Thinking outside the art box

Traditionally when considering art for your clients or for your personal use you think original art is priced outside of your budget. Not True! Original art is affordable and there are excellent print on demand options too.
Usually we define art as a one dimensional piece to hang on the wall in some manner. What if I told you, you could transfer art you love to just about any surface you choose? You can do this with digital reproduction technology and bring art work to everyone affordably. I have been working hard to bring this aspect into my business model. I have discovered that you can print onto most materials now from glass, tile, fabrics to wood and plexiglass.The concept of digitally manipulating art to suit you is very exciting, because you can take the whole art work and make it any size you want, as long as you have a good enough and big enough scan of the pieces. The piece shown can be made into a wall sized Wallstallation (TM), a wallpaper mural or a different shape.

First I created a scan of my original mixed media art "Thunder".
By manipulting the scan on the computer, I will work with you to slice and dice the work and come up with any number of new artworks for the client. I will ensure you get professional product and stunning results.

By using the computer to digitally create a new composition for the art, I can introduce interesting options for you and your clients.

Out of the box art suggestions:

• Space Dividers: Need to separate a space in a loft? Use my art as your starting point and we can create a custom silk or other sheer fabric panel. Now hang multiple panels for versatile, modular room and space dividers.
• Need to Recyle? Have an old beat up water stained door? Attach a panel of Kathryn's art work to it. Or have a digital version printed onto self stick vinyl and apply it to the grungy door – you have thought outside the box.
• Printed Tile: Create emphasis and impact with custom printed tiles. We have the ability to print onto glass tile, porcelain and tumbled marble. You can make a mural, or simply create some focal tiles.
• Stair Risers: Need a totally wonderful look? Hand create stair risers, hand painted or Gicleè printed onto wood or tiles. Design can be made to look like Mexican or Moroccan tiles, inlaid wood patterns and more. I can design and oversee the work to make thre risers look like inlaid wood.
• Hardwood Floor Remix? Create a custom rug inlaid into hardwood floor I can design and install for you.
• Need A Custom Design? You can have a small version of your concept painted and transferred to wall paper which is dye cut to fit custom border edges or shapes – you are thinking now.
• Got something To Hide? Perhaps you need to hide an ugly concrete wall in a huge environment, drape it in a fabric mural.

I have the resources and ability to make it happen for you.Contact me at any time.

503-381-6437 / kdelany@colorsplashes.com

ART FIRST!
Remember to plan your art needs at the budget planning stage of your next project.
Call Kathryn for ideas.

Ancient art

In my process of cleaning out my studio and reducing clutter by more than 50%, one of my projects was to clear out my precious drawings, sketches and paintings. These have traveled around with me for the past 15 years because they make great reference material.

They did take up space though, and were packed away in an old picture carton and stashed behind other layers of 'stuff'. So the theory was good. The practicality not so much as they have not seen the light of day for about ... 15 years!

Before putting the studio back to together, 50% had to go. This carton was one of them.

I went through the carton piece by piece and took a digital image of each image. It was a wonderful journey and reminded me of why I draw and paint.

Here are two art pieces I did in high school! What a pack rat Admittedly I only kept these two pieces but it shows that I am a hoarder.

This painting was done with acrylics (I think we called them poster paints back then). The theme set was for "The World is a Merry Go Round"! It took me forever and I was very proud of it. I am glad I am past this phase in my art!

This drawing we had to study a cabbage! Cut it up draw bits of it and put it together in a good composition. I again took a long time over it, but it is quite fun and abstract. So it started.

Oregon Dream Home Completed

Well, we finally completed our massive project with the Oregon Dream Home project I wrote about in February. Our team worked well and the results were fantastic. The 'reveal' will be aired in May sometime. I will be sure to post a link.

This is my 'modular' mural I did for the living room. It is the focal point of the room and visible when you walk in the front door. Pretty awesome.

The home owners were hoping for a 'beach' scene and were very happy with my 'window".

I used stencils from Royal Design Studios for the window tile.

I also landed up doing a second large mural of a peacock which we did in the studio on roclan cloth and then wall paper pasted it into place. It takes up the whole wall outside the bathroom, so everytime the family goes for a shower they get to see this view.
The stencils for this mural were provided by Jeff Raum.

Thank you to all our sponsors who helped us make this a success.
I worked with Johanna Annable, Carolyn Johnson Bell and Kirk Harbeck on the project.