Karen Tessandore

  • Home

    We're back from our tropical holiday.  We had a great time, but it's always so nice to be home too.  Take a look at the contrast between where we were yesterday {above} and as compared to today… No matter where you spent it, hope you had a lovely turkey day! ~ k

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  • Happy Thanksgiving

    From Mokapu beach, Maui  🙂 ~ k

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  • From Maui (in no particular order)

    xo ~ k

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  • Butterfly in the Tropics

    Finished up my butterfly girl while sitting in my new "studio" last night… Always good to work by tiki-torch, right?  :)  Ok, obviously not really my studio.  But a darn nice place to paint while I'm on vacation. ~ k

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  • Maui, again…

    That's right.  I visited Maui in February and it was so, so good that I'm back already.  :)  So I thought I'd show you the little butterfly girl I started working on during my first day here.  This is the spot I found at our hotel to sit and draw… Very peaceful.  This is the

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  • A Picture in Felt

    Made this cozy scene to photograph and put on the front of my Christmas cards this year.  It's all out of felt…mostly from wool sweaters found at the thrift store and "felted" by washing them in hot, soapy water.  I've been wanting to do something with the fuzzy angora one…it ended up being perfect for

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  • Happy Halloween!

    Reaching back into the archives here.  :)  I drew Pumpkin Girl in 2007 when I was just learning to draw characters.  She looks a little worried, but still pretty cute I think.  ♥

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  • Scientist Girl

    So what do you think of this one?  I'm not sure where I got the idea…sometimes the images just pop into my head fully formed and this the skirt/lab coat combo came to me like that.  After I made her though, I started thinking about "what does this painting say?"  Normally I wouldn't be thinking

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  • Skater Girl Preview

    While I was reading at my favorite coffee place the other day, the idea for this girl popped into my head.  Luckily, I always carry a little notebook to sketch things out when inspiration strikes.  I knew she was going to have heart shaped glasses and roller skates, but it wasn't until I sat down

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  • Fall (Winter?) Baking

    These are some of the lovely apples picked by my neighbor and her girls last Sunday…during our first snow!  (Thankfully the snow didn't stick, but dang that was early.)  They were nice enough to share the harvest with me, so I pulled out my favorite cookbook and made mini-apple pies. They're about 6" across and

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