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Allison Cosmos | Artist
How I paint butterflies 🦋. These lovely butterf How I paint butterflies 🦋. These lovely butterflies are for a wallpaper design that’s in the works. I’d love it for my daughter’s room!
Painting progress to share today! #chinoiserie #pa Painting progress to share today! #chinoiserie #paintingreels #coastalart
Details matter! “To be or not to be, Chat is the Details matter! “To be or not to be, Chat is the Question” is packed full of pretty Chinoiserie details. This piece is now available printed on linen! #chinoiserie #chinoiseriechic #chinoiseriestyle #birdart
News flash ⚡️unfortunately I had an accident l News flash ⚡️unfortunately I had an accident last Thursday. This photo was taken just 30 minutes before my head hit the road while taking my daughter’s new scooter 🛴 to the bus stop. My fall resulted in a concussion 🤕 and some crazy bruising. I don’t remember anything about that day nor getting to the hospital 🏥 or the ER. CT scans and MRI look good and I’m now home and resting. I feel lucky I’m so many ways. How quickly one’s life can change in an instant. Doc says 3-4 weeks more of recovery. Missing my creative Instagram community so I thought I’d check in. #femaleartist #inthestudio #artistsupportartists #botanicalwomen
What keeps you centered and balanced over the holi What keeps you centered and balanced over the holidays? Now more than ever I think it is essential to do something you enjoy on your own. Painting if only for an hour a day keeps me feeling at peace and allows me to take a moment for myself to refuel for gatherings! Being social is fun for sure but I also love some quiet time to myself! 🎨⁠ ⁠
Do you have a favorite Christmas ornament? I suppo Do you have a favorite Christmas ornament? I suppose mine changes each year but my current fave on the tree in 2022 is definitely my glass macaw ornament! It's so colorful and sparkly! He's got a spot at the top center of the tree this year. I believe my mother gifted it to me last year. 🌲⁠ ⁠ Earlier this year I finished "Macaw of the Wild" and it's offered as a print in a variety of sizes and frame choices. The original is also available but with a more chartreuse mustard like yellow background. It's 20" X 20" acrylic on wood. I just love how surreal macaws look. How is it possible to have such a bright and colorful bird exist in nature?! Really amazing isn't it? 🌈⁠ ⁠
I have an early Christmas miracle to share with yo I have an early Christmas miracle to share with you! As you know...our family moved from California to Delaware over the summer. We had everything packed in a POD and shipped, waiting for us to find a new home. It had been about 6 months from when we packed to when we unboxed everything in the new house and I still could not locate two of my largest paintings which were rolled into two boxes almost 8 feet long! ⁠ ⁠ After searching everywhere and many sleepless nights I gave them up for lost. These are $10k+ original works of art!!! I assumed they were sitting under a heap of garbage in the landfill because they were awfully large and unmarked to be something someone would steal. Finally, my best friend Julie who happens to be our realtor @luvsdhomes suggested we contact the people that bought our CA home. We did not hear back from them for weeks so she urged me to simply ask my old neighbor and friend across the street to just knock on the door and see if they could look around for them. Tho and behold ...they were THERE!!! I just cannot believe it. What a relief! Now we just have to ship them across the country! ⁠ ⁠ This is one of them, "Bali Hai" and it IS available as a print and thankfully now as the original! Hooray!
Wishing you a bright and sunny Monday morning! It Wishing you a bright and sunny Monday morning! It may be cold here in Delaware but my outlook is cheery! 🦜🌞Hoping yours is too! ⁠ ⁠ This lil lady is one of the many fancy birds in the large work of art I did for the new @biedermaier coffee ☕️ spot in Vienna 🇦🇹. It's such a large piece that I thought I would share one of its details. I loved using all these happy colors together! ⁠ ⁠
Don't you think that chickens and roosters are und Don't you think that chickens and roosters are underrated in terms of beauty? I suppose it's because there are more chickens in the world than any other bird. I just love their plump little bodies and some have really gorgeous iridescent colored feathers. 🐥 Most let you get pretty close so you can appreciate their feather patterns and color variations.⁠ ⁠ If you can believe it...I once had a chicken in college lol! Her name was "Miss Petunia". My cat liked her too but not for the same reasons that I did! I'd love to get some again but I am afraid my Brittany and chocolate lab wouldn't allow them on the property for long! 🐾 For now...I'll just paint them. This is a section of a long horizontal piece I did, "The Plot Chickens". The original is still available as are framed prints! Link in bio if you wanted to learn more or comment below!
"To be or not to be, Chat is the Question" is quit "To be or not to be, Chat is the Question" is quite festive don't you think? These fantasy 💕birds are so cheerful and fancy! I'm thrilled to offer this piece as a lovely print on linen. ⁠ ⁠ The flowers are peonies and azaleas and there are even a couple of dainty butterflies fluttering about. Where would you hang it? The bedroom, the entry, the dining room, maybe even a home office? I can even see this in a child's bedroom! ⁠ ⁠ Lots of frame choices and sizes are available. Let me know if you need assistance in choosing something. I am happy to help! Just send me a message. Link is also in bio.
