Katie Jeanne Wood

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

Carla – Collage Portrait Painting Photo booth Series

Acrylic Portrait Painting Collage 9x12 Canvas Panel, Original, Colorful, Mixed Media, Carla, Girl, Beehive Red Hair, Pastel Colors
acrylic mixed media collage portrait painting
 
I’m continuing on with my Photo booth Series that I started last month. I don’t know if I’ll ever grow tired of this series. I have always loved old black and white photographs, so this series is right up my alley. I love the hairstyles, and being able to use my creative license, and add color where there wasn’t any in the photo.
 
 
I found out an easy way to have reference photos delivered to my inbox every day. I went to Ebay, and did a search for vintage photo booth photos, and saved the search. Now, every day I get email with numerous photos in it. I sit at my desk with a photo open on the screen in front of me, and I very loosely draw the person. I usually exaggerate the hair or some facial feature..in other words, I make the painting my own, and I don’t copy the photo exactly. If I like the photo, I bid on it. 🙂 I have a huge collection of photos that I’ve bought on Ebay, and it grows by the month. It’s kinda an obsession with me, just a wee bit one.
 
 
Carla with the beehive hairdo is available for purchase on Etsy or directly through me.

Rambling on about autumn and video of Sweet Pea purring

Acrylic Portrait Painting Collage 9x12 That Look, Original, Mixed Media, Girl, Piercing Eyes, Face, Orange, Colorful
 
That Look!

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We’re finally starting to have autumn like weather here this week. The high is only going to be in the 60s and low 70s, and that makes my little heart go pitter patter. YES!! My favorite kind of weather. That will make the pollen go down, and maybe, just maybe, for the first time in many many months, I’ll start to get some relief from outdoor allergies. I might be able to breathe through my nose again, stop having migraines, put the neti pot, and nose sprays away for a couple months. A girl can hope.
 
I can’t believe a branch of leaves on the tree outside my studio window have turned bright yellow. Usually leaves around here just turn brown, die, and fall off the trees during a good wind storm (which we’re about to have today..storms are coming). ‘Tis disheartening, coming from the northeast as I do, where the fall foliage is spectacular with all the bold colors. I’ll take a bright yellow branch of leaves, thanks!
 
 
Acrylic mixed media 5x7 original whimsical painting - Fly, girl with her arms outstretched
Fly
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I take my coffee black, so I haven’t tried this, but did you know you can make your own pumpkin spice lattes at home? I know so many people who go running to Star Bucks at the first sign of fall to get pumpkin coffee. I mean lattes, of course. lol I can only guess it’s so much cheaper to make your own. I might have to try this, minus the almond milk because I’m allergic to almonds..but, it might be tasty, no? I have no idea, really. Never had one, but since the weather is changing, I’m starting to crave fall food.
 
 
I’m up early this morning. Had another horrible nightmare, woke up at 4am, and now it’s 6am, and I can’t/won’t go back to sleep. It’s gonna be a looooong day. Sweet Pea is also up, and racing and running around. omg..she is out of control this morning. She ran into the wall so hard (she’s blind..born without eyes, in case you didn’t know), I could hear her head making contact from the next room. Bam! Ow! Don’t worry, she’s okay, and it didn’t slow her down any. lol She’s a crazy fast kitty today.
 
 
Hope you enjoy a little 24 second video of Sweet Pea purring yesterday. Aww.
 
 

 

I’m off to get a very early start in the studio. Finished up a large painting last night. Yay! Photos later.

Throwing down some links and a new painting video

Cold Winter Day
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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
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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
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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.

 

 

Perm Day – portrait of three sisters

Original Acrylic Portrait Painting, Perm Day, Girls, Orange, 8x10 wrapped canvas
Perm Day
Painting of three women with curly locks of black hair. Original acrylic portrait painting. Messy orange background with collaged paper under the paint.
8×10 on canvas
acrylic mixed media collage portrait painting
I remember when I was a kid, my mother’s sisters would get together and give each other a perm. I loved those days. Everyone laughing, and feeling so pretty with brand new curls. I kinda (ya think?!) exaggerated the curls and poofed out their hair a bit in this painting. I think it adds humor to the piece.
 
Perm Day is available for purchase here.

