Hand painted Ornaments are now available!

Hand painted Christmas Ornaments | Atlanta artist Courtney Khail

That's right! my hand painted ornaments are back for another holiday season!

And while I'm a firm believer of not jumping over holidays, (poor Thanksgiving seems to sometimes get lost in the shuffle) I did want to make sure you all knew that the pre-order sale for my hand painted ornaments is now available at www.courtneykhail.com! (I made sure to wait until November though. I couldn't bring myself to send this to you on Halloween.)

This year, in addition to being able to pick your favorite colors, I'm also now offering ornaments in sets of 6 and 12. (But don't worry, you can still just buy a single ornament if you'd prefer!) My hand painted ornaments sold out within days last year, so don't wait too long or you may miss them.

And speaking of the holidays...

Holiday Commissions now open | Original watercolor and ink paintings by Atlanta artist Courtney Khail

My Holiday Commissions are open as well! With tons of sizes and prices available, you'll be sure to find the perfect one (as well as securing yourself the title of "best gift giver ever.")

Studio Sneak Peek: Lilac and Rose

"Lilac & Rose" copyright courtney khail stationery and design (feel free to share, but please give me credit and link back to my site.)

Week three of my new design introductions is the design "Lilac & Rose." I love how unique the lilac is- the color gradients, the shapes, the "petite-ness" of them. While they all follow the same basic design (petal numbers, growth patterns, etc) there are such beautiful nuances in them. I wanted to balance those nuances with the familiarity of a common everyday rose. By playing with scale and deconstructing the plant, I was able to bring focus on the individual lilac blooms as opposed to the entire plant. Once I did that, I arranged them in an almost dance-like pattern around the rose in order to keep your eye bouncing around the composition instead of getting stuck in any particular section. And given that I'd already taken a lot of artistic leeway with the lilacs size and shape, I decided to go ahead and play with color as well- morphing the normal purple into a warmer magenta, then a purple-ish orange and finally into a yellow.

Since the design itself has a lot going on, I opted for a simpler, clean layout that focused on the names of the couple and utilized a lot of white space so your eyes wouldn't get overwhelmed.

Studio Sneak Peek: vernon and antoinette

It snowed something like 4-5" last night here in Atlanta (and I am not embarrassed to admit we went outside at 10p with the dog just to have a snowball fight) so every school-including J's- and pretty much everything else is closed. So in celebration of what will probably be our last "snow day" when it comes to school, we've decided to spend a nice relaxing day here at Casa Khail. Hot chocolate, a fire, lots of Netflix picks- it's going to be a good day! Before I sign off to do that though, I thought I would share a custom invitation I was working on for quite awhile. Vernon and Antoinette just celebrated their wedding this past Saturday (congratulations!!) so I figured today would be the best day to share. Hope you like them!

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