Katie Jeanne Wood

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

Throwing down some links and a new painting video

Cold Winter Day
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I’ve been working on a gimongous canvas this week, and it’s kicking my butt. I’m not making any progress. It seems like all I’m doing is wasting a lot of paint because I can’t figure out what I’m doing. Gah. I’m going around in circles. I hate when I can’t wrap my head around a painting. I think it’s time to go back to small paintings for a while. I need to think about it.
 
 
10x10 Print, All Day Sucker, Little Girl, Red Hair, Pigtails, Lollipop, Orange, Green, Purple
All Day Sucker
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Prints are available
 
Since I’m waiting for video to upload to my youtube channel to complete this blog post, I might as well throw down some links. These are other places you can find me online. I’m on Facebook nearly every day. I have a love/hate relationship with the site, just like everyone else. I think of quitting every single day. But, I don’t. I don’t know what’s wrong with my head. Nobody really talks to me there, and I wonder every time I post why I bother, but I do.
 
I just started using Twitter again. I have no idea why. I don’t get Twitter. I have A LOT to say, and I can’t do it in 140 characters. People follow me, tho. You can, too.
 
Acrylic Abstract Painting Black Cloud Lining Original Art, Watercolor Paper, Black, White, Brown, Muted Colors
Black Cloud Lining
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What else? Oh, Pinterest. I have to tell you, I’m very choosy about the boards I follow on Pinterest. I want to look at art, and that’s about it. Pinterest seems to be about FOOD and more FOOD, and well..I’m on a very extreme, limited diet. I have sooooo many food allergies, and Celiac Disease, which means no wheat or white flour, no rye or barley, no maltodextrin, dextrin, no gluten free food because gluten free doesn’t really mean no gluten. Gluten free means it meets the FDA regulations, but it can have a percentage of gluten in it. Gluten free also doesn’t mean wheat free. I had to learn this the hard way. I can’t even have a trace of wheat or gluten. I get violently sick. There’s also a HUGE list of other stuff I’m allergic to, and I don’t eat meat/chicken/fish/seafood of any kind..it grosses me out.
 
Soooo, needless to say, I don’t want to look at food on Pinterest. lol I’ve come to terms with being on a crazy restrictive diet for the rest of my life, but I don’t want to have delicious food in my face every day..especially sweets. I have a huge sweet tooth..or, used to, anyway. If you have any other interests besides food, I’ll take a look, and follow whichever boards that strike my fancy.Okay, the video has uploaded. Yay! Watch me paint this painting..
 
Original Acrylic Portrait Painting, Three Sisters, Girls, Orange, blue, yellow 8x10 wrapped canvas
 
3 sisters
mixed media collage portrait
Available for purchase here

Happy PPF!!

PS: have you checked out the new book my artwork was published in yet?
Golf Sayings Wit and Wisdom has been released on Amazon.

 

 

On the easel today and moving my studio..

new white and gray painting
New white and gray abstract painting
I took it off the easel, and hung it above my desk.
I’ll live with it for a few days, and see if I want to make any changes.

I’m moving my studio..again.
It seems like I do this a lot.
I hope this time will be more permanent
because it’s all going upstairs.
We’re turning the entire upstairs into a
HUGE studio,
and moving the bedroom downstairs,
into what is now my studio.
That way, we will live downstairs,
and work upstairs
instead of having it spread out all over the place.
It will be great,
once it’s all done. haha
In the meantime,
I’ll be busy.
If I’m not around much,
you can guess what I’ll be doing. 🙂 

my word for the year..

I didn’t think I was going to pick one this year. The more I thought about choosing a word, the more I thought maybe this isn’t the year for a word. So, I put it out of my mind for a few days, and yesterday, a word jumped out at me. I gasped, and thought, that’s it! That’s the word I’ve been looking for, and I knew I had to use it. So, my word for the year is Balance, and it’s a big one for me.

Karen
1/4/08
yes, I’ve come a looong way since then. 
lol 

When I started painting in 2008, I knew that I was hooked. I was obsessed. It’s taken me all this time to realize just how obsessed I’ve been. When I’m painting, which is daily, I rarely do anything else. I just paint, and paint, and this goes on for 20 hours straight sometimes. Whew. I haven’t been writing or reading or doing much of anything. It’s nice to love my job. It really is, but I’m starting to miss all the stuff I have neglected and put aside for too long.

And the days are not full enough
And the nights are not full enough
And life slips by like a field mouse
Not shaking the grass
-E. Pound

Sooo, this year is the year for balance. I still want to paint, sure, but I want to add other things back into my life, and if that means painting a little less, then I’ll paint less. Gulp. Kinda scary thought, but I’m gonna be strong, and do this. lol

I’ve started to write again, which is a good first step. I started a new writing journal last week, and I am thrilled. I have no idea why I stopped writing. I left behind my first love, words, when I picked up the paint brushes. It’s good to find my way back. I’m also missing books in my life. I have recently begun to read again. Tablets are awesome for reading, lots of free ebooks every day. Poems will be a weekly blog post this year. I have missed poetry so much. Now I’m forcing myself to read poetry, so I’ll find a new poem to post each week. lol Hey, whatever works. Keep me accountable. Check back on Mondays to make sure I did my homework.

Here’s to 2013 being the year I find balance!

Listening to Take a Walk – voted the best of 2012 on 8tracks.

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