My Fine Art America Website

http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/shayna-keach.html?tab=artwork


Go check out my work. Everything is uploaded and prints are available for sale.! ENJOY!

A beer at 5pm? YES Please!!!!!!

Let me just start out by saying that, yes my husband is military and active duty; but can I also state that that does NOT mean we are over here in North Carolina rollin' in dough. That is one thing that drives me bonkers is that people assume that since my husband is in the Army, we have unlimited money. PuuLEAZE! Lemme just say that not only do we live pay check to pay check, but the debt ain't funny either. So when you have two children and two dogs and my hubs and my self to take care of, you seem to be willing to do whatever you can to save money. For example (and the reason of this post) WIC. Having two children and knowing the price of formula, if you can qualify for it, GET IT! Yes, I'm one to complain about the waiting time or the fact that they have only TWO waiting rooms the size of a middle bedroom and you CAN'T stand in the hall..... UGH! well, I suck it up, because damn near $20 per can of formula is too much for me to spend. So I deal with the annoyances and the inconveniences because I feel its worth it just for the formula alone! Today was the kids' WIC appointment. I for one, can't find a DAYUM parking spot..... and two, had to park basically on the damn main road.... (B.S.) THREE..... one stroller.... my almost 4yr old, is walking.. not the greatest event usually bc I like to have her in the double stroller so she can't run from me and get in the way of others...again..rooms are NOT big enough for a double stroller. So my lil mini me was off running from me, getting in the way of by-passers. We get to the WIC office and I give her my phone with a letter app up for her to play to keep her distracted and seated.... then, all of a sudden she looks at me and says "Mommy I very sick" and she runs to the trash can in the waiting room, (THANK GOD FOR THAT TRASH CAN) and there goes her lunch. Thankfully there was only two other mothers in there but it was def embarrassing. We finish up and we head home and I'm catering to her because she says she doesn't feel good, and then all of a sudden.. she feels good enough to put her brothers Lavender shampoo in her hair.. she wasn't taking a bath. HORRIBLE mess.... so in to the bath she goes. Toys to play with bc it's a ritual for a bath. The bath seems to have made her feel better so I asked her to pick up her toys in her room, bc her room is a horrid mess and seems to always be that way. She decides to have a fit of yelling at me telling me "No" and that's when I said "In your room you go, missy. Time to clean" and shut the door. She has been yelling for the past 45mins about how she doesn't wanna clean and that she want's the door open. UGH! Lemme tell ya, I opened a beer! Today can suck it.... today is for the birds... and once again, the Army is my husbands first wife, then comes me....ARRRGHH! This is why I'm such an insomniac bc once everyone is asleep... I cherish every moment to myself. Whether it be drawing, Facebooking, browsing Pinterest, or simply writing a blog. I feel it's all I have to call my own sometimes. *HEAVY SIGH* Now back to that beer!!! :)

A few recent finished pieces!

A few new ones... the first three are oil pastels and the last one is colored pencils. Kinda proud of myself with these... :) 

ENJOY!

Let Us Love The World To Peace, Not Death...

A PEACE REVOLUTION 

A peace revolution. These three words... what do they mean to you? Do you believe in such a thing? Beyond all extremes, I do! This world has become such violent planet and I'm not ashamed to say that Mother Earth and Father Sky did not have this in mind when they created this planet we call home. Who would have thought that any precious creature could be capable of doing what has drove the crime and terrorist threats to this world. 

QUOTING Lady Miss Kier.....

 "Oh precious land, you're in the wrong hands. Stretched every way like a rubber band. I'm calling out to ALL earth fans. Come one, give a damn, and take a stand... Keep the Hope spinning the GLOBE! ...The animals are endangered. Mother Nature is a stranger. How do we measure nuclear waste? Electric cars and solar TV's. Organic food is the things we need. And if you still don't understand, the information is at your hands, so make demands. Demands in this world you like to see. Convenience is the enemy." 

WORLD PEACE~

An ideal of freedom, peace, and happiness among and within ALL nations and/or people.

