Katie Jeanne Wood

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

Troubled Mind Collage Portrait Painting

Acrylic Portrait Painting Collage 8x8 Troubled Mind, Original, Mixed Media, Girl, Red, Blue, Face, Brown Eyes, Circles, Triangles, Blue
 
She wanted to be sad, and troubled. I tried hard to convince her otherwise, but oh those lips. Those lips wouldn’t have it, and no matter how hard I tried, her lips reminded pouty. Her eyes, a hard cold stare. She has a troubled mind.
 
 
 
 
 
Troubled Mind
acrylic mixed media collage portrait painting
8×8 on wrapped canvas
staples on back, sides painted black
Available on Etsy or directly through me.
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.

 

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.

 
 

 

Star Worthy acrylic collage painting

Acrylic Portrait Painting Collage 9x12 Star Worthy, Original, Mixed Media, Girl, Red, Blue, Dots, Face, Brown Eyes
Star Worthy
Acrylic Collage Portrait Painting
9×12 wrapped canvas

 
 
Girl with brown hair and brown eyes wearing a necklace made of stars. Heavily collaged portrait painting. Lots of stuff under the paint. She has ruby red lips. Red orange colors. Words and images beneath the paint, such as a handwritten pages from my journal, and scrapbook paper.
 
 
 
 
Available on Etsy or directly through me.
 

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

 
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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. 

Collaged Portraits: Series or New Direction?

Acrylic Portrait Painting Collage 9x12 Buttercup, Original, Mixed Media, Girl, Orange, Face, Brown Eyes
Buttercup
acrylic mixed media collage portrait painting
9×12 on canvas panel
 

 
So what’s up with these collaged paintings I’ve been doing? Is it a new direction or a series? Someone on FB said that it seems like I’m going in a new direction with my art with the past few collage portraits I’ve done. I don’t know if that’s true or not. I actually used to do collages before I ever started painting, like back in the 90s, so this isn’t really new for me. I’ve always used paper in my paintings because I don’t like painting directly on canvas. It’s not smooth enough for my liking. The only difference lately.. I’m now leaving the paper exposed, and not covering it up with paint.
 
 
 

So, new direction or series? I’m not sure. Sometimes, I think I’m going off in a new direction when really it turns out to be a large body of work, and I end up calling it a series, instead. How do I know the difference?

 
 
Well, a series ends when I get bored, and I have to move on to something different. Like, I did a series of golf paintings with palette knives. I don’t want to paint golf paintings every day, or ever again, really. lol So, it was a series. It ended when I got bored, and decided it was time to move on.
 
A new direction keeps going, grows, and expands. What I’m doing now could be a new direction, I suppose. I’m looking at it more like a slight change in how I’m doing things. I’m no longer covering all the collage up with paint, but I’m more or less doing the same thing I always did..painting portraits.
 
 

Buttercup Available on Etsy or directly through me.

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.
 
Happy PPF, y’all.

First class – collage portrait painting

Acrylic Portrait Collage Painting 9x12 Original, Mixed Media, Woman, Black and White, Neutral, Muted Colors
 
First class
acrylic mixed media collage portrait painting
This is a heavily collaged most black and white portrait painting of a woman. I used just a tiny bit of flesh color for her skin. Black hair and eyes.
 

9×12 on canvas panel Available for purchase on Etsy or directly through me

 
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.

I Will Remember Your Tiny Room

Acrylic Collage Portrait Painting, Mixed Media, Palette Knife Painting, Woman, Pink, 12x12 Canvas
 
I Will Remember Your Tiny Room
 acrylic mixed media collage portrait painting
 
Acrylic collage portrait painting of woman with black hair, pulled back in a bun. She’s wearing a white smock. Peachy pink background. I really wish you could see this one in person. The photos don’t do this painting justice. So, if you like what you see in the photos, you’ll love it in person. The texture on this painting is really cool. Lots of layers of paint, paper, and modeling paste.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
I Will Remember Your Tiny Room 12×12 on canvas Sides are painted black, so you can hang out of the box

Available through Etsy or directly from me

 
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!!
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