tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89846075101482461372024-03-13T09:44:03.112-07:00DAILY PAINTWORKS NewsDavid Marinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09215400660458352683noreply@blogger.comBlogger572125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8984607510148246137.post-89916384843587090822022-11-24T21:59:00.001-08:002022-11-24T21:59:00.199-08:00DPW Spotlight Interview: Pamela Gorecki<div style="text-align: left;"><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-4828203890804752133" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;"><p><i>Each week we will spotlight a different DPW artist who will give away one of their best paintings. To enter to win Pamela's painting "Roses and Dahlias" go to Daily Paintworks and click on the link at the top of the page announcing their interview.</i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: x-large; font-style: normal;"><b><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/Home/SpotlightGiveaway">Enter to Win Pamela's Giveaway</a></b></u></i></p></div><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">From Pamela's DPW Gallery Page:</b> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2LVO7DPLWtt3yb_NMov40RZ0zokukASjYvh2ELrFY6HDH67NW5a_fNY4GkmqR4G7HLEcqK4122pZjDHYvt7RJOY4r0RtUGWZkWBj8v1-3h20hw_Ne7ZUoAGdvmqGWP1VdCgi-i0nfJretwvrw3D-DYWc7dOWAmU2MEkH3btLbtPtVGv5liLmak9iM/s400/Bio.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="371" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2LVO7DPLWtt3yb_NMov40RZ0zokukASjYvh2ELrFY6HDH67NW5a_fNY4GkmqR4G7HLEcqK4122pZjDHYvt7RJOY4r0RtUGWZkWBj8v1-3h20hw_Ne7ZUoAGdvmqGWP1VdCgi-i0nfJretwvrw3D-DYWc7dOWAmU2MEkH3btLbtPtVGv5liLmak9iM/w186-h200/Bio.jpeg" width="186" /></a></span></div><p></p><div>I live with my sweet husband and a tiny dachshund named Slone in Redondo Beach within the sound of the sea. </div><div><br /></div><div>I like to paint everything - but mainly I try and notice the simple world around me. I also garden and am happiest when covered in mud and paint.</div><div><br /></div><div>If we were all painting the world would be a more joyful place!</div><div><br /></div><div>On Etsy I am <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/PaintWaterandPaper?ref=seller-platform-mcnav">PaintWaterandPaper</a>. I want my art to be affordable and to share it. </div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiigJOeRF-PLiNv7y7nea-d5kVXU2mUptV7NHo7WdL7kkn9zVpYW_tiFcJfIfNeWW38wXLOr1NyGgviKjrYfDPqU-EuUbzEkU1tb0qQD794UEl2kZiHEtOLdJz7D0rt9ED4LL0UVtwqx3rJKwJz3ipUwlbfMYPkBtfNN1hoQom_a34IlJAYr1fywpTm/s3297/Painting%20to%20give%20away_PamGorecki.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2621" data-original-width="3297" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiigJOeRF-PLiNv7y7nea-d5kVXU2mUptV7NHo7WdL7kkn9zVpYW_tiFcJfIfNeWW38wXLOr1NyGgviKjrYfDPqU-EuUbzEkU1tb0qQD794UEl2kZiHEtOLdJz7D0rt9ED4LL0UVtwqx3rJKwJz3ipUwlbfMYPkBtfNN1hoQom_a34IlJAYr1fywpTm/w400-h318/Painting%20to%20give%20away_PamGorecki.jpeg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Roses and Dahlias<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/pamela-gorecki/roses-and-dahlias/1025750">(click to view)<br /></a><br />Enter to win by clicking on the link at the top of the DPW home page announcing interview<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>What did you want to be growing up? </b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Various things, but I ended up as an Aerospace Engineer because I believed it offered a chance for lifelong learning and I would never be bored. But I always thought that being an artist would be interesting. <br /> <br /><b>When did your artistic journey begin? </b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Probably when I was small. We would often go to museums. I played the piano and sewed. I have always appreciated beauty. As an engineer I always worked on first-of-a-kind things. Without an appreciation for art, craftsmanship, and the craftspeople involved I couldn't have made it. All the really special engineers I met and worked with were artists. I am also a very visual person - I have to make a diagram of something in order to understand it. I became more serious about art when I became a hardcore black and white photographer - medium format, darkroom, fine art silver gelatin prints - the whole bit. I learned a tremendous amount about composition, tonal values, and the small things that make a 5% difference in a finished artwork. <br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpXtAO_IJetmmsLDjvKmZamN5fdxZ2q5W4114eYnQEc6iqAkZoXDQCfwXSnqbD0fVZQWthL-WWw7orYbRDTs6UQt5xrfl8lySG7O98KVHWRC-OeGZzgaf_hEEN8IiUgqjLCUGk6qFV9ZGdeIDjUkXYnsHG9kI2bCHyuF3l44vLgrotyjIlSUCUgijY/s2926/Feature_1_PamGorecki.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2377" data-original-width="2926" height="325" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpXtAO_IJetmmsLDjvKmZamN5fdxZ2q5W4114eYnQEc6iqAkZoXDQCfwXSnqbD0fVZQWthL-WWw7orYbRDTs6UQt5xrfl8lySG7O98KVHWRC-OeGZzgaf_hEEN8IiUgqjLCUGk6qFV9ZGdeIDjUkXYnsHG9kI2bCHyuF3l44vLgrotyjIlSUCUgijY/w400-h325/Feature_1_PamGorecki.jpeg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Companions in Isolate Mystery<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/pamela-gorecki/companions-in-isolate-mystery/1022274">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><b>Did you have any long periods without creative expression? </b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Yes. I had some years of loss, just like everyone else in life and my Husband and I had retired from work. How did you get back on the horse? I had always wanted to paint in watercolor - so I enrolled in a local class. The class was terrible but painting was wonderful. I tracked down a teacher at another art center and started classes there and kept painting. I painted everyday for seven years, and have met some good friends along the way. <br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Which mediums and genres do you gravitate toward? </b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Mediums - translucent watercolor, collage, charcoal. Genres - Anything intimate or thoughtful. Which ones don’t appeal? Mediums - Anything generated on a computer. Genres - Photo-realism, painted from a photograph. I don't get that.<br /><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKooU3c4R0Jim3pJpecxWMkHOkyjByXjnFLgwAKTGm4QgZDa75J2C9jq0QVg0bIU_Dc3YXF14rS-lfdCQAsP1QEQHny6CUot3Tt833rXQiEcsD4Vg-tMEOWt5pBL3owypuI_E-7ZTQbBSn-iI8dcMWcmmrwUgmpPz4ZgY0_T-xQuB1o5YBQQmGZAHp/s3020/2_Feature_PamGorecki.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3020" data-original-width="2917" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKooU3c4R0Jim3pJpecxWMkHOkyjByXjnFLgwAKTGm4QgZDa75J2C9jq0QVg0bIU_Dc3YXF14rS-lfdCQAsP1QEQHny6CUot3Tt833rXQiEcsD4Vg-tMEOWt5pBL3owypuI_E-7ZTQbBSn-iI8dcMWcmmrwUgmpPz4ZgY0_T-xQuB1o5YBQQmGZAHp/w386-h400/2_Feature_PamGorecki.jpeg" width="386" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Four Feet Three Inches<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/pamela-gorecki/four-feet-three-inches/1012538">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><b>What was the process like of pinpointing your personal style or finding your voice? </b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I think this is always evolving. I know it is for me because I love to try new things. It is like being surrounded by all of the beauty at Yosemite and needing to take all the standard photographs before you can find the images that are uniquely yours. <br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Name an artist (or artists), well-known or not, who you admire. Why? </b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I admire Charles Reid and Shirley Trevena. In both of their work there is a high degree of spontaneity and joy that is natural to the medium of watercolor. I also love Sargent for his ability to capture light and Turner. I don't know that the world has caught up to Turner yet.<br /><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTGr1H7w4tZDxJSbC7rSGdvS1w_9ASbUiZrhBOhJfecVN7NOfbKZM6ZZS5WqG1WoDBlZHGzP_L1Otjtw3c2prTBKrdguhwV8wDX8rgjyhCxD0-n9LEylmf-G-4tzjH8Datr6djU5M3e0UN6i2NT3Ar_lz3ZCkN9SdfIEAB1EAGDL07j_FKJfuiO1re/s3126/3_Feature_PamGorecki.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3126" data-original-width="2679" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTGr1H7w4tZDxJSbC7rSGdvS1w_9ASbUiZrhBOhJfecVN7NOfbKZM6ZZS5WqG1WoDBlZHGzP_L1Otjtw3c2prTBKrdguhwV8wDX8rgjyhCxD0-n9LEylmf-G-4tzjH8Datr6djU5M3e0UN6i2NT3Ar_lz3ZCkN9SdfIEAB1EAGDL07j_FKJfuiO1re/w343-h400/3_Feature_PamGorecki.jpeg" width="343" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Estate Sale<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/pamela-gorecki/estate-sale/988364">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><b>If you could offer one piece of advice to your younger, creative self — what would that be? </b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">It would be to learn how to draw. I actually think everyone should know how to draw, just like everyone should know how to type. <br /> <br /><b>Do you utilize any habits or tricks for winning the distraction and procrastination battle? </b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">No, this is terrible. Sometimes I just try to do something simple like work on my Etsy store or my DPW gallery; and clean my office. Or, do a pencil sketch of a drawing idea I have. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ5L4f8Hck8SO1srFi20sXNncwRdKmbx8HaKpSXF3azMMLZRKe8gjTC_JOrUrNphGcHmjCQZlziK3qFxgSVRCbU2Fu2WyvSF8OZqsJ0G99rtodg_M237bQUfFtzQqP-eyixb7jtwrF7mz-zlPOPu0YY45gLo1xXCkWHOHKmlhHbW9kO-22r_4k5_c_/s3649/4_Feature_PamGorecki.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3649" data-original-width="2757" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ5L4f8Hck8SO1srFi20sXNncwRdKmbx8HaKpSXF3azMMLZRKe8gjTC_JOrUrNphGcHmjCQZlziK3qFxgSVRCbU2Fu2WyvSF8OZqsJ0G99rtodg_M237bQUfFtzQqP-eyixb7jtwrF7mz-zlPOPu0YY45gLo1xXCkWHOHKmlhHbW9kO-22r_4k5_c_/w303-h400/4_Feature_PamGorecki.jpeg" width="303" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Double Delight Roses<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/pamela-gorecki/double-delight-roses/1002214">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"> <b>In moments of self-doubt or adversity, how do you push forward? </b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I once heard a TV chef say about pie crust that it is just a small amount of money involved in making pie crust. In other words, get over the fear of ruining the pie crust. So I tell myself that. It is just a piece of paper, and you can use the other side if you have to. <br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>What are some of your long and short term goals for yourself or your art? </b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I want my paintings to keep getting freer/looser and maybe have some more quiet space in them. Longer term I want to get better at painting outdoors. I would enjoy painting at Plein air conventions - primarily to enjoy nature and camaraderie with fellow artists.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCqm52LCWPZIn5PUSB-hA2ARYq6qCCxES8ZPmHtLM4-A0Brt5aXfCuu7UAYnv_JBOnZquEtHydymEoEnBmnUcxttPtMtFOm1hTYYxnLewbOkrhKlbjkCopl8f7wVjeCnImET8seaJc9RD8UhTqWerACgYXoxiZG5KWyzLR-YiM_3rK3bukMu2MIJrj/s3184/5_Feature_PamGorecki.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3184" data-original-width="2801" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCqm52LCWPZIn5PUSB-hA2ARYq6qCCxES8ZPmHtLM4-A0Brt5aXfCuu7UAYnv_JBOnZquEtHydymEoEnBmnUcxttPtMtFOm1hTYYxnLewbOkrhKlbjkCopl8f7wVjeCnImET8seaJc9RD8UhTqWerACgYXoxiZG5KWyzLR-YiM_3rK3bukMu2MIJrj/w353-h400/5_Feature_PamGorecki.jpg" width="353" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Purple Irises<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/pamela-gorecki/purple-irises/972647">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>What does success mean to you personally? </b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I believe I have genuinely touched the lives of a few people through my paintings - customers on Etsy. And, I have made enough money to pay for my paint and paper and brushes. I have over 300 paintings in peoples homes, adding a little bit of beauty. That is enough.<br /> <br /><b>What is one of your proudest moments in your creative life? </b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I was in an art store and there were a lot of artsy people in the store, and I realized that I was an Artist, with a capital A. It is something you can't buy. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijuJPoI3IHdBdFLmVgh4ONRsAEL2NYFm5--Z8Ya4yKb8Jz8xJYTnZJivlQr__7lAVQlg-e5DgW2s3kJ_ZLCu1QGJgiGZxraVpcrPPnsV4Vf8VbkAgsVZTGfwNoiW5c6atr7FLYZibUxhZu7W6FZcRMEdbFT4jbL2XxvFalitBue5phUFCbGKfFtsbc/s3656/6_Feature_PamGorecki.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3656" data-original-width="2393" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijuJPoI3IHdBdFLmVgh4ONRsAEL2NYFm5--Z8Ya4yKb8Jz8xJYTnZJivlQr__7lAVQlg-e5DgW2s3kJ_ZLCu1QGJgiGZxraVpcrPPnsV4Vf8VbkAgsVZTGfwNoiW5c6atr7FLYZibUxhZu7W6FZcRMEdbFT4jbL2XxvFalitBue5phUFCbGKfFtsbc/w261-h400/6_Feature_PamGorecki.jpeg" width="261" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chicago Alley<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/pamela-gorecki/chicago-alley/979674">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><div><b>Thanks, Pamela!</b></div><div><br /></div><div>© 2022 Maddie Marine</div>Maddiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12080891613292159584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8984607510148246137.post-79923277053334488932022-11-10T21:59:00.003-08:002022-11-11T12:53:45.965-08:00DPW Spotlight Interview: Sandy Haynes<p style="text-align: left;"> <i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Each week we will spotlight a different DPW artist who will give away one of their best paintings. To enter to win Sandy's painting "Bluest Skies" go to Daily Paintworks and click on the link at the top of the page announcing their interview.</i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><u style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: x-large; font-style: normal;"><b><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/Home/SpotlightGiveaway">Enter to Win Sandy's Giveaway</a></b></u></i></p><p style="text-align: left;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">From Sandy's DPW Gallery Page:</b> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgulAlHgQttXEQFvYjEjU9IFG0N2RqpnBL-hngtmN6k8uzE5Xa8yGgMIsCya0INrXH9Mr9UJVgV3_7kvzhB8j90rAIWUspF4oWMM_Tx7f2proEtLcuHOxtdhLFKpPL7_4JblWRrDrFcMa4uzsFGSyZkqGo7qv4-a49TGZ-lXWvNh0iYlpmVVXqZ969N/s250/Bio.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="250" data-original-width="208" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgulAlHgQttXEQFvYjEjU9IFG0N2RqpnBL-hngtmN6k8uzE5Xa8yGgMIsCya0INrXH9Mr9UJVgV3_7kvzhB8j90rAIWUspF4oWMM_Tx7f2proEtLcuHOxtdhLFKpPL7_4JblWRrDrFcMa4uzsFGSyZkqGo7qv4-a49TGZ-lXWvNh0iYlpmVVXqZ969N/w166-h200/Bio.jpeg" width="166" /></a></div><p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I have been involved with art in one form or another since I was a small child. I always have loved to create, and this lead me into teaching art as a career.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /> After retiring from 25 years of high school teaching I have explored many types of painting. Oil has been my favorite, but I also really enjoy acrylic, printmaking, collage, and occasionally watercolor. I painted a series of 75 oil portraits of my students as a farewell to the classroom. <br /> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">My work in 2020 is mainly Plein air and florals, as well as large and small abstract studies. It is all a joy. I am selling online as well as in galleries with my new website:<br />www.sandyhaynesfineart.com</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCoQyIac7u1kwoFwkfsLmAb0Ndt2_gHbn5HvgSdOl_kz4P3SUbyXKlxSvxBsVDQC6ns6KvBjpiq8g7Yy-nw1cchPLoRE7yCBJOLi-X-4GFqY5EoKJhqB28cp32BQmCYlHLPwCPk4uyoykNlHLQOuQd8ATdBlwFO5RVJvg5qL9QNQGsuX71qaHzsFLG/s2722/image0.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2699" data-original-width="2722" height="396" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCoQyIac7u1kwoFwkfsLmAb0Ndt2_gHbn5HvgSdOl_kz4P3SUbyXKlxSvxBsVDQC6ns6KvBjpiq8g7Yy-nw1cchPLoRE7yCBJOLi-X-4GFqY5EoKJhqB28cp32BQmCYlHLPwCPk4uyoykNlHLQOuQd8ATdBlwFO5RVJvg5qL9QNQGsuX71qaHzsFLG/w400-h396/image0.jpeg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bluest Skies<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/sandy-haynes/bluest-skies/820564">(click to view)<br /></a><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Enter to win by clicking on the link at the top of the DPW home page announcing interview</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></b></div><div><div><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">What did you want to be growing up? </span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></b></div><div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">I wanted to be an artist, like my mother, while growing up. Our home was where creativity took place, was accepted, encouraged and rewarded. It was a home where art supplies were readily available, as well as supplies to sew. </span></div></div><div><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">When did your artistic journey begin? </span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></b></div><div><span id="docs-internal-guid-52079e14-7fff-0442-3e68-d011896ab24b">I started drawing at a young age. I don’t remember a time when I wasn’t creating. It was always a natural thing to do. I loved art in school and really enjoyed the high school art program, although it was fairly limited. I proceeded to get a BS in Art Education and then a Masters of Art in Teaching, and loved the studio classes.</span></div><div><span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrRB4wkuuooV0YVOebFn7cDt9fT1XBqPZQvK3BmH3y5u0sVpvu2MV-Dg_SrK6hP3LkXlD-TqhWkFFeqSDtW2PBtPshwizFyleDwWlpEA0bWhgGOVDLjlasRB9BEy4BauEQbUQM-fK0H9xdTl1Ojb8YuRauu4ZrwtTf6MZbSJXifdq3wfamDhFNOjFf/s999/Gwendolyn%E2%80%99s%20garden.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="999" data-original-width="992" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrRB4wkuuooV0YVOebFn7cDt9fT1XBqPZQvK3BmH3y5u0sVpvu2MV-Dg_SrK6hP3LkXlD-TqhWkFFeqSDtW2PBtPshwizFyleDwWlpEA0bWhgGOVDLjlasRB9BEy4BauEQbUQM-fK0H9xdTl1Ojb8YuRauu4ZrwtTf6MZbSJXifdq3wfamDhFNOjFf/w398-h400/Gwendolyn%E2%80%99s%20garden.jpg" width="398" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gwendolyn’s garden<br /><a href="https://dailypaintworks.com/fineart/sandy-haynes/gwendolyn%E2%80%99s-garden/1019683">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div></span></div><div><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Did you have any long periods without creative expression? How did you get back on the horse?</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></b></div>I am pretty extroverted, and I thoroughly loved the teaching part of my job, getting to know all the wonderful high school students, and encouraging them to love art. I looked at that as my mission. I didn’t have so much time to create my own work, except as demos and examples, but it was so much fun being able to pretty much have free rein to create projects that I found fun and exciting. I taught the Drawing I and II classes, as well as the Art Foundations, plus semester classes of Printmaking and Applied Design (pretty 3-dimensional). I taught the basic Elements and Principles of Art and found lots of ways to implement those lessons with projects. Even when I was raising my children I was able to create in summers and off times work of my own. I put out a print edition of 500 of my montage of Monterey Bay while we lived a year in California, and also created projects and stained glass window designs for a restaurant design firm. I used to take part in outdoor art shows and sell my work, creating paintings on t-shirts, totes, etc., from my artwork. Those times were hectic, but fun too<div><br /></div><div><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Which mediums and genres do you gravitate toward? Which ones don’t appeal?</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></b></div> I’ve always loved drawing in pencil, and colored pencil, painting-all types, collage, book making, printmaking, and mixed media. I love rendering subjects from life, but I really enjoy making joyful abstracts too. I had to teach a unit in ceramics, which I much appreciate the talent in others, but I have never thought of myself as much of a potter. I haven’t done much 3-D stuff, but I do love it . The most fun thing I taught in ceramics was the clay whistles that my students created. They were fun to make and teach and the kids loved them.</div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7cfSFoj-q10wp1-Neq9756iQHZcgzHnGomvMcg4gMDJ6rUK-f_IXia1sCkHA6bb_YofUcR63LY9AHb4gd_Cp_pdh2aq4WIPeCPl7lYlKiHBFy6dQJ8ApN_OUS_Np_RXQuYqxycyJieiQQvDzm26uohitwKWrBkU9J-Gn9gwXlPXnUP8sKaa1nf6sl/s1000/Loutrece.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="925" data-original-width="1000" height="370" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7cfSFoj-q10wp1-Neq9756iQHZcgzHnGomvMcg4gMDJ6rUK-f_IXia1sCkHA6bb_YofUcR63LY9AHb4gd_Cp_pdh2aq4WIPeCPl7lYlKiHBFy6dQJ8ApN_OUS_Np_RXQuYqxycyJieiQQvDzm26uohitwKWrBkU9J-Gn9gwXlPXnUP8sKaa1nf6sl/w400-h370/Loutrece.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Loutrece<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/sandy-haynes/loutrece/1020621">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><div><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">What was the process like of pinpointing your personal style or finding your voice? </span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></b></div> I finished my teaching career with a project that just kind of “happened”. It started with a project at our school which spotlighted our diverse student population. By the time I quit teaching, our school had 17% Bosnian population, which was one of our strengths. The goal I set for myself was to create 100 portraits of my students in oil, 12" x 12”, but I really had never done oils before, except ONE I did in college. I figured out how to paint them by reading info from Chris Saper and others in books I acquired. (Internet info was just kind of getting started). I took pictures of my students, did a grid of them on the canvas in pencil, then I completed a monochromatic underpainting in Terre verde green (Chris Saper) I let it dry a couple of days, then added the color- in oil. I actually got likenesses… I surprised myself ! I didn’t reach 100, I got 76 of them finished and had a one-man show in a venue in Webster Groves, close to where I grew up. From that point on I was HOOKED on oil painting.<div><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Name an artist (or artists), well-known or not, who you admire. Why? </span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></b></div>After retirement, I started daily painting and followed Duane Keiser on the internet, and painting still lifes. I took Carol’s (Carol Marine, of course) workshop in Fish Creek in 2011 and the rest is History ! Love, love, love, all the things I learned from her, and later from Shelby Keefe at her workshop in Ohio in 2015. I watch Bob Burridge’s “Bob Blasts” and love his energy and enthusiasm. He is so generous with his knowledge. I follow lots of great painters on Instagram, Marc Hanson, Scott Christensen, printmaker Jenny McCabe. <br /><br />Ian Roberts has taught me so much about composition, as well as the teachings of Edgar Payne, and Richard Schmid and John Carlson, and contemporary painter Colley Whisson. I think you need to gather information from seeing the work of other artists, but ultimately you just need to stop taking in new information and START CREATING from your own knowledge and instincts.</div><div><br /><div><b><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG9VQp9oxdbMqamxsfs7ltA2peQufUObzlgKgcmyX-hm0a1FtWPlqy3mEDnDDO-eX-JAC68yGhLJc-8zDrsTt2R-E3T9TvkGrQH1HYwYLDLduwI10pmVTpih8J7vWbxsWwxMx5fQh7STWBZMf-dKpa4eD0VhKoMw8Wkr-sT3T-bR2Q8K44wsjeIKbS/s999/Savor%20the%20Magic.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="755" data-original-width="999" height="303" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG9VQp9oxdbMqamxsfs7ltA2peQufUObzlgKgcmyX-hm0a1FtWPlqy3mEDnDDO-eX-JAC68yGhLJc-8zDrsTt2R-E3T9TvkGrQH1HYwYLDLduwI10pmVTpih8J7vWbxsWwxMx5fQh7STWBZMf-dKpa4eD0VhKoMw8Wkr-sT3T-bR2Q8K44wsjeIKbS/w400-h303/Savor%20the%20Magic.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Savor the Magic<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/sandy-haynes/savor-the-magic/798806">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table></b><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">If you could offer one piece of advice to your younger, creative self — what would that be? </span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></b></div><div><span>My advice to my younger creative self is the same one I tried to relay to my students. “ENJOY THE ENTIRE PROCESS”. It is fun to show and sell your work, but if you stop enjoying the process that becomes kind of like work instead of pleasure. It is ALL fun, even cleaning your brushes and experimenting with a new medium, or getting out of your comfort zone by standing in front of others and demonstrating your technique. </span></div><div><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Do you utilize any habits or tricks for winning the distraction and procrastination battle? </span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></b></div>The best way to avoid procrastination and distraction is to develop self-discipline in your work. It seems counterproductive for creative people I guess, since creatives do a lot of free association, but discipline will get you to the easel, and that is what you need to do. Some of the most successful artists I know started out as commercial artists and graphic designers, who had a job where they were paid to create every day from 9 to 5 and they would sit and do just that ! The good thing about working for yourself is that you give yourself the assignment… instead of someone else telling you what to create.<div><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7um6UNJTLExkVtR5NmEWbYNpq9hmFHUHljfVn04bfd0_ZHSbl8skV081jPCoySinfbtOD-uS7XHrIVkhnNywQYaCi-L4zuCkLS5CwzCKmQbI5Xrq-0Z87cyvodaD0a6QV8C5EcaCOZJRj6YuI4OvVGayrL-xlZmZe6SP4QSvS-aE-ewgLMmjVL9F9/s999/Light%20at%20the%20End.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="780" data-original-width="999" height="313" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7um6UNJTLExkVtR5NmEWbYNpq9hmFHUHljfVn04bfd0_ZHSbl8skV081jPCoySinfbtOD-uS7XHrIVkhnNywQYaCi-L4zuCkLS5CwzCKmQbI5Xrq-0Z87cyvodaD0a6QV8C5EcaCOZJRj6YuI4OvVGayrL-xlZmZe6SP4QSvS-aE-ewgLMmjVL9F9/w400-h313/Light%20at%20the%20End.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Light at the End<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/sandy-haynes/light-at-the-end/798965">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">In moments of self-doubt or adversity, how do you push forward?</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></b></div><div><span> We all have self doubt, and setbacks, and times when our work doesn’t seem exciting or good. It will get better just keep going, don’t ever give up. Keep enjoying the process and you’ll overcome those dips in your productivity. </span></div><div><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">What are some of your long and short term goals for yourself or your art?</span></b></div><div><br /></div><div>I am enamored when I see an artist with a big studio, producing huge paintings and having a big art opening in an exciting art community. I would love to be that artist someday.</div><div><br /></div><div><b><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5pSY-_lu5sfJGgjKEnm6T7PUY1-jOK2DVGEXfLwLRNZlxgBsoqkhWkw7HcizrR18djQU8rVU32e8AiHISWBQ6ddR0Em4kVfiLm6gpUr7QLjXXPGVCmmVOFjIdDTrzUO3UBEAmsu_iHLFnQqp9YF1jZc8oSoMER7LULse3GnqW6GxZuXeH2pXuIH4l/s1000/Powder%20Valley%20Waterfall.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="778" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5pSY-_lu5sfJGgjKEnm6T7PUY1-jOK2DVGEXfLwLRNZlxgBsoqkhWkw7HcizrR18djQU8rVU32e8AiHISWBQ6ddR0Em4kVfiLm6gpUr7QLjXXPGVCmmVOFjIdDTrzUO3UBEAmsu_iHLFnQqp9YF1jZc8oSoMER7LULse3GnqW6GxZuXeH2pXuIH4l/w311-h400/Powder%20Valley%20Waterfall.jpg" width="311" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Powder Valley Waterfall<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/sandy-haynes/powder-valley-waterfall/764614">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">What does success mean to you personally? </span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></b></div><div><span>Success to me is being able to look back at my life and career and feeling that I have shared some of my life experience with others. As an artist I love to show my work at galleries and art shows. I would like to have a big show in a large venue with a series of paintings that I’m proud of. </span></div><div><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">What is one of your proudest moments in your creative life?</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></b></div><div><span>One of my proudest moments was when the local newspaper gave me a 2 full pages article of my work on the portraits I completed when I retired from teaching. It was so awesome to have my story and my paintings out there for all to read and see. An artist usually works in solitude so this was really special.</span></div><div><span><br /></span></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhztqbBDX3tOIob3R2BLjLyDCamYy5AAtPXfzomCNA2DBkhxuDsNYVcM0SOpdzg3rshOtXavamUrT1D8IJwHM4zxS1i62pMv8P_HsYq14Op8C6x7g09xKgmOYmdC6EufjZ7RR64cIvZ-E00kTqdukU5idlVw1yJpEIuWUecBvLpVNy64-mvrImDex-d/s1000/Portugal%20stroll.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="754" data-original-width="1000" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhztqbBDX3tOIob3R2BLjLyDCamYy5AAtPXfzomCNA2DBkhxuDsNYVcM0SOpdzg3rshOtXavamUrT1D8IJwHM4zxS1i62pMv8P_HsYq14Op8C6x7g09xKgmOYmdC6EufjZ7RR64cIvZ-E00kTqdukU5idlVw1yJpEIuWUecBvLpVNy64-mvrImDex-d/w400-h301/Portugal%20stroll.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Portugal stroll<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/sandy-haynes/portugal-stroll/860766">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><div><b>Thanks, Sandy!</b></div><div><br /></div><div>© 2022 Maddie Marine</div></div><br /><span><br /></span></div></div>Maddiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12080891613292159584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8984607510148246137.post-62331166916923661972022-10-27T21:59:00.001-07:002022-10-27T21:59:00.221-07:00DPW Spotlight Interview: Diane Woodward<div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-4828203890804752133" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;"><p style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.2px;"><i>Each week we will spotlight a different DPW artist who will give away one of their best paintings. To enter to win Diane's painting "untitled" go to Daily Paintworks and click on the link at the top of the page announcing their interview.