I know this is such a far fetched idea. But don't you agree life would be a lot better and people could relax and not worry like worry warts?! We could fly to another state or, shit, another country and be able to file your nails on the plane. 

I would love to see this happen in my life time... but heck, I'll take it happening in my children's lives or their children's lives. I just know that this wasn't how Mother Earth and Father Sky wanted it to be. 

QUOTING Lady Miss Kier....

"Who is the winner of war? 

Is Mother Nature gonna keep the score.

Are we one for all or are we all for one. 

Or on the outside of a deal well done.

Slicker than an oil spill over up.

Left alone like a homeless persons cup.

As civilizations rise and fall,

Libraries burn down to the ground.

But love remains standing tall.

Although history is a matter of opinion. 

We must be one for all

Don't let your mind be weak

Don't be afraid to speak

Just look at history

And then you've got to see

That hate will never pay

Love is the ONLY way!!"

Do you strive for freedom, yet feel limited on what the term..

FREEDOM means.....??

I thought the United States of America was the country who advertised and many times (just my opinion) glorified the term..

FREEDOM!!

This world has become something I'm sure the late world leaders and all the ones who just blatantly left a mark in this country's history, or in ones life wouldn't approve of how the people of this country are treating the people of this country. 

"I have a Dream, Today"

QUOTING Lady Miss Kier.....

"We've been building the ship for years, because the river is made from tears. And now we're drifting down the river of Freedom. And now we're on our way, on our way, on our way. The sails are made from our dreams. There will be better days downstream. And now we're drifting down the river of Freedom. Please let our spirit last. We're raising up our mast. And now we're drifting..... down the river of Freedom"

Can I stress the fact that a lot of people are being VERY judgmental with other peoples opinions and beliefs on the 2012 Election coming up. My thing is... we are all entitled to our own opinion and statements. Posts to a social network or personal blog site are MY POSTS! Don't like 'em, simply delete me from your feed or unfriend me, (already been unfriended due to a link I posted on my Facebook wall and did NOT stand down on why I posted what I did and not to branch off into an entirely different flippin issue!). But... I respect every persons opinions and beliefs; as I wish to have mine respected in the same sense and/or fashion. 

QUOTING Lady Miss Kier....

"Depending on how you see a thing, the ship is free, or it is sinking. Depending on how you see it. You cage your mind or you free it. Depending on how you see the times, the world divides or it closely binds. Depending on how you see the times, we're wasting time we're in a moving line."

another bit of Lady Kier words... 

"After the rain, I'm on my way to better days. And I must say, no puddle splash keeps me away. After the rain. Rainbows find my pot of soul. I can't complain.. I'm just in from the cold.

A LIST OF QUOTES

"The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war"

-Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

"Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war"

"I think that people want peace so much that one of these days gov't had better get out of their way and let them have it"

-Dwight Eisenhower

"We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom"

-Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves"

-Abraham Lincoln 

"It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you"

-Author Unknown

"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must undergo the fatigue of supporting it" -Thomas Paine

"Freedom is the oxygen of the soul"

-Moshe Dayan

"We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it."

-William Faulkner 

"Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better."

-Albert Camus

"Without freedom, no one really has a name"

-Milton Acorda

Imagine if everyone helped a little bit, and it comes back to you! It's called Karma! Positive or negative... you'll see!!!

I wrote this poem below back in Aug 2000, and even in high school I was dreaming BIG!!

"The Begging, Yet Giving Man"

I walked down the busy street, and saw an old man

He looked like a vagrant soul, as he held out an empty can

I was a good twenty feet away from the fellow

But the distance still allowed me to see his teeth were yellow

As he held out his vacant can asking for cash

People didn't even look at him, as though he were senseless trash

The closer I got, the more nervous I felt

As his pants fell to his knees, in need of a belt

I reached in my pocket and pulled out seven dimes

I placed them in his can letting them sound like wind chimes

But concentrating on making sure he didn't step on a sidewalk crack

He looked at me and smiled, and gave me two of the dimes back

He just smiled and said "I like to return something to the giving"

I grinned and said thank you, walked away thankful for the way I'm living.

