Karen Luke Fildes is creating
Art, making art possible for others.

For goodness sake, I've gotta paint, I've gotta ink. I'm exploring innocence- its value and the forms it takes in our lives..

patrons

$140

per month

Milestone Goals

Coffee and vitamins fund.

$1 per month

A ditty.

$5 per month

Poems and little thoughts from "Lil Tongues O' Fire", my "Fifty Virgins" journals. This will help me organize and document a bunch of sketches and pieces of scattered pages from years of research and study on the value and source of innocence. I'll post them as they become ready for your amusement or feedback.

A new painting each week - meditations on water and renewal.

$25 per month

I have been trying to walk on water- ever since I was a child and heard the story. Today it means to me that in looking down, I see above, and when I look above, I see below- the symbiotic relationship, (the cycle of light and sustanance if you will) brings renewal. With the terror or fire raging our western states, I have only one hope, and that is renewal. With all of my breath, I am hoping that rather than embracing fear, we will find a way through falling in love with nature, and caring for her. In this shift, we will finally learn to walk on water.

Abstract Experiment- patterns

$50 per month

I am exploring patterns of renewal and will be stretching myself beyond my comfort zone with one new large work per month. Currently I am observing the patterns of death and renewal when looking into urban riparian waters. During this season of twelve new large works, I am hoping to bring my talks and workshops on renewal to spread the word of care for our urban waters.

Brushes please.

$100 per month

I will attempt to complete one sketch into a finished painting which will become a contender for my series of works. This fund will help me purchase good brushes. (Sheesh- I go through my brushes too fast and I don't get a good finish with scruffy brushes). I will send you a sweet print each month of the new work. These days I need to work on my polish. I'm good at splattering out tons of paintings, but the finish takes time and good supplies. New brushes help me bring on a cleaner finish.

5 Milestone Goals

reached

Offer live painting demonstrations in public places intigrating live music and poetry marking each new season.

$250 per month

Some of you know I have worked in grief recovery with children of loss for years now, and I have a heart for the connection of sadness, anger, and even rage related to serious change. I'd like to take a year to bring "Patterns of Change" to shelters or community centers once a quarter where nature teaches us and even heals us. With the rages of fire across Washington State, I am concerned for the ones who are newly displaced and suffering from the manifestations of their losses. How can anyone help with such devastation? But these artistic meditations deal with renewal and help bring out honest conversation and care for these feelings.

Contact Karen

About

I am an artist trying to make an honest living by doing what I do. http://www.karenlukefildes.com/

Location

Seattle, WA, USA

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It's a painting, a sketch, an attempt to capture something that stimulates my sense of wonder to the point of needing to honor it somehow. And to help others to see something or someone in a different light- breaking the boundaries of judgement. Some of my works might be written discoveries from my work as a nanny or a caretaker of children. (No names of course.) They are sections in a book I'd like to assemble- compiling art, music and nature exercises- balm for some behavior quirks that come with modern day OCDs. But mainly, I want to be accountable to paint, sketch, write this stuff out as I am giving myself time to manifest some of my own creative works. One thing a day. I just basically hope for some time to see this through- this series of works that have been gestating. I am learning something significant about the innocent presence in our lives... The peculiar places where truth hides. I'll probably obsess on finding ways to make it easier for children of loss have the opportunity to explore art as self care. This matters to me. But the one thing I know with all of the crazy endeavors I take on for children is that I need to paint to sustain myself. My own quirks require it, and I sink without this discipline of self care. But it's more than self care, it's living to see the next beautiful thing.

Pledge $50.00 or more per month

I would love to give each $50 patron a print of an oil painting captured in Eastern Washington just before the fires this summer. The Eastern part of our state is burning up and that is deeply concerning to me. Thoughts of renewal- is it possible? Nature is fierce and she will come back if we care for her. If you support me at $50 a month, I will be able to go back to Eastern Washington this coming season to bring artistic self care skills to children needing images of renewal. I will send a new print of renewal every three months.

Pledge $75.00 or more per month

I would like to offer a thank you gift of a small original 8 x 10 painting. This will be a one time gift rather than a monthly thank you, but it will be heartfelt. I paint small color studies before I work on a large surface and I'd like to share one of these with you.

Pledge $100.00 or more per month

I would like to offer a thank you gift of an 11 x 14 original oil painting. This will be a heartfelt gift for your support - you will be able to choose your painting from my website. I will even send you photos of pieces I have lying around the studio so you can pick from my secret stash.

Karen Luke Fildes is creating Art, making art possible for others.

For goodness sake, I've gotta paint, I've gotta ink. I'm exploring innocence- its value and the forms it takes in our lives..

Karen Luke Fildes is creating
Art, making art possible for others.