In The Wind-Horses

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Oil on 7x5 canvas panel.

This is my contribution to this week's WDE at Wet Canvas. Mo was the great hostess. Thanks for the terrific reference photos.

I liked the look/possibilities of the horses in a reference photo.
Once again, I used the palette knife for this. More and more I find the palette knife to be very freeing from the compulsion for detail. The knife is a terrific tool to inject creative expressiveness into a painting. Confession...I did use a brush for eyes, and nostrils. It was great fun.
Thanks for looking!

Available ... If interested, contact me at kkayangel2(at)yahoo.com

My Etsy

Luke 18^:14 “I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.”

Swimming Cygnets-Swans

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Oil on 5x7 canvas panel.


This is my contribution to The White On White Challenge at DPW posted by Ann Feldman.
Ann's Challenge: "For this week's challenge, let's try to paint white subjects on white backgrounds to see if we can find color and value in all that white!"

These three little cygnets with mom close beside was quite a challenge! I had already decided to do the next challenge via the palette knife.
So for me, this was a challenge on top of a challenge.
I hope future viewers can fathom what this painting represents without me following it around to explain it.

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My Etsy

Luke 13^:34 “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing.

Vietnam Market-Figurative

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Oil on 6x6 canvas panel.

This is my contribution to this week's WDE at Wet Canvas. Connie was the great hostess. Thanks for the wonderful reference photos.

For something a little different, I decided to try my hand at this market in Vietnam.
I aimed to use saturated color in this one. I used both a brush and palette knife. I wanted to use enough colors and ambiguous shapes to show the clamor and excitement of a market.
Thanks for looking!

Luke 11^:33 No man, when he hath lighted a candle, putteth it in a secret place, neither under a bushel, but on a candlestick, that they which come in may see the light.

Nowhere Fast-Hamster

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Oil on 5x7 hardboard.


This is my contribution to The Wheel Challenge at DPW posted by Carol Carmichael.
Carol wrote..."Think about the freedom that wheels bring us and paint something with them for this week's challenge."

The wheel may not bring "freedom" to this fellow, but at least there is exercise involved.
Don't feel all alone, little hamster. We all have those days once in a while.
Hope you like it!

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My Etsy

Luke 11^:9 “So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.

The Unconditional Kind

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Oil on 5x7 canvas panel.

This is my contribution to this week's WDE at Wet Canvas. Susan was the great hostess. Thanks for the terrific reference photos.

Nothing says "unconditional love" like a child or a dog. These two earthly entities have to be very close to the love of angels.

This is something NEW for me and I really enjoy it....palette knife painting!!!
In the past, I have dabbled with a spot here and there with the painting knife...but this is the real McCoy! In a very few areas I used my finger or a brush to pull things together. I'm very happy with this style and all the color "happenings" it creates.
Thanks for looking!

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My Etsy

Matthew 22:³⁷ Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’

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The spammers have been too active lately, so I enabled "comment moderation" again. Now the comments have all but stopped. One got through today.
Do me a favor, please...If you have difficulty leaving a comment please email me at kkayangel2(at)yahoo.com. I would appreciate the "heads up". If there's a problem, I'll remove the "moderation".
Then again, maybe no one is leaving comments because of lack of interest..Lol!

Heartfelt-Figurative

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Oil on 7x5 canvas panel.

This is my contribution to The Seated Figure Challenge at DPW posted by Dana Cooper .
She said, among other things, "Find the simple, large shapes first."

He may have played gigs on stage for big bucks. Now he sings on a corner with a tip box at his feet.
But, you can be sure, each song still comes straight from the heart.

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My Etsy

Matthew 5^:3 “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Innocence-Taiwanese Child

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Oil on 7x5 canvas panel.

This is my contribution to this week's WDE at Wet Canvas. Dewi was the great host. Thanks for the terrific tour of Taiwan via reference photos, Dewi.

The wide eyed innocent expression of this Taiwanese child reached out and touched me.
I enjoyed using some of the unusual (for me) colors...violet-yellow-orange.
Thanks for looking!

