Healing 3

"Nature has the power to heal because it is where we are from, it is where we belong, 

and it belongs to us as an essential part of our health and our survival." 

- Nooshin Razani

"Healing 3"

Mixed Media

$55

24"x18" on canvas

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Where I Began

When I first started painting seven years ago my "go to" subject was flowers. All kinds of flowers. They brought me so much joy. And you know what? They still do.

"Where I Began"   
24"x20"

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My original paintings are available in my online gallery.

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Yellow Rose of Texas 1

I've lived in Texas almost 50 years, and even though her politics make me grouchy at times, I can't help but love this big state of ours. (And, yes, the state being blue...subtle touch, right?...is a dream of mine.)

Stay tuned for more Texas themed art!

"Yellow Rose of Texas 1"

Miniature easel included in the purchase price.

All works are copyrighted and all rights are reserved by the artist.

My original paintings are available in my online gallery.

Prints of many of my paintings are available in my Etsy shop. 

Let me know if you're interested in prints of my paintings.

  I welcome commissions.

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Melodic Bloom

This is the other little mixed media piece I did while watching "Jessica Jones". I like to use small canvases as my palettes. It's super fun to use them as backgrounds to new art pieces.

"Melodic Bloom"

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She Wore a Flower in her Hair

I very seldom use watercolor these days, but when I do it's always such an amazing experience. This sweet one is almost all watercolor with just a touch of ink here and there. Watercolor is so deliciously ethereal. And I did it on canvas....loved that that actually worked!

"She Wore a Flower in her Hair"

This painting is part of a year-long online art class (instructor Jane Davenport).

 

  

7 Day Challenge - Day 3

It was calling out for yellow. I get that.

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Floral Palette

I've always heard the saying "watching paint dry" in reference to slow, s-l-o-w things. I hadn't really thought about it until today when I painted over a canvas my mom had gotten a while back when she'd intended to do the very same thing. I painted it several hours ago and it's still not dry enough to allow me to start sketching my next project. And let me assure you, watching it has not sped it up one little bit. Guess it's like the whole "a watched pot never comes to a boil" thing. Eesh! But not one to just sit around I took advantage of the time and worked on my secret commissioned piece and completed this little floral piece.

I absolutely love using small canvases as paint palettes! The most wonderful backgrounds with tons of texture are formed and it's so much fun creating something with them. With this one I used india ink to draw a flower on top of the lovely colorful background.

I'm doing a give-away with this painting. Comment below, on my Facebook art page, on my DailyPaintworks gallery, or on my twitter post and Monday evening I'll get my little guy to draw a winner.

"Floral Palette"

And it doesn't need to be hung, it can just sit pretty
on its own. Here it is on my kitchen window sill...
a little spring on this rainy fall day.

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Moon Gaze - Part 3

I woke up the little guy this morning at the time he said he'd be getting up.


Me: "It's 7:00. I have to leave and I want to be sure you'll get up."

Little guy: "OK, mom." He leaned over and did something on his phone.

Me: "So are you getting up?"

Little guy: "It's a process mom."


"Process" clearly means several encounters with a snooze button. And so I left, hoping that he'd get up in time to get to school before the bell rang.


I'm having surgery tomorrow morning so I'll miss blogging and posting my art for the first time in over four years. I plan to be back up and running really soon.

Happily, I finished this bag for my big guy's girlfriend. Here it is shot from all sides.

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Moon Gaze - Part 2

Something happened last night that makes me feel like we're doing something right. And it fits so well into this canvas bag painting I'm doing of a woman who is so at peace with her world. Last night I remembered that we needed to put our big trash bin out to the curb for this morning's garbage pick up. Dave went out to do it and came in and said, "We have no trash."

We looked in our kitchen trash can and it was not even half full. So no trash to the curb for us this week. Makes me happy.


And I continued working on this wonderful canvas bag project.

I painted the handles and much of the background blue.

I'm getting more bleeding. I'll fix that later.

I dripped on the flower...it's OK, I've already decided that I like it.

Here's the back of the bag. The back seriously
needs to have more going on. Must think of something.

I painted the first layer on the petals.

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Moon Gaze - Part 1

My little guy had an a couple of his old friends (from way back in kindergarten) spend the night last night. I was telling one of them about my upcoming surgery and he said, "You'll be able to hula-hoop again!" I was pleasantly stunned. He was right! I had to quit hula-hooping when I got a blood clot four years ago, but now that the root cause of all of that will be gone, well, hula-hooping here I come!  It's the little things....


