Kimarie Chartier here- 43. I live in Canyon Country /Newhall area , Southern California. I have always been an artist . I started drawing at age two. My Mother said when I was a child I always had something to draw with in hand and I would cry when the paper ran out (LOL) ..I went to art school for a short while and have taught art to elementry school kids. I have done many oil paintings , pastels and watercolors , but recently , have been intrigued with digital photography and computer photo art in paint shop pro. now, I mainly work in Paint shop pro 7 and 11. I now also just beginning to work in ADobe photoshop cs2 ! I also am a full time Mom with three girls ( who are all over my gallery) Annie 16, Janel 13, and Christina 10. Between my parenting, photoshoots, Renderosity and playing in paint shop/ photoshop I keep very busy ! I also have a sweet, loving cocker spaniel named Candi who is very needy of much love and attention lol She goes with me on photoshoots-oh- 'cept when I am shooting birds haha cause she is a bird hunter by nature!!
 I LOVE any kind of art .like to draw and paint with basically anything I can get my hands on (LOL)!
I have fallen in love with photography
opening up light and dark and seeing the limitless possiblities! But I do still love to paint too!!  Works like Nightfears , came from nothing but my immagination -drawing/ painting with only a mouse paint and smudge tools from a blank page in paintshop 7. I started out with a Nikon 7900 pocket cam and am at the moment working in photography..now also have two other canon pocket cams a sl900
and sx 100is - mainly all my work in my gallery is done with my little pocket cams - they go with me everywhere and is an an extention of my right hand!! I have a canon rebel as well but it isnt working all that great so manly using the pocket cams for now . Learning..growing and sharing on here is the best!! I don't know what I would do without this site it has helped me learn so much..( this site motivates me so much ) I love it here ! yeah so I got the photography bug ..and I also love to do photo art...!! I, every now and then I will do a painting or a smudging as I call it.( you can see most of my smudge painting works hand done with a mouse on the first two pages of my gallery!!)
 Here is the link to an older webpage of mine ( need to seriously get it updated )... ! http://www.kimarie.xoom-arts.com
Feel free to email me or say hi anytime my everyday email is kimarie_davis@hotmail.com ! always love to hear from you!
 Thanks for stopping by .. .
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Comments (47)
cynlee
wonderful to see your smudge painting again kimmers! beautiful image for the season :]
Ensomniac
Great work. Very nice Christmas piece.
SophiaDeer
Gorgeous!! This is so uplifting and beautiful!
Gor111
Wowwwwww that's also one of the most fascinating and fabulous B/W works I have ever seen here! The light setting and the contrast work in all looks really glorious! I really love this spectacular smudge painting which looks really very professional! Gorgeous posting! Congratulation!!! BIG VOTE
odie
I really like this! :0)
dcarvell
Wow- this is great! Haunting image
GOLDILOCKSUK
Well you are really clever and talented this is fantastic! V Cathy xoxoxo
TwoPynts
Way to smudge Kimmers. Someone must have been guiding your hand... ;]
uniquedreamer
Awesome work!!
zoozee
wow .... this is really wonderful work :) I often use the smudge tool too :))) .. great to have a fellow smudger :)) But this is really like from heaven sent ! .. Divine work Kimmers :)) V
SoulSearcherr
such beautiful work
evielouise
oh with a mouse??????? wow thisis fantastic! what a great job and talent !
MaryLynda
Kimmers, thank you so much for this beautiful representation of the real meaning of why we celebrate Christmas. March 25th. is the Feast of the Announciation when the angel Gabriel announced to Mary that she was to be the Mother of Jesus. I grow weary of political correctness and commercialism; let us not forget that Christmas celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ.V
sossy
gorgeous interpretation of the holy story with divine light! love the creation of the angel and the pose of mary as well as the flowting of the cloth! ;o)
avalonfaayre
My favorite Christmas song, and the perfect illustration for it. I can't imagine how you do this. It just impresses me so much to see things that people actually fashion with their hands. I am in awe.
tony_br22
Beautiful work with your smudge technique, there really is a religious .. em .. holy .. cant fint the word ... feeling to this image. Beatiful work!
silverhalide
I love this...and you tell the coolest LOve stories! []/;^)