Prints to be Retired

We are retiring a large number of prints from our Etsy Shop this month.

All Prints listed below will be pulled from our shop Dec. 1st 2011 and will not be Available again in our Etsy Shop.
If these prints are sold between Nov. 1st 2011 and Dec. 1st 2011 they will not be re-listed (except upon request).

Prints to be retired...
All mini print packs

From the 8X10 Fine Art Print Section...
"My Escape"
"How Long"
"No Girls Allowed"
"Breaking Daylight"
"Linger"
"Twilight"
"The Butterfly Tree"
"Free at last"
"The evolution of love"

From The 7X7 Fine Art Print Section...
"Arise"
"When I ruled the World"
"Just to be near you"
"The Love Letter"
"Caged"
"The Suns Embrace"
"Because I love you"
"Collecting"
"My Broken 8-bit Heart"
"Falling Apart"
"Moving on"
"Silent Twilight"
"Deja Vu"
"Because you are Beautiful"
"How you loved me"
"The First Sign of Hope"
"Destiny"
"Tomorrow"

From the 5X7 Fine Art Print Section...
"Across the World"
"Into your arms"
"Once upon a midnight dreary"
"This Night"
"The only Escape"
"Acid Rain 5"
"Our Little Victory"
"Heartache and Poetry"
"Heartache and Poetry 2"
"Heartache and Poetry 3"
"Heartache and Poetry 5"
"Heartache and Poetry 7"
"Heartache and Poetry 8"
"Heartache and Poetry 12"
"Heartache and Poetry 13"
"Heartache and Poetry 15"
"Heartache and Poetry 18"
"Heartache and Poetry 24"
"Heartache and Poetry 27"
"Heartache and Poetry 28"
"Please don't leave me"
"He will never know"
"Acid Rain 7"
"Losing my religion"
"Alone, watching the autumn leaves"
"Almost there"
"The Last paper swan"
"Sending you a letter 2"
"Into the deep crimson"
"The night of the paper swans"
"What do we do know"
"Bang, Bang, Bang"
"Memories are never what they seem"
"The world"
"Bored Robot"
"It's lonely down here"
"When dreams collide"
"Midnight Flight"
"I will get them down for you"
"Alone, Watching the Parade"
"Alone, Watching the Parade 2"
"Worth the Waiting"
"What the hell am I doing here"
"All we need is love"
"My Best Friends a Robot"
"The journey begins at the end of the road"
"Pulling Heaven Down"
"0100110"
"Break Free"
"Lost in the Wake"
"Can u fix it"
"A Forest of One"
"The Fear"
"The night belongs to them"
"Going Home"
"Everything is going to be okay"
"There's lipstick on my coffee cup"
"A Place of Dreaming"
"When night has fallen"
"Robot Kittens"
"Lost"
"Wishing you'd come back to me"
"Unique, unequal, special..."
"The Love Letter 3"
"Just A Dream, Within A Dream"
"Static"
"Brains"
"Flowers"
"You can use my umbrella"

From the Print Sets Section...
"Braving the Storm"
"Heaven Falls Around Us"
"In Flight"
"Watching in Envy"
"Heartache and Poetry 53" (This is the 5x7 set, the 8x10 set will remain in our shop)
"Above the Clouds" (Again, this is the 5x7 set. The 8x10 set will remain)
"Soul Mates" (Again, this is the 5x7 set. The 8x10 set will remain)

These Prints are the first in a series of Prints to be retired, the next selection of prints for retirement will be posted in December.

Thanks,
Mike and Jaime

Mini Print Sets

With the holiday season right around the corner we are again offering
Mini Print Packs in our Etsy Shop.

Each Pack comes with Three or Four 4X6" Prints. Professionally Printed
on High Grade Glossy Paper.




With more than 20 Different sets to choose from these packs
are an affordable, fun way to collect our art.

To see the entire collection click here!

Price Adjustments

We have lowed the price on our Standard Size Fine Art Print For the Summer!!!

We have decided to lower our Standard Size Print Prices for the Summer in our Etsy Shop...
5X7 Prints are now only $10.00 a print!

During this time period we will not be offering wholesaling through our Etsy Shop.

Thanks and Enjoy!
Mike and Jaime Best

Interview

Mike and I did an interview for Etsy On Sale and it has now been posted to their blog.
So, if you'd like to get to know us a bit check it out...

From Sketches to Paintings

I thought it would be fun to share a few concept sketches
along side the finished paintings.

This first piece is a quick sketch, with a little note about color on the side.

The original painting is titled
"Hurry Up"



The next two sketches were done separately and later put together to create the finished painting seen below.

The Original Painting is titled
"I've got a bad feeling about this"

Both of these pieces belong to the Original Series by Mike Best
Titled "Robots of the Apocalypse"
In which a select few robots are helping a little girl survive
a world destroyed by malfunctioning robots.


Though these original paintings have sold,
you can get prints of these and others in the series by following the link below...
BestArtStudios2

First show of the season...

This weekend was the first Arts and Craft show we've participated in this year. It was not planned, the invite came a bit late so it was rather thrown together at the last minute. It took place at the Apple Jack Festival in Nebraska City.

We didn't really get to enjoy the festivities but heard that they were quite nice, apple picking, cider tasting and what-have-you.

However, we did debuted a few new products...
Scrabble tile Pendants.

