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Live Wedding Painter Kelsey Shields in Steamboat, CO

COLORADO LIVE WEDDING PAINTER

CUSTOM ART IN THE STUDIO

LEAVE WITH A TANGIBLE MEMORY AS UNIQUE AS YOU ARE

​With a focus on Colorado events and a willingness to travel,

Kelsey has been offering luxury live art experiences since 2019. 

   

Colorado Live

Wedding Painting

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Heirloom. Elevated.

Capturing the essence of you.

 

Live Wedding Painting ensures that your fondest ceremony memory is uniquely captured in real time. 

While weddings are most common, all events are certainly welcome for a unique entertainment experience.

Aspen Live Painting Reveal

Jordan Quinn Photo - Wedding at Aspen Meadows

Colorado Live Wedding Painting at a mountain ceremony in Telluride at Palmyra Overlook. Ar
A photograph of a beautiful mountain top wedding. There is a live painter, layers of mountains, and a beautiful couple.
Final Wedding Painting at the Botanic Gardens

From jaw dropping mountain vistas to intimate backyard ceremonies, each wedding painting is infused with your vision. 

Aspen Meadows Couple Painting
Final Palisade Wedding Painting with son, wedding party, and guests_

My journey to "live wedding painter"

 

has been nothing short of a lifetime in the making. The inevitable question, "How long have you been painting?" comes up at nearly every event and my answer frequently ends with, "essentially, forever".

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After finally accepting that I should indeed be in Art School, I pivoted to Art Education; a seemingly secure path. I spent five years in the Elementary Art Classroom creating landscape paintings whenever I found a free moment. I eventually decided to chase my dreams after many years of telling my students to follow theirs. 

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Looking back, the skills I developed as a teacher have enabled me to jump into the role of live artist. The comfort of painting while chatting with guests feels not unlike talking through a demonstration with my students.

 

As a landscape painter first and foremost, I have spent many hours painting in the backcountry and continue to work extensively on my own studio art practice. Translating those particular skills to a luxurious outdoor wedding ceremony is second nature and a place where I feel most in tune with myself. 

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Capturing moving light, unexpected color, and the immense energy and joy you exude on your day fills me with happiness. Each painting is a labor of love that uniquely captures the feeling of you and your day. I'm anxiously awaiting the vision you have for your live art experience and look forward to partnering in the creative process

- Kelsey 

Marissa Nicole Photography
Guest Portraits

Wedding Guest Portraits

Your guests will take home a beautiful memory of your event. Each portrait, finished piece of art containing 1-6 guests, is completed in 6 minutes!

Portraits are easy to identify and strongly resemble the guests captured. 

Bride and Groom Guest Portrait
CoupleWatercolorPortraitManorHouse_edite
Guest Portraits of Couples created on paper with ink and watercolor.
Photo of an artist in a colorful outfit sitting at a table and drawing portraits on paper.
Live Painting in Steamboat, Colorado
Company Event Painting Gateway Colorado

Corporate Event Painting

Creatively provide entertainment while building camaraderie and connection. 

Options range from a more traditional live painting and guest portraits to group murals and interactive or immersive art.

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Event painting is great for conferences, galas, and company retreats.

Supergoop Guest Portraits.jpg
Garden of the Gods Live Painting
Wedding Industry Event Painting
Santa Fe Wedding Venue Commission on Paper

Custom Wedding Artwork

Created from photos of your wedding day, commissioned paintings are perfect for capturing the essence of your mountain wedding ceremony on canvas. 

Studio paintings are a popular option for wedding gifts. 

In studio custom artwork also includes: portrait watercolors, custom work for event stationary, Ketubahs, venue paintings, party favors and more.

Spruce Mountain Wedding Commission
Four Horses Original Painting
Wedding Favor Playing Cards
Wedding Commission Benches Closeup
A coupe shares a firs kiss wearing a bridal gown and tux. Beautiful florals surround them.
A framed canvas painting of a bride and groom surrounded by white flowers, pine trees, and fall colors on the mountain behind
"Kelsey painted us the most spectacular piece to capture our wedding ceremony. Kelsey was very communicative, timely, professional and beyond kind throughout the entire process. She captured everyone’s attention at our wedding and had some of our flower girls fangirling over her work. The painting is spectacular and filled with detail, it truly portrayed the perfect Vail fall day we had. Thank you Kelsey for everything!" - Tiffany

L I V E  E V E N T 
I N Q U I R Y

I look forward to collaborating on your dream live art experience.
Your vision is important - let's chat about it!

Sevice Type : Check all that apply.

LOVE, family, experiences, feelings,
JOY, precious places

I believe a painting serves as the perfect time capsule to solidify the magic of you and your day. It manages to wrap up all of the best things in life, which happen to be the things you can't buy.




Years, or even decades later, if you really allow yourself to sit with your piece, you are instantly brought back to your momentous day as a couple. 

You remember what it felt like, how big the mountains were, the way they can be so silent it is deafening, and whether or not there was a breeze. Beyond what the day was physically like,
you remember who you were, the way you looked, felt, and the love that filled you to the brim. 

A painting is an invitation to journey back to the couple you were (and continue to be) and get lost all over again in the experience of it all
- Kelsey
An artist smiles next to an easel holding her landscape painting of the mountain scene behind her.
Kelsey Shields at Crested Butte Live Wedding Painting

From painting various outdoor adventures to painting luxurious outdoor weddings!

Colorado | Luxury | Destination | Aspen | Vail | Steamboat Springs | Crested Butte | Buena Vista | Palisade | Estes Park | Grand Lake | Beaver Creek | Denver | Fraser | Telluride | Breckenridge | Estes Park |

Big Sky, MT  | Jackson, WY | 

Lafayette, Colorado
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kelseyshieldsart@gmail.com

 

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