Paintings With Soul

"Dapples," 11" x 16", acrylics on museum quality panel, accented with gold leaf, depicting a dappled gray Arabian. This stunning original painting is $999, with complimentary shipping inside the US.  Can I ship it to your home? let me know . Lots and lots of snow here, which means no school, no carpools, no errands. Just music and books and painting. This is my kind of life! (until we run out of cookies, then things will get a little desperate). Thanks for following along with my artwork, Kim ksantini@turtledovedesigns.com

"24K Bun," 8" x 10", acrylics with gold leaf on museum quality panel, depicting a very content bunny rabbit encased in gold. Yup, gold - not gold paint, but gold leaf. This painting is $499 with complimentary shipping inside the US - if you are interested, please  let me know .  SOLD (thank you!) I've been curious about the difference between metal as a surface (painting on copper) and metal as a layer (using leaf). Today my friend Deb gave me some gold leaf to try out and I got experiment (thank you Deb!). There's pros and cons to each, and perhaps in the future there might even be a piece that combines both. But for now I'm very happy with what I am learning. And the way this one turned out. (And there was lots of giggling at the gold flaked boogers I blew out of my nose earlier too.) (And in case you recognize the bunny , this is an older painting that I reworked with my paint pens, fresh dashes of saturated color, a few value sh...