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Here's a chameleon of a painting - it looks very different when the light changes. I kind of like it at night best. Melissa Maura let me use her photograph of pelicans as my reference. She has a great eye, and did all the hard composition work for me! -
Junkanoo in the summer can be quite challenging with the hot temperatures even in the evenings when you are wearing a fabulous hand made costume. Thank you Heema Inder for your captivating photo! -
One of my favorite seabirds, the Royal Tern lives up to its regal name with a tangerine-colored bill and ragged, ink-black crest against crisp white plumage. Royal Terns fly gracefully and slowly along coastlines, diving for small fish, which they capture with a swift strike of their daggerlike bills. They are social birds, gathering between fishing expeditions on undisturbed beaches and nesting in dense, boisterous colonies. In late summer and fall, Royal Terns lose most of their black crest and sport a white forehead. -
Remember that song from when you were a kid? It was playing over and over in my head so I googled it and found Bing Crosby! Click here to hear the song and sing along.
And yes, I have always rather been a fish!
I started this painting YEARS ago - it sat in my Bahamas studio and made it through Dorian. I guess you could say this took me five years to paint. But I finally finished it! -
Here's a Bahamian sea turtle on her morning cruise, just under the surface of the water. Original is available, contact Kim, please. -
Kind of abstract. I was going for a very busy sea. Original is available, contact Kim, please. -
I've ALWAYS loved flamingos, but this is the first one that I have ever painted!!! Original is available, contact Kim, please. -
I commuted all summer from "Cloud Nine" on the North End to the boat basin and drove the Albury to Fry's Fish Camp construction site every day. On that road, every day, a beautiful Royal Poinciana tree bloomed and bloomed and made my daily walk a pleasure. Original IS available. Contact the artist, please. -
Another junkanoo inspired sea creature. Zoom in to see the detail. This painting started as a place to put leftover paint as not to waste it. And a turtle emerged on its own. I followed the brushstrokes to fill in with different colors. Giclees are available in ANY square size. If the size you want is not here, just shoot me an email. Giclee prints come gallery wrapped and ready for hanging. (If you want to frame it, please let me know and I'll use skinnier stretcher bars). Original is currently available. -
I asked for help in naming this convict tang painting on facebook and got a lot of great ideas. One kept coming up - "Lost in Tangs" however there seemed to be a problem. Twenty three years ago I painted "Lost In Tangs" (click to see it) in my painting class with Kathy Windrow at Eastfield Community College. It was about 30" X 40" on birchwood from Home Depot. A woman down the street bought it and hung it in her living room in Rockwall, Texas. But everyone loved that name for the painting. So I pulled an image of the first one (from 1998 or 1999) up my website, and remembered why I named it that. So... I had to add a little lost fish!!! I love swimming with the tangs. They let you zoom around with them, like you are one of the gang. And sometimes there are MASSES of them. 36" X 48" original has been SOLD. Please contact the artist for Original Price List of paintings still available. -
I'm not much for selfies but I reversed the camera in my phone and took a head shot of myself down in the Exumas. Mark and I had just gotten back from New York where we saw the dramatic and impressive multimedia Van Gogh exhibition. It reminded me that Vince completed quite a few self portraits over his career. I've only completed one other about twelve years ago. Maybe I'll post it here if I can find it. Anyway, it's an odd sensation "seeing yourself" as you paint yourself. My neck has a bunch of wrinkles, just like the turtles I paint! Somebody said it looks like me, and somebody else says it doesn't. But my goal was to learn about painting - I got a little help from a college art prof who challenged me to unify the painting with similar brushstrokes throughout the painting. This instruction caused me to modify the flat water behind me which was a new step.
Original not for sale.
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Maryland Blue Crabs in an enamel pot. OUT OF THIS WORLD! Well, they are really in a black enamel pot. -
The best thing about ordering a couple of these is that you get my PERSONAL RECIPE for making a kick-ass appetizer if you are in a neighborhood where you can get fresh lobster! It is quick and easy and outrageously impressive when you want to show off to your dinner guests. I usually serve one Lobster-cargot per couple as an app. -
Another Junkanoo Sea Creature. GICLEES AVAILABLE IN SIZES LARGER THAN 20X20. Contact artist. Otherwise, choose from the dropdown menu here. Thank you! -
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Maitland Lowe. "Bonefish Dundee", Lobster Man, Husband, Father, Friend. He used to take Mark and I to his traps during lobster season to help him out. I brought my camera once and got some great shots of an old loaded trap. Original not for sale. -
Thanks Shane Cash for letting me use your drone's picture of our beautiful Elbow Cay lighthouse! I added the approaching thunderstorm cuz we need some rain. My own little raindance, let's call it. Giclees can be ordered any size - length is DOUBLE the height (i.e. 10X2 = 20..... 10X20). Or, see the pull down menu for standard sizes. -
Yummy 100% premium cotton tea towel with Kim's sealife! Measures 27" square UNFOLDED.
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Yummy 100% premium cotton tea towel with Kim's sealife! Measures 27" square UNFOLDED.
