On The Right Side
****Noted from my website****
What many artist have in common, is an excruciating sensitivity to their surroundings.
Nature is at our attention and takes a deep hold on us while we observe it quietly and intensely.
The artist visually describes the scene through a brush, but the viewer completes it by what is personally meaningful.
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With a keen sense of observation and sensitivity, I
study human nature,
noticing people’s moods,and expressions.
I’m always recording moods, emotions along with trees, pictures, faces and architecture that I
see going about my daily life.
As it is for most artists, we just don’t look at our surroundings, "we are constantly" studying them. We can look out a window and see something different than others see. What direction is the light is coming from? Shadows? Where are the shadows during different parts of the day?
Light moves fast, so getting that "glimpse of a shadow cast" over a building is very important.
I have four to five
paintings going at the same time. Sometimes
when a painting is half way finished, I find myself unhappy with it and I either turn
it over so I can’t see it for a week, or I will have a sleepless night trying to
figure what is wrong with it, in hope of finding a solution by the time I wake up.
Artists are their own worst critics and I will continue to paint until I feel it is finished.
With having painted watercolors for several years, I often felt I was stuck doing the same thing and not moving forward to new challenges. I needed to push myself a little further in my art career. Creating new art skills, in a new medium was a very "big challenge" and getting out of my comfort zone.
I love to paint what interests me.
Knowing when someone looks at my work, they can say,
I have been there, I know
where that is, or I want to be there.
Painting for me is like reading a
good book, or taking a vacation again, only in the studio.
....THE STUDIO.....
