presenting... original paintings for sale!

hi loves,
as i promised a few weeks ago, i have just released new original paintings for sale in my Sunrose Studio Shop. presently, there are 3 tiny originals for sale, and i plan to add more original paintings to that shop in the coming weeks. please do visit the shop and make sure to let me know what you think!

{ from left: i want that diamond, i need structure, magical minerals. }

peace.
& LOVE.
always.
kelly

LOVES it.

It is such an amazing time to be an independent artist. . . and support other artists. While browsing Etsy the other day in search of gift ideas {um... for myself...i'm turning 31 soon!}, I found the work of Mara Pollins and instantly fell in love.

Mara is an art teacher in the D.C. area. {I imagine working with kiddos every day is a major source of inspiration.} About her work, Mara writes, "My paintings are inspired by the colors, forms and patterns found in the natural world. Many of my paintings reflect patterns found in plantlife, fugus,biology and cells as would be seen on a microscopic level. I use many layers to create a sense of depth and light."
{check out her shop right here.}

{from left: Cellular, Blobular, Original collage.}

Thank you!

Dears, I'm honored & flattered that Tickled Pink Knits featured a painting of mine in her beautiful treasury on Etsy. THANK you TPK!!

here's a closer look at the painting of mine she featured.

{available here, original painting is $45.}

pounced. 100 words for snow.

i've pounced again, my dears. 100 Words for Snow is the new etsy shop of an amazing artist named Susanna from Sweden (her name is not Susanna from Sweden, it is Susanna Erkheikki, and she IS from Sweden). Susanna's work blew me away with its depth: each piece tells little tidbits of a life story. And the colors are perfection. Here are a few of my favorites from 100 Words for Snow.

{tears flow through my veins.}

{birdman.}

Shop 100 Words for Snow here.

Visit Susanna Erkheikki's website here.

Peep Susanna's photos on flickr here.

thank you.

dears, thank you so much for the wonderful, heart-felt feedback to my last post. i was a bit reluctant to put of that out on the interwebs, but i am so glad i did.
since i last wrote, we left town for a few days. we traveled to eugene for the annual conference on public interest environmental law. i learned a lot. my brain is still wrapping itself around new theories, new technologies, and new faces. i also had a big realization about my field: there are not that many women in it. especially, those of us who have been practicing for 5 or more years. i am letting that realization sit with me for a bit, but i have a feeling it will make it into a post in the near future.
also,
after i re-established my painting groove or overcame whatever plateau i was describing in the last post, i began working my etsy shop again. and it is so much fun, too. i forgot the excitement of preparing a new listing, editing the photos, figuring out postage, and all that jazz. it's safe to say: i'm back. on that note, i've brought a few new pieces to the shop and re-listed a few that i had taken off the market for a bit. if you haven't visited my shoppe in a bit, check it out!
all love,
k

{dreams of india, original painting.}

works-in-progress.

so i've been busy in the studio, my dears. and i must say that things are changing for me-- i think that the drawing class i took last fall allowed me to embrace some of my inherent traits i'd been squelching over the last few years: first, my need to have color take center stage and second, my...sloppiness...willingness to let lines be fluid and dynamic rather than perfectly placed.
before i took that class, i thought i couldn't do realistic work. i thought i couldn't draw or render for stink. by drawing hundreds of drawings and spending hours looking at the world around me and translating that into a drawing, i overcame that doubt. however, i was unsure of what to do with this new information about myself. what was i? a portrait painter (i love it)? a landscaper? surrealist (let me show you the "love brigade" drawings sometime)? these must be struggles that all artists go through.
i have been working and working to find my voice as a painter, artist, human. oftentimes, my work has been influenced by what i thought people wanted or i thought would be successful on etsy or other places i've offered my work up for sale. this is silly! it's for this reason that i took a little hiatus from adding new work to my etsy shop or even completing pieces over the last few months.
so to continue on this path, i'm doing more art-journaling and experimentation outside of my comfort zone. i'm reading work by great artists and their processes. right now, i'm obsessed with Kandinsky and his book Concerning the Spiritual in Art. in its introduction, Kandinsky writes, "Every work of art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the mother of our emotions. It follows that each period of culture produces an art of its own which can never be repeated. Efforts to revive the art-principles of the past will at best produce an art that is still-born."
this inspires me to create from a place completely separate from my own earthly (and perhaps a bit ego-driven) desire to "make it" as an artist. i've decided (or perhaps just realized in this part of my life as well) that i don't want to make anything that is still-born, to borrow from Kandinsky. i want the work i make to have the same impact on people as a yoga class-- to transcend the material and touch the eternal. i don't know how or whether this will ever come through me, but here are a few works-in-progress to illustrate how all of this gobbledy-goop is translating into paint.

as always, you {dear readers} are my inspiration.

the love you share with the world is that i hope to convey in my paintings.

with gratitude & all love, k.

pounced! Jeffcoat Art.

darlings, feast your eyes upon this lovely pounce: the artwork of Christy Jeffcoat. Christy creates with paint & light. her portrait of Jimi Hendrix immediately drew me in, and after that, i was smitten by everything in her shop, particularly this photo, entitled Self-Sufficience. Christy's pieces all have a quiet, introspective quality about them; i imagine this is why i am so drawn to her art.



