Karen Tessandore
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And so, another year begins…
"May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art — write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next
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Merry Christmas
I'm enjoying two weeks off of my day job, mostly spent painting for my show coming up in February. This girl is on a 16×20" canvas – mostly done with oil paints and she's the first painting I've done with no texture or layers on the canvas…just paint and my imagination. :) I love the
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2 More Kiddos
These are paintings I made of my cute little neighbor girls. Their mom commissioned me to make them as Christmas presents for her parents. You might notice a couple similarities to the painting I posted a few days ago. As it turns out, little girls of a certain age–according to polls conducted by their mothers–all
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Commissions for Christmas
This is one of the 3 paintings I was commissioned to make this Christmas…all three of actual kids! I normally just paint from my imagination and have never tried to do paintings of real girls before so I wasn't sure how it would go. But it was totally fun and I really like how they
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Little Red Coat
This weekend my friend Meg invited me over to make ornaments from the cute felt patterns she got from Posie Gets Cozy. It was so nice to have time to be sociable and crafty again since school is out for the semester. I'm glad I'm going to school, but it sure makes me appreciate
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When You’re Falling, Dive
Driving past the church by my mom’s house tonight, I noticed the parking lot was unusually full for a Tuesday evening. Then I saw a hearse pulled up in front and realized they were having a funeral service. I don’t know the circumstances of course, but I felt a pang of empathy in my chest
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Leather Work
Recently I became fascinated with tooled leather…bags, book covers, belts, etc. So last evening–after watching many, many videos on the topic on youtube–I stopped at a local leather supply store and bought some tools to try it. This is my very first attempt and I'm so happy with how well it works! The fork-looking tool
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It must be a sign…
Love this sign from Skin Deep Tattoo in Lahaina, Maui. Very cool shop. If I had been carrying an extra $1000 I might have gone in for an addition to one of my tattoos. Maybe next time. So I guess I like signs more than I realized, judging by the number of photos I took