</i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: large;"><u><b><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/Home/SpotlightGiveaway">Enter to Win Diane's Giveaway</a></b></u></span></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg25as5pLyWBNWW1EE-PGN-9v7VRwG8y4AYIDd_6_Az40s6Q8MNKUpgGHGE8Bnvo1h3vL6OkSTYy9Y4ULzSdls7sNiD8M9cDzzi0hZtDD-3_v2fgp4rEYRYjMmfrzRPoBHZWTQGlh82YIHyODNe1kaS_0gLAV5ZkoV2TytzKo9yqMsHRVInqJdILitO/s400/Bio.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="396" height="191" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg25as5pLyWBNWW1EE-PGN-9v7VRwG8y4AYIDd_6_Az40s6Q8MNKUpgGHGE8Bnvo1h3vL6OkSTYy9Y4ULzSdls7sNiD8M9cDzzi0hZtDD-3_v2fgp4rEYRYjMmfrzRPoBHZWTQGlh82YIHyODNe1kaS_0gLAV5ZkoV2TytzKo9yqMsHRVInqJdILitO/w189-h191/Bio.jpeg" width="189" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">From Diane's DPW Gallery Page:</b> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div>I’ve always loved to paint and draw from a very early age and my parents encouraged that love by taking me to art (oil painting) lessons for years. </div><div><br /></div><div>Then life got in the way and many years went by when I did not paint at all. Ultimately and finally after retiring, I went back to my first love of art. </div><div><br /></div><div>I like painting a wide variety of subject matter—it’s what keeps things interesting. While I do not paint every day, I paint as often as possible.</div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAAroYIAPYg-M9aqLnz-A6t4xYmqNJdYPOQK8zddk1W3uIF_WX5Xs5PJpLxU8ydA8bLqxzx4Rxcf7e3QVJ-X6V_fOKJtVWGn-Trm1spJAqESi2kO4aq3zWUn9QF-PFUBN2wW41qr-vOuHTfbM1WaT3NjJA0c10KtB9hMBiEJjPHVxkKVsqSiVm4aPY/s1000/untitled.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="723" height="434" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAAroYIAPYg-M9aqLnz-A6t4xYmqNJdYPOQK8zddk1W3uIF_WX5Xs5PJpLxU8ydA8bLqxzx4Rxcf7e3QVJ-X6V_fOKJtVWGn-Trm1spJAqESi2kO4aq3zWUn9QF-PFUBN2wW41qr-vOuHTfbM1WaT3NjJA0c10KtB9hMBiEJjPHVxkKVsqSiVm4aPY/w313-h434/untitled.jpg" width="313" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">untitled<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/diane-woodward/untitled/1025204">(click to view)<br /></a><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Enter to win by clicking on the link at the top of the DPW home page announcing interview<br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>What did you want to be growing up? <br /></b><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">First a ballerina, then a schoolteacher, then a lawyer. None of those were in the cards, and I eventually had a 30+ year career in Information technology.<br /><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>When did your artistic journey begin? <br /></b><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Apparently, it began pretty early. My mom used to tell a story that I drew a great likeness of an owl when I was barely able to hold a crayon. But take that for what it’s worth. 😊<br /><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">My parents were very supportive of my art and took me to art class (oil painting with Mrs. Libby Smith) for years as a child and teenager. Mrs. Smith taught me the mechanics of oil painting, mixing color and applying paint to canvas. Her technique was more realistic than what I’m going after now.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghSx7m_8cxAeiW2c8o1UnomJZex2W_uzF6zGsHUDiSBMHAndjL_EDzosRJOCO5_br4M1bCf9RAG6i2Z2sVjav9iO9kQVYp0TVDFMxAWXJioVbnfnOp3ux6--so3d5ZnfghxgvLnE6zDqkSfpt0L-ZWS1zPwwbEmJVfW7LhzS0laNbJ6KEX-yXUy9FO/s1000/Dreamy%20Wildflowers%20.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="748" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghSx7m_8cxAeiW2c8o1UnomJZex2W_uzF6zGsHUDiSBMHAndjL_EDzosRJOCO5_br4M1bCf9RAG6i2Z2sVjav9iO9kQVYp0TVDFMxAWXJioVbnfnOp3ux6--so3d5ZnfghxgvLnE6zDqkSfpt0L-ZWS1zPwwbEmJVfW7LhzS0laNbJ6KEX-yXUy9FO/w299-h400/Dreamy%20Wildflowers%20.jpg" width="299" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dreamy Wildflowers <br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/diane-woodward/dreamy-wildflowers-/1018342">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: inherit;">Did you have any long periods without creative expression? How did you get back on the horse?</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Since my career was not art oriented, many years went by when I did not even pick up a paint brush. I got back on the horse immediately after I joined my husband in retirement over three years ago. I knew that I wanted to paint again. Since then, the things I want to paint just keep piling up!<br /><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Which mediums and genres do you gravitate toward? Which ones don’t appeal?<br /></b><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I really like all painting mediums—they all have points to recommend them. I gravitate toward oil painting simply because that is what I started with and am more familiar with. About 12 years ago, after seeing Louise Frechette paint an entire pastel painting, I took a pastel class but never seemed to get the hang of it. I would like to try it again. Also want to try gouache.<br /><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">As for genres, I like impressionistic paintings best. There isn’t a particular genre or medium that does not appeal. If a painting is unappealing, it is usually the subject matter of the painting.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih76jgVsZxqQ29P4d7DkOgrrSO1BT3ORHX-xBTJGi_uPWZEP_Oah1-3_HY8tetgrF2__uLfnVjfNY7O178WS2cArWv8ZbfUulOBn-Wsc2zw3NNw6KMB8E-MU7tBQQ0-rZnIGTrZMWsJgDtuSZZJaTRBK7-QsmRoM5pMYNCHSSfLIIyxoMJzlT4AOYd/s1000/Angry%20Birds%20.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="990" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih76jgVsZxqQ29P4d7DkOgrrSO1BT3ORHX-xBTJGi_uPWZEP_Oah1-3_HY8tetgrF2__uLfnVjfNY7O178WS2cArWv8ZbfUulOBn-Wsc2zw3NNw6KMB8E-MU7tBQQ0-rZnIGTrZMWsJgDtuSZZJaTRBK7-QsmRoM5pMYNCHSSfLIIyxoMJzlT4AOYd/w396-h400/Angry%20Birds%20.jpg" width="396" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Angry Birds<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/diane-woodward/angry-birds-/983705">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: inherit;">What was the process like of pinpointing your personal style or finding your voice? </b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Actually, I’m still trying to find my style! I read somewhere that finding your style was simply a matter of painting more and your style will eventually emerge. Not sure I’m there yet.<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Name an artist (or artists), well-known or not, who you admire. Why? <br /></b><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">There is a long list of amazing artists I admire. Narrowing that down to one, it would have to be Michele Usibelli because I love her style. Not long ago she posted on IG an unremarkable, bland reference photo and her interpretation in her painting. The difference was astounding. She did not try to recreate the scene in the photo verbatim but she gave her painting the contrast, color and life the photo lacked. That’s what I would eventually like to be able to do.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJgNClWn3DAEBb_F7UP-_rJKMUhLxq4uGreywZjmy-7IrOJQhqUU6U0zsC1iXyLzlufAjVHYKD250KpSaVAy-OennneW3BE7udJgKEb5Fr51SWkoS8AyTT3aLm0UpFUVkjGK6DYf373Cje1MwP8Zt2f9ACC5DtVw_QQouc12gR1HBBw5p6I3tRVJdz/s1000/StarDust.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="799" data-original-width="1000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJgNClWn3DAEBb_F7UP-_rJKMUhLxq4uGreywZjmy-7IrOJQhqUU6U0zsC1iXyLzlufAjVHYKD250KpSaVAy-OennneW3BE7udJgKEb5Fr51SWkoS8AyTT3aLm0UpFUVkjGK6DYf373Cje1MwP8Zt2f9ACC5DtVw_QQouc12gR1HBBw5p6I3tRVJdz/w400-h320/StarDust.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">StarDust<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/diane-woodward/stardust/944290">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table></span><b style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: inherit;">If you could offer one piece of advice to your younger, creative self — what would that be? </b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Make time for art. Life can take over and business and work intrudes way too often. I regret that I let so much time pass before picking up a brush again.<br /><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Do you utilize any habits or tricks for winning the distraction and procrastination battle? <br /></b><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Right now, I have something of a schedule and usually try to paint 3-4 days a week. If I can’t settle down and paint, I’ll rearrange the studio, go through some art books, review reference photos, and just think about what I need or want to do next—the distraction and procrastination. After so much of this, I usually can decide on what to do next.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg1HqI3EwnaJr0HBwSwzHc2NHzZs_i4ugJDPfYXznCd2eqFyvOZeNeO-bI7Qnsl4LuUCMdiw8QbmYaDOsZcZTX2JVxTpEyhLvibH-rOZYJl4Y7dDZ5h0DMggvVxeWYR8Qp29TnxHuoSXutkmX3JlOY92fZgCgwKEtqtsuvg-vy0ocs8zYJUO939_Um/s1000/Beach%20Read.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="997" data-original-width="1000" height="399" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg1HqI3EwnaJr0HBwSwzHc2NHzZs_i4ugJDPfYXznCd2eqFyvOZeNeO-bI7Qnsl4LuUCMdiw8QbmYaDOsZcZTX2JVxTpEyhLvibH-rOZYJl4Y7dDZ5h0DMggvVxeWYR8Qp29TnxHuoSXutkmX3JlOY92fZgCgwKEtqtsuvg-vy0ocs8zYJUO939_Um/w400-h399/Beach%20Read.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beach Read<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/diane-woodward/beach-read/1015676">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table></span><b style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: inherit;">In moments of self-doubt or adversity, how do you push forward?</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I talk to myself and remind myself it takes years for artists to reach a stage where they’re satisfied with most of what they paint. And the fact that everything is not going to be a masterpiece. Everyone is not going to love my work. It takes a lot of work and paint and canvases to get where I want to be and I’m not there yet. But eventually I know I will. Until then keep painting.<br /><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>What are some of your long and short term goals for yourself or your art?<br /></b><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Long term I’m working on building a credible body of work that shows improvement and I would like to try for Oil Painters of America at some point probably way out there in the future. Short term, slow down and be more deliberate and painterly with my brushstrokes. Work on composition and drawing. Be deliberate about practice.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBGU05QH721b5x_F26SYQtkF7Og_TnQmC-UjEgmHFjXiY9moDfa-lNnvvlooOk5p1-wNdHBvdv-GYMzDcomCX2tWs2BWWfK0VhRA91vaWrMMsN3ca8iHUVCFRQhIycJbfOawTyedSkr4TAVpkxmRS1nb77TC3dzYXOHAoEM-gOaoKTWrHt4mT_oiIi/s1000/Favorite%20Flannels%20.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="981" data-original-width="1000" height="393" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBGU05QH721b5x_F26SYQtkF7Og_TnQmC-UjEgmHFjXiY9moDfa-lNnvvlooOk5p1-wNdHBvdv-GYMzDcomCX2tWs2BWWfK0VhRA91vaWrMMsN3ca8iHUVCFRQhIycJbfOawTyedSkr4TAVpkxmRS1nb77TC3dzYXOHAoEM-gOaoKTWrHt4mT_oiIi/w400-h393/Favorite%20Flannels%20.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Favorite Flannels<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/diane-woodward/favorite-flannels-/980569">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table></span><b style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: inherit;">What does success mean to you personally? </b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Having an audience who finds pleasure in my work; self-satisfaction with my paintings; and regular sales would be the icing on the cake.<br /><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>What is one of your proudest moments in your creative life? <br /></b><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">When I got that first check in the mail from a gallery! </span><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5g9R6kwiZucqwsMoORNBxPxN3C4eJIy6P3JVDuC3A1tfsfrUZ0Ya803AArokLlvV4c-BkhsJ9AMdBBp4NnOkvo6RFydMyyhZsyEmlFXg42fSSIYeIvOLVyC77spGnY4dfGeiM7-uoecduyr_yPuNeJ9c6AMO6r1eF0EjtzHHVB6AcPR4tyNuQ6lwQ/s1000/Red.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="988" data-original-width="1000" height="419" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5g9R6kwiZucqwsMoORNBxPxN3C4eJIy6P3JVDuC3A1tfsfrUZ0Ya803AArokLlvV4c-BkhsJ9AMdBBp4NnOkvo6RFydMyyhZsyEmlFXg42fSSIYeIvOLVyC77spGnY4dfGeiM7-uoecduyr_yPuNeJ9c6AMO6r1eF0EjtzHHVB6AcPR4tyNuQ6lwQ/w424-h419/Red.jpg" width="424" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Red<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/diane-woodward/red/947153">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Thanks, Diane!</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><br /></div><div>© 2022 Maddie Marine</div></div>Maddiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12080891613292159584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8984607510148246137.post-9027157780454553072022-10-13T21:59:00.001-07:002022-10-13T21:59:00.196-07:00DPW Spotlight Interview: Marie Marfia<p> <i style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Each week we will spotlight a different DPW artist who will give away one of their best paintings. To enter to win Marie's painting "Old Barn and Queen Anne's Lace" go to Daily Paintworks and click on the link at the top of the page announcing their interview. </span></span></i></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><u><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/Home/SpotlightGiveaway">Enter to Win Marie's Giveaway</a></u></b></span></span></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">From Marie's DPW Gallery Page:</b> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWesL8FJr9Ptqtc5xiJvRg_S5tj_lwdvRxxB7JUPKRHTogTcSigVTqS7LLQ4AUcDnqMUqqeJ6_HvJbtBmMxeD6-oAZsWgb-EM-Rl5LXIM0HfFmTqreBNhTahSLPIAivOkLa02U_2vMteRZPk4x8TViQJbtI6MdOgev_Ye6dS9_Ou8C_0EuhhaWnw_y/s400/bio.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="400" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWesL8FJr9Ptqtc5xiJvRg_S5tj_lwdvRxxB7JUPKRHTogTcSigVTqS7LLQ4AUcDnqMUqqeJ6_HvJbtBmMxeD6-oAZsWgb-EM-Rl5LXIM0HfFmTqreBNhTahSLPIAivOkLa02U_2vMteRZPk4x8TViQJbtI6MdOgev_Ye6dS9_Ou8C_0EuhhaWnw_y/w200-h200/bio.jpeg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">Hello! I am an artist who likes to paint people, animals, the woods, the beach, wild flowers and skeletons. My medium of choice is soft pastel, although I dabble in acrylics now and then.<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Recently I retired from working as a freelance graphic designer, and I'm looking forward to spending more time painting.<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I am one of eleven children and grew up in the tiny town of Fennville, Michigan. I was the first girl after seven boys, so, not having a name picked out and my mom being unconscious, Dad and my brothers decided to draw a name out of a hat. Fortunately, Mom woke up in time to name me after her mother, although the boys still called me Mitzi for years afterward.<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I live in Ludington, Michigan with my husband, Steve, and our lucky dog, Roger. I walk in the woods and along the beach as often as I can and try to paint every day.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguEuiemSWqZtwmmhRiR-RQ7V61sXHT0ynVjj-_9xiE0bc5K4xJD8WwsRzbjHM8WZzMo7Il8lIz-nHJR6DazHCHDNy7FIn2uIhFdfkmZSU6RSbkbkhJgM-j7xrfOKu91Lfx9QTI4RKEUo3RkKAQwY6FhzlwULeyGsHelWgkHJbc95u2DjvwP82UpMBP/s1000/Old%20Barn%20and%20Queen%20Anne's%20Lace.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="1000" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguEuiemSWqZtwmmhRiR-RQ7V61sXHT0ynVjj-_9xiE0bc5K4xJD8WwsRzbjHM8WZzMo7Il8lIz-nHJR6DazHCHDNy7FIn2uIhFdfkmZSU6RSbkbkhJgM-j7xrfOKu91Lfx9QTI4RKEUo3RkKAQwY6FhzlwULeyGsHelWgkHJbc95u2DjvwP82UpMBP/w400-h300/Old%20Barn%20and%20Queen%20Anne's%20Lace.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Old Barn and Queen Anne's Lace<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/marie-marfia/old-barn-and-queen-annes-lace/1020097">(click to view)<br /></a><br />Enter to win by clicking on the link at the top of the DPW home page announcing interview<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><b>What did you want to be growing up? </b></div><div><br /></div><div>My mother. I wanted to have lots and lots of kids, just like she did. I ended up having three, which turned out to be just the right number, lol.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>When did your artistic journey begin? </b></div><div><br /></div><div>In kindergarten I learned that if you could draw a horse better than the next person you could make a friend, and also that there were certain things that I was not willing to draw in order to please someone else, i.e., horses with bows on their manes and tails. I thought those were silly things to put on a horse. So I lost a friend, but I liked to think I gained artistic integrity instead, a fair trade, imho.</div><div> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6PKddmNIEsu81D5OatanlR-jyBKDS-hQpZ-NxHn8VlKH75xdzCF8eFSuSLeZ8CbTJStZp3CmxyRFpc2GuNFirEr_C-QrPeKic9BXArQqDDWQp2TK5EQWjND2xx_wTKY7vLUK4rhojPu0XxSgDbfXZ0fWHLLCrgIoNPCRO0avoMkfJHQ8_nRIUcXfq/s1000/Easy%20Does%20It.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="999" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6PKddmNIEsu81D5OatanlR-jyBKDS-hQpZ-NxHn8VlKH75xdzCF8eFSuSLeZ8CbTJStZp3CmxyRFpc2GuNFirEr_C-QrPeKic9BXArQqDDWQp2TK5EQWjND2xx_wTKY7vLUK4rhojPu0XxSgDbfXZ0fWHLLCrgIoNPCRO0avoMkfJHQ8_nRIUcXfq/w400-h400/Easy%20Does%20It.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Easy Does It<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/marie-marfia/easy-does-it/1020668">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div><b>Did you have any long periods without creative expression? How did you get back on the horse?</b></div><div><br /></div><div>When I was working and raising a family, there was very little time to do anything else. I used to draw pictures on my kids’ lunch sacks, ostensibly so they would be able to easily identify them among all the other kids’ sacks, but really, it was just me expressing myself in the only way available to me. A sharpie and a paper bag and five minutes before school was all I had, so I used it as long as the kids would let me.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Which mediums and genres do you gravitate toward? Which ones don’t appeal?</b></div><div><br /></div><div>I love pastels, the way they sparkle on paper, and their immediacy. I feel compelled to learn other mediums, so I’ve been practicing with acrylic paint. One of these days, I’ll try oils. Now that I’m retired, I have lots of time to do all the things. I also like building stuff out of cement and clay and cardboard. Whatever is available at the moment works for me. For subject matter, I like to paint landscapes and people and skeletons. Still life is fun, too. Whatever appeals in the moment. I’m a creature of impulse, really.</div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRpRQt4w52LEUORcMvquNPCONkELLeUkNLka39R6GMmaYwh31WahEEgrnxJJbCThP7lswrdhkXR7OIFq50hb_bDIk6jqNaUXHOQWrYnTUCZs4s7fa3Wkmtvsp7JkfUaBJTDc9VvpKjWTO5PQieenc5h_TvtPUq877CHv8UIUPRn9G_y5Hj_3qvPgIb/s1000/Morning,%20Sunshine!.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="1000" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRpRQt4w52LEUORcMvquNPCONkELLeUkNLka39R6GMmaYwh31WahEEgrnxJJbCThP7lswrdhkXR7OIFq50hb_bDIk6jqNaUXHOQWrYnTUCZs4s7fa3Wkmtvsp7JkfUaBJTDc9VvpKjWTO5PQieenc5h_TvtPUq877CHv8UIUPRn9G_y5Hj_3qvPgIb/w400-h300/Morning,%20Sunshine!.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Morning, Sunshine!<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/buy/auction/1354221">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><b>What was the process like of pinpointing your personal style or finding your voice? </b></div><div><br /></div><div>I don’t really think about personal style too much. I figure if I’m painting often enough, and I try to paint every day, my personal style or voice happens all by itself. It can’t help but be present in the marks I’m making and the subject matter I’m choosing.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Name an artist (or artists), well-known or not, who you admire. Why? </b></div><div><br /></div><div>John Singer Sargent for his portraits. Currently, I also follow Karen Margulis, Vianna Szabo, Rita Kirkman, and Gail Sibley. I admire their devotion to craft and try to model their work ethic.</div><div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAV3YusniYnCmzxrC9R_Q7pQ1y1UzYqqOCkquSZEPhSAHxvHOweGt-SfruCYgKSCOfrbRk-NnV_tKwccyzoNV7w6nPJ1-ras-ytY2mIJbuXLgoPvwDleata1AzSxBBXtqsUI-zGOPUwAhmbBb1UXlPoTx6UZebFwZ7OljQBS0Oh0dyw5Hs2An8t6ya/s1000/Card%20Sharp.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="701" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAV3YusniYnCmzxrC9R_Q7pQ1y1UzYqqOCkquSZEPhSAHxvHOweGt-SfruCYgKSCOfrbRk-NnV_tKwccyzoNV7w6nPJ1-ras-ytY2mIJbuXLgoPvwDleata1AzSxBBXtqsUI-zGOPUwAhmbBb1UXlPoTx6UZebFwZ7OljQBS0Oh0dyw5Hs2An8t6ya/w280-h400/Card%20Sharp.jpg" width="280" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Card Sharp<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/marie-marfia/card-sharp/372099">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><br /></div><div><b>If you could offer one piece of advice to your younger, creative self — what would that be? </b></div><div><br /></div><div>Don’t think, just do. The more art you make, the happier you’ll feel.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Do you utilize any habits or tricks for winning the distraction and procrastination battle? </b></div><div><br /></div><div>I’m lucky to have a shed to work in. I do my creative work first, everything else comes after that. Turn off alerts while you’re in the zone, and think of this time as a meditation. It’ll set the tone for the rest of your day, I promise.</div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4WU_63W3kFK-1xRbDnCxZZKNxY02_5UF5xMHEc8iDphrOdHrS2JVsYDN8eBQ_kXLOATwWiFcznmsHGZwoveby_KEtwpAeYs-l7ked3axvIVEWQgQ39gNcU_YFzr_QJb-e_t29SNvqqPuflS6mU_qzXQv6k88nvlzRHJW6vKm9vPSNEAQZSVfX_Rye/s1000/Running%20with%20a%20Friend.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="669" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4WU_63W3kFK-1xRbDnCxZZKNxY02_5UF5xMHEc8iDphrOdHrS2JVsYDN8eBQ_kXLOATwWiFcznmsHGZwoveby_KEtwpAeYs-l7ked3axvIVEWQgQ39gNcU_YFzr_QJb-e_t29SNvqqPuflS6mU_qzXQv6k88nvlzRHJW6vKm9vPSNEAQZSVfX_Rye/w268-h400/Running%20with%20a%20Friend.jpg" width="268" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Running with a Friend<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/buy/auction/1354036">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><div><b>In moments of self-doubt or adversity, how do you push forward?</b></div><div><br /></div><div>Talk to yourself like you are your own best friend. Be encouraging and forgiving and all the things a best friend would be. Do the work even if you don’t feel like it and just let muscle memory take over. Sometimes it’s surprising what happens when you’re not feeling especially creative.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>What are some of your long and short term goals for yourself or your art?</b></div><div><br /></div><div>I’m mostly just plain curious about how far I can take my creative efforts. What will my art look like in six months? A year? Ten years? Only one way to find out!</div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggbcvJ2afT6P3hlXv5cu_TgWkZrUnqbMxlDKShxcZsV_Bmu5c_yHMo69cvCFXl0lNqAchgnDS98JyzDmw-__kczWT6NgvkbuMX2WL7pZICnWHBtJl43qEb_u59m2PKVVNr-_zdGvrCwMtmFw2yvDfjgN5_A3u8KYkHB2V79S9SC5eeSenjQnml-vSZ/s1000/Mussed.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="794" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggbcvJ2afT6P3hlXv5cu_TgWkZrUnqbMxlDKShxcZsV_Bmu5c_yHMo69cvCFXl0lNqAchgnDS98JyzDmw-__kczWT6NgvkbuMX2WL7pZICnWHBtJl43qEb_u59m2PKVVNr-_zdGvrCwMtmFw2yvDfjgN5_A3u8KYkHB2V79S9SC5eeSenjQnml-vSZ/w318-h400/Mussed.jpg" width="318" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mussed<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/marie-marfia/mussed/1025802">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><div><b>What does success mean to you personally? </b></div><div><br /></div><div>It’d be nice if I sold some stuff, but if I don’t, that’s okay, too. I want to feel like I’ve explored everything I wanted to and success will mean that I got to do that.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>What is one of your proudest moments in your creative life?</b></div><div><br /></div><div>The first time someone asked me to show my work in public. It was back a number of years ago and my skeleton art was part of a show happening during “The Addams Family Musical” in St. Augustine. I remember watching a man thumb through a bunch of my skeleton prints and laughing out loud. That really made my day.</div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheBpKxlhBYU7xydAAwJ3SWB1fD5xCFj6Q-Baf33TAZa2jyxHf0bdLAFeKqKSQzaqk8yhAC5G3WwX7TPByBJKyQWQsiwJfLR4eZVua-wUcWdbVdxITvBVA8OZ-yLR9cCwD_rToXoLJ9zZj1TDyO4mej30vkxyimlL750-LHVPtjwjdonqmfgitqOLlw/s1000/Orange%20is%20My%20New%20Black.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="660" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheBpKxlhBYU7xydAAwJ3SWB1fD5xCFj6Q-Baf33TAZa2jyxHf0bdLAFeKqKSQzaqk8yhAC5G3WwX7TPByBJKyQWQsiwJfLR4eZVua-wUcWdbVdxITvBVA8OZ-yLR9cCwD_rToXoLJ9zZj1TDyO4mej30vkxyimlL750-LHVPtjwjdonqmfgitqOLlw/w264-h400/Orange%20is%20My%20New%20Black.jpg" width="264" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Orange is My New Black<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/buy/auction/1354136">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Thanks, Marie!</b></div><div><br /></div><div>© 2022 Maddie Marine</div><br /><div><br /></div>Maddiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12080891613292159584noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8984607510148246137.post-60397770166407142442022-09-29T21:59:00.001-07:002022-09-29T21:59:00.190-07:00DPW Spotlight Interview: Jerry Brown<div style="text-align: left;"><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-4828203890804752133" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;"><p style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.2px;"><i>Each week we will spotlight a different DPW artist who will give away one of their best paintings. To enter to win Jerry's painting "Almost" go to Daily Paintworks and click on the link at the top of the page announcing their interview.</i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><u><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/Home/SpotlightGiveaway">Enter to Win Jerry's Giveaway</a></span></u></b></p></div><p><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">From Jerry's DPW Gallery Page:</b> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7dwFYvREEG4ugr5w0kOj6JEAyJmKzYFTfwW9zEdykbKrDe_E03wjDEzhWOaddJ1qCn_0j_bGCzghHl4RL11mP5xAHIvvhPC_6wE3Opt1Wx_bD5ALZqP1k9lHVbMRQGU9Jl0zu5p2_GsoGvJHROd_75DegOAXCPBSkxGE5O4RvMCj0M0D61pj00fL0/s400/bio.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="327" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7dwFYvREEG4ugr5w0kOj6JEAyJmKzYFTfwW9zEdykbKrDe_E03wjDEzhWOaddJ1qCn_0j_bGCzghHl4RL11mP5xAHIvvhPC_6wE3Opt1Wx_bD5ALZqP1k9lHVbMRQGU9Jl0zu5p2_GsoGvJHROd_75DegOAXCPBSkxGE5O4RvMCj0M0D61pj00fL0/w164-h200/bio.jpeg" width="164" /></a></div><p></p><div style="text-align: left;">My name is Jerry Brown.<br /> <br />After 52 years as a traveling showman, I hung up the juggling clubs, extinguished the fire-torches, closeted the ukulele, stuffed the bunny back into the hat, and took up serious water color painting, something that I had dreamed of doing for years, but never had the opportunity.<br /> <br />When I started painting in July, 2018, I was simply hoping to paint images that were worth looking at, so that I could paint Christmas gifts for my family, but the minute I took up the brush, it was like déjà vu all over again! The perfect fit: so much so that I have continued to devote 3 to 4 hours per day to exploring this wonderful (and sometimes frustrating) medium, winning numerous awards for excellence over the past four years, and working to master watercolor, one painting at a time.<br /><br />I hope you find something to treasure.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgveaqrkp7-gKy9SlCUr45y2j7Q4ec9B9bsD1ER4M6h8I-NDptbT7MPScuoZcfcjX9yxmXfSjKyit4UMm4qb7qWlUGQ2r6__mWBFUWyWyC2V_yLLLqzJdMyapjHTLvMmU4myrq2XzkQDPUxzAcN1nfLtvRVrzJLtgfCy2iuwekHwTn97lJIbjZ5c-XR/s640/Almost.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="633" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgveaqrkp7-gKy9SlCUr45y2j7Q4ec9B9bsD1ER4M6h8I-NDptbT7MPScuoZcfcjX9yxmXfSjKyit4UMm4qb7qWlUGQ2r6__mWBFUWyWyC2V_yLLLqzJdMyapjHTLvMmU4myrq2XzkQDPUxzAcN1nfLtvRVrzJLtgfCy2iuwekHwTn97lJIbjZ5c-XR/w396-h400/Almost.jpg" width="396" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Almost<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/jerry-brown/almost/1017704">(click to view)<br /></a><br />Enter to win by clicking on the link at the top of the DPW home page announcing interview</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: inherit;">What did you want to be growing up?</b></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I have always been involved in creative arts: music, theater, and, most recently, visual art.<br /> <br /><b>When did your artistic journey begin? <br /></b><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Like I said, I have always been involved in creative arts. I spent 52 years as a traveling variety entertainer, performing music, magic, juggling, fire-eating, stilt-walking, and working with trained animals, at venues all over the United States. My obsession with watercolor and visual arts started when my showman business got ‘retired’ by Covid-19 and all of my shows got cancelled I had just begun to dabble in watercolor when Covid hit, and I started devoting 3 -4 hours per day in studio, painting.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicr31-w4-JGyUQ2TbRvu4ctZwIuDRLXhQXFsaVd2H2u6cmP-x5K3wekZwsWZsq9L30H8mVBlbAtV_uA2ZL1PqoUQneJ06GDUkmeG-EGvWCBdxi272QHpUS6RfzXQRkkPD2Zv0vdzAFDxHt1J4OUJE1X5h9_u_iE1p2u3sajFahKNRW1uKYCBadQThI/s759/Lititz%20Springs%20Park.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="759" data-original-width="600" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicr31-w4-JGyUQ2TbRvu4ctZwIuDRLXhQXFsaVd2H2u6cmP-x5K3wekZwsWZsq9L30H8mVBlbAtV_uA2ZL1PqoUQneJ06GDUkmeG-EGvWCBdxi272QHpUS6RfzXQRkkPD2Zv0vdzAFDxHt1J4OUJE1X5h9_u_iE1p2u3sajFahKNRW1uKYCBadQThI/w316-h400/Lititz%20Springs%20Park.jpg" width="316" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lititz Springs Park<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/jerry-brown/lititz-springs-park/1002721">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <br /><b>Did you have any long periods without creative expression? How did you get back on the horse?