Tag: Artist
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Why do I Paint?
Often, As the color flows out of my brush onto a painting, the cares of life flow away from me. Life has its ups and downs, for sure, and my art helps me cope during some of those times. The hours fade away as I get involved in the bursts of color. A calm feeling…
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Fairy doors and Stories
Fairy doors and stories A couple of years ago, during pandemic times, and a time we had made a hard decision to not gather for the upcoming holidays, I spent the time I would have been preparing for the gathering making fairy doors for everyone. Accompanying the hand painted doors were stories. I had made…
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Commissions, shhhh
Don’t tell, but commissions are not really my favorite thing to do. I stress too much when trying to make a painting look like someone’s idea of how it should look. In my thinking, I’m convinced that I don’t really give them what they want. However, that is not always the case and I have…
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Cold Wax and Oil
I like to try different things and since I’ve always admired the look of encaustic, I was interested in trying cold wax and oil. The cold wax doesn’t have to be melted and can be used at room temperature. I’m not an expert in the medium, by any means. I’ve not used it very many…
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Impasto
My style in painting with acrylics changed when I starting adding more texture to my work. Impasto painting is a thick application of paint, which I usually apply with a palette knife on a cradled board. For me it’s kind of messy. I usually am covered in paint, as I mix my paint hurriedly and…
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Sources of Inspiration: Photographs
I love to capture a moment in a photograph. Sometimes those moments are sources of inspiration for a painting. Maybe I can transfer that feeling of calm I had standing in the rain, observing the flowing river; the light emanating from a beautiful flower; the warmth radiating from the setting sun; or the crisp, cool…
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An ideal medium
Even though, watercolor was and is still a favorite medium, I moved on to acrylics. I guess I should say here that I really like to try out different things. Acrylics don’t have to be matted and placed behind glass. They don’t even have to be framed, if you paint around the sides of the…
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Watercolor and goauche
I worked in oils for several years, but I became more and more fascinated with watercolor and the translucency of the color on paper. Also, I found I could complete a work faster in watercolor because it dried quickly. I taught myself how to work in this medium. I would read what I could then,…
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Inspiration
After I did my first rose painting, I don’t believe I picked up paints again until my sister started painting in oils. I was little older and married and had a family. My sister’s work was an inspiration to me. Before long, I was taking a class at my local college in oil painting. I…
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Archiving
I’ve been painting for years, most of my life, now, actually. Lately, I have begun trying to archive my work, my paintings now, but other creative works are in my plans. First, though, I am archiving my paintings. I am working backwards, from paintings I’ve done this year to the past years. Funny, what you…
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