My big guy's girlfriend dropped off a canvas bag and a lovely request (I LOVE requests!). This morning I started on her bag.

I started by sketching out her idea.
This is the front.

This is the back.

I used watered down acrylics to add color.

Here's the beginnings of the moon.

Here's the back of the bag.

I'm excited to see how this bag turns out!

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Dreamer - Part 3

"Dreamer"

I neglected to document the final stages of this painting. In addition to giving her wavy hair and adding some green to the background, I painted over her right eye at least five times as I tried and tried to get that eye right...not too heavy, not too light, just right. I'm not sure it's "just right", but it is right enough. I like that her face isn't that of complete serenity. There's just the slightest touch of angst. Just like in all of us.

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I'm running a big sale on my paintings through the end of August. Almost everything in my gallery is 60% off. I'm only keeping my most current work (paintings on page 1) at the listed prices. If there's something you'd like, please let me know by message or comment so I can manually adjust the price. Thanks!!! http://www.dailypaintworks.com/artists/kali-parsons-3935/artwork

Dreamer - Part 2

My little guy got some chips today at a Subway. They were biscuit and gravy flavored. Have you ever heard of such a thing? They had other crazy flavors, too, but I only offered to pay for one bag and that's the one he picked. Against my better judgment, I tried one of them. And you know what? Those crazy chips did taste exactly like biscuits and gravy. I felt like I was on some futuristic TV show where I ordered a meal in a pill form and it tasted like the meal I wanted. While I can't really recommend them as a yummy addition to any meal, I will definitely recommend them as a weird space-age taste experience.


I've continued working on this painting but I'm not ready to call it done. I still have work to do on her. I like the direction it's heading, though. Maybe tomorrow will be "finish" day.

I extended her chin lower and added more color
to her hair. I also added more ribbons.

I added a brown tone to her hair.

I added even more brown and lengthened her eyelashes.
I think they're too thick and dark. I also added
pink to the ribbons and darkened her lips.

I lightened her lashes and worked on the background a bit.

Click here to view my gallery.  Most of my paintings are for sale and I welcome commissions.

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I'm running a big sale on my paintings through the end of August. Almost everything in my gallery is 60% off. I'm only keeping my most current work (paintings on page 1) at the listed prices. If there's something you'd like, please let me know by message or comment so I can manually adjust the price. Thanks!!! http://www.dailypaintworks.com/artists/kali-parsons-3935/artwork

Dreamer - Part 1

Even dogs like to feel fancy. I don't know about bows, painted nails and such, but I do know that when I put a bandana around Hazel's neck she clearly releases her inner cowgirl and struts her stuff. So this week she's got her pink outfit on. I'm thinking a sporty red for next week.


I started on a new painting. I've been exploring all things flowers and loving it!

I started with an abstract background, fully
planning on painting over much of it.

I laid in the basic shape of a woman
wearing a floral headband.

I added color to a lot of the elements.

I added texture to her hair and added another layer to
her face, neck, shoulders, and dress.

I added another layer of paint and
added highlights to the flowers.
I also added ribbons.

She still needs tons of work. Her chin isn't big enough and I want to work on her flesh tones. I also want to do more with her hair.

Click here to view my gallery.  Most of my paintings are for sale and I welcome commissions.

I'd love for you to share my art and blog with the links below.  Thanks!

I'm running a big sale on my paintings through the end of August. Almost everything in my gallery is 60% off. I'm only keeping my most current work (paintings on page 1) at the listed prices. If there's something you'd like, please let me know by message or comment so I can manually adjust the price. Thanks!!! http://www.dailypaintworks.com/artists/kali-parsons-3935/artwork

Blissful Creation

This painting marks the completion of a fourth year of creating a painting every single day. That's 1,461 paintings in 1,461 days! Whew! Thank you to everyone who has joined me on an incredible journey that has changed my life for the better in so, so many ways!

And as I enter my fifth year as an artist I'm going to make some changes. In the year ahead I want to focus on improving and trying new things. I want to take more art classes, I want to spread beyond paints to other media, I want to take on more commissions, I want to create videos, and so many more things. My blog and Facebook/Daily Paintworks/Twitter/Google+/Pinterest postings will change. I'll still be posting on my blog daily, but I won't be pushing to complete a painting of the day. I'll be taking on bigger and more detailed work that will likely take me more than a day to complete. (This has actually been the case for a while and I have been making myself a tad crazy...in a good way...creating extra paintings so I could still maintain my painting a day pace as the big painting I worked on took multiple days). So I'm going to give myself the wiggle room deadline wise and take you along with me through the process of creating my paintings. I'll continue to post my completed paintings as I have in the past.

