Beach Day
SOLD!
Small to large prints are available here..just in time for summer!
harold and maude kitties
Funky Bird Series is available in my Miz Katie shop.
The little orange bird has been sold already. I’m going to paint another one soon.
Mixed Media Artist - daily painter of portraits, flowers, abstracts and birds
Beach Day
SOLD!
Small to large prints are available here..just in time for summer!
harold and maude kitties
Funky Bird Series is available in my Miz Katie shop.
The little orange bird has been sold already. I’m going to paint another one soon.
Harold and Maudie kittens
Sweet Dreams
sold
Prints are available here
Sunrise
paint palette
Feeling a bit grungy today, and listening to Nirvana. Come as you are, as you were, as I want you to be, as a friend, as an old enemy. Ah..it never gets old.
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.
Leonardo da Vinci
Art journal pages
Remember a couple months ago, I said I didn’t like Mad Men because it moved very slowly, and I couldn’t get into it? Well, I decided to give it another chance, and they say the third time never fails..or at least that’s what my mom used to say. I started binge watching, which I’m convinced is the only way to watch a series because nobody got time to wait an entire week for a new episode of anything anymore. Now, I’m obsessed with the show, and hate that it’s ending soon.
Did you notice how Netflix messed up, and put up all episodes of season 7 online, even the new shows that haven’t aired on tv yet? They’ve since taken them down, so I have to wait, and watch along with everyone else. We don’t have cable, so I’ll either be watching on AMC, if I can, or I’ll have to wait for Netflix. In the meantime, I’m going to start a new series..I’m leaning towards Scandal. I’ve seen a couple episodes, and liked it.
Linking to Paint Party Friday
Art journal
Spring, my least favorite season, has begun. You might be thinking, aw, how can she say that?? Easy! Spring around here means tornadoes and bad weather. We can count on about 3 to 4 months of it, usually starting the end of February, beginning of March. We’ve been lucky, and it’s been quiet, until today. We don’t have any tornado watches for tonight, yet, but it looks like it’s going to be stormy through tomorrow night. Hope I’m able to get some sleep.
On the easel
16×20 acrylic impasto palette knife floral painting
Flower Series 148
Sometimes, I find that with larger canvases, it’s easier to lay them flat on the table, rather than use my easel. I can move around the painting better this way. The easel comes in handy when I think the painting is finished or when I want to examine the painting in its upright position to make sure everything looks right. Sometimes, when I work flat, I fail to see the vase is crooked or the flowers aren’t placed as well as they could be.
It helps greatly to place the canvas on the easel to get an idea of how it will look hanging on a wall. If I need to add more to the painting, I usually leave it on the easel. I paint a little, then step back. Paint a little, and step back. You should always do that to get a viewer’s perspective of a painting because you can’t always trust your view as an artist. Most of the time, an artist stands way too close to a painting to be able to really see it as others do.
One of my favorite things to do in my art journals is abstract painting. Nothing is expected of me, and I can experiment all I like without any worry of the outcome. (I don’t ever actually worry about the outcome of any of my artwork, but it’s still nice not to feel pressure to make something pretty) The texture on these pages, I wish you could feel it because it’s what makes these pages really special. I love to run my hand over the roughness of all the layers.
This is the painting I posted last week titled Time Tested. I didn’t realize I had taken photos of it in progress or I would have posted this first. Oops!
I used to do a series called On the Easel, and I showed progress shots of a new painting just about every week. I fell out of doing that, but I’m thinking I should bring it back. I’m always looking for something to blog about. The hardest part for me is remembering to pick up the camera or phone while I’m working. Usually my hands are completely covered in paint, so I don’t like to stop, and clean up every few minutes. It interrupts the flow, and I tend to work very fast. I’ll try, tho..it might be fun, at least every once in a while.
In case you’re wondering, the kitties are home, and doing fine. They are even more hyper than usual, and keeping them quiet for the next 2 to 3 days is going to be tough. I think, at best, I can keep them away from Sweet Pea, but keep them quiet? I highly doubt it. So far, all they’ve wanted to do is run around, and wrestle, as if nothing happened. Maude just had Harold around the neck, choking him so hard he started coughing..I had to go separate them. haha
I have them up here in my office, but it’s a constant “dodge Mom and run FAST” every time I try to open the door..they want out, bad!! Other than feeling cooped up already, they seem like nothing ever happened. The only weird difference is the noise Harold keeps making..it’s like a constant little mrrrrow noise. He doesn’t seem in pain or anything..maybe it’s the meds making him more vocal than usual? Or maybe he has lots of stories he’s trying to tell me of his adventure to the vet for the first time?