and still more.

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11"x14"
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Bringing in the New Year right- with robot goldfish critters :)

and more robot goldfishies.

 11"x14"

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Robot Goldfishies!

11"x14"

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The Artist's Sister

9"x12"

Ok, so I saw this gorgeous Rembrandt at the Small Works Exhibit at the North Carolina Museum of Art on Saturday, and it reminded me of just how much I love doing stuff like with, with the whole washes of vandyke brown thing and the sketchy brushstrokes and just augh, right? And the spouse got me a few art books and I'm wallowing in them delightedly, and generally feeling like my head is going to explode from all the potential awesome going on. We'll see.

The Artist's Child

9"x12"

Braids

5"x7"

Yesterday we went out singing to fruit trees on a friend's farm.... and of course there was inspiration to be had at such a wonderful event!

Red Bow

5"x7"

It's technically tomorrow, so I am going to go ahead and post! Doubt I'll have time for it in the coming insanity anyways.... humans are strange, man. The things we do in the name of tradition.

This was awesome to paint. Like yay, shiny things! And then losing my mind because the shape gets so, so, so complicated.

Wonky

5"x7"

I was taking pictures of cattle, and this was a lovely photogenic critter.... except for the horns, running off in different directions! Had to do a painting anyways, just too interesting.

White Cat

5"x7"

The sun is coming back!

Blue Shadows

8"x16"

Really, no one is safe. My friend's daughter was just sitting there, innocently getting some fairy hair put in, and, well...... beautiful. Just had to paint her. Soft blue shadows and overhead lighting and pretty shapes made by her hair.

Morning Light

5"x7"

Sketching, just a greyhound in soft morning light. Trying to create a glow, but with just values, not colors.

Silhouette

5"x7"

Hair makes the most beautiful shapes!

Altered Book page....

Experimenting in.,... well, I guess it's a new medium! Or a new substrate, at the very least. There are nice textures and new thought processes.

Just a Little Open

5"x7"

Ok, at this point I guess I'm just reveling in textures and the whole blue/gold contrast thing. But there's nothing wrong with reveling.

Two Persimmons

9"x12"

I may be a little obsessed with persimmons- I can't help it, they're just so beautiful. I do wish I could find an asian persimmon tree that wasn't grafted, though.... ah, well. I'm sure I'll get all obsessed with painting gooseberries when they come in, or what have you. Can it be spring already? Please?

doodling

It's been a gloomy, aimless sort of day.... which may have led to some doodling. I had a little bitty sketchbook calling my name, I guess.

doodling

doodling

Four Persimmons

5"x7"

It's been a strange sort of day, but persimmons were painted. They have the strangest glow, even for a fruit.... and a totally different texture and everything else from the asian ones. It's fascinating.

Yolk and Shell

5"x7"

Look at me, painting eggs again! I'm just revisiting all kinds of subject matter right now, and loving it. That yolk is absolutely glowing, and you know I always love painting shiny things. And round things. So eggs are the best of all possible worlds for that, right?

Cracked

5"x7"

Fuzzy

5"x7"

Sometimes, you just have to paint cows.

In the Open

5"x7"

Blue and Gold

5"x7"

Happy Holidays! Yay, painting ribbon!

Cropped Avocado

5"x7"

Yay, new canvases came in the mail, and now shiny new paintings are being created!

Waiting for a Cue

12"x12"

Just a teensy bit strange.

Or maybe that's a teensy bit of an understatement. Tickled to pieces about it anyways, spooky backlighting and facepaint and all!

Cara

11"x14"

I've been having trouble with the whole focusing thing lately.... this was a fun painting, though. Yay for having beautiful friends.

just sketching....

more canvases have been ordered, but I am all out for the moment!

Magic Forest

5"x7"

I love doing daily paintings. Just because I learn so much!

Hatched

5"x7"

So I'm reading about mushrooms, and I've got a mushroom bed going in the front yard that will hopefully fruit this summer, and it only makes sense that I'm painting mushrooms as well.

The Team

5"x7"
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I was going through my photos from Savannah, and absolutely had to paint this.... I think I got a bit carried away, especially for a little postcard-sized painting, but I absolutely love it!

By the Half Moon

12"x12"

Because her portrait somehow ended up being the inspiration for this portrait of a unicorn. Well, that and a fascinating article about a deer in Europe who ended up being a unicorn because of his unusual antler configuration.

So. Evening, and last night's rising moon, and a lovely unicorn.

Venus in Ascension

9"x12"

Playing with a portrait of my daughter, because....

Black on Grey

5"x7"
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In the winter, we get crows in the front yard. They're beautiful, and so interesting to watch.

Red Riding Hood

5"x7"
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Just experimenting, using the same reference photo to see if I can take it in very different directions.... having fun. Happy Holidays, y'all.

Snow

5"x7"
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Ornaments!

And 20% off everything in my etsy shop- https://www.etsy.com/shop/kelliemarianhill - from now through Saturday, with the coupon code HAPPYDANCE . Just because I love you all.

Lady Blue

9"x12"
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As always, I had an absolutely wonderful time at Whimsical Women! The weather was lovely, the people were lovely, none of my paintings tried to fly away.... So yes. Splendid. And now I'm home again, snuggling into my little patterns and all the wonderful new ideas that have come to me recently.

Owlet

9"x12"

Jaws

9"x12"

Goldfish VI

5"x7"
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Ok, that's the last of posting till at least Sunday- I love you all dearly, but you know how I am about Whimsical Women! Hope to see you there!

Goldfish V

5"x7"
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Goldfish IV

5"x7"
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In the Window

9"x12"
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Something spooky this way comes.... underwater.... I was going to put this in the pile of paintings for "share after Whimsical Women" but I am just so tickled with how the face came out!

Croquet

9"x12"
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Doodling from Wonderland!

Golden Eyes

9"x12"
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This time of year always brings out the strange in me....