Paintings With Soul

make her yours see her progression reel one - painting the fawn reel two - painting the background Fleeting, 20”x20”, acrylic and human emotion on cradled wood panel, $1900, available through my website (where you can view in situ and zoom into the painting’s surface). Painting will ship mid-November and arrive wired and ready to hang. S&H inside the contiguous US is on me. Hawaiian, Alaskan and Canadian shipping available at additional cost. Until Blogger allows the blocking of Ai scraping/training, I am limiting information shared here to low res images and basic details. The full backstory of the painting accompanied by in process photos and live painting footage is over on 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

  Fly Away, 12”x12”, acrylic and human emotion on flat panel, $800, available through my website. S&H inside the contiguous US is on me. Hawaiian, Alaskan and Canadian shipping available at additional cost. Until Blogger allow the blocking of Ai scraping/training, I will no longer be posting the back stories of my work here. You can, however, get the full story like in the past 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

  Chicory, 24”x24”x1”, acrylic, pure human creativity and a tenacious handful of roadside weeds on cradled wood panel, sides painted a variety of blues and browns to coordinate with the painting, $2400, available through my website. Chicory will arrive wired and ready to hang. S&H inside the contiguous US is on me. Hawaiian, Alaskan and Canadian shipping available at additional cost. Until Blogger allow the blocking of Ai scraping/training, I will no longer be posting the back stories of my work here and share low res images. You can, however, get the full story like in the past 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

  Due to Blogger allowing Ai scraping/training, I am not 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 Cirrus, 24x20, acrylic and pure imagination on panel, $1500, available exclusively through my website. S&H inside the contiguous US is on me. Hawaiian, Alaskan and Canadian shipping available at additional cost. Some pieces evolve and take shape fairly quickly, others take their darned sweet time. This one took about a year. When this happens, I think it has something to do with my ability to understand the concept and then apply the proper technique/sensibilities so as to do it justice. The idea behind paintings like Cirrus show up and get me all tingley to make them, and along the way I struggle with doing so because I haven’t yet learned what they require. Cirrus required a tamping down of color (I changed my color choices in January to help me figure out how to do just this), a better understanding of basic value shapes (something the Bear+Mask pieces have been guiding me towards over the past 5 months) and reveling in the relationship between ha...

After last night’s lunar eclipse it seemed fitting to share a lunaresque (yes I’m making up words, but it totally fits!) painting. This is Possibilities (available for purchase), a 24” acrylic painting done with love and pure imagination on a cradled round panel. I make art to talk about happenings. Last fall I was busy painting things like this one above (yes, she’s circular just like the moon), Selenite Moons , Moonstruck , Orbiting , Pleiades and others in response to that eclipse and a subsequent string of super moons. In my mind, an artist’s job, my job, is to share my journey by making art reflecting what’s it’s like to be alive today. The things that pique my interest and tug at my heart. Sometimes the happenings are as basic as the first good snowfall of the season , sometimes they are a bit more complex like concern for children caught up in warzones . But when I find myself tangled in feels - whether they be joy or otherwise - I reach for my brushes. They give me a...

check her out, make her yours Metanoia, 12x12, acrylic on panel, $800, available exclusively through my website. S&H inside the contiguous US is on me. Hawaiian, Alaskan and Canadian shipping available at additional cost. Metanoia is ancient Greek meaning profound transformation. Something I am really aching to see in our world. This little one was borne from studying, extracting, and weaving together passages from past paintings and drawings. I am so enjoying the review of prior pieces, building little puzzles from their bits and filling my new sketchbook with possibilities. Metanoia is available for purchase on my website where you can also view her in a room setting or get your nose right up into the marks. In addition to the two new Bear paintings released in August, I completed a number of pet portrait commissions. I opened up six months of my calendar year to these and have one single spot remaining. Is it yours? message me for details and get started collecting your ph...

  check her out, make her yours Wish, 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. I voted Tuesday in the primaries here in Michigan (along with My Better Half - this was the second time he, as a new US citizen, was able to vote, and it is wonderful to share this together). I may be a glutton for punishment, but I felt a sense of hope after doing so - not just because his voice is now counted, but because we do have a say in what we want for our communities. In a world that seems hell bent on all sorts of horrors, Hope is a powerful thing. That’s what this painting is all about - the fervor behind a wish, and the agency to manifest it. Wish is available for purchase on my website where you can an also view her in a room setting or get your nose right up into the marks...

check her out, make her yours Flutter, 12x12, acrylic on cradled panel (no need to frame, painting will arrive wired and ready to hang), $950, available exclusively through my website. S&H inside the contiguous US is on me. Hawaiian, Alaskan and Canadian shipping available at additional cost. NOTE: I have a 20” similar (unfinished) painting, along with a 6” square piece. Neither of these are currently available . I first painted Butterfly Masks on Bear this last spring. The results were intriguing to me, but I was particularly challenged by my treatment of Bear and Butterfly as two separate living beings. That prevented me from allowing the collision to become something new and evocative. I switched out Butterfly with florals and sky, knowing I could take artistic license with those forms and not have a mutilated life on my hands, and had multiple goes at various iterations. I also was inspired by the varied life forms in the Dungeon Crawler Carl  series of books (which I ...