Kelly Kilmer Artist and Instructor
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This blog is all about Kelly Kilmer's experiments in Mixed Media Art, Art Journaling, Collage, Artists Books, Altered Books, Acrylic Painting, Bookbinding, Composition, Design and More...
Kelly Kilmer Artist and Instructor
1w ago
Friday Mornings 11 AM PDT
I've been painting every Friday morning since the summer of 2022.
I started it as part of a bonus "summer camp" experience in The Art Life Workshop, and folks loved it so much that I kept it as a regular feature.
I really look forward to our Friday sessions. It's a wonderful way to gather together with artists worldwide, paint/create, share, and ask questions.
I think that committing to a regular practice is important, and I recognize that "regular" is different for everyone. You need to figure out what works for *you*. Is it painting on your lu ..read more
Kelly Kilmer Artist and Instructor
2w ago
March was busy in The Art Life: Find Your Way!
We always have lots of opportunities for learning, sharing, and creative inspiration in TAL: Find Your Way Workshop Community!
Every Friday, we have a live one hour painting session. For those who can't make the live session or need to revisit the techniques and ideas shared, the workshop is recorded and placed in our abundant library archive with forever access (there's 3 years of content in our library!)
I am thinking of expanding these live sessions to other days and times!
  ..read more
Kelly Kilmer Artist and Instructor
1M ago
SOME of the books from my personal library that I need to downsize. More here.
Painted Books
Each book is approximately 4 1/2" x 6"
(page size varies in each journal)
Also LIMITED
a minimum of 10 pieces of a variety
of painted paper (equals 40 pages/sides)
MOST pages in the books are painted
No two are alike!
Yes, they are from paintings as well as palette pages
These can be used as mini journals, sketchbooks, or diaries.
You can even take them apart and use the painted pages as beginnings for new work (yes, a collabo ..read more
Kelly Kilmer Artist and Instructor
1M ago
Here's what we did in The Art Life: Find Your Way for February 2024!
Every Friday, we have a live one hour painting session. For those who can't make the live session or need to revisit the techniques and ideas shared, the workshop is recorded and placed in our abundant library archive with forever access (there's 3 years of content in our library!
These live painting sessions are a great way to carve out designated art time on a regular basis. Creating a regular practice can change your approach to art making, and possibly your life (it's changed mine.)
In additi ..read more
Kelly Kilmer Artist and Instructor
2M ago
Painterly Pages with One Brush
Saturday 16 March 2024
approximately 2 1/2 hours**
11 AM - 1:30 PM PST
REGISTRATION IS LIMITED
*First 20 people to sign up before midnight PST on February 29th will receive a very special surprise from me*
Come paint with me!
Create rich, luscious, painterly pages in this special 2 1/2 hour workshop. These papers can be used in paintings, as art journal pages, as painted backgrounds, collage pieces and much, much more.
I'll share the basics of my favorite brush (it's not a magic brush, and if you don't have one ..read more
Kelly Kilmer Artist and Instructor
2M ago
Years ago, I asked for suggestions on art books specifically for painters. I wasn't looking for how to books. I wanted books that made me feel less alone as an artist, specifically as a painter. I was searching for books by other artists who've been there and know what it's like to work alone in your studio.
Here's some of my suggestions that have helped me over the years. Again, these are NOT how to books:
The Blank Canvas Anna Held Audette
Letters of Vincent Van Gogh
Art as Experience John Dewey
Art and Fear Bayles and Orland
On Art and Mindfulness Enrique Martinez Celaya
Pai ..read more
Kelly Kilmer Artist and Instructor
3M ago
A look back at some of the work we did in The Art Life: Find Your Way for January 2024!
Every Friday, we have a live one hour painting session. For those who can't make the live session or need to revisit the techniques and ideas shared, the workshop is recorded and placed in our library archive with forever access.
These live painting sessions are a great way to carve out designated art time on a regular basis. Creating a regular practice can change your approach to art making, and possibly your life (it's changed mine.)
In addition to weekly painting sessi ..read more
Kelly Kilmer Artist and Instructor
3M ago
Beginnings: Journaling to Welcome the New Year: A PWYCW (pay what you can)
Saturday 20 January 2024
11 AM - 1 PM PST
How do we welcome ritual?
How do we make journaling a regular practice?
Let's start the New Year right with art, inspiration, encouragement and creativity!
Welcome the new year by diving deep onto your journal pages filling them with rich, luscious layers of paper, paint, color and text.
The exercises in this workshop are:
paper, paint, and pen
designed to nurture, inspire and encourage you to cre ..read more
Kelly Kilmer Artist and Instructor
4M ago
I filmed a mini teaser of my TAL: Find Your Way workshop the other day. You can find it here:
This is not demonstrated in the above video, but this is ONE of the samples of the art I'll be demonstrating in TAL: FIND YOUR WAY:
(I'll be demonstrating this with collage as well as how to paint some of the elements from scratch!)
as well as:
See the journal covers below?
We have LIVE painting sessions
on a weekly basis!
Everything that you see on the covers of the journals below (as well as the insides) can already be found in TAL: Find You ..read more
Kelly Kilmer Artist and Instructor
4M ago
Happy holidays!
Two things I want to share:
1. I'm having a contest. Something NEW posted every day through new year's eve! Find out more via my Instagram.
2. I'm offering a free TEASER workshop for TAL: Find Your Way 2024. It will be live this Thursday via Zoom at 1 pm PST. Registration is limited. Drop me an email if you're interested and can make the live session. (If you can't, I'll be posting the recording afterwards via Zoom.) Kellykilmer@gmail.com
As always, thank you for your interest and support ..read more