I recently met with Hal and Laura Mahan of The Compleat Naturalist Nature History Store in Historic Biltmore Village. They are amazing people! 

They have accepted my scratch art into their store and Gallery. I am very excited!

Scratch art technique

I have a large amount of people think that the color is already involved in my pieces. Nope, I have to put all the color in.

Step 1: On the special board I first paint in my background (makes my life easier), next step is I paint in the composition with black ink. See above photo.

Step 2: I start scratching out the subjects with an exacto blade type knife.

A little more scratching has been achieved. I will be posting the final scratched piece in my next post.

I hope this explains more of how I create these pieces.

Hendersonville's Art on Main - Oct. 5 & 6

Mountain Nest Gallery and The Laurel of Asheville

It's really wonderful - Mountain Nest Gallery in Black Mountain has featured my Chickadees in their advertising in The Laurel for 3 months - May, June & July.

Mountain Nest Gallery in Black Mountain, NC

I am now in Mountain Nest Gallery in Black Mountain. It's a beautiful gallery on Cherry Street in the middle of town. It is nature and bird related and much more! I am very excited to be there!

Silk Painting Class

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Learn the Basics of Silk Painting

$45.00 class for 3 hours
October 8th, 2013 12:00 - 3:00

In this class you will learn the basics of silk painting, all the materials you will need to make beautiful pieces of art. You will learn techniques beyond the basics also. All of the supplies are provided. All you have to do is come and have fun and learn something new! Students will learn the "Serti" technique and all materials used are water-based and non-toxic.

 Here I am demonstrating the silk painting on October 7th at the ART Mob Open House during Hendersonville's Art on Main. Classes are to be held at ART Mob - 124 4th Avenue East, Hendersonville. Plus many other classes are being offered. 

I have always loved B.B. Barns and when they moved out into my area I was constantly in the store either browsing, purchasing or for just plain old inspiration. The store is beautiful and offers so much for people that love gardening and gifts. Well after years of wanting my work in the store, I finally did it! B.B. Barns in now carrying my note cards and Holiday handmade ornaments!

My Holiday handmade ornaments will also be at Grovewood Gallery at the Grove Park Inn again this year!

New and exciting things.......

I haven't been here in a while and I have a lot to talk about! The first thing is the opening of Hendersonville's newest art marketplace!

Located at 124 4th Ave. East in Hendersonville, right off of Main St., Michelle and Rod Sparks are the owners and they opened on August 30th. With a variety of artists from all over ART MoB is unique to the Hendersonville area. They offer consignment of Fine Art on the Gallery side, booth rentals and studio space. Here's my booth!

 

And even more exciting - they are going to be having art instruction, classes, and workshops available to all!

 

 

It's May!

Well here it is May and I am just now coming back to my Blog. I know I should be in here more often than I am but life gets hectic... I just listed some canvas mini totes featuring my artwork, the totes have my original art reproductions transferred onto them. Cute! They are on my Etsy site: www.kimberlyandersonart.etsy.com

I hope this year I can make more time and delve back into the watercolors and possibly revisit the Art Licensing world.

Live Demo video from Mountain Made Gallery - click here

A really nice video was made of my work for my demonstration I did on March 3rd by Mountain Made Gallery. And I believe there is another one coming - click the title to see a bio and video.

Demonstrating artist at the Grove Arcade

The Southern Conference is coming to Asheville ~ March 2-5th. That weekend is going to be packed with a lot of visitors and Mountain Made Gallery in the Grove Arcade is having demonstrating artist. I am one of them ~ I will be there Saturday March 3rd demonstrating Sgrafitto Illustrations (Scratchart) on board. I am very excited about this. I have many people ask how I do it and that will be the time to come see the technique!

Bird's nest art

It isn't Spring yet, but I've already started drawing my birds and bird's nest. Here are two things I have done with my original art. One is make a pendant and the other is a fabric transfer. Both can be found on my Etsy site:

www.kimberlyandersonart.etsy.com

2012

Well here it is another year! But new things are on the horizon and I am going to commit a little more time to this blog! Hopefully.
I have some new things on Etsy. I have renamed both of my sites:
www.southernartandhome.etsy.com
on this site I am offering vintage finds for the home and decorated wedding card holder bird cages! Looking forward to thrift shopping for some great finds!
The other site is: www.kimberlyandersonart.etsy.com
I've been adding original art, art transfers on fabric, and mixed media pieces.


There are lots of good things happening and I hope to be able to stop and write in this blog more often.

Art ornaments

Art ornaments created from my original artwork and adhered to a wooden circle, very nice jewelry bail added on back for the hanger. I embellish them with glitter around the edges (not very visible in photo).

A Holiday Affair

4 different vendors including myself on November 14th - Lulu's in Fletcher!