Insomnia
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3y ago
In keeping with my predilection for overly enthusiastic New Year's resolutions I thought I would kneel down and breath the kiss of life into this cadaverous blog.  I think maybe a really slack commitment of one or two posts a month should do it. Our son is now 22 months old and is a goddamn riot.  We have him in daycare now, which means we've outsourced the job of teaching him to be a human to people who really know what they're doing.  He even speaks a lot of human now, too, like "butthole," and "go away."  It's good to learn those ones early, because he's going to need t ..read more
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Back...maybe...sorta
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3y ago
Posted by: Dave Since having my big headed baby things have slowed a bit with my updates.  The recovery time has been slow and its amazing to see what a baby has done to my figure, but the whole experience has been worthwhile.  It has been an interesting lifestyle change to say the least.  Luckily for me, having a child is similar to having a dog so it hasn't been all that hard of a transition.  Right now my kid's crate training is coming along nicely and I am happy to say he has been flea and tick free since we got him. So, what have I been up to artistically you ask? &n ..read more
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Workshop at the Florence Studio
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3y ago
Posted by: Kate Time to gush about our trip to Florence!  For two weeks I taught still life painting at the Florence Studio while Dave very good naturedly shouldered the brunt of the parenting responsibilities.  I'm going to overlook that one incident with the jarred puréed cavallo and go ahead and say he did a wonderful job.  Oh, and apparently my husband speaks Italian.  Like, for real.  He had conversations with Italian people.  It wasn't quite a Fish Called Wanda moment, but I definitely had to stop and add a few dozen language points to the scorecard of a ma ..read more
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Baby's First Art Show
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3y ago
Posted by: Kate The Fetus formerly known as Cletus tagged along with me to our regional annual art show hosted by the Cowichan Valley Arts Council.  I didn't observe any nascent art appreciation, but I have eighteen years to make him like art. I was thrilled to receive to receive Best in Show for "Furs," but I have to admit that Cletus has done some rewiring in my brain.  Every time anyone said "Congrats!" or "Beautiful!" to me, even as I was standing right next to my painting, I assumed we were talking about the baby.  "Oh thanks!  He's two  months old!"  Fac ..read more
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Nexus Opening at Abend Gallery in Denver, CO
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Posted by: Kate Tomorrow Dave ABANDONS his wife and small child to attend the opening of Nexus, a show presented by Abend Gallery in Denver, CO.  He has been diligently working away at co-curating this show for the past number of months.  Getting a bunch of artists to collaborate on a show is like herding cats, and getting a bunch of tattoo artists to collaborate on a show is like herding a bunch of insolent, authority-challenging cats.  Which is actually all cats, come to think of it.   Yes, Nexus combines paintings from artist and tattoo artists.  As you all know ..read more
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Introducing the Baby Formerly Known as Cletus the Fetus
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3y ago
Posted by: Kate Time to fumigate the crickets from this blog and get back to posting.  We've been a tad busy here at Painting Stuff to Look Like Stuff HQ, aka, the end of the sofa next to the side table that has my glass of wine on it.  I've made quite a few drinking jokes on this blog in recent months, but I was just throwing you off the trail.  You see, I haven't had much room for booze lately: Dave and I welcomed James, aka Cletus the Fetus (working title), on February 25th. Photo credits to my sister, whose smashed iPhone outperformed my semi-professional camera and i ..read more
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Icarus X
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3y ago
Posted by: Kate   I take my inspiration from the Greats!  Below, Icarus on a Halfshell: I actually painted this thing standing bent over.  The painting and the props were both resting on top of the crate. While the wood colour was laid down willy-nilly above, I made sure to clean it up by dragging a textured bristle brush through it in the direction of the grain of the wood before letting it dry (below). This wood texture was then easy to build up with a combination of semi-transparent scumbles and glazes. Much easier to paint the text over the wood after letting i ..read more
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Furs, Part III
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3y ago
Posted by: Kate Hurrah!  Camera back from the repair shop.  At the end of Part II, "Furs" was pretty much finished.  Except for the background, everything had received it's due attention and was done.  But can we all just agree that backgrounds are a painter's punishment for having fun doing everything else?  I overthink mine in a big way.  Below, my first attempt at doing a final (ha!) pass over the background.  I eventually decided it was just too flat and dull. So late one night I just started mucking around and pushing contrast. And then, I don't e ..read more
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Tara I WIP
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Posted by: Kate Here's another little head study I did last year.  2015 was really all about developing my "party trick" skills, specifically, getting proficient at painting quickly on the fly.  Being able to bust out a painting might not be as cool as some party tricks, but it is a little more career advancing.  I decided I wanted to be able to demo in front of an audience at the drop of a hat, so I did a lot of alla prima paintings both from life and from photo references.  The one below is only a few inches tall. I've been experimenting with all sorts of appr ..read more
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All About Palettes!
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3y ago
Posted by: Kate Oh Justin.  You're the best.  Here are two new videos about my palette--both the literal, wooden palette I hold, and the colour palette I use.  Now, scientists confirm I am a chatty Kathy, so even with brutal editing there is a lot of footage.  We broke it into two pieces so you can have a break to apply ointment to your pressure sores. The large palette is a New Wave Expressionist palette.  I probably would have been happy with an unfinished one, since I redid the finish anyways.  If you're in Canada and bemoaning the death rattle in our dolla ..read more
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