Katie Jeanne Wood

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

I Made the Cover of San Diego Reader

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My painting Lay Your Weary Head to Rest No 3 is on the front cover of San Diego Reader this week. If you’re in the area, I hope you pick one up. I’ll be getting mine in the mail in a couple days, and I can’t wait to see it in print. It was such an honor to be asked if I could share my artwork for their story, Laughing Myself Out of the Gutter. Thank you, Howie, for getting in touch with me.  

Lay Your Weary Head to Rest No 3 has been sold, but I painted a couple more in case anyone is interested in owning one.

Lay Your Weary Head to Rest No 4

Lay Your Weary Head to Rest No 4
Available for purchase here

Lay Your Weary Head to Rest No 5
Lay Your Weary Head to Rest No 5
Available for purchase here
There are also small 4×4 prints of No 3 on chipboard available here,
and 8×10 prints available here.

Monday is by far my favorite day of the week

Katherine Wood - 6x6 Remembering Again 01Remembering Again 6×6 on canvas panel Available for purchase here
paintings shipped to the Stage Coach Gallery
Little canvas that I shipped up to the Stage Coach Gallery last week. These are only available at the gallery, so if you’re in or near Platte, SD, stop by the gallery, and tell Mary I said hi. 🙂
snowy trees
The snow is all gone now. ::Sadness:: All that’s left in its place is mud. LOTS of MUD. ugh ********** Something to ponder.. Enemies are the people who think about you more than your friends do. Donna Lynn Hope
Wanderlust
Painting of a pretty young girl or woman wearing short-sleeved white dress and flowered headband, holding a white bunny rabbit, stands outside in the snow, white house behind her in the background. They have wandered away, and have no intention on going back.
Available for purchase here

calendar

my desk calendar page from last month I’m going to rip it up for collage
 
Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change. Jim Rohn
Yay..it’s Monday!!! :))) Monday is by far my favorite day of the week. How many people do you know who say that? Probably not many, sadly. Most everyone hates their job. But, the way I look at it, I have 5 long days in front of me to get lost in the process of creating. I wonder what I’ll paint this week. hm..it’s always a mystery to me until my brush is moving around on the canvas. Can’t wait to get started. I’ll see you tomorrow!!

The Blues, It Matters, Happy Valentine’s Day

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NEW! The Blues Acrylic portrait painting of a girl with her head in her hand 9×12 on canvas Available for purchase here Art journal cover The title of this art journal is It Matters and it does matter, if not to anyone, but me. Prints of the cover are available here.
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I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says “Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again. ~Lewis Carroll

Never give upFound on Pinterest from They all Hate Us

Happy Valentine’s Day!! I hope you have a great weekend. I’ll see you on Monday.

In the Silence, Sleeping with the Stars, Painting Video

In the Silence After Dinner II SOLD!
Remember this woman from my art journal a week or so ago? Well, I recreated it on canvas. It was only up on Etsy for less than 24 hours, and it sold. Boom!  It’s already been shipped off to its new home in North Carolina. I have recreated it once again..
Acrylic Portrait Painting, In the Silence After Dinner III, Original, Mixed Media, Girl, Woman, Green PinkIn the Silence After Dinner
acrylic portrait painting
9×12 on canvas
Available here
your wild precious lifeWell, Ms Oliver, I’m going to spend my life painting. That’s what I’m going to do with my precious time. 🙂
Sleeping with the Stars
Sleeping with the Stars Prints are available here

This is another quick journal page that I did. I ripped a picture out of a magazine, and painted over it. She looks completely different than she did. The best magazine to do this with, in my opinion, is Vogue or any fashion magazine. I really LOVE all the ads in them.
 
Watch me paint her..

 

Oh Dear, Snow Pics, and Hacked!

Oh, Dear
Little girl wearing masquerade mask
acrylic portrait painting by Katherine Jeanne Wood
Created in 2010. Revised in February 2014.
Available for purchase here
I got rid of the bright blue background, and it’s now gray with a slight hint of slate blue.
Kinda funny story..I have painted A LOT of paintings with bright blue backgrounds, but I have absolutely no idea why. Maybe someone said they liked the color, so I started using it all the time? Maybe I thought I was painting bright blue sky or maybe it just became a habit? I don’t know, but I have never been fond of the color blue, unless it was a darker shade. Slate blue or Payne’s gray, yes. Bright blue, no.
One day my sister-in-law asked me if blue was my favorite color. I said, no. I thought to myself, I don’t even like blue, why is she asking me that? That’s when it hit me that almost every painting I painted had a bright blue background. Duh! lol I stopped using that horrid shade of bright blue that very day.

