Notes from My Studio 27 March 2025
What's New from the Studio of Kelly Kilmer
Waving my brushes, HI, at you from my art area in the corner of my tiny apartment.
Somehow, it’s the end of March. The first Saturday of the month is coming up (April 5th.) I’m offering an all new pay what you can workshop.
Juicy Living: a Art Journaling PWYCW* Workshop Series
Saturday 5 April 2025 11 am PST
Every month is something new and different
(if you can’t make the live session, I record all of my workshops)
*PWYCW: Pay what you can workshop
These workshops allow me to keep my workshops accessible. Thanks for supporting them.
Art is always a conversation. It’s an ongoing dialogue between the present, the past, and the future. I posted the above collection of my work, my “painted vessels” to my blog last week.
I’ve been looking back through my older work and “mining” it, looking for repetition and ideas in:
symbols/images/patterns
color palette
journaling/text
mark making
I’ve been looking to see how I can take my older work and make it, “new” as I’m finding much inspiration in the older work. I don’t want to simply repeat it. I want something different, something fresh.
That’s one of the things I’ve been up to. What about you? What are you working on?
Manet, The Ragpicker (one of my favorite paintings)
I made the time to spend two hours at The Norton Simon for a rare chance to see a Velázquez in person. I share more about the visit and my thoughts about museums as an opportunity to time travel.
Interested in building a dedicated art practice? Looking for a like minded artist community?
Check out The Art Life, or what I call TAL: Building a Visual Vocabulary:
Live Painting Sessions EVERY Friday
Live Art Journaling Workshop the LAST Saturday of each month
at least TWO salons a month
Mentorship
AND MORE
Commit to your art practice within the space of a dedicated online community. Come for a month or join our community on a regular basis.
Paint, collage, sketching, journaling, art fundamentals, art history, art friends, and so much more...
It’s never too late to join us.
“The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.” -James Baldwin
As always, thank you,
Kelly 🎨