<br /></b><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Never had a period without creative expression since I was making my living as a professional performing artist, but I had always wanted to do something visual, but never really had the chance while I was busy making a living. Why I decided to take up watercolor at the age of 74, I really don’t know, but, as it turned out, it was a very fortuitous choice. From the minute I picked up a brush, it felt like I had always painted.<br /><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Which mediums and genres do you gravitate toward? Which ones don’t appeal?<br /></b><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I chose watercolor for some unknown reason, but I’m awfully glad I did. I am enthralled by the medium and love experimenting with what water and pigment and gravity can do together.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiiXaNAnS-jVIedLkesgighgSC8UHQtVYJbolei90T7Yl63I8zVzpmVOgr_Slz5-nOELBydBW857VD-66TtoyxS0G0TlSkWEjIIl4xpOOlfQSIs0SnOsrzeKLyEwSr8l3zAW1uCnuXTg6UV8fsYoiiKDl1vYxoLhTw55WSPczYE6IPn9W2qkNCrExU/s763/Giverny%20Pond.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="763" height="315" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiiXaNAnS-jVIedLkesgighgSC8UHQtVYJbolei90T7Yl63I8zVzpmVOgr_Slz5-nOELBydBW857VD-66TtoyxS0G0TlSkWEjIIl4xpOOlfQSIs0SnOsrzeKLyEwSr8l3zAW1uCnuXTg6UV8fsYoiiKDl1vYxoLhTw55WSPczYE6IPn9W2qkNCrExU/w400-h315/Giverny%20Pond.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Giverny Pond<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/jerry-brown/giverny-pond/1010811">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><b style="font-family: inherit;">What was the process like of pinpointing your personal style or finding your voice? </b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I couldn’t tell you. I am still very much in the early stages of exploring, but I am obsessed with watercolor, and devoted to my daily studio time<br /><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Name an artist (or artists), well-known or not, who you admire. Why? <br /></b><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">When I decided to take up watercolor, and new absolutely nothing about it, I, of course, turned to my good friend Google and stumbled upon painters who were demonstrating on YouTube, so that’s how I started, with artists like Tim Wilmot, Gary Tucker, Vladislav Yeliseyev, and Joseph Zbukvic: all excellent artists whom I admire greatly.<br /><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJQpPQUkdXYiFt4K0D2Ofs74T2OCnR85c8qR83AXKOpLK9pgB8ZYtf3s0Ty1s2CsXH_N9PAIhvrbL1q3nXe2A2fzP7oHBL3cSImYeOgQ8IAfcPAqilsK3v1jc8xnABLMO_XSxjnaMtlWLMi0vQfE5jpOfOThox1sIWOS_PhiDnNNXJt1mdNc3kfHGh/s749/Incoming.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="749" data-original-width="600" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJQpPQUkdXYiFt4K0D2Ofs74T2OCnR85c8qR83AXKOpLK9pgB8ZYtf3s0Ty1s2CsXH_N9PAIhvrbL1q3nXe2A2fzP7oHBL3cSImYeOgQ8IAfcPAqilsK3v1jc8xnABLMO_XSxjnaMtlWLMi0vQfE5jpOfOThox1sIWOS_PhiDnNNXJt1mdNc3kfHGh/w320-h400/Incoming.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Incoming<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/jerry-brown/incoming/1019283">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>If you could offer one piece of advice to your younger, creative self — what would that be? </b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Easy: Paint!<br /> <br /><b>Do you utilize any habits or tricks for winning the distraction and procrastination battle? <br /></b><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I am so passionate about my work, and thankful, at my age, to have something that gets me up in the morning, I have no difficulty focusing on my work. My studio time is ‘sacred’ to me, and I do my best to make sure that nothing intrudes or keeps me away.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTgrQ5QQpqKhqstNDePbKnPFPSyAwesumobTqXlYRdESyHOveINZLw7xvZy8iqrc6AjQgjEiBlWuLehwnM1VhPwQXRastXuZTy6KJEJbCf5rf3TG4z-NQfUeyn2eyXeSJkZQhe5MP9z3Ayrvetf1eA_dk9ULDc4-iUktupnskFP8Gzv8UoJzM1ZCF5/s640/Extra%20Virgin.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="628" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTgrQ5QQpqKhqstNDePbKnPFPSyAwesumobTqXlYRdESyHOveINZLw7xvZy8iqrc6AjQgjEiBlWuLehwnM1VhPwQXRastXuZTy6KJEJbCf5rf3TG4z-NQfUeyn2eyXeSJkZQhe5MP9z3Ayrvetf1eA_dk9ULDc4-iUktupnskFP8Gzv8UoJzM1ZCF5/w393-h400/Extra%20Virgin.jpg" width="393" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Extra Virgin<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/jerry-brown/extra-virgin/1011345">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><b>In moments of self-doubt or adversity, how do you push forward?<br /></b><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">When I have a failed painting, and am convinced that I can’t paint, I just remember one of my mentors saying, “It’s only paper.”<br /><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>What are some of your long and short term goals for yourself or your art?<br /></b><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Long term and short term are identical: Master the </span>medium.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT16FIBClc7hJ0WbukjlRW-s245tD4orZLDhVIUwEIGUmwVmw45dsnDNk0fz-1uWfLfWX2x3oGhXL35mQ0Tu7Ahn2HFFCTqlV0MQf8kCkC7N8tcOjYQFgA71UOMAGmRqoYBaqvaizSHTbyImFTPofKxEuIIW-LfX6h1TjiKMvU5WjnKyE9nSCMjPkj/s777/D.C.%20Escape.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="777" data-original-width="600" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT16FIBClc7hJ0WbukjlRW-s245tD4orZLDhVIUwEIGUmwVmw45dsnDNk0fz-1uWfLfWX2x3oGhXL35mQ0Tu7Ahn2HFFCTqlV0MQf8kCkC7N8tcOjYQFgA71UOMAGmRqoYBaqvaizSHTbyImFTPofKxEuIIW-LfX6h1TjiKMvU5WjnKyE9nSCMjPkj/w309-h400/D.C.%20Escape.jpg" width="309" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">D.C. Escape<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/jerry-brown/dc-escape/1010810">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: inherit;">What does success mean to you personally? </b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Well, I am still pretty much awed by the ‘validation’ of my work when people seek to own my paintings.<br /> <br /><b>What is one of your proudest moments in your creative life?<br /></b><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Being invited, at the age of 78, to be featured as an emerging artist at a well known local gallery. (short list, huh?)</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAzVmkL8BydFBZg1Lsj03Cf_82Q5wrVu8i4qHcFSckAWk1w_Kdnn6et2_rekGtOizLVcCNSDiWQwPsv6lRf-c-CUjp7LqnBS2KSyWia9fR7WUmoVe14q5997lkFAvEle3BZnYTxMvOo_lcW0IJZzSGXFUKy79REzY6RWf9vmrvTOs82c9vOV63kZ-h/s734/Campus%20Reign.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="734" data-original-width="600" height="429" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAzVmkL8BydFBZg1Lsj03Cf_82Q5wrVu8i4qHcFSckAWk1w_Kdnn6et2_rekGtOizLVcCNSDiWQwPsv6lRf-c-CUjp7LqnBS2KSyWia9fR7WUmoVe14q5997lkFAvEle3BZnYTxMvOo_lcW0IJZzSGXFUKy79REzY6RWf9vmrvTOs82c9vOV63kZ-h/w352-h429/Campus%20Reign.jpg" width="352" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Campus Reign<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/jerry-brown/campus-reign/990085">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><div><b>Thanks, Jerry!</b></div><div><br /></div><div>© 2022 Maddie Marine</div></div>Maddiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12080891613292159584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8984607510148246137.post-5077786339166669602022-09-15T21:59:00.007-07:002022-09-19T07:27:58.866-07:00 DPW Spotlight Interview: Laurie Leehane<p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><i style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Each week we will spotlight a different DPW artist who will give away one of their best paintings. To enter to win Laurie's painting "Cottage Memories" go to Daily Paintworks and click on the link at the top of the page announcing their interview.</i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/Home/SpotlightGiveaway">Enter to Win Laurie's Giveaway</a></b></span></p><p><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">From Laurie's DPW Gallery Page:</b> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqRrts8GLP3Ub_VrqEJaO66j8gEVaShFN0KVcHrqApuxt8uq680kTNhiyhnDMMumPUKXQGFCx933wRGKZ78Io02xvHhEMQBXS0ZeR2BepYCyWtSmVZe6zVWXafXuQj8faQ-hilY8TxLUQXzxVoPM0uZ1V5-lTCHyx5ictpPb9s1y6Bne_wFNzgc7Ru/s399/bio.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="399" data-original-width="299" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqRrts8GLP3Ub_VrqEJaO66j8gEVaShFN0KVcHrqApuxt8uq680kTNhiyhnDMMumPUKXQGFCx933wRGKZ78Io02xvHhEMQBXS0ZeR2BepYCyWtSmVZe6zVWXafXuQj8faQ-hilY8TxLUQXzxVoPM0uZ1V5-lTCHyx5ictpPb9s1y6Bne_wFNzgc7Ru/w150-h200/bio.jpeg" width="150" /></a></div><p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I was born in St. John’s Newfoundland. I have lived in places across Canada, finally settling back in my native city, St. John's Newfoundland, in 2002. My passion for drawing streets and houses as a child has carried into my professional career. Collections of my art can be found with the City of St. John’s and the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador as well as publication in The Newfoundland Quarterly and “City seen: Artist’s Views of St. John’s”.<br />I recently moved back to the coastal community of Eastport here in Newfoundland. It has been a big change but I am enjoying beach combing and the quietness of it all.<br /><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Statement:</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">I think of my work as a unique and personal interpretation of the Newfoundland landscape that captures the characteristics and spirit of the land and the people. It is essential in my work for me to have an emotional reaction to a situation or place. My work generally contains a narrative of abandonment, mystery and longing. It isn't what is said that holds my attention but what is NOT said. I aim to create work that deeply touches a viewer’s memory of a moment and to have them connect with the essential feeling I wish to convey in the painting. I believe there is a magical time for everything whether it is the time of day when the light strikes the homesteads and sheds I investigate, or when the landscape is speaking in dreams. Everyone and everything has a moment. I’d like to think I am documenting time and space.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtzHQ6b4eauoML1KxsN1YPfIfrqJYwyzs3v_iaMMXW42f7M1xwblVMwLtEtYCOLgPgm5IRAyjhuaWdxIlCh6TcNh4RiBAWLylbQQsm0duygG6Ya-pMe5Tqv8r1aqRwvaafsz3yB2H4fYDGhkRBxUa0fDgKKbHELcCYPO8N_zBCtDTlhHHmJ4qoKEgX/s1000/Cottage%20Memories.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="751" height="444" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtzHQ6b4eauoML1KxsN1YPfIfrqJYwyzs3v_iaMMXW42f7M1xwblVMwLtEtYCOLgPgm5IRAyjhuaWdxIlCh6TcNh4RiBAWLylbQQsm0duygG6Ya-pMe5Tqv8r1aqRwvaafsz3yB2H4fYDGhkRBxUa0fDgKKbHELcCYPO8N_zBCtDTlhHHmJ4qoKEgX/w333-h444/Cottage%20Memories.jpg" width="333" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cottage Memories<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/laurie-leehane/cottage-memories/1018899">(click to view)</a><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Enter to win by clicking on the link at the top of the DPW home page announcing interview</span></td></tr></tbody></table><b style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">What did you want to be growing up? </b></div><span id="docs-internal-guid-1e6ebf1d-7fff-4770-bc7e-00f0332722c3"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span> </span><span> </span>When I became a teenager I wanted to be a psychologist and then I wanted to be a writer. I loved creating and as an only child had an imaginative mind.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>When did your artistic journey begin? </b></span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I entered College at 18 in a commercial art program that lasted three months because I ran out of money. I ended up taking Fine Arts in college in Ontario, Canada at age 22 and that is where my journey really started. After two years there I started University in hopes of being an art therapist. That fell apart as well because of life circumstances. At age 30 or so I met an older woman artist near me who became a sort of mentor and I started filling my days with painting and being part of local shows. When I moved back to Newfoundland I was picked up by a gallery. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2AAdcIqfZtsMm1jwpjKQxeY8qNdppmSjKfxK_sk6vZGNX1YVUdGEWSa7VbyeIPdgbgGtAMJsgQ52gUUj8jLUQ8xfd5uqKNurYwKjLRTdI6qJFm-Va4cuEVZCbdHqwicLxSzU3uEyc0tn5Z5pbLdQHOXfPlIp7y5UalXf328fHqPT3L_tV9wkBdJgn/s800/Making%20Plans.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="770" data-original-width="800" height="385" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2AAdcIqfZtsMm1jwpjKQxeY8qNdppmSjKfxK_sk6vZGNX1YVUdGEWSa7VbyeIPdgbgGtAMJsgQ52gUUj8jLUQ8xfd5uqKNurYwKjLRTdI6qJFm-Va4cuEVZCbdHqwicLxSzU3uEyc0tn5Z5pbLdQHOXfPlIp7y5UalXf328fHqPT3L_tV9wkBdJgn/w400-h385/Making%20Plans.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Making Plans<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/laurie-leehane/making-plans/1019933">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Did you have any long periods without creative expression? How did you get back on the horse?</b></span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I often lose my mojo and feel very disinterested in working. I live with chronic pain from fibromyalgia and spinal disease so it can be easy for me to lapse into months of having no inspiration or energy. It has gotten harder as I get older. I can’t say how I get back on the horse. It just happens generally to my surprise. I can be in terrible pain and yet some creative spark will ignite and I will push through it to get the job done. Lately I have been very busy working on smalls for my DPW gallery and I feel excited about getting to my studio. I feel blessed when this occurs.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Which mediums and genres do you gravitate toward? Which ones don’t appeal?</b></span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I use acrylics for my small works and for the underpainting of my gallery art. I love oils and my large pieces are almost always oil. Streetscapes and coastal depictions are generally my gallery art and my smalls can vary greatly. I love crows and also I have done a vast amount of pet portraits. The last few years I have gravitated to landscapes.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzBBYINmBwdcNHHjdCSqOmUYCMpaYdpz6HMrrM0v_dQ2kpGCgSc4_cV6AJXu9mFP2yCLAsFxY10ZCOmnS21wq4XCJudsHdK7KGTj19bJbjJtUQw8w8wEnWGUPZPzx0OzTIJGVFuDlGlkwqzRqUUC1ordDiQxf8vhcEYC9PDUQx-V9R3LegvMZChuqb/s1000/Stacey's%20Cove%20Twillingate.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="982" data-original-width="1000" height="393" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzBBYINmBwdcNHHjdCSqOmUYCMpaYdpz6HMrrM0v_dQ2kpGCgSc4_cV6AJXu9mFP2yCLAsFxY10ZCOmnS21wq4XCJudsHdK7KGTj19bJbjJtUQw8w8wEnWGUPZPzx0OzTIJGVFuDlGlkwqzRqUUC1ordDiQxf8vhcEYC9PDUQx-V9R3LegvMZChuqb/w400-h393/Stacey's%20Cove%20Twillingate.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stacey's Cove Twillingate<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/laurie-leehane/staceys-cove-twillingate/945426">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>What was the process like of pinpointing your personal style or finding your voice? </b></span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thirty years of painting and I am still learning and developing so I guess that has been the process. Hard work, many fails and tears and wanting to go to bed for a week is how I have developed. I found what identifies my work about fifteen years ago when my gallery took me on. I gravitate to light and shadow and time of day. The drama in the scene. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Name an artist (or artists), well-known or not, who you admire. Why? </b></span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I always loved Edward Hopper’s paintings and David Blackwood’s lithographs. Hopper’s light always attracted me and Blackwood’s dark and tragic scenes. As I have gotten older there are so many I really admire and find inspiration with. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5AL_l50AtKeHnaqBIO-0ISIJzBxoXlUpR0jkms132OsFUxsNFMSLRLz1iKBpKe5sIJjzRpj_2IXqUG_iyQUCN2ahO4JRXWDOI7CeK0oBm_SakSNQyux1bCjqSU4X5Dkg073bnm4jnONgWLfFe9sl-0OZsJPZlYQfFnooIhAjUw5acD7rDEXXxbxBp/s1000/Theodore%20Coop%20Stories%20%231.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="942" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5AL_l50AtKeHnaqBIO-0ISIJzBxoXlUpR0jkms132OsFUxsNFMSLRLz1iKBpKe5sIJjzRpj_2IXqUG_iyQUCN2ahO4JRXWDOI7CeK0oBm_SakSNQyux1bCjqSU4X5Dkg073bnm4jnONgWLfFe9sl-0OZsJPZlYQfFnooIhAjUw5acD7rDEXXxbxBp/w376-h400/Theodore%20Coop%20Stories%20%231.jpg" width="376" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Theodore<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/laurie-leehane/theodore-coop-stories-1/1018887">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>If you could offer one piece of advice to your younger, creative self — what would that be?</b></span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I would have told myself to enjoy the process more. To have fun. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Do you utilize any habits or tricks for winning the distraction and procrastination battle? </b></span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I don’t think I win the distraction and procrastination battle. HA! I have a sign in my studio “Habit is our biggest competitor” I keep that in mind. I spend all of my time in my studio. I may not always produce but I do practice what my mentor friend told me years ago, which is to do at the least an hour every day doing something related to art. I do find walks on the beach helpful for getting me more into the art spirit. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeCccbLVcyFLgo6nSs5PilEEOauV5mewYWK7SoLdznB30ai7qXXCw9BgJ1ML0qwPkewoEbi78-sDsGSeNzWDU3CuAC_-NoPQKI7yGmvGoQ3BfOedo8pFFEjSUO3tFI0fmiTAI5zZqPFWYCUxFD2hRWWCCrc8henYX1IXRiggSNLwbSAZodBzA89wVJ/s800/Stormy%20Day%20in%20Powell's%20Cove.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="776" data-original-width="800" height="388" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeCccbLVcyFLgo6nSs5PilEEOauV5mewYWK7SoLdznB30ai7qXXCw9BgJ1ML0qwPkewoEbi78-sDsGSeNzWDU3CuAC_-NoPQKI7yGmvGoQ3BfOedo8pFFEjSUO3tFI0fmiTAI5zZqPFWYCUxFD2hRWWCCrc8henYX1IXRiggSNLwbSAZodBzA89wVJ/w400-h388/Stormy%20Day%20in%20Powell's%20Cove.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stormy Day in Powell's Cove<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/laurie-leehane/stormy-day-in-powells-cove/1020308">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>In moments of self-doubt or adversity, how do you push forward?</b></span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I reach out to my family and my artist friends for reassurance at times of doubt. I push forward by being stubborn I guess. To prove to myself I CAN do this. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>What are some of your long and short term goals for yourself or your art? </b></span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">My goals are to get my pain under control and produce large bodies of work. I would love to be able to have another show at the gallery with many large pieces. I am always wanting to get better at what I do.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_q6gqam2K8iA1_TttpIhTnRitTShnpS2DCosn1Ax_F5UkbamUt88kqr4rQY2FS-gNzqD7ubXq6UhRVdppdwZMSB2qhxNyZ2ht-vrPrdnxQyn7NUEJQPr33u4h9-4Ke36B5-Rgk2x41VcfP9aUYzKx4ggb9_KJut7I9sdmRJrGXqWkeuiOmAP8qzXe/s600/Siblings.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="600" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_q6gqam2K8iA1_TttpIhTnRitTShnpS2DCosn1Ax_F5UkbamUt88kqr4rQY2FS-gNzqD7ubXq6UhRVdppdwZMSB2qhxNyZ2ht-vrPrdnxQyn7NUEJQPr33u4h9-4Ke36B5-Rgk2x41VcfP9aUYzKx4ggb9_KJut7I9sdmRJrGXqWkeuiOmAP8qzXe/w400-h400/Siblings.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Siblings<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/laurie-leehane/siblings/932978">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>What does success mean to you personally?</b></span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Success for me is producing work that I really love and am proud of. If someone is moved by my work or better yet, wants to buy it, that is fulfilling.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">What is one of your proudest moments in your creative life?</b></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It’s hard to say which that is. Winning top prize in the Art’s and Letter’s Awards was special and when the Government procures my work, that always pleases me.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjKqIms6WQ7fptSRJqoh41qegnNTBwc1xidnZtMxdL48QaD6mabf8D7sqZpMqi6Q-MohAumML7gBHKwi2XrlXTB5LX3wbF0xCDMwc9nyIm0HiVBf_Mmv6UNdu0nj8khMvCQvWjQyiY-n3M7ud6wcDrwSc0rAFSoTH6fBgbDxZGsmO1tFouyFb_zjaw/s805/Evening%20Walk%20on%20Freshwater%20road.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="805" data-original-width="800" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjKqIms6WQ7fptSRJqoh41qegnNTBwc1xidnZtMxdL48QaD6mabf8D7sqZpMqi6Q-MohAumML7gBHKwi2XrlXTB5LX3wbF0xCDMwc9nyIm0HiVBf_Mmv6UNdu0nj8khMvCQvWjQyiY-n3M7ud6wcDrwSc0rAFSoTH6fBgbDxZGsmO1tFouyFb_zjaw/w398-h400/Evening%20Walk%20on%20Freshwater%20road.jpg" width="398" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Evening Walk on Freshwater road<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/laurie-leehane/evening-walk-on-freshwater-road/940391">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p></p><div><b>Thanks, Laurie!</b></div><div><br /></div><div>© 2022 Maddie Marine</div></span>Maddiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12080891613292159584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8984607510148246137.post-61713680126941984632022-09-01T21:59:00.002-07:002022-09-01T21:59:00.200-07:00DPW Spotlight Interview: Kim Roberti<div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-4828203890804752133" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;"><p><i>Each week we will spotlight a different DPW artist who will give away one of their best paintings. To enter to win Kim's painting "Salsa" go to Daily Paintworks and click on the link at the top of the page announcing their interview.</i></p></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOP7y2KfYAaXpjQdzpBHe2BxCZxAv4q9gm2JZo1MPlZZ8UrGnAOI1-jWEr8eWeyD_J3eRGjspHFvM6kpgZvvPCPgC-xVaC4zCh4vbRK1rL6k8KloSdTnOnR2xnwFH0Mg5qP6HzJDX_iRqkPk_GprSc4N8E1P7u895JlqfTuv3wu2KTldrN16cT4MW9/s714/Bio.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="714" data-original-width="524" height="185" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOP7y2KfYAaXpjQdzpBHe2BxCZxAv4q9gm2JZo1MPlZZ8UrGnAOI1-jWEr8eWeyD_J3eRGjspHFvM6kpgZvvPCPgC-xVaC4zCh4vbRK1rL6k8KloSdTnOnR2xnwFH0Mg5qP6HzJDX_iRqkPk_GprSc4N8E1P7u895JlqfTuv3wu2KTldrN16cT4MW9/w136-h185/Bio.jpeg" width="136" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">From Kim's DPW Gallery Page:</b> </span><p></p><p>Painting is my life! I favor figures/portraits as subjects. I have found rich and endlessly interesting ways to express myself. I continue to paint and learn everyday. The fast-pace and ever-changing commercial landscape of e-commerce opened an unexpected source of revenue for me.</p><p>Through my page at Dailypaintworks, I have garnered thousands of collectors from many corners of the world. My work is very affordable and can be easily collected through eBay. I continue to hone my craft on a daily basis and you can visit my art on kimsartblog./blogspot.com.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr8bd5XMjwEyvj7DbAN1V3FEg89RQjJH8PcAhjvyh5-8oJiNrCdnbb08-2ZPDMjXmNbCrCTilbj0PhhyNBV1Xa6TLarWW3rs6Kl1poGDsOa0LGgavwYWh0gSR2PSoGXHInICrZyhE8GwxHfry3mNmB5i4e599Ab6DbcviTiuSDEejIHxe4HTi-uNrN/s999/Salsa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="999" data-original-width="970" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr8bd5XMjwEyvj7DbAN1V3FEg89RQjJH8PcAhjvyh5-8oJiNrCdnbb08-2ZPDMjXmNbCrCTilbj0PhhyNBV1Xa6TLarWW3rs6Kl1poGDsOa0LGgavwYWh0gSR2PSoGXHInICrZyhE8GwxHfry3mNmB5i4e599Ab6DbcviTiuSDEejIHxe4HTi-uNrN/w389-h400/Salsa.jpg" width="389" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Salsa<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/kim-roberti/salsa/1016296">(click to view)<br /></a><br />Enter to win by clicking on the link at the top of the DPW home page announcing interview<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>What did you want to be growing up?</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>At 72 now I still don’t want to grow up! What does this really mean? Get a job, go to work, get a paycheck… start over again tomorrow. Nope that’s not for me. I’m still a kid!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>When did your artistic journey begin?</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I didn’t think of becoming an artist until I turned 50. A dear friend lost her battle with cancer, and we were the same age. This affected me in a profound way. I re-examined my life and decided the dead-end job had to go and I found solace in visiting museums, art galleries and street exhibits. I got to know a few artists and decided that I wanted to paint. I didn’t really know if I could live just being an artist, but it was better than what I was doing. Tired of the cold New England weather I moved to Texas where it was warm, and the living was easier. Eventually, I joined a few local art organizations and found my way into this creative world, once again a child. I got to play with all kinds of mediums and discovered different genres of work.</span></p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-pRkx6VvrgC2b6q2rdeGvXvvxZCCIXfVKHYrpj8SNYN_glun5Wm-ylfPabIiJLUVOxFi8vMUZpk1GsDNGGjIxruVWb1sxlMlbSjsS6GycxyVZ6Ya0xTfsFVQAc4muKc4rv-pndhVP9Mt1QFFdSVJTYIsNz-O7mdwNndpN6GEMxFKO76FAAzpfGgLX/s1000/Out%20Of%20The%20Blue.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="715" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-pRkx6VvrgC2b6q2rdeGvXvvxZCCIXfVKHYrpj8SNYN_glun5Wm-ylfPabIiJLUVOxFi8vMUZpk1GsDNGGjIxruVWb1sxlMlbSjsS6GycxyVZ6Ya0xTfsFVQAc4muKc4rv-pndhVP9Mt1QFFdSVJTYIsNz-O7mdwNndpN6GEMxFKO76FAAzpfGgLX/w286-h400/Out%20Of%20The%20Blue.jpg" width="286" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Out Of The Blue<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/kim-roberti/out-of-the-blue/761507">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Did you have any long periods without creative expression? How did you get back on the horse?</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Not for a long time. I was on fire being a Daily Painters. I put out a large body of work…one to three paintings a day for a decade. When Daily Painters began to lose momentum, I thought I was burned out and even talked of retirement. I just couldn’t do it. I kept my hand in painting and just slowed down a bit. It's easy to get back in the saddle if you never get out! </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Which mediums and genres do you gravitate towards? Which ones don’t appeal?</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I love all mediums (remember, still a kid). Oil is my most common go-to because other mediums require a different mind-set, so… it depends on the wishes of the kid. I gravitate towards impressionism but also enjoy portrait, still life and landscape. Not a fan of photo realism.</span></p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimK2v6vV0iutM2ZqcdaTC_1QsZHtbaAPk7cKLZ4GdsCPXl1clEPtAXCnpELtAOYyQ7zOTsj_nLPSPaECLypNpSp3BhTXJRiiVSDBckwJVGrkBvDkc9z-BLgnKUVvy-13iDhk7zTESSEd8JjEDZlKftS5aZHF1bw2Uf78A7sf3FVgCt_IcdyZkheNjU/s999/On%20The%20Wild%20Side.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="999" data-original-width="743" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimK2v6vV0iutM2ZqcdaTC_1QsZHtbaAPk7cKLZ4GdsCPXl1clEPtAXCnpELtAOYyQ7zOTsj_nLPSPaECLypNpSp3BhTXJRiiVSDBckwJVGrkBvDkc9z-BLgnKUVvy-13iDhk7zTESSEd8JjEDZlKftS5aZHF1bw2Uf78A7sf3FVgCt_IcdyZkheNjU/w298-h400/On%20The%20Wild%20Side.jpg" width="298" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">On The Wild Side<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/buy/auction/1342751">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>What was the process like of pinpointing your personal style or finding your voice?</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I’m still listening for my voice. I really enjoy the process of self-discovery. Trying new things, new ideas, new mediums, new styles… It's all part of the process of becoming a painter. Changing this up keeps the kid from getting bored.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Name an artist(s), well known or not, who you admire. Why?</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>This is the type of question that begs for a long answer. I have been painting for 22 years and many artists have influenced me along the way at one time or another. I still discover and follow new artists today. Sherrie McGraw and David Laffel for the chiaroscuro present in their work. I was fortunate to work with them in their garden for seven years and I learned how great Modern Masters work (picked up a few things in the process). I love Steve Huston’s brushwork and use of color harmony. There’s a real beauty and strength in Steve’s work. I will be forever influenced by Milt Kobayashi. It is so playful with juicy brushwork and luscious colors. Finally, Kim English for his use of back light in his watercolors. Oops, I must include Stephen Scott Young! Oh, and Dean Mitchell! And then there is Sally Strand for pastel. Last, but not least, Carol Marine (a little brown-nosing here). Carol’s artwork is like candy to me and I really find her work charming. Do I sound like an actor accepting an award here! I warned you it would be long. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg017MbvKe8S4qAdZ1YDkzEB8ufAFgJ0SZTjwtTCNA3L9lageNTQnjPNWn1taO68u797GVh_3wPwWiDXCuXyZ5oeUxi7lYesqPm9saZzP90ilv4dqh6pBLWBYgqNWp8kmAbIwr35Yx5VwuntE--byo15xuWJg1W7bPkrud2B-uScsuY7AZwbOpoRPc3/s1000/Bella.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="986" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg017MbvKe8S4qAdZ1YDkzEB8ufAFgJ0SZTjwtTCNA3L9lageNTQnjPNWn1taO68u797GVh_3wPwWiDXCuXyZ5oeUxi7lYesqPm9saZzP90ilv4dqh6pBLWBYgqNWp8kmAbIwr35Yx5VwuntE--byo15xuWJg1W7bPkrud2B-uScsuY7AZwbOpoRPc3/w395-h400/Bella.jpg" width="395" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bella<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/buy/auction/1343256">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>If you could offer one piece of advice to your younger, creative self – what would that be?</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Who says I’m old! I’m still a kid here! Well, I guess it would be to study hard and be patient. There is no magic trick! Learn the principal elements of design; apply them well and be playful. Learn to let go! </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Do you utilize any habits or tricks for winning the distraction and procrastination battle?