Paintings With Soul

  Due to Blogger allowing Ai scraping/training, I will no longer be posting the back stories of my work here. This information is available through Substack and Patreon , both platforms that respect creator content and intellectual property by blocking Ai. Thank you for your interest in my art, Warmly, Kimberly Santini www.KimberlySantini.com

check her out, make her yours Phosphorescent, 20x20, acrylic on cradled panel (no need to frame, painting will arrive wired and ready to hang), $1900, available exclusively through my website. S&H inside the contiguous US is on me. Hawaiian, Alaskan and Canadian shipping available at additional cost. Originally Phosphorescent had a dahlia over each eye. It was interesting and oh so beautiful, but distracting. The flowers overpowered her face and she became secondary in the painting. It was not what she wanted at all - she pushed herself back to the surface of the painting, and in the process that second bloom dissolved. I think this approach is still intriguing, but would be better suited to a full body Bear, with a stronger ratio of Bear to Flower. Like I said, I learn new ways to approach this concept with each painting. I have another one in process now where Bear’s mask is veil like, drifting across her face with the lightness of cottonwood. There’s something interesting that...

Profusion check her out, make her yours Profusion, 20x20, acrylic on cradled panel (no need to frame, painting will arrive wired and ready to hang), $1900, available exclusively through my website. S&H inside the contiguous US is on me. Hawaiian, Alaskan and Canadian shipping available at additional cost. This was a challenging painting week - as the complexity of these masked bears grows, so too does the difficulty level. I am literally learning on my feet as the pieces progress. Which frankly is one of my favorite ways to learn - by doing! Profusion hit a point where I thought she had further to go, but my critique group (yesterday) declared her finished. I weighed the possibility of stopping,** but ultimately it felt like I was copping out. So this morning I deepened her value relationships, added a passage of smaller marks, pulled one of the flowers forward and allowed the barely suggested eye to disappear. I am so pleased to have taken these risks - the painting is all the...

  Sparkle   Pictured above, Sparkle, 16"x16", acrylic on cradled panel, $1100 plus s&h to the first asking nicely. The sides of this painting have been left as raw wood for a beautiful contemporary look (no need to frame). Clicking on the image above  or here  teleports you to my website to view the painting in a room setting, zoom in up close to the image, and perhaps even make her all yours. This piece is available to ship at the end of September 2025. Questions? just  reach out .   A Canary, Pink Dahlia and Blue Sky walk into a bar and the bartender says, "what is this, some kind of landscape?" (clearly i'm a painter, not a joke writer!!)) But when a Canary, Pink Dahlia and Blue Sky show up in my studio, you KNOW it won't be any sort of ordinary landscape. Thanks so much for your interest in my artwork, Love you, Kim. PS  Returning collectors please use "COLLECTOR10" at checkout for your repeat offender discount. If you ...

  Tete-a-Tete sneak a peek at them on my website Pictured above, Tete-a-Tete, acrylic on cradled panel (sides are raw wood, making for a beautiful contemporary presentation, framing optional), 20”x20”x1”, $1400 plus s&h to the first asking nicely. The link above will take you directly to my website where you can make them all yours. Please note that this painting will ship at the end of August 2025. Questions? Just   reach out . Took a quick break from painting Deer to celebrate Dahlia season. Yes, my beauties have begin to bloom and yes, I am utterly obsessed with them. Also…… this painting is one of the demonstration pieces for my fall   in person workshop . Wanna learn how I piece together the things I love while dancing between drawn and painted marks? then register at the link above to reserve your easel and you’ll be set for three days of utter magic. We’ll work side by side in an intimate setting, learning how to create intuitively and improvisationally, while ...

  Sunbeam view her on my website Sunbeam, original acrylic on flat panel, 18”x24”, $1000 plus s&h. I welcome your questions (yes, I offer payment plans - details below). Just  reach out . It’s been a week of mostly gloomy, gray weather here in Michigan. To combat that, I’m working with bright color and big blooms. Luckily enough, my mood improves when I’m surrounded by color and my day job allows me to do just that. I am so pleased to share that  registration is now open  for my fall 2025 in person workshop (Tustin, California) titled  On the Fly , where we dive into improvisational painting. What is that, you ask? It’s working directly from your source, embracing intuition and spontaneity. A perfect way to elevate your work by building imaginative possibilities and honing your painting chops. Meanwhile, Sunbeam is here waiting to elevate your Vitamin D levels! You can view her  on my website,   inside a room setting  and  up close . The ...

  Dolly view her on my website Dolly, original acrylic on flat panel, 18”x24”, $1000 plus s&h. I welcome your questions (yes, I offer payment plans - details below). Just  reach out . I am busy planning 2025 already, as crazy as it may sound. Between my own studies, teaching commitments, creating gallery inventory and other events, it looks like I’ll be pretty busy through the fall. Guess that’s what they call job security, right?! Dolly, so named for the Dahlia bloom on her head, is the impetus behind my next online course. This one will be focused on color, starring Fox and florals. It is intentionally designed to be a great companion to last year’s  Intuitive Painting course  featuring Bears and the landscape (which, by the way, would make a great holiday gift for someone…). I’ll be painting variations of this Fox-floral theme as I work through palette options and build a lesson plan challenging artists at all levels. Meanwhile, watch for more details - we are...

  Hope view her on my website order prints here Hope, original acrylic (overtop collaged paper) on cradled wood panel, sides naked (exposed wood) for a clean contemporary look, 20”x20”x1-1/2”, sold (thank you and congratulations to GO!). I always welcome your questions (yes, I offer payment plans - details below). Just  reach out . Hope came home yesterday after hanging out at  The Anton Art Center  for a few months, where she received an honorable mention in an exquisite and deeply talented Artists’ Choice exhibition (thank you again to esteemed juror  Dr. Anita Bates ). On the drive back to the studio, I toyed with the idea of keeping Hope for myself. But that seemed a bit unfair - I don’t know who out there may need a good dose of Hope. So I decided that I’ll leave it up to The Powers That Be to determine where Hope ends up. And what do you know - she had a new home within a few hours (thank you again to my newest collector!) You are invited to view Hope...