(Which will only be available through the shows)

Magnetic interchangeable magnet Pendants.
These come with three interchangeable buttons that fit on top of a magnetic backing.

Hand-Painted Checkbook Covers
Each is made of 100% Cotton Duck Primed Canvas, stitched across each size to form pockets inside to secure a checkbook. An original painting graces each side of the cover and the inside is painted to match the colors of the painting. Only the finest quality acrylic paints were used and two coats of high gloss varnish protect both the inside and outside of the cover.

Hand-Painted Notebook Covers

Like the checkbook covers each of these notebooks is made of 100% cotton canvas and painted with the finest quality acrylic paints. The sides are sewn to make pockets to secure the notebook.

Each is an original one of a kind painting to wrap around others thought or sketches.
I am offering two different sizes, the Moleskine 5" X 8.5" and the Composition 7 1/2" X 9 3/4". I have chosen these sizes for ease of replacement notebooks.

These products as well as several of our Original Paintings, Prints, Mini Prints and Bookmarks will be available at the other four shows we will be doing this year... Check us out at the Lancaster Event Center in Lincoln Nebraska...

October 9th,
November 6th and 7th,
November 20
and December 4th and 5th.

Treasury Tales Tuesday...

"Snow White"

"The Bad Apple" by ceramicmatt

Okay, so not that snow white.
This Story is by The Brothers Grimm
Translated by D. L. Ashliman

Once upon a time, as a queen sits sewing at her window, she pricks her finger on her needle and three drops of blood fall on the snow that had fallen on her ebony window frame. As she looks at the blood on the snow, she says to herself, "Oh, how I wish that I had a daughter that had skin white as snow, lips red as blood, and hair black as ebony". Soon after that, the queen gives birth to a baby girl who has skin white as snow, lips red as blood, and hair black as ebony. They name her Princess Snow White. As soon as the child is born, the queen dies.

"Blood Drops" by stacysdesigns88

Soon after, the king takes a new wife, who is beautiful but also very vain. The Queen possesses a magical mirror that answers any question, to whom she often asks: "Mirror, mirror on the wall, who in the land is fairest of all?" to which the mirror always replies "You, my queen, are fairest of all." But when Snow White reaches the age of sixteen, she becomes as beautiful as the day, and when the queen asks her mirror, it responds: "Queen, you are full fair, 'tis true, but Snow White is fairer than you."

"Mirror, mirror on the wall" by Danae777

The queen becomes jealous, and orders a huntsman to take Snow White into the woods to be killed. She demands that the huntsman, as proof of killing Snow White, return with her heart. The huntsman takes Snow White into the forest, but after raising his knife to stab her, he finds himself unable to kill her. Instead, he lets her go, telling her to flee and hide from the Queen. He then brings the queen the heart of a young deer, which is prepared by the cook and eaten by the queen.


"The Queen" by Maddhatterslab

In the forest, Snow White discovers a tiny cottage belonging to a group of seven dwarfs, where she rests. There, the dwarfs take pity on her, saying "If you will keep house for us, and cook, make beds, wash, sew, and knit, and keep everything clean and orderly, then you can stay with us, and you shall have everything that you want." They warn her to take care and let no one in when they are away delving in the mountains. Meanwhile, the Queen asks her mirror once again "Who's the fairest of them all?", and is horrified to learn that Snow White is not only alive and well and living with the dwarfs, but is still the fairest of them all.


"Fairytale Forest" by Madewithlovebyhannah

Three times the Queen disguises herself and visits the dwarfs' cottage while they are away during the day, trying to kill Snow White. First, disguised as a peddler, the Queen offers colorful stay-laces and laces Snow White up so tight that she faints, causing the Queen to leave her for dead. However, Snow White is revived by the dwarfs when they loosen the laces. Next, the Queen dresses as a different old woman and brushes Snow White's hair with a poisoned comb. Snow White again collapses, but again is saved by the dwarfs. Finally, the Queen makes a poisoned apple, and in the disguise of a farmer's wife, offers it to Snow White. When she is hesitant to accept it, the Queen cuts the apple in half, eats the white part and gives the poisoned red part to Snow White. She eats the apple eagerly and immediately falls into a deep stupor. When the dwarfs find her, they cannot revive her, and they place her in a glass coffin, assuming that she is dead.


"Snow White" by ellemoss

Time passes, and a prince traveling through the land sees Snow White. He strides to her coffin. The prince is enchanted by her beauty and instantly falls in love with her. He begs the dwarfs to let him have the coffin. The prince's servants carry the coffin away. While doing so, they stumble on some bushes and the movement causes the piece of poisoned apple to dislodge from Snow White's throat, awakening her. The prince then declares his love for her and soon a wedding is planned.


"The Romantic Kiss" by maclancy

The vain Queen, still believing that Snow White is dead, once again asks her mirror who is the fairest in the land, and yet again the mirror disappoints her by responding that "You, my queen, are fair; it is true. But the young queen is a thousand times fairer than you."

Not knowing that this new queen was indeed her stepdaughter, she arrives at the wedding, and her heart fills with the deepest of dread when she realizes the truth. As punishment for her wicked ways, a pair of heated iron shoes are brought forth with tongs and placed before the Queen. She is then forced to step into the iron shoes and dance until she falls down dead.

...The End

Snow, glass, apples
A collection of Handmade items and Fine Art found on Etsy.com
that collectively tells the story of "Snow White"
Curated by Jaime Best of Best Art Studios2