</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The battle is still raging! Daily Painters trained me to work hard every day… small pieces… time to play! You got to let the kid out.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhETEqNznA9UtQneC7-1fX2FSQZCWxYmVtkzxxhMUtoVwpxnrmF85D6eU3jaw-MsYuXEzwQzLQf-jPc9aIUizYl_qMJrY1_eOxVsNsABj3nIqIHIIAo3g6IlI21V__iwFtoFr74XYBEYg7h4vfgOc3s64EhTJd1dWzPioPs-TwR_ZNTJvtpwrZmSYZQ/s999/Dream.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="999" data-original-width="761" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhETEqNznA9UtQneC7-1fX2FSQZCWxYmVtkzxxhMUtoVwpxnrmF85D6eU3jaw-MsYuXEzwQzLQf-jPc9aIUizYl_qMJrY1_eOxVsNsABj3nIqIHIIAo3g6IlI21V__iwFtoFr74XYBEYg7h4vfgOc3s64EhTJd1dWzPioPs-TwR_ZNTJvtpwrZmSYZQ/w305-h400/Dream.jpg" width="305" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dream<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/kim-roberti/dream/747187">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>In moments of self-doubt or adversity, how do you push forward?</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I keep trying. Life is full of hardships, and you need to just keep putting one foot forward.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>What are some of your long- and short-term goals for yourself or your art?</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>My short- and long-term goals are the same…getting up every day and painting! Bob (my husband) will take care of the rest!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfaTaKklpRT-5w5FTqaCCF-1KK8OA1_bjs3hl5WZknxRoJiSrAKFNC0KTDscMcAoK_z38d_-BO5TqSz0BpHjdYjyGPaEXrUeDa1iKBXkCQ9rxF-7_fIYsIWsVkln4de7i-msve3S8HXdbG9wgndkL5stcdB_YwiwXtK6VyQHxDOiGUMECywhthJ8RR/s999/Onion%20and%20Garlic.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="999" data-original-width="990" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfaTaKklpRT-5w5FTqaCCF-1KK8OA1_bjs3hl5WZknxRoJiSrAKFNC0KTDscMcAoK_z38d_-BO5TqSz0BpHjdYjyGPaEXrUeDa1iKBXkCQ9rxF-7_fIYsIWsVkln4de7i-msve3S8HXdbG9wgndkL5stcdB_YwiwXtK6VyQHxDOiGUMECywhthJ8RR/w396-h400/Onion%20and%20Garlic.jpg" width="396" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Onion and Garlic <br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/kim-roberti/onion-and-garlic/1017728">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>What does success mean to you personally?</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>To live to paint another day.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>What is one of your proudest moments in your creative life?</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I don’t know if there are any that stand out. I was very proud when I received the Jack Richardson award in pastel. Or, when I was accepted into the Oil Painters of America. Every time I complete a painting, I’m proud indeed.</span></p><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmOVIqJslumLbsIef0y4osfhWHUxLsD5wJvh4w-zdVM-tUuNMQB10yoVK8-kkf9ORKtqifT8hVpQm_2tkYI6a3y6iRoFJUmUr_rUG8F7WvnxHujcJbBLvdehqMdEUf_pRZZy200leCFk8rKAj0F5hrMoRjvb31bHdcx8Y1EL2i-khScwcYGyKrGyEE/s999/Got%20Milk_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="999" data-original-width="788" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmOVIqJslumLbsIef0y4osfhWHUxLsD5wJvh4w-zdVM-tUuNMQB10yoVK8-kkf9ORKtqifT8hVpQm_2tkYI6a3y6iRoFJUmUr_rUG8F7WvnxHujcJbBLvdehqMdEUf_pRZZy200leCFk8rKAj0F5hrMoRjvb31bHdcx8Y1EL2i-khScwcYGyKrGyEE/w315-h400/Got%20Milk_.jpg" width="315" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Got Milk? <br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/kim-roberti/got-milk/487781">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><div><b>Thanks, Kim!</b></div><div><br /></div><div>© 2022 Maddie Marine</div></div>Maddiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12080891613292159584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8984607510148246137.post-53336169728852465352022-08-18T21:59:00.001-07:002022-08-18T21:59:00.221-07:00DPW Spotlight Interview: Brad Bisbey<div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-4828203890804752133" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;"><p><i>Each week we will spotlight a different DPW artist who will give away one of their best paintings. To enter to win Brad's painting "Sunset" go to Daily Paintworks and click on the link at the top of the page announcing their interview.</i></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">From Brad's DPW Gallery Page:</b> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1EVTCablF32NXDqax_9oTYGGL1lp_Dorc708ntAAUZta1hvXNKTafV9_ugkjey0AVuVaVy4lEiZGh0Z-2ssX5Ieo7V4EQxiSGZW3Lm9Npf0Lm0WP9G-A0NirsEH5Ls1QqLIh-1J7qZw4r-mH_7ucrscKwzqSeiWQq4Ks480o6ZlVzo-xjyx2jRAM2/s400/Bio.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="339" data-original-width="400" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1EVTCablF32NXDqax_9oTYGGL1lp_Dorc708ntAAUZta1hvXNKTafV9_ugkjey0AVuVaVy4lEiZGh0Z-2ssX5Ieo7V4EQxiSGZW3Lm9Npf0Lm0WP9G-A0NirsEH5Ls1QqLIh-1J7qZw4r-mH_7ucrscKwzqSeiWQq4Ks480o6ZlVzo-xjyx2jRAM2/w250-h211/Bio.jpeg" width="250" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1EVTCablF32NXDqax_9oTYGGL1lp_Dorc708ntAAUZta1hvXNKTafV9_ugkjey0AVuVaVy4lEiZGh0Z-2ssX5Ieo7V4EQxiSGZW3Lm9Npf0Lm0WP9G-A0NirsEH5Ls1QqLIh-1J7qZw4r-mH_7ucrscKwzqSeiWQq4Ks480o6ZlVzo-xjyx2jRAM2/s400/Bio.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><br /></a></div></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">When I was young, I suffered from several health problems. I couldn't do sports, so I began to draw and paint, and I didn’t stop. I went on to receive a B.A. degree in Art from St. Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa. Later I studied with renowned portrait painter Daniel Greene in Chicago. I also teach portrait, figure, and landscape painting at Beréskin Gallery in Bettendorf, Iowa. My work is in many private collections around the United States , Canada, and Europe. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">For me, everyone and everything is a potential subject. I try to stay awake to all the possibilities. All art is a search. I realize that what I am painting must first have an emotional impact on me, and then, hopefully, it will touch others as well. My painting is a search for this balance between intellectual and emotional responses to the world around me. I hope to remain endlessly curious.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">I live and work in Moline, Illinois, located along the banks of the Mississippi River.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwcrso_lJoL-X7xyjNiXKQxjNyySWuAmqsh-fH6Esyysk4-iM2NwZvHLnPNLdHeCPc93N_BbE4HtlYTul3QNym7c-xH5mMev9E2SvYOWOoLFybAfcJU72unbSe8ZF8IQuai2pbzo5uMp1w-K0ooeuY47BOxWv4sDR8USnJfwFQ1tzTA6ps4oSehZXc/s960/Sunset.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="701" data-original-width="960" height="307" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwcrso_lJoL-X7xyjNiXKQxjNyySWuAmqsh-fH6Esyysk4-iM2NwZvHLnPNLdHeCPc93N_BbE4HtlYTul3QNym7c-xH5mMev9E2SvYOWOoLFybAfcJU72unbSe8ZF8IQuai2pbzo5uMp1w-K0ooeuY47BOxWv4sDR8USnJfwFQ1tzTA6ps4oSehZXc/w419-h307/Sunset.jpg" width="419" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sunset<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/brad-bisbey/sunset/1015135">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"> What did you want to be growing up? </b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b>For as long as I can remember, I was interested in art. I had asthma and couldn’t do sports, so I occupied my time drawing. My mother had a series of art books that caught my interest. From age 9, I really knew I wanted to be an artist, but where that would take me I did not know!<br /> <br /><b>When did your artistic journey begin? <br /></b><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">All I really wanted out of high school was out of high school! College was a different ball game and it took a while to find a sense of direction. It was the 1970s after all. Many miles on the brush were required to find my authentic thoughts that eventually found their way into my work. I think my real journey began after studying with Daniel Greene in Chicago in 1992. His teaching resonated with me and really awakened a creative side that I can’t explain. But I am not sure the artistic journey actually has a beginning or an end. It is an ongoing search that encompasses all our experiences.<br />It is a search that renews itself every day!<br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOWt1vB8219rFg8kWXqWpV6ZT04hP2fQtt6hNrQ7IJHwi6Zdhvk_HfMAx3_IM0kl7r44bvmX88t_7ZbBumhEK1K27NYHbyM4UonkaRMX2G-wfzYFltnxzC_UrFym7S4P2O6gNvilhmEmyHUDb-QQqao2lve8gf794qNnVUgdZIUelECBAdG3OYZhsI/s960/Deliverance.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="755" data-original-width="960" height="315" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOWt1vB8219rFg8kWXqWpV6ZT04hP2fQtt6hNrQ7IJHwi6Zdhvk_HfMAx3_IM0kl7r44bvmX88t_7ZbBumhEK1K27NYHbyM4UonkaRMX2G-wfzYFltnxzC_UrFym7S4P2O6gNvilhmEmyHUDb-QQqao2lve8gf794qNnVUgdZIUelECBAdG3OYZhsI/w400-h315/Deliverance.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Deliverance<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/brad-bisbey/deliverance/1014956">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><b>Did you have any long periods without creative expression? How did you get back on the horse?<br /></b><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I did go through a long creative block where I didn’t produce much work and I really thought I was washed up as an artist and it looked as if I would never draw or paint again. Nothing anywhere inspired me to paint! So I didn’t. I just read books on what to do when you can’t paint! That didn’t help. How did I begin painting again? I began painting. And I painted bad paintings. The old saying is, How do you paint good paintings? Answer. Paint lots of bad paintings. So I did. <br />Eventually, I was fortunate enough to be accepted into the once Daily Painters.com. And I painted. Now I know I won’t live long enough to paint all the paintings that I want to paint!<br /><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Which mediums and genres do you gravitate toward? Which ones don’t appeal?<br /></b><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I worked in oil for many years, and then developed a severe allergy to the solvents. That almost put me out of business. I had to find another medium. I worked in watercolor quite a bit, but I like a paint with more body. Acrylics have come a long way since my college days, and now I wouldn’t go back to oil paint even if I could. I love pen and ink and watercolor as well!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;">I love all subject matter and approach portrait, figure, landscape and still life on an equal playing field. For me, painting isn’t about painting; painting is all about seeing.<br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7g3HB4VmQi1xZ1CwNgLZrirGE9fowBSSZ7n7x0pUXEMjn1eirpmChZBAHT-k2F2mil_CnNLvcN-DLqL2z6DhMOPKCRRLYusP0inijXo10o8TRIFnFMNSFjY_GAp2-sYtw3fB4X47HQjVILhRJR0H0lcCI_XiH7J7Fwo75jJpdJLW-0SkkEwof8kRF/s1000/Ballet%20Dancers..jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="642" height="429" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7g3HB4VmQi1xZ1CwNgLZrirGE9fowBSSZ7n7x0pUXEMjn1eirpmChZBAHT-k2F2mil_CnNLvcN-DLqL2z6DhMOPKCRRLYusP0inijXo10o8TRIFnFMNSFjY_GAp2-sYtw3fB4X47HQjVILhRJR0H0lcCI_XiH7J7Fwo75jJpdJLW-0SkkEwof8kRF/w275-h429/Ballet%20Dancers..jpg" width="275" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ballet Dancers<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/brad-bisbey/ballet-dancers/996047">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><b>What was the process like of pinpointing your personal style or finding your voice? <br /></b></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I was really hung up on my personal style and my personal voice when I was younger. Now when I teach painting I tell my students not to worry about it because it is already built in. It came with them when they were born! It’s like their handwriting. They don’t have to go searching for their handwriting! I can have 12 students all paint the same subject and they end up with 12 completely different paintings. Just paint. And learn the nuts and bolts of good painting. Your voice is in there!<br /><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Name an artist (or artists), well-known or not, who you admire. Why? <br /></b><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">My personal list is long! I love Norman Rockwell and have always admired his painting skill and the themes of his work. He was the first artist whose work I couldn’t get enough of. As mentioned earlier, I love Daniel Greene, who was a world class pastel artist and portrait painter and was an incredibly generous teacher. His technique has stuck with me for over 30 years. <br />The French Impressionists are favorites for their paintings and for their biographies. <br />I am kind of a sponge when it comes to looking at art. If I see a work or even part of a work that I like, I will soak it in.<br /><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUppsV979cAjbihT5VC9oacvHTL3xfw5JokvCoM6WHb7prKMjkbJGkEW2Z3w91mqQWVQhGLiJB0cgSilIWHQ3noR4LLYoVQr0fNM4DJpYt1laz7ChI1q6IMhXr-2SXNnaZI6BULa9QyccaPM7csnYR77omISgcP9KS8OROx2ju8w1vcNxHOhJfLfSN/s1581/The%20Bride.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1581" data-original-width="1248" height="433" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUppsV979cAjbihT5VC9oacvHTL3xfw5JokvCoM6WHb7prKMjkbJGkEW2Z3w91mqQWVQhGLiJB0cgSilIWHQ3noR4LLYoVQr0fNM4DJpYt1laz7ChI1q6IMhXr-2SXNnaZI6BULa9QyccaPM7csnYR77omISgcP9KS8OROx2ju8w1vcNxHOhJfLfSN/w342-h433/The%20Bride.JPG" width="342" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Bride</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>If you could offer one piece of advice to your younger, creative self — what would that be? <br /></b><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Love more! Don’t be so hard on yourself!<br /> <br /><b>Do you utilize any habits or tricks for winning the distraction and procrastination battle? <br /></b><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Have won a few battles! Haven’t won the war!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn7akfz9jrG7zrjrH1qfC02QOPqum3JCxF0U-XGaEq7G8xVMjUvgQJd8AOQdcl4rkYT-3aTMWAksX0lEODJh0n5v5MbAHQ7te-5UySwluOEmyHt25VGeFd0rOpTY87KK-LtFD-9aigRyw2goGNWAVLFktlLedHZHNd0J_F4uRKa3zBGaK2xr09zrQg/s999/New%20Orleans%20Model..jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="999" data-original-width="799" height="419" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn7akfz9jrG7zrjrH1qfC02QOPqum3JCxF0U-XGaEq7G8xVMjUvgQJd8AOQdcl4rkYT-3aTMWAksX0lEODJh0n5v5MbAHQ7te-5UySwluOEmyHt25VGeFd0rOpTY87KK-LtFD-9aigRyw2goGNWAVLFktlLedHZHNd0J_F4uRKa3zBGaK2xr09zrQg/w335-h419/New%20Orleans%20Model..jpg" width="335" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New Orleans Model<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/brad-bisbey/new-orleans-model/992260">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><b>In moments of self-doubt or adversity, how do you push forward?<br /></b><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I really had some no nonsense teachers. They were hard core about getting things right the first time! That was a lot of pressure for a poor art student and it carried into real life. I overcame this by understanding that maybe I didn’t have to get it right the first time! What if I didn’t get it right the first time? The world actually didn’t come to a screeching halt! I began to lighten up a little bit, and I didn’t look back. Now when I have self doubt, I lighten up a bit! I understand, as Ansel Adams said, ‘The perfect is the enemy of the good!’<br /><br /><b>What are some of your long and short term goals for yourself or your art?<br /></b><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I think my goal at this time in my life is examine the parts of my work that appeal to me the most, probably in terms of brushwork and mark making, and incorporate these into future paintings. I have always believed that one grows as an artist by paying close attention to those areas on the canvas that appeal most to the artist, whether they were applied on purpose or by accident, and also by avoiding those marks which appeal least to the artist. It all comes down to being more and more proficient with the brush.<br /><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6uTChso7ad28fILgOmKIVb_5amTZh7csTcVEUsxtZ7bArWK8lS1TaFwH4K8WMwlTAg4GRXsfkJ2-00MGOfT_-iJ8paeqcUWc2qVdTD4xCePB-68_dK-1QGiTe_cgZi-Vr_Ju1MoEPCQlPENDoxaYdfJxjmA9nXa2QrxpB-D0pZ_etG0qLJ0kM26mz/s960/Fields.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="697" data-original-width="960" height="302" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6uTChso7ad28fILgOmKIVb_5amTZh7csTcVEUsxtZ7bArWK8lS1TaFwH4K8WMwlTAg4GRXsfkJ2-00MGOfT_-iJ8paeqcUWc2qVdTD4xCePB-68_dK-1QGiTe_cgZi-Vr_Ju1MoEPCQlPENDoxaYdfJxjmA9nXa2QrxpB-D0pZ_etG0qLJ0kM26mz/w417-h302/Fields.jpg" width="417" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fields<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/brad-bisbey/fields/1005257">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>What does success mean to you personally? <br /></b><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Success to me used to mean being able to paint every day! But now, success to me means being kind, and being more than generous with the grace of God!<br /> <br /><b>What is one of your proudest moments in your creative life?<br /></b><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Creatively speaking, I am most happy with being a Signature Member of the Painters in Casein and Acrylic Society and having work hang in the Salmagundi Club in New York City. <br /> And teaching 4 year olds how to paint and having them grab the brush from my hand and say, ‘Let me show you how to do that!’ That has happened several times!</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiXe_Fr7-ZI3bCBnPDbcO0sEGWoVh2v6ZfWwyi7ZT0DBk_Mmcbc3gN5Zg0zR5VyD4I7O--SZEIJatbxOnZrQK0pvQdwFubN83gj_dAG_sfHoRMOlu1liJJkn0NlG1gvEQHyS-D0kA3Igw_8w_gAmUyEFmBW6bzjgqdGxX_5HTWDKkEU7pYOgJOhwcE/s999/Dancer.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="999" data-original-width="801" height="431" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiXe_Fr7-ZI3bCBnPDbcO0sEGWoVh2v6ZfWwyi7ZT0DBk_Mmcbc3gN5Zg0zR5VyD4I7O--SZEIJatbxOnZrQK0pvQdwFubN83gj_dAG_sfHoRMOlu1liJJkn0NlG1gvEQHyS-D0kA3Igw_8w_gAmUyEFmBW6bzjgqdGxX_5HTWDKkEU7pYOgJOhwcE/w346-h431/Dancer.jpg" width="346" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dancer<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/brad-bisbey/dancer/1015346">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><div><div><b>Thanks, Brad!</b></div><div><br /></div><div>© 2022 Maddie Marine</div></div></div>Maddiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12080891613292159584noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8984607510148246137.post-31168492968273308722022-08-04T21:59:00.001-07:002022-08-04T21:59:00.196-07:00DPW Spotlight Interview: Brenda Kay Paintings<div style="text-align: left;"><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-4828203890804752133" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;"><p><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Each week we will spotlight a different DPW artist who will give away one of their best paintings. To enter to win Brenda's painting "Maple en Plein Air" go to Daily Paintworks and click on the link at the top of the page announcing their interview.</span></span></i></p></div><p><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">From Brenda's DPW Gallery Page:</b> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipuMy56EF7nBqymYuMcoxcYnlxvy32gXprXD6za3XA0cu2ifimAfLNbVgR06IAbXA8VqbaeaZLEFrqNvUCSOSllTBb-DTSRK-3aMxTjCQTIJFitQATd93FwAvGUQQQpKB96qblqZaVMqS1SlxnFh7B0ATAWykiU2YZaJkTiQCypIe6qtU-TorHDUtE/s399/Bio.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="399" data-original-width="398" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipuMy56EF7nBqymYuMcoxcYnlxvy32gXprXD6za3XA0cu2ifimAfLNbVgR06IAbXA8VqbaeaZLEFrqNvUCSOSllTBb-DTSRK-3aMxTjCQTIJFitQATd93FwAvGUQQQpKB96qblqZaVMqS1SlxnFh7B0ATAWykiU2YZaJkTiQCypIe6qtU-TorHDUtE/w199-h200/Bio.jpeg" width="199" /></a></div><p></p><div style="text-align: left;">Brenda Kay Paintings, abstract artist painting representational and plein air paintings<br />•Inspired by and responding to beauty, culture, and my Creator<br />•Color filled layers of meaning and paint<br />•Often complex, always thoughtful<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">With a commercial art degree from UNW St. Paul, I started out in advertising, but have turned my focus to painting full time in my home studio. I enjoy using my art training and life experience to build strong abstract compositions. I love walking in the woods, wind-tossed water, coffee and chocolate, and especially my Beloved Husband and two adult kids.<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Brenda has been awarded the BoldBrush Award for Abstract, BoldBrush 1st prize for Abstract, and has received several regional art awards. She has been selected to participate in the Hoosier Salon, the SALI National Abstract Art Exhibition, and is a Hoosier Woman Artist. She was also juried in to a workshop with renowned artist Makoto Fujimura in 2018.<br />Member: Fort Wayne Artists Guild •Hoosier Salon • Lakeland Art Association• Hoosier Woman Artist</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDLZY9tnDCplJIGdVPhVG7QuSKFQg1WHgZo-vMAECU1AMFb_aF-xOCAIN65E35Iw5c_VeV0BrGW1HhjOLeFJD320MYAOvgscaeR7lqUdnZb6N8c-sdihfMasM8bMDX9dwELAw8qmJZHWfBoysNiYUWeZ7O_QpgI03PzZe0_MGMHvxvf_WIYw49_zNs/s999/Maple%20en%20Plein%20Air.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="999" data-original-width="897" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDLZY9tnDCplJIGdVPhVG7QuSKFQg1WHgZo-vMAECU1AMFb_aF-xOCAIN65E35Iw5c_VeV0BrGW1HhjOLeFJD320MYAOvgscaeR7lqUdnZb6N8c-sdihfMasM8bMDX9dwELAw8qmJZHWfBoysNiYUWeZ7O_QpgI03PzZe0_MGMHvxvf_WIYw49_zNs/w359-h400/Maple%20en%20Plein%20Air.jpg" width="359" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Maple en Plein Air<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/brenda-kay-paintings/maple-en-plein-air/1003646">(click to view)<br /></a><br />Enter to win by clicking on the link at the top of the DPW home page announcing interview<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>What did you want to be growing up? </b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b>Well, the first thing I remember wanting to be was a cowboy, and when I realized that girls could only be cowGIRLS, I was severely disappointed!<br />I really could not decide what I wanted to be, but when I was entering my second year of college with an undecided major, my Dad said, "You know, you will always be drawing. Why don't you study [commercial] art so that you have a way to earn a living, and then if you still want more school, you can go back and get more." The better I get to know artists, the more I recognize how unusual that parental direction was! And he was sure right.<br /> <br /><b>When did your artistic journey begin? </b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b>I was the kid in elementary school that was often picked to do the art stuff, like painting Christmas scenes on the windows and 'fixing' the out-of-proportion US map. Maybe that was the start of the journey.<br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixgxtxdC6qcFQTIgfLAXWdkmDbyJA3ZBdeH_g6nOtKZASToXDjMj0uvIaP3LK5NBMDGVnfBZSHIEqRSaZTtrk44GqO8MwK1vE7vuP7BqgMxxbpz01AYjYUebl-ytH2fQa7512qfR1MwkQlyWowyNbSF3Mf1t_U-vqeeE6ib2yzNB16yDCRZRBaaXBb/s1000/Good%20Morning!.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="990" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixgxtxdC6qcFQTIgfLAXWdkmDbyJA3ZBdeH_g6nOtKZASToXDjMj0uvIaP3LK5NBMDGVnfBZSHIEqRSaZTtrk44GqO8MwK1vE7vuP7BqgMxxbpz01AYjYUebl-ytH2fQa7512qfR1MwkQlyWowyNbSF3Mf1t_U-vqeeE6ib2yzNB16yDCRZRBaaXBb/w396-h400/Good%20Morning!.jpg" width="396" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Good Morning!<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/brenda-kay-paintings/good-morning!/1012616">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><b>Did you have any long periods without creative expression? How did you get back on the horse?</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b>I did. I set aside my art for many years while we raised and homeschooled our (now adult) kids. We had just been through traumatic times and my health was compromised during that time, so we decided to put first things first. I did still dabble with some art here and there, but it was not until our kids were on their own that I really started to refocus on my art.<br /><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Which mediums and genres do you gravitate toward? Which ones don’t appeal?<br /></b><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I love acrylics, and my primary artistic calling is abstract painting! I really delight in expressing concepts in non-objective art.<br />Plein air and somewhat representational painting is my new side pursuit, and I am finding a lot of joy in learning and getting more skillful in these genres. Daily Paintworks is a great place for me to share these paintings.<br />I have difficulty appreciating photo-realism/realism in painting.<br /><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH0WXAyTm_W6bpZiKKvDk4Y5wr7sNZH-VVO9wWKe4gRceLSEu7wui9ebWVt3TcW4wrYTYjBRdoocaR5mzCUm0iVJ53gkvjQhHGBeIvuvUm0SR_mCLdt5SKH2vBkDoTPnKf9UHkcOVeYUVDOZm3-GorF1fwar9iaEvh6cd4xmsHFR8F4aVkVNpuFE9M/s999/Pasture%20Grazing%20en%20Plein%20Air.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="764" data-original-width="999" height="306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH0WXAyTm_W6bpZiKKvDk4Y5wr7sNZH-VVO9wWKe4gRceLSEu7wui9ebWVt3TcW4wrYTYjBRdoocaR5mzCUm0iVJ53gkvjQhHGBeIvuvUm0SR_mCLdt5SKH2vBkDoTPnKf9UHkcOVeYUVDOZm3-GorF1fwar9iaEvh6cd4xmsHFR8F4aVkVNpuFE9M/w400-h306/Pasture%20Grazing%20en%20Plein%20Air.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pasture Grazing en Plein Air<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/brenda-kay-paintings/pasture-grazing-en-plein-air/1007392">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>What was the process like of pinpointing your personal style or finding your voice? <br /></b><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Interestingly, I had always done representational art until dear friends commissioned me to do a large abstract painting for their home. I didn't even know where to begin to paint a quality work of art that was non-objective, so I began to study and practice abstract works until I found my abstract painting becoming second nature, and I found that I could communicate effectively with that genre.<br />Now I am in the process of studying and practicing more representational art and plein air painting and I am finding that I don't yet have that inner direction that comes almost naturally in these genres. Particularly in plein air painting, I am finding so many factors that require my attention that I struggle to find my stride! But I am feeling it coming along as I practice. <br /><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Name an artist (or artists), well-known or not, who you admire. Why? <br /></b><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">There are so, so many! Fred Ingrams, for simplicity in design and excitement in color<br />Jim Wodark, for plein air chops and interesting color<br />Bob Burridge for teaching skillfully and compelling color<br />David Huang, metalsmith, for detail and brilliance in his vessels<br />Timothy Botts, calligraphy, meaningful design and lots of color<br />And also lots of poets, musicians, dancers, actors, authors, and other artists<br /><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkLfyjet6mOEcU894jpWkLk0aO4o58w_gYpGBA1kwKYv6MMTOT6m85luWeZs_4gJAXB1S2FRaYcLp7c8oC226LFiv_lCP_3c7tjbyAZK9cDBYfCAT4UEHvVda6aZiX-qVdWjDiMmoQV1Z8xdF0F2LS6oeg_QDodu_p4ULBWx_Q2cG0Lsp46sDVitWn/s1000/Swimmer%20Warm-up.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="1000" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkLfyjet6mOEcU894jpWkLk0aO4o58w_gYpGBA1kwKYv6MMTOT6m85luWeZs_4gJAXB1S2FRaYcLp7c8oC226LFiv_lCP_3c7tjbyAZK9cDBYfCAT4UEHvVda6aZiX-qVdWjDiMmoQV1Z8xdF0F2LS6oeg_QDodu_p4ULBWx_Q2cG0Lsp46sDVitWn/w400-h214/Swimmer%20Warm-up.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Swimmer Warm-up<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/brenda-kay-paintings/swimmer-warm-up/1003995">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>If you could offer one piece of advice to your younger, creative self — what would that be? <br /></b><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I still need to tell the same things to myself now - don't get too uptight about the results. Do the next right thing, and keep at it, and let the results be left up to God's timing. Just don't give up.<br /> <br /><b>Do you utilize any habits or tricks for winning the distraction and procrastination battle? <br /></b><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Whew, this is a tough question! I do find it is helpful to get SOMETHING on the substrate, and then respond to what is there. It helps me to remember that, as I heard from artist Kathie Odom, "While I am painting, nothing hurts!" Ha ha!<br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrqQGAJ4RoDFhOcLs80nRstdPZ2MsnTZ-D2pXbx5sohiNn8U_U1iSh0O4duL3Au3SuZo7cnlYtyeFxHewtOg1kaC2E_lREDdBQbSAfchOLkR1NA-Ev7uxvq-UL_MjNfN8SdU77aFgVAK_mtppztiybPQi7z9zWa57rPSMkEuT3CgOOZ7Os4MPcSsxN/s999/Walk%20By%20Faith.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="767" data-original-width="999" height="308" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrqQGAJ4RoDFhOcLs80nRstdPZ2MsnTZ-D2pXbx5sohiNn8U_U1iSh0O4duL3Au3SuZo7cnlYtyeFxHewtOg1kaC2E_lREDdBQbSAfchOLkR1NA-Ev7uxvq-UL_MjNfN8SdU77aFgVAK_mtppztiybPQi7z9zWa57rPSMkEuT3CgOOZ7Os4MPcSsxN/w400-h308/Walk%20By%20Faith.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Walk By Faith<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/brenda-kay-paintings/walk-by-faith/1004001">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><b>In moments of self-doubt or adversity, how do you push forward?<br /></b><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Another tough question! I find that my first response has to be to ask my Heavenly Father whether I am following His lead. More than anything, I want to be doing what He calls me to. So sometimes He will prompt someone to send me an encouraging note (or an invitation to be a featured DPW artist!), or maybe I will win an award or sell a painting. Sometimes I just begin to feel more confident by doing the next thing as a matter of discipline. And sometimes I just have to choose to paint as a discipline even if I don't feel better!<br /><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>What are some of your long and short term goals for yourself or your art?<br /></b><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I really don't have goals. I know that is not the way I am "supposed to" answer, but it is the truth. I would love to be able to paint when my Beloved Husband retires, and help support our family if possible, but I wouldn't call it a goal.