Category Archives: Fine Art

Checkerboard Watercolor

I guess you’d call this abstract, or maybe a geometrical abstract, or perhaps just art squared? In any case, when I create a watercolor with simple lines like this, it’s even easier to get into the creative flow – it’s … Continue reading

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Tulips and Pearls

Or, an alternate title might be ‘Kristen dabbles in colored pencil and realism’ – but that’s not as catchy. I do love surreal, abstract, and geometrical compositions but sometimes I break it up with some attempts at realism. I went … Continue reading

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Poker Abstract Watercolor

This is another abstract watercolor I completed recently. It didn’t start off as a poker hand (five card stud, apparently) with poker chips; originally I was just playing with shapes and colors, but one doesn’t argue with the art muse, … Continue reading

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Watering the Lawn

I’ve got a number of newly completed works of art to share, most of them abstract watercolors, so I figured I’d start with, what else, an abstract watercolor. I called it “Watering the Lawn” because to me it combines abstract … Continue reading

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Leaf Mosaic

I’m still playing with the idea of angles and lines through shapes, and ended up creating what I’m calling “Leaf Mosaic” – another colored pencil piece. (The original is done on dusty blue-green charcoal paper, so no ‘white’ showing through.) … Continue reading

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