Kinkade's Worst Nightmare Print Special + Dirty Socks and Edgar Allan Poe

The Holidays are approaching fast!  I just started a limited time promotion on 3 of my most popular prints on FineArtAmerica.com. They are located on the front page of the limited time promotion area.  I posted a link below, not sure if I got it right.

http://fineartamerica.com/weeklypromotion.html?promotionid=93793

If it doesn't work just go to my website www.paintingmaniac.com and the limited time promotion button is at the top of the page. 

                            "Kinkade's Worst Nightmare"
The images below and the one above are the print's that are on sale till Oct.24th ONLY,   There are also cards available, so if you want to send humorous Christmas Cards I have many varieties, "Kinkade's Worst Nightmare" is a popular one.

                                                         "Edgar Allan Poe"

                                       "Dirty Socks"

Again here is my website to view all my other work and links to the promotions www.paintingmaniac.com

Alfred Hitchcock and Ronald McDonald?

What Do Alfred Hitchcock and Ronald McDonald Have in common?   Well they are 2 of my recent paintings for the Month of September and October so far.   I guess with winter approaching my sense of humor has been coming out more to brighten cloudy days.  So here are some examples of my recent works.  Originals are available through me and prints available on my website at www.paintingmaniac.com where you can view many more works of mine, Thanks for looking! I would love to hear comments.  Leah

                                                             Alfred Hitchcock

                                                   Fast Food Nightmare- The Happy Meal

                                                                            WTF?!

                                                              The Pretender

                                                                    Soap Box Derby

Sunday Morning A Story Telling Painting

"Sunday Morning" A story telling commission painting I started a fer weeks ago for a local couple. He owns his own house painting business and she helps in his office. She does quilting ,so I added a partial part of her quilt to her overalls. She was also raised on a dairy farm so I gave her a cow necklace. They have chickens ,this parrot and 4 long haired chihuahua's which I only added 2 and got bit 3 times by them during the photo shoot.They garden is why the tomato plant and sunflower. He is wearing an Army hat in honor of his son that is in special forces in the Army.. I will be delivering this to them in a few days once it dries. Hope they like it! If anyone is interested in a story telling painting down the line keep me in mind! This is 36x48x1.5 oil
Here is a link below for prints , to view it larger and to see my body of quirky work!
www.paintingmaniac.com

Human Milkshake and Bright Ideas New Art By Leah Saulnier

I have been on a roll these past few month's!  Lets say I have earned my nickname the "Painting Maniac" , New works with my Bizarre sense of humor and twisted look at life .  Sometimes I feel like a Mad scientist at work lol.  Hope anyone who see's my blog enjoys my new work, to see more please visit my website at www.paintingmaniac.com

Uh Oh !!

My Cats Worst Nightmare

Light Headed

Playroom Nightmare 2

Motor Head

Frogland a painting that almost wasn't!

I just finished a new painting called "Frogland " which almost didn't make it since I didn't like the first day I sketched it and was going to erase the whole thing till my husband remarked that it had a lot of potential and I should keep working on it. Well he was right! I am so glad I stuck to it. the link with the photo is where prints are available along with a detailed part of the painting. Press photo's to see larger.

A Frog ,Trees And A Giant Lemon

Last week I finished 2 paintings. The frog which I call "Frog Boy" I painted when I was teaching my first student, it's based on a stuffed toy I have and we both were working on our own, I wanted her to get the feel of the paint for the first time.

This second painting "The Fruit Orchard" Was a painting I had been working off and on for many weeks, it is part of my surreal fruit tree series and this is the largest so far 36x48 oil. To see other surreal fruit trees that go with this piece which include Cherry,Lemon,Orange,Dragon Fruit, Horned melon, Pear, Mango, I will add a link to my website.

Kinkade's Worst Nightmare

"Kinkade's Worst Nightmare" My new painting I finished today! If you don't know who Kinkade is look him up on google and read about what he is about and this will be funnier to you. He is really know for his cutesy lit cottages, that's where my idea came from, I made up my own cottage though . I hope you get it and have a laugh

My Surreal Life and My Wacky Art World

I decided last week to my first self portrait. I thought I could do just a regular portrait but that sounded boring to me, so I thought putting my image on a dress mannequin was more suitable to my personality and my wacky world. I love and live in the desert so that suited me also for this piece and is also a good back drop to Items and characters I used that were in previous paintings of mine like Crash my Dog, misfit potato head, My sock monkey doll,my stick figure to the back right, The Lemon Blimp, and my protecting baby series with the pears. I own an antique dress mannequin from 1910 so this just felt like my art world bringing everything together. The original is 30x24x1.5 oil and won't be for sale. I will add a link where prints will be available of this one and all my other work.

Welcome To The Nut House!

It feels like a party at my house 24/7 with all the people and character's staring at me from my walls. I never feel like I am totally alone let's put it that way,it like being surrounded by friends all the time.

