Boat Dock at Sunrise

This is my interpretation of an image shown to me on the walls of a ancient temple I am often taken to in meditation. As this painting continued to reveal itself I couldn't help but be reminded of the many paintings and drawings I have seen of the Tibetan light body.

Street scene in Perouges, France.

A beach scene, southwest of Mexico

A rhythmic dance of line and color is the hallmark for this series of work. It is playful yet thought provoking and encourages the viewer to take a visual adventure into color and composition.

The prairie of the flint hills stretches to the horizon showing its varying shades of green and highlighting its barbed wire fence

Prairie sunrise - landscape

Watercolor on paper

Mt.Shuksan during spring.

Wrecked tugboat hull on the shore of Monhegan Island, Maine.

Water lilies on a hazy summer morning

Abstract white plaster sculpture on slate base.

Rainbow arching over a field of milo in Western Kansas

Two horses communing at susnet

Golden blooms on a pink stem

Different shades, different species, same skin.

Acrylic on Canvas

The depth and the richness of color in our galaxy is truly awe inspiring in this photo of our home in the cosmos, the Milky Way Galaxy.

Acrylic paint, ink, and molding paste on canvas.

Abstract layers of acrylic paint and collage on canvas.

This panorama of a worn baseball is intended to evoke nostalgia for days of play gone by.

A night/day painting of the Kansas River flowing through Lawrence, KS is a tribute to a favorite river city and a nod to the importance of water to community and life.

Sunrise, mist, and Foxtail provide a serene start to a morning in the country.

The sun burns through the river fog to announce a new morning.

A "good boy" waits serenely for his donut-eating best friend.

Foreground trees catching sunrise light on a snow-covered landscape.

Farm buildings after a recent snowfall.

image of an ole Barn in Miami County Kansas

The sun shines down on pampas grass at Clear Lake Iowa

Santa Rosa Beach, FL Framed in black to 15" x 12"

Kansas Cities finest public course. Giclees print framed and glassed with golf ball dimpled mat. Frame carved wood.

Acrylic on canvas of a great white egret rising on the wind into the clouds.

Ceramic bowl with crocheted doily imprint. The cobalt blue color evokes tranquility. Granny's Lace was created using a doily crocheted by Cora Brown. Granny Brown, as she was known, could look at a doily and recreate it. I enjoy making beautiful bowls with her creations. This bowl was made using white stoneware clay and was finished with glazes that accentuate the texture and details of the doily. The inside of this bowl is cobalt blue. The back is glossy black. It is food, microwave and dishwasher safe. The size is 9x9x1.5. KM1814. IMG_7742.

Ceramic bowl with crocheted doily imprint. The black color evokes sophistication while the white communicates innocence. Eva's Lace was created using a doily crocheted by Eva Wiebelhaus, my sister-in-law’s mother. Eva was an elegant woman, and her doilies are elegant as well. I enjoy making beautiful bowls with her creations. This bowl was made using white stoneware clay and was finished with a glossy black glaze. The glaze was sanded off to expose the white clay and reveal the doily design. A glossy clear glaze was added. The back is glossy black. The bowl is food, microwave and dishwasher safe. The size is 9x9x1.25. KM1713. IMG_7739.

Ceramic bowl with crocheted doily imprint. The red color signifies strength, power and courage. I love to create beautiful works of art starting with a lump of clay. It took several years of playing with clay before I could call myself an artist. I now feel comfortable saying I am a ceramic artist. I have enjoyed giving my pottery to family and friends and displaying and selling my work at various galleries and shows in the Kansas City area. Cora's Lace was created using a crocheted doily made by Cora Brown, my niece’s grandmother. I press a doily into a slab of clay and carefully cut around each shape before forming it. The doily was removed and can be washed or reused without harm. This bowl was made using white stoneware clay and was finished with glazes that accentuate the texture and details of the doily. The inside of the bowl is firebrick red. The outside is glossy black. Each crocheted doily is unique and each piece of pottery I create is one-of-a-kind as well. The bowl is food, microwave and dishwasher safe. The size is 10x10x3 inches. KM1294. IMG_2466.

Yarn Basket

Missouri Countryside.

MIssouri Shack.

Fluid acrylic painting of a coastline during the golden sunset hour.

matted and framed to 27 x 20"

matted and framed to 16 x 20"

Matted and Framed to 27 x 20"

Pastel painting of tree lined trench surrounded by sunlit meadow grasses in Shawnee Mission PK.

Fused glass makes up the center of this orange sunflower and blue stained glass is mosaiced on both sides of the frame to look beautiful in any window.

Contemporary impressionistic painting of spring meadow

Seascape -palette knife and acrylics

Walking at Powell Gardens on a research day, I snapped this picture. I like how the grasses are trying to lay down, as if telling me to rest.

