superkantastic

Ever since I was a teenager, about once or twice a year I suddenly get this uncontrollable urge to paint.  Like, BING! I have an idea and I want to paint it.  Since this doesn’t come around too often, when I feel like I “have” to paint, I’ve learned I better pick up that brush and go at it– because the inspiration seems to go as quickly as it came, and in the past I’ve missed that window more than once with regret.

This time was a little different than just painting– it was part an idea I kept writing down over and over, it was part technique I had already done before, it was part inspiration from something I saw on vacation, it was part my stash of cute, un-purposed fabric, part painting and part embroidery.

[ photos: Trip Cook ]

So far, there are eight pieces (four 16″x20″s and four smaller ones in various sizes) and I might make more, I might not.  I decided I was going to sell the entire series (separately) at the crafty open house I’ve been selling at the last few years (Christmas at the Ritz), and anything that doesn’t sell there will be listed on Etsy around the beginning of the new year.  I really like this mixed media series, it feels so good to have executed an idea so satisfactorily. (Is that a word?)  Photos when everything is complete!

- Kan