<br /><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib20z7OI3cQKoOOgERFMm2hi4JjRIO5VZsTJII--_Lz-mOM-5MHr0XJ7DA_fYi_HFd502H2ly1BittxVZeGRhexNiAVWgQnl1j4QCIvYfashNv2NVJ_XuhC4WbNumyMSKIZ5lPr-GW_Tk3ZORUuUZ8fJdu01bgDMxL0XU-jrRfATDgkcy7ACRERrFn/s999/Dandelions.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="999" data-original-width="782" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib20z7OI3cQKoOOgERFMm2hi4JjRIO5VZsTJII--_Lz-mOM-5MHr0XJ7DA_fYi_HFd502H2ly1BittxVZeGRhexNiAVWgQnl1j4QCIvYfashNv2NVJ_XuhC4WbNumyMSKIZ5lPr-GW_Tk3ZORUuUZ8fJdu01bgDMxL0XU-jrRfATDgkcy7ACRERrFn/w313-h400/Dandelions.jpg" width="313" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dandelions<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/brenda-kay-paintings/dandelions/879494">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>What does success mean to you personally? <br /></b><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I have asked myself this question before, and my best answer is that I want my art to communicate - to bring truth, goodness, and beauty into the world in a way that helps people see that God is True, Good, and Beautiful, and that He is extremely fond of us! It is a very tall order for paintings to do that, admittedly!<br /> <br /><b>What is one of your proudest moments in your creative life?<br /></b><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">There have been significant moments in my artistic journey, including awards, invitations to juried exhibitions and events, and good sales of my work, but at least today as I type this, I think one of the "proudest" moments for me was seeing the impact of one of my paintings on someone. Most years I host an open studio/open house in my home, and I invite as many people as I can get my hands on to come and see my new work! One particular year, I saw a lady in my studio gazing at an abstract work that was on my easel. It was a very meaningful work to me, but I was not yet sure that it was communicating like I wanted it to. But there she stood, weeping in front of that painting. She asked me about the meaning of it, and yes, she had indeed been impacted in the way that I had hoped. Not much can top that. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJcrdBtfF_sOG9tO5UMRttJj25vp5VTY0SyXCRbUV8YXUwftdkS_wsw2XLLOHbn22qn5iRN8SF8yXXbRPG0aon3cnCop6VZ6IgmiwiXFGa8IIcd1Y17_-516csveDR6PGkYK6E7YEAqQPVBBRbvbaaiz3s39llA9PnQEn8RRHNHmduElJby7xkpHK1/s999/DeFries%20Garden%20en%20Plein%20Air.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="987" data-original-width="999" height="395" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJcrdBtfF_sOG9tO5UMRttJj25vp5VTY0SyXCRbUV8YXUwftdkS_wsw2XLLOHbn22qn5iRN8SF8yXXbRPG0aon3cnCop6VZ6IgmiwiXFGa8IIcd1Y17_-516csveDR6PGkYK6E7YEAqQPVBBRbvbaaiz3s39llA9PnQEn8RRHNHmduElJby7xkpHK1/w400-h395/DeFries%20Garden%20en%20Plein%20Air.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">DeFries Garden en Plein Air<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/brenda-kay-paintings/defries-garden-en-plein-air/1011784">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><b>Thanks, Brenda!</b></div><div><br /></div><div>© 2022 Maddie Marine</div></div>Maddiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12080891613292159584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8984607510148246137.post-73807049619221553052022-07-21T21:59:00.001-07:002022-07-21T21:59:00.196-07:00DPW Spotlight Interview: Mark Rosenbohm<p> <i style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Each week we will spotlight a different DPW artist who will give away one of their best paintings. To enter to win Mark's painting "Brown Pelican" go to Daily Paintworks and click on the link at the top of the page announcing their interview.</span></span></i></p><p><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">From Mark's DPW Gallery Page:</b> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiS6Hm2LJhgtS0nF1U3Qb06i_aI-wrSt3WvDfib6BoSlprf-Ro1ZK9cZccsXk-J2DtDOrwp73VKJkdIbWBfvtVyYkJW6g10w4ValTnx6sv-m2b4QQdQbP42BwxF8uLChtV4Gzf9CZKP1993TuCXSxVnCid2uNOYa_9l1rv6OxORCDpyeod3TgPkNoj-/s400/bio.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="398" data-original-width="400" height="154" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiS6Hm2LJhgtS0nF1U3Qb06i_aI-wrSt3WvDfib6BoSlprf-Ro1ZK9cZccsXk-J2DtDOrwp73VKJkdIbWBfvtVyYkJW6g10w4ValTnx6sv-m2b4QQdQbP42BwxF8uLChtV4Gzf9CZKP1993TuCXSxVnCid2uNOYa_9l1rv6OxORCDpyeod3TgPkNoj-/w155-h154/bio.jpeg" width="155" /></a></div><p></p><p>I am a self taught artist and native New Orleanian. I've spent my career as a graphic designer, illustrator and visual artist. As a college student, my first job was working as an artist in the t-shirt screenprinting industry. However, most of my career has been working a freelance artist, with a client list of small and large businesses. I work in a variety of mediums and styles, including watercolor, acrylic or oil. I have produced posters and t-shirt designs for a number of local festivals and fairs. A lifetime of local music, food, art and architecture provide a rich inspiration for the work you see. </p><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiignhilmx8oGgQk_BX4LxyRn_lYMqxCOaCCPEXjYsyvI9SAignejlsdIuuB3nMX1t-a6b_Elj4MHu4fCI7NMMkSxQY3uEdvCcU0ARdk8OWO6540VTm7H-b9rx6O4pQKVZxnp7E-ubSXgQ7CiFQHGPyZVcvxMBYm7tNGGreVN8tNoeabtzOfAEEYXKc/s640/pelican-web.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="446" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiignhilmx8oGgQk_BX4LxyRn_lYMqxCOaCCPEXjYsyvI9SAignejlsdIuuB3nMX1t-a6b_Elj4MHu4fCI7NMMkSxQY3uEdvCcU0ARdk8OWO6540VTm7H-b9rx6O4pQKVZxnp7E-ubSXgQ7CiFQHGPyZVcvxMBYm7tNGGreVN8tNoeabtzOfAEEYXKc/w279-h400/pelican-web.jpeg" width="279" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Brown Pelican<br /><a href="http://dailypaintworks.com/fineart/mark-rosenbohm/brown-pelican/972232">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: inherit;">What did you want to be growing up? </b></div><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">I think my vision of what I’d be as an adult was much the same as most kids who are influenced by what appeals to them as they discover it. I think it was ever changing…a policeman whenever we had them visit our classroom as part of the ‘Officer Friendly’ program. Some days it might be a schoolteacher if I was particularly fascinated with my teacher that year. Art has always felt the most natural for me, so that has guided me to a career as a creative type. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>When did your artistic journey begin? </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Some of my earliest memories are drawing, the same as many kids. In my case, it has always been a part of my life. I was always the kid who was known as ‘good at drawing’. </span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnaSyvSIj5N4ndjJGsOdKJax3NdbM19qdMijXWtlp3rYXe5v2VzAaT67qjo72S_XUHpGFEiydM23mtqf3WGXq43t3P7DyBTYP145JiqCDE4SqVAureixj_i1edkQwOGEuMhvosynsgmrxk7-nmoKfII6NLQvg3uIKCBde8fbysGUFARF1zxro7W0eV/s1000/Streetcar%20sketch.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="690" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnaSyvSIj5N4ndjJGsOdKJax3NdbM19qdMijXWtlp3rYXe5v2VzAaT67qjo72S_XUHpGFEiydM23mtqf3WGXq43t3P7DyBTYP145JiqCDE4SqVAureixj_i1edkQwOGEuMhvosynsgmrxk7-nmoKfII6NLQvg3uIKCBde8fbysGUFARF1zxro7W0eV/w276-h400/Streetcar%20sketch.jpg" width="276" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Streetcar sketch<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/mark-rosenbohm/streetcar-sketch/986205">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table></div><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Did you have any long periods without creative expression? How did you get back on the horse? </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">At various times, life gets in the way. I’ve felt very unproductive during those times. I usually seek inspiration by looking at the work of others. It always makes me want to start creating again. I have a large library of art books to browse, but social media makes that so much easier now. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Which mediums and genres do you gravitate toward? Which ones don’t appeal? </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">I’ve worked in so many different mediums. Currently watercolor is my preference. It’s more portable, so I can draw while sitting in front of the television. Once I have a drawing, I can often sit down and complete a piece in one sitting. I’ve felt that way about acrylic painting at times, but it usually involves me dedicating time to work only in my studio. I haven’t had a real desire to paint only in oils, but I do use them with acrylics from time to time. </span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOhJvWGzfQzCcdwnhyDOOzB0rfnZZUwOPhGHRvE4n99LqbaE9Sf3r9nEMdLJultF53mzesTdb21qxKAkPmAh8NQ9wyZGa7L9hkBprKkYGLV5vPcHlHBT6-zjLHOi-f8bnyL_PCyhl3c4m-MnBGX3diVo7OwJ-hFSwl3ErF4m4Tum6CYkUhxU3fV4fW/s999/Porch%20kitties.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="999" data-original-width="673" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOhJvWGzfQzCcdwnhyDOOzB0rfnZZUwOPhGHRvE4n99LqbaE9Sf3r9nEMdLJultF53mzesTdb21qxKAkPmAh8NQ9wyZGa7L9hkBprKkYGLV5vPcHlHBT6-zjLHOi-f8bnyL_PCyhl3c4m-MnBGX3diVo7OwJ-hFSwl3ErF4m4Tum6CYkUhxU3fV4fW/w270-h400/Porch%20kitties.jpg" width="270" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Porch kitties<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/mark-rosenbohm/porch-kitties/984956">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>What was the process like of pinpointing your personal style or finding your voice? </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">I’ve been at this most of my life, so I think of style as a natural way of drawing, painting or mark making. It’s the sum of outside artistic influences colliding with methods and mediums that I find comfortable. My current line and wash work has been a really intuitive way of working. If it felt like a task to create, I would be frustrated and not bother. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Name an artist (or artists), well-known or not, who you admire. Why? </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">There are so many. Lately, I’ve been looking at quite a lot of urban sketchers…Ian Fennelly, Paul Wang and an artist named Charlie Breen whose work is quite playful and enjoyable to me. I love illustrators like John Cuneo and Joe Ciardiello. These are only a fraction of people I follow. I really appreciate artists in a variety of mediums and approaches. I could go on all </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">day. </span></p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigDi0qFgLgloxRVxSNL5XIcCbfQPjmgZ9mwAzH-yIrS-eIy-c3hXwI4V-qijZtcU3d7MVZOradmeXd2yWzanCeyYKOhyj3_q2QHEP0jcrQtcFMI1TFMgmm_CjxMwWZ93vHp54g4F9usyIQeCD_qcxC3p6_9KcZ01H9lL1197551MX8KgJk3tfoafsj/s999/Lucky%20dogs.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="755" data-original-width="999" height="303" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigDi0qFgLgloxRVxSNL5XIcCbfQPjmgZ9mwAzH-yIrS-eIy-c3hXwI4V-qijZtcU3d7MVZOradmeXd2yWzanCeyYKOhyj3_q2QHEP0jcrQtcFMI1TFMgmm_CjxMwWZ93vHp54g4F9usyIQeCD_qcxC3p6_9KcZ01H9lL1197551MX8KgJk3tfoafsj/w400-h303/Lucky%20dogs.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lucky dogs<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/mark-rosenbohm/lucky-dogs/999659">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><b style="font-family: inherit;">If you could offer one piece of advice to your younger, creative self — what would that be? </b></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Don’t get caught up in trying to create a style. Soak up the work of others you enjoy, but have fun making your own art. Enjoying the process will give you more joy than anything else. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Do you utilize any habits or tricks for winning the distraction and procrastination battle? </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">For me, it usually takes simply sitting down and drawing. Sometimes you create things you don’t like, but everyone has to get those bad drawings out before the better stuff comes along. Don’t beat yourself up over dissatisfying results. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhusBvtusErgDExS1lS_nS88TQW9AWtwVIWvMIT8zvJ_ca2cJas3BxQ3ZixVhSPtUVSnaXr4-noqJWPbleyAssqVDo63aKZNn9RHmPU-lYj64hJ_DDLiUZGqpMbT3Ors4O4SKNhVhHzsOOAa8dT_Kk5Hn1udsIyYT8tZNWFV8pSUkJSZvAXUc492NP_/s999/Tabasco.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="999" data-original-width="743" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhusBvtusErgDExS1lS_nS88TQW9AWtwVIWvMIT8zvJ_ca2cJas3BxQ3ZixVhSPtUVSnaXr4-noqJWPbleyAssqVDo63aKZNn9RHmPU-lYj64hJ_DDLiUZGqpMbT3Ors4O4SKNhVhHzsOOAa8dT_Kk5Hn1udsIyYT8tZNWFV8pSUkJSZvAXUc492NP_/w298-h400/Tabasco.jpg" width="298" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tabasco<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/mark-rosenbohm/tabasco/1002942">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br />In moments of self-doubt or adversity, how do you push forward? </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Everyone has bad days. Sometimes, it just requires stepping away and coming back to it later. Involve yourself in something that’s totally unrelated to take your mind off of it. Exercise, put on your headphones and listen to music or a podcast, take a shower, take a walk, or read. I like to cook, so that usually takes me to a different place. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>What are some of your long and short term goals for yourself or your art? </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">My immediate goal is to continue to explore watercolor, especially as it pertains to the urban sketch type of work that I’m currently creating. I’d also like to try exhibiting at some art markets after our sweltering summer has passed. Exploring other working methods in the near future is on my to-do list. It seems that working in a new or different medium, like watercolor, informs the way I work in others, so I’m anxious to explore different techniques in acrylic. It’s a bit vague for me right now, but I have a few ideas I’d like to try. </span></p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiedJOfwwpQFomwWb1UMk7541HsBT2YgNBXACWAB76v1A9BXYy5V-PyzaAOAcOKXLGcac4Tnz_eolGvx_W7SWiO_a9Si2wGp4r8REF8WaHNi0zyAuWuACTItcNUlitmn7aQzimy1oR6aJ32FmmtggGGAkCAClkKJtH-h2SW4zh8GDIyy_9H56JQoUda/s999/Audubon%20Park%20Oak.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="999" data-original-width="702" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiedJOfwwpQFomwWb1UMk7541HsBT2YgNBXACWAB76v1A9BXYy5V-PyzaAOAcOKXLGcac4Tnz_eolGvx_W7SWiO_a9Si2wGp4r8REF8WaHNi0zyAuWuACTItcNUlitmn7aQzimy1oR6aJ32FmmtggGGAkCAClkKJtH-h2SW4zh8GDIyy_9H56JQoUda/w281-h400/Audubon%20Park%20Oak.jpg" width="281" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Audubon Park Oak<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/mark-rosenbohm/audubon-park-oak/996374">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>What does success mean to you personally? </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Enjoying the process is most important. Learning and evolving comes with that. If others like my work, that is a big plus. I suppose acceptance is good for most of us. If someone feels a connection to something I’ve created, that’s a really good moment for me. I’ve especially seen that in recent commissions and some other works. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>What is one of your proudest moments in your creative life? </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">I don’t think there is a single moment. There are so many happenings along the way. Sometimes I complete a piece and feel really proud of the individual work. There are other times when I receive a commission and worry that I won’t make my client happy, but I give my best and it works out. That makes me really proud of the work I’ve produced.</span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglexqDVn4JT4qCtr8xD5ZZdCg8Gp6dgG_BGm1NidKJsPEgSOjTVBXJ9A9G_9gZuUJc5ZcIoOEdofzDxktD9Idnh1KnORTXHZ5Bzw_o7rU_N1iuWgZnXp7rIzcy5qvqJiO9IYfulCBugFAMAtYK1F8FIhijEhp2RKwPWRKjBNyN633u8v-vjt-bLRpk/s999/Near%20Rampart.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="999" data-original-width="791" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglexqDVn4JT4qCtr8xD5ZZdCg8Gp6dgG_BGm1NidKJsPEgSOjTVBXJ9A9G_9gZuUJc5ZcIoOEdofzDxktD9Idnh1KnORTXHZ5Bzw_o7rU_N1iuWgZnXp7rIzcy5qvqJiO9IYfulCBugFAMAtYK1F8FIhijEhp2RKwPWRKjBNyN633u8v-vjt-bLRpk/w316-h400/Near%20Rampart.jpg" width="316" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Near Rampart<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/mark-rosenbohm/near-rampart/972426">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Thanks, Mark!</b></div><div><br /></div><div>© 2022 Maddie Marine</div>Maddiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12080891613292159584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8984607510148246137.post-70151674961776409112022-07-07T21:59:00.001-07:002022-07-07T21:59:00.200-07:00DPW Spotlight Interview: Carol Betker<div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-4828203890804752133" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;"><p><i>Each week we will spotlight a different DPW artist who will give away one of their best paintings. To enter to win Carol's painting "A Little Light" go to Daily Paintworks and click on the link at the top of the page announcing their interview.</i></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZzXiz3SEYVdeMlqt8rn0zR-ENItdpeuSb4NtGOGVw8ogti8EErqlutNtEMIoH_4vlMkzACCze8vJN4f0vSLLRFMBwXF163IZixzAuFc1NbysUi5J4JwgW0cydnk4TJzxrxV3qVd9tuT2LX4c1xf5BAkOqGdhA6q958RYinoKW1zCthqxWyq7RrNKx/s400/Bio.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="341" height="144" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZzXiz3SEYVdeMlqt8rn0zR-ENItdpeuSb4NtGOGVw8ogti8EErqlutNtEMIoH_4vlMkzACCze8vJN4f0vSLLRFMBwXF163IZixzAuFc1NbysUi5J4JwgW0cydnk4TJzxrxV3qVd9tuT2LX4c1xf5BAkOqGdhA6q958RYinoKW1zCthqxWyq7RrNKx/w123-h144/Bio.jpeg" width="123" /></a></div><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">From Carol's DPW Gallery Page:</b> <br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Former art teacher in public schools, I now just enjoy painting alla prima everything in my path.....I have studied artists like Jessica Zemsky, Richard Schmit and Dreama Tolle Perry and love to play with light, edges and emotion. Thank you for taking a look at my work and may it bring a smile to you!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk-Lgrt7nEVae4H8B3zOKq1cuMcSM0aH3Lge9Wrs7IatrW25NgqjafQaq6UpFbous5_l3i4mZoNml3h-HM7-JtQ9hFOMxgfrJKrdVUuQ70a3H8gVc7wNHrl00BDmYphH7oy6IN5ENoxfwLi8DLL215oekbQoXf0hKZzYLtb_N76_TEXLZ3mEOBGphS/s1000/A%20Little%20Light.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="999" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk-Lgrt7nEVae4H8B3zOKq1cuMcSM0aH3Lge9Wrs7IatrW25NgqjafQaq6UpFbous5_l3i4mZoNml3h-HM7-JtQ9hFOMxgfrJKrdVUuQ70a3H8gVc7wNHrl00BDmYphH7oy6IN5ENoxfwLi8DLL215oekbQoXf0hKZzYLtb_N76_TEXLZ3mEOBGphS/w400-h400/A%20Little%20Light.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A Little Light<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/carol-betker/a-little-light/1003452">(click to view)<br /></a><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Enter to win by clicking on the link at the top of the DPW home page announcing interview</span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>What did you want to be growing up? </b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I remember this question back in high school as looking forward and saying "an art teacher"....maybe it was a lack of knowledge on my part of what careers were available for women, but after 5 years of stops and starts, I went back to college and finished my teaching degree, with an Art major. <br /> <br /><b>When did your artistic journey begin? <br /></b><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We moved around a lot as a child following my father's work so maybe it was partly filling in the alone time (not lonely but just alone) that I always had my pad and pencil drawing over and over until I felt some sense of controlling those contours of whatever was in front of me, usually photos of horses. <br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtpFlv4uQACsFlDvOPr-9nN5lIeB01x1yHYy_4RIeBH2l0PmVIytB4MdiAxdox2rWUp0rV-cZfzPjdwAFDPIPtIrBVhMgNfxg61R6z09bNHTjCP-oKtJNCy-ja506xETXmRHMb3CZgk43VqIn644Q8KLshH_ht5Jm73NbASVS3KsTZ9L7QAJldesYA/s999/To%20The%20Banquet.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="999" data-original-width="996" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtpFlv4uQACsFlDvOPr-9nN5lIeB01x1yHYy_4RIeBH2l0PmVIytB4MdiAxdox2rWUp0rV-cZfzPjdwAFDPIPtIrBVhMgNfxg61R6z09bNHTjCP-oKtJNCy-ja506xETXmRHMb3CZgk43VqIn644Q8KLshH_ht5Jm73NbASVS3KsTZ9L7QAJldesYA/w399-h400/To%20The%20Banquet.jpg" width="399" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">To The Banquet<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/carol-betker/to-the-banquet/1006692">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><b>Did you have any long periods without creative expression? How did you get back on the horse? <br /></b><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I don't think I had discipline for a long time to do daily practice of painting, I was teaching and one thing I remember not wanting to have my students influenced by my style (no surprise I had no style back then), I threw every kind of art medium my budget would allow for these kids to experience: drawing, painting, pottery, printmaking, etc....I was a one man band in small school districts! But when I retired about 10 years ago I started to take the time to explore what made me happy artistically. PLUS I have a husband whose wildlife photographs offer me endless inspiration and reference !!<br /><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Which mediums and genres do you gravitate toward? Which ones don’t appeal? <br /></b><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I enjoyed acrylic for several years because of the vibrant color, but now that oil has low odor, I prefer the blending ability of the creamy oils. Watercolor works for times when I'm sitting in the car and can't do messy kinds of painting. I lean toward impressionism trying to keep the painting loose, I appreciate abstracts but don't do them , and other expressions of art can be fun but I don't care for "dark" art that provokes... If I want to be depressed I'll turn on the news, right?<br /><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz1L2slbTBovBPSTdRttSHkCSYsx7WvvCbVkwyP6DX3EM2Yelvc9iP_OB7zRN-AzoVzPY9dtxHh2daglTkZEmDk67stYpB7Izfx_Bvc_k0q-9XeeXUAdzAsiLGN2HnMpKWiz0c0mJjv1dwBmH3yrGSHwDgkDgIz07l9_V-qPyO04XOxTnSyFfvQdJm/s1000/Berry%20Big.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="988" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz1L2slbTBovBPSTdRttSHkCSYsx7WvvCbVkwyP6DX3EM2Yelvc9iP_OB7zRN-AzoVzPY9dtxHh2daglTkZEmDk67stYpB7Izfx_Bvc_k0q-9XeeXUAdzAsiLGN2HnMpKWiz0c0mJjv1dwBmH3yrGSHwDgkDgIz07l9_V-qPyO04XOxTnSyFfvQdJm/w395-h400/Berry%20Big.jpg" width="395" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Berry Big<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/carol-betker/berry-big/991325">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>What was the process like of pinpointing your personal style or finding your voice? <br /></b><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I started like a lot of artists very tight, controlled, trying to make that thing look like what my mind was saying it should look like.....but I was using techniques with my students from "Drawing On The Right Side of the Brain" by Betty Edwards and "Drawing With Children" by Mona Brookes and I was relearning right along with the kids. I was aware of some rules of composition and now I was also breaking those rules, with boldness...at least it seemed bold for me!<br /><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Name an artist (or artists), well-known or not, who you admire. Why? <br /></b><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I studied the books by Richard Schmidt and loved how his edges just brought his beautiful oil landscapes to life! I took a workshop by Jessica Zemsky and learned that there are no excuses for not painting everyday, ...I fell in love with her portraits of children because I had young daughters at that time....and now my favorite artist is one of DPW's members, Dreama Tolle Perry. She has put the fun into my work and the encouragement to try any subject! I think I've taken every workshop she offers and it's the best investment I've made ! And I think Carol Marine is a master at lost and found edges!<br /><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjellnHi4cNtqDIvgazH5sI6luI5ViUJkRgDT2VDdbMv0bpyoX7CBEq02uDixUsOOHhhzsYT98_BbIXb8za879I_wahGDG7hwUQuEsPP1azW1C67Gy53sungOjNpFit2t0Y5EdZgR4lQDmw4-mCw--OYOHDWMtkub66eHI_wnFeA1DvF6LNF5AeJau2/s999/Pretty%20%20Boy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="999" data-original-width="993" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjellnHi4cNtqDIvgazH5sI6luI5ViUJkRgDT2VDdbMv0bpyoX7CBEq02uDixUsOOHhhzsYT98_BbIXb8za879I_wahGDG7hwUQuEsPP1azW1C67Gy53sungOjNpFit2t0Y5EdZgR4lQDmw4-mCw--OYOHDWMtkub66eHI_wnFeA1DvF6LNF5AeJau2/w398-h400/Pretty%20%20Boy.jpg" width="398" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pretty Boy<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/carol-betker/pretty--boy/967927">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>If you could offer one piece of advice to your younger, creative self — what would that be? <br /></b><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">For me it's 'be authentic' ...learn what you can and then be your own voice. I'm still learning this by the way.<br /> <br /><b>Do you utilize any habits or tricks for winning the distraction and procrastination battle? <br /></b><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I keep my easel and paints set up, and a good supply of gessoed small boards. Small 8 x 8 or so can be finished fairly quickly with the alla prima style I prefer.<br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNX2e06hXDV6PCzhnLcOtIfPJVXpGNBbiNR45RV7bppg_ZH13NP2LmYrr7weyHItLkk_wbJwsOwDExf-pCgs8AawbFQnhDFEJvYJE9Bi_yJnxpqlTLw-n-sWkaFi-8psShJFg7YrWF9eFaRkzFNbucpLkZ_a0onBIMSrt4TPzTPp5NY-Iaf8w4D_KD/s999/Peek%20a%20Boo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="999" data-original-width="996" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNX2e06hXDV6PCzhnLcOtIfPJVXpGNBbiNR45RV7bppg_ZH13NP2LmYrr7weyHItLkk_wbJwsOwDExf-pCgs8AawbFQnhDFEJvYJE9Bi_yJnxpqlTLw-n-sWkaFi-8psShJFg7YrWF9eFaRkzFNbucpLkZ_a0onBIMSrt4TPzTPp5NY-Iaf8w4D_KD/w399-h400/Peek%20a%20Boo.jpg" width="399" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Peek a Boo<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/carol-betker/peek-a-boo/940543">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><b>In moments of self-doubt or adversity, how do you push forward? <br /></b><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Just start again, sometimes a little break to get inspired but it comes down to start again, get the brush moving, paints blending, and stay with it.<br /><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>What are some of your long and short term goals for yourself or your art? <br /></b><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I don't know if I have the energy anymore to do sidewalk sales and those types of shows. I seem to sell in galleries and venues that open up their wall space for art like we have a lot of wineries in eastern WA State who love the arts. I enjoy selling, and hope my work brings joy to the patron....that's satisfaction enough.<br /><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDLZJB5evtLnHOWi79-W1eK5-gRkqXZEugyu99K4Zzym7egqxbf8tkjz197U_Qd145SBnTlGY6t_0bFuwFpDn2tE2Tw6lKPg3Z1KggSrt1nJzaHyfabe3NnHff1qzf3c97cRKUz3TqeteZh7LlSihogZTLT63SzZE3rfw4L9TWDrhwwL-ge3nJ2qzw/s1000/Promise.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="742" data-original-width="1000" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDLZJB5evtLnHOWi79-W1eK5-gRkqXZEugyu99K4Zzym7egqxbf8tkjz197U_Qd145SBnTlGY6t_0bFuwFpDn2tE2Tw6lKPg3Z1KggSrt1nJzaHyfabe3NnHff1qzf3c97cRKUz3TqeteZh7LlSihogZTLT63SzZE3rfw4L9TWDrhwwL-ge3nJ2qzw/w418-h310/Promise.jpg" width="418" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Promise<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/carol-betker/promise/929891">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>What does success mean to you personally? <br /></b><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">If my work can make the viewer take a slightly longer look and feel some emotion in that moment then I'm getting close to success. <br /><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>What is one of your proudest moments in your creative life? <br /></b><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I have won some recognition awards in juried shows but I had an international validation moment a couple years ago when a viewer in Japan bought one of my large pieces from a local gallery .I am also grateful for DPW for opening up a platform for artists around the world! </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIG1E4YsHEU2sV0uuLs5TrqhcSr-_zhHqJujTIFcMFk1JzFdnmx67ONnJuYRQuNVT9qMlrxhNi6sUcKh84iilJ-tm8I9ot0A2161ulSNdxV5eErAkCBunnWKDmtVcKQkCGetqAeq84lx4W65JXcVBEG3OtX_QRpUqSty3MwJR_JZRrHDVTGAm3wqBG/s1000/Awaiting.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="975" height="453" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIG1E4YsHEU2sV0uuLs5TrqhcSr-_zhHqJujTIFcMFk1JzFdnmx67ONnJuYRQuNVT9qMlrxhNi6sUcKh84iilJ-tm8I9ot0A2161ulSNdxV5eErAkCBunnWKDmtVcKQkCGetqAeq84lx4W65JXcVBEG3OtX_QRpUqSty3MwJR_JZRrHDVTGAm3wqBG/w442-h453/Awaiting.jpg" width="442" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Awaiting<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/carol-betker/awaiting/1004660">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><b>Thanks, Carol!</b></div><div><br /></div><div>© 2022 Maddie Marine</div></div>Maddiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12080891613292159584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8984607510148246137.post-75810657343610345662022-06-23T21:59:00.005-07:002022-06-23T21:59:00.240-07:00DPW Spotlight Interview: Sheila Marie<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; position: relative;"><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Each week we will spotlight a different DPW artist who will give away one of their best paintings. To enter to win Sheila Marie's painting "Joshua Tree" go to Daily Paintworks and click on the link at the top of the page announcing their interview.</span></span></i></h3><p><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">From Sheila Marie's DPW Gallery Page:</b> </p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivVMAhuFvdPfRd4xTqYK3V9hoBsQfDA2SNFX01pXBNYF5JUxVxV37fVWU-XTOiIUokgQ9FV6JrQNgSWB4DNzcyMMfGGRjqgFgPrs4D6a-jazXI20X83HN5iUx0Lo7ckGS0-Uutci3rjuyiTDOksg17ldbKkS_UL0ibHwSMuPflqfTy1ZwtuQ3lP68X/s400/Bio.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="381" data-original-width="400" height="209" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivVMAhuFvdPfRd4xTqYK3V9hoBsQfDA2SNFX01pXBNYF5JUxVxV37fVWU-XTOiIUokgQ9FV6JrQNgSWB4DNzcyMMfGGRjqgFgPrs4D6a-jazXI20X83HN5iUx0Lo7ckGS0-Uutci3rjuyiTDOksg17ldbKkS_UL0ibHwSMuPflqfTy1ZwtuQ3lP68X/w219-h209/Bio.jpeg" width="219" /></a></div>I married young and we started our family a couple of years later. Creating fine art went to the back burner as I raised my kids and worked at multiple jobs that would allow me to be with my kids. Designing and fabricating stained glass for custom home builders, teaching stained glass, helping my husband build custom homes.