As we remodel our own dining room, I am reminded o As we remodel our own dining room, I am reminded of this lovely custom mural I painted years ago when living in Wilmette, Illinois. Check out the incredible original millwork in this space too! ⁠ ⁠ Although it's tempting to do something similar in my own home I think I'm leaning towards a neutral Italian marbled endpaper wallpaper design. Then I can hang one of my pieces on top! Do you have a mural in your home or ever had one? ⁠
How many of these flowers can YOU identify? Most o How many of these flowers can YOU identify? Most of these wildflowers thrive in the mountain areas of the United States but some you find up in Canada or even Texas! Which is your favorite? ⁠ ⁠ I think my favorites are the "glacier lily" and the "monkshood". ⁠ This original series is available. Sold individually but look fantastic all together! I'm also offering these blooms printed on linen and framed! Send me a message if you want to learn more or link in bio!
I don't think I ever shared with you the entire wo I don't think I ever shared with you the entire work of art that was painted for the new @biedermaier in Vienna. The original painting is quite large as I recall (close to 6' X 10' or 1.8m X 3m). It was then captured digitally and then made into multiple "paravents" or screens. The beautiful Chinoiserie dividers provide patrons with privacy as they enjoy their traditional Viennese coffee ☕️at the Vienna International Airport. ✈️⁠ ⁠ Look closely and you will discover tiny demitasse cups and spoons, traditional Viennese coffee pots and coffee beans. SO many gorgeous little thought out details. I worked closely with @kthe_vienna on this and I sure hope to one day visit the shop in person! Have you been?
Don’t you wish you wrote everything down? I get Don’t you wish you wrote everything down? I get so mad at myself when I mix the perfect color and don’t make a note of it. I try my best to write them in my sketchbook or even the back of a canvas but during the creative process I sometimes forget! Of course I have some colors that I always use so it’s somewhat easy to figure out but I sure LOVE when I actually made a note of it to reference later!!! I guess I was feeling creative the day I made note of these colors….instead of a smear or blob I did butterfly shapes and filled them with color mixing samples to choose from. What tricks to do you have to recall important things?
It is my hope that the lovely lady I painted this It is my hope that the lovely lady I painted this custom piece for is enjoying it over the holidays! She has such a pretty home and everything is personal and meaningful to her! I think that’s what makes a house 🏡 a home!! I applaud her brave request to start with a pale blush background! She really trusted me throughout the commission process which isn’t easy for everyone!!
I’ve become recently enamored with birds of prey I’ve become recently enamored with birds of prey lately. This American kestrel apparently is the most common one in the United States yet I’ve yet to see one! Maybe because I lived in California for so long but now that I’m on the east coast my eyes 👀 are peeled for hawks, eagles and falcons!!! Until I see one in real life… I’ll paint them! Gorgeous feather 🪶 pattern! This fella is one of many in my new “Mountain Time” triptych.
Indian Paintbrush! It’s the state wildflower of Indian Paintbrush! It’s the state wildflower of Wyoming but grows just about everywhere in Western and Central US including Kansas and Texas, as well as Northern Asia and even a species in Russia! I was surprised to learn that the flowers are in fact edible in moderation! Of course they are a favorite of hummingbirds and 🐝 These blooms are printed on a lovely linen! Link in bio if interested or send me a message and I’ll personally respond!! ✍🏼
It's always a hard decision whether or not to offe It's always a hard decision whether or not to offer an original painting done as a series as a group or individually. Do you think I made the right choice to keep the original 12 zodiac 🌟pieces together? ⁠ ⁠ Because I wanted to keep the originals together I thought it only fair to make available framed prints sold individually! This way zodiac lovers who just want their personal family's zodiac signs you can do that! My family would 🦀🏹👬🏺How about yours?⁠ ⁠ Both the originals AND the prints have gold leaf embellishments on the stars that outline the constellations! SO pretty up close!! My kind of connect the dots game! ✨
Shooting star wildflowers! Delicate and nodding th Shooting star wildflowers! Delicate and nodding they are a favorite of bees! They love wooded shaded areas and stream sides! Have you spotted some near you?⁠ ⁠ I fell in love with their exotic unique shape and wanted to paint them! The original is available but I'm excited to have them also available printed on linen! Lots of sizes and frame options available and they look fantastic with others in the series! Send me a message for more details or there's a link in my bio!
Just shipped this out this past week. A custom pie Just shipped this out this past week. A custom piece for someone's lovely entry in California! She shared with me all of her favorite flowers and colors and we incorporated ALL of them....dogwoods, cherry blossoms, dahlias and roses! ⁠ ⁠ You can't see in this quick pic I snapped but there are gorgeous champagne metallic highlights and details. I'll soon share a video so you can see them in the right light! ⁠ ⁠ I can't wait to see the piece installed and framed!
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