September 27 Halloween card making class

 White Pine Bookstore

The start of one of the designs for a Halloween card

 Halloween Card Making class, bring out your dark side with witches and stuff. Fun time you can surprise your friends with your very own hand made card...CHANGE OF DATE MONDAY 26 AT 4:30-7:00

Pet portraits Mixed media

Have Kay paint your furry friend om a 9 x 12 Illustration board, Dog, Cat or Horse.
Email Kay for information.
Over 30 plus years that Kay has been a professional artist, she has painted many of her clients pets. Two examples shown here are mixed media, ink, watercolor, and colored pencil.

To Order a Painting Visit My Etsy store:
etsy.com/KayMurphysStudio

Flat Notes with envelope

5 x 7  Flat note with envelope  available on my etsy store

Three new designs

Finished my Raven today, my next Raven will be in the Birds in Hats series note cards, maybe he will be wearing a derby, hmmm? I can think about that for a while...Hot here in east TN today...








Also my thistle print plus a note-card

 I have been busy for a week, got my Dragonfly note card set-up

Owl and Pumpkin design plus new Cardinals note card

Two new designs will be used as cards and custom stationery. 

New Design watercolors and ink, using metallic watercolors I purchased years ago, always knew they would come in handy. Find items on my zazzle store with this design on them: shoes, clothes,cards,etc.

New Dragonflies note-cards

Today is the day I set-up note-cards and prints, work on my etsy and zazzle shops and hopefully mow the yard, got some of my to-do list done, oh yeah washed two loads of clothes too.... had some fun with this design, another mixed media, colored pencils, watercolor and ink..

Stained glass effect on my mixed media painting

I love Photoshop and the many effects you can achieve using them, some work well, some don't it really it is a trial and error kind of game but fun, I sometimes have to giggle at the results but at least I can always change it back... Now I like this stained glass look better than the regular painting and I can say that as I painted the darn piece, so it's what I am satisfied with... If you can't have fun with your art work what's the point. 

Just thought I would share this with you all.

New Two Thistle Blooms with Dragonfly

New mixed media design I will be using on cards, stationary, print, Check my zazzle store to keep up on New items I have been adding.

http://www.zazzle.com/thistle_and_dragonfly_postage_stamp-172828791649841601?

http://www.zazzle.com/thistle_and_dragonfly_postage_stamp-172828791649841601?

Dragonfly in blues Notecard

Dragonfly painted with acrylics Copper background adds magic to this Dragonfly captured on the turquoise and navy blues. 

I have created a note card from this image so that the magic of colors and Dragonflies may be shared.  

Dragonfly and Thistle design

My newest design for my zazzle shop. Find this design on t-shirts,coffee mugs,note cards and etc.. Start of I'm Scottish designs. more to come....Teaching tomorrow at White Pine Bookstore

My Newest Christmas Card design and more as my life as an artist

This one of those designs that started out as colored pencils, ended up with Watercolor and ink mixed in.

 Available on my Zazzle store as a Christmas card or from me as note cards.

Let me see, what else I can share with you as my life as a artist,

 I studied to be a commercial artist, found out really quick I did like the pressure put on you by the people you had to work for..I liked being my own boss, painting what I wanted too...especially after doing calligraphy in a bible that was to be presented to someone, I sweated bullets doing that and there was the times I did business cards, Oh My I will forget about that.

My late husband, had a lot of faith in my art, we would go to an art show to look and enjoy, on the way back home home he would always say, "Kay you are better than most with your art you need to get out there and show people what you do." Finally I  decided to try a show we spent bogoos of money on display racks, tables and oh yes and van to haul it all in.  My first show was in Knoxville TN., I did enjoy it, made a little money and got bit by the art show bug. Now this was back when Artists Touring Association was was the big thing doing mall show around the country. So off we went, doing the shows.

Then I juried in with Gilmore Shows and Sugar Loaf, that was the main shows I did to make our living. 

More Coming Later Enjoy.

Embossed note cards

 My embossed Birds In Hats series of note cards  Most are available on my etsy store. Next image with a hat on will be a Raven. Check out my etsy store www.KayMurphysStudio.com

My Mocking Bird card is a fun card for the state I live in Tennessee.
 The Cardinal is is for my home state of Virginia.

Tomorrow Teaching a colored colored pencil workshop

I have spent the morning getting things ready for  a colored pencil workshop at White Pine Bookstore.

I have been teaching several classes each month for over a year now have had the best of students and really learn a lot from them and their questions, makes me think about why I do different things in art my way. I have spent all of my life painting and drawing, teaching myself how different mediums work, how to shade, how colors will blend and what works and why it doesn't work. 

My life has been a fun trip, I am now in my 70's my body knows it but somehow my mind still thinks young.

I am still learning..

Scratch-board colored with my Wacom tablet.

I started Teaching myself about 25 years ago how to print after getting disgusted with the run of printing people the world had to offer, last time I had something printed was by a company that had  high recommendations, horse feathers! I was there to proof and this printer had opposite images over top of each other, hmmm now even I knew this would blow the color in one image if you changed it in the other. Well I fussed all the way home till my hubby said when you get home "I want to order that Epson printer and do you own printing". I'm here to tell you as soon as we got home I was on the computer doing just that.  Well, then I had to learn Photoshop. The best move I ever made.

