Katie Jeanne Wood

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

50s Girl – collage portrait painting

Acrylic Portrait Collage Painting 9x12 Original, Mixed Media, Woman, 50s Girl, Pink, Face, Headband, Blue Eyes
 
50s Girl
acrylic mixed media collage portrait painting
9×12 on canvas panel

Woman with brown hair, curled up at the ends, and bangs wearing a pink headband and a pink shirt. She has blue eyes and a semi smile on her face. Heavily collaged painting. Lots of pink, squares, pieces of my handwritten journal, a calendar page, and a number 8 playing card in the top right corner.

 
 
 
 
50s Girl Available on Etsy or directly through me.

Remember the Kiss – collage portrait painting

Acrylic Portrait Collage Painting 9x12 Original, Mixed Media, Woman, Remember the Kiss, Red, Green, Circles
Remember the Kiss
acrylic mixed media collage portrait painting
Heavily collaged painting of a woman with black hair, and dark, sleepy eyes. You may see pieces of my handwritten journal peeking out from under the paint.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Remember the Kiss

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.

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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