There is an update on our master bath progress at the bottom of this post. Let me tell you about the new abstract painting I made for over the bench/tower combination in our master bathroom that Frank and I built in there. Here ...

I have a been very inspired by flamingos lately. Are they the new owl? I don't know, but I love them. And I wanted one for our newly re-done entry. I have seen flamingos here and there in the last couple of months and I was very ...

This is our new entry hall. This is where we greet our guests and put on our shoes. And take them off. This is what it looked like when we moved in. In 2011, we added the wall on the right. Then, we built the bench which is ma ...

Lately I have been very inspired by the long time hugely popular trend of turning photos into watercolor paintings. I got very excited when Julia at Cuckoo 4 design posted these fabulous Waterlogue'ed watercolor images of her hai ...

While taking that art class last year, after drawing some animals from photos like this pencil drawing of my son or this acrylic giraffe, and even free handing this pastel cow, I got the insane notion (hind sight ...

A while back I created a real logo for my site - gasp - and I threw a re-design on my blog to go with it AND I made a blog card design as well. Then I ordered the cards at Overnightprints.com and waited a couple of days and t ...

First a shout out to my pal Gretchen! Last week she showed off their gorgeous, new, hand made, kitchen table. I love how it turned out. I am sharing it with you because Gretchen was inspired by my barnwood color staining idea, whi ...

When Kate over at Farmhouse38 sent me the picture of her Clementine above (inserted), what I immediately liked about is was the awesome pin light around her as she was photographed against the sun. I love the glow it brings to h ...

I have been on an owl kick since 2007. What can I tell you. Here is a pastel that I made earlier this year and I took some step by step photos while I made it at art class. Isn't he handsome? First I sketched him. Then I added ...

I set up another blog here on my site. It is called B's Corner. He often asks me to put stuff on the blog, so I thought I would create a home for him. I will also be using this space for all his artwork, projects and other stuff s ...

My son B and I happened to walk by an art gallery the other day and we just had to go in and see more because the art on display was so interesting. What had caught our eye was this terrific artist, Robert Deyber, who has created ...

My new cards arrived. Yay! As much as I love the web, it's nice to hold a printed piece every now and again. What would you call this? Since this blog is not a business. It's just something I do for fun. Web card? Calling card ...

So while I was at it, I also added an index page for the posts about my artwork. I will fill in as I get pieces photographed. This is what I have so far. And it works in the same way as the recipe index. Clicking on a thumbnail ...

I drew this butterfly (click to view larger) And then I used part of it in my new webdesign for my portfolio and blog site over at katjakromann.com Check it out! ...

This Young House and Bower Power are throwing a link party starting today. So I thought I would try it out and entered my Antique Farmhouse inspired Cow and Giraffe paintings/drawings You can join too. here, here, here and her ...