Today's painting for dailypaintworks.com. It's called Finale, and it was made during my foray into encaustics. I love the look of encaustic pieces, but it turned out to be a bit more involved than I was ready for at the time. Not saying I'll never get into it, but right now I'm happy doing mixed media acrylic pieces.

This is the latest painting going up on dailypaintworks.com. It's called "Smile", and it's mixed media and acrylic on a 6"x6"canvas. I really love this piece, it's going to be hard to sell it! Old cameras are just so graphically interesting and one of my favorite things.

Dailypaintworks painting

Mixed Media, acrylic on canvas
abstract
4"x4"
price: $45

Still feeling my way with dailypaintworks. Bear with me, I will be posting other things than paintings, but I think I have to do them in different posts. Anyway, new painting up soon on dailypaintworks.com

new painting

Here's today's dailypaintworks.com painting.

Mum
5x7"
$50
Mixed media, acrylic paint on canvas

Also, some photos from my trip back east. It was fantastic, a great mix of work, play and quality family time.

Cape Cod, Massachusetts is a deeply beautiful place...

dailypaintworks.com

I'm back in Phoenix and am glad to be back in my studio working. I have spent the past couple of hours setting up an account in dailypaintworks.com to start selling my paintings online. I'm very excited, and can't wait to get painting! Here is the URL to my first posting:

http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/kathy-welsh/memory/148654

Here's a photo of the piece that is for sale there:

 My trip back east was wonderful. It was a great mix of work and family time, and I've got a few pies in the oven from the trip. A jewelry party, some possible shops for jewelry, and fantastic photos that I plan to do paintings of. Overall a very successful trip. I will share photos tomorrow.

getting ready

The past few days have been spent busily getting ready for my month-long trip to Cape Cod to visit my family. I will not be taking my laptop, so I will most likely not post until I return in June. I will be keeping up with Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest, so watch for me there. In the meantime, here are some pics of what I have been up to...

Some journal pages I've been working on.

And some new jewelry that will be going into the shop.

Have a great month and see you when I return!

Last night at The Orange Table

Last night was the art opening at the Orange Table for me and my friend Kristen. It's been a lot of work preparing but was so worth it! It was a lovely evening with really good friends, great food and lots of art love.

Here are Kristen and I, enjoying our time.

Kristen's beautiful work.

And here are my paintings in various spots in the restaurant. I am very pleased with how everything looks there, the orange walls actually work well with my work.

Now it's on to the next project. I am getting some spreads together in my art journals for possible publication. Here are some materials I just threw on the page to look at. I like the look.