Nicola Furlong - Art & Stories

Nicola Furlong - Art & Stories

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Vancouver Island, BC Canada  ·  Novelist. Interactive Storyteller. Chocoholic Artist. Digs mysteries, blossoms, playing hockey & wild colours. Would die for fudge & home-made bread.
Nicola Furlong - Art & Stories
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Colorful Mixed-Media Paintings
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Colorful Mixed-Media Paintings / Using a palette knife and sculpting a deep textured base of joint compound to create funky, colorful contemporary textured expressionistic abstract fine art on old recycled cedar wood planks.
Unique Wall Clocks
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Unique Wall Clocks / I create these unique digital wall clocks in a variety of styles, like Steampunk, SciFi, Modern and Floral. Using upcycled cedar fence planks, I hand-sculpt original designs in joint/drywall compound, paint with bold acrylic colors and top off with matching, funky clock hands.
Abstract Spatter Paintings
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Abstract Spatter Paintings / Been experimenting with spatter / splatter acrylic painting, adding it to my textured work. Colourful, fun, mood-setting abstracts often photographed in my garden.
Faux Stained-Glass Window Paintings
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Faux Stained-Glass Window Paintings / Love the glorious glow of stained glass, but don't the right windows, space or light? My solution: create paintings that look like stained glass by upcycling cedar fence planks as canvas, hand-sculpting beautiful geometric stained glass patterns using joint drywall compound and painting in bold acrylic colors. Looks like the real thing without light or windows!
My Ebooks
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My Ebooks / Covers for Nicola Furlong's ebooks, tips for a fabulous garden (Top 10 Gardening Tips), a how-to write mysteries primer (Youdunit Whodunit?), a how-to self-publish primer (Self-Publish Your Ebook in Minutes!) and a short story about revenge and redemption (The Will of God?).
My Mystery Novels
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My Mystery Novels / Covers for Nicola Furlong's mystery and light-hearted inspirational novels, including A Hemorrhaging of Souls and Teed Off! plus six novels from The Church Choir Mysteries series: The Nervous Nephew, The Sad Clown Affair, The Unsuitable Suitor, Plots and Pans, No Safe Arbor and The Angel's Secret.
Textured Steampunk Wall Art
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Textured Steampunk Wall Art / Creating funky textured and mixed media steampunk fine art using joint compound and multiple layers of paint. Great fun hunting down pieces to use for impressions, and creating both composition and color schemes.
How to Collect Flower Seeds
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How to Collect Flower Seeds / Hollyhocks, sweet peas and poppies are classic must-have cottage garden plants. Just follow my simple how-to-collect mature-seeds slideshows and you can easily grow these beauties yourself. And keep them blooming for weeks by regular deadheading!
Sisterhood of Shepherds
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Sisterhood of Shepherds / The Sisterhood of Shepherds is my new inspirational women's fiction series. Some families have hope. Others have faith. The Shepherds of rural Oregon have Faith, Hope and Charly, three quirky sisters whose ongoing struggle to keep the family plant nursery blooming will have you laughing and crying.
Gorgeous Spring Blossoms
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Gorgeous Spring Blossoms / Butchart Gardens, just outside Victoria, BC, is must see for any greenthumber. Spring may be the best time. #gardening #blossoms
Garden Art & Ornaments
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Garden Art & Ornaments / I really like adding chunks of pottery, old urns, chipped columns and bit of stuff I've crafted as art among the blossoms. For me, the moss-stained, the battered, the chipped, the better! #gardenart #gardenbling
My Book Trailer Videos
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My Book Trailer Videos / I love movie trailers and when publishers started to create similar short videos to market their books, I leapt in. Finding images, creating the story blurb and tracking down suitable music is fun and challenging. I've made book trailers for my stuff and a few for others. Enjoy!
Fairy Gardens & Cottages
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Fairy Gardens & Cottages / What a terrific way to make some thing funky and beautiful from a broken pot! Arrange the pieces, add soil and a few succulents and maybe even a little house on top...perfect for your backyard fairies. And with the help of a talented potter, many whimsical gardens result.
