| Katie's Art Work |
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| This was my first painting. I painted it when I was 16. It is a watercolor and won a painting merit award in the Northwast Regional Art Exibit (NWAE) |
| This is my second painting. It is the first time that I worked with acrylic paint. There was a lot of trial and error in this one. |
| THis was my second acrylic painting and 3rd overall. Tt is a painting of my dog Dixie who passed away in 2001. This painting was done in 2000 when I was 16. Having never even drawn a dog before, this was one of my more frustrating paintings to do. There was a lot of repainting and expirimenting with this one |
| This is my moms painting. She always wanted a painting without an animal in it, so I painted this one. It was my first landscape and won 1st prize in the NWRAE. This was painted in 2001. |
| This is a personal favorite of mine. I jsut love the wildness of big cats and ran into a photograph that I immediately wanted to paint. This was done when I was 17 |
| This is a painting of my dog Gracie who I got in summer of 2001. I put this painting together by meshing two photographs that I had of her into one. I have had offers to buy this painting, but have declined them due to the sentimental value of it. This painting took an extremely long time to paint. I Painted the dog twice. Once in Blues where the black is (makes it shiney) and orange where the brown is (makes it a richer color. This won a prize in a high school league touurnament. It was painted in 2002. |
| These two photographs were taken in 2002. I had been doing photography since 2000 but these are the first that are so big, and very planned. They were taken soon after the disaster on sept 11th 2001. I wanted to capture something about that time with Gracie. The one on the right is my favorite picture of her. She just looks so sad. |
| This is my biggest painting. it is 3'x4'. It was painted in about 3 weeks (a huge rush!) I wanted to have this one ready to enter in a art contest. It recieved a painting merit. Since this one was so big, it was a big expiriment for me. Parts of it were very frustrating to try to get right. It all turned out good in the end. |
| This was my painting for my brother. He was into tigers at the time and I loved the intensity of the photograph that this was painted from. This was painted in 2002 |
| This painting is a work in progress. In the picture there is about 3 hours of work into it. I am using a lot of extender and gesso with this painting to help blend the colors more like oil. |