Shayna Patrice Keach

2000

Let Us Love The World to Peace, not Death...

Super Cheese

This is heaven right here lol! JK! Just being silly with the hubs :) thought I'd share. Tonite was a fun nite ;)

Pre-bedtime Ramble (Oops) hehe

Just a quick little rant/rave or just plain truth... But I do believe I'm a true blooded insomniac! I'm not proud, nor happy I am a victim :(

But I've come to realize I can slowly but surely take control of this issue of mine!! I'm in route to trying to find an outlet that can somewhat explain everything in due time. Im hoping for positive results. Or hell, just a decent nites sleep. I'd be happy with either!! ;) live laugh love >..<

My lovely cliche tropical beach! Oil pastels.

Very cliche and generic I know but I'm still a sucker for beach scenes. This is my first and it looks like a 10yr old did it lol but better luck next time!

My lil girl is growing up =\

I'm sitting here, watching Chris play DC Online and both foxy and surely are chilln with me too. Feelin A bit wishy washy. Im sippin' on a lemonade four loko and I'm feeling a bit of this separation anxiety. It's too damn quiet in my house and I'm too used to my lil mini me being the lil girl who asked 'why' all the time. Us telling her it's bedtime but she insists on having to go to the bathroom every 30mins. Used to a loud thump every now and then bc she's such a Tom Boy and isn't afraid to show it. Yet wants to be the pretty pretty princess in last years Halloween costume. I miss her, and it's weird bc I'm always stressing the fact that she is soooo ready for school and all that jazz, but it's weird for me. **this was written on Saturday the 28th & my mini me went to a lil slumber party at Connie's house. She needed it! She's been stuck in the casa too long!!!

A few new ones...

Oouucchhhheeee

Can I just say that this whole being sick thing has really gotten to me. I guess bronchitis is no joke. I've been coughing so much that my rib cage is sore as shit. Been like that for a while and lasnite I had a mini coughing fit and all I feel is sharp pain shooting done my back, side and under my breast. All I heard was a massive crack/pop. I fell to the floor, in so much pain. Could barely breath and basically had a mini panic attack, I thought I cracked a rib lol!! Didn't crack a rib but def pulled a muscle. BAD!! What in gods name is up with this 'luck' of mine?! I'm so ready to get better and back to myself again. This ish is for the birds!!

Disarranged feelings; Yet set in stone.... H'mmmm INTERESTING

What is there to do when someone you care so much for is so far deep that you're attempts of reaching out to them are as distant in their minds as a military wife who's husband is off at war.. Not much, I guess, but pray & hope they hit the "rock-bottom" that has been needed for a while now. All I have to say is that you shall do unto others as if you wish to be done by. As ye so, so shall ye reap. KARMA! Sell destruction! Self Medication!!! An endless spiral of numbing the pain you have endured for the past however long you can seem to remember it. If you dig a hole that you're gonna dig so deep that you'll be stuck there forever, don't complain when the sunlight fades.. You dug the whole, now you gotta stand in it. You cannot get away with destructive actions forever. It WILL catch up to you. In due time. All I want, is for the guilty to own up to their domestic actions and realize that that's no way to live and no way treat someone you claim to care about. Silence the violence my fellow friends and citizens! Increase the peace. Sit back, and realize life is a blessing and live it to the fullest in the most positive way possible! 

Oil pastel amateur ; love it X2

The second oil pastel of the two!!!

Oil Pastel Amateur ... Ooh Wee I love IT!

I've gone completely insane and went and did two serious oil pastel pieces. YES! I did!!! I'm sorta proud, hoping I'll get a bit better in due time..... this is one of the two. check it out!

"Like" me, "Like" me!