When the kids were older I began working with a start-up company. There were three of us, the inventor/president, an accountant and myself. I started out helping with accounting and sales. As new challenges came up I volunteered to research and figure out the solutions. I ended up running operations and manufacturing.
The first 14 years with this company, were incredibly exciting, fulfilling, boundless opportunities to grow, learn, create and be challenged every day. I'm still so thankful that the president of the company believed and had so much trust in me. An abrupt change almost 10 years ago changed my role dramatically. A role completely the opposite, sucking away the passion and joy that drove me. After several years of being very lost I found an old box of Grumbacher oils in my basement from 41 yrs. ago that I had played around with as a teen. I pulled those oils out, took a class at the Art League. I began to find my way. Slowly I began to dream again, to feel the excitement, fear, joy, challenge and strength of learning and growing again.
Now almost 25 years later I have quit that job and will start again, another exciting journey. I work in oils painting plein air and in my studio. I love the outdoors and you'll see I lean towards landscapes. I do mix it up some with animals, still lifes and life drawing.
Painting is all together exciting, challenging, frustrating, joyful, peaceful, leaving me exhausted and fulfilled. I'm continuously working on design, value relationships, soft and hard edges, and brush strokes. My goal, in the end, is to simplify, capture the mood, the essence and the emotion of that moment in time. Creating a work that will bring a beautiful statement to the home of its admirer.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXD7_mgaRJfaSGlxoe8t5vPn876J6_wBTd0LW8kTk6-eZx9TAAe9GhnTr8ar7A3urt36P2MlWa1QauJQHdJZ3ru6b9Zkh8t81cB0wRwJfcHEaw6hsCil9CkO3rJYCHZzDYhG5LUS8xVqA3nPUp1opHI9uBx5scMNXq1js22tTWyCc43vNE5mEcKsXT/s2633/Joshua%20Tree-6x8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1967" data-original-width="2633" height="309" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXD7_mgaRJfaSGlxoe8t5vPn876J6_wBTd0LW8kTk6-eZx9TAAe9GhnTr8ar7A3urt36P2MlWa1QauJQHdJZ3ru6b9Zkh8t81cB0wRwJfcHEaw6hsCil9CkO3rJYCHZzDYhG5LUS8xVqA3nPUp1opHI9uBx5scMNXq1js22tTWyCc43vNE5mEcKsXT/w413-h309/Joshua%20Tree-6x8.jpg" width="413" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Joshua Tree<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/sheila-marie/joshua-tree/844305">(click to view)<br /></a><br />Enter to win by clicking on the link at the top of the DPW home page announcing interview<br /></td></tr></tbody></table></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>What did you want to be growing up? </span></div><p><span style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">It wasn’t just one. I loved watching stage shows, musicals and variety shows as a kid. I thought it would be so much fun to be a dancer. </span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-7f3ad25e-7fff-7aae-45b3-14f9d27e42ca"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit; text-indent: 36pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">When visiting the Natural History Museum and viewing the backdrops showing the natural surroundings of the animals I felt I could so easily walk in, feel the heat, the cold, hear the wind howling, birds singing and the insects chattering. How much fun that would be to go to those places to study, and come back to design and create those backdrops. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit; text-indent: 36pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit; text-indent: 36pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">And, of course doesn’t every little girl dream of being a fashion designer? Drawing lithe, graceful, beautiful women and men dressed in my creations.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">When did your artistic journey begin? </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">When I was in 5th grade I had a major crush on a boy in my class. He was really good at drawing and painting. The school would hang his pictures in the school hallways. I was extremely shy so I would never consider starting a conversation with him. But, maybe if I could be an artist he would like me and would ask me to go steady. Well, that didn’t work out but what I did discover is how much I enjoyed drawing.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsBFH-U7P0B-cmw62iEdmJp9ETQK-fcQsXvDCgYOAl0__ZzUPRF-2C-tRMJQQ0EZhx_Q2TiRRwAHncnNgReKoBRW5-suvSTkq5j5iJW07HG0UTNV5rAsjG-t7HdA5PxTq4tkBugCIFVC2dZCBz5j4_4m4FiTRXyJXn8W3FkTxQC4rDWpAVwTez94mH/s2781/Last%20%20Days%20of%20the%20Irises%20Sold%20%2010%20x%208.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2781" data-original-width="2208" height="422" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsBFH-U7P0B-cmw62iEdmJp9ETQK-fcQsXvDCgYOAl0__ZzUPRF-2C-tRMJQQ0EZhx_Q2TiRRwAHncnNgReKoBRW5-suvSTkq5j5iJW07HG0UTNV5rAsjG-t7HdA5PxTq4tkBugCIFVC2dZCBz5j4_4m4FiTRXyJXn8W3FkTxQC4rDWpAVwTez94mH/w335-h422/Last%20%20Days%20of%20the%20Irises%20Sold%20%2010%20x%208.jpg" width="335" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Last Days of the Irises</td></tr></tbody></table></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Did you have any long periods without creative expression? How did you get back on the horse?</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I’ve always been involved in creative endeavors. Thankfully no dry spells. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Which mediums and genres do you gravitate toward? Which ones don’t appeal?</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Oils and charcoal. I love the outdoors so landscapes are my main draw. I do also work on figures, still lifes, animals, just about anything as they bring much to my understanding of my practice.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I enjoy most genres. In the past, I just did not get abstracts. Over the past few years I have discovered a few abstract artist works that I enjoy. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I do not care for works that are dark with a lot of angst and I definitely do not see a toilet bowl as a work of art, hah. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitdHQ-4ExxBPlh-JJlXHuHKhqWFusYsI0pe5F8AnRVCTU_JkU-h7VNFqce54kOQ3y5TrQKGBeANLyZSC1hr12ynTHB00jcxZFJNv4Ly8MsgtktyEp0slT4g8CdRypAIXERwndDYmIsR_OW-Tpst5iveAjT8DUxvA_7AgP0JDp4mD7oojDN40lz3ua5/s2339/Spreading%20Sunlight%20%206x8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1687" data-original-width="2339" height="289" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitdHQ-4ExxBPlh-JJlXHuHKhqWFusYsI0pe5F8AnRVCTU_JkU-h7VNFqce54kOQ3y5TrQKGBeANLyZSC1hr12ynTHB00jcxZFJNv4Ly8MsgtktyEp0slT4g8CdRypAIXERwndDYmIsR_OW-Tpst5iveAjT8DUxvA_7AgP0JDp4mD7oojDN40lz3ua5/w400-h289/Spreading%20Sunlight%20%206x8.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Spreading Light<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/sheila-marie/spreading-light/1004885">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">What was the process like of pinpointing your personal style or finding your voice? </span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I’m still looking, lol. But really, I don’t even think about it. I kind of feel like it might stagnate me if I landed </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">on a ‘style’.</span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Name an artist (or artists), well-known or not, who you admire. Why? </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">Oh my gosh! There are at least a hundred and I’m sure hundreds more if I live long enough to discover them. A few off the top of my head, Len Chmiel, Walt Gonske, Nicolai Fechin, Jerry Jordan, Zoey Frank, Richard Schmid… I love their stories and their work which provides me hours of study. I never tire of looking at their work.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNWe9CG1M7mAaPuxDHnIvwvEsMPIFPfkwU-f-aVbRt79zmWwJyhpq1tVMv-BPqYxKQRZnFMd4yTsFhkf5Ku_-hlYKu6i45lslP9XzHbA0xPvf0EEWIjSeSUw1tfek78XMReKNenYXcW0E581B8XinVg4DXiY06ID2r09hzKwvAv8bsvPx4FYgRl_Oo/s2460/Tangerine%20Blues%2010x10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2460" data-original-width="2394" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNWe9CG1M7mAaPuxDHnIvwvEsMPIFPfkwU-f-aVbRt79zmWwJyhpq1tVMv-BPqYxKQRZnFMd4yTsFhkf5Ku_-hlYKu6i45lslP9XzHbA0xPvf0EEWIjSeSUw1tfek78XMReKNenYXcW0E581B8XinVg4DXiY06ID2r09hzKwvAv8bsvPx4FYgRl_Oo/w389-h400/Tangerine%20Blues%2010x10.jpg" width="389" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tangerine Blues<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/sheila-marie/tangerine-blues/785887">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">If you could offer one piece of advice to your younger, creative self — what would that be? </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">Put away those photographs and paint and draw from life! It will expedite your learning and you will discover far more. After a few hundred paintings and drawings from life you'll begin to see what a photograph cannot. After another few hundred from life you'll be ready to pull out a photo every once in a while and refer to it to jog your memory. </span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">You will never reach the end of this journey and that is a wonderful thing. The more you learn, the more you learn what you still have to learn. This journey just gets more challenging, joyful and exciting.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Do you utilize any habits or tricks for winning the distraction and procrastination battle? </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hah, I haven’t figured that one out yet!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0poyWi-Hpu7Fw2EkRoxbycaL2YMZU-jyQ1qJVDKannJpW5RxiIiKu2CJ-psl8qcwzI1TsPtZf59Pc_Jwagr537ZBeEk0K3OkcUwz56dk7KKfud-DZVfO066r2gNrHaupO51FU2l5nYpWxhQgkOihizY31Hw0FXR7rr4o95u0qRVidBYvNdPv2K6O-/s2266/Winter%20Park%20Jun%202022.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1846" data-original-width="2266" height="326" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0poyWi-Hpu7Fw2EkRoxbycaL2YMZU-jyQ1qJVDKannJpW5RxiIiKu2CJ-psl8qcwzI1TsPtZf59Pc_Jwagr537ZBeEk0K3OkcUwz56dk7KKfud-DZVfO066r2gNrHaupO51FU2l5nYpWxhQgkOihizY31Hw0FXR7rr4o95u0qRVidBYvNdPv2K6O-/w400-h326/Winter%20Park%20Jun%202022.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Winter Park Spring<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/sheila-marie/winter-park-spring/1004882">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In moments of self-doubt or adversity, how do you push forward?</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">I just do. If not forward, it’s either standing still (boring) and I won’t even consider going backwards.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">What are some of your long and short term goals for yourself or your art?</span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Both long and short I will simply continue to study and produce art. I will always be available to share, educate and mentor other artists.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ2qwtPG7R_NwBF7-wWzDPcZ0dqi2f5xCwokBC1bzCEqdyz1gUzBxSzVzAxhNxzuBYacZe4ALvu3dNA-2Ni3iWAPei_2UceH-t739WkeGty9hToThIWfZ9cgCery8Z3SKV6qSd1gMTunlMcb5-XG5y4lFwGuC05Imzbr34_UfAiyLF5uvNp6xVXkFw/s3169/Sipapu%20Cabin-Sold.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2369" data-original-width="3169" height="299" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ2qwtPG7R_NwBF7-wWzDPcZ0dqi2f5xCwokBC1bzCEqdyz1gUzBxSzVzAxhNxzuBYacZe4ALvu3dNA-2Ni3iWAPei_2UceH-t739WkeGty9hToThIWfZ9cgCery8Z3SKV6qSd1gMTunlMcb5-XG5y4lFwGuC05Imzbr34_UfAiyLF5uvNp6xVXkFw/w400-h299/Sipapu%20Cabin-Sold.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sipapu Cabins<br /></td></tr></tbody></table></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">What does success mean to you personally? </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Always pushing myself further and further. Completing works where I can see I reached higher and made it there. It builds my excitement to jump in right away and go even further. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">What is one of your proudest moments in your creative life?</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It is a joyful moment when a collector loves one of your works for the good memories or feeling that it brings them.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivQuo9ooWUWWX5DFN0EOOtjKthiYrSVQ02G24s0bi_BvFPxalSub8YdZPHpvGAZz8tpV7WhRTwfVE9-PVoJw8D5kN3mnpTLZ19tnvjeNoKZIt9CP-DLcXNjnXXN7GzX0UOoZTIMXchKyvEQ4G3Rci3OZysjfHQuAdkeYPQ3YNM6BijYyWMjJ_cU7Tx/s3498/Moab%20Early%20Evening%20Light%2010x20.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1752" data-original-width="3498" height="246" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivQuo9ooWUWWX5DFN0EOOtjKthiYrSVQ02G24s0bi_BvFPxalSub8YdZPHpvGAZz8tpV7WhRTwfVE9-PVoJw8D5kN3mnpTLZ19tnvjeNoKZIt9CP-DLcXNjnXXN7GzX0UOoZTIMXchKyvEQ4G3Rci3OZysjfHQuAdkeYPQ3YNM6BijYyWMjJ_cU7Tx/w491-h246/Moab%20Early%20Evening%20Light%2010x20.JPG" width="491" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Moab Early Evening Light<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/sheila-marie/moab-early-evening-light/1004881">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div><div><b>Thanks, Sheila!</b></div><div><br /></div><div>© 2022 Maddie Marine</div></div></span></span>Maddiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12080891613292159584noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8984607510148246137.post-48756858252281714352022-05-26T21:59:00.017-07:002022-05-26T21:59:00.209-07:00DPW Spotlight Interview: Marlene Lee<div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-4828203890804752133" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;"><p><i><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Each week we will spotlight a different DPW artist who will give away one of their best paintings. To enter to win Marlene's painting "Orange with Grapes" go to Daily Paintworks and click on the link at the top of the page announcing their interview.</span></span></i></p></div><p><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">From Marlene's DPW Gallery Page:<br /></b></p><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMImX8HWaE9pUX4eGUN9mb-flfQIxHSt0nqz8T1r5LJ0JMQh78rDiwD7-B8rFOkcprAE0LVEGNB7MWIOkyq4HcEIPpuUQnICsAZvKyRlPViMChA_ah4xWAl5kQ2Ryui7LkyR05r4ojQ1bVaOWaVCDN8KSkdk4naEA40xjAJeA59hDYVb2GTHWTU9Xh/s399/Bio.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="299" data-original-width="399" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMImX8HWaE9pUX4eGUN9mb-flfQIxHSt0nqz8T1r5LJ0JMQh78rDiwD7-B8rFOkcprAE0LVEGNB7MWIOkyq4HcEIPpuUQnICsAZvKyRlPViMChA_ah4xWAl5kQ2Ryui7LkyR05r4ojQ1bVaOWaVCDN8KSkdk4naEA40xjAJeA59hDYVb2GTHWTU9Xh/w200-h150/Bio.jpeg" width="200" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Since graduating from California State University, Sacramento in studio art in 2009, I began to pursue art seriously. I mainly paint in oils - landscapes and still life but my passion is portraits. I'm furthering my painting skills with workshops and classes from Terry Miura, a well known northern California painter, My drawing skills were strengthen through Jeff Watts Online Program and Sadie Valeri Online Atelier program.</span></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Click here at my <a href="https://marleneleeart.wordpress.com/" style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 22.5px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">blog</a> updated paintings and process and upcoming events. I do accept pet commissions either in oils or watercolor in my Etsy shop at <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/PaintingsbyMarlene" style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 22.5px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">PaintingsbyMarlene</a>. (Shipping is free).</span></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 10px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px !important; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">My other love is urbansketching. My sketches are posted on my <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/calliartist/" style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 22.5px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Flickr page</a>. Some of those sketches can be bought as prints at my <a href="https://society6.com/marleneleeart" style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 22.5px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Society6 </a>store.</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 10px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px !important; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Check out my book, Sketching Around Davis, on <a href="https://www.blurb.com/b/10241203-sketching-around-davis" style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 22.5px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Blurb</a>. It's a collection of my sketches done from 2013 through 2019 around Davis, California where I live.</span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkj8Z0LSDaYt0cWwXEtWSzQSAhNLkRqtuV2MbutEai4uooLnxAwTPq67aeEJybGIZHBmM1Lt39wftsMZfdlQ1ux42tJpOeTR0FUk-n4ifRGjy5Cy_duunGr86uvDu7CjoAQh3De9ppgGX3suynanavFVXbYQGW08ERmKBybpwCnrlGmX-jJWm9FGDS/s999/Orange%20with%20Grapes%206x6%202021.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="987" data-original-width="999" height="395" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkj8Z0LSDaYt0cWwXEtWSzQSAhNLkRqtuV2MbutEai4uooLnxAwTPq67aeEJybGIZHBmM1Lt39wftsMZfdlQ1ux42tJpOeTR0FUk-n4ifRGjy5Cy_duunGr86uvDu7CjoAQh3De9ppgGX3suynanavFVXbYQGW08ERmKBybpwCnrlGmX-jJWm9FGDS/w400-h395/Orange%20with%20Grapes%206x6%202021.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Orange with Grapes <br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/marlene-lee/orange-with-grapes/880359">(click to view)<br /></a><br />Enter to win by clicking on the link at the top of the DPW home page announcing interview</td></tr></tbody></table><b style="font-family: inherit;"><p style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: inherit;">What did you want to be growing up? </b></p></b><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">I wanted to be a children’s book illustrator because that is what I knew at the time that artists do to earn a paycheck. Later I realized that there were other jobs like technical illustrator or industrial designer. I took drafting in high school and loved it. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>When did your artistic journey begin? </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">It's hard to say when my journey began. Maybe when I was six, I tore a section of wallpaper in my parents’ rented home to see what kind of shapes I could create. The beginning of my abstract exploration. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">But I do remember in school, enjoying the challenge of drawing, copying things exactly. In high school I took all the art classes and learned to use other mediums beside pens and pencils. Through books I taught myself perspective by drawing cases of sodas in the storeroom of my family’s grocery store. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">In college, even though I majored in accounting, I took all the art classes I could. And even sold some pieces like a portrait of a cougar in a ballpoint pen to my accounting professor. I did some commercial work for billboard signs and ads. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">After college, even though I had a business degree and did some accounting, I eventually got a job as a graphic artist.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5zNdhAdaWDEkx_fjEryg1SHLXO7Mqcxs3Yta2FOJ6KIaS0F8sK23BJxDpXih-0sW7aZpKWRmuJrZKPPtnYpqjeVp5yBpKEIoDAipOM6xxx-9Ip5JfSbrJduzeyQiSKXaEwzhuM1LVgcVm_4ibNzP_lMYBkg6BNRsq7TDu9OR_Aasz-IQa1OG7Fojm/s2950/ChloeLynn%202019.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2950" data-original-width="2237" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5zNdhAdaWDEkx_fjEryg1SHLXO7Mqcxs3Yta2FOJ6KIaS0F8sK23BJxDpXih-0sW7aZpKWRmuJrZKPPtnYpqjeVp5yBpKEIoDAipOM6xxx-9Ip5JfSbrJduzeyQiSKXaEwzhuM1LVgcVm_4ibNzP_lMYBkg6BNRsq7TDu9OR_Aasz-IQa1OG7Fojm/w304-h400/ChloeLynn%202019.jpg" width="304" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chloe<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/marlene-lee/chloe/768775">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Did you have any long periods without creative expression? How did you get back on the horse? </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">When I got married and had my three sons, I had to invest all my creative and emotional energy into raising them. I did some art stuff with them like papermaking and marbling. We also did some rubber stamp carving. I kept my hand in the arts by taking calligraphy workshops in San Francisco and freelancing calligraphy jobs. I also took watercolor classes at the local art center for many years. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">As my sons grew older, I went to a nearby university, California State Sacramento, and got a second bachelor but this time in studio art. By the time my sons finished public schools and had entered into college, I had my degree and became serious about being an artist. That was back in 2009. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Which mediums and genres do you gravitate toward? Which ones don’t appeal? </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Drawing was my medium before the art degree. I love the pen and ink illustrations that I had seen in some Asian books that my parents kept. The use of thick and thin lines made by a brush fascinated me and still does. Currently it’s oils and watercolor. I love watercolor for its </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">unpredictability; I feel I can be very expressive. Though I enjoyed working in oils, I still feel stiff; I’m seeking to be more expressive with my brushstrokes. I do love all the mediums….pastels, printmaking especially. I only have energy for just oils and watercolors. </span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3W085TFwNtsXF01S3fJM-vXy7SjbBCSPspK7Zinq7pojic-_vkM_biSszntzlSIUCbjMnhbkB1YCafQB5iy4w9JH_5z7usWUjeME0ncKAz1aq2EHcflf9jOz-yqRxP6yvAjNFxV-zWNDEzzFa9_EiaGM0m2yZaoIAuxz0bzvXhuws4TXKlt0m2Y4q/s3508/Barn%20at%20Best%20Ranch%208x10%202020.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2550" data-original-width="3508" height="291" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3W085TFwNtsXF01S3fJM-vXy7SjbBCSPspK7Zinq7pojic-_vkM_biSszntzlSIUCbjMnhbkB1YCafQB5iy4w9JH_5z7usWUjeME0ncKAz1aq2EHcflf9jOz-yqRxP6yvAjNFxV-zWNDEzzFa9_EiaGM0m2yZaoIAuxz0bzvXhuws4TXKlt0m2Y4q/w400-h291/Barn%20at%20Best%20Ranch%208x10%202020.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pink Barn at Best Ranch<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/marlene-lee/pink-barn-at-best-ranch/827529">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>What was the process like of pinpointing your personal style or finding your voice? </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">An assignment in college was to cut out any images of paintings that we were drawn to. I’ve noticed it was paintings that had expressive brushstrokes. Impressionistic. I found that the more I paint the more my personal style just comes out. Like learning to do cursive writing. As kids we all learn from the same handwriting model but each kid would unconsciously put their own stamp into their writing. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Name an artist (or artists), well-known or not, who you admire. Why? </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">John Singer Sargent for his expressive watercolors. Many of the contemporary artists depending on what my interests were at the time. Now it’s Bethann Moran-Handzlik for her on-site paintings of her garden. Her ability to paint the mundane, like a flower growing from a crack, is amazing. Other artists, landscape artists, are catching my eye for their minimal details and expressive brushstrokes. I tend to get too detailed and my aim is to paint the landscape impressionistically. Anne Blair Brown comes to mind. </span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhITOtATZ3L7Bo6GoIwawnq-RZOXL1O1R-tMq52oqwBLvyXFkXSPtSCRyO4W3_rt0-4fhD0ureIv-K0cg8r9A19fnU9ZJhP0iOW83SI6Lu7Zy5_qH5AVItp5Z_8GVVzMrtANmuBcgWM3xO1HmoLTzJMgCJCP5Mt3sPbATH8i8Lns9pAO_jo-6gYIlOE/s2913/Trees%20in%20Midmorning%20at%20Arboretum%2010x8%202022.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2913" data-original-width="2345" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhITOtATZ3L7Bo6GoIwawnq-RZOXL1O1R-tMq52oqwBLvyXFkXSPtSCRyO4W3_rt0-4fhD0ureIv-K0cg8r9A19fnU9ZJhP0iOW83SI6Lu7Zy5_qH5AVItp5Z_8GVVzMrtANmuBcgWM3xO1HmoLTzJMgCJCP5Mt3sPbATH8i8Lns9pAO_jo-6gYIlOE/w323-h400/Trees%20in%20Midmorning%20at%20Arboretum%2010x8%202022.jpg" width="323" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Trees in Midmorning at the Arboretum<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/marlene-lee/trees-in-midmorning-at-the-arboretum/974118">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>If you could offer one piece of advice to your younger, creative self — what would that be? </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Don’t let the naysayers discourage you from pursuing your interest in art. Find ways to cultivate that interest. Whatever you pursue feeds into your creativity. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">It’s all about learning and not on just pure talent. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Do you utilize any habits or tricks for winning the distraction and procrastination battle? </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Develop a routine. I run all errands, exercise…computer work all in the morning and paint in the afternoon. I want to totally focus on my painting completely. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Also finding that working in a series of three to six paintings of similar subject matters, creates a momentum, getting into the flow. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>In moments of self-doubt or adversity, how do you push forward? </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Keep painting and drawing. </span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnpG9rh2n59RagF_A0_-IfP9x7BBsDBJtGK59Td_9xXEVt6O5z-fub_7dZNyzQrYoxnUeuEc3a8UrvxM8oO7BHc0sR2qkiBzehFsC-9uRRkdLDjvxQPMm7KY4wcc5njm6k54DNeH6HJJ5uMJhnvZhMCrIqYpyecsNHmoO6i2YqjgKiFUedIReyY48F/s2349/Ginger%20Jar%20with%20Poppies%20coldwaxoil%208x8%202021.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2349" data-original-width="2346" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnpG9rh2n59RagF_A0_-IfP9x7BBsDBJtGK59Td_9xXEVt6O5z-fub_7dZNyzQrYoxnUeuEc3a8UrvxM8oO7BHc0sR2qkiBzehFsC-9uRRkdLDjvxQPMm7KY4wcc5njm6k54DNeH6HJJ5uMJhnvZhMCrIqYpyecsNHmoO6i2YqjgKiFUedIReyY48F/w400-h400/Ginger%20Jar%20with%20Poppies%20coldwaxoil%208x8%202021.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ginger Jar with Poppies<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/marlene-lee/ginger-jar-with-poppies/881036">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><b style="font-family: inherit;">What are some of your long and short term goals for yourself or your art? </b><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Earlier when I started to paint in oils I would just paint still life, mainly fruits. My goal then was to get a handle on oil painting, getting to know the colors. I noticed that the colors of most fruits are similar to the colors of different skin tones.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Now I want to focus more on landscape paintings, especially plein aire. I want to experience different expressions with the brush, become more painterly…and avoid details that sometimes still life painting would demand. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Last year I was accepted into an artist cooperative, The Artery, and it has pushed me to consider what to paint and to paint seriously and how to exhibit my works. My ultimate goal is to get into a gallery. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>What does success mean to you personally? </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Being an accomplished and recognized artist…being able to paint anything and everything. And to earn income from doing what I enjoyed best. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>What is one of your proudest moments in your creative life? </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Being selected in a juried show, especially one juried by a well known artist was my pride and joy. Another moment was a learning moment. Just recently while painting a commissioned dog portrait, I’ve learned an important lesson in painting, I do not have to copy a photograph. I had lightened up a shadow area and it was an eureka moment. :-) </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Speaking of pet portraits, when my clients would say how they were moved in tears when they saw the portrait of their pet. This is actually my proudest moment. I am happy a client or buyer is touched by the painting. Then I had fulfilled my purpose in painting.</span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4adLgM_39HRbE2LdQbe20vU4RpHR-xvhW_8niuU6aa2jAF-wPVm4bgUTv8CUiZnzg9I7Go4VUzvoJUiEkZ4nDLiiajYkGyOpMc_NhilfA_PBKBOpMcBNVZ5IG1IJ_XFsQy9ZMz_e5CpRCHiLZfkznUjJNTFkd3MduycsaE_YPbVMawat6mkMFBMFr/s2955/Gemini%20PLL%202021.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2955" data-original-width="2072" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4adLgM_39HRbE2LdQbe20vU4RpHR-xvhW_8niuU6aa2jAF-wPVm4bgUTv8CUiZnzg9I7Go4VUzvoJUiEkZ4nDLiiajYkGyOpMc_NhilfA_PBKBOpMcBNVZ5IG1IJ_XFsQy9ZMz_e5CpRCHiLZfkznUjJNTFkd3MduycsaE_YPbVMawat6mkMFBMFr/w280-h400/Gemini%20PLL%202021.jpg" width="280" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gemini<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/marlene-lee/gemini/859993">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><div><div><b>Thanks, Marlene!</b></div><div><br /></div><div>© 2022 Maddie Marine</div></div></div>Maddiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12080891613292159584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8984607510148246137.post-20021977343999699212022-05-12T21:59:00.002-07:002022-05-12T21:59:00.289-07:00DPW Spotlight Interview: Robert Harris<span class="im" style="background-color: white;"><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-4828203890804752133" itemprop="description articleBody" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;"><p><i>Each week we will spotlight a different DPW artist who will give away one of their best paintings. To enter to win Robert's painting "banana 02" go to Daily Paintworks and click on the link at the top of the page announcing their interview.