Available ... If interested, contact me at kkayangel2(at)yahoo.com

My Etsy

Matthew 19^:14 Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”

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Update 1-22-12

First, let me say, I really appreciate all your comments! It lets me know someone is "out there". It gives a purpose to blogging for me.

I suspect there has been an email snafu. I had comment moderation on and all my emails have stopped. I took moderation off about an hr. ago and a comment came through. Sorry for all the confusion or if I may have missed your comment sent before 10 am today. Hope it all straightens out....Bummer.

The Boss-Rooster

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Oil on 7x5 canvas panel.

This is my contribution to this week's The Color of the Year Challenge at DPW posted by Kathy Weber.

Here's a shortened version of the instructions: The Pantone Company has selected "Tangerine Tango" as THE color for 2012. So, try to do a painting based around this color.
I found yellow ochre plus cad red light was a close match to the "Tangerine Tango" color.

I had fun laying the paint on extra thick with both painting knife and brush. Hope you like it!

Here's an example of Tangerine Tango

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My Etsy

^{John 14:23} Jesus replied, “Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them.

The Night Watch-Barn Owl

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Oil on 6x6 canvas panel.

This is my contribution to this week's WDE at Wet Canvas. Lin was the great host. Thanks for the terrific reference photos, Lin.

Here's a barn owl in oil on a 6x6 canvas panel.
I had fun pushing the color, laying the paint on thickly, and inventing a background.
Thanks for looking!

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My Etsy

John 14:11 Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the works themselves.

The Incredible Edible-Egg

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Oil on 5x7 canvas panel.

This is my contribution to this week's DPW's Paint Your Breakfast Challenge posted by Carol Marine.
The assignment: This week your job is to paint your breakfast.

I enjoyed this one. Ironically it's the initial doubt at the outset... later turning into a feeling of success at the finale that ultimately produces the feeling of enjoyment. The deeper the doubt...the more potential enjoyment if successful. Straaaaange.

I first toned the canvas with acrylic using warm colors. This influenced the final strokes of oil.

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My Etsy

John 7^:18 Whoever speaks on their own does so to gain personal glory, but he who seeks the glory of the one who sent him is a man of truth; there is nothing false about him.

Irresistable Iridescence-Mallard Duck

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Oil on 6x6 canvas panel.

This is my contribution to this week's WDE at Wet Canvas. Elaine was the great host. Thanks for the terrific reference photos, Elaine.

I had to have a go at the colorful iridescent greenhead.
I tried to be real generous with the paint on this one. I plopped down paint with my painting knife, and then tried to direct the texture with a brush without the brush removing the thickness I wanted to retain.

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My Etsy

John 9:⁵ While I am in the world, I am the light of the world

Apple Still Life

Carol Marine's original reference photo

My "Change The Color" Painting

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Oil on 6x6 canvas panel.

This is my contribution to this week's DPW's Change The Color Challenge posted by Carol Marine.
Carol said: "I have always heard that if you are accurate with value you can really play around with color and still have the image "read" as 3-dimensional."
I did a value study first, and then painted on top of that, making sure each color matched the value underneath it( in most places)...some background value was changed a bit.

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My Etsy

John 8:7 They kept demanding an answer, so he stood up again and said, “All right, but let the one who has never sinned throw the first stone!”

Fun On The Run-Polo Horse

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My last painting of 2011

Happy New Year Everybody!!!

Acrylic and Pitt Pen on 7x5 hardboard.

This is my contribution to this week's WDE at Wet Canvas. Christine was the great host. She supplied the terrific reference photos.

My title refers to the horse on the run and me having fun.

This is something a little different for me.
It's acrylic and Pitt Pen on 7x5 hardboard.
The hardboard is really slick, so the watery acrylic beaded and puddled much, I guess, like Yupo paper. I like the expressionist color and paint movement.
Thanks for looking!

Available ... If interested, contact me at kkayangel2(at)yahoo.com

My Etsy

John 1^:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.