Info for Inquiries

This is the information you'll need if you want to make any inquiries.

Thank you for taking an interest.

If you have any inquiries. please send me an email to shirley_is@rock.com and type "*Art Inquiry" in the "Subject" line...

If inquiring about art -- Please indicate the title of your interest and if you're interested in a print (giclee) or if you'd like an original. Cost is more for an original, depending on size desired. All sizes are negotiable unless otherwise stated. All prints currently available are giclee, hand numbered and signed in pencil by me (the artist, Shirley). The originals are also hand signed in pencil. I also do custom orders. I am very versatile with medium and technique. If you can think it, I can draw it and am willing to work it until the finished product is what you envisioned. I am experienced with company logos, I can work with one you already have if you need a four color overlay done for use in advertising and for company logo embroidery for promotional items or personnel. Maybe you just feel your logo is outdated and needs some new life put into it, or I can present something completely new and innovative to you. I've designed program covers and covers for published literary compilations. I can produce what you want. I've had customers come to me with an idea of what they want, I put it on paper and they see their idea materialize. I once had someone ask me to draw a portrait of their mother, who was overseas, he wanted her drawn younger than her present years and with different clothes and accessories than what was in the 2"x3" black and white picture he gave me to work with , yes...he wanted her in color. That completed portrait was done with oil pastels on an 16"x24" Grumbacher Watercolor Paper. If you can think it, I can draw it. I set it up so you can just click on any picture on this blog and use that email form to contact me but when I tried to do that...it didn't function correctly....go figure...I'll have to analyze that to see what I did wrong...haven't tried it in about a year, so you can try if you like or (let me repeat myself here) email me at shirley_is@rock.com ------don't forget to put *Art Inquiry* on the Subject line.. Remember, the sizes I have listed are the size of the actual print...if you want a framed finished piece the finished size may be anywhere from 4" - 8" larger (in H and W) than print...depending on matt and/or frame desired or required.
No shipping and handling fees for all purchases of prints sized 8"x10" or less. ,or try clicking on the title of the piece or image of which you're interested, in the subject line please type *ART INQUIRY*. Don't forget to include any pertinent information in the email:

• title of the piece you're interested in
• print or original
• default or custom size
• your mailing address (if I'll need it)
• your email address
• your name and shipping address

Golden Words ~ The Human Body

Some of these emails I get are just so remarkable, I can't resist passing them on to my friends that I love to laugh with....(Please feel free to copy them and send to your friends )
hmm...all you females out there, make sure your ol' man -or best "man-friend" reads this;

Interesting & Need To Know Human Body Facts:

> The largest cell in the human body is the female egg and the smallest is the male sperm.

> A full bladder is roughly the size of a soft ball.

> It takes the food seven seconds to get from your mouth to your stomach.

> One human hair can support 3 kg (6 lb).

> Human thighbones are stronger than concrete.

> The attachment of human muscles to skin is what causes dimples.

> The average man's penis is three times the length of his thumb.

> A woman's heart beats faster than a man's.

> If the average male never shaved, his beard would be 13 feet long when he died.

> Men with hairless chests are more likely to get cirrhosis of the liver than men with hair.

> There are about one trillion bacteria on each of your feet.

> Side by side, 2000 cells from the human body could cover about one square i nch.

> Women blink twice as often as men.

> The average person's skin weighs twice as much as the brain.

> When you are looking at someone you love, your pupils dilate. . . .

> they do the same when you are looking at someone you hate!

> Your ears secrete more earwax when you are afraid than when you aren't.

> Your body uses 300 muscles to balance itself when you are standing still.

> If saliva cannot dissolve something, you cannot taste it.

> The average woman is five inches shorter than the average man.

> Still looking at your thumb, aren't you? :)

Golden Words ~ Understanding Women

I continually receive emails that have golden words of wisdom and I can't think of anything better than to share them with you so my cup doesn't get too full and block these resources from having a place to rest to continue their endless works of passing on some food for thought and hopefully wisdom to help:

The Wisdom of Man Trying to Understand Woman


9 Words that Women Use and What They REALLY Mean

1. Fine: This is the word women use to end an argument and you need to shut up.


2. Five Minutes: If she is getting dressed, this means a half an hour. Five minutes is only five minutes if you have just been given five more minutes to watch the game before helping around the house.

3. Nothing: This is the calm before the storm. This means something, and you should be on your toes. Arguments that begin with nothing usually end with fine.

4. Go Ahead: This is a dare, not permission. Don't Do It!

5. Loud Sigh: This is actually a word, but is a non-verbal statement often misunderstood by men. A loud sigh means she thinks you are an idiot and wonders why she is wasting her time standing here and arguing with you about nothing. (Refer back to #3 for the meaning of nothing.)

6. That's Okay: This is one of the most dangerous statements a woman can make to a man. That's okay means she wants to think long and hard before deciding how and when you will pay for your mistake.

