Birds of Repurposed Wood and PPF

Happy Friday 

come visit all the artistic people

 and see what creative works of art are happening this week 

at the Paint Party Friday link

In The Works :

I have some cute owls

 that are  filled with LOVE

I have mislaid my carving tool bag and so

I grabbed the OLD OLD dremmel tool

and will track down the carving tools later

 I actually used my hubby's scroll saw to cut this shape out 

all by myself for the first time. 

 When he saw I did it he just said, " You better be careful"

like I would probably cut my finger off or something.

this is as far as I am right now

so far the design is just pencil lines

I will add texture with modeling paste

 and color with acrylic paint

eyes and beak will be made of clay and glued on

These little owls hopefully will end up

as a wall plaque.

Do you notice the

 Valentine - Love theme ?

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

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-

Illustrating Childrens Books

Another  "Kat's Nature"  Adventure ? 

 Working at illustrating a children's book or two.

I choose to do them with watercolor paint 

and pen and ink lines to define the pictures.

pencil sketch of creeper

you know how kittens love to crawl into bags?

pencil sketch of Creeper singing

water color painting of Creeper singing

This has been fun and exciting and 

stressful and anxious times for me

because... 

I never have done anything like this before!

so please be kind!

I am lucky enough to have a friend who is a wonderful writer.

and a very nice person.

 I actually met up with Danny Langone through Facebook. 

 A friend of an old high school friend.

Danny Langone - author

 Danny's wife, Barb was a school mate of my older sister. 

We all grew up in "small town" Wisconsin...

...where everybody knows everybody.

 So we chatter back and forth,

usually just trying to make the other laugh

We have a similar sense of humor, 

although he has perfected his.

I eventually read a few of his published works,

"Keys to the Condo" - humorous poetry

"Flybait's Lament" - fiction novel

"Wilt's Hollow" - in the publishing process now

book jacket by Danny's daughter Kim

 I  absolutely loved reading them all.

Danny really has some enormous talent for telling stories, ticking the funny bone, and touching the heart.
(if you would like to read any of Danny's books let me know 
I can get you a signed copy for 20 dollars from him.)

 One day Danny simply asked if I would like to illustrate 

for a couple  of his children's books.

 He has been wanting to just go ahead and self publish

 for a long time now. 

 After I overcame my,

 "I can't do something that important," feeling...

... I told him I would love to illustrate his books.  

The first book is titled simply,

 "Creeper"

 and the second book is titled

 "Percy" 

 Creeper is an adventurous cat.

 Percy is a hungry little field mouse.

  Both books are lovely, witty, poetic songs.

  Danny  happily reads his poems to 

school children, in his hometown

and they always enjoy that. 

So he had the idea to just go ahead

 and publish some children's books.  

we are doing the self- publish "thing" .

After graphic artist,

Kimberly Langone

gets it all organized for us,

we shall have a book or two to peddle.

according to Google images
this is what a book peddler looks like! Yikes

Another adventure for me!

I look forward to that very much, actually.

of course my grand-daughter. Jillian 

will get the very first copy!

Jillian ...she calls me "Gam-gam"
Yep she stole my old Gammy heart the moment i laid eyes on her!

hugs to you
KAT
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I have been busy working on some new birds. 

folk art check-wing birds

I start our with a basic bird shape drawn on a one by five inch pine board

 my guy cuts them all out for me. 

 Then... I get creative with modeling paste, to make texture 

and some times just paints and stain and sand down the edges

 to give a distressed look to some of the birds.



Garden Party Green and Old Barn Red


lots of people like this springy Garden Party Green



stained with a cherry stain to seal the wood

I rather like Barn Red myself

garden stake Robin

Robin Red-Breast on a small stand

Blue bird of Happiness
Who can argue with that!

Rainy Days are giving way to Sunshine!

palette knife of "Tall Trees By KAT

Greetings Friends

I'v had Many ups and downs this year.

  I've lost a few... 

 Lately I have been winning a few!  

...because of good friends 

and an attitude of
Not Giving UP!. 

water color by KAT

When a door is closed

God opens a window somewhere, some how!

water color by KAT

If we are looking for it! 

We will find the way

I met artist, Jamie Morath at the 

Loveland Artist Studios on Main 

 She was moving her art work to a new studio 

just across from mine.  

She creates what I would call whimsical

every day life - folk art .

                                                  

So... I had  this idea 
to make some 3 dimensional art pieces from wood 
with her designs.

...and Jamie was all for it!

Yea!

We are developing lots of plans to do more...

... but here is my first attempt at turn her painting 

"Raining Cats, and Flipping Dogs", 
 into 3-D wood form on a round stand.

Jamie's print of her original painting

I started with a piece of pine board
copied the basic shape of the lady 
and umbrella and her puppy

here she is in the beginning stages

bearded puppy on the leash

sweet polka-dot scarf

  I'll be doing more of these with Jamie Morath 

we have plans already!

print of original painting
By Jamie Morath

wooden art 

"Piano Man" print
...soon to be made into a wooden sculpture too.

Soon to be made into a sculpture also

Jamie's print of a beach martini chef titled
"It's Five O'Clock Somewhere"

This is our wooden sculpture from Jamie's design.

I plan to make the next one with tiny sea creatures on the sand/ base like a blue crab or star fish.

I am working on the wooden piece for this art work today
Soon we will have many more of our wooden art pieces
Thanks you for opening a window Lord!
And thank you for good friends
good people
and a good life! 
HUGS!

KAT    (Griffin)

Visit Jamie's web page here:

Jamiemorath.com