Here are the pieces that started off my recent sunflower phase. A commission for a sunflower triptych, 40 x 60 inches. A real statement piece for the home!
Starting soon! 100 Paintings for $100 or Less
Sunday, November 6, 2011
sunflower triptych
Here are the pieces that started off my recent sunflower phase. A commission for a sunflower triptych, 40 x 60 inches. A real statement piece for the home!
Starting soon! 100 Paintings for $100 or Less
Friday, November 4, 2011
100 Painting Project -- a personal story
Below is a press release that is going in my local papers. I decided to share a personal story about how lung cancer has affected my life. November is lung cancer awareness month. Please go here to learn more.
Kristina and her dad, 1970
Artist Kristina Wentzell is pleased to announce a special online art show: the 2nd Annual 100 Paintings for $100 or Less. Known for her vibrant, impressionist style, Wentzell’s oil paintings feature a wide variety of subject matter including landscapes, florals and her popular backyard chicken series.
Last years’ 100 Painting project coincided with a difficult time in Kristina’s life. Having just lost her mother-in-law to lung cancer, Kristina’s father was diagnosed with the same dreadful disease just at the start of her project.
Kristina decided to go ahead with the paintings despite the turmoil in her life at that time, and ended up finding sanctuary in the creative expression. Kristina’s dad also found comfort in her art, often sitting quietly in her studio while she painted.
Her father lost his battle with lung cancer in January of this year.
November is lung cancer awareness month and Kristina would like to dedicate this project to her dad and to all those suffering with this disease.
For the month of November, Kristina will be donating a portion of her sales to the Lung Cancer Alliance, a national non-profit dedicated to patient support and advocacy. See more at here.
The show can be viewed at online here and runs November 11th –December 31st. Wentzell is also hosting an open studio sale featuring the 100 painting collection on November 11th & 12th. (Fri: 5-8pm, Sat: 1-4pm, 87 Ashuelot Street, Keene NH)
Kristina and her dad, 1970Artist Kristina Wentzell is pleased to announce a special online art show: the 2nd Annual 100 Paintings for $100 or Less. Known for her vibrant, impressionist style, Wentzell’s oil paintings feature a wide variety of subject matter including landscapes, florals and her popular backyard chicken series.
Last years’ 100 Painting project coincided with a difficult time in Kristina’s life. Having just lost her mother-in-law to lung cancer, Kristina’s father was diagnosed with the same dreadful disease just at the start of her project.
Kristina decided to go ahead with the paintings despite the turmoil in her life at that time, and ended up finding sanctuary in the creative expression. Kristina’s dad also found comfort in her art, often sitting quietly in her studio while she painted.
Her father lost his battle with lung cancer in January of this year.
November is lung cancer awareness month and Kristina would like to dedicate this project to her dad and to all those suffering with this disease.
For the month of November, Kristina will be donating a portion of her sales to the Lung Cancer Alliance, a national non-profit dedicated to patient support and advocacy. See more at here.
The show can be viewed at online here and runs November 11th –December 31st. Wentzell is also hosting an open studio sale featuring the 100 painting collection on November 11th & 12th. (Fri: 5-8pm, Sat: 1-4pm, 87 Ashuelot Street, Keene NH)
Walking with Spring
Back in the early 90's, I was fresh out of college and eager for a bit of adventure. I had just met my now husband, Chris, in Portland, Maine. It was a moment of total serendipity, he was walking down the sidewalk, I was sitting on the curb for a bit of fresh air, and we just started talking. Both of us are shy folks, so this was not the norm. We talked for hours and ended the night with a plan to hike the Appalachian Trail. What better way to start a new relationship than spending months in the close quarters of a tent with limited access to showers?
We set off on our adventure just a few months later in the early spring. We started in Georgia, heading north to Maine.
In the beginning, the days were cold, with bare trees and few signs of life. As the days wore on, spring started to emerge...first in the valleys with all the lovely colors of the season. Then up on the mountains as spring gradually crept her way up and soon the whole world was ablaze with a thousand different greens. The forest floor was covered with Spring Beauties, tiny white flowers that made the trail look like a ribbon through the snow.
Like in title of the memoir about Earl Shaffer, the first person to hike the AT in its entirety back in 1948, we were Walking with Spring. It's been many years but I'll never forget what a gift it was to have such an intimate experience witnessing the slow, unfurling of a season with nothing else in the world to do but be present.
Kristina Wentzell, walking with spring, oil on canvas, 8 x 8 inches. ©2011
Kristina Wentzell, walking with spring 2, oil on canvas, 8 x 8 inches. ©2011
Kristina Wentzell, walking with spring 3, oil on canvas, 8 x 8 inches. ©2011
Kristina Wentzell, walking with spring 4, oil on canvas, 8 x 8 inches. ©2011--
more sunnies
Kristina Wentzell, sunflowers in a cream pitcher, oil on canvas, 8 x 8 inches. ©2011
Kristina Wentzell, sunflowers on yellow, oil on canvas, 8 x 10 inches. ©2011
Thursday, November 3, 2011
sunflowers for a cold day
Kristina Wentzell, Grammie's pitcher, oil on canvas, 8 x 8 inches. ©2011
The 100 painting project is coming along nicely...I just finished a series of sunflowers. I'm not sure why, but I get such joy out of seeing these little beauties all lined up in my studio, especially when there is snow on the ground outside. blech!
The 100 Paintings for $100 or Less will be starting very soon...go here for all the details.
Kristina Wentzell, sunflowers in a tall vase, oil on canvas, 12 x 6 inches. ©2011
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
snowing weekend
We sure had some wild, unexpected weather here in the Northeast this weekend. On Friday, the predictions were for 3-6 inches of snow and by Saturday we ended up getting two feet here in Keene! Sad to see my beautiful zinnias, cleomes, and snapdragons go. My little charges and I made the best of it though and created our own snowy Halloween confection. Mr Snow Jack-o-lantern was renamed Slumpy as the sun came out on Sunday and he lost his pumpkinish figure. We were able to light him up for one night at least. Now, back to the studio...I have 100 paintings calling my name!
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