Thinking about how to start another year without spending too much time on the computer but I don’t have a game plan yet. In fact, I have added more things to my promote art list. Yikes! Oh well. I thought when I retired from teaching I would have more time and not work so hard but I am working harder.
The studio calls and I answer just as soon as I can get away from the computer. Here is my latest Suggestion painting. I am on a roll with this series right now!
Hope everyone has a great New Year!
Ghost Tears Original Acrylic painting NFS
Prints on Paper, Canvas, Metal, and Greeting Cards Available at KENDALL KESSLER ART
Today if the last day for FREE SHIPPING for the Holiday season! Shipping artwork is very difficult and expensive so this is my gift to my patrons at this beautiful time of year!
Below is the link to my Etsy shop. Use code CHNY7. The same goes for my originals on my website but patrons have to click the Contact Artist button there to get the free shipping. I hope everyone is having a great Holiday Season!
Tomorrow Clyde will start calling me again to make sure I am up so I can take Alan to work and get all my work done, too. As I have said before, sometimes I tease him when I answer. The one I use the most is,
Who is this?
The last time I used that one he said the CIA.
The CIA? Why would the CIA be calling me.
Clyde Idiot Association.
Oh, that CIA.
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I am having a great time with my new Suggestions paintings They keep me on my toes. It is great to just look for forms to appear in a blaze of color. I always see something in the brushwork to pull out. One time I thought nothing had come up and then when I looked again there was a fox and some bird shapes. This is a great exercise for a visual person and they are certainly available as prints. Sometimes I go into them again but most of the time the first session is the last. Here is my latest!
Fish Flip Original Acrylic painting NFS
Prints on Paper, Canvas, Metal, and Greeting Cards Available at KENDALL KESSLER ART
I wanted to again mention that I am offering my original paintings with FREE SHIPPING for the Holiday season! Shipping artwork is very difficult and expensive so this is my gift to my patrons at this beautiful time of year!
Below is the link to my Etsy shop. Use code CHNY7. The same goes for my originals on my website but patrons have to click the Contact Artist button there to get the free shipping. I hope everyone is having a great Holiday Season!
I am very pleased to sell a print of Fall on the New River to a great California patron! This is my most popular New River painting. The original was sold the first time it was exhibited to a great NC patron! Wall art prints and prints on many other items are available by clicking the link below the picture!
Fall on the New River Original Pastel painting SOLD
Prints on Paper, Canvas, Metal, and Greeting Cards Available at KENDALL KESSLER ART
I wanted to again mention that I am offering my original paintings with FREE SHIPPING for the Holiday season! Shipping artwork is very difficult and expensive so this is my gift to my patrons at this beautiful time of year!
Below is the link to my Etsy shop. Use code CHNY7. The same goes for my originals on my website but patrons have to click the Contact Artist button there to get the free shipping. I hope everyone is having a great Holiday Season!
I was waiting for our printer to print while it booped and beeped for quite a while. I told Clyde that I could read my memoirs while that printer warmed up. He said you could write them. He is right. I don’t actually have memoirs right now but I probably could write them while our printer does it’s weird song and dance routine before it finally spits out a copy.
There it is! Yea!
If you like my work but don’t have any more room on your walls be sure to check out my paintings on just about anything but the kitchen sink on
I wanted to again mention that I am offering my original paintings with FREE SHIPPING for the Holiday season! Shipping artwork is very difficult and expensive so this is my gift to my patrons at this beautiful time of year!
Below is the link to my Etsy shop. Use code CHNY7. The same goes for my originals on my website but patrons have to click the Contact Artist button there to get the free shipping. I hope everyone is having a great Holiday Season!
A while back I mentioned that Clyde thought the Christmas light thing was getting out of hand. Some houses are one big glow of lights. He said soon people will probably get a early start and put them on their Thanksgiving turkey. Much to my surprise, yesterday I saw a recipe on the internet for turkey gravy that had glitter in it! Glitter! I can’t imagine what can be used to cause gravy to glitter without poisoning people but I guess someone found a way! Clyde was not surprised.
If you like my work but don’t have any more room on your walls be sure to check out my paintings on just about anything but the kitchen sink on
I am really dragging my brush today. I wanted to paint but I have so much to do that it may not happen. Hope I can get done and get in there. Painting is not easy but it always makes me smile – at least at the beginning before the arm wrestling.
