Artist Bio
Make sure you listen in on Christina's interview on Blog Talk Radio on Monday, October 29th at 11:00pm EST. Fantasy artist and
mystical crafter, Christina Davis, was born on January
21, 1976 in Wyandotte, MI.
Christina currently resides in Flint, MI with her
loving husband, Jeff and three adorable pets.
She has been in love with fantasy, arts and
crafts all of her life. Starting at an early
age, Christina attended art classes at the YMCA on
Saturday mornings. Unicorns, faeries, butterflies,
beautiful gardens and anything in the fantasy realm
interested her as a child. In high school,
Christina took as many art classes as the curriculum
allowed. She was also president of the Art Honor
Society. Christina is so grateful for having two
inspirational art teachers, Brad Gravelle and Tanya Au,
throughout high school. After high school,
Christina attended Wayne State University in their Art
program for four years. She has gained tons of
artistic knowledge from WSU as well as learning a lot on
her own. Christina has always
had a love for all things magical.
In 1999, Christina became a lot more interested
in Goddesses and other spiritual things.
After creating a painting of “Isis and Osiris,”
she was commissioned to do several other goddess
paintings. That
is when Christina decided to start creating paintings to
sell to the public.
Acrylic paints and oils were what she used mostly
at that time as well as embellishments that were added
as final touches. Throughout
Christina’s life, she has dabbled in so many different
crafts. In
2001, she decided to try her hand at candles.
Christina loves the soft, enchanting glow of a
candle as well as all the beautiful shapes and colors
that they come in.
She started off making artistic pillar candles,
which were a hit with family and friends.
One day, Kelly, Christina’s roommate at the
time, decided to help get Christina started with a
business to sell her art and crafted gifts.
Kelly created Christina’s first website and
became her agent. The
business started off with the name, Craftin Out Loud.
A year later,
Christina changed the business name to Autumn Moon.
Autumn is Christina’s favorite season of the
year and she is completely drawn to the mystical full
moon. Her
friend, Rebecca, designed her first logo for Autumn Moon
and is still used on banners located on the Link
to Us page.
A new website was designed to reflect the change
in name. The
website has had a few facelifts since then.
The current site was designed by artist friend, Christopher
Christian. In September of 2005,
Jessica Galbreth
and Amy Brown
were an inspiration to Christina to start painting with
watercolors. She
hadn’t painted a whole lot since the candle business
took off and limited her time.
When she started back to painting, her first
piece was “Lady of
the Lake” and was for an online art show.
Christina has continued to finish a new piece
every few months. Over the years,
Christina has added many new and interesting products,
lots of fragrances to choose from and magical art.
The business continues to grow.
Christina's dream is to one day open an enchanted
gallery & gift shop to sell her items along with
items from her artist friends. In the meantime,
her website, www.autumn-moon.com,
is her retail outlet. Expanding on her wholesale
business, Christina now has a wholesale website for
retailers: www.autumnmoonwholesale.com artpromote.com: http://www.artpromote.com/artists/ChristinaDavis.shtml Artwanted.com: www.ArtWanted.com/christinadavis Artcardswanted.com: http://www.artcardswanted.com/artist.cfm?MID=1291 deviantART: http://christinadavis.deviantart.com/ livejournal.com: http://christinadavis.livejournal.com/ myspace.com: http://www.myspace.com/autumnmoon05 Our Enchanted Dreams - Dream Gallery vox.com: http://autumnmoon.vox.com/ etsy.com: http://autumnmoon.etsy.com
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