This is a composit of eight ocean and sky images of photos I had taken in different places and merged them together to create a different look

Red on Blue abstract.

Here is an expression out of the Flint Hills Kansas. I enjoyed modulating the three levels of scale and perspective to fit the low horizon line. I made great effort to create a three dimensional expanse of clouds into a state of airiness, recession and believability; coupled with the low horizon of a barn and cows. I tried with great care to keep all the attention on the waiting cows in terms of the subordination of color and value. I wanted to lead the viewers eye into the composition by employing a secondary interest component of a well traveled path to the barn where warmth and food would met their needs. Often times farmers will have a very distinctive loud whistle recognized by the owners animals, or a bell would be rung that the food has been spread out in the barn. Come and get it!!!

Abstract image of a barn and farm field created with collaged handmade and found papers, and acrylic paint.

Loose wispy strokes that calm the mind. LOL...:)

Mixed Media landscape using collaged papers and transferred image.

Abstract

Owl

A low fliying seagull over the water.

Language of the clouds. Higher level conversations.

watercolor and acrylic on birch panel

Acrylic on Canvas

I loved the scene of distance in this scene as well as the towering clouds that cast shadows along the hillside.

Sometimes the sky puts on an elegant show of light, shadow and drama.

The piece is an ode to the inner transformation that occurs in the moments that we surrender into simply being. When we allow ourselves to be nothing, we remember we are everything. katrinakellerfineart.godaddysites.com

Impressionistic acrylic of a woman kneeling next to a koi pond

Seascape, textured acrylic on canvas

watercolor 2016 on paper

watercolor 2022

(without frame $100, pricy black frame. I walk with friend through this park almost every week. The walk through it with friend to discuss life is very good for my spirit

imaginary landscape out West.

The gentle flowing Kat meets the mighty MO, But it rests easy in the early morning light of a sleepy KC....LOLOL

Broad areas of texture and color are used to capture the atmospheric effects of early morning sunlight along the Mexican Riviera. Both color and luminosity play an active role as the fishing boats are gently tossed about on the sunlit ocean. The viewer is invited to relax and travel along the coast taking in the sky water and beach.

This painting was completed "all prima" style in a quiet, studio setting. The composition invites the viewer to explore the interplay of positive and negative shapes. The limited palette accentuates the quiet, serene mood and makes literacy the central focus.

This acrylic painting is one of my favorites for the moment reflecting a peaceful stillness of the mornings. The 2400.00 is for the framed original. Prints are available as well.

Textural, expressive acrylic painting of blue hydrangeas in a vase

REFLECTION RIVER is an oil on canvas, with resin over the oil. The painting is framed with a silver frame.

Abstract acrylic paining. Converging shapes and line in colors of blue and lavender

Inspired by California’s last super bloom in 2019, when colorful orange blanketed canyons and hillsides across the state. In this image, one poppy stands tall, keeping watch over its fellow cups of gold. Originally created as a color pencil drawing, it has been reproduced in a limited edition of high quality prints. Each print has been hand signed and numbered (as shown), and offered here unmatted/unframed. Protected by a clear plastic sleeve. Image size is 4”x7.5” (8.5” height, including signature). Overall dimensions are 6”x9.5.”

Serenity found in Buddha's face printed on a charmeuse silk scarf in calming hues.

Fused Glass under the Sea scene

Fused Glass Under the Sea Scene

View from our campsite at Wilson Lake State Park, in central Kansas. Plein air watercolor sketch on Arches hot pressed 140# paper.

Inspired by a sunny day and designing patterns of colors Artistic Process: The background is 2 cut transparent glass circles fused together first, then the pinwheel "petals", center and patterned pebbles along the edges were tack fused in a separate firing for texture and dimension. The "petals" are made with pattern bars that are assembled into a pinwheel design, the patterned pebbles were made from cut up pieces of the pattern bars See Below for an explanation of a pattern bar. The center is made with ground glass. The glass stand is kilnformed into a shape to support the sculpture with coldworking to ensure the bottom is level and sturdy.

The earth garden rises with the moon

The amazing turquoise waters of the Turks and Caicos islands in the Caribbean.

A dreamy long exposure sunrise over the Atlantic Ocean at Praia de Porto Mós on the Algarve coast in Portugal.

Photo of a seashell. Blue gray, turquoise, violet.

I have a friend from Kenya. He would often speak of sitting below the Acacia tree on a warm evening, enjoying the sound of distant music that a gentle breeze would bring his way. This is an acrylic painting on canvas mounted in a walnut float frame. Other papers, including sheet music, have been cut and collaged to the surface, then painted.

Lemongrass restaurant in Overland Park KS on rainy day

SeBree Bridge is a three-span open-spandrel arch bridge over Brush Creek on Benton Blvd. in Kansas City.