UntitledIt’s suppose to be 60F over the weekend, so my beloved snow won’t be around much longer. sniff sniff.

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butt buddies
butt buddies
Soon, these two are going to be snuggled up together, and I can’t wait to get that shot. Until then, they’re butt buddies.
My Pinterest account got hacked the other day. Who would hack Pinterest, and why?? I mean, it’s not like they got any personal info by hacking me. They put up a board called “this is great” and pinned one thing to it. I deleted it without looking at it, so I don’t know what it was. They changed my website url, and said I lived in Paris, France. Cute, right?  If you saw that weird stuff going on, it wasn’t me. If you clicked on that website link, you probably should do a virus scan. I have no idea what it was they linked to because I didn’t click on it, but it probably wasn’t good. :/ Luckily, Pinterest caught what was going on, and locked my account before they were able to do much damage.

Off the Chain Epic Weekend Planned

Katherine Wood - one of those I don't care about the outcome journal pages
art journal two page spread 4 swankily dressed people going to a swanky restaurant. Oh, yeah.
 
until November

how could I stay until November found paper

Acrylic Portrait Painting , Girl lost in thought, Romantic art, 9x12, Original, wrapped canvas

Lost in Thought Acrylic portrait painting of a girl with long red hair Available for purchase here

Did you know that Dick Blick is having a big sale? I always wait for sales, and buy in bulk, so I can get free shipping. I never pay full price for art supplies that way. Artists need all the breaks they can get. Art supplies aren’t cheap, says the art supply junkie, who just spent $300 at Blick a couple weeks ago. Ow!

Sweet Pea and me
 me and the Pea

And, that’s going to do it this week for me. I have an off the chain epic weekend planned, so I’ll see you kids on Monday. Ciao! 🙂
 
Listening to:

Ani di Franco, Knuckle Down – full album Head and the Heart, Let’s be Still – full album Of Monsters and Men, My Head is an Animal – full album.. LOVE LOVE LOVE this album!!

There is Power in Numbers, Art Journal, Painting Demo Video

 
There is Power in Numbers Prints are available here
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 From magazine cut out of a woman into an acrylic painting of a man, you can watch me paint him.. 

Acrylic Portrait Painting Daydreamer, Girl, Face, Black, Hair Tucked Behind Ear 6x6 canvas panel
Daydreamer acrylic portrait painting of a women Available here
Look at that little kitty belly. Aww!!!

So, I was minding my own business yesterday, and Sweet Pea wanted to come up in my lap. I said, sure sure. She was all happy, and purring. I was in my own little world watching a Youtube video, and next thing I knew she grabbed my face with her paw, claws OUT, and she bit down into my jaw. She made this weird howling noise as she did it, and it really frightened me. ???!!! I have no idea what makes her go crazy like that out of the blue. I was screaming. I think it startled me more than hurt. I put her down on the floor, and she went into the other room. I glanced out at her a few minutes later, and she was sitting there licking the wall like it was an ice cream cone. Lick, lick, lick, lick. Something ain’t right with that cat. Maybe she’s got cabin fever or something?

yesterday

There was a street there the other day, it’s all gone now. The high was 7F yesterday, and 11F today. I’m trying to stay warm by my only source of fire.

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Listening to: Cat Power, Myra Lee (full album)

 

30 paintings in 30 days completed collage

30 paintings in 30 day
January 2014
I noticed after I saved it that the photos aren’t in order of how I made them across the row. Instead, you’ll have to look down the first row, then down the second. That’s dumb. I’ll try to remember not to use autofill next time on Picmonkey. I’m not going to worry about it now.
30 paintings in 30 days is finished!!!! Here’s to 30 or more in February!! Yeah!! Oh, I’m never gonna stop..never!!!! I’ve been painting (most) every day since 2008, not gonna stop now. 😀
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Funny thing..someone found me on Etsy by searching for “watercolor of man with beard and planets meditating”. Whut?? I had to laugh. Number one..I don’t use watercolors, and number two..planets meditating??? WHAT???!!! Planets mediate???? I had nooo idea. I want to see that painting!!!!! I know I will LOVE it. lol
I did an acrylic portrait of a man with a beard. Whoever was searching must have been so disappointed. Oh, well..it’s not my day to save the world.
9x12 Original Acrylic Portrait Painting Bald Man Beard Laughing Contemporary - Never Hurts to Laugh
Never Hurts to Laugh
and I’m laughing!!
I’m really laughing!!!
That’s it for me, folks.
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