Saturday, December 31, 2011

The Paint On Tabletop Easel Got an Award!

I always look forward to Katherine Tyrrell's 'Making a Mark' Awards at the end of the year - art bloggers, world-wide, voted on their favorites for Best Picture of the Year on an Art Blog 2011, including Best Portraits/Figures, Best Landscape/Place, Best Still Life, Best Nature and more. Bravo to all who participated and congratulations to the artists.

This year Katherine's new award, the Art Innovation of the Year, highlights those artist bloggers who experiment and/or create and/or share innovations which help the practice of other artists. This year's award was shared between Ester Roi's Icarus Art Drawing Board and Brett's Paint On Tabletop Easel!! How cool is that? Nice way to end the year - thanks to the voters and Katherine, Brett and I appreciate the recognition.

Speaking of the Tabletop Easel, I currently have 1 that is brand-new and ready to ship in the New Year - please click here to purchase yours.

An added note..... we've really enjoyed our holiday time including a road trip to have Christmas with the family, something we couldn't do for years, being in retail. Zac and Joey had their first long drive, their first hotel stay and new experiences all around. It was great fun - we hope you had a wonderful time as well.

The painting starts again tomorrow, I've got a lot of catching up to do. I want to thank all of you who take the time to visit my blog and website and leave your encouraging comments and emails throughout the year. It really, really does mean a lot to me.

~ Happy New Year
and Paint On!



15 comments:

Sharon Alama Art said...

I only need to look to your blog for inspiration, Karin. Rock on--paint on! Happy New Year to us all!

Pat O'Driscoll said...

Congrats to you and Brett on the award, I love using my Tabletop Easel,so glad I bought one.
Always look forward to seeing your new paintings, wishing both of you a Happy New Year!

Terri Buchholz said...

Congratulations to you & Brett on a well deserved recognition! And thank you again for all of your contributions and inspirations! Speaking for myself, thanks to you, the workshop, my tabletop easel, and the iPad, if never had such fun and so much productivity with painting. It's because of you that I started painting again. Blessings to you both in the coming year!

Maria Bennett Hock said...

Congrats to you and Brett! I love my table top easel and my alter easel. I use them both all the time and they are so very easy to travel with! Happy New Year, Happy painting!

Kathy Cousart said...

Congrats!! Huge honor to you and Brett and well deserved. I use my table top easel whenever I paint sitting down and really like it. The best! Need to get an alter easel now:)
Yay on having a road trip with the pups...glad you had a much deserved break and look forward to seeing what you paint next! Happy New Year Karin and thank you for being an inspiration, just... every day!!

Kelley Carey MacDonald said...

Congratulations to you and Brett! So glad you had a nice break this Christmas, and fun times with the pups! Can't wait to see what you come up with in 2012!

Balaji Venugopal said...

Happy New Year & congratulations on the award.
Your blog is an inspiration to me and I look forward to your posts.

Linda Nickles said...

Congratulations to you and Brett!! Your recognition is well deserved. The table top easel is the BEST! Happy New Year!, Karin!!!

Elaine Hurst said...

Congratulations! A well deserved award! I love my table top easel, I have been using it a lot since I bought it about a month ago. Always love seeing your paintings!

liz wiltzen said...

Congratulations to you both Karin, equally innovative beings that you are! Happy New Year!

Cathy Engberg said...

Congratulations to you and Brett! I love my Paint On easel and use it every day. I'm glad you are getting recognition.
I can't wait to see you start painting again. I'm totally missing you.

Linda Popple said...

A big congratulations to you and Brett!!! Well deserved. It's a great easel. I love mine!!
Happy new year for all 4!! Glad you all had a good holiday break!

Anonymous said...

Happy new year Karin

Amanda Bilson said...

Happy New Year. Look forward to seeing more of your amazing paintings.

Amanda Bilson said...

Happy New Year. I look forward to seeing more of your amazing paintings.