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Below -Printed on a small card

Boy and Girl

Portrait of a couple I met a few weeks ago, they recently became engaged. The background is a rainy spring day... raining flowers.

Marching band

Current painting of a marching band 10x14. I did this in gouache and acrylic paint. I have been painting with gouache for a few years now; I use acrylic paint as a base then use gouache on top to create a smooth look on textured watercolor paper. The second painting was the original I did about three years ago. This painting is much smaller and is acrylic, ink and gouache. I stopped using inks in my paintings because I think the final colors are unpredictable. I do like both paintings, the character designs haven’t changed too much. I do like that older version of that dinosaur and lion.

Scarf

One last winter painting before summer.

Recently I had some help coloring one of my drawings. My four year old cousin, Mia, did a very nice job. When I asked her why she didn’t paint one part of the dinosaur she replied “because that part I meant to be white.” She is quite the artist.

On Beaches

This is everything that reminds me of the beach in a pattern-like painting. This was done with Gouache and acrylic on heavy water color paper. I painted five beach birds, including a black headed gull ( I always see these at the Jersey shore, they are those noisy small seagulls that aren’t afraid to steal your grapes. ) Also a common seagull, a black beaked brown gull and a sand piper ( the little beach birds).Finally a Pelican, because I love them most.- ( you wont see them in Jersey or Delaware ). Other elements in the painting are a blue crab, a horseshoe crab , hermit crab, six shells including a conch and mussel, different seaweeds, a piece of drift wood and a starfish. I am glad it’s almost time for the beach.

New Website for spring

I made a new website, It took about a whole weekend. So many images to save and so many links to set. Gaah. Hopefully it was time well spent. I added more of my recent work to the site. There is a picture of me on it as well. haha. There are glitches in some of the rollover images. I'm not really sure how this happens, As long as the links work I'm ok with it. I need a break from looking at the computer.!
http://www.kaitlynmccane.com/

Many Fish

This is a painted pattern of fishes. They are simple fish made up of lines. Working on a piece like this is a little tedious but I guess its good practice. I like the finished piece. I tried to count how many fish are there but got mixed up. I know there are at least 30. Or 30ish. splash splash

Sofa

Gouache painting on watercolor paper.

Good Friend

Friends of my family lost a family member last week. Our friends black lab Shadow who I knew as a puppy had passed away. Shadow lived a long happy life with her family. The most interesting thing about this dog is her official name really wasn't Shadow! The dogs official name was, Gold And Silver Wind That Blows Through The Trees Down Yonder, Three Days Past.... ! ..! This was a bit much to call for her to come , so she was fitted with the nickname Shadow. When I found out she passed away, I decided to do this piece for her family. It was a gouache painting colored with digital muted colors. Also I added her "Full" name to the left. She also sits beside two small gold and silver trees. This friend will be missed by all who gave her a pet on the top of her head. (For the Keane's)

Cool cats print

I recently donated this print. Christine Danek a member of scbwi and a YA writer, contacted me and asked if i wanted to take part in a blogger contest . Her blog has a large following, as it turns out the winner is from Utah, she is now the owner of this print. : )
Special thanks to Christine for contacting me to take part in her contest.

Nine Ball Players

This is a piece I did for spring. It is a whole team of nine baseball players in striped uniforms, including caps. It’s much like a pattern of animals and objects. The animals I choose for the team (ha) are giraffe, elephant, kangaroo, turtle, donkey, bear (who, I think I like the most ) goose, pelican and gator . The other elements in the picture are baseball related. Some grass tuffs, small diamond shapes, a bat , base ball , home plate , baseball mitt ( ~~ which I placed right above the elephants trunk~ because I think it would be most awesome for an elephant to be holding a baseball mitt, its too funny an idea! I might do a follow up piece with just elephants and baseball…heehee ) Everything was painted on the same piece of water color paper the only things added by computer were the diamonds because they were a last minute detail I decided to use . The “All Stars” lettering under the bear was also added afterward. I think I will put this image on my etsy for the spring.

Three Billy Goats

I wanted to paint a children’s story last month. I chose the three billy goats. I love this story.
This was a painting I have wanted to do for a long time. I did the sketches around January but didn’t want to start a big painting. So recently one weekend I decided to just do the painting. In the story, the troll lives under the bridge. This is why I put the little house under the bridge.
The painting is 10x16 and is gouache acrylic and acrylic paint.
Was a lot of fun.

Three billy goats sketch