</i></p></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-7iroI55FfIi7qiRrdQtY059hfBWFXynmdHWjZRTgTnwxtqjujlW6robUKfvAJdD6FYJyTq5OviigKWqUb2H1T5nB9qqopUbbmFFctMZUEALRs_eQFhj0G2I0HjGP11pgV6nEU8y6WaLx8al5EooImldYkYCQBIyNuIeaenvA3oHn4Ys3BY9hnViz/s400/bio.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="291" height="134" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-7iroI55FfIi7qiRrdQtY059hfBWFXynmdHWjZRTgTnwxtqjujlW6robUKfvAJdD6FYJyTq5OviigKWqUb2H1T5nB9qqopUbbmFFctMZUEALRs_eQFhj0G2I0HjGP11pgV6nEU8y6WaLx8al5EooImldYkYCQBIyNuIeaenvA3oHn4Ys3BY9hnViz/w97-h134/bio.jpeg" width="97" /></a></div><b style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">From Robert's DPW Gallery Page:</b> <p></p><br /></span><div><span class="im" style="background-color: white;">I was lost until I started painting. I'm still lost but slightly less so.<br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcg5UKrTePz1QMFQGMEMvArQbD6yzyTzj-l9muxNwG9tZXXUwpSv6uoHwKqwdcoT0Tn0KP4a8itAA9e4_XlRKeczi_26w5mGmO0Z7lHkuOFNAlqcfPJ_FWviPI2pMiJSW2L7hrdW1XuIcoPkae8HwEKC-owabvQmS5HYEopr3oSenWAA0rSzaVAWqz/s1000/banana%2002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcg5UKrTePz1QMFQGMEMvArQbD6yzyTzj-l9muxNwG9tZXXUwpSv6uoHwKqwdcoT0Tn0KP4a8itAA9e4_XlRKeczi_26w5mGmO0Z7lHkuOFNAlqcfPJ_FWviPI2pMiJSW2L7hrdW1XuIcoPkae8HwEKC-owabvQmS5HYEopr3oSenWAA0rSzaVAWqz/w400-h400/banana%2002.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">banana 02<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/robert-harris/banana-02/991910">(click to view)</a><br /><br />Enter to win by clicking on the link at the top of the DPW home page announcing interview<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><div><b>What did you want to be growing up? <br /></b></div><div> </div></span></span><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I always find this a bit of a strange question because I really didn't even consider ever wanting to do any "traditional job" as a child. I was more concerned with just wanting to play and goofing around. I suppose once I became a teenager I became pretty enamored with film and wanted to be a filmmaker but I quickly realized that it's a very collaborative profession and as someone who struggled a lot with social anxiety it wasn't really in the cards for me. In one way I guess painting really suits me in that sense because it's largely a solo activity.<br /></span></div><span class="im" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div><br /></div><div><b>When did your artistic journey begin? <br /></b></div><div> </div></span></span><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I took art classes in high school but I can't really say it was ever an interest at that point. I never made art outside of the assignments for classes and I can't say I was particularly any good at it. Right now I'm 40 and I didn't start really learning how to draw until a few years ago at age 37 and didn't begin painting until I was 38. I was feeling pretty lost several years ago and really just decided to learn to draw on a whim as a challenge to myself which eventually led to painting. I started by learning to draw with an online course called Drawabox.com which I'm currently a teaching assistant at and have been for the past two years. I took a few community college courses for drawing and painting which were helpful but the bulk of my learning has been from various online courses and books.<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><span class="im" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJQCNm8oZBfH98xRb5ohXS638jzq66s_I0GBzXmskno25zn3Dx6GJcfI5k4O_H2aNIBgnQFL9X1S3O9sCz5Fbo4yJ-LZPfnRr116GSW9n9dA9jQ_A5tcrtk9kKRcOom4CwrKp-dTh7UOglAqQZwRixrZcq7FLmNqGyft53zffHao9EI2lApXtH2ucQ/s1000/grapefruit%2001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="991" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJQCNm8oZBfH98xRb5ohXS638jzq66s_I0GBzXmskno25zn3Dx6GJcfI5k4O_H2aNIBgnQFL9X1S3O9sCz5Fbo4yJ-LZPfnRr116GSW9n9dA9jQ_A5tcrtk9kKRcOom4CwrKp-dTh7UOglAqQZwRixrZcq7FLmNqGyft53zffHao9EI2lApXtH2ucQ/w396-h400/grapefruit%2001.jpg" width="396" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">grapefruit 01<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/robert-harris/grapefruit-01/991914">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><b style="font-family: inherit;">Did you have any long periods without creative expression? How did you get back on the horse?</b></div><div><br /></div></span></span><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Most of my life has been spent living without creative expression. I've always been interested in the arts through filmmaking, music, novels, etc but never actually created anything myself. I had a brief sojourn into learning guitar in my twenties but despite practicing it daily for a few years I never really developed a knack for the fundamentals so I ended up shelving it. I guess in some sense I was feeling burnt out from a life of only consumption which sparked my interest in drawing. It's funny I don't even really consider myself a creative person now but rather a translator more than anything else.<br /></span></div><span class="im" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div><br /><b>Which mediums and genres do you gravitate toward? Which ones don’t appeal?</b></div><div><br /></div></span></span><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I am pretty exclusively an oil painter at this point. I still practice drawing regularly with graphite and ink but never any "finished pieces". I've tried watercolor, gouache, and pastel but I had a really hard time adapting to those mediums. Oils make sense to me and I really like to be able to use heavy impasto and texture that isn't really present in those other mediums. In terms of what I paint, the subject almost doesn't matter to me. My work is heavily informed by realism and impressionism but I try to push abstraction into the work as much as possible. I primarily tackle still life and landscape right now but plan to start doing figurative work and portraits eventually. It's really a matter of getting my drawing ability up to a level where I can execute those more complex subject matters at a satisfactory level.<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><span class="im" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0WUSDTmpjvk44K9WjRo3BfHmHZFCs90Sa9u63nPNlWLmvEr9X_zkc0raAk05ZMKruJuabF9cXB_IBJfAwtM85p11wMeMdHE1SLl9FkcZlwB9mpbkaXnXVbNNorKsmayWBdEY9tXAVNJaMeHoWnpP3cgdX1KuOF2S7t1rAMmXpYqmsgyZL65XqFrdF/s999/tools%2001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="999" data-original-width="716" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0WUSDTmpjvk44K9WjRo3BfHmHZFCs90Sa9u63nPNlWLmvEr9X_zkc0raAk05ZMKruJuabF9cXB_IBJfAwtM85p11wMeMdHE1SLl9FkcZlwB9mpbkaXnXVbNNorKsmayWBdEY9tXAVNJaMeHoWnpP3cgdX1KuOF2S7t1rAMmXpYqmsgyZL65XqFrdF/w286-h400/tools%2001.jpg" width="286" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">tools 01<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/robert-harris/tools-01/991915">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><b>What was the process like of pinpointing your personal style or finding your voice? <br /></b></div><div><br /></div></span></span><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I don't really think I have a personal style or a voice at this point. Almost every painting is still an experiment for me. I still consider myself a beginner and don't really worry about trying to find a style as it's sort of baked into everything you make anyways.<br /></span></div><span class="im" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div><br /><b>Name an artist (or artists), well-known or not, who you admire. Why? <br /></b></div><div><br /></div></span></span><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It's funny my knowledge of painting is very new and I really couldn't have even named any painters besides maybe Rembrandt and Van Gogh three years ago. It's really been a whirlwind of information trying to learn about all of this art history and contemporary painters the past few years. I would say I like the same three masters painters that everyone does who paints realism. Sargent, Zorn, and Sorolla although I definitely gravitate more towards Sorolla as his outdoor paintings are a huge inspiration and I love how much he drenches his paintings in purple. I also really love Isaac Levitan and the sensitivity in which he depicts the everyday landscape that was around him. My favorite living painter is Fred Cuming. His ability to capture the mood and atmosphere of the scenes he paints is incredible. The way he exaggerates colors and pushes abstraction while still making his subjects ring incredibly true and evoke a mood is something I hope to achieve with my work. The last artist I want to mention is my cousin Lee who died a few years ago. He was a talented writer and filmmaker and always the most creative and inspirational person I knew growing up. He really turned me onto a lot of art that I ended up liking. I really wish he could have seen my paintings.<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><span class="im" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbhzq9eerPJnKkAyOU487EWf5hJuaIL5pi9bB_Q_jRwt7WHUOHfzrbG4Ng6LZBFttr1hOIZNvnQ-uaimGW-P6RMwMJbJ4BLbOHrPV-JLZKRXBbpcBmrRF8DuBSV_bdl0mFE4IuWxdt-6FyAUZCM7pOe_ynsxx17fL_KiNqPWojNvKzAqKAbYgRCGJA/s1000/bridgeview%20golden%20hour%2001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="744" data-original-width="1000" height="297" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbhzq9eerPJnKkAyOU487EWf5hJuaIL5pi9bB_Q_jRwt7WHUOHfzrbG4Ng6LZBFttr1hOIZNvnQ-uaimGW-P6RMwMJbJ4BLbOHrPV-JLZKRXBbpcBmrRF8DuBSV_bdl0mFE4IuWxdt-6FyAUZCM7pOe_ynsxx17fL_KiNqPWojNvKzAqKAbYgRCGJA/w400-h297/bridgeview%20golden%20hour%2001.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">bridgeview golden hour 01<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/robert-harris/bridgeview-golden-hour-01/993926">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>If you could offer one piece of advice to your younger, creative self — what would that be?<br /></b></div><div><br /></div></span></span><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This is a tough one because in a sense I didn't have a younger creative self. While I was interested in the arts and I did want to create, I didn't have the type of mindset that would allow that creation to happen. I guess I would tell him that it's okay to produce a lot of bad work and not only is it okay but it's absolutely necessary in order to ever be able to make something good. <br /></span></div><span class="im" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div> <br /><b>Do you utilize any habits or tricks for winning the distraction and procrastination battle? <br /></b></div><div><br /></div></span></span><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This is a battle I've largely lost most of my life. There really is no "trick" I've found that works but instead it's about developing enough self discipline to force yourself to do the work even when you don't want to do it. I have found that some of the best paintings I've done were executed when I really wasn't in the mood to paint but forced myself to do it anyway. In a lot of ways I find that my mental mood going into a painting is largely irrelevant as painting is such a complex process that requires most of your faculties that what you are feeling mentally sort of vanishes as your brain enters a problem solving mode trying to work out a painting.<br /></span></div><span class="im" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbBWFuBcROCCPR3oJGPbVJe7BUkGXHrN9cBSXpVyik5LyqlWYK5hEfcov-vnbt8PFJIwUvAnLLmJ4upyGWpVPaMxmPESuKGkkoa1Bqe2rVoPy-dPOS4dewiDGtfO6FQszM5i8hGVQDoP_X6jipo9-S1FPhvqcAJ3mFGRDcSWMmnz3j3qLewjOyMnR0/s1000/Waiting.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="980" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbBWFuBcROCCPR3oJGPbVJe7BUkGXHrN9cBSXpVyik5LyqlWYK5hEfcov-vnbt8PFJIwUvAnLLmJ4upyGWpVPaMxmPESuKGkkoa1Bqe2rVoPy-dPOS4dewiDGtfO6FQszM5i8hGVQDoP_X6jipo9-S1FPhvqcAJ3mFGRDcSWMmnz3j3qLewjOyMnR0/w393-h400/Waiting.jpg" width="393" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Waiting<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/robert-harris/waiting/989837">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><b>In moments of self-doubt or adversity, how do you push forward?<br /></b></div><div><br /></div></span></span><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Self doubt is a huge struggle for me and has been my entire life. I suffer from severe depression and have since I was a teenager. In some ways painting is a godsend for me as it's a distraction that takes my mind off negative thought patterns but that said I still wouldn't say it's particularly enjoyable because it's such a mentally draining activity.<br /></span></div><span class="im" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div><br /><b>What are some of your long and short term goals for yourself or your art?</b></div><div><br /></div></span></span><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">My long term goal is to be able to support myself with painting full time. I'm currently working other jobs while painting in my spare time and would really like to be able to dedicate all my time towards perfecting this craft. In the short term I would really just like to start selling on a regular basis. Currently almost all of my sales have been to personal friends and that has been very sporadic.<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><span class="im" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1rjTOQ_CLwlsVOuTwtFlSaRJrcMeGas4PMSfEgYkY2aI_DJ9P8saFQCFPJwaKmtnicrBRchm8ZsCHVz5dtQ8gyV6aBHRZC5cdygXCdxAH4rmrz0pZt129esNagYlsTzvSM96L4azoa-42nDElnIahW7gvqBXz2ztTQXBmMAIuCmxEwmWuAcV2DJ1_/s1000/grapes%2001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="990" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1rjTOQ_CLwlsVOuTwtFlSaRJrcMeGas4PMSfEgYkY2aI_DJ9P8saFQCFPJwaKmtnicrBRchm8ZsCHVz5dtQ8gyV6aBHRZC5cdygXCdxAH4rmrz0pZt129esNagYlsTzvSM96L4azoa-42nDElnIahW7gvqBXz2ztTQXBmMAIuCmxEwmWuAcV2DJ1_/w396-h400/grapes%2001.jpg" width="396" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">grapes 01<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/robert-harris/grapes-01/988487">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><b style="font-family: inherit;">What does success mean to you personally? </b></div><div><br /></div></span></span><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I'm not really sure what that means to me honestly. I can say that I've never felt successful with anything in my life up to this point. Painting is probably the first thing I've done that has even given me a glimpse towards something better. But that said I wouldn't consider myself a successful painter at this point.<br /></span></div><span class="im" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div> <br /><b>What is one of your proudest moments in your creative life?<br /></b></div><div><br /></div></span></span><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This is another tough one for me as I can't say I really have any. I've never entered my art into any competitions or even sold anything to someone who didn't somewhat know me already. The one thing that comes back to me is that in the Beginning Painting course I took at a community college there was a final project painting that was the fourth oil painting I ever made which a lot of my classmates really liked and some even ended up taking pictures of it. That was the first time I ever felt like maybe I was onto something with painting.</span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><br /></div></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDLmFkYZRvnfQGOdi-MktwgVwB60snDAI7TFXm2o_ACLjsYTyCqY9SLEYnDw1lU1-oi4DrnHVRMT32UFVzyE8snGnXh0SaEOsnXz-CpShMSvNyOvFxqekBAZzTvf5eTX1saToqiYzoJL1O_m33-taznfdUlj3lk4kW421Y5I3T-cPOVRCthvrg_QoE/s999/some%20pairs%2023.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="990" data-original-width="999" height="396" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDLmFkYZRvnfQGOdi-MktwgVwB60snDAI7TFXm2o_ACLjsYTyCqY9SLEYnDw1lU1-oi4DrnHVRMT32UFVzyE8snGnXh0SaEOsnXz-CpShMSvNyOvFxqekBAZzTvf5eTX1saToqiYzoJL1O_m33-taznfdUlj3lk4kW421Y5I3T-cPOVRCthvrg_QoE/w400-h396/some%20pairs%2023.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">some pairs 23<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/robert-harris/some-pairs-23/982187">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><div><b>Thanks, Robert!</b></div><div><br /></div><div>© 2022 Maddie Marine</div></div>Maddiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12080891613292159584noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8984607510148246137.post-5848012613707349812022-04-28T21:59:00.001-07:002022-04-28T21:59:00.196-07:00DPW Spotlight Interview: Bunny Griffeth<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; position: relative;"><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px; font-weight: normal;">Each week we will spotlight a different DPW artist who will give away one of their best paintings. To enter to win Bunny's painting "</span><span style="font-size: 13.2px; font-weight: 400;">Peach Tulip</span><span style="font-size: 13.2px; font-weight: normal;">" go to Daily Paintworks and click on the link at the top of the page announcing their interview.</span></span></i></h3><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUMmp5vFuo7bAqwA8yfkaWsIGQ87lv_WbxpGqWlzBmbT-EHVBGauvyMzWeB6vnUvoDTPXvf2laONvHA9wq9szzLgxxfipc5t9z2CMH4EzkNJFnufkdIj0-mdqdhXBXoWgigL5vsi6qC9koRT2ugJyl44mS2ZaO02ytFztYFjhYz02hr7h7EI9y4hOo/s405/Bio.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="405" height="144" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUMmp5vFuo7bAqwA8yfkaWsIGQ87lv_WbxpGqWlzBmbT-EHVBGauvyMzWeB6vnUvoDTPXvf2laONvHA9wq9szzLgxxfipc5t9z2CMH4EzkNJFnufkdIj0-mdqdhXBXoWgigL5vsi6qC9koRT2ugJyl44mS2ZaO02ytFztYFjhYz02hr7h7EI9y4hOo/w146-h144/Bio.jpeg" width="146" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">From Bunny's DPW Gallery Page:</b> <br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Although I have always painted all my life, when I retired from nursing I started the discipline of painting every day. Soon I was invited to illustrate a children's book, which led to other books, one of which I authored and illustrated. I love painting a lot of different beautiful things - birds, animal portraits, flowers, landscapes and ocean scenes including turtles and underwater sea life. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo6r-yFiFVGLEGpDdvcUs7J7imEtgnkI6oBg14Y6ytb7iBUFlwyQtmww5I3uvFqt8KZ0u-UeE5pxldVDB-UfxpS4tF2gQ6iHKjkq5VCM27_tfUHuuPXrduC5K7LrmbQCr49bksi-GcIpV0tAjm9kf32sozdi1HXt05ZxWgvopHkQfWGK8N7NxGlzOW/s1000/Peach%20Tulip.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="686" data-original-width="1000" height="275" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo6r-yFiFVGLEGpDdvcUs7J7imEtgnkI6oBg14Y6ytb7iBUFlwyQtmww5I3uvFqt8KZ0u-UeE5pxldVDB-UfxpS4tF2gQ6iHKjkq5VCM27_tfUHuuPXrduC5K7LrmbQCr49bksi-GcIpV0tAjm9kf32sozdi1HXt05ZxWgvopHkQfWGK8N7NxGlzOW/w400-h275/Peach%20Tulip.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Peach Tulip<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/bunny-griffeth/peach-tulip/877159">(click to view)<br /></a><br />Enter to win by clicking on the link at the top of the DPW home page announcing interview</span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>What did I want to be when I grew up? </b><br /><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I think I always wanted to be an artist. I always looked for creative things to do. We had a children’s encyclopedia with books ‘Things to make and Things to Do’ and I would go through those for hours. I remember falling in love with different colors in the crayon box. I was always drawing. In elementary school I was the ‘go to’ person in our half hour art class on Fridays to draw on their paper whatever we were drawing.<br /><br /><b>When did your artistic journey begin?</b><br /> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">When I was a teenager looking for a job I made a portfolio of my work and went on an interview for a position as an artist. The man was very kind and I think amused at my boldness (and lack of expertise and training). He let me down easily and I knew I would need to have classes, but that wasn’t possible. So I had to get a job doing office work, but continued in my spare time to draw and paint. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6GrfW2H02lTcLtZY1DCwWKyghpdPZPCNpnAEDz39L2A1PziKhs9PWPIto1pAuhnUECGijbzvC-jHHGTDeRui0kpz-Lsnpe1mSFkrnb21NvLa9PN4ahS42Lym_1JL5BFeuyzVniWAXcjLXxubgPS4eeVykvrvbRaAJ4BiRGNbxnWCGCUPL0kUU2yXv/s1000/Pink%20Lily.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="848" data-original-width="1000" height="339" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6GrfW2H02lTcLtZY1DCwWKyghpdPZPCNpnAEDz39L2A1PziKhs9PWPIto1pAuhnUECGijbzvC-jHHGTDeRui0kpz-Lsnpe1mSFkrnb21NvLa9PN4ahS42Lym_1JL5BFeuyzVniWAXcjLXxubgPS4eeVykvrvbRaAJ4BiRGNbxnWCGCUPL0kUU2yXv/w400-h339/Pink%20Lily.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pink Lily<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/bunny-griffeth/pink-lily/880499">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Did you have any long periods without creative expression? How did you get back on the horse?</b><br /><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Yes, I was away from painting when I was married and my children were born. As they started to get a little bit older I could sometimes paint but I was using oils at the time and it was hard and messy. When I worked as a nurse I didn’t have a lot of spare time, with four children and a full time job, plus overtime. I did take some classes at RI School of Design in the evenings which were great.<br /><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I decided to take a small watercolor class at an artist’s studio one night a week after work. That at least ensured I would be painting one night a week! She made once a year trips to Block Island for 2 weeks which I started doing every year. When I retired is when I began doing artwork full time. <br /><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Which mediums and genres do you gravitate toward? Which ones don’t appeal? </b><br /><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">With any medium it’s a question of getting familiar with how it works and working with it. I gravitated to watercolors for ease of clean up but have really come to love working in them. I took portrait classes with pastels which I absolutely love also. I tried a lot of different mediums and the only one I really don’t like is oil pastels. <br /><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIQ7QQk_wg8VwHvOUjE80wjWBr28uW8GyiO9h13hcXGb_9_DD-h-oEeSF0Hu6QJVkmx3yLh2cqrI3VdpQkomA7gJWuLBDA0r7J1Z5VgJiEPiBpKjqJFf6AU67f_7PcSjgsu2W6_x0Xrp51RZCT4FxFmM8NJZ4AjUZPIhrt92agTL0cr0d7jvtma1B8/s1000/GREAT%20EGRET.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="690" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIQ7QQk_wg8VwHvOUjE80wjWBr28uW8GyiO9h13hcXGb_9_DD-h-oEeSF0Hu6QJVkmx3yLh2cqrI3VdpQkomA7gJWuLBDA0r7J1Z5VgJiEPiBpKjqJFf6AU67f_7PcSjgsu2W6_x0Xrp51RZCT4FxFmM8NJZ4AjUZPIhrt92agTL0cr0d7jvtma1B8/w276-h400/GREAT%20EGRET.jpg" width="276" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">GREAT EGRET<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/bunny-griffeth/great-egret/976605">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>What was the process like of pinpointing your personal style or finding your voice? </b><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I think that comes with just the process of painting. You start to realize that certain things appeal to you and it affects your painting. <br /><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Name an artist (or artists), well-known or not, who you admire. Why? </b><br /><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">There’s so many great artists. I remember as a child looking at a Rembrandt painting at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the hand and just being in awe of how it was painted. The detail was amazing. John Singer Sargent is one of my most favorite painters. I love how he paints the lights and his brush strokes are just gorgeous.<br /><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8xcnfxz7Z7SrgAxNIgAypgfYaopV_ncjFgBDKWbZ9Yji0b5nNVP03SymDCtWy-MQWZV8-uGx8S0eiFIOmX314XOO5EaYZlYR2LGxJUrEWHEx2xGweLXBdQuqkKcIXw7TMWZnGAJ5Big_2jzshrpm_Qg8iI9O0brw7S0MOqlpP7AsWs0_SgWsRuzOu/s1000/LEMONS%20IN%20BRIGHT%20SUN.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="816" data-original-width="1000" height="326" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8xcnfxz7Z7SrgAxNIgAypgfYaopV_ncjFgBDKWbZ9Yji0b5nNVP03SymDCtWy-MQWZV8-uGx8S0eiFIOmX314XOO5EaYZlYR2LGxJUrEWHEx2xGweLXBdQuqkKcIXw7TMWZnGAJ5Big_2jzshrpm_Qg8iI9O0brw7S0MOqlpP7AsWs0_SgWsRuzOu/w400-h326/LEMONS%20IN%20BRIGHT%20SUN.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">LEMONS IN BRIGHT SUN<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/bunny-griffeth/lemons-in-bright-sun/904045">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>If you could offer one piece of advice to your younger, creative self — what would that be? </b><br /><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> I would say to look for and take all the artist classes that you can. <br /><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Do you utilize any habits or tricks for winning the distraction and procrastination battle? </b><br /><br />One of the things that helped me the most is to have a special place for painting with whatever you need to make you feel comfortable that’s all ready to go. Setting up is tedious. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVu76nRyZ5hZF8N5i1pIrsHtKCi8E2eTwFKgBvfKvk0gfVt8rv7FKmcIlXUU8YqTPZqir4gDXWrHs_D0_lvbQzd8P9VCQ95mrkiruThmxBNStfI7jj-NvjMj4viCT9Nucx0_RZ_SqP380yOrOCraIJXfv2KN12LQrEZj2wx6cqwRWXkOsHUYHiIDdV/s999/Shih%20tzu%20Dog%20.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="999" data-original-width="720" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVu76nRyZ5hZF8N5i1pIrsHtKCi8E2eTwFKgBvfKvk0gfVt8rv7FKmcIlXUU8YqTPZqir4gDXWrHs_D0_lvbQzd8P9VCQ95mrkiruThmxBNStfI7jj-NvjMj4viCT9Nucx0_RZ_SqP380yOrOCraIJXfv2KN12LQrEZj2wx6cqwRWXkOsHUYHiIDdV/w289-h400/Shih%20tzu%20Dog%20.jpg" width="289" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Shih tzu Dog <br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/bunny-griffeth/shih-tzu-dog-/881643">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>In moments of self-doubt or adversity, how do you push forward? </b><br /><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">If you love doing something you will push forward! Having a goal helps. When I retired I had a goal to make a blog for selling my artwork. I spent a lot of time researching everything that had to do with blogging. After a year I was contacted to do the children’s illustrations in a book already approved for publication. I think our first reaction to something we’ve never done before is to doubt. If you believe in yourself and take a step forward, God meets you the rest of the way. <br /><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>What are some of your long and short term goals for yourself or your art? </b><br /><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I love to paint and it’s meditative and enjoyable. Just to be able to keep doing what I’m doing!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLcPxU5r8NnSWe1aBcd_wVjcrTmgrDClun1Ou1thAQoEq4v1y0BCs-Cz4LQB88GmfKg2MDnElpb9IbRUGPtYNTfwGVmX_8vWcRTKwVyOI0QxJcaP03fakTWPgFyvnLbnycydMOEwkwL592HhYAgOeFmT_6cjVS-rSm9JfS85llxYD5UerlPH2ZN4YH/s1000/Basking%20in%20the%20Sun.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="786" data-original-width="1000" height="315" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLcPxU5r8NnSWe1aBcd_wVjcrTmgrDClun1Ou1thAQoEq4v1y0BCs-Cz4LQB88GmfKg2MDnElpb9IbRUGPtYNTfwGVmX_8vWcRTKwVyOI0QxJcaP03fakTWPgFyvnLbnycydMOEwkwL592HhYAgOeFmT_6cjVS-rSm9JfS85llxYD5UerlPH2ZN4YH/w400-h315/Basking%20in%20the%20Sun.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Basking in the Sun<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/bunny-griffeth/basking-in-the-sun/828301">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>What does success mean to you personally? </b><br /><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I think having people that love my work gives me incentive, and seeing how it makes them happy. I’ve heard a lot of interesting stories about paintings I did that just touched them. One was a starling bird that I loved for the reflections on his wings in the sunlight, and the woman who bought it told me a whole story of how she rescued her starling bird and it didn’t want to leave when it was ready. It sits on her shoulder and it talks, she said. <br /><br /><b> What is one of your proudest moments in your creative life? </b><br /><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">My first book that I illustrated was doing ‘The WaterFire Duck’ with the author Kiki Latimer. Working with artist Barnaby Evans who originated the WaterFire installation was an honor. The book’s initial debut was at WaterFire in Providence. I had been on Block Island with the art group and I got home with the newspaper calling me for an interview, and a message from the news station who wanted to do an interview with the author and I. It was very exciting. <br /><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">WaterFire is an art installation that spans the whole Providence River and thousands throng there in the summer months. They play beautiful music through speakers along the river and there are fires burning all along -- so you have all of your senses involved. They have boats with volunteers who replace the wood throughout the night, and gondola rides and boat rides. There’s all kinds of other activities going on in the city surrounding the river, depending on what the theme is of the night. <br /><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Kiki and I were honored to light the fires that night, with these giant torches in a procession through the crowds gathered there. It began with a huge gong, and then one by one the braziers were lit in a ceremonial fashion as the eerie but beautiful music played. <br /> <br />Here’s a 4 minute video you might enjoy: <a href="https://youtu.be/veCJonVElq0">https://youtu.be/veCJonVElq0</a> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeope6AfgG2z_-Tny8gI90oPz2HDcBa6_fpi0X5ANrrSCMKZIGuV8VId_ndD1_VDaLcOZFMllRIQrux7iF3XCSWrtejVxyIuFFa5q1j2_GTF7JQsEPbrmhjApnimhesLpyQNsQb78iJO_4koqLeoVLXzywmg-FALf6IMR_R0XnsPKYdghrdM41Y0Uj/s1000/SHORELINE%20SUNSET.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="770" data-original-width="1000" height="308" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeope6AfgG2z_-Tny8gI90oPz2HDcBa6_fpi0X5ANrrSCMKZIGuV8VId_ndD1_VDaLcOZFMllRIQrux7iF3XCSWrtejVxyIuFFa5q1j2_GTF7JQsEPbrmhjApnimhesLpyQNsQb78iJO_4koqLeoVLXzywmg-FALf6IMR_R0XnsPKYdghrdM41Y0Uj/w400-h308/SHORELINE%20SUNSET.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">SHORELINE SUNSET<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/bunny-griffeth/shoreline-sunset/964310">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><div><b>Thanks, Bunny!