Katie Jeanne Wood

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

Handpainted journal cover

8x10 Print Collage Portrait Painting Young Woman, Face, Green, Orange, Flowers, Black
Always on My Mind
hand painted journal cover
If you’d like a print of this painting, you can get one here.   
 
Something a little different today..I painted something just for me! That’s a shocker!! I never paint for myself, so it was time. Yay! Collaged painting on my new notebook. I got my inspiration from Alisa Burke‘s blog post a couple weeks ago called Back to school altered notebooks. 🙂 I’m going to keep this one at my desk for jotting down notes while I’m online. 
 

I need to hire a maid for my studio. There are three other tables that look worse than this one. No room to work!! Ack.

I found this on Pinterest the other day, so thought I’d share..When You Hate Your Handwriting: 8 Lettering Ideas for Your Art Journal. These are great ideas.

 
 

 

Three Sisters on a Camping Trip Collaged Portrait Painting

 
Acrylic Portrait Collage Painting 10x10 Original, Mixed Media, Three Sisters on a Camping Trip, blue, yellow, redThree 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

 
Sold!
Thank you!!

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. 

Keep the Innocence – collaged portrait painting

Keep This Innocence Acrylic Portrait Collage Painting 9x12 Original, Mixed Media, Girl, Pink, Face, Brown Eyes
 
acrylic mixed media collage portrait painting
9×12 on canvas panel
 
 
 
 
Available for purchase here

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. It shall be a great month! I feel it in my bones!! 
 

Golf Palette Knife Paintings

Acrylic Palette Knife Painting 8.5x11 Original Portrait Girl's Golf Day, Girls, golf club, orange, blue, white, bold colors
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. 🙂 
 
Acrylic Palette Knife Painting 8.5x11 Original Portrait Red Braids, Golfing, Golf Course, Girl, Golf Club, Green, Orange
Red Braids
 
Acrylic Palette Knife Painting 8.5x11 Fore, Original Portrait man, golf club, blue sky, Red Hawaiian Shirt, black, green golf course
Fore!!
 
Acrylic Palette Knife Painting 8.5x11 Original Portrait Bumblebee Dress, Golfing, Golf Course, Girl, Golf Club, Green, Orange, Pink
She Wore Her BumbleBee Dress
 
Acrylic Palette Knife Painting 8.5x11 Original Portrait Mid Swing, Girl, Golf Club, Pink, Orange, White
Mid Swing
 
Acrylic Palette Knife Painting 8.5x11 Ready to Putt, Original Portrait man, golf club, blue sky, black, green golf course
Head Down, Ready to Putt
 
Acrylic Palette Knife Painting 8.5x11 Original Portrait Two Girls Golfing, Girls, golf club, orange, blue, white, bold colors
Two Girls Golfing
 
Acrylic Palette Knife Painting 8.5x11 Original Portrait Closes Her Eyes Before She Drives Girl, golf club, blue, white, golf course
Closes Her Eyes Before She Drives
 
Acrylic Palette Knife Painting Good Follow Through - Original Portrait boy, man, golf club, blue sky, orange, black, green golf course
Good Follow Through

Boys Wearing a Tie Series – What I learned

 
I ended up sketching out my boys wearing a tie series, after all. I know I said I felt freer starting with a blank canvas, and not drawing any of them first. That was very true.. at first. The problem was, it took me 2 days, and I only had 3 boys completed. It was taking far too long. 
 
I sketched these guys out in about 10 mins, and I was painting up a storm all afternoon. I got 5 or 6 of them done in a couple hours..much more efficient. So, as much as I don’t like to draw, it does indeed come in very handy, and makes life easier. I will still explore the blank canvas, but it will be sometime when I haven’t planned to do a slew of paintings for a series. 
 
And, here are the boys all finished..
 
Boys Wearing a Tie 
Acrylic portrait painting series

Humbled – acrylic portrait painting girl with bird

Original 9x12 Acrylic Portrait Painting on Canvas, Humbled, Black, Payne's Gray, Dark, Wren, Girl, Eyes Closed
Humbled
acrylic figure painting
girl and bird
 
Original acrylic portrait painting of a girl wearing a black dress. Her head is tilted slightly downward, and her eyes are closed. She’s holding a wren bird in her hands. Dark, payne’s gray background. Available for purchase here. 

Going From Red to Blue..YES

 
I’m not a drawer, I’m a painter. I don’t have the patience to draw. I don’t like drawing. The days of worrying what my drawing looks like, even though it’s going to have lots of paint over the top of it are long GONE! haaaaa YES! And, I’m sooooo happy about that. I used to stress over my drawings, and take forever on them. Now, it takes seconds.. if I even draw at all because sometimes, I don’t. 
 
photo KatherineWood-ontheeaselredandbluegirlwithbird_zpsf12861a9.jpg
 

Do you remember her from a couple weeks ago, and how I said she probably wouldn’t look the same when you saw her again? Yeah, the red had to go. I’m not comfortable using it any more. I know that probably sounds weird, but I’ve had zero luck selling paintings with red in them. Now, I’m superstitious, and I don’t want to use red in my paintings. A little red is okay, but her shirt takes up a lot of the painting. Too much red for my liking.

singing the blues
acrylic figure painting

So, I toned it down with blues. Even though blue is not one of my favorite colors, I like the painting more now. More photos soon!! 
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