The Magical Tangle

Acrylic / 15.5 x 11.5 inches

Dreaming of a Peaceful PlacePastel/Acrylic/ink / 11 x 14 inches

Enchanted Woods

Mixed Media / 13.5 x 10.5 inches

Dreaming of Colorado

Acrylic/ink/Collage / 14 x 11 inches

Peaceful Mountains

Pastel/Acrylic / 8 x 6 inches

M. Kathy Christian

I am a painter working primarily in mixed media (acrylic, collage, pastel, watercolor etc.)  I also do a substantial amount of work with a single medium of either acrylic or pastel.   

Often my creative process begins in nature.  For many years, I have taken lots of landscape photographs and I often use my own photographs as a starting point for a painting.  There is nothing like being in nature and rushing home to try to capture the feeling I had when I stood there looking at the beauty.  I also really enjoy painting abstract landscapes using no reference material, just painting from my own imagination and the images that I carry in my mind from being in nature.  I still have images in my mind from things I saw in nature many years ago.  I enjoy both impressionistic landscapes to more abstract landscapes.

Although I am drawn to painting landscapes, I also enjoy painting a variety of subjects.  I have painted a whole series of impressionistic florals.  In addition to landscapes, florals, animals with attitude and painting figures of women.