Katie Jeanne Wood

Three Sisters on a Camping Trip Collaged Portrait Painting

September 7th, 2013

Three Sisters On a Camping Trip

acrylic mixed media collage portrait painting
10×10 on canvas

If you’re not in New York, you’re camping out.
~Thomas Dewey

Camping is nature’s way of promoting the motel business.
~Dave Barry

I’ve been camping and stuff, but if you left me in the woods I’d probably just curl up and cry until someone found me.
~Norman Reedus

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There are two great painting challenges going on this month. 30 Paintings in 30 Days on Leslie Saeta’s blog, Slices of Life and Ayala Art‘s 29 Faces Challenge. I’ll be posting to both challenges, and here on my blog every day.

My theme is Photobooth Collage Portraits. 🙂 I’ll be (loosely) using photobooth photos that I find online for my reference photos.

Collaged Portraits: Series or New Direction?

September 6th, 2013

Buttercup

acrylic mixed media collage portrait painting
9×12 on canvas panel

So what’s up with these collaged paintings I’ve been doing? Is it a new direction or a series? Someone on FB said that it seems like I’m going in a new direction with my art with the past few collage portraits I’ve done. I don’t know if that’s true or not. I actually used to do collages before I ever started painting, like back in the 90s, so this isn’t really new for me. I’ve always used paper in my paintings because I don’t like painting directly on canvas. It’s not smooth enough for my liking. The only difference lately.. I’m now leaving the paper exposed, and not covering it up with paint.

So, new direction or series? I’m not sure. Sometimes, I think I’m going off in a new direction when really it turns out to be a large body of work, and I end up calling it a series, instead. How do I know the difference?

Well, a series ends when I get bored, and I have to move on to something different. Like, I did a series of golf paintings with palette knives. I don’t want to paint golf paintings every day, or ever again, really. lol So, it was a series. It ended when I got bored, and decided it was time to move on.

A new direction keeps going, grows, and expands. What I’m doing now could be a new direction, I suppose. I’m looking at it more like a slight change in how I’m doing things. I’m no longer covering all the collage up with paint, but I’m more or less doing the same thing I always did..painting portraits.

Buttercup Available on Etsy or directly through me.

My theme is Photobooth Collage Portraits. 🙂 I’ll be (loosely) using photobooth photos that I find online for my reference photos.

Happy PPF, y’all.

First class – collage portrait painting

September 5th, 2013

Acrylic Portrait Collage Painting 9x12 Original, Mixed Media, Woman, Black and White, Neutral, Muted Colors

First class

acrylic mixed media collage portrait painting

This is a heavily collaged most black and white portrait painting of a woman. I used just a tiny bit of flesh color for her skin. Black hair and eyes.

9×12 on canvas panel Available for purchase on Etsy or directly through me

I Will Remember Your Tiny Room

September 4th, 2013

Acrylic Collage Portrait Painting, Mixed Media, Palette Knife Painting, Woman, Pink, 12x12 Canvas

I Will Remember Your Tiny Room

acrylic mixed media collage portrait painting

Acrylic collage portrait painting of woman with black hair, pulled back in a bun. She’s wearing a white smock. Peachy pink background. I really wish you could see this one in person. The photos don’t do this painting justice. So, if you like what you see in the photos, you’ll love it in person. The texture on this painting is really cool. Lots of layers of paint, paper, and modeling paste.

I Will Remember Your Tiny Room 12×12 on canvas Sides are painted black, so you can hang out of the box

Available through Etsy or directly from me

My theme is Photobooth Collage Portraits. 🙂 I’ll be (loosely) using photobooth photos that I find online for my reference photos. It shall be a great month! I feel it in my bones!!

50s Girl – collage portrait painting

September 3rd, 2013

50s Girl

acrylic mixed media collage portrait painting

9×12 on canvas panel

Woman with brown hair, curled up at the ends, and bangs wearing a pink headband and a pink shirt. She has blue eyes and a semi smile on her face. Heavily collaged painting. Lots of pink, squares, pieces of my handwritten journal, a calendar page, and a number 8 playing card in the top right corner.

50s Girl Available on Etsy or directly through me.

Remember the Kiss – collage portrait painting

September 2nd, 2013

Remember the Kiss

acrylic mixed media collage portrait painting

Heavily collaged painting of a woman with black hair, and dark, sleepy eyes. You may see pieces of my handwritten journal peeking out from under the paint.

Remember the Kiss

Available on Etsy or directly through me

My theme is Photobooth Collage Portraits. 🙂 I’ll be (loosely) using photobooth photos that I find online for my reference photos.

Keep the Innocence – collaged portrait painting

September 1st, 2013

Keep This Innocence Acrylic Portrait Collage Painting 9x12 Original, Mixed Media, Girl, Pink, Face, Brown Eyes

Keep the innocence

acrylic mixed media collage portrait painting
9×12 on canvas panel

Available for purchase here

My theme is Photobooth Collage Portraits. 🙂 I’ll be (loosely) using photobooth photos that I find online for my reference photos. It shall be a great month! I feel it in my bones!!

Golf Palette Knife Paintings

August 31st, 2013

Girl’s Golf Day

acrylic palette knife figure painting

Remember back in March when I mentioned I was painting a golf series? I have forgotten to post anything more about it. Oops. I still haven’t heard anything about the book, like if my paintings are going to be in it or when it’s being published. I thought I’d go ahead and post the paintings, tho. I know golf is a serious game. haha I tried to put a little comical spin on it. I hope my humor comes through. 🙂