Kate Knapp Artist Blog

Landscapes, portraits, farm animals, drawings, watercolors, oils, still lifes, the Berkshires, Block Island, St Croix and Manhattan. Expressionistic, Impressionistic color studies.

Monday, April 29, 2013

Portrait of Peggy

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The inspiration for this portrait began when I found this piece of fabric in an antique store a friend of mine owns...I fell in love...the...
Sunday, April 21, 2013

Is Three the Charm ?

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I struggled very hard with this subject, and when I do struggle with a subject ,I try to get a different perspective on it in each study.....
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Wednesday, April 10, 2013

This Week's Studies of Heleobore(sp) in the Studio

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  This plant fascinates me...green flowers strange leaves...I am charmed by the subtleties of the blossoms...no matter how I paint , t...
Thursday, April 4, 2013

Little White Turnips

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    I like to eat these raw, like a radish...they are great...even better to paint...every time I look...I want to paint them...so...
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Sunday, March 31, 2013

Madison Ave at 90th?

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A beautiful summer morning on the avenue....I love the flower markets...oil on canvas 20x24"
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Thursday, March 21, 2013

Oh the Places We have Been !

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      At the top we have the view from our wonderful hotel room in Greensboro NC..."The Proximity" a GREEN hotel , so...
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Tuesday, March 12, 2013

More of St Croix

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First scene, Carambola hills...for some reason the patterns here are wonderful every year I am inspired all over again, and the s...
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Monday, March 11, 2013

St Croix Landscape

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Sunset at Fredricksted USVI ...the pier on the right where the cruise ship has just departed and the coral reef in front covered in moss ...
Monday, February 25, 2013

Pink Lilies and Wonderful Cloth

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I really liked how this fabric looked with the glass vase...all the blues and browns and then the one dying leaf as well as the blossom ju...
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Thursday, February 21, 2013

57th st and the IBM Building Looking West

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I really liked the juxtaposition of this sculpture(by whom I forget?) with the lights of the windows across the street...all of the reflec...
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Tuesday, February 12, 2013

A Church in the City

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I was struck with how the church looked so warm and small surrounded by the taller,cooler colored buildings on this late winter afternoon....
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Saturday, February 9, 2013

The Storm and The Form

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  Or, how the naked figures were buried in snow...we didn't get as much as Ct. but we got over a foot...here are my two gardens sc...
Friday, February 1, 2013

January Sunset in the Berkshires

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I saw this view when we went out cross country skiing in the valley across from our house...this winter cornfield looks very different tha...
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Saturday, January 26, 2013

The Painting....The Drawing

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First came the sketch....I was sitting out on the back porch  to simply enjoy the late afternoon, the next thing I know I am sketching t...
Sunday, January 20, 2013

Portrait of my God Child

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I was grateful when Cate was willing to pose at the studio one morning...We were so lucky to have her visiting all the way from Minnesota ...
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Sunday, January 13, 2013

57th St Looking West from Madison Ave NYC

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Amazing what happens just in the patterns that are painted on the streets...Madison Ave crossing 57th St...a wide street,4 lanes, I used t...
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Sunday, January 6, 2013

Portrait Time of year....Tory

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Now it is winter and I am in the studio....for the most part...and so I look for models...friends that might have a few hours to pose...in...
Thursday, December 27, 2012

Where is this?

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56th street and Madison Ave? Looking West....a December afternoon....everything man made except the tree,sky and people...I love all the a...
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Thursday, December 20, 2012

Going, Going, Gone

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As you can see the peppers turned red and got smaller and lesser....but they just made me want to keep painting them....oil on...
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Wednesday, December 12, 2012

5th Avenue Looking South

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As we left the Metropolitan museum and started to walk down 5th Ave this is what I saw...the skyline of midtown buildings in the distance ...
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