I started small. Before I ever put a brush to gessoed board I began to decorate devotional candles and matchboxes.
The idea of painting was intimidating. I didn’t even know if I could draw an image of anything. That was about three years ago.
I am much more comfortable now about painting but still have so much to learn and I always learn everything by experiencing it first hand at least I learn anything I want to spend time doing that way.
But I found my cache of decorated mathcboxes a few months ago and thought “Hey those look pretty good!”
I put a flock of them into my etsy shop (http://darcyarts.etsy.com). The first to sell were one with a repurposed image of Boy George and another with a skull and the words “my gun is quick.” Thank you, dear dkt 113.
Then the really bitchin’ Twiggy matchbox sold next to ambo 723 .
Next was Marilyn Manson, though the sweet and talented Texas-based etsy tile artist tilesmile didn’t know Marilyn from a mung bean. She was buying the box to use to bear a sweet gift for her niece.
Finally, the brilliant missamanda82 bought my fave, the Funkadelic Maggot Brain.
I’ll miss that laughing face.
Now I’m waiting to find a home for Annie Oakley.
and Isaac Hayes 
