Decorated star shaped gift boxes
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Lucky Star Boxes

I’ll admit it. I cannot hide it. I have an absolute obsession with stars and star-shaped items. You can’t miss it if you hang around me for any length of time. I apologize… So, as one could imagine, star-shaped gift boxes catch my interest when I find them at art stores. I buy a set …

Abstract painting "Magnificent Failure" by Elsa Star
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Magnificent Failure

My primary occupation is as a Software Engineer, and in that field “failure” is a term of art we like to obsess about and celebrate, for, it takes many failures to achieve every success, and it is by way of failure that all learning takes place. It is as Edison said, finding numerous ways not …

Painting titled "Something's Up" by Elsa Star
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Something’s Up…

Okay, I’m tired tonight, my head still hurts a bit, but I think I’m sane so here goes another post. For “Something’s Up”, we have a little bit of mixed media going on with this little 11 x 14 canvas. It is mostly a painting, but with the addition of two opportunistically selected girls obtained …

Painting by Elsa Star, named "Elsa's Apple"
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Elsa’s Apple

Still here? I know, my previous post went into some deep realms. Thankfully, most of my art is just good looking and nice and not nearly so dark, even if it is symbolic in some fun way. Take this fruity painting of mine titled “Elsa’s Apple”. I painted it several years back–yes, when we were …

Elsa Star's painting titled "Good Friday"
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Good Friday

Happy Good Friday. I thought it fitting for today to dig up one of my older abstract paintings. I believe I painted this one about four years ago, it was during a fun art session with Olga when we had the old studio in what I like to call the “Quonset Hut” building. Back in …

Elsa Star's painting "Train of Thought Crossing the Imagination"
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Train of Thought

Happy Tuesday. Okay, I think I’ve left you all waiting long enough for the first of my artwork 🙂 Here is “Train of Thought Crossing the Imagination”, a recent 11 x 14 acrylic abstract I painted recently with almost record speed–we declared it a finished success only about halfway through a Sunday afternoon art session. …