Light As Love ♥ Calendars - Collection Review #5

2026 calendars will be available via Pre-Order ONLY. When the pre-order window closes, I will create the number of calendars that were ordered - with a few extras to round out the numbers.

Don't wait, just in case!

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Remember the rocking chair I told you about re-homing last week? Get this… the man who received it sent me a message. How often do people DO that?? Almost never! But it was perfectly timed, and made me feel better about the transfer. Whenever a stranger reaches out in some way it always gives me hope for our world, and makes me feel less alone, as a person who loves connection.

 

 

Onto Art Collection things…

 

 

 

 

This week’s Collection Review has us delving back into the magic of the Painting A Day project I did in February 2023, featuring 45 original paintings on paper. (You know them by the white-edged squares of energy and connection).

 

I just read through all of my notes on this body of work and I practically have to hold myself back from dropping everything and starting a new collection right now! I absolutely LOVED creating these paintings - they felt so fresh and free, like glimpses into rooms full of life and light... like memories playing out on a glowing screen. I also enjoyed releasing a painting every day (or 2 smalls) and offering them via private message only. 

 

(NOTE: I created TWO Painting A Day projects – one with 45 paintings in February of 2023 and one that same May with 10 larger paintings. You can see the available pieces from BOTH installments here, but there are only 4 available from the Collection we are talking about today) 

 

This was new for me - not putting paintings into my shop, but I'll be honest: I was giving these paintings a small price, so it was important that I took some of the work out of the process for myself. I'm crazy-thorough at getting every listing just right with SEO, tags, descriptions, images, detail shots, etc - and that takes a lot of TIME. I needed a break from that admin/biz stuff, and a chance to just create and connect straight with my people.

 

 

 

 

 

I got to communicate with so many of my wonderful collectors and provide fresh new art, bursting with energy and light, to some collectors who hadn’t added to their collection of originals in a couple years!

 

 

 

 

Through the Painting A Day Collection in February of 2023, I discovered a link to my grandparents, as I painted a piece that made me think of my grandma’s bedroom.

 

My grandma had passed a little over a year before, and I had recently worked with my mom, sister and aunt to clean out her house. My grandpa had passed 15 years before. I specifically sorted through grandma's jammies, under-things, socks and other collections from her bedroom. We blessed a lot of organizations with bags of socks and bras, wallets, bags, clothing, toiletries.

 

 

The piece "At Grandma’s House" felt like my grandma’s bed: a cool pillow atop a soft comforter emblazoned with flowers. A clean and fresh place to rest after a long day of school then dinner and visiting at Grandma and Grandpa’s house. I can practically feel the stitching of the bedspread, and see the smooth wood dresser with a little jewelry box on top; grandma’s treasures. Not to mention the big box of buttons that I knew was hidden beneath the bed!

 

 

 

I've written in the past about how my grandfather supported my artwork, and had one of my framed early pieces on his wall until his last day - there it stayed for 15 additional years until my grandmother passed. I still remember how excited I was that I was having a SOLO SHOW in Portland, OR - and my grandparents came to see it. How wonderful it felt when he came up to me and said he wanted to buy one of the pieces. Here is the piece he purchased, it is a digital painting called "Shadows". It made him think of being a small child, scared in his room at night.

 

 

Artwork that makes us feel, and remember… isn’t that the whole point?

 

 

NEXT WEEK: an oldie but GOODIE! Learn about the collection that began while I sat in the lobby of a barber shop.

 

Thank you for being here ♥ 

 

Love & Sincerely, Katie