Petal
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Intuitive
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Bobblehead
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Sublime
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Social Distancing
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Something Precious to Hold
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I’ve made some of my art journal pages available as prints. I hope you like them.
Showing Up
This was an old abstract painting I had lying around that I turned into a portrait painting. This is what it used to look like..
I think I painted it back in 2009ish?
The title used to be Bullseye.
This was also an old abstract painting. It was actually a landscape that I did around the same time as the one above. I did quite a large series of abstracts on paper using mostly pink, brown and white. It’s never too late to put finishing touches on a painting or change it completely. Wasn’t it Leonardo da Vinci who said that a painting is never finished, only abandoned?
98 year old Australian artist Guy Warren
“What has made it possible for me to be successful for so long?”
“Dumbness.”
“Stupidity”
🙂
What a sweet man.
Also watching: ‘Succession’ Composer Breaks Down the Theme Song
Something Precious to Hold
Something Precious to Hold
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I created the original one in my art journal, and loved it so much I decided to make one to offer for sale. I don’t know what I’d do without my fur babies during this time of isolation. I know I’d be lost without them, and I’m so grateful for all the laughs they bring me every day. So, this piece is dedicated to my four precious babies..Sweet Pea, Maudie, Harold, and Chewybacca. xo I love you all with all my heart.
Try and see positive things
Yup, pretty much.
I do miss my family very much tho,
and can’t wait to wrap my arms around all of them again.
New!
acrylic robin bird painting on paper
Rise High
I started to get up, but Harold Zip said Nope! Stay, Mom. So I didz.
Aww!
😺🐈😻
©️ Katie Jeanne Wood
General Sadness For the World
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Woman & cat figure painting
Something Precious to Hold
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Harold & Maude
People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?
Thich Nhat Hanh
I’ve been waiting on some good news
For the clouds to part and let the light shine through
I wanna wake up to a better tomorrow
I had enough, where is the trust, where is the truth,
it’s about time for some good news
I’ve had this song on repeat since yesterday. It makes me happy. I know we are months away from hearing good news here because our numbers continue to rise. And with people protesting to go back to work, it’s only going to get worse. Still, I’m trying to be optimistic. It gives me something to look forward to because good news is coming. I need to believe that right now.
This weekend I’m going to focus on all the positive things – painting, cuddling with my cute kitties and Chewybacca boo boo, making some veg soup in my insta-pot, reading, listening to the rain, having an adult beverage or two, and finishing up Succession on HBO before the free month ends.
Hope you have a good weekend, and are able to focus on the positive also. Stay safe. xo
My mojo is returning
For the first time in forever, I’m starting to feel productive again. Haven’t been able to paint for more than a couple minutes here and there because my concentration has been so poor. I also haven’t done much painting outside of my art journals, so this is a major improvement. I’ll let you know when these paintings are available for purchase. I’m still adding a few finishing touches.
don’t feel like doing the dance today
art journal page
One thing I did last week to make myself feel better was shut the news off. I’ve felt like a deer frozen in headlights for weeks, couldn’t do much except stare at the screen. Five to ten minutes a day to look at the headlines is plenty. I get the gist of what’s going on.
Chewy’s pillow of the day
I think listening to the two podcasts below by Rafi and Klee helped me put things in perspective. I, like Klee, was very informed..too informed, and I felt crappy because there was nothing I could do to help. I went through an “I’m just an artist..my life is meaningless” phase, also.
Listening to: Are you valuable as an artist
Making the most of the quarantine as a creative and not losing your shit
Reading: Finding reality in the midst of anxiety
Hope you have a productive Monday. I’m going to try my best. xo
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Something Precious to Hold
Something Precious to Hold
art journal page & print
My new favorite art journal page because I was thinking how grateful I am to have my little fur babies, especially at a time like this.
Instructions on Not Giving Up
More than the fuchsia funnels breaking out
of the crabapple tree, more than the neighbor’s
almost obscene display of cherry limbs shoving
their cotton candy-colored blossoms to the slate
sky of Spring rains, it’s the greening of the trees
that really gets to me. When all the shock of white
and taffy, the world’s baubles and trinkets, leave
the pavement strewn with the confetti of aftermath,
the leaves come. Patient, plodding, a green skin
growing over whatever winter did to us, a return
to the strange idea of continuous living despite
the mess of us, the hurt, the empty. Fine then,
I’ll take it, the tree seems to say, a new slick leaf
unfurling like a fist to an open palm, I’ll take it all.
If you’re looking for some laughs to help get through the day, check out Letterkenny on Hulu.