Art Show, Mason, Ohio

Happy Friday

this Sunday is the Mason Arts Festival
Ill be there somewhere

 Come  if you can !

Mason Ohio

 Funny little bubble spitting fishes

The Fish are  wood and modeling paste and paint

 Falling Leaves art work is done in oils and pastels on canvas mounted on wood plaques

 Come over to the paint party on the fab blog at

Paint Party Friday

here

Fall-ing Leaves

"Fall-ing Leaves"  pastels and oil paints that are water soluble work well together

making small paintings on canvas paper then cut them out and mount onto wood

very thinned oil paint of leaf shapes

I used wood glue to attach the canvas to wood blocks

oil pastels to give shades of color  - using my finger-tip to smear the color together

I may hang them in a chained together form like falling leaves

Like this

this one looks nice just setting on the mantle

-KAT-

Pears in Pastels

Lately I have found
 JOY
in playing around with my set of
Oil Pastels
and
PEARS

oil paint first then I added in pastels

Paint Party time August 30th 2012

Happy Friday

I hope everyone has a nice three day weekend planned

I will be traveling and visiting loved ones

I will be running away from Isaac

although by the time the once hurricaine Isaac

gets up into our part of the country

 it will only be a windy thunderstorm

and maybe lots of gray clouds for  Labor Day

Here is my work in pprogress for this past couple days

I continue to paint pears and to get ready for the Art  Festival

I seem to be in love with the pears

 This painting is taken from a memory of the Lake Huron Home

that my grand parents had long ago

I am still working on getting it right and developing it  further

I just bought some oil pastels to perhaps use ontop of the oil paints

does anyone see any reason not to?
... or have any experience in using oil pastels 

along with or mixed in with oil paint or acylic paints ???

let me know if I am able to do this 

I could use a little friendly advise

-KAT-

Paint Party Friday Post- Cincinnati

Happy Friday

Painting a few new canvases this week
The  Mason/ Deerfield Art Alliance Fall Art Show
 is coming up very soon and I think
I will be ready enough to be comfortable with my display
 of my works
...but I am sure next year will be better for me
I need more experience at these shows

Here is another Cincinnati Riverfront oil painting

 

I want to keep it impressionistic

...so I guess it's done

What do you think?

-KAT-

Oil Painting - Portrait of Jilly Bean - WOYWW and PPF

Several new oil paintings are in the process

Here is my  work desk 

I moved downstairs from my( too hot )upstairs studio room

hubby  is not real happy I returned my paints to the diningroom

My Bad, My Bad

trying to keep it somewhat clean and neat

I was viewing photos that my DIL  put up on her facebook

 and I love this photo of my GD!

Vacationing at Nags Head Beach  enjoying the peacefulness of

Bubble blowing

She sat in a bright periwinkle blue beach chair

 which even made it a better picture

I think Blue is my new best color

-KAT-

Oil Painting on New Paper product

I saw this on the internet and wanted to share it

sea scape number II

Softer skies and the sea

I decided to try another seascape

 used stiff brushes and a very limited color
blues and greens and a slight  purplish white

 

 This is the finished painting from last PPF
I made the skies pretty stormy
 but wanted to keep it beautiful
 so I used a nice soft purple
and the feel that the storm clouds are giving way to clear skies


So it is Friday and I am linking up to Paint Party Friday

sea scape for PPFriday and WOYWW July 2012

sea scape painting
purple sky

the beauty of a  stormy sea

...Update I changed this painting recently and now it is more stormy looking

This is my original painting in oil on  stretched canvas  "Stormy"  16 by 30 inches

various sizes and papers of prints are

available through my page at

kat-griffin.FineArtAmerica.com

-KAT-

PPF - Pears, the City and a Church

First things first

Here is  my finished painting of the bowl of pears

I painted this from a still life 

I love my pretty blue ceramic bowl

don't tell anyone but it has a crack in the back

but I just cannot throw it away yet

oil on canvas - 8 by10

here is the finished Cincinnati painting 

I had to touch it up because somehow 

it got black smudges on it 

 I could not get them to clean off

but I like the sky now better 

... so it all worked out

hard to get a good photo of this one for some reason

 Update on my painting of the 

Loveland Presbyterian Church

 I am so happy to tell you

that Pastor Stephen Melton really liked it

so much so that he asked to purchase it !

I am so happy it has a happy home to hang in

 and to be appreciated

words in the painting do you see the words Discipleship, Loving, Praying, Caring, Welcome

I was invited to a service last Sunday 

as all the loveland artists were

 and we all could display our paintings of the  Church.

Pastor Steve talked  about forgiveness

It spoke straight to my heart

It is a hard and an emotional subject for me

but  he lifted my spirit a great deal.

happy weekend my friends

-KAT-

Loveland, Ohio - Paint The Town Event

Loveland, Ohio's 
" Paint the Town "

was this last Sunday

We all tried to enjoy the shade 

and drank lots of water 

Many people came on over and enjoyed our paintings

my guys came to help me out

fountain was refreshing to be close to on Sunday

Winning art by Deirdie

the Loveland fountain

my favorite kind of flower

Bobbie with her winning watercolor of the Presbyterian church

more art by other artists

Monica's art

Bob does some painting

What A week !

Hot Hot Hot

As in temperature and humidity

 Friday a hurricane strength storm blew through

 Ohio and Loveland

Blew out the power to our house and many others in the areas

for three sweltering days !!!

I had to retreat to places with power 

befor we all went crazy from the heat

My son and husband slept outdoors in the trees

They have hammocks for camping

 because of the fact that they camp alot and are boy scouts

I could not bring myself to sleep outside at night

so I slept as close as possible to the open window 

Bandit and My son, Ryan

good thing Bandit had a shave recently

 It was really too hot for a fire 

but fire is somehow a good distraction at night

 from having nothing much to do 

...and it is comforting in the darkness

notice Bandit is moving away from the heat

I hope everyone has survived the heatwave

 and the storms so far

Oh the power of Mother Nature

How Awesome

-KAT-