Posted on April 30, 2017
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It’s been a long time since you’ve seen a video, huh?!? Yeah, I’m slacking! Well, no more! Time to get to work. And more to come….I promise. Normally, I like to perform a step by step painting demo right in nature. It is so…
Category: art, Artwork, free art demonstration video, nature, Nature Sketching, pastel painting, step by step painting, Sunsets/Sunrise, VideosTags: art, art video, Artwork, free how to, free step by step painting demonstration, free step by step pastel, how to paint a sunset, how to paint with pastels, nature, pastel painting, sunset
Posted on October 28, 2016
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It is time once again. I felt it stir within, an urgency to go back. A time to retreat. As I grow, I am more in tune with my body and emotions. With the weight of work and family obligations I needed a time…
Category: art, Artwork, Birds, chickadee, God, hiking, nature, red-bellied woodpecker, sketch book, sketchbook, Sunsets/Sunrise, watercolor painting, watercolor sketching, wildlifeTags: art, Artwork, chickadee, Christ in the Wilderness, CITW, hiking, IL, nature, painting, red bellied wookpecker, retreat, sketch, sketchbook, solitude, Stockton, watercolor
Posted on October 31, 2014
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My consecration. How do I pause morning and partake this very moment without your desertion? Rescue my heart and stay a bit longer… Oh, but you can’t. I will trap you with color and mix you with water and embed you in paper. My…
Category: art, Artwork, Chicago, Landscape, nature, sketchbook, Sunsets/Sunrise, watercolor painting, watercolor sketchingTags: art, Artwork, barn, farm, journal, nature, painting, poem, sketch, sketchbook, sunrise, watercolor
Posted on March 3, 2014
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The light changes and you catch yourself holding your breath. A fiery glow in the horizon…enthralling. Its ending presentation a hot display quietly turns into a mauve hush. Oh quickly went the dusk that took my tender devotion; Can we meet again tomorrow? Over…
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Posted on November 27, 2011
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What is it about November that I like so much? Could it be the calm before the storm (peace before holiday chaos)? Could it be the de-clutter of leaves on the trees, providing a sort of de-clutter in my mind? Is it the warmth…
Category: art, Artwork, Landscape, nature, pastel painting, step by step painting, Sunsets/SunriseTags: autumn painting, autumn pastel, Christine Kane Art, ckane, free art lesson, free painting instructions, free pastel demonstration, free step by step painting demonstration, how to, how to paint, how to paint a sunset, how to paint with pastels, november paintings, pastel painting, pastels, sunset painting
Posted on March 12, 2011
by Christine
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A reprieve from winter, a welcomed mild day…how lovely! Yesterday I made a quick stop at Arrowhead Lake. The sun, enveloped in a slight haze and in the company of dark blue clouds, sets behind the trees, giving me a peek-a-boo yellow surprise in between…
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Posted on December 18, 2010
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Winter Sunset Sketch 4:20pm 17°F icy cold wind Centennial Park As daylight quickly slips away, a golden glow desperately hangs near the horizon. Purples and blues creep in behind me, shadows start to disappear, and the night takes over. The retention pond is nearly iced-covered…
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