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I have been drawing all my life and have painted in watercolor, acrylic and mixed media for almost 40 years. I do commission work (painting, drawing, graphic design/logos), a few art festivals, and give private lessons to children in watercolor, drawing and mixed media. I enjoy spending time with my grandchildren, especially teaching/encouraging them in some of my hobbies/interests so they may also express their own creativity as they go through life. I also crochet, embroider, cross stitch, sew, quilt, garden, cook, read and play with my dogs and horses. My husband and I attend many classic car events throughout the year together where we show his 1961 Corvette.

Monday, October 26, 2020

2020-2021 Pricelist



Watercolor Prices: ( *see option below)

8X10-$130
11X14-$170
11X15-$170(1/4watercolor sheet)
15X22-$230(1/2watercolor sheet)
16X20-$230
22X30-ask for price quote(full w/c sheet)

Acrylic Prices:
All Canvas is Level 3, Gallery Wrap, 1-1/2"
 
8X10-$130
11X14-$170
12X12-$170
16X20-$230
18X24-$265

Prices quoted are for one subject matter.  Ask for a price quote for multiple subject matter or collages.
 
* Watercolor can be done on pre-mounted watercolor board for a additional charge equal to cost of board from supplier at time of purchase. (I charge you my cost on the board) These are nice because the piece requires no mat or frame, has a more contemporary look.

Thank you for your business!
Rebecca Scrivner Lemmon

Saturday, December 29, 2012

Christmas Projects and Sales for 2012

  





This year I crocheted many dog breed scarves and was able to sell them to friends and contacts through my facebook page.  I also put a flyer in my Veterinarian's office and sold several.

pictured to the left is a red-tri Australian Shepherd scarf

It all started out with my making the 4 shown here to the right.  I made these up ahead of time and took them to my club's annual Fall Dog Show (FL PanHandler's Bone 'N Biscuit Harvest) which is an all breed Agility and Obedience Trial and Australian Shepherd Conformation Show.  The scarves I took to sell at the show were 1 each of the 4 color varieties of the Aussie.  Left to right: Blue Merle, Black Tri, Red Tri and Red Merle.  I sold all of the scarves I had pre-made and when I left I had orders for 8 more Aussies.   

I had no idea at the time how much this endeavor was going to influence the next couple months of my life!  I ended up having a very sick dog a few days after the show.   He had a severe reaction to vaccinations that had been given about 3 1/2 wks earlier.  I had a Vet bill just under $1,000 in one week!  I didn't have the money to pay all of this bill so I put out a plea on my Facebook page hoping to get some orders for the scarves to help with my expenses.  I also put a flyer in my Vet's office stating I could make any breed in this scarf.  Well, I ended up with 28 or so scarves to make and they all had to be done by Christmas - we were at the time, about 5-6 wks away.  Each of the orders I took were for a custom scarf, in other words, the customer would send me a digital picture of their dog and I was to make the scarf look as much like their dog as possible.  I ended up crocheting 9 different breeds of dogs and 3 wild animals - grey fox, raccoon and panda bear!  I did NOT have a pattern for any of these scarves.  I started with a pattern I had purchased over the internet for a red fox and the rest is history.  It would take me approximately 1-1/2 days to complete each scarf so I worked from 7am - 11pm every day for about 5 1/2 weeks non stop!  I was able to pay off my Vet bill and have enough money to buy some Christmas gifts for our 12 grandchildren!  I will be forever grateful to everyone who placed and order!  I am also an artist and do custom paintings.  I had 4 paintings to complete before Christmas as well! (2 are pictured at the end of this post)


Red Tri Australian Shepherd

Black Tri Border Collie
Sandy colored Mixed Breed Dog


Coton DeTulear
Blk Tri Aussie with "freckles"


Shibu Inu
Grey Fox


Raccoon
Panda Bear



Labradoodle
Black Mixed Breed Dog
Basset Hound
Black & White Pit Bull







The next 4 pictures are a Lethal White Australian Shepherd













This scarf is one I did for my granddaughter of our own dog, Bekka.  She was rescued and adopted by us in 2008.  We have 2 other Australian Shepherds but this gal is my granddaughter's favorite.  Bekka has very tiny eyes which are blue with pink around the edges of her eye sockets and the pupils are down near the bottom of her eyes.  She is able to see not as well as most dogs, but well enough to understand over 50 words in American Sign Language.  You see, she is also totally deaf!  She only has a few colored markings, the ones on her left side and on the top portion of her tail.  She also has one black and tan leg, her left rear one.  And, we couldn't forget her cute little pink spotted nose!  She also has a tail which not common to the breed in the USA, as they are usually docked a few days after the litter is born.  In Europe it is illegal to dock the tails so the Aussies there have beautiful tails like our little Bekka, although they are not colored like her unless they are also a LW (Double Merle).  The true name for her condition is homozygous merle  http://www.australian-shepherd-lovers.com/lethal-white.html or double merle.  These dogs can have serious health problems.  
Bekka by the way, is NOT the dog that I mentioned earlier having the serious reaction to the vaccinations.
view from above of the LW Aussie (Bekka) scarf

close up of the face of the LW Aussie (Bekka) scarf



Two of the custom watercolor paintings I did for customers this Christmas -

Junior Handler and Red Merle Australian Shepherd



Border Collie







Monday, September 10, 2012

Presenting Gwyneth's Quilt!


