Mason Art Fest was a Fun Success !

I did pretty good at the

Mason Ohio Art Festival

My best Art Show ever

...

Even though this was  only the second art show I've been in

 its still - THE BEST ONE!

 The weather was beautiful  

Thank God

and my husband and son came to help me out

I really am glad I entered the Art Festival

I sold  a Cincinnati riverfront painting 

and a sea scape and a fish blowing bubbles

three very different art works

I was very satisfied to have those three sales

My best experience ever at an art show

but I will work hard to do better next year.

here are some art show photos

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