Lemon Head My New Love!

I think I fell in love this evening! Shhhh Don't tell my husband! Lemon Head it has a flavor of Magritte, here's a unique thing I found out AFTER I posted the painting tonight, that the creator of lemon heads candy passed away this week at 93. I had no clue! which makes me think I channeled it or something. Still on my lemon surrealism. stay tuned for the next one!

Surrealism And Lemon Drops

Hello all artist's and art lovers! Happy Valentine's Day! I went from my humorous mood in my work to my surrealistic mood this week and have a series of Lemon paintings I have been working on. This one is called "Lemon Drops" Surrealism is such an interesting genre and stretches the imagination. I was told once by one of my followers that there aren't many females that paint surrealism. I find that interesting and wonder why. Any input by anyone with that?

Love And Alien Tourists

I finished my painting "Welcome To Roswell" yesterday. I love how it feels like alien lovers arriving to the city of Roswell to take a tour. The Pink alien is named Zoe and The Green one is named Roger. I would have to say it's one of my favorite alien piece's I have done so far. I want to have them continue touring Roswell in future paintings. This one will also go into my future New Mexico book of twists and tales

Welcome To Roswell !

I am working on my first painting "Welcome To Roswell" in a series for a future book I want to do that will be called "New Mexico Twist's And Tales", which will be funny twists on myths,facts and folk lore from different cities around my state. New Mexico is great subject matter for this, since I live here, love it here and am an artist this seems to be a great idea. Hopefully I will done soon with the first painting.

My Bizarre Contortionist Painting

I have been making products with my bizarre contortionist painting all morning. Thought I would post my favorite products so far.

The Contortionist by paintingmaniac
View other Artsprojekt Rickshaw Messenger Bags

The Contortionist by paintingmaniac
View more pillows.

The Contortionist by paintingmaniac
View more reusable water bottles

Surreal Cherry Tree

This is one of my favorite series that I paint. Surreal fruit trees. I just finished this Cherry one today.

Oil Painting -Don't Listen To Schooling!!!

I don't understand why many schools insist students need to use mediums and turpentine to paint with oil paints! It's not true. It's toxic and a headache. when you want to wash your brushes all you need is DAWN dish soap or Murphey's oil soap. I do have a glass jar 1/5 filled with terpenoid natural in the green can and is citrus based to soak my brushes after painting till I get to the sink to wash which is like a month but that's it! If anyone has anymore questions about this feel free to ask. I also find Oil paint is cheaper to paint with than acrylics.

The Taming Of The Giant Bunnies

This is the first in my sideshow series. I bet as children almost all of us had dreams of giant animals. What dreams have any of you had that you wish were true when you woke up?

My Stool Sample A Close Look At My Odd Humor!

I thought I would show all of you how my "Stool Sample" came out and take a close look at it.Lol , I decided to do this little painting this morning just for a good laugh, hope it worked! You all know how weird I am.
Here is a link again to my website to see other odd work of mine www.paintingmaniac.com

Sideshow series WIP "The Taming Of The Giant Bunnies"

I started this today. It's a work in progress. The first painting in my sideshow series. "The Taming Of The Giant Bunnies" 24x30 Oil

I will post the completed painting in a few days. Thanks for looking!

The Oddities Of Life And New Sideshow In The Works

For years and years I have always been intrigued with odd things and odd people, I should just say the oddities of life. I always loved going to the circus and state fair sideshows, and in my "Star" chart it says I am a collector of Misfit's. Well it seems to be coming all together now that I start a new series called "The Sideshow" it will have a subtitle for each individual one and all my sideshows will be made up. I start the first today which is already sketched out called' The Taming Of The Giant Bunnies" I will post the progress here. I have many others in mind to follow.

If anyone has any input on some interesting ideas for the series let me know. The painting above is a sort of attempt from a few years ago with a similar thought, it's called "The Contortionist" Stay tuned for upcoming additions to my new series .

My Brain Off The Internet And The result of Road Hogs

January was a very productive month. It's only the 27th of January and I already have completed 10 paintings mostly miniatures but a few large ones also. Earlier this week our internet went out for a WHOLE day lol, and this is what I came up with to keep my mind busy "Stick Figure 1"

It almost looks like I was trying to get a satelite signal or something with this piece.


A few days before I was in the car with my daughter and witnessed so many Road Hogs and people cutting other driver's off and came up with this painting called "Road Hog" which I eventually painted the next day.

A few weeks ago I was on a potato head binge! I did 5 in all! It was almost like an addiction and had to stop myself after the 5th dose. Here was the outcome:There are 2 misfit potato heads,sweet potato,cowboy potato head and Tater Tots.

Thanks for taking a look into my world! There were a few more which are on my website at www.paintingmaniac.com

Billy The Kid A Painting From Beginning To End

This was a 4 day painting which I documented everyday with the progress. It is 24x30 oil.

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

Day 4 Completed Painting