Katie Jeanne Wood

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

She Won’t Let Go – Revised Painting, Ballerina sketch, and gray sky

She Won’t Let Go
a girl and her chicken
9×12 inch acrylic portrait painting
Available for purchase here
She Won't Let Go

 I can’t go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.
Alice in Wonderland quote by Lewis Carroll

Surprisingly, this was a very easy fix, and only took about 5 minutes. I’m sorry I didn’t do it sooner because I’ve looked at this painting several times, and thought I wanted to change it. I never liked the trucker hat, and not sure why I painted it in the first place. Sometimes I wonder what goes on in my head, I really do. lol

Ballerina
ballerina charcoal sketch
I was watching Misty sketch a ballerina in her online class,
so I started sketching also.
If you haven’t guessed, I’m really enjoying this class.
It’s my yearly treat to myself..
almost like going to a spa
only better.

Untitled
The sky is gray with magical snow falling down right now.
I hope everyone travels safely today.

Listening to: Indie Folk Remixed vol 3

Stupid Haircut, Strange Dreams, and Let’s Pretend

Stupid Haircut
9×12 original acrylic portrait painting on canvas panel
Available for purchase here
So, I was looking through folders of my sold paintings back in December, and I found a few that I thought would be fun to reproduce. I originally painted these in 2011, on paper, and smaller. I didn’t paint them exactly the same as back then, but close enough.
Strange Dreams
9×12 original acrylic portrait painting on canvas panel
Available here
As an artist, it’s fun to go backwards in time, sometimes, and wonder what possessed me to paint this little guy in the first place. It was titled Strange Dreams then, also. A few years from now, I’ll probably wonder why I reproduced these in 2014. LOL
Let’s Pretend
9×12 original painting on canvas panel
Girl character in a black polka dot dress
pink and black stripes
Available for purchase here
I’m done going backwards in time for now. It was fun, sorta. I really like Stupid Haircut, especially the way I repainted it, but the other two characters aren’t my style anymore. I found it hard to paint them, and even harder to list them on Etsy because they’re a bit too cartoony for my taste now. I’m ready to jump back into 2014, and leave the past where it belongs. Bye!
We must recognize and nurture
the creative parts of each other
without always understanding
what will be created.
~Audre Lorde

30 paintings in 30 days completed collage

30 paintings in 30 day
January 2014
I noticed after I saved it that the photos aren’t in order of how I made them across the row. Instead, you’ll have to look down the first row, then down the second. That’s dumb. I’ll try to remember not to use autofill next time on Picmonkey. I’m not going to worry about it now.
30 paintings in 30 days is finished!!!! Here’s to 30 or more in February!! Yeah!! Oh, I’m never gonna stop..never!!!! I’ve been painting (most) every day since 2008, not gonna stop now. 😀
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Funny thing..someone found me on Etsy by searching for “watercolor of man with beard and planets meditating”. Whut?? I had to laugh. Number one..I don’t use watercolors, and number two..planets meditating??? WHAT???!!! Planets mediate???? I had nooo idea. I want to see that painting!!!!! I know I will LOVE it. lol
I did an acrylic portrait of a man with a beard. Whoever was searching must have been so disappointed. Oh, well..it’s not my day to save the world.
9x12 Original Acrylic Portrait Painting Bald Man Beard Laughing Contemporary - Never Hurts to Laugh
Never Hurts to Laugh
and I’m laughing!!
I’m really laughing!!!
That’s it for me, folks.

I haz RELAX on my mind, Day 30 of 30 paintings in 30 days

art journal page
Day 30 of 30 paintings in 30 days
The challenge is over.
I haz RELAX on my mind now.
I can not relax, tho.
I have to go make a collage of my 30 in 30 paintings.
🙂
Listening to: Scraping the Pieces by Twin Forks
art journal page
You make something

Untitled

I actually painted more than 30 paintings this month. I haven’t had a chance to post everything here yet, but I have an entire art journal almost completed, and that feels really good. Art journaling is one of my go-to things lately. When I go into my studio, I go straight for my art journals. I have 4 books at different stages of completion. Greg brought me home THREE last night..so exciting!! I’ve asked him to be on the lookout for any large size books at the library for sale, since he’s there nearly every day.
Lady Danger

I’m not going to stop blogging just because the 30 paintings in 30 days challenge has ended. I will be here at least on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. I might even throw in some posts on Tuesdays and Thursdays, as well. Ever since I saw Alisa Burke’s video about blogging a few days ago, I’ve been feeling inspired to blog more. I really want to take her class, but Misty Mawn’s class, Full Circle, just started, and I want to give it all my attention.

I’ll be back tomorrow with a collage of allll 30 paintings.

I MUST Obey – Day 27 of 30 paintings in 30 days

 
I MUST obey
art journal page
Day 27 of 30 paintings in 30 days
 
Untitled

Melancholy
Available for purchase here

 
I wish to cry. Yet, I laugh, and my lipstick leaves a red stain like a bloody crescent moon on the top of the beer can. ~Sylvia Plath

 

Oh, that Sylvia. I’ve read all her poems, word for word, but I can’t find the answers I’m seeking there. She haunts me, and I think of her often, although not as often as I once did. I can never make my paintings look as sad as I imagine she was, tho.
 
5 paintings for the stagecoach gallery

5 paintings in progress for the Stagecoach Gallery
I’ll be finishing them up today, hopefully.

 

Fred cuteness

Hanging with Big Red Fred

Watching: Joseph Arthur
with Mike Mills and Bill Dobrow live at the Sellersville Theater

Cows!! Day 26 of 30 paintings in 30 days

 
 Bessy the Cow
4×4 original painting on chipboard
blue sky background
Available for purchase here
 
Holstein Cow
Lime green grass
4×4 original painting on chipboard
Available for purchase here
 
Two paintings today because they’re small.
Day 26 of 30 paintings in 30 days
 
bare trees

We’ve been having the most beautiful weather here in Kansas. Sunny, and warm. It’s hard not to run outside to play, but I’m trying to behave.

Sweet Pea in her pink bed
 
Wittle Sweet Pea on her pink princess bed
Moooooooore tomorrow..
but first, watch this fun video, yeah!
I wanna play in that snow. 🙂

Jeremy Fisher – Jolene

Their Offering – Day 25 of 30 paintings in 30 days

Their Offering
Original painting of 3 girls holding red hearts on canvas panel
Valentine’s Day art
Available for purchase here
Day 25 of 30 paintings in 30 days
Only 6 more days to go!!
 
Katherine Jeanne Wood - work in progressMore little Valentines
 
Katherine Jeanne Wood - Sweet Pea sprawling aboutSweet Pea
If you look closely at her fur there are hearts all over her.
No surprise to me.
She also has a black bird on her head..
can’t see it in this photo, but it’s sooo cute.

Katherine Jeanne Wood - heart in my coffee grounds

heart in my coffee grounds

I had to bring it over to the window in my office to get a photo of it.
Sometimes, love is alllll around you. You just have to notice it. xo
 
Watching: live performance by the Counting Crows
“When everyone loves you,
you should never be lonely.”
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