Wild about Painting by Karen Knutson

Karen Knutson paints in mixed media, trying to make her paintings fun and easy. A wide range of subjects, including landscapes, figures, collage, abstracts, florals, and birds. Many lessons are included on this blog to encourage her art students. Teaching across the country makes her life a great journey.

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Redoing Old Paintings

I belong to a critique group, called Critical Thumb Group. We meet once per month and critique each other's paintings. By the way, I ...

Friday, November 11, 2011

Two Faced Turkey

Last night, I went to the Minnesota Watercolor Society meeting, where EmmyWhite was the demonstrator. Her demonstration was a fun, whimsica...

Thursday, November 10, 2011

Life is good!

I got my 30 minute study done early this morning. I decided to do wine glasses, since I LOVE a glass of wine with supper each evening. It...

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Don't feel like painting? Here are some suggestions.

Some days you just don't feel like painting- whether you have the moody blues, or you're scared of that white paper, or you're j...

Thursday, November 3, 2011

Exciting workshop in August, 2012

I want to tell you about my workshop that you may want to put on your Christmas list: This is mainly a watercolor class, but additional me...

Saturday, October 29, 2011

"Longing", a study for future painting

I did this 30 minute sketch, using markers, while up at a friend's cabin. Kim Grant had invited 3 artists to join her for 3 days of pai...

Thursday, October 20, 2011

Patterns, 30 minute study

I'm still doing my 30 minute studies, using Tombow markers. This time, I decided to use patterns as my main objective. I had seen a po...

Friday, October 14, 2011

Adding metallic to paintings

Tomorrow, I'm teaching a workshop in Bethel, just north of Minneapolis. The subject is metallics. I've been preparing for this wor...

Thursday, October 6, 2011

Sisters

Today, I did another 30 minute sketch, using markers. I used a photo of my sister and me. Although this doesn't look like either one o...

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Sketching faces, 30 minute studies

Here are 2 more of my 30 minute studies. I had the goal last year-to paint more people. These are a type of fun carricature sketches. Rea...

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