Welcome to Martha Kisling's Creative Painting!
I am always full of ideas for my artwork but have to balance my creative time with keeping up with my website, painting blog, Etsy Shop and Facebook art page. This month, I started updating my boards on Pinterest to reflect more of my artwork, inspiration for paintings and my life as an artist. Please feel free to check out all of my Pinterest boards here!
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Happy painting!
Martha
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Our daughter Lisa was home for a few days before she headed back to Kansas City to start her second year of medical school so we decided to enjoy a beautiful Colorado day in the mountains. Here we are with Todd, using the belly boats to tool around the lake and get a little fishing in - too much fun!
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Invited Back To Breckenridge Watercolor Collage WorkshNew DPW AuctionCreative Corner!
Acrylic & Collage
The goal for my new 2014 Creative Corner has been to try something new each month - different techniques, new mediums, mixed media, fun colors - anything goes. I painted these poppies with a palette knife and thick acrylic paint and then made the entire background black. I decided to break up the space into rectangular shapes and painted some of them with yellow ochre. Tissue paper with a black and white design and a red checkered pattern was collaged in several of the larger rectangular spaces and then I used thick, black paint for lines around the flowers, stems and background shapes to add to the three dimensional look. A very fun project!
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New in Etsy Shop
A tropical look to this painting of parrots and flowers
COLORFUL FRIENDS- 15x22 - available in my Etsy Shop
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Creative Painting Blog
Skies
I try to post to my blog several times a week to keep everyone updated on my art. One of the fun things about a blog is that you can view present and past paintings by topic or category - see all of my Sky posts here
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I would love it if you checked out my Facebook Creative Painting page!
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Pinterest
My Art Boards
If you have not heard of Pinterest yet it is a visual discovery tool where you can collect ideas for decorating, cooking, photography, art, travel, etc and 'pin' them on to your own boards. It is like tearing out ideas from magazines and putting them on bulletin boards but it is all online. It is so much fun and a great way to find ideas and inspiration for your art. You can check out all of my boards for watercolor, mixed media, color, fashion and holidays here!
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 Weekly Classes
July White Picket Fence
The focus of one of our weekly classes in July was to paint flowers with a white picket fence. I already had the start of a painting with roses and leaves so I decided to just add the fence in the background. I used shades of green to paint the negative space around the pickets to create the illusion of a white fence.
I love painting big, colorful tropical flowers like theses hibiscus. We don't have many flowers like this here in Colorado but I have loads of photos of gorgeous hibiscus blooms from our visit to the beautiful island of Kauai several years ago. I applied the watercolor paints through tissue paper to create a lace like effect for the flowers and b
love painting big, colorful tropical flowers like theses hibiscus. We don't have many flowers like this here in Colorado but I have loads of photos of gorgeous hibiscus blooms from our visit to the beautiful island of Kauai several years ago. I applied the watercolor paints through tissue paper to create a lace like effect for the flowers and background. love painting big, colorful tropical flowers like theses hibiscus. We don't have many flowers like this here in Colorado but I have loads of photos of gorgeous hibiscus blooms from our visit to the beautiful island of Kauai several years ago. I applied the watercolor paints through tissue paper to create a lace like effect for the flowers and background. love painting big, colorful tropical flowers like theses hibiscus. We don't have many flowers like this here in Colorado but I have loads of photos of gorgeous hibiscus blooms from our visit to the beautiful island of Kauai several years ago. I applied the watercolor paints through tissue paper to create a lace like effect for the flowers and background. Purchase info new approach. new It Itow that evening finished work displayed in a show that evening. I must admit that I am more of a studio paintiner the beautiful mountain town of Breckenridge, CObe I was lucky enough to spend the weekend in beautiful Breckenridge, CO with some of my art |
New From My Website
I used strong southwestern colors for this watercolor batik of Santa Fe pottery.
SOUTHWESTERN JEWELS - 15x21 watercolor batik on rice paper- available on my website
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New Home At The Lake
SAILING WATERS has a new home with Sonja in Texas. I so appreciate that she took the time to send me a photo of it framed and hanging in the bunk room of their new lake house.
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