This was a sunset worth waiting for. Taken in the heart of the Flint Hills, with the grass as emerald green as it could be and the wispy clouds painting the blue skies.

An old barn on a hill. I loved how it sat with such presence with the wheat blowing around it. Loved the color.

Pastel painting of wheat field in the moonlight.

ink and watercolor painting of the black eyed susans in Paxico, Kansas - the Flint Hills

The development process was a negative experiment in E6, this is a unique piece.

The relvelation process was unexperimentation with E6 chemicals with C41 films, it is a unique piece.

The relvelation process was unexperimentation with E6 chemicals with C41 films, it is a unique piece.

Just an old Buckaroo out in the world.

mixed media drawing, pencil, oil pastel, watercolor

sailboats on a cloudy day at lake jacomo July 2022.

With the remnant fog receding for the day, the morning"s light creeps in to illuminate the tree lined riverbanks. Framed size: 17.50" x 21.25"

Prairie Grasses sway in the wind atop a hill overlooking Penn Valley Park and Union Station in Kansas City, Missouri. Ca. 2020.

I created something new from one of my original photos. This is the inside of the Powell Gardens Missouri Barn Silo at Christmas time. My perspective is lookin up the stairs through hanging lights in the shape of a tree.

Alcohol Ink

Wood Panel-acrylic

Tranquillity

Primping flamingo on canvas with acrylic.

I have been teaching art for almost two decades, including the likes of Kindergarten through 12th grade and even at the college level. My students can attest that I do not let them waste anything. I am constantly spraying down paint with water to keep it usable, picking objects off the floor and keeping articles that others might find useless. It is also common to see me digging in the trash because “I...can use this for something.” Through this, I have been collecting discarded materials that I feel could be used within my art. My artwork is built one layer at a time. Although my theme is aimed at portraying the various emotions the heart can experience; when I begin a piece, I do not have an image of what the end result might be. I incorporate what I am feeling into the materials I have found on my scavenger encounters. I had always despised the symbol of the heart. To me, it represented something that everyone knows how to draw, and a sappy feeling of love…uggghhhh!!! I thought, “Real artists don’t use hearts, or any symbols for that matter.” The year 2007, I went through an incredibly tumultuous time in my life. The result, I literally “felt” the spectrum of emotions my heart endured. This phenomenon led me to redefine what I thought the “heart” represented. My series “Junk of the Heart” represents all the junk, or emotions, that can be endured and what we choose “do” with them. The product is a metaphor for how the "junk" of our hearts can be transformed and reinvented into art.

I have been teaching art for almost two decades, including the likes of Kindergarten through 12th grade and even at the college level. My students can attest that I do not let them waste anything. I am constantly spraying down paint with water to keep it usable, picking objects off the floor and keeping articles that others might find useless. It is also common to see me digging in the trash because “I...can use this for something.” Through this, I have been collecting discarded materials that I feel could be used within my art. My artwork is built one layer at a time. Although my theme is aimed at portraying the various emotions the heart can experience; when I begin a piece, I do not have an image of what the end result might be. I incorporate what I am feeling into the materials I have found on my scavenger encounters. I had always despised the symbol of the heart. To me, it represented something that everyone knows how to draw, and a sappy feeling of love…uggghhhh!!! I thought, “Real artists don’t use hearts, or any symbols for that matter.” The year 2007, I went through an incredibly tumultuous time in my life. The result, I literally “felt” the spectrum of emotions my heart endured. This phenomenon led me to redefine what I thought the “heart” represented. My series “Junk of the Heart” represents all the junk, or emotions, that can be endured and what we choose “do” with them. The product is a metaphor for how the "junk" of our hearts can be transformed and reinvented into art.

Digital drawing done by hand and Apple Pencil in the Procreate App on an iPad.

Fluid acrylic pour creating a beach with waves. A surfer with shadow is standing on the shore holding a surf board.

Milky Way over the old church on Johnson Mesa in New Mexico.

This is a painting of Cooley Lake just before a rain storm in spring. It is a shallow marshy lake enjoyed by water fowl. It is owned by the Missouri Department of Conservation. Cooley Lake was once the main channel of the Missouri River

Abstract Oil on Gallery Wrapped Canvas

Painted in plein aire at the lake I live on.

Composite of images. Woman emerges from the depths of historical oppression. She brings the wisdom of her past to the present and integrates her experiences as part of her future, and the generations that are behind her. The lotus flower represents the beauty and power of her voice.

Black wood-framed brightly colored abstract

a body forms in water also available as a 10x15 ($300)

mixed media drawing, pencil, oil pastel, watercolor

tuscan terra cotta, terra sigillata

bronze,studies for larger travertine and marble sculptures

Asian child letting a fish go free in a stream. This oil painting on paper is matted and framed in a gold frame.

Two Bosc Pears and Blocks.