Angelic Shades Studio: The Art of Angela Sasser

So it's finally happened! I got off my duff and updated my Etsy shop with lots of goodies. It will be the new permanent home for buying my original work, since it gets a good bit more traffic than my lonely homepage...

Well, Halloween is done and now begins the slow shifting of things to harvest and frost decorations for Thanksgiving and Christmas. I'm still stubbornly clinging to my jack-o-lantern, who is growing long for the garbage bin...

"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before." - Edgar Allan Poe, The RavenI have once seen a vision of a woman stripped of her hopes and dreams, left with nothing but the purist of suffering and endless...

"Terrible Dawn"5x7 Inches, Watercolor & Color Pencil on Illustration BoardA brilliant blade flashes in the deepest dark...

Continuing my pattern of more art sharing, here's the progress on the sketch I showed you last entry. Ms...

Thought you guys might enjoy a sneak peek into things I'm working on plus art!This week, the topic of my project is the halo. Halo comes from the Latin halōs or nimbus, meaning cloud, round, circle, sun, and moon. While the Greek origination meant threshing floor....

There is a saying that every journey begins with a single step. Sometimes we fall, trip, or get distracted from the path by shiny objects. Eventually we reach a point where we can stop and realize there is more of the road behind us than there is ahead. You're almost there...

I remember a time in college when I found myself so incredibly frustrated by my homework and completely lost as to what to do with myself. I wanted to draw angels and elves, not splatter paint on a canvas and call it art...

Now attempting to get this blog back onto it's usual Wednesday/Sunday schedule. I've been so tied up in conventions and deadlines I've neglected any sort of regular schedule...

I've not been able to sleep for a few nights lately. Here I am again toiling in this journal when I should be sleeping. The past few months of conventions have been a sobering, and inspiring, few...

After the last couple of conventions, it seems my artist's alley table is growing and evolving into something grand...

There comes a time in every artist's life when they want to toss their scanner out the window because it's such a pain to scan large paintings into the standard format 8.5x11 Inch scanners...

With the lingering malaise of Dragon Con still upon me, I'm preparing for yet another convention...

Diary Entries Thus Far:Dragon Con Diary 09: Pre-Con PrepDragon Con Diary 09: To Charge or Not to Charge?Dragon Con Diary 09: The Rush BeginsDragon Con Diary 09: The Calm Before the StormDragon Con Diary 09: Matting Madness!Dragon Con Diary 09: The AftermathDragon Con Diary 09: Video & Photo...