Visit the Jeffcoat Art Etsy shop here.
Check her work out on DeviantArt here and SmugMug here.

spilling paint.

and it's snowing.
pretty pretty snow.
life is good.

oh-so quiet.

i've been quiet lately, haven't i? well, lovelies, it's been a good kind of quiet. the kind of quiet that accompanies letting go of the old and making room for the new. the studio had been sorely neglected due to months of busy-ness, and i finally broke down and organized my space. i love it. since the big clean-up, i have begun to paint again. and this is such a very good thing. also, i really needed a bit of deep calm, so i began meditating twice a day. this is endlessly good. here are a few photos of what's been going down in my corner of the world. we'll talk more soon, i promise. love, kel

{my newest friend. he was $1.50. his film is $25. it all works out.}

{we have t.v. for four more months, much to my chagrin.}

{i'm painting. i'm painting again.}

{the sun has shone. i'm learning new tricks with my digital slr.}

new work. cute overload. good things.

darlings, i've just spent the afternoon drawing in drippy ink and painting a few new pieces for the bedroom. i love to make things. lately, my schedule has been so hectic that the few hours of un-interrupted time for creating felt like a gift from the universe. so THANK YOU universe!

also, while i was away last weekend, my darling mister scanned a stack of photos of shyla as a puppy. i think they are both too cute for words.

have a positively delightful weekend, my dears. we are laying low tonight, but will be out spreading the good vibes at a show tomorrow night and at the free yoga class i'm teaching at lululemon on sunday! {seattle peeps-- would love to see you there at 9:30 on sunday morning.}

all love,
k

la la la.

another geeky video for you my loves. also, i'm guest blogging at the daily focus today, you can read it here.

studio view. from kelly c on Vimeo.

new arty goodness in the shop.

happy friday, loves.

check it out.

new paintings.

plus mounting & hardware for paintings on canvas board.

i love today.

{vrksa, a new painting, is available in my etsy shop.}

dears, this week simply flew by. i started school, taught lots of fun yoga classes, made art & worked at my desk job. today, i had much time to work in my studio. this made me smile.

merrily.

i'm painting. i'm painting again. it's good to be back in the studio for long, uninterrupted stretches of work. yesterday and today, i made new monoprints for our living room {good lord, i am obsessed with these. and they are so perfect for the Auntie Mame goes to India- vision I have for this room.},

painted & printed some presents and prototypes for new products {moleskine journals} and made progress on some paintings. it's a good life.

and my darling friend ursula had her twins last night!! yipeee! welcome to the world, babies.

jello? schmello?

dudes. dear-hearts. i'm alive, though completely ensconced in the studio right now. here's a peek of my week.

Indie Shopping feature.

Dears, dig this:

Whilst perusing the internets yesterday, I discoverd that Indie Shopping featured my art on Monday! How rad is that? You can read the feature right here.

In their own words here's the scoop on Indie Shopping:

Started in February 2005, Indieshopping.com is a magazine-style website dedicated to spreading news about emerging and independent designers. We are very much a mixture of blog and magazine focusing on handmade and indie creations. While the main site includes a shopping directory and contests the blog is updated daily and is full of reviews, interviews, articles and exclusive sales.

Thanks Indie Shopping!

Anjali.

Hello, dears.
This is Anjali. A new painting.


It depicts the anjali mudra.
Anjali means offering in Sanskrit.
Literally, mudra means seal (as in, sealing or channeling one's energy), and the mudra in this sense is a hand gesture-- palms touching in front of the heart (anahata).
The anjali mudra allows one to center, in order to offer all that is good back to the universe. Oftentimes, the mudra is accompanied by the word namaste. Namaste means (roughly) the light in me, bows with respect to the light in you. By coming back to the heart, we are able to offer that blessing to each other.
With that, Namaste, dear-hearts.

pounced! S P R A W L

oh dears, this is a goody!! Sprawl is an amazing collaboration between the girlfriend-boyfriend team Jersey McDermott & Dave Hamill. Together, Jersey & Dave create jewelry consisting of a tiny painting on wood veneer (that's Dave) set into a bezel behind resin (that's Jersey). The result is captivating, clean and modern... almost like a modest mouse album (I'm talking modest mouse, circa 1999) with a touch of boards of canada (circa right now) that one can wear with anything from grey pinstripes to neon pink. Check out Sprawl right here.

Two of my favorite pieces from Sprawl are the Rectangular TinyCity Pendant & the TinyCity Resin Ring. Sprawl currently features pendants and rings, and the pair plan to add cuff links and bracelets to their shop soon.

Dave & Jersey create art individually as well, and their individual work impressed me so much I just had to share it with you here as well.

Jersey's jewelry has an organic-digital quality that thrills me. Pictured below is the Blue Scooter Hoop, available right here.

Dave's work is out-of-this world. Check it. The piece below is called Post-Apocalyptic Do-Over V, which you can see at Dave's website by clicking right here.

For more of Dave & Jersey, look here:
Dave Hamill's website.
Jersey McDermott's website.
Jersey's Etsy shop: Muscovie Designs.

Peace, kiddos.

i LOVE today.

mailing out an order.
biking to the store for sunscreen.
trying on my swimsuit.
tackling the laundry.
taking my work-work outdoors.
making some art.
LOVING the sun.
THANKING the universe.
*
peace, kiddos.
and love to you to0.
*
by the way, thirty rocks.

peek show.

dears, i have been in a painting frenzy preparing for my show at cafe mae & 5focus. it has been so much fun. and i'm a firm believer in the adage "work makes work," or the more you make, the more you're inspired to make more. here is a sneak peek at all of the pieces, lined up all neat-like.

this one is called "beneath the surface."

it's new.

gute nacht!