For my granddaughter's 7th Birthday (in 2010), I gave her a box full of pre-cut, ready to assemble, quilt squares that she and I could tie together to create a No Sew Quilt in the size of 81" X 54". - total of 54, 9" squares. ( I pre cut and sandwiched the squares with iron on fusible quilt batting and cotton backing)

I used as my guide, a project from Joanns.com 
http://www.joann.com/no-sew-calico-quilt/xprd73257/?_requestid=621581  

New Sew Quilt
 Directions:
1. Wash and dry calico fat quarters and backing.
2. Cut a 15" square from each fat quarter. From scraps, cut twenty-four
1⁄4" x 9"strips. Set aside.
3. Cut a 3" square from each corner of the 15 calico squares.
4. With wrong sides together, align edges of two squares. With chalk pencil or erasable marker, draw a line 3" from edge along one side. Cut fringe (both squares at the same time) about 1⁄4" wide, stopping cut at drawn line.
5. Tie top and bottom fringe together. When opened, squares should be joined by knotted fringe. Repeat with remaining squares so you have 12 sections of 2 squares.
6. Create rows by tying 3 sections together. (Rows should be 6 blocks long.) Tie rows together using same technique.
7. Layer backing (wrong side facing up), quilt batting and fringed top (right side up). Batting edges will be 3" shorter than quilt top and backing. Following manufacturer’s instructions, fuse quilt sandwich together.
8. Fringe outside edges of quilt through both layers. Tie together backing and fringed quilt top.
9. Using yarn/darning needle and 1⁄4" strips, tie center of each square to secure quilt top, batting and backing. Double knot.
10. Wash and dry quilt to fray fringe.


I changed the size of our quilt, so instead of 24, I used a total of 54 squares,  9 squares X 6 squares.
I did NOT use the 1/4" X 9" strips (step 9 above) to tie through the center of each square as in the Joanns version. (pictured below)

Joanns.com version

Pictured below is my granddaughter (Sept 2010) on the day I first gave her the quilt pieces (her 7th birthday).  
 


Below she is pictured tying the first pieces together.





Below is what our quilt looked like close up in the very beginning





It has now been exactly 2 years since we began our quilt together.  Could we have finished it sooner? YES.  But when Gwyneth comes to visit her Nana at the farm we get involved in so many projects and just plain having fun, that we wouldn't always make the time to work on the quilt.  It was a very fun project and we have lots of silly and good things to remember while making it together.  Like the time my goofy dog, Woodie, decided we needed to give him more attention than the quilt so he just jumped right in the middle of the coffee table on top of the quilt while we were working on it! 

The quilt is now finished.  Gwyneth just celebrated her 9th birthday so I folded it up nicely and boxed it in the original pretty container I had given her.  Then before she opened her birthday gifts at her party, she presented her finished quilt to all our family and friends.  You can see below she was very proud!
I hope as years go by she will always remember the fun we had making this quilt together and that it will instill in her an interest to make more quilts throughout her lifetime!

Monday, July 30, 2012

Some Cool Old Cars

Big Bad Buick 

8X10 Original Acrylic Painting -$100
prints available on watercolor paper or canvas, email for prices



 1963 Corvette Split Window 

8X10 Original Acrylic Painting - $100
Prints available on watercolor paper or canvas, email for prices




Recent Commission Piece


 

Original Acrylic - Mullet

SOLD


 

 




Monday, July 2, 2012

Hand Embroidered and Beaded 1961 Corvette Shirts







This is a shirt I recently hand embroidered and beaded of our 1961 Corvette.  My husband and I attend many car show events and I've always wanted shirts with our own car on it.  Since the weather has been 100 degrees during the days this summer, I decided to sit and sew while watching some movies on the TV and relaxing inside in the A/C!  Now I'm going to make one for my husband but only with embroidery threads (no beading) which will go twice as fast since I had to sew each and every bead on the shirt one by one!

I have now made the shirt for my husband to go along with the one I made myself (pictured above).  I used only embroidery on his but where I thought it would take me less time to make than mine with all the hand beading, I was wrong.  It took me longer because he wanted his on a golf style shirt which is of course, stretchy.  I put sew on stabilizer behind my work since it is thicker than the iron on or tear away type.  This worked great with all the threads I used except for the white which was a different texture because it was irridescent/pearlized. And naturally, almost the entire car was white! I ended up having to use pliers to pull the needle through each time I made a stitch.  What a pain!  But it turned out really nice and it was worth it.

It is pictured here below.

Winston

12X12 Acrylic painting of my dog, Winston.