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Shelah Dow

My name is Shelah Dow.

I have been sketching and painting since I was little, but more seriously since the age of fifteen. I yearn for art school, but for now I learn by reading books and trying out new techniques. 

My dragons began with tiny polymer clay (Fimo and Premo in particular) sculptures that I had made for a Dragon Swap around 1999 or 2000.  The dragons were so well loved, I began to sculpt them as beads and sold them on ebay. They went fast, were numbered and had certificates, and sold for around $25 each.  Sculpting them wasn't enough. I had created a story around them, began then to sculpt bigger busts of dragons around four inches tall, and to sketch them in various poses. I am still working on getting certain poses just right.  In the sculptures, they have beaded tendrils, just as they have the tendrils in the paintings.

I favor charcoal, graphite, prismacolor pencils, and Derwent watercolor pencils as my main mediums for creation.  Every once in awhile I throw in a computerized drawing or two made usually in PSP 5.0. I'm spoiled by the old layout of the program over new releases. I am working on my gallery website at this time from the bottom up, graphics, etc. I also working my art into cross stitch designs (not the kind where you just map it all into a single full color chart, but the kind where you work on each stitch one at a time and decide the appropriate colors, etc.)

As for me, I'm a thirty-three- year-old artist married to a very intelligent and wonderful man (ie...I'm happy) and mother to a beautiful thirteen-year-old daughter who is often my inspiration.

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Date Name Comment   9 Nov 2005 Cat <crafty.manx@gma...com Loading... **sigh** I love your work. But you already knew that ;-) 16 Jun 2006 Kemuff Loading... OH in the last comment it says FRAIES it should be FARIES. Oh did I mention that I think ur pics are AWESOME!?!?!?! 16 Jun 2006 Kemuff Loading... I love every single one of ur pics!!!!!!Espesially the faries and the cats.....Cause I love animals and fraies. I think that their awesome!!!And I know that my CRAZY sister will like the dragon ones.'Cause that's like the only thing that she ever draws! 23 Nov 2006 Lindzi V. Sayles Loading... Very nice work Shelah. Lol i commented on the tabatha picture and i thought that was your name but it turned out to be the name of the pic, so sorry about that! Anyway love your work 14 Dec 2006 Jennifer Lopez Loading... I love your entire gallery. You should make a calendar with your "furbaby" collection. You did very well on all of your kittys... 17 Apr 2007 Moriah Sky Rullmoss Loading... wow, I truly admire your style. very colourful and sweet. I love the way you draw cats. wonderful work 15 Jun 2008 Juhi dhar Loading... i like your use of watercolour its so gentle and gives such a luminous quality to pictures 4 Jul 2009 MT Starkey Loading... Awesome gallery. Shelah Dow replies: "Thank you very much!" 6 Jul 2009 Linda Griego Loading... Beautiful work! So talented! 6 Jul 2009 Brandie Marie Hanson Loading... If you don’t mind me saying, I think you should do a tutorial of your little polymer fairies. They look so well crafted. Page: [1] 2

Shelah Dow