Pixelated Palette Blog

This particular artwork was named in honor of the singing group, “The Coasters“. Some of you younger people might not know them but they had some great hits way back when… (way back, way back - click the link and select an album of theirs and you can listen to a few musical excerpts.)

But they also remind me of fabric circles, like my mom and grandmother used to make before they sewed them together to make those wonderful quilts!

The color scheme of this artwork with its rainbow of colors, both muted and bright, works very well and the whole piece comes together in a wonderful harmony. The 3D effect of  each ‘coaster’ and the layering of one on top of the other in a beautiful spiral pattern gives a dramatic look to the art and adds lots of visual interest.

 Comments to date at Imagekind are: Absolutely fabulous! All the Best. - This is my favorite! Very cheerful, lots of motion! - Wow your work is amazing. I love fractals and you have mastered the technique :)  - Fantastic work!  - lovely ! nice colours  - Very cool  - Captivating and mezmerizing image!  - Amazing.

 Needless to say this sort of reaction to my work pleases me very much! I hope you enjoy this as much as they did!

Those of you who haven’t visited my galleries lately at Imagekind may not have seen some of my latest artwork, so I’ll include some of my latest in a few of these blog posts.

 This latest I call “Shellfish Dream” and it took me a few weeks to complete. It was a bit difficult to get the segments exactly how I wanted them to look, and to get the reflections to look as if the surface had some depth to it, almost like porcelain. No such shell exists, as it’s composed of four spirals not one. I hope you enjoy it!

I entered an online art contest at ‘A Singular Creation’ in March. The theme was ‘Geometric Shapes and Fractals”. There were 165 entries and some terrific competition. I’m extremely pleased to have won First Place with my artwork ‘Dragon Skin’! Someone left a comment on the piece “Great composition, great colours, great pattern, great everything. It’s a beauty.” (View a larger version and other comments.) After winning ‘Best of Show’ last month, this make back-to-back top honors for my art! My next piece might have to be titled ‘Tickled Pink!”.

A lot has happened since my last post. In February I entered the 2008 Fine Art Show at the Heritage Museum. It is sponsored every year by the local art league.  There were 120 entries plus a youth division. This was the first show I had entered and the art consisted of paintings, watercolor, mixed media, photography, stained glass, metal work and pottery. You can see some of the winning artwork at http://gval.org/show.php.

At the awards ceremony, as they handed out ribbons and went through my category (there were prizes for each category of art) without mention of my work, I felt disappointed but thought “Well, it’s my first show and I’ve got some stiff competition”. After handing out all of the category awards and by the time they handed out the ‘People’s Choice’ award I had pretty much resigned myself to the fact that I wasn’t taking anything home except the experience. Then they announced the ‘Best of Show’ and I was shocked to hear my name called out! I was grinning from ear to ear and was thrilled to get top prize in the first show that I entered!

 I had submitted three artworks and the winner was ‘Gooey Chocolate Caramel Nougat #1′, a small version of which is embedded. To see a larger version with more detail, follow the link to the piece in my online gallery. The other work I had submitted was ‘Sinuosity #1‘ and ‘Dimensional Peek #1‘.

My 2008 Calendar for Art by Kinnally is now available at Zazzle. Have a peek

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Get this custom calendar
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The Mensa Phoenix chapter sent out an image of my artwork Sinuosity #1, along with a little note mentioning my being featured artist for a day at Imagekind, and for the month in my local art league. It goes out to about 600 people and has links to Daniel’s blog “Art That Doesn’t Suck“, Sinuosity, and my main gallery. Alright!!! A little more SEO never hurts.

I’m pleased that artist, writer and online entrepreneur Daniel M. Clark chose one of my pieces, Sinuosity #1 for his art blog, Art That Doesn’t Suck - October 20, 2007, for the week of Oct 20th, 2007. Thank you Daniel!

If you’re an artist that is a member of imagekind.com, then please check out our artist’s forum where we collaborate on various projects, such as group calendars. Stop by and see what we’re up to!

Other artist’s blogs connected with this project are:
http://www.dlkeur.com/dlkeur-blog/
http://www.zentao.com/art-blog/
http://StacyLeeArt.blogspot.com

Here’s a new image that I’m getting very positive feedback about! People seem to enjoy its sleekness and rich look. It’s very stylish. I love this image, and I hope you’ll find it enjoyable too. I’m planning on making more artwork along these lines.
View the artwok in my gallery here.

Art by Kinnally™

I’m very overdue in keeping this blog up to date. I’ve added several new pieces of artwork to my galleries at http://kinnally.imagekind.com. Please check them out. They are the result of many hours of effort, and I hope you enjoy them!

And I was the Featured member at Imagekind.com for a day! I spotted it accidently one morning. I’m very pleased with this as there are so many artists to choose from at Imagekind and they have to really like your art in order to be selected. Have a great day!