Courtney Khail | Southern Watercolor Artist (photo by Elle Golden)

Hi, I'm Courtney.

I'm a Southern contemporary artist currently living in Athens, Georgia with my husband and our rescue mutt. Here you'll find a peek into what inspires me, new pieces I'm working on, and a whole lot of random thoughts. (Oh! And for those curious, my last name is pronounced “kale”.)

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I was going to say “teaching an old dog new tricks” but 1) I’m not old (I can’t even say middle aged because I hope I at LEAST make it to my eighties and I’m not even 40 yet) and 2) This isn’t exactly a new trick.

Note to self: remember to wear gloves. (Just call me Violet Beauregarde, I guess.)

This moment right here- where I get to see someone experiencing my work in real time- is one of my most favorite things. The studio gets quiet and if you listen closely you almost always hear the deep inhale that comes at the start of really LOOKING

It’s funny how when I get really busy/really into work and life, social media kind of gets put on the back burner (which ironically makes it seem like “nothing” is going on.) Anyhow, I’m still here- working on projects, hostin

the value of a dollar

October 27, 2010 in Cool Things

via here

thanks to design sponge's twitter page for this link!

I love the creativity of this series by Jonathan Blaustein. Each photo shows exactly how much of a particular food item a dollar actually buys in today's market. Wouldn't it be cool to see this done with inflation? Let's take Coca Cola. Just in my (short) lifetime I've seen prices increase from roughly $.20 a can to upwards of a $1.00. I'd love to see how the number of cokes $1 would buy in 1950 compares to today.