Abstract Paintings – Page 41 – Katie Jeanne Wood

I haz fotos, blind kitty cat, and a theme for January

little bird in the tree outside my studio window

abstracts

Quick post for Wednesday!!
I haz fotos to share.

Remember when I said my windows downstairs are super old, and it’s like looking through a coke bottle? This photo is a good example. Kinda trippy, eh? 😀

I have made a decision on the theme I’m going to do for 30 paintings in 30 days coming up in January. I decided I’m not going to have a theme. hahaha Yup, no theme this time!! I want to be free to choose what I want to do in the moment. I’m going to be spontaneous! It might be a journal page, a large painting, a collage painting, an abstract painting or a small 4×4 inch painting. It might be a serious portrait or a raw, primitive one. I may decide to paint like a child for 30 days, and stop taking myself or this painting challenge so seriously. Now, that would be FUN!! Who knows? I will decide each day, so it will be a surprise, even to me.

Sweet Pea hears a bird, I think.

Leslie encourages Buy Now buttons, but this time around I won’t have any. I don’t want to feel rushed to paint sellable paintings every day. I think painting 30 paintings in 30 days is confining enough without adding more pressure, especially at the start of a new year. And, who knows? This time around I might want to keep allllll the paintings for meeeeeeself.

I’m always this side of the sun

I’m always this side of the sun

Acrylic Portrait Painting Orange and Pink Winter Hat, Lime Green, Purple, Girl, Face, Black Hair, 6x6 canvas panel

Orange and Pink Winter Hat
Available on Etsy

Picture of me for my friend Wanda, who claims I never post pictures of myself.
I do.
She just never sees them. haha

Acrylic Portrait Painting Betsy, Orange, Lime Green, Girl, Face, Black Hair, Ponytails, Pink, 6x6 canvas panel

Betsy
acrylic portrait painting
Available on Etsy

prepping 6×6 canvas
linking to WOYWD
This was my work desk a couple days ago.

The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you’re sitting around trying to dream up a great art idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push you in another direction. Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive. You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that’s almost never the case.~ Chuck Close

Acrylic Portrait Painting, Original, Woman, Becomingly Dressed, Green Bonnet, Blue Coat, 8x10 Mixed Media, Collage, Canvas Panel

Becomingly Dressed
Acrylic Portrait Painting
Available on Etsy
or directly through me

I’ve fallen in love with her work. I’m reading back through some of her archives, and I love how she’s so determined to do art that she’s doing it on her dining room table..even before they’re fully moved into their new place. That is a true artist, and I admire her greatly. I once had a tiny studio in my walk-in closet, so I know what it’s like to love your work so much you’re willing to work anywhere.

Meet Me
Acrylic abstract painting
Available on Etsy

My Etsy shop is soooo busy right now. I just finished wrapping up a $700 order to ship out. It was really nerve wracking, and I’m glad it’s done. I’m still a little shaky. lol That’s the biggest order I’ve ever gotten. Whew!! Oh, yeah..I’m running another special, FREE shipping on all prints for a limited time only. It will run through the weekend. If you’ve wanted to buy one of my prints now is a good time. I also have tons of new paintings being listed every day, like these 4x4s for only $35.00 each..some have already sold, but there a still a few left.

Happy PPF, and Friday the 13th, everyone!! 🙂

Miss Me a Little and more talk about my painting schedule

Acrylic Portrait Painting, Original, Woman, Blue Bonnet, Green Shawl, 8x10 Mixed Media, Canvas Panel

sold!
acrylic mixed media collage portrait painting

Miss Me a Little Prints are available here

Yesterday I was writing about blocking out some time in my day for painting because if I don’t make time, I end up sitting at my desk all day. Having an online presence is vital to my job, but so is getting into the studio and painting. I’d love to spend every day just painting, and have someone take over all the online work for me, but that’s not going to happen anytime soon. So, I thought a lot about it, and decided that 4pm – 8pm are going to be my studio hours. That means no answering emails or Internet during those hours.

Henry, 4x4 Mini Acrylic Portrait Painting on Chipboard, Original, Boy, Winter Coat, Scarf, Peachy Pink

Henry Available for purchase here

Being an artist, and working for yourself, is no different that any other job. You have to show up, and work. I honestly don’t know how I’ve been accomplishing anything lately. I paint for ten minutes, then I’m back doing computer work. Four hours later, I remember I was painting something, and I paint for 20 minutes. Back to the computer. I need to rein myself in, and focus for longer periods of time. It feels great knowing that later today I’ll be painting for 4 whole hours, nonstop. Yes!!

Throwing down some links and a new painting video

Cold Winter Day
Sold!

I’ve been working on a gimongous canvas this week, and it’s kicking my butt. I’m not making any progress. It seems like all I’m doing is wasting a lot of paint because I can’t figure out what I’m doing. Gah. I’m going around in circles. I hate when I can’t wrap my head around a painting. I think it’s time to go back to small paintings for a while. I need to think about it.

10x10 Print, All Day Sucker, Little Girl, Red Hair, Pigtails, Lollipop, Orange, Green, Purple

All Day Sucker
Sold!
Prints are available

Since I’m waiting for video to upload to my youtube channel to complete this blog post, I might as well throw down some links. These are other places you can find me online. I’m on Facebook nearly every day. I have a love/hate relationship with the site, just like everyone else. I think of quitting every single day. But, I don’t. I don’t know what’s wrong with my head. Nobody really talks to me there, and I wonder every time I post why I bother, but I do.

I just started using Twitter again. I have no idea why. I don’t get Twitter. I have A LOT to say, and I can’t do it in 140 characters. People follow me, tho. You can, too.

Acrylic Abstract Painting Black Cloud Lining Original Art, Watercolor Paper, Black, White, Brown, Muted Colors

Black Cloud Lining
Sold!

What else? Oh, Pinterest. I have to tell you, I’m very choosy about the boards I follow on Pinterest. I want to look at art, and that’s about it. Pinterest seems to be about FOOD and more FOOD, and well..I’m on a very extreme, limited diet. I have sooooo many food allergies, and Celiac Disease, which means no wheat or white flour, no rye or barley, no maltodextrin, dextrin, no gluten free food because gluten free doesn’t really mean no gluten. Gluten free means it meets the FDA regulations, but it can have a percentage of gluten in it. Gluten free also doesn’t mean wheat free. I had to learn this the hard way. I can’t even have a trace of wheat or gluten. I get violently sick. There’s also a HUGE list of other stuff I’m allergic to, and I don’t eat meat/chicken/fish/seafood of any kind..it grosses me out.

Soooo, needless to say, I don’t want to look at food on Pinterest. lol I’ve come to terms with being on a crazy restrictive diet for the rest of my life, but I don’t want to have delicious food in my face every day..especially sweets. I have a huge sweet tooth..or, used to, anyway. If you have any other interests besides food, I’ll take a look, and follow whichever boards that strike my fancy.Okay, the video has uploaded. Yay! Watch me paint this painting..

Original Acrylic Portrait Painting, Three Sisters, Girls, Orange, blue, yellow 8x10 wrapped canvas

3 sisters
mixed media collage portrait
Available for purchase here

Happy PPF!!

PS: have you checked out the new book my artwork was published in yet?
Golf Sayings Wit and Wisdom has been released on Amazon.

It’s Complicated Abstract Painting

It’s Complicated

SOLD!

Abstract painting. Bold colors. White, blue, red, and yellow. Landscape. Land and sky. This is an original 9×12 inch acrylic abstract painting on wrapped canvas.