Blue Ridge Magic from Sharp Top Original 12″ x 9″ Oil painting $236
Prints on Paper, Canvas, Metal, and Greeting Cards Available at KENDALL KESSLER ART
I wanted to again mention that I am offering my original paintings with FREE SHIPPING for the Holiday season! Shipping artwork is very difficult and expensive so this is my gift to my patrons at this beautiful time of year!
Below is the link to my Etsy shop. Use code CHNY7. The same goes for my originals on my website but patrons have to click the Contact Artist button there to get the free shipping. I hope everyone is having a great Holiday Season!
This morning Clyde and I had a “Think Battle”. I told him I was having a hard time thinking of something funny for my blog and he said to stop all that thinking. That’s what’s wrong with this country.
What? People don’t think. They just stare at a phone and walk into poles or wreck cars.
I think I won that one.
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Another Sunday shot out of a rocket! Too busy is better than not busy enough but I wish I could lasso a few hours and make them sit still for a while. I didn’t get anywhere near a painting today so I am extra crispy grumpy right now but I will get back to it tomorrow and try not to be so grumpy. Try. I may not succeed but as we all know, laugh and the world laughs with you, cry and you cry alone. So time to get back to laughing!
Wildflower Rush Original 8″ x 10″ Oil painting $168
Prints on Paper, Canvas, Metal, and Greeting Cards Available at KENDALL KESSLER ART
I wanted to again mention that I am offering my original paintings with FREE SHIPPING for the Holiday season! Shipping artwork is very difficult and expensive so this is my gift to my patrons at this beautiful time of year!
Below is the link to my Etsy shop. Use code CHNY7. The same goes for my originals on my website but patrons have to click the Contact Artist button there to get the free shipping. I hope everyone is having a great Holiday Season!
We are still wondering if we have animals running across the roof or taking up space in our attic. It takes a dare devil to get in our attic. The entrance is a little tiny hole in the closet that we have to use a ladder for and the insulation gets all over our clothes so we have to cover them with a sheet. No one wanted to do that today. Anyway I heard something that sounded like an animal hammering on our roof.
When I told Clyde he said, “Oh good. Here I go on my never ending quest to try to fix things I can’t fix here. It turned out to be a neighbor doing something with his lawn. It really did sound like it was on our roof. Oh well. The quest goes on and on!
We still do not have much hot water but that quest will continue when a part arrives for the solar guy to work with.
If you like my work but don’t have any more room on your walls be sure to check out my paintings on just about anything but the kitchen sink on
I am again pleased that one of my photographs was appreciated enough for a sale to a great Missouri patron! As I have said a ridiculous number of times, I live to paint but I do have several collections of photographs that I am proud of. This one came from my favorite collection, the I Love the Beach series! This time the print is on a Christmas ornament! Nice to know my artwork is celebrating Christmas! If you are looking for a truly unique gift, be sure to check out my work on my website and on Zazzle for a great selection of ideas!
Rosy Evening at Isle of Palms Original Photograph NFS
Prints on Paper, Canvas, Metal, and Greeting Cards Available at KENDALL KESSLER ART
I wanted to again mention that I am offering my original paintings with FREE SHIPPING for the Holiday season! Shipping artwork is very difficult and expensive so this is my gift to my patrons at this beautiful time of year!
Below is the link to my Etsy shop. Use code CHNY7. The same goes for my originals on my website but patrons have to click the Contact Artist button there to get the free shipping. I hope everyone is having a great Holiday Season!
Yesterday Clyde was helping me with my Ice Cream maker that also makes frozen yogurt. First, we figured out that I had left out a step in the process and that was why it was not rotating so we had to wait until the partially frozen yogurt thawed out again before another try.
Still did not work so Clyde asked me to clear off everything else on the counter so he wouldn’t break anything else when he slammed the machine up against the wall. Well, the machine is still in one piece but the frozen yogurt never happened.
I might buy a new one or I might just keep on eating the stuff in the store that has a zillion weird things listed in the ingredients.
If you like my work but don’t have any more room on your walls be sure to check out my paintings on just about anything but the kitchen sink on
I was real excited about my latest pastel but then it got to be too much. I still had a lot to do and I just wanted to get back to a brush so I put it aside again. It will be done someday but now I am back into my Suggestion paintings. I start out with an Abstract Expressionist approach and then look for forms to bring out. Here is the first one. I started to see two treble clefs so I made them stronger and added a third one. I like the way it turned out!
