Katie Jeanne Wood

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

New print sizes to fit every wall and why I don’t ship prints overseas

Katherine Jeanne Wood - Flower Series No 150
Flower Series 150
Fine art giclee prints are available here.

I used to offer only a couple different print sizes, but I recently made a big change to my Etsy listings in both shops. Sizes now start at 4×4 inches, and go up as large as 30×30 inches on square prints. Rectangle prints start at 5×7 inches and go up to 24×30 inches. I realize more than ever before that not everyone has the same size wall space to fill. Some have a giant space. Others might have a narrow wall, and they’re looking to fill it with a row of small square prints. I totally get that, and I hope this change I made suits not only your needs, but your wallet as well. I’ve made the prints affordable for everyone. 

Another recent change I made is I’m now shipping prints to Canada. Yay, Canada!! 🙂

Unfortunately, I’m still not shipping prints overseas due to the risk of damage to the print while in transit. All I can imagine is how disappointing it would be to wait for weeks to get a print only to have it show up bent, torn or crushed, and it happens. Prints are fragile. Some people would be quick to blame the seller if a print showed up mangled, instead of the USPS (I see this happen alllll the time). I don’t want to receive negative feedback on Etsy for something that is completely out of my control. At the same time, I can certainly understand how frustrating it would be to wait another 3 or 4 weeks for a replacement print to arrive. It seems like too much trouble to go through for everyone involved, so I made the decision not to ship prints overseas years ago. Original paintings = worldwide shipping. Prints = US and Canada only.

Original, Colorful Flower Series No 54

Katherine Jeanne Wood - 12x12 Flower Series No 54 01
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Colorful acrylic impasto 
palette knife painting
Flower Series No 54
10×10 on wrapped canvas
Available here 
Fine art giclee prints are available here

Katherine Jeanne Wood - Sweet Pea and Friend kitties

Last weekend it was 90F, and we almost turned the ac on, but decided to tough it out. Sweet Pea and her friend hung out together on the porch. Cut to five days later, Friday night, when the low was 22F. Slight difference, I’d say. It’s warmer now, but Sweet Pea kitty is curled up on my feet, as I write this. One of my favorite things about Fall is how Sweet Pea changes, and becomes a little snuggly bug. There’s nothing better than a warm kitty on your lap, and a hot cup of tea. mmm..

 

60th blog post in a row

Katherine Jeanne Wood - 4x4 Flower Series No 52 01

Katherine Jeanne Wood - 4x4 Flower Series No 52 02

 Acrylic palette knife painting
Impasto
Flower Series No 52
Available here and giclee prints are here

Today is my 60th blog post in a row. Two months. Surprisingly, it hasn’t been all that hard. Certainly not as difficult as I imagined it would be. It takes being organized, but at the same time, it keeps me organized. 

Katherine Jeanne Wood - morning sky

It’s beginning to look and feel a bit like the w word out there..my favorite time of year. 🙂  

Move. Keep moving ahead is exactly what I want to do, and wrote about here. So, I’m going to continue. Why not? If the pace gets to be too much, I’ll rein it in, but until then, I’m going to keep pushing on through. 

Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. -Franz Kafka

Onward to month three.

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Blogging Every Day for a Year, Day 24 of 30 in 30

Katherine Jeanne Wood - PRINT Flower Series No 24

Palette Knife Painting 
Red flowers in water glass
Giclee prints are available HERE

Katherine Jeanne Wood - 4x4 Flower Series No 24 02

 

Flower Series No 24
Original painting is available HERE 

Only six days to go of the 30 paintings in 30 day challenge. I feel like I’m on a roll, and I don’t want to stop. A funny thing happens to me after I’ve painted and blogged every day for 3 weeks straight. I don’t know if it’s because I start to get delirious or what, but I begin to think..hey, y’know, this ain’t so bad. I start to settle in, get comfortable in my own skin. I forget the things I dislike about blogging, like writing. haha It’s true, tho. Sometimes, if I think I have to come up with words on top of posting artwork, it makes my head want to explode. But, here I am, forcing myself put down a few sentences every day, and it hasn’t killed me yet! So, I start imagining that I can keep this pace up forever. I fantasize about marking each day here with my paintings and words, so I have a record of my days. How cool would that be? 

