portrait series – Katie Jeanne Wood

Hitting the ground running in 2023

Oil pastel painting
Bundled Up
SOLD!!

Happy 2023! I hope you’re well rested after the winter break. I was planning on taking a hiatus from more than just blogging, but I hit the ground running in 2023 – with custom orders coming in, and sales.

Oil pastel painting
Wearing Her Winter Blues

I also started creating a cute new series of oil pastel portrait paintings, which I think I’m titling “Little Ones”. They will all be 4×6 inches on paper.

Stack of 4×6 inch paper
cut up & ready

I cut up a huge stack of paper to have ready because I have about a zillion of these little characters dancing around in my head. They’ve been banging on the bars of their cages to be let out of there (can’t say as I blame them – I wouldn’t want to live in my head), and so I aim to please them.

Oil pastel painting
Frozen In Time

This new series is kinda what I’ve had in mind to do since 2020, but life got in the way. I just want to play like a child with my oil pastels for at least the start of this year, and see where it takes me. I haven’t picked a work word for the year yet, and I just might be stealing “play” back from 2020, since it robbed me of using it.

Oil Pastel Drawing
The Magic of Winter
SOLD!!

I want these paintings to be affordable, so I will be listing most of them for $25. Some might be less ($15), and others more ($40), depending on a few different factors.

Oil Pastel Drawing
Frozen Beauty

If you want first dibs on these paintings, I’m offering them for sale here in my shop. I’ll also be cross listing them on eBay & Etsy.

Oil Pastel Drawing
His Dreams Are Snow Covered
SOLD!

Shipping will be within the USA only, and is free here on my site – my gift to you for being a reader of my blog. If purchased elsewhere, you’ll have to pay for shipping, unless your order totals more than $35 on Etsy.

I have turned Etsy’s shipping discount back on for the time being, but I don’t know how long it will last. I occasionally offer free shipping on eBay on orders more than $50.

Oil Pastel Drawing
Purple Snow Queen

Here’s to a very creative new year! It’s good to be back blogging again. Cheers!

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Glazing Anna May Wong oil portrait painting & Marilyn Monroe Video

I started this oil series of beautiful famous women last year, but have been stalled out a bit. I keep trying to find my initial inspiration I once had for this series, but I’ve been more into painting abstracts, and outsider type art lately. Both are so freeing, expressive, and fun to create. These oil portraits demand discipline and rule following from me, and I just haven’t been able to muster it up. I just want to play, Mommy. lol

I need to get these paintings finished, tho. They’ve been sitting on my drying shelf for far too long, and they taunt me every day I work on something else. Hey! HEY!! Remember us?? lol

Also, I uploaded a video of my Marilyn Monroe oil portrait from this series on my youtube channel. Be sure to subscribe if you want to see more.

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Marilyn Monroe portrait painting

Katie Jeanne Wood
Marilyn Monroe portrait painting
WIP

I was flipping through a book last night, which is filled with photos of beautiful women, and for some reason I got the sudden urge to paint Marilyn Monroe. It’s gonna be hotter than blazes for the next couple days before it plummets into the 70s and even 60s (brr!), so I figured what else do I have to do?

WIP
Still wondering if I should switch to oils
because skin tones are so much richer,
and easier to blend
when using oil paint.
Not sure yet.

The photo in the book is black & white, which leaves me to figure out the colors for myself. I tried finding the photo online in color, but wasn’t successful.

Over the summer, I ended the long portrait series I worked on for years. I needed some closure because otherwise, it would have gone on forever. I wasn’t sure if I was done with portraits for good at the time or not. Lately, I’ve been questioning how I could walk away, especially since my portraits sell better than anything else I paint.

Sooo, I’ve been thinking about doing smaller portrait series..like maybe 5 to 15 paintings. I want to title each series, and not just paint without some sort of direction or theme. I’ve been kinda waiting for inspiration or an idea to strike my fancy. Maybe this is it?

As I was painting Marilyn, I started thinking about turning this into a series of famous women or narrowing it down more – famous women from certain decades, maybe? Like, start with the 20s, and work my way up. Then I thought, why make it just women, why not paint some men, also?

It’s too early to tell if this is going to turn into a portrait series or not. After many months of painting abstracts, it does feel exciting to be painting a portrait again. I have stacks of 5×7 and 6×6 panels on hand, and those are my favorite sizes to use when painting portraits. Plus, I haven’t used any oil paint in months, and I miss it.

hm..the wheels are turning. We’ll see what happens.

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