Katie Jeanne Wood

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

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.
 

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!!

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!! 
 

There is a Place 12×12 Mixed Media Cityscape

Acrylic Mixed Media Painting Abstract Cityscape Dark Moody 1 ft x 1 ft - There is a Place buildings,
 
There is a Place
12×12 Mixed Media Cityscape
 


Original, heavily layered, acrylic, mixed media abstract cityscape painting. Moody, dark blue-black sky looms in the background. Tall skyscrapers with lots of windows made with scraps of watercolor paper collaged. Available for purchase here.
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