Katie Jeanne Wood

Mixed Media Artist - daily painter of portraits, flowers, abstracts and birds

Oops!

July 25th, 2013
Acrylic Portrait Painting 8x8 Original, Woman, Flower in Hair, Hand on Mouth, Oops, Wrapped Canvas
Oops!
Acrylic portrait painting of a girl with her hand over her mouth,
as if she’s just made a mistake, pink flower in her hair.
Available for purchase here
 
It was a royal pain in the butt. This painting gave me so much grief. lol It took me several days to complete..like about a week. Grr. There are many layers of paint on this one because I didn’t like it, and kept trying different things. I actually painted over it with black paint at one point because it had become too frustrating to deal with. The next morning, I had a change of heart, and started scraping off the black paint. Some of the original painting could be saved, some could not. 
 
I like the flower in her hair. 

Hope

July 23rd, 2013

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“Hope” is the thing with feathers –

That perches in the soul –
And sings the tune without the words –
And never stops – at all –
 
And sweetest – in the Gale – is heard –
And sore must be the storm –
That could abash the little Bird
That kept so many warm –
 
I’ve heard it in the chillest land –
And on the strangest Sea –
Yet – never – in Extremity,
It asked a crumb – of me.
~Emily Dickinson

I recently went through a huge box of old letters that I’ve been toting around with me since forever. Instead of throwing them all away, I’m going to use bits and pieces of them in my artwork. So, I used gel medium, and I glued down torn up words, here and there all over the background of this painting. The word I ended up seeing after covering most of them up with paint is “hope”. It reminded me of this poem by Emily Dickinson. I’ve already titled one of my paintings “Hope is a thing with feathers”, so this one will be just titled Hope.

If you keep painting, you will improve

July 8th, 2013
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Here’s proof that if you keep painting, you’ll improve. The one above is mine from 2008. The one below, I painted in 2010. You’ll have to look hard, I know, but do you notice any difference? hahahha

Sasha acrylic portrait painting

Sasha
Available here



My advice to any artist is very simple, paint every day.
It will all fall into place from there.

It’s hard to let go, and let it happen

July 7th, 2013
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Bold, colorful, NEW 4×4 inch portraits!! 
 
Original Acrylic Portrait Painting, Layla, Girl, Woman, Orange, Face, Bold colors 4x4 mini art chipboard
 
and Layla (she didn’t fit in well with the others) 
 
I’ve had a busy weekend. I absolutely love this new series I’ve been working on. Painting loosely isn’t as easy as it may seem. It’s actually pretty difficult, especially for artists like me who like to control the paint. It’s hard to let go, and let it happen however it’s going to happen. But, that’s what I did, and I love love love these little guys. 
 
Bright, bold colors, lots of different shades of orange in these. Orange is my favorite color, if you haven’t guessed. I think out of all of them, David is my favorite. I feel like keeping him for myself. I feel like keeping them all for myself, but I won’t be greedy. 
 
I think I’m going to call it a night. I’m going downstairs, drink my tea, and collapse in front of Netflix for a while. I’ll try to get around to visit your blogs sometime this week. I’m sorry I’ve been slow doing that lately. 
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