7. Thanks: A woman is thanking you, do not question, or Faint. Just say you're welcome.

8. Whatever: is a woman's way of saying F__You.

9. Don't Worry About It, I Got It: Another dangerous statement, meaning this is something a woman has told a man to do several times, but is now doing it herself. This will later result in a man asking "What's wrong?" For the woman's response, refer to #3.

If men could remember this terminology, it could save them many arguments.

(By the way, this email was sent by a man...thank you Kenny!) :)

Feel like you need another dose of "wisdom"? Click one of the referring links for more "Golden Words".

Golden Words ~ A Farmer's Wisdom

A Farmer's Wisdom

> Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you'll enjoy it a second time.

>Your fences need to be horse-high, pig-tight, and bull-strong.

>Keep skunks and bankers and lawyers at a distance.

>Life is simpler when you plow around the stump.

>A bumble bee is considerably faster than a John Deere tractor.

>Words that soak into your ears are whispered...not yelled.

> Meanness doesn't just happen overnight.

> Forgive your enemies. It messes with their heads.

> Don't corner something that you know is meaner than you.

> It doesn’t take a very big person to carry a grudge.

> You cannot unsay a cruel word.

> Every path has a few puddles.

> When you wallow with pigs, expect to get dirty.

> Most of the stuff people worry about isn’t going to happen, anyway.

> Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.

> Don't interfere with something' that isn’t bothering you none.

> Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.

> If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging.

> Sometimes you get, and sometimes you get got.

> The biggest troublemaker you'll probably ever have to deal with, watches you from the mirror every morning.

> Always drink upstream from the herd.

> Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

> Letting' the cat out of the bag is a whole lot easier than putting' it back in.

> If you get to thinkin' you're a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else's dog around.

> LIVE SIMPLY! LOVE GENEROUSLY! CARE DEEPLY! SPEAK KINDLY! LEAVE THE REST TO GOD!

> The best sermons are lived, not preached.

Golden Words ~ Sharing Words

Sharing Words of Wisdom

I wondered why somebody didn't do something . . .

then I realized I was somebody.



I continually receive emails that have golden words of wisdom and I can't think of anything better than to share them with you so my cup doesn't get too full and block these resources from having a place to rest to continue their endless works of passing on some food for thought and hopefully wisdom to help:

"Be very careful if you make a woman cry, because God counts her tears. The woman came out of a man's rib, not from his feet to be walked on, not from his head to be superior, but from his side to be equal! Under the arm to be protected, and next to the heart to be loved." Quoted from a post on facebook 1/12/2010

"Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. " - Samuel Taylor Coleridge


"Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand." - Saint Thomas Aquinas


"He who hesitates ~ is poor." - Mel Brooks


It was discovered, from a documented, extensive study of longevity, that 90% of the most cheerful quarter of participating subjects were alive at age eighty-five versus only 34% of the least cheerful quarter . . . moral?. . . Don't Worry, Be Happy! A (ITEM OF INTEREST: By the way, it also noted. . . psychology has badly neglected the positive side of life, for every one hundred journal articles on sadness, there is just one on happiness.)


"Positive emotion alienated from the exercise of character leads to emptiness, to inauthenticity, to depression, and, as we age, to the gnawing realization that we are fidgeting until we die."

"Never give up

Develop the heart

Too much energy in your country is spent

Developing the mind instead of the heart.

Be compassionate not just to your friends but to everyone

Be compassionate.

Work for peace in your heart and in the world.

Work for peace and I say again

Never give up.

No matter what is happening,

No matter what is going on around you,

Never give up."
~The Dalai Lama~

Glossary

G L O S S A R Y

baraka bashad - Sanskrit, translated means "may the blessings be"

eck - the powerful force which emanates and flows from the mouth of "God" to permeate the universe; the "sound of silence"; the living substance which has no form which sets forth vibration to go forth and create, even so, providing the beacon to guide soul home should one lose his way being trapped by the muck and mire of illusion

eckankar - the ancient way of life utilizing the discipline of soul travel as the means to reaquaint wisdom which has been forgotten due to distraction of illusion; the religion that is not a religion and science which is not a science; the way, the straight and narrow path

kamikaze - Sanskrit, translated means "divine wind"

pointilism - an art term specifying a media utilized in creating a work of art by placing dots in areas to create a picture when viewed as a whole, also referred to as stippling. Usually used with ink or paint.

Sanskrit - the first structured language of human, literally translated; san = without, skrit = writing

tuza - Sanskrit, translated means "soul"

wisdom - the trait of utilizing knowledge and experience with common sense and insight

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emailed wisdom to share :), ArtGallery shirley_is. Someday, I
hope to draw a comic strip based on life around
here with me, Ron and our life with Meow Meow."OnTheFlipSide."
I'll have a littlebit of my poetry ...maybe more if I 'd jot it down, and
some of the crafts I've worked on, maybe with instructions.









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