This makes me feel both excited and vulnerable. Now everyone will know that all of my paintings go through an "ugly" phase (or phases, more accurately) before I consider them done. And actually, I never do consider them finished, but they all do come to a reasonable place to stop. I'm super excited to share this process!

So thank you for joining me on my fifth year of blissful creating!

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Sweet Inspiration

I've been actively weaning my kids of the "mom will prepare all of my snacks and meals" problem they both seem to have.


Kid: "Mom, I'm hungry."

Me: "Nope."

Kid: "Mom, will you make me a...."

Me: "Nope."

Kid: "Mom, do we have any dessert?"

Me: "Nope."


And the next thing I know my little guy baking a cake, icing it, and declaring it his dad's birthday cake (a day late, but way ahead of any plans I had hatched).


Nice to know this particular problem has a cure!

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Grandmother's Hat

Lately I've had wonderful friends give me inspiration for paintings. It's pure bliss for me. Particularly because everyone who has asked just wants me to do my own interpretation of whatever their idea is. So lucky, lucky me!

I love that this piece is about cherishing something that belonged to someone special. It's about how a thing can become precious merely by association. My mom recently gave me a small box of my grandmother's jewelry. And when I wear a piece I feel so close to both of them.

Links to the past...so wonderful!

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Love...

My dog...well, she's simply the best!

My family has this obsession with trying to scare me. They get great joy out of it and I've blogged about it many times. Well, the other day Hazel was sitting near me being all super cute and stuff. Unbeknownst to me, Dave was circling behind me deviously preparing to scare the daylights outa me. But Hazel, my hero, was totally on to his mischief and she let out a teeny tiny warning growl.

Ha! Foiled again, Dave!

Puppy love....


This was a commissioned piece and will be a wedding gift for someone. I'm beyond honored!

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Glow

I did the big clear out today. Four bags of clothes and shoes, and a small bag of jewelry that I'm no longer in love with. It's odd how all that stuff manages to accumulate and even more odd how many of those things don't fit,  irritate me, or I just out and out don't like.

And now when I go in our bedroom there's a calm feeling, my bedside lamp glows, and my grandmother smiles from her framed portrait.

I have and early rainy afternoon urge to put on my PJs.

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For the Love of Art

As most of you know I've been taking an online course from the amazing Pauline Agnew. Not only is she a fabulous artist, but she is also a truly gifted teacher. From the beginning she expected and knew that her students would "go for it". This was a perfect fit for me because while I was entering totally new territory I committed to myself that I'd not have any negative self talk throughout the entire process. And I did just that...and I went for it. Pauline's critiques of my works were honest, constructive, and encouraging and I've produced work that resides on an entirely different plane than that of my previous work (the painting with this blog post is not one of my new pieces, look to previous posts to see some, they are clearly identifiable).

Thank you, lovely Pauline, for your wisdom, caring, talent, patience, and love. And thank you, my fellow talented students, for your kind and loving support.

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PEACE

There's a certain lack of it at my house sometimes, and a lot of it seems to revolve around the one and only Archie Bunker chair in the house. It seems it's the favorite sittin' spot for the male types. It's not like there's a shortage of seats available...there's a perfectly comfortable large couch right by the Archie chair. But it always, always ranks second. And since Dave is the Archie Bunker of our house he pulls rank and claims his throne much to the disappointment of our boys.


Me: "I know what will solve everything!"

Dave: "What?"

Me: "We need to get two more Archie Bunker chairs!"


Eye roll...I tell ya, I'm a seriously underrated peacemaker.

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SHINE

Today was the 5th and last day of the annual Mother's Day jewelry sale that the special education department at the school where I work has each year to raise money for student supplies and training. And I can't even begin to tell you how amazing it all is. We collect donated jewelry that folks no longer love or use and then sell it for $1, $2, $3, and $4 to kids at the school so they can give it to their moms, themselves, friends or anyone they'd like. And there is nothing more precious than children making such important decisions. It's a beautiful thing...and I cannot wait to see all the moms sporting their awesome new bling come next week.

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