tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31299573054950149482024-03-05T02:32:12.462-08:00Canvas in Color.Kara Spicuzza Welbornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04178534888863126660noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3129957305495014948.post-9576941885187747912012-09-17T16:27:00.002-07:002012-09-17T16:27:22.997-07:00A Very Lucky Landscape.<div style="text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I call it lucky, because it reeaally, really is! I think this is the very first landscape I've completed that has made it into a frame instead of quickly being covered up with whatever color of paint I have nearest me [because I can't bear another moment of looking at it]! So this is indeed a major accomplishment for me.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">We took a trip out to Kenosha Pass about a week ago to see the Aspens starting to change colors. We knew we were hitting it a liiittle early, but we wanted to make sure we got the chance to see at least SOME of it before this baby comes and all of a sudden those pretty yellow leaves were gone. Luckily, it was still gorgeous. And we're hoping to take another drive sometime in the next week - as long as labor isn't kicking in.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">All that to say, the Aspens have inspired me to NOT throw away this latest landscape painting.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I actually used a lot of plastic bags to texture over the whole canvas - starting with the dark background colors, and moving on to the yellows of the tree tops.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Right off the bat you might think, hey, I've seen this one already. Buuut ya haven't. Not exactly, at least! This was actually the first New Orleans/jazz inspired painting I ever worked on. It was gifted to my in-laws a couple of Christmas' ago, and they so graciously let me steal it back recently to have it reframed - and I figured I'd take the opportunity to snap some photos and post on the blog about it.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Husb and I talked about not finding out the gender of little babe for about... mmm.. 30 seconds. Props to those who can stand it! But there was just no way. In fact, Ryan secretly researched online how to tell for yourself on an ultrasound what the gender is. So, even if I HAD decided to not know, that little sneak would've secretly known the whole time! Haha. In the end, I think you would have had to be looking at the screen cross-eyed to not see that it was a boy! He's already a little show off.</span></div>
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</i></span></div></div>Kara Spicuzza Welbornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04178534888863126660noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3129957305495014948.post-65567006143824778672012-01-23T10:22:00.001-08:002012-03-27T15:20:40.923-07:00New Orleans.<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Lucky for me, I was born in this crazy city! I have a great big cajun family that loves to play, cook, and curse. I moved away as a kid but took trips back and forth a few times a year until I moved back for college. Since I was a lil' gal, New Orleans has been close to my heart.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">The culture in Louisiana is unlike any other throughout the rest of the country - no exaggeration. And if you've never been there, it's something to see for yourself. The warm weather, the fried food, and mainly, the jazz. You don't have to pay for a show to get it. You just have to go outside and walk around. You're bound to run into somebody, somewhere, who's playing some kind of awesome music.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">And you won't only see it in person - circling Jackson Square you'll see hundreds of different paintings of New Orleans that artists are selling, and many of them are based around jazz. That little walk to see all the art is one of my all time favorite things to do in the city.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><br />
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</i></span></span></div>Kara Spicuzza Welbornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04178534888863126660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3129957305495014948.post-14848647528800016202012-01-17T10:24:00.000-08:002012-01-17T10:24:20.634-08:00Gustav and his Gal.<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">First off, this was not due to my own creativity! Although, I do wish she had been my idea. I painted her after one of my favorites by Gustav Klimt. I think the colors were initially what drew me to this painting. And perhaps that's why my version is an extra bright replica. I spent the whole evening with a friend while working on this piece, and have lots of memories of talking and laughing as she came together.</span></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><br />
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</span></div>Kara Spicuzza Welbornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04178534888863126660noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3129957305495014948.post-35935101530713637192012-01-13T17:40:00.000-08:002012-01-13T17:40:46.504-08:00Bali - It's just how you picture it.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Seven months ago [wow, I can't believe it has been that long], I left for Bali, Indonesia. A 16 hour flight to Tokyo, a 6 hour flight to Singapore, a 12 hour layover, an unfortunate 2 hour delay, and a 2.5 hour flight to Bali, was ALL worth what I was able to see and experience throughout my summer there. I worked as an intern with a church surf ministry/international hostel at the Bali Surf House. Yep, it was as great as it sounds. These people running the Surf House are constantly pouring their energy and love into their guests. It was an experience of a lifetime - no kidding.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">With Bali being an island and all, there are bound to be some fishermen. Bound to be a lot of them. Every day at sunset, the beaches fill up with fishing boats that are pushed into the water by hand. This was one of my favorite photographs from the trip, taken at a beach called Padang Padang (where scenes from <i>Eat, Pray, Love</i> were actually shot!).</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">At Padang Padang, while the sun was still out, sometimes you'd catch the fishermen out in the shallow water with their lines. It's so beautiful that you could literally just hold your camera up and shoot without even looking through the lens. Every angle is a good one. Every sunset makes you want to cry. And almost every picture I took home looks like a preset wallpaper on a Windows computer. I knew that painting something from a place that is so insanely beautiful would be... tough. I chose to do an all blue and white acrylic piece, and with all my initial hesitation, I was surprised at how much I loved its turn out!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</i></span></span></div>Kara Spicuzza Welbornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04178534888863126660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3129957305495014948.post-68201781654434799952012-01-12T17:17:00.000-08:002012-01-12T17:17:07.888-08:00In My Dreams (Literally)<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Since I was a little girl, Europe has seemed this far-off, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">magical paradise where people take naps every day, drink tons of wine, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">are fluent in 7 languages, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">and walk around the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">market </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">buying fresh produce all the time.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Well, apparently it's true!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">At least in Auxey-Duresse</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">s in eastern France. This little gem has a town-wide day of wine tastings... Anybody wanna tell me why we don't do this is America? What a dream come true.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">So with this photograph in mind, and recalling some recently gifted painting knives, I thought I'd give it a shot. I'd never used painting knives before, so I read up in a couple books and did a little YouTube-ing. I went for it, and t</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">his painting ended up being 100% done with knives.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Working with the texture was awesome. I wish the images could better display all of the variation you get from the different types and shapes of knives. Also, the knives don't like to pick up much paint if it's mixed with water, so using my acrylics without any variation of consistency was a big change.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><br />
