Paintings With Soul

check her out, make her yours 16x20, acrylic on panel, $1150 to the first asking nicely. This price includes s&h inside the contiguous US. Hawaiian, Alaskan and Canadian shipping available at additional cost. Votive can ship at the end of March 2026. So it’s the Year of the Fire Horse, a time of intense, transformative energy. Perhaps I am particularly attuned, being born a Fire Horse. Regardless, I am reveling in the various ways to embrace what this year may reveal for me and my art (I find it serendipitous that this is also my 25th year in business - a milestone celebrating durability and strength - colliding with a calendar year of passion, independence and risk taking). This new painting Votive is the embodiment of lighting a candle to mark something of deep significance. Perhaps it is a celebration. The beginning of a ritual. In memory of a loved one. Instigation of change. This painting is my prayer for the world, but also it is an open prayer for the viewer. For whatever th...

    ABOVE, detail of "Morning Rush Hour," previously shared with the working title "Collected"), from "The Saratoga Series," 12" x 24", acrylic on museum quality panel, inspired from photos I shot in the early morning on the back side of Saratoga Race Track, $749. BELOW, complete painting.  Inquiries may come  to me.   In process pics are  on Facebook  - there's a mess of them!   And now I'm off to paint a couple of commissioned portraits. Then it'll be back to the track scenes for a bit. And I'll squeeze in some new Ball Dogs, too.   Thanks for supporting my artwork, Kim ksantini@turtledovedesigns.com  

  "You're Not Listening....," 7" x 16", depicting mustangs, done in acrylics on museum quality panel, $549 to the first asking nicely.    In process views of this painting are available on  the studio Facebook page .   Inquiries may always come  to me .       It's been a rough day - between hormonal teens, computer problems, calendar conflicts and other goodies - but I persevered.   That's where the discipline of painting daily did me some good. Once I made it to the easel and got a couple layers of paint down, I found my groove.   Here's to you finding yours (and a good nite's sleep for all involved, so that tomorrow will be a better day!), Kim ksantini@turtledovedesigns.com  

NEARLY FINISHED: "Gentle Breeze (Nitro)," from the "Black and Whites" series, 8" x 10", portrait of a horse, done in Golden Open Acrylics on Ampersand Gessoboard. Almost completed - and can be pre-purchased for $469. Please send your inquiries to me . Those of you who follow the studio on Facebook heard me bragging last week about an ambitious piece I started. Monday had me lamenting about a painting that was giving me problems. They were one and the same, the piece I'm sharing with you today. First it sunk deep into "The Uglies" - that stage where the artist is still working things out, and nothing quite yet meshes or works visually. Every piece goes through this phase - it's just that some linger longer than others. And Nitro refused to budge from "The Uglies." And I didn't know how to fix him. Over multiple days, I studied the piece in a mirror, upside down, and from my periphery. I used red cellophane to work out i...