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You now have the ability to fill your surroundings with art images you enjoy as STICKERS in one of four sizes! Also, PUZZLES are now available with two choices for the number of pieces in your contemporary masterpiece challenge. #art
Hopefully the pricing options will show up after updates to the system take place, for all my works. Happy online shopping, everyone. 👍 😁

Two new works: A Brush with Love and Palm of Hearts are now uploaded. Remember, you can customize, personalize the greeting cards and have them sent directly to your friends via the ordering process online on faa or pixels. Hope you will check them out today. -- Karen

This original oil painting "Ready to Receive" 9 x 12 inches is on sale today unframed from the artist via a Pay Pal purchase. Click through link straight into Pay Pal. Free shipping in USA. https://py.pl/OKdQA
Please notify me of your purchase and the address where you want me to send the painting.

I've uploaded the current, revised version of the oil painting "Nativity" with a new name: "In the Stable." This image still features Mary, Jesus and a Wiseman bringing a gift. I left the previous image online in case some of you prefer it for prints and products over the revised original. I noticed while uploading "In the Stable" that Pixels, sister site to Fine Art America is now offering a new product of puzzles for art images. I plan to add that tag to my other 200+ art images here soon. Hope you are all staying well. Best wishes for a pleasant holiday season.

Hi,
Hope you are surviving the storms, fires, and other disasters we've had all over the U.S. recently.
I added two new artworks based on rose shapes with lots of negative white space in between.
Also, you will find some of my newest videos uploaded to youtube.com/c/blessings427 Art Promotions channel there featuring over 200 videos on the subject of art, movies, music, travel and inspirational topics. The recent one titled Is There Still Life in Still Life? really took off with views. It's free to subscribe. I've reached the 1,000 subscriber mark now which enables me to post to the Community board, but not sure if anyone is seeing the posts, sort of like with this blog. I need 7.5 times more WATCH Time of my videos than I have now by viewers on YouTube, to qualify for monetization of my channel. Perhaps someday I will be able to present more videos based on some of the art and artists on Fine Art America, once I reach a greater volume of views. Do any of you have YouTube channels also? Let me know so I can check it out.
Karen

This is the new big deal here: Art Collectors, it's your time to shine. Click on this link before the end of July, 2020 and whatever you purchase on this site and keep, no matter which artist it was created by, will lead to a small commission for me and a chance to win a contest. Here's the link: fineartamerica.com/shop/canvas+prints?affiliateId=A63082
Thanks so much. Whoever raises the most commission for me, let's see, I will give them access to a very private video never shown before to the public called "What Growing Up Looked Like for Me" or the choice of any of my prints or art products marketed here on fineartamerica or pixels .com, with my artist commission at zero. In other words, if you choose a mask, the price will be 50 cents less to you, as that is what my mark up is on those. My mark up might be as much as $5.00 to $10.00 on some of the products. So jump right in and be sure to use this affiliate ID A63082. Thanks so much!

Hi,
Hope you are all staying well and sane during this difficult year. You may find one or two new images from me since the last time you checked in. Also, I added the recently introduced product that fineartamerica and pixels are making available: masks. These are NOT medical, surgical grade and they are 100 percent polyester with ear straps. Any of my art designs may be selected and ordered. I kind of feel most will be drawn to the abstract collections though. Anyway, let's hope and pray for an end to Covid-19 right away and a cure for those who are ill.
Karen E. Francis

Hi,
I hope you are all feeling OK. There is a lot of news on about the spread of the Corona virus Covid 19.
Here's what cdc.gov (Center for Disease Control in America) has to say: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/faq.html about the source of the Corona Covid-19 virus.
Here's a URL for NIH, National Institute of Health in America, a respected medical institution: https://www.nih.gov/health-information/coronavirus
Check out the World Health Organization pages also.
Here's a link to Mayo Clinic (again, a well known, respected medical institution): https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/category/covid-19/
You can copy and paste the urls as I dont think I can add active links here.
In America we are being told to use social distancing and hand washing to protect against the virus and flatten the curve of its spread.

I hope that if the delay in producing a vaccine is because of slow computers available for analyzing data, that some super fast computer will be made available to the medical professionals working on this serious problem.

My company, Art Promotions, "Paintings, Prints, & Productions" (which is just myself currently), will continue to paint, and upload prints to fineartamerica & pixels, however, for the near future, I will be curtailing filmmaking projects that involve interactions in real time with groups of more than six or travel. I am awaiting communications from fineartamerica about any other impact on art product production that their factories may potentially experience as a result of the virus, so I may let my supporters, patrons, collectors know.

Also, while people can continue to view and order products online, for the time being, until the government recommends otherwise, sale of my originals via my home studio & office is put on hold. These sales are normally by appointment only. I will not be accepting any more appointments for selection and sale of originals at my home studio until further notice. Of course, if someone has already selected a painting they really want, and pay by Pay Pal or credit card online first, then I will be happy to leave the purchased original on the front porch at a designated time for pick up by the buyer or a shipping delivery service. Just call or text me. Or write me at kfrancis427 @ gmail. com

All for now. Stay well. --Karen E. Francis

I have created an additional version of the New Orleans fountain and am calling it Fountain of Change. I've employed some morphing and other fantasy elements to modify this digital image. Also, hope you will see the Dixon Garden Sculpture presented in Rose Quartz color effects. As always, when you shop with fineartamerica or pixels . Com, each purchase comes with a 30 day money back satisfaction guarantee.

Have you tried ordering a custom greeting card yet? It's amazing. Check out the new image uploaded for Mardi Gras on my page. I'm finding inspiration in new art apps available on mobile phones.