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Swimming Pig in the Bahamas. The NEW NEW THANG TO "DO" as a tourist. GICLEES AVAILABLE IN SIZES LARGER THAN 20X20. Contact artist. Otherwise, choose from the dropdown menu here. Thank you! -
Here's a quote (and the story) from the photographer of this terrific composition, Keith Salvesen of Rolling Harbour, Abaco: "Kim Rody, well-known artist has kindly chosen to use my photo of a group of Abaco sanderlings on the beach at Delphi as the basis for a gorgeous painting (still a work in progress). So pleased these sweet little shorebirds have become a work of art..." For info regarding the 36" X 48" original, please contact the artist. -
Here's a 10X10 linen canvas painting (acrylic) for our Hope Town 10X10 show. I usually paint BIG, but once a year I get out my tiny brushes and try for small. Here's our well remembered dog, Schooner, doing what she loved to do best: FISHING! Just like her dad. -
Here's a 10X10 linen canvas painting (acrylic) for our Hope Town 10X10 show. I usually paint BIG, but once a year I get out my tiny brushes and try for small. This is Reinhold and Sabine's vicious guard dog, Daisy. -
Here's a commissioned painting of "Robinson" the cat, who lives part time in Vienna and part time off the coast of Spain. It's a cat's life! -
Potrait of Petrona Strahan Major, from a photograph by Sofia Whitehead who published "Bahama Mama", a beautiful book of the women who have made the Bahamas what they are. CLICK HERE for Sofia's instagram! -
This painting was created as the focal point for the "Women in the Arts" Celebration at the Abaco Inn on Elbow Cay on November 24, 2018. This was one of the first shots I took with my Olympus TOUGH underwater camera when I first got it. That image has been bouncing around in my head for a while..... I was very glad to get it out of my head and on a 60 inch canvas!
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Our GRANDBABY!!!! In training to follow his grandfather's stellar golf career..... -
Check out the sketch this painting came from. I was in Marbella, Spain and saw this character drinking a glass of vino on the beach with her little dog. I finished the painting about 20 years later!!!! -
BRAND NEW, just out of the kiln. This is a picture of THREE tri dishes – sold individually. Our “Turtle Trifecta” is so popular thought we’d add the crabbies to the lineup. So new we don’t have a product shot! Get them while they're HOT! -
This is one of my husband's favorites. I painted three extra blue crabs so I'd have a set of EIGHT for my note cards (that come with paper bag envelopes!) -
Ate crabs one summer in Rock Hall, MD with Mark, Pap and Schooner. ALL WE COULD EAT. I'm STILL stuffed. -
The Abaco Rage. What a beauty, and those that sail her the BOMB! Why don't I just let Bradley Albury, Editor-in-Chief at the Abaconian, tell you all about it! Click here! My Facebook Peeps at Kim Rody Art (click and like, hint hint) helped me decide to keep or ditch the impending, following storm. I posted with or without on Facebook, and 99% of SIXTY EIGHT COMMENTS (so far!) said keep the storm for story and drama. So now, in addition to being "out front" of competition...... A portion of all sales will benefit the Abaco Rage Sailing Syndicate -
Here's a 10X10 acrylic painting on birchwood with acrylic. I saw the photo on Instagram and asked John Garza, photographer if I could use his images. He said yes! So fun to imagine myself being down there with the mama whale and her twins. Original is available, contact Kim, please. -
Here's a 10X10 linen canvas painting (acrylic) for our Hope Town 10X10 show. I usually paint BIG, but once a year I get out my tiny brushes and try for small. -
Sabine and I took our sunfish sailboats to Cracker Peas the other day to meet the hubbies and grab lunch. Then we sailed back to our respective homes, where I washed "Lizzy" down and good and left her to dry at the dock. She's a great boat with a great history, and pretty beautiful sails IMHO. A real sweetheart! This boat was a contestant in the Sunfish World Championships in Nassau in 2009 which is the reason for the beautiful yellow, blue and black colors as well as the island motif which is a trademark of the Bahamas. She’s been owned by two friends of mine, and once a honeybee colony was discovered in her cockpit when the cover was removed. Her name is Lizzy due to a gecko that hitched a ride on the boat during a Hope Town sailing race. So, now you know the whole story. Original is available, contact Kim for pricing. -
A special request from a great client of mine. Everybody in her family had a Rody except for ONE: her son, Cameron. She gave me a shot he had taken with his camera, so this really IS Cameron's Turtle! -
Here's a very special request from a very special client o' mine. He liked the lobster with a bottle of Kalik (After the Dive), but wanted to add a HINT of SOPHISTICATION, thus we decided to switch to a fine bottle o' Miraval (delightful summer rose wine!). Since I had FIRST HAND EXPERIENCE with this wine (made a visit over there to Brad and Angie's place last summer), it was sooo much fun to paint! And, we got to eat and drink the subject matter afterward! Goes to show you some of my best ideas come from my clients!!! -
For a special limited time here's a pre-production offer for Lisa P. Young's FLAMINGOS.
There once were two artists in Stuart.
They'd go to their studios to do art.
Kim and Lisa joined forces
And altered their courses.
Result: Art that come straight from the heart.Lots of flamingos to choose from, all at LOW INTRODUCTORY PRICING. We're both loving this new line!
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...of eagle rays in flight in our local "water park"..... protected Pelican Cay Land and Sea Park in the Abacos.
