All posts tagged: inspiration

The person behind the paintings.

I follow so many kinds of blogs, from other art blogs, to fashion, cooking, health, gossip, news, and personal blogs. The kind that capture my heart are always the personal blogs. They keep me returning to hear how someones life develops, how their projects have panned out and this makes me see the connection between them and the work they are doing. I look out for their next update and I think it is a wonderful thing that people can share their life and what they love to do, with others who feel the same. I have recently fully set up my own personal website that serves as an online portfolio for my paintings. But the community I have noticed on wordpress is a friendly and responsive one that has already helped me better my paintings and gain new subjects to work with. Interaction with people on the same level and enjoying the same things is what keeps me posting and updating. For this reason, I want my posts to be rich in substance for …

King Fishers Oil Painting

A recent painting of mine, two king fishers, one male and one female. 🙂 In terms of artistic flair, movement, texture and observation I am most proud of this piece. As part of my lovely British Wildlife series I am exciting to have this painting up for sale. Created with oil paints, 32″x40″ inches Let me know what you think of it!   for sale at http://www.katyjadedobson.com http://www.facebook.com/katyjadedobsonart   Katy x    

Happy New Year!

Apologies for my silence, things were dormant as I dusted off my official website in prep for 2013 🙂 take a look at my simplified and improved website http://www.katyjadedobson.com to see my first blog post, new sections, and info on up and coming projects. A few new oil paintings have gone down incredibly well so head over to my facebook page (www.facebook.com/katyjadedobsonart) to see my newsest creations 🙂 This is me beavering away at some of my British Wildlife Collection paintings. Enjoy, Katy x

Architectural Art

I have lived the best part of the last 3 years with students studying architecture. What I learnt by the time these people graduated was very much different to what I had envisioned upon our first meeting. In this field, creativity does hold boundaries. There are practicalities, formalities and imbedded occurances that cannot be escaped. This does not make the field any less creative, but makes for art that can be and will be used. The idea of space, human interaction and flow within this space is intensely fascinating and often overlooked. Discourse involving the ‘charactor’ of housing is thought to be down to the location,  interior design and decor or interior architecture, but not often seen as possibly the general architecture of the building. The energy and the vibe that the space between two walls, calculated for either practical boundary reasons, or purposefully mapped out can generate this vibe that we can relate to and feel comfortable in. Pete Jellitsch     The hand drawn images by architect Peter Jellitsch above are based on wind behavior. …