Free Artwork

To those that subscribe and check this site- sorry I have not posted for a while. Nothing bad has happened, just some life changes. I graduated school with my Master’s in Library Science, and got a new job. The new job takes a little more time than my last job (mostly learning outside of work to get up to speed). In addition, the artwork I have been doing has been bigger, which costs too much to ship. I don’t like the idea of even asking for shipping fees, but I may do that in order to give some of the bigger stuff away (It’s not huge-like 18″x18″).

I will get back to posting stuff soon. Thanks for visiting.

unfinished recent painting

Doorway
Acrylic and water soluble graphite pencils on illustration board
5″ x 7″

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I have this obsession with doorways. I keep trying to do a bigger painting, but it never turns out very well. These little paintings work, though.

I used water soluble pencils for this one- so it could theoretically smudge a little. I’ll package it so it does not move much, so it should be OK.

Also, I’m not posting this one to Twitter right away this time, so folks subscribed to the RSS can have a shot at it.

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If you want this painting, you have to be the first one (that wants the picture) to leave a comment, and then email me at karin@nirak.net and tell me your name and mailing address.

Since this will fit in a regular envelope, no need to pay shipping. It will be signed.

Like my other work, I’m releasing this under Creative Commons, except this one has a non-commercial share alike license. If you click on the picture, you’ll be taken to Flickr, where you can download a higher resolution version of the pic.

Infrared Road
Watercolor on Paper
3″ x 7″

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This is another watercolor study for a bigger painting – the bigger painting never got made. This is based of an infrared picture I took (hence the title).

This painting will come matted – the matted size is 6″ x 10″

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If you want this painting, you have to be the first one (that wants the picture) to leave a comment, and then email me at karin@nirak.net and tell me your name and mailing address.

Since this will fit in a regular envelope, no need to pay shipping. It will be signed.

Like my other work, I’m releasing this under Creative Commons, except this one has a non-commercial share alike license. If you click on the picture, you’ll be taken to Flickr, where you can download a higher resolution version of the pic.

There’s a little unplanned pause in my free artwork project, due to school, work and the other work (aka my practicum). I have had little free time to paint lately. It is, quite frankly, driving me insane, but there is something to look forward to: after August 1st, I have three glorious weeks off before school starts again. It’s amazing how only having to go to one job feels like vacation. I’m anticipating painting a lot then, but until then, I might put up a couple of older things.

One thing that has struck me since I began this project is how quickly my standards have changed. I originally thought I would give away a lot of older things, school projects, and the like. But when I look at that stuff, I just can’t seem to do it. I’m pickier than I used to be. I think giving away my artwork has given me a reason to be critical about my work again. This is extremely valuable, so I thank everyone who has claimed a painting and everyone who continues to watch this blog.

I’m actually thinking of giving away some of my sketches and older work away in lots, in case anyone would like to use it in collages. I don’t do collages much, but I think it would be interesting material to use.

Also, I hope to do some more stop motion documenting like above. For that one, I hooked up my Canon Digital SLR camera to a computer, had it take a picture every 30 seconds or so, and then strung the pictures into a video with the command line tool mencoder. I’d like to use something other than the Canon, though, as it is already showing some wear. So I’ll have to figure something else out- maybe a webcam.

Three Circles
Acrylic and pen on heavy illustration board
About 7″ x 5″

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More circles! Big surprise, huh? I’m not sure where these are going or quite what they are about. Something about connections.

If you want this painting, you have to be the first one (that wants the picture) to leave a comment, and then email me at karin@nirak.net and tell me your name and mailing address.

Since this will fit in a regular envelope, no need to pay shipping. It will be signed.

Like my other work, I’m releasing this under Creative Commons, except this one has a non-commercial share alike license. If you click on the picture, you’ll be taken to Flickr, where you can download a higher resolution version of the pic.