Updating! Oil paintings of 2013 by Kathleen Frederick

Here are the oil paintings I got to do this year, mostly over a short time in the summer when farming and fair hadnt taken over my life lol. All images copyright @ Kathleen Frederick    First up is "Swan Lake" 24x 36.

Next is "Luke's Pride" 24x36 custom order by my son ;)

 8x8" "Grizzly Bear" done just cuz I had a bunch of leftover brown paint

  "The Triumph" 24x36 illustration from a story I am writing. If you have a sharp eye, the Gypsy's horse has my Twista's markings lol. Why not lol.

  Self portrait "My Girls" of my horse Pheonix, myself, and my dog Roxi just cuz Ive always wanted one of them 

  and finally a tv armoire! I bought it at a garage sale for $25 and gave it a facelift so I can store my violins in it. Now it looks like a french armoire instead of a tv cupboard lol. I did like painting the roses, that was a new experiment for me

updating the art!! Watercolors of 2013 by Kathleen Frederick

I had a rather good year this round for painting, so have lots of pics to add in! For starters, I had alot of fun playing with watercolors, a new medium for me since Im primarily into oil painting. I love doodling and drawing mermaids, so I thought why not add some color to them. All pics copyright @ Kathleen Frederick

recent endevours..

"Koi" 7x10" watercolor. Pending. I decided to finally get back to painting some fun things and learn how to handle watercolors finally. I use Windsor & NewtonArtists paints the most, and have the 2 Yarka St Petersburg sets of 24 each, but I still get drawn to the WN cuz I like how they handle better. The Russian paints will just haveta have thier own session sometime.

 

"Call Waiting" 7x10" watercolor. Sold. This little lady sold within a few minutes on putting her on facebook and was the first to sell. Again, a mini learning painting but she was alot of fun to do. She went to a collector of Mermaids, Thank you Leslie  :)

"Leslie's Reef"' 7x10" watercolor. Sold. Special request by Leslie to suprise her with another, only guidelines were that it "be flowing and have purple in it" This one just makes me smile back at her playfulness :)

new painting

This is a 7 x 20 (I think!) oil painting on canvas, a custom job for a freind. I havent painted eagles in probably 15 years but still remembered how. This took an hour to do since it's so small.

"2 AM Calling" Oil on Canvas

 Well this baby is finally done! It took a total of 7 hours to complete. It was actually the Hubby's gift last year but none of the shading  & glow was done on it cuz life got away from me and the oil paints sat waiting all year due to a commission mural that needed my spare time. Now it's time to get back to painting for my house lol and the 2012 xmas cow painting lol. For the record hubs is very hard to buy for but has a cow obcession much like my horse one, so all he ever asks for is a cow painting but he's easy to please that way. Other paintings coming I cant show till after xmas lol. I hope to have some better pics of the mural then too

a sampling of jewellry

This is the Jaguar Dreams piece I designed awhile ago. It is one of a kind with leopard jasper stones, green glass beads and sterling silver findings. The Jaguar centerpeice is sculpted and painted by myself out of Super sculpey clay. I wanted to give the illusion that he was just hanging out in the jungle vines. In the pics it looks like he's "eating" the vines but in reality they wrap around the back of his shoulder.

An annoucement & an update!

My apologies that I havent kept this blog up very well. All that is about to change though, as of June I will once again be home full time instead of always working off the farm. I will be starting my own buisness of which art will be a major part of it. Please ignore the date on the oil painting, it is actually the 2011 XMAS painting for hubby. This 6 hours progress and once it's dry I can add the light and shadows from the lantern. This was his special request that it be of him and his favorite cow, and that he be in his Carharrts lol. I plan to finish it when I get a free weekend but havent gotten to yet. The other pics are a custom job that was alot of fun to do- it's not everyday I get to paint something funny! The outhouse project was done in outdoor latex paints and took 4 hours to complete. It is at a family-and-freinds campground and gets alot of laughs