Kate J Hollingsworth
art + travel + photography
Tag: art
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Paintings and Palettes: New Videos
Happy Friday! I mentioned earlier this week that I’d been working on a video all about watercolor palette set-up, and I’m excited to share it now! [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dpw3vpuNGIg?ecver=2] And last week’s video, in case you missed it, was an acrylic cloud painting tutorial for beginners. This is an easy painting using only a handful of…
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New Spring 2018 Botanical Watercolors
Hi there! Hope you are having a great week so far. It has been warm and sunny this week here in Morro Bay, CA and I have been enjoying spending time outside! You might have seen on instagram lately that I picked up a lot of Winsor and Newton watercolor paint that I bought on eBay a…
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Painting the California Coastline – Part 2
I’m back with another update on my California Coastline art collection! In Part 1, I talked about some of the things that happen before any paint gets on the canvas. Here in Part 2, I’ll show some behind-the-scenes process for how I prepare my canvases. In general, I’ll prepare my canvases with a couple of rounds of…
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Ocean Painting Time-lapse
Hi guys, hope you are having great week so far! It’s *almost* Friday and I am excited about that! Earlier this week, I wrote about the preparation steps that are part of the process for creating an art collection. Today I’m sharing a time-lapse video of one of the California Coastline paintings: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGzHwTDwdb8] In…
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Painting the California Coastline – Part 1
I’m working on an art collection inspired by the Central Coast area of California in and around San Luis Obispo county. While I’ve been living in Morro Bay for a couple of months, I’ve been especially inspired by the ocean and the colors that form where the sky meets the water on the horizon. I…
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Painting Demo in Minnesota
Last weekend, I headed to Northfield, Minnesota to check out the Defeat of Jesse James Day Festival and to do another live painting! This is my fiancé’s hometown, so getting to talk about art in the area he grew up in was extra-cool. We made a time-lapse of the painting from start to finish –…
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Middleton Festival and Live Painting
Wanted to share some photos from this past weekend at the Middleton Good Neighbor Festival! I also made a time-lapse/video of the live painting I did on Sunday – you can check it out at the end of this post. I spent Saturday painting miniature watercolor flowers/cacti to hand out…. And on Sunday, I did…
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Watercolor Floral Process Video
Took a step back from the travel photos/videos I’ve been editing lately and made this process video of an 11 x 14″ floral watercolor painting. I had fun putting this together – hope you enjoy it! [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCFCJqaOSYI?ecver=2]
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Sights and Sounds of Florence
I got to spend one Saturday in Florence, Italy – a city steeped in the history of art, music, politics, and Italian culture. In the pedestrian streets around Florence’s famous art galleries, every square foot is filled with musicians and souvenir reproductions of famous paintings for sale…. Walking through the city, there are pops of…
