The Band Painting

"The Band" Acrylic mixed media painting on Board. 34" x 36"
Sometimes realism just doesn't show the atmosphere. This painting was done in a somewhat more expressive style as my interest here was to show the effect of the lighting on the members of the band I was watching one evening.

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"Hope" abstract painting

OK, so I know that this is really different from what I usually post. It started back in College when I was playing with styles. Inspired by movie special effects and some pretty obvious Christian symbolism. I called the sketch "Hope" I decided to make a final painting of it a couple of weeks ago and enter it in the Obama art contest.

Keep your fingers crossed!

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The Team

A painting of my son's Jr High baseball team and their coach leaving the field after a winning game. 36" x 24" Acrylic paint on canvas.

As I was putting the finishing touches on this one, I was told about Molly, a 16 year old student, softball player at the school and all around great kid. After a few months of going to one doctor after another, it was discovered that she has an extremely rare form of cancer and is now very ill. I can't even imagine what that family is going through. All profits from the sale of prints will go to her family to help with expenses.
You can help out buy buying a print at http://www.redbubble.com/people/kathysgallery/art/1428837-1-the-team?utm_campaign=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=RB

I'm Back!

Through sheer idiocy on my part, I stopped posting in May. To be honest, I didn't think that it was a big deal as there were only a few hits here per day. It seemed like a waste of time since the majority of my business is local.

Here's the funny thing though, in my absence this blog actually doubled in popularity.

I had learned about an artist blog called http://emptyeasel.com/ and signed up for the newsletter in April. I started going there for tips on how to get my artist blog noticed and while I haven't been able to use all the suggestions, the few I managed to work in must have made the difference.......You found me didn't you :)

So, no new artwork today but hats off to Dan at Emptyeasil.....THANKS!

December Bouquet Floral Painting

December Bouquet 16" x 20" Acrylic painting on paper. Inspired by a Chinese American woman who was looking for something a little more east-west in her collection. This was done mostly with a bamboo brush, but with Acrylics to give it a little more texture and color intensity. I enjoyed painting in this way, so continued on after her commission to paint a series of florals in this style. The above painting, "December" was third in the series (yes, I know that makes no sense) Inexpensive prints of this work are available at http://kathysgallery.redbubble.com/

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Pansy

April 19

Today's flower is called Pencil Pansy it's 4" x 4". A graphite drawing done once again as an excuse not to have to come indoors on a glorious summer's day (I'm beginning to suspect a pattern here!)

This time, I was in Leichester, England. My former Father in law had retired and was spending a good amount of his time making a well-kept English garden into a showpiece. It was a simply wonderful place to spend time. The care he took was obvious. This little guy with the "cheeky" face was in the border of one of the flower beds.

Dick, former Father in law, engineer, ace gardener and WW2 hero (British corps of Engineers.....yep, one of the men who was rescued by fishing boat from the beaches of Dunkirk) is now 89 years old and in failing health. Makes me a little nostalgic I guess so I dusted this off to show today.


Posted April 10, 2008 to http://kathysgallery.blogspot.com/