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</span></div>Kara Spicuzza Welbornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04178534888863126660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3129957305495014948.post-80578492508717394942012-01-11T10:33:00.000-08:002012-01-11T10:33:24.949-08:00The Demand for More Crazy Fingers.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="font: 16.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I had the artsy-est, funkiest roommates ever in college. Each one of us was always bringing out a new creative side in another. Many 'a nights (maybe TOO many 'a nights!) were spent in the living room, drinking wine, and painting/drawing/crafting together. We started off with an "art wall" that was just one single wall, completely covered in art. It eventually turned into all 4 walls of the living room.</span></div><div style="font: 16.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 19.0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: 16.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Danielle was handy with her charcoal.</span></div><div style="font: 16.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">So I gave it a try a couple times, and eventually got this.</span></div><div style="font: 16.0px Georgia; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Choosing colors for him was fun, since he was originally colorless, and the background idea came from a similar color scheme in one of Salvador Dali's paintings.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Love how rustic looking he came out!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Be back soon!</span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e06666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>Kara Spicuzza Welborn</i></span></div>Kara Spicuzza Welbornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04178534888863126660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3129957305495014948.post-9606167950927113962012-01-10T16:59:00.000-08:002012-01-10T17:00:24.408-08:00Vietnam.<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">All the credit for this painting goes to my husband, Ryan. Two years ago he left for a trip around the world - literally. Lucky for me, he took this awesome photograph in Vietnam. Out of all of the insane pictures he shot, she was my first choice in attempting to replicate.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> The funny thing about this painting was the color.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A couple years ago I painted something for my mom that was all blue and white. After that, I got on this crazy blue kick and started doing everything in different shades of blue. She was the first of my paintings since then that was back in full color.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</span></div>Kara Spicuzza Welbornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04178534888863126660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3129957305495014948.post-57711249837566915152012-01-09T22:59:00.000-08:002012-01-09T22:59:51.160-08:00Peru.<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In 2008, I took a trip that would change my life.. in more ways than one!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I flew down south to Lima, Peru for an internship working with an organization named Frontline Peru. We traveled throughout the country working with churches, families, and children - helping in whatever small ways that we could. Cusco was where</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I truly fell in love with this country.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A friend of mine took a photo of a little boy in the streets.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I held the photo dear for years before attempting to paint him.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Not only does this painting bring back a flood of awesome memories from an amazing trip, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">but it reminds me of the summer that I met my (one day) husband! </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Not long after </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">this photograph was taken, I met Ryan in line at the check-in </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">counter in the Lima airport.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Thank God that our flights were delayed!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We sat on the floor and talked until it was time to part ways.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">3 years later, we got married.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">To me, this painting stands for one of the biggest learning experiences of my life thus far. It reminds me of amazing travels and time well spent with people who were so satisfied in having so much less.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It reminds me of meeting my husband.</span></div>Kara Spicuzza Welbornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04178534888863126660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3129957305495014948.post-39234916207006955642012-01-09T11:51:00.000-08:002012-01-09T23:01:20.798-08:00The Child.<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I had so much fun with this painting. Who didn't love this book as a kid? I think it was the first time I watched the movie preview that I decided to paint something out of the book. After flipping through, I decided on the cover.</span><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The characters in this story are so easy to relate to. Especially after seeing the movie, I felt so much like Max. Being at a point in life that was super confusing and unreliable, I just felt like running - not away from my problems, but to an adventure and place where I could refocus. So, I painted.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div>Kara Spicuzza Welbornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04178534888863126660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3129957305495014948.post-1715157509007669432012-01-08T16:41:00.000-08:002012-01-08T16:41:00.485-08:00The Beginning.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I've always colored in books, sketched on the backs of tests, and drawn with pen on the palm of my hand. But it wasn't until college that I really started to paint. I'd had a lesson here or there, and grew up with some talent in my family, so art was usually near. But there is something that stirs inside of you when, for the first time, you finish painting something, leave it be, and then return to it the next day, STILL feeling as though there is nothing about it that you'd like to change. Most of the time, you catch something you should have touched up better, or a line or shadow that's not quite right. You could go on for months, looking at that painting on the wall and pointing out what you should have done to make it better. But looking at YOUR painting, and knowing that it's complete, is the most satisfying feeling.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The first time I ever felt that feeling was when I sat at my parents dining room table, Googled "Rastafarian guy," and decided to paint.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">He was one of the first attempts I had ever made with acrylics, and I haven't left them since. If this painting one day sells, it will be hard to let go of. Feeling so proud of my work after finishing this piece was one of the reasons I fell in love with painting. I know it may seem funny to be so sentimental about some color on a brush, but soon after this point, art became an emotional outlet for me. A stress relief and an ego booster. The satisfaction that comes from finding that outlet is... awesome.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Hope you love him as much as I do!</span></div>Kara Spicuzza Welbornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04178534888863126660noreply@blogger.com0