During the summer months these little snails would converge upon the driveway and walkway to the front door. I can only image how many snail paths were made during their long treks. There would be easily a hundred at one time. Sometimes they would climb up the garage door.

And, yes, they really are that color. It surprised me too. Something else that surprised me, probably because I never took the time to truly look at these little creatures, is how graceful their bodies are. Smooth and a mixture of all sorts of colors once you look closely. It was interesting drawing this little snail. I had to be able to render the shine on the body and on the shell. I am very pleased with how that turned out.

I’m also happy about how the snail-path fractures look. Everything has been walked on at some point by something and that’s what those path-fractures are all about. Hence the name of the piece: Traffic.

- Kathryn Koozer

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These two are my first attempts at drawing fruit and also using a different blending technique on a main art work. I used throughout most of the pieces lighter fluid and a small paint brush to smooth and blend the pigments of the pencils. And I must say that I really like the results of that experiment.

I haven’t officially named either piece so if you have any ideas let me know.

20″ x 24″
Colored Pencil
Copyright Kathryn Koozer

I am a lover of fruit and golden raspberries are one of my favorites. I like them more than your classic red varieties and they practically drip with kisses from the sun. That’s not a bad title for this piece, Kisses from the Sun, I’ll have to ponder that.

18″ x 24″
Colored Pencil
Copyright by Kathryn Koozer

I am very pleased with how the cloth and the wood turned out in the artwork with the apples. Those are also a new first for me as I’ve never drawn either before. The fracturing in the apples was the most enjoyable part as it was the most interesting to complete. The different colors in these apples and the way they blend together is breathtaking.

So, what do you think of my two new adventures in colored pencil?

- Kathryn Koozer

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Strawberry Cream Original
Home Office
Personal Collection
Nampa, ID

Fire & Ice
Bathroom
Personal Collection
Nampa, ID

Texel
Bathroom
Personal Collection
Nampa, ID

The last two photos show how nice my work looks in floating frames. These are the type of frame I recommend the vast majority of the time when people ask how they should frame my work. There are a few places that have those types of frames that vary in quality, style, and price. Michaels has a good selection but Target has an outstanding collection of these and has all sorts of arrangements and sizes.

I’m using a lot of those frames in my upcoming gallery/market event starting on the 28th of Nov. down at Dan Looney’s Gallery.

-Kathryn Koozer

MultiBlue Giclee
Oct. 2009

MultiBlue, 4:30 in Winter, Keukenhof Limited Edition Prints
Sept. 2009

MultiBlue (black) Mousepad (available from my Zazzle Shop)
Oct. 2009

I’m really excited to see the MultiBlue (black) mousepad. It looks beautiful doesn’t it?
Those are available from my online Zazzle Store: http://www.zazzle.com/kkoozer

Design personalized gifts at Zazzle.

- Kathryn Koozer

Design personalized gifts at Zazzle.

Oodles of time. Earlier this week I spent about 2 days non-stop working on my Zazzle and deviantArt stores. I may have gotten 3 sections relatively completed on Zazzle and most basic stuff on deviantART. I haven’t really even touched CafePress yet, that will happen when I’ve got those other sections completed. I’m not too impressed with deviantART. There’s almost no way to customize your items and I might just remove them from there because of that. Zazzle has an impressive setup where you can pretty much do anything you want to each item you create with colors, text (with as many fonts as you could possibly need), customizable objects, and variations on those objects. So I upload the images I want to use, which takes forever since you want a high quality image otherwise you’ll get some nasty pixelation on your products, then I specify what I’d like to make. For example, a mug. I *love* mugs as anyone who knows me knows. They have so many variations on mugs I’m in mug-heaven. You can make mugs, ties, skateboards, postcards, gift cards, mousepads, shirts, and more. CafePress has SIGG bottles and I think I even saw throw pillows of all things.

So what I do it I select the product, choose it’s type size and sometimes colors, than I arrange my image on it and add my ‘by Kathryn Koozer’ text somewhere where it doesn’t intrude on the beauty of the item. After I have it looking how I want it I have to name the item, write a description, define the categories where it is publicly listed, figure out how much to sell it for and so on. According to Zazzle they make 1% on each sale, and then you as the merchant put a markup on their base price (the cost to make it and their 1%) to define how much you make from each sale.

My mother was kind enough to purchase a set of MultiBlue greeting cards, mostly to inspect the quality. The quality is exceptional. The paper is high quality in the card. The image on the front looks fantastic and I’m really picky about that sort of thing. Even the envelops that came with them were of a quality you won’t see in store bought cards. The cards and the envelops came in a nice see through plastic box and then packed with an invoice plus a little Zazzle card. The only downside is that they used packing peanuts. Overall I am very pleased with Zazzle so far.

- Kathryn Koozer