Dawn and Dusk view them on my website   Pictured above, Dawn and Dusk, acrylic on flat panel, 24”x48”, private collection. This lovely sold yesterday through my collectors club to a brand new collector. The First Dibs Club gets a heads up on new work coming  with an option to purchase before the painting is offered to the general public. This is a free, no obligation service I offer busy fans who want to acquire a painting. You can become a Dibber here. Questions? Just reach out. I pull my painting subjects from my own life -  what I dream about and experience as I move through the world. The animals that regularly show up on my easel - Bear, Fox, Wolf, Rabbit, Horse - have taken on symbolic meaning, at least to me, over time.  But Deer, she’s not made it to the easel often enough for me to have an idea as to what she means. I try not to think about this or analyze too much as I’m making the work, but reserve these sorts of interpretations for once an animal has made repeated visits. I suspect this is about to unfold with Deer. We’ve got a number of young deer that move through our yard, with a recent casualty being hollyhocks I planted but neglected to spray (there’s a Hollyhock and Deer painting to come). I can’t get angry - they were here first and I knew that and still didn’t do due diligence. But where I was going with this whole story is that the deer move through our yard at the start and finish of each day. So why not paint them that way, holding Dusk and Dawn? I set out to do just that. I get so excited to make artwork which challenges direct representation. It gives me latitude to build connections - like allowing the fawn’s camouflage become constellations - and play with narratives that make the art distinctly my own viewpoint. Which also, hopefully, makes it memorable too. Get a close up look at Dawn and Dusk on my website where you can see them installed to scale in a room setting. Thanks so much for your interest in my artwork.  Love you, Kim PS Shout out to my Patreon subscribers who make the creating of this work and the educational facets of my business possible through their financial support. Whether they are donating (“buying Blue treats”) or enrolled in a tier with instructional benefits, their support allows me to paint organically in response to my experiences, and then speak to that via socials, this newsletter, video content and in other ways. Supporting the arts is critically important to preserve and document our voices. I am so grateful for your contributions, whether they be through Patreon, the purchase of artwork or engagement in other ways. Thank you! available paintings reproductions student membership online classroom on demand painting lessons & workshops Intuitive Painting workshop through Kara Bullock Bloom workshop through Kara Bullock Color workshop through Kara Bullock On the Fly, in person workshop (Tustin, CA), Oct 2025 want more eye candy?