Giveaway Bird Talking Print from TheNightjar

This week giveaway is sponsored by TheNightJar,
Win:

Bird Talking (Limited Edition)

A little bird guy "talking" with thought bubbles...in the background there is an old barn and a small bird perched on top of the barn also talking.
This is a high quality limited edition print of my original mixed media painting of the same name. It is printed on Somerset Enhanced Velvet 225 Archival paper. The size of the overall paper is 8.50 inches by 11 inches and the image itself is 7x9" inches.

I encourage you to read Tarra's profile featured yesterday and get inspired!

And if you love birds just like I do, you'll love her shop!

There are so many ways to win. Please make sure you leave a separate comment for every entry.

How to enter to win:

Mandatory entry:

• Go to TheNightjar shop. Return to my Adore By Nat blog and simply leave a comment here about your favorite item from her store.

Extra entries (only qualify once mandatory entry is fulfilled):

• Earn 2 entries - Go to yesterday's post to get to know her more.
  

Leave a comment there (yesterday's post) on at least one the following: what you learn from their interview, what you want to see more on their shop and why, or any constructive feedbacks are always appreciated.

Come back here and leave 2 comments that you did, to ensure your entries are counted.

• Heart TheNightjar shop and earn an entry. Simply let us know your Etsy username.

• Follow TheNightjar's blog and you earn another entry.

• Follow my blog and you earn another entry. If you're already a follower, you still get an entry, just says you're following already.

• Like my Facebook FB and you earn another entry. Let me know your FB username please.

• Share or Comment on my FB page under this giveaway announcement to earn 2 entries. Leave two separate comments here providing me with your FB name.
  

• 'Like' this giveaway announcement on my FB page to earn 1 entry. Provide me with your FB name.

• Tweet about this giveaway, add "@adorebynat" in your tweet. Each tweet worths one entry and you can tweet each day until the end of the contest (a maximum of one tweet per day is counted). That's a total of 7 entries!

• Blog about this giveaway to earn 2 entries.. Leave two separate comments here please providing me with the link to your post.

• Purchase an item from TheNightjar shop or my shop and earn 5 entries for each purchase. Don't forget letting us know by leaving comments :-)

Contest starts now and ends on June 19th, 2010. Contest opens worldwide.

Don't forget to leave me your e-mail address. Entries without contact information will be disqualified. Entries that do not follow the rules will be disqualified. Contest winner will be drawn on Sunday, June 20th by a random number generator, by the artist. Winner must respond within 48 hours after being contacted otherwise another winner will be randomly selected.

Saturday Artisan: TheNightjar

Meet Tarra, the artist behind TheNightjar, a shop full of high quality affordable fine art, original paintings, prints, needle felted creations and hand crafted unique jewelry that includes pendants, pins, and one of a kind items. 

Tell us a bit about yourself and what arts/ crafts that you make? 

I am a painter- have been my whole life and i also make jewelry and needle felted creatures. When I am not in my studio or tending my shop I teach college level art and take care of my three year old twins. 

Which part of creation process that you like to do the most?

Formulation before i have to "finish" the painting- when i start a new painting anything is possible and then somewhere towards the end it is difficult to know how to end the painting. 

Could you share how you organize your products, we all can use a few tips here and there in this department? 

I try to group according to what i am selling and not necessarily by color. So if I have a number of felt creatures I try to put them all together, my prints together and all paintings together and all jewelry together.

What is your favorite item in your shop?

My Victorian pendant necklace with a miniature painting of a Swallow.

What is your best seller? A toss up between my Dandelion print and my fuzzy felt pendant...however any miniature painting that i frame tends to disappear quickly.

How does your day go in general? Up at 6:30, check Etsy, 7 AM take care of kids, go to gym and take kids drop off in childcare, feed kids and play, nap for kids and then I check Etsy shop again, work, paint , internet work until kids wake up, if I have childcare I paint more in my studio, then feed kids at night, check shop again and then when the kids go to bed I get to needlefelt while I listen to music (favorite part of the day). 

Do you have a favourite Etsy seller? So many quality artists are on Etsy that just one is hard t name....swanbones, groundwork, redvelvet, gretchenmist, pogoshop to name a few gems.

 

   

What inspires you?

Mostly dreams but also watching nature closely. Before I had children I watched birds and collected them when I found them. Much to my husbands dismay I would freeze them and take them out to paint when I needed a still life subject. I have a stunningly beautiful Cedar Waxwing in my freezer who had flown into our front living room window. I also have a tiny Bewicks wren… and my mascot Armadillo for my studio- but he is taxidermied. I also have a giant collection of nests, my hummingbird nest is my favorite. 

What is your goal for 2010? And are you on the right track? double sales- so far so good! 

What is your favourite tool that you cannot live without? 

A dentists scraping tool I use for details in some paintings. 

How do you promote your shop? 

Treasuries, blogs and also the gallery that shows my work in downtown Oakland ...no Twitter- i just dont like it! (but i am trying to) 

Anything else you would like to share? I just lost my really cool 20 year old three legged cat, Sweet Pea- she was so terrific and I miss her but now I still have her brother, Spartacus who is also 20.

Love her shop already? Stay-tuned for tomorrow's giveaway!