it
just took my breath away!!! You must have been just beaming with pride and
delight as you completed it to see what a beautiful thing you created. It's a
great honor to have such a magnificent painting and even more special that it
came from you. LOVE LOVE LOVE IT!!! Thank you, my friend!
"I just received your painting and I LOVE it.
The colors are so much more vibrant than pictured and I love all
the detail. Very happy customer here! You are a VERY talented artist
and I have never seen any artist capture the joy of one of life's
most simple pleasures: our best friend's little feet. It'll be a loved
part of our home forever!"
"Absolutely Beautiful!!! When I first came upon your
work via eBay, I knew you were the artist to paint our beloved pet.
But you have far exceeded my expectations!!! I love all your work...your
style is unique and wonderful! These paintings are truly some of your
finest work! You are a remarkably talented artist! I SMILE every time
I look at them!!!!!!!! You have absolutely captured his spirit in your
paintings!!! The eyes speak to me! We will never be able to thank you
enough for what you have done for us.....THANK YOU for everything!!!"
"This is SPECTACULAR! I love love love it!!!
You really did an amazing job and I envy your talent. It was truly
a pleasure working with you and look forward to doing more business
in the future."
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