Katie Jeanne Wood

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

Pink Rose in Water Glass, Day 11 of 30 in 30

Katherine Jeanne Wood - Flower Series No 12

Pink Rose in water glass
Giclee print is available HERE

Katherine Jeanne Wood - Flower Series No 12

Palette Knife Painting
6×6 on canvas panel
Flower Series No 12
Available for purchase HERE  

The heat has left once again. Crazy yoyo weather has got me thinking of doing some plein air painting. Better be quick before it comes back. I don’t think I’ll be good at it, but it will be fun to try. How hard can it be to paint flat ground? ::snort:: 

If you’re stopping by from PPF, be sure to check out what my other posts from the week. I’ve been blogging every day for the 30 paintings in 30 days challenge. 

My Two Favorite Quotes

Feels Right
Acrylic portrait painting
Woman with pink rose in her hair

I have a large, growing collection of quotes. Every one I see that resonates with me, I copy and paste it into a text file, and save it. Whenever I need a quote for my blog post, I have a slew of them on hand. I see a lot of quotes online every day, on FB, Twitter, everywhere, but surprisingly, I only have two all time favorites.

  

Welcome

Welcome

I do this not for you. I do it so I can shut up the gnawing, dimwitted critics in my brain who tell me I am nothing.

Natalie Goldberg

I love Natalie Goldberg. I’ve carried Writing Down The Bones around with me since it was published in 1986. I’ve read both of her memoirs, and all her books, except a couple, I just noticed. Ack! I must get them! She speaks my kind of language, and her words flow so smoothly, it’s almost like she’s in the room speaking directly to me. It’s not surprising to me that one of her quotes is my favorite. 

Womanhood

Acrylic portrait painting
Woman with pink rose in her hair 

My second favorite quote is by Felix Gonzalez-Torres, a gay visual artist, who sadly, passed away from AIDS in 1996, when he was only 38 years old. I did a Goggle search, so you can see his art here.   

I was here. I was hungry. I was defeated. I was happy. I was sad. I was in love. I was afraid. I was hopeful. I had an idea and I had a good purpose and that’s why I made works of art.

Felix Gonzalez-Torres

What are some of your favorites? You never know, I may find a new favorite upon yours. 

Because I like random

here are some random photos..

rose

pink rose

handmade paper

handmade paper 

july06 084 copy

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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