Katie Jeanne Wood

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

Hard to find a poem about a girl with brown eyes

KatherineWood 7x5 Brown Eyed Girl on paper 01
 Brown Eyed Girl 
Acrylic portrait painting
on watercolor paper
Available here
 
I was going to insert a poem here about a girl with brown eyes, but do you know how many really bad poems there are about brown eyed girls??? Ack! There’s some awful poetry out there, and I couldn’t do that to you. So, instead a little quote from Henry Miller, and you can tell he’s writing about a girl with brown eyes..he is, right?

I don’t know how to tell you what I feel. I live in perpetual expectancy. You come and the time slips away as if in a dream. It is only when you go that I realize completely your presence. And then it is too late. You numb me.

~Henry Miller

Painting a Golf Series

where did it go?
Where Did It Go?
Palette knife painting by me,
Katherine Wood

I was asked a few weeks ago if I would submit work
to be considered for a book about golf.
The painting above was a test run I painted in my art journal.
The rest of the series is on chipboard, and
will be available in the near future in my Etsy shop.
The book will come out later this spring, early summer.

I don’t know much about golf, although I do watch it
on weekends.
One little known fact about me is..
I’m a sports fanatic.
I don’t have any particular teams that I follow,
I just watch whatever’s on.

A couple nights ago I sat up until 2 am
watching ski racing I had on the DVR.
 This is something I do alone.
Greg isn’t what I would call a sports fan.
He’ll watch a football game with me,
but most of last season,
I watched the games by myself.

My great grandmother, Sadie,
loved baseball,
and so did my mother.
I guess I get it from them,
except..
I don’t like baseball.
lol
It’s about the only sport on tv
that I don’t watch.
🙂

I’ll let you know when the book is published,
and whether any of my paintings are in it.
I’m pretty sure you’ll be able to buy it
on
Amazon.
Keep your fingers crossed for me that I’ll make the cut.

On the easel – large couple painting

WIP

Still working on this palette knife painting..
it’s been several weeks, and multiple layers of paint.
Not finished yet, but getting close now.

It’s suppose to snow tomorrow and Thursday.
I can’t wait!!
It will be so cool to watch it fall from my studio in the trees.

Listening to Asaf Avidan while painting today..
and now you can, too.
Enjoy!

I’m such a sucker for boys who play guitar and harmonica.

Asaf Avidan

 

New Studio Pics

new studio
where i will be creating

i’ve been working on getting some reference photos
up on the walls.
not so i can copy them,
but just to have them there as guidance..
Ooooh, yeah, that’s what a nose looks like!!
type of thing.
you know..
I couldn’t hang anything up on the plastered walls
 downstairs because it was
too rough,
but up here the walls are smoother, and I’m liking that!

new studio
still bare bones, and I’m pretty sure this will change..but,
this is where I’ll be writing, for now.
I think I have to turn my desk towards the other wall
because I like to watch Netflix or tv while I paint, and
the way it is now,
i can’t see my laptop or tv from where my easel is..
not good planning on my part. lol

new studio view
looking down
from one window

I’m debating putting curtains on the windows
I like all the light that comes in.
It has blinds that I have pulled all the way up,
so I don’t really need curtains.

looking up from new studio window
looking up

I swear the sun was making a heart shape through the clouds,
just for me,
and you, of course.
Happy Valentine’s Day!
I’m almost all moved in,
and I’ve already painted
my first painting
from up here in the trees.
More tomorrow! 🙂

Paint Party Friday

On the easel today and moving my studio..

new white and gray painting
New white and gray abstract painting
I took it off the easel, and hung it above my desk.
I’ll live with it for a few days, and see if I want to make any changes.

I’m moving my studio..again.
It seems like I do this a lot.
I hope this time will be more permanent
because it’s all going upstairs.
We’re turning the entire upstairs into a
HUGE studio,
and moving the bedroom downstairs,
into what is now my studio.
That way, we will live downstairs,
and work upstairs
instead of having it spread out all over the place.
It will be great,
once it’s all done. haha
In the meantime,
I’ll be busy.
If I’m not around much,
you can guess what I’ll be doing. 🙂 

It’s been a long time since I’ve seen the ocean

4x4 white and gray stack
Fresh off the easel are these new acrylic abstract mini paintings. Most of my artwork is vibrant, so I wanted to mute the color on this series. I’ve been wanting to do a black and white series forever..like at least 2 years, maybe three? I have no idea what took me so long. I guess I’ve been afraid of not using color. Like, what can you really do with just black and white? 
 
4x4 white and gray stack
 

The funny thing is when I picked up the palette knife, I had nooo idea what I was going to do with it, but it all came together quickly. Once I started, I couldn’t stop. 

4x4 white and gray Snowed In
 
 
I was thinking of stark, white, grey, snow, ice, winter. And huge snow banks that I haven’t seen for nearly 14 years. When I moved to Kansas in March 1999, there was snow piled well over my head in Maine. Here, there was bright green grass (which I found out later is actually winter wheat), and it was 85F in March. 
 
4x4 white and gray Winter Lake
Winter Lake
 
I also kept in mind what the ocean must look like in the winter on the east coast, as I made these. It’s been a long long time since I’ve seen the ocean.  

Keep an eye on my Etsy shop if you’re interested in this new series. I started listing them two days ago, and within minutes, one was in a new treasury by Lesglass. Yesterday, another treasury made by Budpnq, so I’m thinking this is going to be a popular series.

I also have some 6x6s that I’ll be listing over the next few weeks. 

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