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Stardust

 

Stardust


Stardust, 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.


Recently I led my online students in an art journaling exercise centered on our being made of stardust. Clearly, that idea followed me to the easel, where this lovely showed up.


Here’s the thing - this painting started out as a mistake. My concept of two horses looking off to the right was meant to include more sky and both horses in their entirety. I quickly realized that an 18x24 was not the right shape for this idea - so I scaled it up to a 24x36 panel (and Earth and Moonhappened). a few days later I grabbed the panel with the discarded sketch, intending to pop her into my paint-over pile, and was pulled in - she was not Earth and Moon, but she was significant in her own way. I couldn’t see what that was but I sensed it. Humoring my muse, I popped the panel on the easel and cracked open my palette. Over the period of two days (and nearly 60 years of practice!), she became Stardust.


She comprises an online lesson about her evolution and the various paintings that supported her appearance. 


But meanwhile, you are invited to view Stardust on my website,inside a room setting and up close. The link to purchase her is also there. 


Let me know if you would like a payment plan (30% non refundable deposit with the balance plus shipping paid in full inside 12 months time). Repeat offenders, i.e. returning collectors, please use “COLLECTOR10” at checkout for 10% off the acquisition of original artwork.


Thanks so much for your interest in my artwork. And Happy New Year.

Love you, Kim


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