Kelly Kilmer Artist and Instructor

  Throughout the month of May in The Art Life: Find Your Way Workshop , we are working in a series. We paint live every Friday, but we have other weekend sessions for art journaling, salon ...

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  "It's by our imagination that we develop alternatives to our world. It also makes a condition where we can see what has been, what we might become, what we should be." -Wayne Thiebaud  ...

https://kellykilmer.blogspot.com/2024/04/blossoming-ode-to-joy-all-new-painterly.html

  Greetings from Los Angeles!  Tomorrow (Saturday 27 April) at noon PDT, on my BOOKS IN SEARCH OF A GOOD HOME BLOG , I'll be adding these gems to my pile of books that need to fi...

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  Find a playful, colorful meditation space in paper, paint, and pen: JOURNALING FOR YOU:  an all NEW Art Journaling Workshop Series  4th of May 2024 11 am PDT (each session stand...

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 March was busy in THE ART LIFE: FIND YOUR WAY !     We always have LOTS of opportunities for learning, sharing, and creative inspiration in TAL: Find Your Way Workshop Community!...

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(R)EVOLUTIONARY PAGES:  What's Next? AN ALL NEW PWYCW! Now available as a recording!      Come create with me! Perhaps you have a pile of WIP (work in progress) pieces: art jo...

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SOME of the BOOKS from my personal library that I need to downsize. More here.   PAINTED BOOKS Each book is approximately 4 1/2" x 6"  (page size varies in each journal) �...

https://kellykilmer.blogspot.com/2024/03/collage-grab-bags-original-paintings.html

Here's what we did in THE ART LIFE: FIND YOUR WAY for February 2024!   Every Friday, we have a live one hour painting session. For those who can't make the live session or need to rev...

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Painterly Pages with One Brush Saturday 16 March 2024  approximately 2 1/2 hours** 11 AM - 1:30 PM PST        COME PAINT WITH ME!   Create rich, luscious, painterly page...

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  Years ago, I asked for suggestions on art books specifically for painters. I WASN'T looking for how to books. I wanted books that made me feel less alone as an artist, specifically as a p...

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 LITTLE PAINTED LOVE NOTES Saturday 17 February 2024  11 AM - 1 PM PST REGISTRATION IS LIMITED   Who says you should only write love notes once a year and only to other people? ...

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  A look back at some of the work we did in THE ART LIFE: FIND YOUR WAY for January 2024!   Every Friday, we have a live one hour painting session. For those who can't make the l...

https://kellykilmer.blogspot.com/2024/01/a-look-back-tal-find-your-way-january.html

    BEGINNINGS: JOURNALING TO WELCOME THE NEW YEAR: A PWYCW (PAY WHAT YOU CAN)   Now available as a work at your own pace recording:   HOW DO WE WELCOME RITUAL?    HOW DO W...

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  I filmed a mini teaser of my TAL: FIND YOUR WAY WORKSHOP the other day.  You can find it here: This is not demonstrated in the above video, but this is ONE of the samples of the art I...

https://kellykilmer.blogspot.com/2023/12/tal-find-your-way-mini-teaser-workshop.html

  (some of the journals/work created in TAL: Painting by the Season 2023) TAL: Find Your Way 2024   The best journeys are taken with others.   Why?   Because having a commun...

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Greetings from Los Angeles! This SATURDAY, 9 DECEMBER 2023 AT NOON PST, I'll be offering a collection of work from 2023: original paintings (acrylic) art journal pages painted journals ...

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    NEW SATURDAY, 16 DECEMBER 2023 11 AM-1 PM PST: Winter Solstice Mini Art Journal     a pay what you can workshop        WINTER SOLSTICE MINI ART JOURNAL:  A PROCE...

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  I thought that I'd check in and say hi.    What are you working on?   It's been a busy month. Like many of you, I feel pulled in a wide variety of directions with all of the di...

https://kellykilmer.blogspot.com/2023/11/checking-in.html

  NEW SATURDAY, 2 DECEMBER 2023 11 AM-1 PM PST: Book of Intentions     a pay what you can workshop        WITH EACH NEW WORK, I try TO SET THE TONE TO BE ONE OF POSSIBI...

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 NEW SUNDAY, 19 NOVEMBER 2023 11 AM-1 PM PST: BACKGROUNDS BEYOND THE EVERY DAY     a pay what you can workshop      Create captivating and richly layered painted background...

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    NEW*   FRAGMENTS OF MEMORY: AN ART JOURNALING PWYCW A PAY WHAT YOU CAN WORKSHOP   NOW AVAILABLE AS A RECORDING:      “If you ask me what I came to do in this ...

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Becoming O'KeeffeMy Faraway One Modernism and the Feminine Voice: O'Keeffe and the Women of the Stieglitz Circle Portrait of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia O'Keeffe Three Artists (Three W...

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AN ABUNDANCE OF SUNFLOWERS**   A PAY WHAT YOU CAN WORKSHOP   SATURDAY, 14 OCTOBER 2023 11 AM TO 2 PM PDT   (AVAILABLE LIVE AND LATER AS A RECORDING)       Sunflowers are o...

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  I was recently asked for some suggestions for alternative collage imagery. Not everyone has access to books or magazines. So, what are the alternatives?   REMEMBER, IF YOU CAN GLUE IT DO...

https://kellykilmer.blogspot.com/2023/09/how-to-find-collage-images-if-you-dont.html

  NEW  SATURDAY, 30 SEPTEMBER 2023 11 AM-1 PM PDT:   FINDING THE MAGIC: AN ART JOURNALING PWYCW A PAY WHAT YOU CAN WORKSHOP "My destination is always the same but I work out a...

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