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New Studio Being Built
New Studio in Progress
The contractor said he is going to start this coming week! Can’t wait to get settled into my new digs. Hopefully, everything will be organized and neat. Wonder how long it will take to get the studio to feell like home? Artists can be finicky when it comes to arrangement of their good stuff!
I have a beautiful library table that will find its new home in my studio! Now I just have to think about getting my easels set up, shelving built, and a storage closet designed as well. It will be a pleasure to have a sink at my disposal rather than running back into the main part of the house. Oh, the possibilities are endless. Floor samples are sitting in the unfinished space and it is time for me to pick out which one I want. Decisions, decisions abound.
We’re Having a Heat Wave
It has been so hot here in Georgia that going outside to paint is out of the question!
I had plans to Plein Air south of the city at Reynolds Nature Preserve and we had to cancel because it was just too darn hot. Oh well, back to the studio to work on some portraits! Nature will just have to wait.
Painting Among The Plants
Last Saturday some wonderful plein air artists and I painted at The Lost Mountain Nursery in Dallas, Georgia. The customers were shocked to find us scattered throughout the natural landscape of this incredible nursery. It is not your box store nursery…but rather plants set in vignettes that lend themselves to beautiful interpretation in paint!
I kept getting the question, “What are you doing here?” to which I responded , just having a good time painting the beautiful surroundings. People were astonished at the work being done by the various artists and many compliments were given! I look forward to many more days painting in the beautiful sunshine in places near and far.
Katie Gronsbell creates artwork depicting places she has visited around the world. The sounds, smells and images of each locale are represented in the intriguing pastel paintings, as well as the charcoal and pencil drawings that she produces.
Katie also portrays the human figure in various poses . These poses indicate a wide variety of settings. The journey begins with models in studio settings and continues with representations of a variety of people from places near and far. One can notice the application of value, color, and temperature that she uses in her paintings to whisk the viewer away to another location in the world. Enjoy being transported on the vicarious journey when viewing each of her artistic creations.