Thank you to City Dreams calendar people! More paintings to come…

Christmas Cat, 18 x 18″ acrylic painting, Karen Gillis Taylor for City Dreams calendar 2012, Time Factory Publishing, TFC

One of my long time art dreams came true a couple of years ago when my dear agent Alicia Dauber secured a project for me to create the City Dreams calendar for 2011. Thank you Alicia! This was followed by a second calendar for 2012. I provided paintings and my favorite inspiring quotes on the subjects of architecture, towns and imagination. Dreams work in many ways, are built by many people and then touch many people. Contrary to belief of some, art is so often a collaborative process. My musician brother tells me that all the time, and I guess I’ll have to believe him. (smiles).

I want to respond to the nice people who have been emailing me to see if there will be a third calendar. Sorry to say, not for 2013. Thank you so much for your interest and searches. That said, the city paintings are going forward, even tonight in my studio. There are too many ideas that keep coming to me in sketches and thoughts, and I really enjoy picturing myself living in these places as I paint. I’m also so glad when people tell me they feel like they can wander into the scene themselves. It is priceless for me to hear that, because it means we are thinking alike. There’s a bond after all, between someone who makes a painting and someone who hangs it on their wall for a while. Artists love to hear that!

Please keep checking back here on the Hue Bliss blog for news on a future project for the city series. How a girl who “loves living in towns as long as there is still livestock in the city limits” is captured by lively urban vistas to paint is a mystery to myself sometimes. We live in an exciting world, and I’m blessed to have visited wonderful towns around the globe. Those memories help to fuel my work. Color is everywhere, and so is the inspiration to play with it and make worlds of our own with paint.

-love, Karen

P.S. I know there’s livestock (horses) living in New York City, because I see the images of NYC policemen on horseback and I’m pretty sure they don’t take the ferry every day to go on their appointed rounds. But I could be wrong. (more smiles.)

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