Kay Tee's Christmas On The Brain

It's too early for Christmas in the stores - I mean we haven't even gotten to Halloween or Thanksgiving yet ... but for artists like me who love to paint for Christmas all year round .... it's never too early.

At the end of the month I'll be participating at a Small Business for Women conference, so I've been painting up small items to sell. Many things will be on display, but I will have things 10-20.00 that people can purchase if they want.

Ornaments are quick to paint and can still be offered at an affordable price. My ornaments will be all free hand - no one piece will look the same ... so the customers will truly be getting a one of a kind ornament this year.

Getting Ready For Christmas!!

Hello Fellow Bloggers!

It's been a long while since I posted any updates, as I have been busy painting all new designs to update my 2 websites in time for the Christmas season. As anyone who paints to sell knows, we paint ahead of the seasons ... so summer is for Fall and Christmas painting and the winter is for Summer and Spring painting.

So as you can imagine ... summertime is busy for me ... but as soon as my sites are updated with all the new content - I'll be back and posting more progress on my painted chairs.

Painted Chair ... Still Plugging Along

Hope everyone is enjoying their holiday weekends. It's raining here inmy part of the world, so I've been plugging away at my chairs. I managed to get the face completed .. I'm leaving the wings for now.

Decided to start sketching out the spindles. I use a chalk pencil and then when I decide on the design, I'll take a liner brush and sketch the outline.

Painting Chairs_Taking Shape

Hello everyone!!! I've been ripping and running recently, and haven't had a lot of time to post. I had to finish up a couple of swaps, send off design team articles ... and finally got a chance to work some more on my chairs ... they're coming along nicely.

I started with placing the faces ...



Then took a liner brush and sketched the shapes and started blocking in color ....



Looking at the black chair, I "saw wings" ...



Last thing I did tonight was to begin adding texture and tones for my undercoat ....



...I think they are taking shape nicely ...

Painted Box_I Finished Her

After stressing a couple of days with her hair ... I bit the bullet and just added a short wavy bob, using a wisp brush and watery acrylic paint. I didn't want her hair to become a focal point, taking away from her face ... so I kept it as simple as I could.

June_July SOC E:SPIRE Is Available at Your FIngertips!

The Scraps of Color E:SPIRE EZINE is available and ready for download. Its a wonderful issue full of ideas, projects, product reviews and more! ... and on Page 31, I try to entice you to add a little paint to those pages!!!

Best of all?? IT IS FREE!!

So, take a look and tell me how you like the latest issue!

Remember The Fallen

As you go about your preparations today for the last day of Memorial Day Weekend ... take a minute to remember what this day is really about. Our fallen men and women of our military, who gave the ultimate scrifice - and continue to do so - for the freedoms we enjoy today.