Mother and Baby Boy and Gray Room: a poem by Wallace Stevens

 
Acrylic Portrait Painting Whimsical Mother and Baby Boy Family Vintage look 9x12 canvas

9×12 acrylic figure painting
Mother and Baby Boy

Gray Room Although you sit in a room that is gray, Except for the silver Of the straw-paper, And pick At your pale white gown; Or lift one of the green beads\ Of your necklace, To let it fall; Or gaze at your green fan Printed with the red branches of a red willow; Or, with one finger, Move the leaf in the bowl–\ The leaf that has fallen from the branches of the forsythia Beside you… What is all this? I know how furiously your heart is beating.

~Wallace Stevens
 
I’ve been taking an online poetry class from Penn State for 5 weeks now. This is one of the poems that I really enjoyed reading. For some reason, it reminded me of this Mother and Baby Boy painting I did last year, probably because of the first line. I thought it was unusual that I dressed the mother in a long gray coat, yet there are flowers growing up along the wall. I like art that you can’t explain with words.

Speaking of poetry, I started reading about e.e. cummings the other day, and found out he died in the same hospital as I was born, in North Conway, NH. Not the same year, he passed before I was born, but to think he knew that area, and had a farm there has me in a state of awe and wonder. How did I not know this?? All these years, I’ve read his poetry, and I didn’t know we have a little town in NH in common? It makes me wonder how very little I know about anything in life. sigh.

My mother died in the same hospital three years ago. It’s a small, small world. Now I want to read everything I can get my hands on about Mr. Cummings, but my poetry class marches on quickly. I have been struggling to keep up, so I’ll have to leave e.e. for when I have more time.

 

30 Paintings in 30 Days and 29 Faces Challenge Results

Katherine Wood - Sept 1st - Sept 9th
 
And now for the reward!! I get to see all the paintings I completed in the month of September, and that’s such a great feeling of accomplishment.
 

Sept 1st – Sept 9th
1. Keep this Innocence
2. Remember the Kiss
3. 50s Girl
4. I will Remember Your Small Room
5. First Class
6. Buttercup
7. 3 Sisters on a Camping Trip – sold
8. Star Worthy
9. Untitled

Katherine Wood - Sept 10th - 18th

10. Troubled Mind
11. Mom and Pop
12. Charitable Fool
13. Look What Emily Found at the Park
14. abcdefg
15. In Which Life Lingers
16. Bird on her head No 2
17. That Look – sold
18. Fluffing

Katherine Wood - Sept 19 - Sept 27

19. C’mon Now Little Sister
20. Wish Upon the Pink Stars
21. Dream Dream Dream
22. Small Town Girl
23. Orange Beret
24. Dreaming of flowers and numbers
25. Love Child
26. Waiting for the Train
27. Look Good

 

28. Lesson
29. Bronzed
30. Lauren Wore a Big Blue Bow

I can now say I’m a daily painter. The past 30 days have made a believer out of me, so I’m not about to stop now!! Can’t stop!! I’m hooked. Do stop by now and again to check up on me, yeah? 🙂 It’s been a lot of fun!! Thanks so much for the comments, and for keeping me motivated. I hope you were able to complete the challenge, too. 
 
If you want to make collages of your work like I did, the program I downloaded to do it is called Foter. You can also edit your photos with it, and make cards. I like it a lot, and will probably make monthly collages like this from now on. It’s a great way to keep track of all the work I accomplish in a month.    

Bronzed – Acrylic Collaged Portrait Painting

Acrylic Portrait Collage Painting 10x10 Canvas Original, Mixed Media, Bronzed, Face, Orange Sunlight, Purple Sunglasses, Circles, Numbers 
Bronzed
Acrylic portrait painting 
Collage
 
The sun was streaming through my studio window on a hot fall day (is it really suppose to be 90F at the end of September?), and the more I worked on this painting, the more I could feel the sun shining down on me.  It was suppose to be a photo booth painting, which I used a reference photo for..at first. Then, it completely shifted. I wanted to girl in the painting to feel the sunshine as strongly as I was at the moment. So, I painted in purple sunglasses, and lots of sunlight. This painting is available for purchase here. 

 


10×10 on canvas
Numbers and circles
A pretty girl wearing purple sunglasses.

 
Day 29 of the 30 paintings in 30 days, and 29 Faces challenge. One day to go!!
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