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  • Nyxie portrait

    Finally completed after two years, I love this painting – with all its flaws.
    Nyxie
    Oil on canvas
    30 x 30 inches

  • Doodles


    Watching tv, doodling……good for the soul.

  • Pet Portraits

  • The Court Jester and The Queen

    Dalmatians with this much personality demand larger-than-life paintings.
    Ziggy and Dottie, commissioned 12/2012.
    30 x 30 inches, acrylic on canvas.

  • iPad in the Figure Studio

    I decided to venture over to Hipbone Studio with my iPad2. I’d just downloaded Sketchbook Pro, and am still adapting to the tool. I look forward to the day I can draw and paint with less effort – changing brush size, opacity, color still feel cumbersome. It’s a great app, but I do wish there were a fabulous pressure-sensitive stylus. This looks incredibly promising: Jaja.

    Sketchbook’s set of Bug brushes come in handy to keep the blog family-friendly.

    30 minute pose

    10 minute pose

  • Max Folks

    Riding the Max, obsessed with my device. Watching folks watching their devices.

     
    Created on iPad 2 with SketchBook Express, by Autodesk

  • New Work

    Rose in Winter

    Oil on canvas
    20 x 24 in.

    On View at at Orleans Candle Co.
    5036 N. Lombard Portland, OR 97203
    http://orleanscandleco.com/

     

    Resonate 2

    Oil on canvas
    20 x 24 in.




  • The Last Summer


    with Netflix in my mailbox. Or maybe not – I adore Netflix. In any case I  was moved to take out my oil pastels and mess around; it’s inevitable that someday DVDs will go the way of VHS.

  • Talking Heads

    Sketched quickly with a Wacom tablet in Photoshop.

    July 6th on Tavis Smiley.

  • Recently Sold


    Resonate, 24 x 30 inches, Mixed media on canvas, by Karen Jones


    More work on view at Orleans Candle, 5036 N. Lombard Portland, OR 97203
    http://orleanscandleco.com/

    I had to make this painting to express a visual obsession with tuning forks as a symbol of a singular vibration. It’s about working from love and from the deepest part of yourself. Leaving it in the caring hands of Tanya and Jonathan at Orleans eased my anxiety around letting it go.