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Sketch book – Spring 2016

May 27, 2016September 8, 2016 kroset Leave a comment

My son had some extra paint leftover on his palette and I still needed to do my sketch book art for the day so I decided to try my own replication of Van Gogh’s famous Starry Night painting. I was pretty pleased how it turned out.

It’s amazing what you can create when you are just trying to use up some leftover paint.

Sketch book – Winter 2015-16

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Sketch book – Fall 2015

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Sketch book – March 2015

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Sketch book – Feb. 2015

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Felting

January 3, 2015March 23, 2021 kroset

This was my first go at felting coaster sized pieces. I think this set turned out great!

Create

January 1, 2014March 23, 2021 kroset

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This mixed media piece consists of magazine imagery, journal pages, and written pages from Julia Cameron’s “The Artist’s Way” book (around edges) which I was going through around the time I designed this piece. I love the freedom I allowed myself with the red colors painting over the collaged pieces combined with the very orderly painted word, “Create.”

When I showed this piece to my brother he asked me if my 3-year-old son helped me with it. Since I felt like a child again when designing this piece I consider that to be the best compliment ever!

Kitchen cabinet vent

May 26, 2013March 23, 2021 kroset

This was a creative solution to cover a vent hole on a kitchen cabinet under our sink in our old house. It is so much nicer to look at this then the old, broken and ugly previous vent. You don’t notice it initially but if you look closely you will see this piece has holes all throughout it so that it can serve as a vent.