Inspirational Garden Quotes
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Inspirational Garden Quotes / I had a gas finding suitable gardening quotes—some serious, some fun, all inspirational—to be sub-titles in HEARTSONG, the first book of my women's fiction series called the SISTERHOOD OF SHEPHERDS. Finding flower and gardening images to represent the essence of each quote was tricky. So, grab a spade and a muffin and join Faith, Hope and Charly Shepherd, owners of The Sweet Shepherd Plant Nursery, in their heart-warming and humorous journeys of discovery and redemption.
Easy Grow Fabulous Plants
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Easy Grow Fabulous Plants / Some pics from my wild cottage gardens, stuffed with glorious, easy-to-grow flowering perennials and striking ornamental grasses. Simple to Grow. Offering a fabulous show. Fave home-grown successes include Himalayan blue poppies, lilac wisteria, old-fashioned black hollyhocks, contorted hazelnut, poached eggs and a camperdown elm. Lately enthralled with succulents, sedums and vertical gardening.
Best Baked Treats
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Best Baked Treats / Faith Shepherd (one of three sisters starring in my women's fiction series, Sisterhood of Shepherds) loves to bake. For her, taste is more important than presentation! These home-made breads, biscuits & other baked treats are from her fav recipes...and mine, too!
Sensational Succulents
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Sensational Succulents / Succulents are drought tolerant and very funky. Mind blowing colours include red, gold, blue, purple, pink, coral, just to mention a few. Some dangle, some crawl, some spill. All fantastic to look at and their care is dead easy.
Funky Ceramic Art
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Funky Ceramic Art / There's a lot more to ceramics than mugs and plain bowls. I really like fairy houses, cute ceramics with succulents, wall art and bowls with texture or images.
Inspirations from Life
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Inspirations from Life / Life continues to be marvelous, mysterious and magical. These images prove it.
Himalayan Blue Poppies
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Himalayan Blue Poppies / These Himalayan blue poppy flowers are fussy and finicky to grow, but their colours are astonishing. Even had a few oddly-coloured hybrids in white, lilac and purple. Huge check off on my digging-in-the-dirt life list!
Books by My Friends
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Books by My Friends / I've been very fortunate to befriend some amazing authors. If you dig strong characters, fascinating plots and uncommon settings, give one or all a looksee and let me know what you think!
Cute Pets
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Cute Pets / Give a high-five paw to our beloved pets: Mugs, the amazing Himalayan rescue cat, Geordie, the I'll-eat-anything giant Yorkie and Spud, the cute-as-a-potato Maltie cross.
Riley Quinn's Golf World
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Riley Quinn's Golf World / Looking good and playing well doesn't have to be a Mystery! Riley Quinn, pro golfer and coroner sleuth, is the hero of my murder mystery novel, Teed Off!. Riley's angry and funny and passionate about sharing stuff about women's golf. Maybe you are, too?
Backyard Visitors
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Backyard Visitors / The Sweet Shepherd Nursery is a family-run business in my inspirational women's fiction series, The Sisterhood of Shepherds. A wide variety of creatures visit the beautiful coastal Oregon gardens, most grown by the Shepherd family specifically with plants suited to hummingbirds and butterflies.
Spectacular Flower Blossoms
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Spectacular Flower Blossoms / Photographs of some amazing flowers, including dahlias, delphiniums, roses, sunflowers, forget-me-nots, begonias, cornflowers, daffodils, lillies, fritilaria, from Butchart Gardens throughout the year.
Whimsical Garden Paths
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Whimsical Garden Paths / I love little paths, be they rustic or manicured, that curve ahead, enticing you to meander deeper into a garden. Great for thinking, dreaming and letting nature refresh you. One look and you understand the personality of the green thumb at work. I'm partial to funky home-made ones. Not too neat. Not too fancy. Just enticingly right.
Art on Amazon & RedBubble
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Art on Amazon & RedBubble
Art
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Art / Showcasing some of my original mixed-media artwork on Canvas, Clothes, Bags, Phone/Tablet Cases, Cards, etc.