Lil Something New For You

I thought I would have a little fun and show you guys how I do a painting in stages. This is a watercolor / burned on paper mixed medium. It is somthing I hope to do a lot of this year. so injoy and please feel free to comment. to look at more of my art please visit: www.pigatopia.artfire.com

Launching The New Year Pigatopia Style

Hello everyone I hope this year brings you love n happiness. I have done many contest in the past. For this contest I am going to change it up a bit. I want you to help me pick a name for my new shop. This is meant to be a fun. Like all contest in the past the pigs will be picking the winner. I will carve a number in a apple for each person who enters and let the pig pick the winner. This does not mean this will be the name I will pick for the shop. SO have fun picking names. you can enter on either this blog post or you can post on comments in facebook linkage.

Keep this in mind when picking name look at my art:

http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/shannon-ivins.html

http://www.pigatopia.artfire.com/

http://www.pigatopia.etsy.com/

If you were going to name the shop that would sell my art what would you call it? maybe you have a direction you would like to see me take my art this year. Please remember this blog is family oriented so keep it clean please. The winner will be winning a 9x12 watercolor portrait. on 400 series paper. If I get over 25 entries I will add another painting. DRAWING will be on Feb. 17th The limit to what I can paint is only limited by your imagination ;8)

Vegas Pigs as Pets http://www.vegaspigpets.org/

I just spent a bunch of time reading and watching the videos on this site and I love it so informative right to the point. The #1 Reason People Give up their Pigs:
Did you know an unspayed female pig goes into heat every 21 days?
Did you ever smell an unneutered boar? Do you think dogs humping everything is unacceptable behavior? Pigs are 10x worse!
No pig makes a good pet if not spayed/neutered!
NOT TO MENTION... IT'S THE LAW HERE IN VEGAS!
You cannot own an unfixed potbelly here without a permit!
And, if you see a piglet for sale is under 8 lbs, do NOT buy it! It's too young and yes, it's also now illegal for anyone to sell a piglet under 8 lbs!
Please See our Veterinarian Page for specialists who can help you!

The following video is of Tank (the terror), he was not even 6 months yet, dumped off at a shelter just because of this non-stop aggression and hormonal behavior! If you fix your potbelly piglet as young as possible, you will never have this problem! They not only make a better pet, it will be almost half the price! We can eliminate the need for so many unwanted pigs if owners and breeders would
just fix their pigs when they are piglets! Spay & Neuter please!
And before you just turn your pig into a shelter, please read this... for more on the top 3 reasons please visit:

http://www.vegaspigpets.org/

PLEASE HELP sign petition for PBP in zoning battle‏. Pig named clover

I little pigger named Clover in NC needs your help now. He is about to loss his home because of a zoning battle. his b-day was the other day please help give him an awesome b-day present of getting to stay in his home. http://www.wix.com/NC_Clover/NC_Clover is the link that you can not only learn more about this wonderful pigger and hopefully sign the petition.