Watercolor Chickadees, licensed to a greeting card publisher for 13 years. 

I have had ball with my art and made a decent living and hope I still have years to go with my teaching and art. I have my own line of Note-cards which I paint, print,  cut, fold and package my-self. More later stay tuned..Kay Murphy-Wallace 2016

Getting on Witches Hat and Pumpkin colored pencil

Getting to work on my Witches Hat and Pumpkin. Got a couple leaves colored, spider web in place. This piece has been fun as I have added a lot of objects I didn't have in the first sketch, thinking about adding an old haunted house and of course the spider and who knows what else...Of this will be Halloween note-cards this fall.

Scratch-board horse

Finally got around to doing more work on this scratch-board of a sorrel horse. This was a teaching lesson( private) had a wonderful student. Love scratch-board.

The start of new colored pencil design Halloween

The start of a new colored pencil design hopefully I will finish it this weekend. I will post the finished design.

New workshop Colored Pencils

My newest colored pencil drawing, this is my teaching drawing for Aug.16 and Aug.23 at White Pine Bookstore. Two session workshop for one price.

Santa cat Christmas card

I will offered this cat in the Santa hat card 5 x 7 size for sale 2016, custom orders only, in this size. 

Cat in a hat, start of a new series

New colored pencil design, the start of a series of animals in hats.

Acrylic class

My acrylic class at White Pine Bookstore. Painting fog in the Smokies was our subject. Had two talented girls.

new card designs

 I have  painting like crazy, my mind is full of ideas for new note-cards. I either have to get it on paper, one way or the other, so today was a painting day. I will later set these up as cards, then print them..

New acrylic Paintings

New acrylic paintings, seascape was my last acrylic painting for a workshop.

Next acrylic workshop subject

Next acrylic workshop Smoky Mountains with fog rolling in. July 26 and August 2 at White Pine bookstore.

Acrylic Workshop students

Two of my students are missing from the picture, wonderful group of ladies all very talented. Next week we are painting a Smoky Mountain scene, fog will be the lesson.

Acrylic Workshop students

Two of my students are missing from the picture, wonderful group of ladies all very talented. Next week we are painting a Smoky Mountain scene, fog will be the lesson.

Seascape finished for acrylic workshop

Acrylic seascape finished for my acrylic workshop at White Pine Bookstore, July 12 and  July 19.
It has been a while since I painted a seascape, I used to be the biggest beach bum, spent my every week-end and vacation at the beach, just walking the beach early mornings collecting seashells, fishing or laying in the sun, oh well my younger days. Long gone...but memories are still there.

Acrylic seascape for workshop

The start of a acrylic seascape for my Acrylic workshop July 12 and July 19 at White Pine Bookstore. As you can see I work from left to right, this is a 12 x 16 canvas, I have done an under-painting of grey blue.  
Hopefully I will finish it this week-end. Stay turned for a finished product soon.

Be a unique artist

 Two of my new "Birds In Hats" series, I have went a step further by embossing my note cards after printing them. Sometimes I think I do more labor on them than I can get money for them. Luckily at shows the buying public has not felt that way so extra time and patience has paid off. I use colored pencils to create the design, scan the original, set up the note card, print, cut and fold, then emboss. Makes me tired writing about it.  Grateful for the creative/artist side that makes me go one step more to be able to produce a better and different kind of art. I love it when I can do something unique and different.

I think that's the name of the game is to create your own brand of art in your own way, try unusual styles to see what sticks, get the name for being unique in your art (original) not a copy of someone else.

Tips on learning to draw

Suggestions on learning to draw

Carry a camera and a sketch book the book does not have to big just so you jot down ideas, colors and etc. 

Get a book bag to carry your supplies in. 

Pencils woodless will work well, a eraser, ink pen ( micron 005 is a great drawing pen) 05 for a technical pencil,x-acto knife to sharpen your woodless pencil. They tend to lose a point easily.   Most of all have fun.

New Drawing tips and Tricks

 Two more of my Tips and Tricks on Drawing. How to use graphite pencil, ink pen,watercolor, and colored pencils to create exciting look.

New workshops Drawing

My latest tips and tricks taught at
White Pine Bookstore. Woodless pencils,technical pencil,ink pen, ink washes,colored pencils and how to burnish you drawings. What spray to seal them with. You will go home with tips and tricks copies and the knowledge of how to do this. May 24, May 31 and June 7. evenings at the bookstore with artist Kay Murphy-Wallace

Newest Bird for my "Birds in Hats" series

Newest bird: Tennessee state bird (Mockingbird) and the state flower (Iris) will soon be available in note cards "My Birds in Hats" series.

New Workshops

Next workshops at White Pine bookstore

April 19-April 26 May 3 Two workshops each Tuesday for three weeks. Mornings Watercolor 10-1:00 Afternoon 1:30-4:30. Pick up information at the bookstore or message me on Facebook.

Next workshops at White Pine bookstore