The palest ink is better than the best memory.
Chinese Proverb

I want to challenge myself to blog every day for an entire year. I know several artists who paint and blog every day, like Jacki Long, and of course, the artist who started the daily painting movement, Duane Keiser. He doesn’t post every day anymore, but he did for a long while. If they can do it, what’s stopping me? So, maybe this is day 24/365, huh? 🙂 Whoa!   

I have a new Etsy shop for all my palette knife paintings! Hope you check it out. 

Best day of my life, Day 23 of 30 in 30

Katherine Jeanne Wood - 6x6 Flower Series No 23

Acrylic Palette Knife Painting
Giclee print is available HERE
Day 23 of 30/30

Katherine Jeanne Wood - 6x6 Flower Series No 23 02

Flower Series No 23
Original painting is available HERE

Today is very special because it’s my son’s birthday. The day he was born was the best day of my life because that was the day I learned how to love unconditionally. Happy birthday to my baby!! You’ll always be baby to me. 

I have a new Etsy shop for all my palette knife paintings! Hope you check it out. Also, I’m having an end of summer sale in my Miz Katie Etsy shop. I’d love to see these babies go to new homes soon.

Fancy

Fancy

SOLD!
Fancy
woman wearing white pearls and an attitude
8×12 print

titan buff

titan buff 

Who doesn’t like to say tight and buff, tho? haha
Of course, you do! 🙂 

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Ugh. Yeah. I think we all have had our share of haters. This describes them perfectly, doesn’t it. 

 

Katherine Jeanne Wood - Sweet Pea on my desk 02

Sometimes, it’s helpful to have two monitors because someone has a big head. heehee 

Have a happy weekend everyone!!
I’ll be curled up on the couch with a book, and some Netflix later this afternoon. 
Can’t wait!! It’s been a long week.
I’ll see you on Monday.  

 

Birdy on Her Head No 2

9x12 Bird on her Head No 2

Birdy on Her Head No 2
Sold!
Prints available here

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Because of the holiday tomorrow, I’ll be taking the day off from blogging, and the studio. I’ll be back on Monday, and I’ll be participating in a virtual blog tour. I’ll be answering four questions about my artwork. Fun! Have a great weekend, and a safe 4th of July, if you’re in the USA. 

Because I like random

here are some random photos..

rose

pink rose

handmade paper

handmade paper 

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The rose has but a summer reign, the daisy never dies.
James Montgomery

I’ve been blogging since 2001. Hard to believe, but I was doing this before the words “blog”, “blogging” or “Blogger” had been created. It used to be called “online journaling”. Everyone poured their hearts out to the world back then. It’s funny to think of it now because I rarely share personal stuff here on my blog. I miss those days.  

Digital cameras hadn’t been invented yet, or they had, but were so expensive, nobody could afford to buy one. So, I used to take photos with a Canon 35mm, mail the film to TX, and wait for it to be developed. It took a couple weeks. There was no instant gratification, like we get today. In the meantime, I was taking more photos, and getting ready to mail another roll. It was expensive, I remember. When I got the photos back in the mail, I had to scan them in, which took hours. It was so much work. There was no Blogger or WordPress, so I had to hand code my posts in html. Then, FTP everything. There was no simple Publish button to push. Whoa..can’t even imagine going to alllll that work today.  

Anyway, I have a thousand million photos saved. When things are kinda slow in my studio, like this week, since it’s a short holiday week here in the states, I start going through the old folders. I have everything saved by month and year. I’ve always been pretty organized when it comes to my computer, and I back up all my files onto several external hard drives..I have 4, in case one hard drive gets corrupted, I have backups of the backups. So, even though I’ve had several computers since 2001, I still have all my photos safely saved. These photos I’m posting today were from April 2004, and I had a digital camera by then, I think. I kinda miss that old camera. It had crazy depth of field, as seen in the first photo. 

Okay, although it’s fun, enough reminiscing of the good ole days for now. I’ve got to get into the  studio, and get some painting done today. 🙂 

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