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What? Me? Paint?

Yes, I’ve been known to paint once in a while. It’s just been a looooooong while. Months and months. I had to search my blog for the last time I painted, and it was September of last year! Yikes. But this whole time, my easel has been set up in my studio and my paints have been right there, ready and waiting. A few months ago I even primed some canvas. There they sat, ready and waiting too. What would it take for me to paint again?

Apparently, the Liberate Your Art Postcard Swap is what I needed! I had a lot of participants in last year’s swap from Kristin and Eva’s Paint Party Friday link up, so I contacted Kristin to see if she would help me get the word out about this year’s swap to the Paint Party Friday participants. She suggested that I could be the “Featured Artist” for the week, and get the word out about the Liberate Your Art swap at the same time. Ack, I thought, but I haven’t painted in forever! She assured me that it was okay, but I might want to have some new painting to link in for the week. Hint, hint.

So here I am, with new paintings in progress on my easel. Leave it to Kristin, who encouraged me to paint more when I was in Italy, to get me back into it again. I think she must be my personal painting fairy godmother. So hello Paint Party Friday participants! I’m back! It looks like it’s grown a lot since I last participated, and I look forward to visiting you all this weekend.

And… I hope you will all join in the Liberate Your Art Postcard Swap! You can find out more info and sign up here. There are ~130 people signed up so far… not nearly enough to reach my goal to increase over last year’s 170 participants but well on the way! Yay!

So here we go… two paintings in progress this week… it will be interesting to see where these go next!

For those of my readers who are not involved in Paint Party Friday, you can visit my “Featured Artist” interview here. Be sure to come back tomorrow to for the June Exploring with a Camera post. More creative fun!

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  1. I haven’t painted in many months, and I’m eager to get my hands “painty” again after I get a bit more settled. Looking forward to seeing what you will do with these two canvases-in-progress.

  3. Oh you should paint more often and get your hands dirty! I love painting with my fingers too! Then I forget to wash and someone asks me what happened to my fingers! The more we paint the more we bloom and grow, that’s my motto! :^) patsy

  5. It’s fun to paint, isn’t it? I find it very therapeutic too! I really like your choice of colours and the shapes – I love it the way painting “happens” and at the same time is so very much part of us in depth!
    By the way, I think those two paintings are perfect the way they are without adding anything to them which would change their vibrations!

    • Thanks Sandra. But guess what, the vibrations of these paintings are already changed, they have new layers already! More to share in the future…

  7. Hello great to meet you here on PPF. These paintings are very beautiful, full of depth and color! You have a good thing going with the postcard swap, I have never printed any of my art, don’t have a printer…so would have to see about that. Very happy to have come upon you here though, have a great week-end and happy PPF!

    • Hello from another Kat! I provide lots of resources and ideas for creating your postcards, even if you don’t have a printer! Don’t let that discourage you from joining the swap. I’d love to have you! Thanks for coming by with PPF.

  8. Will check out your postcard event after I’ve finished .pf viewing…great beginnings of paintings.xxx

  9. I think both paintings are wonderful. There is so much power in the second one and I love the colors of the first. It is fun mixing painting with photography. I sometimes worry that I won’t be able to get better at either if I go back and forth and then decided this is all about expressing myself and getting better will come.

    I really enjoyed your course A Sense of Place and would recommed it to everyone.

  10. great interview on PPF this week and it reminded me that i hadn’t joined in this year’s project yet so I remedied that straight away! Looking forward to it but I’ll remember to put my blog details on my cards this year!

    Your artwork is fabulous – I love how you play with the paint and you should definitely do more!

    • I’m so glad you are in again this year! Yes, remember to put those contact details on your postcards!!

  11. Wooot! Woooot! Look at you paint, Kat! Way to go. Came here from PPF site. Great to see you as the featured artist and to have more fabulous people know about the Liberate Your Art postcard swap. Great!! Beautiful paintings. Keep going with this. You are really amazing.
    M…………….x

  12. Wow – I’m blushing… A “Painting Fairy Godmother”? I am both honored and flattered! I like that title… I can just see the business cards now! Ha!

    I am so happy to see you painting again & I hope that easel sees a LOT more use 🙂

    Thank you for sharing your story with us!

    xo
    Kristin

    p.s. I have a feeling your swap is going to be a hit! Hooray!

    • I can see the business cards now with a cute fairy holding a paintbrush instead of a wand! You are an inspiration to me, Kristin. Thanks for all you do!

  14. Well good you are getting into painting again. I am not sure my color is right on my monitor but that last painting roll reminds me of a wave a surfer would ride in the So CAL beach areas where we moved from. Look forward to see where you go with these. Happy PPF.

  21. I love both of these paintings, especially the last one, it looks like a view from inside a wave. I signed up for your postcard swap, sounds like fun. I also took a look at your site and I’ll be checking it out more, I love photography! Happy PPF!

  25. I thought that was a great interview on PPF, and I could understand why paining from photos didn’t interest you since you do so much photography. I tend to paint from photos most of the time myself, but mainly because I find it a great guide and starting point.

    Anyway these drippy patterns are great. Looks like colors scalded by acid, which is exciting.

  29. Love all these colours and swirls and am so happy you took out your paints again!

    Thanks so much for being our featured artist this week, Kat! Great interview!

  31. Can’t wait to see what you do with these. Yes, Kristin is a fairy Artmother to many of us! Good thing she’s encouraged you or we’d all miss out on some great work! Loved your interview!
    cheers, dana

    • I love that: Fairy Artmother. I think that’s better than Painting Fairy Godmother!

  32. I love abstracts! Great work! And good luck on the postcard swap. I loved it last year but I’m really sorry I can’t participate this year.

  33. What a very lovely painting, I like the colors, and it’s just as if it has rained and the sun makes reflections in the water.. 🙂

    Lovely day to you! 🙂

  34. Love all your cool colors and gestural marks!!
    You are amazing that you are a photographer, painter, and organizing the Liberate Your Art Postcard Swap!
    Just signed up for it!
    ♥♥♥
    Happy PPF!!
    Mary

  35. what lovely colors! We are all each other’s angels. look at what purpose Kristin has brought to you… a sweet reminder to paint.

  37. Kudos to Kristin for getting you painting again! These both look interesting already. The colors are drool worthy!

  38. WOW! you continue to amaze me Kat!
    The colors are very soothing, yet there is so much movement.
    I feel a grounded energy from it 🙂
    Thank you for sharing and encouraging us to explore our creativity more. Hopefully soon I will carve out the time to do something…

  39. I haven’t painted for a long long while too. I’ve been using watercolor pencils on my artwork and ink. Lately, I’ve been sketching. Blessings, Janet, PPF

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