Ohhhhh yes! Yes I did. I am one silly gal who went as far as to creating a fan page on FB to promote my artwork! I feel this may help network my name and my art! So please, go check my page out, and "like" it :)
https://www.facebook.com/shayna.patrice

and also, I have my FineArtAmerica profile linked to my fan page.... you can see all my work I have up available for prints.
http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/shayna-keach.html

Hope you enjoy! =D

More artwork !!!

Two more pieces done! One is oil pastels (my very first one ever) and the other is colored pencil abstract!

Two new abstract pieces!

I've finished two Abstract pieces. One I'm uber excited about, the other.... not so much. I can't get a good photo of them so they will def need to be scanned.... But check them out and let me know what you think!!

This lady right here, is gonna try to promote some artwork!

Call me an amateur, and I'm fine with that title. But, Lord have mercy, please don't call me a buckweater!! I know I am new to this whole artistic deal, and I'm okay with that. Everyone has to start somewhere, right? 


So I've recently been researching online for website to try and promote my latest artwork. Came across a few, set up some accounts with some...... but when you forget your username AND p.w. it must not have caught my eye in the first place. LOL! I finally found fineartamerica.com and after some research and help from a few good friends, I went ahead and posted some of my photography. This was two days ago. I check my photos today and 5 people from VA, WA, NY, NC, and Canada have viewed a few of my pieces. Call my crazy or just plain silly, but seeing that these random folks across our country had viewed MY work, made me all giddy and excited inside!! I upgraded to the premium feature, (only a $30 annual fee) in which if someone wants to purchase a piece of my artwork, the company itself will print the photo/drawing, mat and frame it if the customer buys the accessories, package it securely, and ships it to the buyer. I then will receive a check in the mail for my sale.  I have not yet made a sale because I have NO idea how to price my photographs. My drawings, on the other hand, I think I'll have a better judgement on how to price. But since we have a scanner that will only scan paper by the size of 8.5x11, I am limited on what I can put up for sale. Called FedEx Kinko's and they can scan most of my artwork and place them on a CD for me so I can upload them to fineartamerica.com and it's basically a duplicate of the original. I had tried taking pictures of my drawings with my brand spankin' new 16.1 mega pixel digital camera, but it's just not coming out like I'd want it. So FedEx Kinko's is gonna be my savoir for the moment to try and get this ball rolling. :) 


If you're someone who appreciates fine art (or amateur work) please go check out my photography on fineartamerica.com. Search for me by my name, Shayna Keach. My profile is public and so are my photos. Please, go take a look. And by Monday, I hope to have some of my drawings up and ready for anyone and everyone to see and/or purchase!!! ..........Feedback is always good too! ;)

AMATEUR .... wish me Luck!

Oooh la la, this artistic thing I seem to hold deep inside my soul has had plenty of time to escape my temple. And I now have these pieces of artwork to prove my therapy sessions. :)


Drawing was never really something I was "in to" ..... I was more into so-called "doodling" .... but I had recently been doodling album art from Deee-lite and I discovered I could look at something and somewhat try to draw it or make it my own. I have many drawings I've done in the past few months and I'm ever so proud of them. I recently drew a couple pieces for my mama and I then realized (with a little help from mama herself) that I could possibly sell my work. (Prints of course.... I don't think I could part with my originals) So I'm now on a mission to try to promote my amateur artwork and see if anyone would wanna place some of it in their homes. Wish me luck, folks. This would be an ideal dream for me to come true! ;)

I've been gone for a minute, Now I'm back again!

Artsy has always been a trait for me, just some time periods were cut shorter then other. Coloring has always been a must. Growing up with G'ma Mums, it was mandatory to have Crayola art supplies in the house!! My dad is also an artist, photographer, painter, etc. And mama has great sketching abilities. So when I was recently introduced back to my carefree ways of music and art I was ecstatic!!! I've been coloring like crazy and recently just started to do some sketches and drawings. I've attached pics of the ones that I've recently done. It feels good to be able to express myself through art... it is, indeed, my THERAPY!! :)) 

Familia Falsa.. y solo un Amor..

