Karen Tessandore
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Wise & Beautiful
This lovely painting is by Julie Haymaker Thompson. I am absolutely taken by all of her work ~ it just makes me happy. Take a closer look at the words by this sweet owl:Isn't that a wonderful message? I think it also describes Julie pretty well! She was super enthusiastic about everyone's work and great
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Smiley girls & more Art from the Nest…
It's me and Michelle! This is from Saturday night, by which time we were all goofy-happy and trying to take photos with everyone before we had to pack up. Here's one of Michelle's paintings…a kitty! Love the colors here.It never occurred to me to do an animal, but Jane Wynn made a kitty too {below}.
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Breakfast with Friends
Meet Lorie, Natalie & one of our oh-so-talented teachers, Kelly Rae. Lorie was one of my 2 roomies at Art Nest. Luckily, she & I & Diana all liked a chilly room to sleep in so we kept our window cracked at night. It sounds like a small thing, but rooming with people you've never
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40 years old & all full of happy!
It was almost 1 a.m. Sunday night when I finally walked in the door ~ back home in Alaska after celebrating my 40th birthday in Utah at Art Nest. The first thing I saw when I came in was my work table. It's the same basic 5' or 6' foot long costco-type folding table that
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Still “Nesting”
Happy Friday! This is my painting from Mati Rose's class today. It's on a 12×12" canvas and it's called Art is My Happy Place since I had that phrase in my head from yesterday's blog post. Coincidentally, Mati happened to say the exact same thing during her introduction this morning in describing what art is
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And later that day…
My results from today's class. :o) I'm really happy with how they came out & had such a great time spending the whole day art-making! I'm exhausted, but in the best way. The group of us are off to dinner in town now, then back & probably right to sleep so we can get up
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Greetings from ArtNest!
I'm nestled in the hills of Utah with 29 wonderful, warm, artsy, lovely women. This is the view we'll be enjoying as we dive into our first class today with Kelly Rae Roberts. Can't wait! I'm off to find the coffee now, but just had to post this photo of the little friends that have
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Takin’ a Break
I have a few paintings and other projects on my work table, but I think I'm going to take a bit of a blog break now until the first week in March. By then I'll be back from Art Nest and will have a couple weeks to settle back in & share that experience with
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Words, in a new way.
For awhile now I've been mulling the problem of how to use text as a background. I didn't want it to be easily readable. For me, words on paintings can be distracting and make the work too specific. I like for things to be left open to interpretation. Plus, I can never decide on what
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Inspiration sneaks in…
I think this girl was unconsciously inspired by Coraline! No button eyes or anything, so I guess it's the blue color pallet that reminds of me of her. And the mouth looks kind of dolly-fied. But with that bat necklace, maybe she's more a cross between something Coraline & the Munsters. Here she is part