Treble Play Original acrylic painting NFS
Prints on Paper, Canvas, Metal, and Greeting Cards Available at KENDALL KESSLER ART
I wanted to again mention that I am offering my original paintings with FREE SHIPPING for the Holiday season! Shipping artwork is very difficult and expensive so this is my gift to my patrons at this beautiful time of year!
Below is the link to my Etsy shop. Use code CHNY7. The same goes for my originals on my website but patrons have to click the Contact Artist button there to get the free shipping. I hope everyone is having a great Holiday Season!
There is a rather sappy saying on a commercial right now about food. The writer is appealing to our emotions during this Holiday season. Food is how we connect. I asked Clyde if food is how we connect. He said food is how he connects to the plate and keeps on connecting. Me, too!
If you like my work but don’t have any more room on your walls be sure to check out my paintings on just about anything but the kitchen sink on
I am so pleased to sell a print of Charlotte Spiral! I am so glad people are responding favorably to my Beautiful Skyline series! I WILL get back to them soon. I am taking a break from my current pastel portrait to throw a brush around and work on some Suggestions paintings.
I especially like working in an abstract expressionist manner and then pulling out recognizable forms. Be sure to check out my Suggestion series on my website. Sold a lot of prints of these paintings. The originals are done with inexpensive paint and they are on cheap paper which is why I don’t have the originals for sale. All kinds of prints available.
Not so for the Beautiful Skyline series. Originals and prints are available. This time the print is on a Christmas ornament. Don’t forget you can get my work on just about anything on Zazzle. Link is below.
Charlotte Spiral Original 12″ x 9″ acrylic painting $236
Prints on Paper, Canvas, Metal, and Greeting Cards Available at KENDALL KESSLER ART
I wanted to again mention that I am offering my original paintings with FREE SHIPPING for the Holiday season! Shipping artwork is very difficult and expensive so this is my gift to my patrons at this beautiful time of year!
Below is the link to my Etsy shop. Use code CHNY7. The same goes for my originals on my website but patrons have to click the Contact Artist button there to get the free shipping. I hope everyone is having a great Holiday Season!
I have mentioned before that Clyde goes to bed at 9:00 because he gets up at 4:00 to go to work. Oftentimes I am watching a DVD around 8:30 and would love to keep going. The combo VCR/DVD player in the living room does not work since our cable provider had us do some sort of adjustment. The other rainy night he came in at 9:00.
You planning on sleeping here?
No, I can go out in the rain and be comfortable.
Bye! Sleep tight or should I say sleep dry.
Needless to say I was the one that left the room.
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The solar guy is back! The unit is still broken but we have our main heat from a heat pump. We have a little hot water from the small water tank that is attached to the main system. You have to have a very old solar system to understand what I am talking about. Anyway, he will be delving into the inside of the main tank and figure out what needs to be ordered. I hope it is not an entirely new system. They cost $10,000. If we have to pay for all the attempted repairs and a new system I will not be happy. Back to work.
Ranges Near Arnold Valley Original 40″ x 30″ oil painting $2430
Prints on Paper, Canvas, Metal, and Greeting Cards Available at KENDALL KESSLER ART
I wanted to again mention that I am offering my original paintings with FREE SHIPPING for the Holiday season! Shipping artwork is very difficult and expensive so this is my gift to my patrons at this beautiful time of year!
Below is the link to my Etsy shop. Use code CHNY7. The same goes for my originals on my website but patrons have to click the Contact Artist button there to get the free shipping. I hope everyone is having a great Holiday Season!
Well, we have another bird trying to scare it’s image away by pummeling itself on the window. This time it is a cardinal. A few days ago there was a very large blue jay just sitting outside the window.
Clyde said watch out. Even though it is a fat one it is still probably looking for more. Don’t put your fingers out the window. It may think they are finger food.
He really is going to punnel me to death. Most of the time they crack me up but sometimes I groan like people that just don’t like puns.
Who am I kidding! Love puns and looking forward to the next one!
If you like my work but don’t have any more room on your walls be sure to check out my paintings on just about anything but the kitchen sink on