Sculpture Featured on ArtFire Front Page

My Bear and Fish sculpture was featured on the Front Page of ArtFire. It's a lovely collection called "March is Pisces Time".

March is Pisces Time...what sort of fish...

Curated By: Foret

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Fine Art Paintings

ArtFire Collection: Front Page!

This collection was featured on ArtFire's front page today! The curator of this says, "The twelve days of Christmas was a challenging collection in trying to find a tangible item for each of the twelve gifts. Hope you find something you'd like to give from an Artfire artist during the next twelve days!"

Twelve Days of Christmas

Curated By: SteiderStudios

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Handmade Gifts

Bear and Fish Sculpture Featured!

My Bear and Fish sculpture, "Stream of Consciousness" was featured in the blog, C Ryan Jewelry Art. It was also in the Collection which C Ryan made on ArtFire called "Here Fishy Fishy" with lots of delightful fish.

More AF Collections! Oct. 25-26

• "It's On Sale!", curated by NightSkyJewelry includes my Koala. I have a few discontinued designs in my studio they're in the On Sale section for $30 each.
• "Rich Earth Tones", curated by AnnyMay includes my Brown Pelican.
• "Riverside Art", curated by popnicute includes my River Otter. I also make a sea otter on her back with a baby on her belly.
• "Fabulous Frogs", curated by TieDyedMonkeys includes Red-legged Frog. There are a bunch of frogs in my studio.
• "Fun Things", curated by HandmadebySheri includes Snow Leopard, one of several wild felines which I carve.
• "More Gifts For Him", curated by MoonlightEternal includes Stream of Consciousness, my Grizzly Bear and Fish sculpture. 
• "Friendly Feathered Flightless Friends", curated by ModernSpin includes my sculpture King Penguin and Chick.

Artfire Collections: Oct 20-23

Turkeys seem to be popular in Artfire Collections these autumn days! 

There are a lot of these this time, so I haven't included all the photos. But the links on the animal names will lead you so a whole series of photos of each animal. The link on the name of each Collection, goes to that collection of 12 items from different studios.

• "Back Home...", curated by AppelJarVintage "These things seem so comforting." (Wild Turkey)
• "The Wise ol' Owl", curated by OsuCowgirl "Owls have made a comeback in recent weeks. What a beautiful collection of owl items." (Barn Owl)
• "Give Thanks", curated by SunshineSight "enjoy!" (Wild Turkey)
• "Spiders and Snakes", curated by WindysDesigns (Rattlesnake)
• "American Wildlife", curated by ManateeDreams (Wild Turkey)
• "Give 'em the Bird", curated by ChristyBeckwithStudios (Mockingbird)
• "OH DEER", curated by LULUSCLOSET (Doe Deer)
• "Science Geekery", curated by ShadowDogDesigns (Ivory-billed Woodpecker)
• "Fossils", curated by BadgerBeads (Trilobite)
• "Bear With Me!", curated by ViragoCreations (Bear and Fish)
• "Gone FISHING!!", curated by KeriMae (Red Snapper on sale) 
• "I Just Want Some Bunny to Love...", curated by ChristyBeckwithStudios (Cottontail Rabbit)
• "Do You Like Ducks?", curated by GlassandWireGems (Ruddy Duck)

Bear and Fish carved wood sculpture

Artfire Collections: Oct. 13-14

Wild Turkey Carving

I'm happy to share with you some more Artfire Collections! It's such a pleasure to have my shop, SandraHealy, included. A curator chooses a dozen items, fitting a theme, from different artists, so do check out the links to them. To not clutter my blog too much, I'm just including a small photo of my item which is included in each Collection.

Barn Owl Carving

• "Gobble, gobble", curated by ldphotography. "So many turkeys , so little time. Enjoy" (Wild Turkey Wood Carving)
• "Birds of a Feather", curated by Twist21 "A collection of some of Artfire's finest feathered friends." (Barn Owl Carving)

American Crow

 "Quoth the Raven", curated by ShadowDogDesigns "Ravens . . . Crows . . . Halloween! Enjoy these beauties!" (American Crow)

Blue Tit Carving

• "Trim the Tree!", curated by SuzanneStevens  "The stores and malls and, yes, Artfire, is already decked out for Christmas festivities! Seeing this always brings back memories of trimming our family tree with a myriad of ornaments: some heirlooms, some handmade, and new heirlooms-to-be. There's an abundance of beautiful Christmas ornaments available on AF...so many that many collections could be curated on that topic alone. Here is a small sampling of many that I found to be 'favorites'." (Blue Tit Carving)



Quail Pair Carving

• "Just The Two Of Us!", curated by GoldBracelets "Good things do come in pairs. And I know a lot of us handicrafters and artisans here at ArtFire are Empty Nesters, so I found quite a few beautiful items with couples and pairs! Once again, I found quite a few new and very interesting ArtFire Artisans. I do hope you enjoy browsing their pages!" (Quail Couple Carving)

Tiger Carving

Whooping Crane

• "Tiger Tiger Rawr Rawr", curated by Swann "Rawr!! for a beloved endangered species." (Tiger Carving)
• "Birds of a Feather", curated by NightSkyJewelry "I'm owned by an adorable little budgie, and she has taught me how amazing our little feathered friends are. Tweet tweet, chirp chirp!" (Whooping Crane Carving)
  
  

Artfire Collections: October 8-9

Wood Carvings from the shop of Sandra Healy appearing in Artfire Collections

Painted Turtle

• "Slow and Steady - Tortoises and Turtles!", curated by TimelyImpressions, who says, "Turtle love!" 



Red-headed Woodpecker

• "Warm Colors On Art Fire", curated by bluejane who says, "Enjoy this collection of various handmade in warm colors." She chose my Red-headed Woodpecker for this toasty collection.

  

  King Penguin

•  "The Royalty of Artfire", curated by madmoravian, who says "A collection of items who reference king, queen, prince, princess, duke, duchess, baron, baroness, earl, count, viscount, or marquess.

SandraHealy in Artfire Collections: Oct. 6 & 7

Here are some of my carvings which appeared in Artfire Collections.

• "Penguins of ArtFire", curated by LaDeDaCreations, features of course, cute penguins - Emperor Penguin
• "The \"Black Market\"", curated by islandkatt, features items with black - Chickadee
• "Oh deer", curated by ShinyAdornments who says "Did you know Artfire had so many deer themed items? Go Bambi. :-)" - Doe Deer 
• "Flip n Fly... Little Bat Up in the Sky", curated by CTurtlezOddznEndz who says, "At least these won't dive bomb you...." - Fruit Bat (Flying Fox) Magnet

Animal Carvings featured in Artfire Collections Oct 4-5, 2010

  Animal Farm Fun curated by WieberArt

Quail Couple

Serengeti Safari curated by BijoudeRhapsodie

African Elephant 

 Gorilla 

African Traditions

Curated by CRGDesigns | Collection Published on 10-05-2010

Przewalski's Horse

 Horse Lovers

Curated by CreatedSensibilities | Collection Published on 10-05-2010

Wild Turkey 

Lets Talk Turkey

Curated by HoneyFromTheBee | Collection Published on 10-05-2010
also this Turkey was in To the Turkeys!
Curated by StephanieRonnyeknit1bead2 | Published on 10-05-2010