Kati Shovelain

Thank you! I admit, that one exhausted me. I didn't expect how it would wipe me out.

I think I finished that painting (basically) and am letting it sit to make sure I truly am done:

Though there are many details left, the majority is finally done. I am relieved.

Thank you! Of course, I am not as accurate as I want to be but I am still pretty happy with it!

Update on the big wip:

I painted about 6 hours yesterday, and now that I started the ceiling, things are also starting to feel less daunting. I still see a ton of work but she is getting there.

My latest wip priority:
I gave myself a deadline but it feels daunting with all I need to do yet so I am trying to accept that I might not make that deadline. :/

Haven't had time to work on this painting since January. So while I am stuck, resting (broke my toe a few days ago), I decided to retake her on and started 3 under drawings for paintings (not yet showing) I have wanted to work on for a while now.
Making lemonade.

I never shared my finished painting:
A Pregnant Paws
24x24
Oil on Canvas

#oilpainting

I am absolutely wallowing/moping. Good thing I like to paint as my chosen therapy. That is why I now have a wip of Nasim in my studio.

Kinda digging the character of it but the proportions may drive me crazy later.

Reassuring*

Pretty happy with that sheet of cloth background! I still have a bit to do to clean things up, but I see the finish line, and there is something reassuing about that. 💙
#paintingwip

How she is going:
Starting to take on the fabric, contemplating the different parts of the painting, and how I might merge it all together:

#figurepainting #magicalrealism

#wip #oilpainting #figurepainting #wipupdate #longcanvas

Really enjoying using a slow drying acrylic for this underpainting; though, it is making me wonder about how much extra time I need to add before I go in with oils...?
#wip #experimentinart #unfamiliarmedia

Yes, thank you!!!

And decided to pick this oil painting back up today, too:

Recently started an acrylic underpainting of one wip:

Finishing up this painting of my baby niece:
#oilpainting #portraitpainting #babyportrait

Able to share this memorial commission of the most beautiful boy. I dropped everything to paint him when my friend's daughter asked if it could be ready in time for Mother's Day. (And then they couldn't wait 5 more days once I varnished, and he was picked up.) ❤️💔

I fully expect to have absolutely no time for this piece, but I have waited over a year to use this reference and gave in to starting it today. Part of the problem... I only have half the painting decided on. Add to the background? Abstract the negative space? Leave the negative space? Add florals?🤷‍♀️

Working on these delicate little flowers (amongst reorganizing my home studio) on this rainy Thursday:

#oilpainting #wip #oilpaintingwip #portraitpainting

There is something freeing about painting something with the sole purpose of giving it to another.
#Wip update:

#Oilpainting #oilportrait

@vilidian.bsky.social (I could not figure out how to tag you on bluesky)

Hmmm.
She got angelic. Not exactly sure how that happened or why, just that it made sense at the time. So now I am trying to decide if she is done or not:
#isitstillawip #angelicart #oilpainting

Working on that likeness. Not perfect, but I kind of love where she is, so I don't really want to mess with her face anymore if I can help it...

Example of my hoarding 🤣:

Kept a few canvases from a high-school project... cough cough... 20 years ago. I had drawn (what I think were) Mucha's patterned boarders. Years later painted the figure and apple tree branches... and years after that, fixed details and outlined the branches.
#mixedmedia

Lol. Thank you, Klaire!

I realized I never posted on here my awkward selfies from a couple of shows I have recently been in: 🙃
#artistandartwork

Starting this little painting of my baby niece today:

#oilpainting #oilportrait #oiloncanvas #wippainting #paintingofababy #realism