Art – Page 215 – Katie Jeanne Wood

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Acrylic Portrait Painting Woman with eyes closed 6x6 canvas board Purple Hair

acrylic portrait painting
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In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art. ~Rumi

On the easel – large couple painting

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

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!

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

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

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 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

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?

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.

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.

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.