People will always show you their true colors. You just need to know how to read them accurately, and weed out all the bad seeds!

Have you ever had a friend that you connected with and felt like you were destined to be in each others lives? Well, I had that for about 4 yrs. A friendship that I confided in.. but all in all was a waste of my time. Sad but true! Yes they were in NM and I had never once met them, but we had a connection. I do believe they'd say the same. But things got complicated and they were pulled in two different directions. They then, exited my life. Abrubt and in my eyes, plan old RUDE!! But I'll always have mad love for them. Just wish it would have worked out or e ended on a better note. :(

Megahorns ain't got nothing on my hubs..

Not only is this the second blog I am posting, but it's also the shortest and most ridiculous one I think I'll ever do! Why in the name of Hades must my husband snore like he is a wild hog?! I get the fact that my bedtime being 2am is not at all the greatest but I'd rather be up till the wee hours of the nite coloring, rather than hearing him snore.... Ugh! Wish me luck on that trip to sleepy town!!!!

A FREE SPIRITED GYPSY ON A MISSION TO RETAIN HER SANITY!

Yeah, it's 1:11am, and I'm new to this whole blog thing. Thanks to my good friend, Erin!! I'm thinking this is going to be a great outlet for me.. seeing as how everyone needs an outlet. And the benefits of this is that it's legal and no one gets hurt!! 

My latest project was transforming the second half of mine and my husband's bedroom into the ULTIMATE chill and meditation spot! If you haven't yet noticed, I'm quite the Jimi Hendrix fan. He, in my eyes, is THE best musician that ever lived! So I decided to dedicate this space to him. Growing up being a family member in the Staples residence on S. Murray Hill on the west side of Columbus OH, consisted of my good ole "middle-class" eccentric parents. They grew up in the 70's and had all the exquisite vinyl's. Had all of the classic woodstock posters and all the vintage bell bottoms, tube tops and halter tops. (well, mama had the halter and tube tops, not dad lol) I grew up hearing the music and I remember my dad would always play Hendrix albums. It's like the first time I heard it, it wasn't the first time I had heard it. It sounded beyond familiar to me.. as if I, myself, wrote the music and lyrics. Ever since that day of being a 12 year old.. I've been Jimi's absolute and #1 fan. Period. The end. No joke! My bedroom was basically a shrine of him. Posters filled the walls and ceiling.. You couldn't see what color the walls were painted. It was pretty intense. My room stayed that way until my now husband and I moved in together. Now, when I say I'm Jimi's #1 fan, I mean I am LEGIT his #1 fan! My husband and I's bedroom in our first place together was decorated with the same exact posters and memorabilia I had in my childhood bedroom. We then moved to a bigger place that had an extra bedroom, and up everything went in that room as well. We got married, he joined the military, lived on post in military housing and had our bedroom totally decked out with Jimi. We are now buying our house off post and we have yet to really decorate, due to certain events (that event will have to be a completely different post) but I was beyond determined to get my chill spot back. So with some help and motivation from a couple good friends and my husband... it's finally back!! Up and running and better than ever!! I'm so pleased with the way it has turned out and love that not only did I spruce it up with all my childhood Hendrix relics, but I have found even more Hendrix mementos to add to my collection! I've also decorated my space with a lot of printed mandala's and abstract coloring pages that I colored with bright vibrant markers (g'ma mums would be so proud of me!). My 3yr old loves coming into mommy's room and coloring and doing crafts. She is a big Jimi Hendrix fan now too!! She tells me "I love Jimi Hendrix!" Gotta love it!!! But indeed, it's a very serene place for me, a place I can escape to get lost in my thoughts and not worry about life's trials and tribulations. It's great. And in the background on constant repeat on iTunes.... is, yes you guessed it, Jimi Hendrix's four disc velvet purple box set! So, everyone.... let's love and let live in peace.... and take some time out of your day..... to Go2TheRoom and get lost in the music.. Be that free spirited gypsy on a mission to retain your sanity. I am..