</b></div><div><br /></div><div>© 2022 Maddie Marine</div></div></div>Maddiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12080891613292159584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8984607510148246137.post-57105829035946642742022-04-14T21:59:00.001-07:002022-04-14T21:59:00.194-07:00DPW Spotlight Interview: Daphne Boder<p> <i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Each week we will spotlight a different DPW artist who will give away one of their best paintings. To enter to win Daphne's painting "Yellow Bush" go to Daily Paintworks and click on the link at the top of the page announcing their interview.</i></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;"><b>ARTIST’S STATEMENT</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-tVRM22RvERuK2nlkQha20z--x8tOboH_XnR9yDivMF7pIWK1dcr5ZjyTKqWofZLbgHkiqszdGQb4NGIiieiVqbQGvh-PsGGu6C0LMt3hpBhxcddtePEQSA1kl127Nv0lpCovzLQ3MCuqwYziFZNw0OLWPH9UynXLSjNzvstB5185Zl0uyIPCkgR0/s400/Bio.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="332" data-original-width="400" height="166" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-tVRM22RvERuK2nlkQha20z--x8tOboH_XnR9yDivMF7pIWK1dcr5ZjyTKqWofZLbgHkiqszdGQb4NGIiieiVqbQGvh-PsGGu6C0LMt3hpBhxcddtePEQSA1kl127Nv0lpCovzLQ3MCuqwYziFZNw0OLWPH9UynXLSjNzvstB5185Zl0uyIPCkgR0/w200-h166/Bio.jpeg" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;"><i>Fresh. Light. Creation. Warmth. Peaceful. Joyful. Contrast. Surprise.</i></span><span style="color: #222222;"><br /></span><span style="color: #222222;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">These are words that describe what I want my paintings to convey. There are beautiful places and spaces that go unnoticed and overlooked. Painting opens my eyes to see what might not be noticed as I walk along a path. But when a piece of landscape is captured on paper with soft pastels I elevate the overlooked and unnoticed to a memorable and special status.<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg63GBl10R7yM3A_gbAk9w2CcjN9c4NwARuVGjlMN_AGWha3o474ZjDsSOhbViN1d1grG0P_TgaPgkEsdZTvcP111co7ryzILZ0WhoueKP_pjqTIrTLdduPHSPLnijOOmssro8eeM9Qc3Oz3B7TDf_dstlKFQKff6NKk0U4FdrBDWSr1WtMwh1eGm9B/s999/Yellow%20Bush.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="813" data-original-width="999" height="325" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg63GBl10R7yM3A_gbAk9w2CcjN9c4NwARuVGjlMN_AGWha3o474ZjDsSOhbViN1d1grG0P_TgaPgkEsdZTvcP111co7ryzILZ0WhoueKP_pjqTIrTLdduPHSPLnijOOmssro8eeM9Qc3Oz3B7TDf_dstlKFQKff6NKk0U4FdrBDWSr1WtMwh1eGm9B/w400-h325/Yellow%20Bush.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yellow Bush<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/daphne-boder/yellow-bush/954453">(click to view)<br /></a><br />Enter to win by clicking on the link at the top of the DPW home page announcing interview<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><b>What did you want to be growing up? </b></div><div><br /></div><div>I always did want to be an artist. When I was in elementary school my best friend enjoyed writing so we decided I would illustrate her stories. In high school I was the school newspaper artist and took private lessons. But for some reason I decided to major in political science. Big mistake. So in my junior year I changed my major to art and then after that year I went to the Art Institute of Pittsburgh. </div><div> </div><div><b>When did your artistic journey begin? </b></div><div><br /></div><div>After finishing school I worked for printers in production art design and layout and began working seriously in watercolors. </div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZiIwUg937cly2uslPcKfNovp-pN2FBH0tSW2VJT-yWlwCspiutDfz2omTiWaQoCwd_duPc1PxscReCZEynGDl9-k1ewJ3AoJwr-u0xFAQGkCj4_yImQAt_8YbvwsLSwuZMalpRo1yhHOie4gVXE3qLVVhnsb1NQLpX3GKnw0aKNPa3W9wQ417S45O/s999/Bright%20Path.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="760" data-original-width="999" height="304" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZiIwUg937cly2uslPcKfNovp-pN2FBH0tSW2VJT-yWlwCspiutDfz2omTiWaQoCwd_duPc1PxscReCZEynGDl9-k1ewJ3AoJwr-u0xFAQGkCj4_yImQAt_8YbvwsLSwuZMalpRo1yhHOie4gVXE3qLVVhnsb1NQLpX3GKnw0aKNPa3W9wQ417S45O/w400-h304/Bright%20Path.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bright Path<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/daphne-boder/bright-path/883871">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><div><b>Did you have any long periods without creative expression? How did you get back on the horse?</b></div><div><br /></div><div>While I was raising children I put the paints away. And then when everyone went away to school I began tiptoeing back into various artistic mediums. I began an art journal and that led to monoprinting. Finally my son, who was working in an art gallery at the time, showed me some paintings and said they were soft pastels. I immediately went and purchased some inexpensive ones and some paper and I have never looked back. That was about 5 years ago.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Which mediums and genres do you gravitate toward? Which ones don’t appeal?</b></div><div><br /></div><div>I love soft pastels. I love not having to mix color. The color is immediately available. I also enjoy watercolors and I have been experimenting with oil and cold wax. I am a committed landscape painter and I have done some still life. I am not interested yet in portraits. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCLTXb_Iw4ncoolYCBJudwF-6c8v9LARQJn6aXkaXpwukZDCN62iWtAzQhX7AamptmOgHJeprJGUwp6zsa3TxdpXCYlwBg2wTwzVM1aaaVj3ZvE7DzB5e1I0lvhbBXxNCIw2hPsTGFEjbxcajZXCyev0e5KGrhL2cSfFf30sl1OBx47XeREHTfRpj8/s999/Distant%20Storm.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="999" data-original-width="987" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCLTXb_Iw4ncoolYCBJudwF-6c8v9LARQJn6aXkaXpwukZDCN62iWtAzQhX7AamptmOgHJeprJGUwp6zsa3TxdpXCYlwBg2wTwzVM1aaaVj3ZvE7DzB5e1I0lvhbBXxNCIw2hPsTGFEjbxcajZXCyev0e5KGrhL2cSfFf30sl1OBx47XeREHTfRpj8/w395-h400/Distant%20Storm.jpg" width="395" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Distant Storm<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/daphne-boder/distant-storm/968742">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><div><b>What was the process like of pinpointing your personal style or finding your voice? </b></div><div><br /></div><div>I think there is nothing like painting daily, or at least 5 out of 7 days. I read Carol Marine’s book, Daily Painting, which made so much sense to me. Oddly enough, the pandemic has been part of that process. There wasn’t much else to do! I thank God for that time. I also think that taking workshops from artists I admire has made a huge impact. Learning from master pastelists has given me the tools to explore and given me the freedom to ask the questions, “What if I tried this?” </div><div> </div><div><b>Name an artist (or artists), well-known or not, who you admire. Why? </b></div><div><br /></div><div>I admire Winslow Homer and Andrew Wyeth. These two come to my mind first. There are many contemporary artists whose work I love as well: David Lidbetter, Russell Chatham, Tony Allain, Marla Baggetta, Lyn Asselta, Teresa Saia, Alain Picard…there are so many! How much space do I have? </div><div> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj86uQU4HKdDmiAj9D1VPIu10aOWspzDK1vVwGM7VhUTxgXUXaPd8ldOyywd3ywJOkGYQybiU8pevMRNitM-DcJdnnnskW4jdk7gm5H69gdieUsyls4W6cunM6z8PNnhDAbLgbotdSswqDkcBFOkLsMstLVKEo6w6Xhx9553lV_3MHpiHja84IJ9v5e/s999/Beginnings%20of%20Fall.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="999" data-original-width="764" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj86uQU4HKdDmiAj9D1VPIu10aOWspzDK1vVwGM7VhUTxgXUXaPd8ldOyywd3ywJOkGYQybiU8pevMRNitM-DcJdnnnskW4jdk7gm5H69gdieUsyls4W6cunM6z8PNnhDAbLgbotdSswqDkcBFOkLsMstLVKEo6w6Xhx9553lV_3MHpiHja84IJ9v5e/w306-h400/Beginnings%20of%20Fall.jpg" width="306" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beginnings of Fall<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/daphne-boder/beginnings-of-fall/931176">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div><b>If you could offer one piece of advice to your younger, creative self — what would that be? </b></div><div><br /></div><div>Don’t be afraid! </div><div> </div><div><b>Do you utilize any habits or tricks for winning the distraction and procrastination battle? </b></div><div><br /></div><div>For some reason, I feel like all the busy-ness of a day needs to be dealt with before I can get started. I can’t have anything hanging around in my head that I need to do before I paint. Clear the deck, so to speak, so there can be no distraction, nothing else calling my name. </div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfZLHZt8dqUTIU6uXCjOzdZe6nJyCpqURWEZZhKOqNQWPnvPR6URNHW1oUXTHlzunwb1Bf1fkEYwpbcDRtQ_g6B4R3A7wdpjs2_S1fmKzaxrVLdXg_ILHnVmxaGLWvLRwhTKzx_WSr7-lw3AyijdXsK4QAn7uCu9Q1a8J_QdHfFTeI7YU1_dc4gNu8/s1000/Winter%20Bones.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="769" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfZLHZt8dqUTIU6uXCjOzdZe6nJyCpqURWEZZhKOqNQWPnvPR6URNHW1oUXTHlzunwb1Bf1fkEYwpbcDRtQ_g6B4R3A7wdpjs2_S1fmKzaxrVLdXg_ILHnVmxaGLWvLRwhTKzx_WSr7-lw3AyijdXsK4QAn7uCu9Q1a8J_QdHfFTeI7YU1_dc4gNu8/w308-h400/Winter%20Bones.jpg" width="308" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Winter Bones<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/daphne-boder/winter-bones/971680">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><div><b>In moments of self-doubt or adversity, how do you push forward?</b></div><div><br /></div><div>I remind myself that this is not something unique to me. Every artist must confront those thoughts. So if they can continue, so can I. So in those times of self doubt I will work on something more familiar rather than try something brand new. That way I am protecting myself from further discouragement. </div><div><br /></div><div><b>What are some of your long and short term goals for yourself or your art?</b></div><div><br /></div><div>I want to become a Signature member of the Pastel Society of America. That’s a long term goal. In the short term, I work towards submitting art for local and national juried exhibitions. I think those two goals keep me striving for the best I can do. And personally, I want to continue to produce work that reflects the beauty all around us. </div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmBxwUnVqIFwNHG9_yCvOQFE4yXC4JIwc622VLFEGw2AerF5soXPTL7mo0UpLDDdI2YMcNywZLU5_ItawAk25j8e4ezaDW96UdfHN6AF1_sm2rwCM6ABKZMDjFEXmX3kJ75IEA1kt4PBpk5y9MFhU4zOkddGzl2q6v52Wu00HDtuhI8-6qciF6Ts5K/s999/Pond%20Sparkles%20.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="999" data-original-width="789" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmBxwUnVqIFwNHG9_yCvOQFE4yXC4JIwc622VLFEGw2AerF5soXPTL7mo0UpLDDdI2YMcNywZLU5_ItawAk25j8e4ezaDW96UdfHN6AF1_sm2rwCM6ABKZMDjFEXmX3kJ75IEA1kt4PBpk5y9MFhU4zOkddGzl2q6v52Wu00HDtuhI8-6qciF6Ts5K/w316-h400/Pond%20Sparkles%20.jpg" width="316" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pond Sparkles<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/daphne-boder/pond-sparkles-/988379">(click to view)</a><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>What does success mean to you personally? </b></div><div><br /></div><div>When someone buys a painting and tells me they can imagine themselves in that place or that the landscape calls them out to explore for themselves, that means so much to me. One buyer told me when she opened the package the painting brought tears to her eyes. That’s success. </div><div> </div><div><b>What is one of your proudest moments in your creative life?</b></div><div><br /></div><div>Being invited to be A Spotlight Artist is pretty special. I have received a couple of Awards of Excellence. Those were proud moments, also. I think when folks purchase a painting, that might be the best success of all. </div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjmXfVPxv7egVjZ9tzOL2GyiWoIOa7_Poh921aWo4TX7wsaDTyFO9s8hQmgKEAxeA56QnHeC7BTTce0KDB5nAhHH4yomiribybLOk_fk_-3MtglNaAYV4Cwasj_9jJ8aAi97HhmqsF2kCsSPBY5jg0kL77XXCKdoH-XhbbfR5yHOLWYo_fQVLguGK-/s999/Spring!.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="678" data-original-width="999" height="271" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjmXfVPxv7egVjZ9tzOL2GyiWoIOa7_Poh921aWo4TX7wsaDTyFO9s8hQmgKEAxeA56QnHeC7BTTce0KDB5nAhHH4yomiribybLOk_fk_-3MtglNaAYV4Cwasj_9jJ8aAi97HhmqsF2kCsSPBY5jg0kL77XXCKdoH-XhbbfR5yHOLWYo_fQVLguGK-/w400-h271/Spring!.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Spring!<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/daphne-boder/spring!/986583">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><div><b>Thanks, Daphne!</b></div><div><br /></div><div>© 2022 Maddie Marine</div></div></div>Maddiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12080891613292159584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8984607510148246137.post-17739903544303532382022-03-31T20:59:00.002-07:002022-03-31T20:59:00.187-07:00DPW Spotlight Interview: Kirsten Elson<p><i style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Each week we will spotlight a different DPW artist who will give away one of their best paintings. To enter to win Kirsten's painting "</span></span></i><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><i>Prickly Situation</i></span></span><i style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">" go to Daily Paintworks and click on the link at the top of the page announcing their interview. </span></span></i></p><p><b><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 13.2px;">From Kirsten's DPW Gallery Page:</span> <br /></b></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd3zH42_yA6bdEoW1_-hGxqxbhF0oYIn0jlCr8X4YSk73uuHSu1tn-BjewxAm5uRMsTldsKaMSVt8mzyrLpNdOVAyG7fnt0GGl88krLJ4WcyKP88s0a3rvyGXavk0A9P2j9MIfbcOVdmCTkcg1qp6qlf4YNEudkl8-GCQFETiud2yWq0u7s4oUAgMm/s400/Bio.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="383" data-original-width="400" height="191" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd3zH42_yA6bdEoW1_-hGxqxbhF0oYIn0jlCr8X4YSk73uuHSu1tn-BjewxAm5uRMsTldsKaMSVt8mzyrLpNdOVAyG7fnt0GGl88krLJ4WcyKP88s0a3rvyGXavk0A9P2j9MIfbcOVdmCTkcg1qp6qlf4YNEudkl8-GCQFETiud2yWq0u7s4oUAgMm/w200-h191/Bio.jpeg" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">In another lifetime, I was a weather forecaster.</span><p></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-f1e8d199-7fff-880a-9923-e138a7361639"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I ended up there by my love of the thunderstorms I grew up watching in Colorado, and the ever-present need to make ends meet in life. But my heart was elsewhere, listening to thunder and drawing everything I see around me. Feeling that "line-to-mind" connection with objects, people, and nature is vital to me. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I am currently a math tutor for middle and high school students. I love doing it, but after about 10 years, my introvert self aches to be in the paint room at my house, sun splayed across my desk, dog beside me in his cozy cave, planning another painting. It's my heaven on earth and I thank God for letting me feel that.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Along came Carol Marine's daily painting movement and it is exactly what I needed. It has made the difference in getting me to pick up a paintbrush and get going! </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Oh, and I love a good podcast for accompaniment to painting! </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-c1a8102f-7fff-f49f-424a-1441a1eab79f"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAdocbTZp5CX70vHkqh29cfDKi45sICNmfZGYEYrkNCGlZYnRPuCVbhnkmE_ocQgBKz8Fk6e6uAHtokOuXnpCorcLocteKSSrzfMUluAqahbFhrhJ22u2EzlVNVTXamPkGe3287eI0mCX9dIKlBqmIQQSe7kPegf2BOQXr_MxmpWwhDVVWGt3u1CbK/s1000/Prickly%20Situation.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="988" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAdocbTZp5CX70vHkqh29cfDKi45sICNmfZGYEYrkNCGlZYnRPuCVbhnkmE_ocQgBKz8Fk6e6uAHtokOuXnpCorcLocteKSSrzfMUluAqahbFhrhJ22u2EzlVNVTXamPkGe3287eI0mCX9dIKlBqmIQQSe7kPegf2BOQXr_MxmpWwhDVVWGt3u1CbK/w395-h400/Prickly%20Situation.jpg" width="395" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Prickly Situation<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/6671cc0b-e7a4-4d56-bbae-4269daa84ab1">(click to view)<br /></a><br />Enter to win by clicking on the link at the top of the DPW home page announcing interview<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>What did you want to be growing up? </b></span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Geez. I can’t remember that, it’s been eons. Early on, I wanted to be Elvis Presley’s girlfriend but time and wisdom have helped me realize I dodged a bullet there! I always loved expression through art though. As a senior in high school, I decided to go to my local Art Institute because I had no idea what to do. I loved that experience; I graduated and started at the bottom in an advertising profession. Lack of confidence and low pay turned me toward college again, and I was driven by my love of a good thunderstorm to get my degree in atmospheric sciences. Art and creativity were always in my heart though.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>When did your artistic journey begin? </b></span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Most likely, my artistic journey began in second grade. Mrs. Shively wanted us to make stick puppets for a class performance of “The Three Billy Goats Gruff.” She would choose the best puppets for the play. She kept saying “make them big; they need to be big.” I made this big fat billy goat. She chose him for the play, and that first sense of “wow, I got chosen” possessed me.</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY2eTNPPg0s4zS-zLsRlwbtLQz-jF2pCC_edBoOKwCTjW8Heg0CUi85hed7ox3gad1jPl9kxSiKINR9b5J36oSYGjzg2F-8C3O-UwOXJkvDt5RrfjMmqFvjwMWWrZ5YSBFwFLvuaNnh_FOhfohxti63SegyFhAelj8kFvCsIl6VOAlD9vVpEL5ztFr/s999/Hayden%20Flies.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="999" data-original-width="912" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY2eTNPPg0s4zS-zLsRlwbtLQz-jF2pCC_edBoOKwCTjW8Heg0CUi85hed7ox3gad1jPl9kxSiKINR9b5J36oSYGjzg2F-8C3O-UwOXJkvDt5RrfjMmqFvjwMWWrZ5YSBFwFLvuaNnh_FOhfohxti63SegyFhAelj8kFvCsIl6VOAlD9vVpEL5ztFr/w365-h400/Hayden%20Flies.jpg" width="365" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hayden Flies<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/kirsten-elson/hayden-flies/981035">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Did you have any long periods without creative expression? How did you get back on the horse?</b></span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I have had long periods without artistic expression. Being a person who tends toward depression at times, I have to remind myself to get drawing as a way to get out of a hole. I always felt I was not a painter, though, and that has only changed in the past couple of years. Carol Marine’s method and book, Daily Painting have helped me immensely. I wouldn’t be painting if I hadn’t stumbled across it. Primarily, I prayed to God to let me do well at this thing I love. So, for the record, thank you Mrs. Shively, Carol Marine, and God. You all helped bring me to this awesome place of considering myself a painter.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Which mediums and genres do you gravitate toward? Which ones don’t appeal?</b></span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I love oil painting. I used acrylics briefly but was drawn back to oils when I discovered the odorless solvents really were odorless! I was on a long stint of drawing with ball-point pens, and I still love the challenge of making something nice from an ordinary medium that is literally pennies to purchase. I dabbled with encaustics too, and will do that again. I can’t do pastels. I love the results they give, but I have some sensory “freak outs”, and I can’t stand the dust on my hands. Genre-wise, I love just about everything. Abstracts usually have to work hard to catch my eye though.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2F3ELp3TqJgRzKxGnOW-ucopXqNIBnOynGmLeli1JtIgoNiN8fHz6uoHr5ht9f38NyTjfycXJNvppafCa2vBSjTjv28p_L_fVuCUzd_f1pr7Ndk4AFRiIfMemlAd_ED9jE3eQgD7kZm1kJal0rSrvDb_Wa-cOF9CSPsp09K9Ab2SPEwnFD8q96IBN/s1000/Aaron.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="995" data-original-width="1000" height="398" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2F3ELp3TqJgRzKxGnOW-ucopXqNIBnOynGmLeli1JtIgoNiN8fHz6uoHr5ht9f38NyTjfycXJNvppafCa2vBSjTjv28p_L_fVuCUzd_f1pr7Ndk4AFRiIfMemlAd_ED9jE3eQgD7kZm1kJal0rSrvDb_Wa-cOF9CSPsp09K9Ab2SPEwnFD8q96IBN/w400-h398/Aaron.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Aaron<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/kirsten-elson/aaron/981078">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>What was the process like of pinpointing your personal style or finding your voice? </b></span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I’m still in that process, so I can’t really say in a definitive way. I’m trying to loosen up but I tend to veer back to more realistic, so that’s always a struggle. I did portraits of my immediate family with close-ups of them making goofy faces. I like a non-conventional approach and want to stick to the fun side of representing people and things, but I also work with what people ask me to paint. I don’t know if I really see a specific style yet, but I ‘m working on it.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Name an artist (or artists), well-known or not, who you admire. Why?</b></span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I love Z.Z. Wei’s work. His paintings are magical. He has focused on a geographical area that I adore, the Palouse region of eastern Washington. His paintings are friendly and they go about their business, but somehow…they like you back at the same time that you are liking them. There is so much personality in a Z.Z. painting! I have several framed gallery posters of Wei’s work but have had them up so long, they are fading. I have loved them into the realm of the Velveteen Rabbit!</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b></b></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb2Yr33m26hZn1aGKRRHKa9YeBnI5Lg-_RfiNb2IaGBB33-Z8Exu_XbBbW-s_3kDgGt4FLiDIXV-QHGejUT6yTI6HPyIEkXZMdrJFO-I6QehyGGLMLlIBo5nnY-RMFJuj4npVhobBjtbivvGaZNQ7V-McyBn6Dq-760t5MGefpMJ-2KhuttnDEisCX/s999/Pico.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="984" data-original-width="999" height="394" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb2Yr33m26hZn1aGKRRHKa9YeBnI5Lg-_RfiNb2IaGBB33-Z8Exu_XbBbW-s_3kDgGt4FLiDIXV-QHGejUT6yTI6HPyIEkXZMdrJFO-I6QehyGGLMLlIBo5nnY-RMFJuj4npVhobBjtbivvGaZNQ7V-McyBn6Dq-760t5MGefpMJ-2KhuttnDEisCX/w400-h394/Pico.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pico<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/kirsten-elson/pico/981601">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>
If you could offer one piece of advice to your younger, creative self — what would that be? </b></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Do competitions, take the time to paint, give up the cheesy television shows that you will forget in a month! Paint, paint, paint! If you love it, you’ve got to do it always! And don’t be afraid to show people.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Do you utilize any habits or tricks for winning the distraction and procrastination battle? </b></span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">My pup, Jasper, wants to be in the sunny, warm studio while I paint. He is pushy and insistent. If I don’t get in there early enough, he comes up beside and me flips my elbow in the air with his nose - repeatedly. It’s incredibly annoying and the only way I can get him to stop is to get painting. On a more practical level, I suppose I compartmentalize. If I don’t feel like standing and painting, maybe I’ll watch a movie while transferring an idea to a board via grid. I try to break painting into more than one task to be done in more than one spot. Don’t want to clean the garage? There might be an unexpected still life just waiting to happen in there. You never know…</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxX0ymPoL0XXljz_VuEBZdR3nPJ2IDVwxkvbbBgTgvM7dzW31tF_rSeHYEFo7xhmxfRFrUHilaT0LwgvD7EAHhAFxegdnd1QbXuuNESUNSsnEsRk70zjuFAwWmZ7d2ESSjETiQVjFgHLBq2q04gdcn2thuWSEsiMVLUZItq3UXM0cqXVEg5IEsZeQ5/s1000/Jasper.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="741" data-original-width="1000" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxX0ymPoL0XXljz_VuEBZdR3nPJ2IDVwxkvbbBgTgvM7dzW31tF_rSeHYEFo7xhmxfRFrUHilaT0LwgvD7EAHhAFxegdnd1QbXuuNESUNSsnEsRk70zjuFAwWmZ7d2ESSjETiQVjFgHLBq2q04gdcn2thuWSEsiMVLUZItq3UXM0cqXVEg5IEsZeQ5/w400-h296/Jasper.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jasper<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/kirsten-elson/jasper/981066">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>In moments of self-doubt or adversity, how do you push forward?</b></span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">If things just aren’t working for me, I make myself take a break even if I don’t want to. Conversely, if I’m not getting the time to myself to paint, I make some paint time for myself. I guess I’m just kind to myself as needed (and probably too often). I know there are going to be dry days. I can tell you this: I wipe a finished painting at least a couple times a week.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>What are some of your long and short term goals for yourself or your art?</b></span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Short term goals include moving up in size to 10x10’s and then maybe 16x20’s (joking, but not entirely)! Long term, I would love to actually get some works into a real, storefront gallery. Also, I am relocating to the center of the country soon, and looking forward to trying some sweeping Great Plains landscapes.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmffbRU92RZNnlrgzXeHiMW9e7VEUZ8F4TkThc9rFALLmkbeoeRrujtnmWutUWaFNXv8ghgwe4ajrA5BhUGwlXJ6A_MyAJr3CpOfqyK8Ogua8ef99W5n8BO0JHNEJnlIcvUxY7vIVJbH9mIoV4HAoIvpSeu7UzM1wl3V0-gjj7KiWG4puZuNbG6s2b/s999/Cool%20Stream.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="999" data-original-width="989" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmffbRU92RZNnlrgzXeHiMW9e7VEUZ8F4TkThc9rFALLmkbeoeRrujtnmWutUWaFNXv8ghgwe4ajrA5BhUGwlXJ6A_MyAJr3CpOfqyK8Ogua8ef99W5n8BO0JHNEJnlIcvUxY7vIVJbH9mIoV4HAoIvpSeu7UzM1wl3V0-gjj7KiWG4puZuNbG6s2b/w396-h400/Cool%20Stream.jpg" width="396" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cool Stream<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/kirsten-elson/cool-stream/986701">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>What does success mean to you personally?</b></span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Loving what I am doing (really LOVING IT) and being able to make others happy at the same time. It’s fun to surprise people with paintings. I love being alone in the sunny room with the dog, listening to a good podcast and making art that will please someone. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>What is one of your proudest moments in your creative life?</b></span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I’m pretty sure that day in Mrs. Shively’s class was right up there! Actually, a good moment for me was when my dad asked me for the URL to my gallery page. He heard rumblings about it in the family and wanted to see it. That made me feel pretty good.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Thanks for the platform for those of us who are late bloomers and introverted about our work. DPW has changed a lot for me, and I appreciate it!</span></span></p><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRuMAUq-sBlWxUo7-xd9Aij1bgnydBbmJFc30IpJvHrFdPW2gicSAbPAETWBi1QKlLfykxXJEqQK7WSPDi-PPQGfw5LB_LPQQrGXQ0dKA7EFny_TGC8yb2hiJK_u7wK14ib_aJ49Cf3NbP4LouSJB9Cuc2jEIRzXA44cB9TEDs7pWtaWxlQcvz9qih/s1000/Patio%20Party%201.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="993" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRuMAUq-sBlWxUo7-xd9Aij1bgnydBbmJFc30IpJvHrFdPW2gicSAbPAETWBi1QKlLfykxXJEqQK7WSPDi-PPQGfw5LB_LPQQrGXQ0dKA7EFny_TGC8yb2hiJK_u7wK14ib_aJ49Cf3NbP4LouSJB9Cuc2jEIRzXA44cB9TEDs7pWtaWxlQcvz9qih/w398-h400/Patio%20Party%201.jpg" width="398" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Patio Party 1<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/kirsten-elson/patio-party-1/988181">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><div><div><b>Thanks, Kirsten!</b></div><div><br /></div><div>© 2022 Maddie Marine</div></div>Maddiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12080891613292159584noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8984607510148246137.post-77927507692649460222022-03-24T21:59:00.002-07:002022-03-24T23:24:11.644-07:00DPW Spotlight Interview: Sarah Maccario<p> <i style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Each week we will spotlight a different DPW artist who will give away one of their best paintings. To enter to win Sarah Maccario's painting "La Montagne Sainte Victoire bleu lilas" go to Daily Paintworks and click on the link at the top of the page announcing their interview.</span></span></i></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWIpmJ106Wlg7jjLXdbLLwRhycR0BMKIVu4diJ6kcZJ5jTP86THhgE3tB_YRyT3K2gxNdkfI02kzwmaaYQtIKif_4mcFjOdTesd6SJanxoJ5WUihHbdX6uQafyB-UZm2JfVQ3wwMa3lJsZCtKb4eTMbCZhx6DYjMPliGxBeo7zlnR5cbRtqy9K_6is/s400/Bio.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="400" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWIpmJ106Wlg7jjLXdbLLwRhycR0BMKIVu4diJ6kcZJ5jTP86THhgE3tB_YRyT3K2gxNdkfI02kzwmaaYQtIKif_4mcFjOdTesd6SJanxoJ5WUihHbdX6uQafyB-UZm2JfVQ3wwMa3lJsZCtKb4eTMbCZhx6DYjMPliGxBeo7zlnR5cbRtqy9K_6is/w200-h200/Bio.jpeg" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">An Introduction from </b><span style="color: #222222;"><b>Sarah Maccario:</b></span></span><p></p><p><span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b></b></span></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;">Hello I’m Sarah and I’m delighted to have been invited to be DPW’s Spotlight Artist. I’m British and I live in the South of France with my French husband, Georges, in a small village near Aix-en-Provence. Painting for me is a kind of creative visual diary, a way to express myself and share the poetry of life. We live near Cezanne’s famous muse, La Montagne Sainte Victoire. I’ve been enjoying documenting my surroundings through painting the beautiful countryside and also aspects of everyday life. I’m just building up a new body of work including some pieces which I will no doubt share on Daily Paintworks.</span></span></div><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio4960p6c55zerhNoZ8JtZjkWjlKIltsVR6keH0N8NzBlL9Jewv43cmC4u3FG2U-P6xzPeqolWVhO8ECl26vH9Fn-Z96QRLSnWlPG2derMN3DSa2JSbcHRC1rY25zUEevN9fX2eCWvm7lrdE360hoq8pHy7_cJZ71osOwaz5YWePkQ5zMkCl4Ed9EU/s999/La%20Montagne%20Sainte%20Victoire%20bleu%20lilas.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="999" data-original-width="991" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio4960p6c55zerhNoZ8JtZjkWjlKIltsVR6keH0N8NzBlL9Jewv43cmC4u3FG2U-P6xzPeqolWVhO8ECl26vH9Fn-Z96QRLSnWlPG2derMN3DSa2JSbcHRC1rY25zUEevN9fX2eCWvm7lrdE360hoq8pHy7_cJZ71osOwaz5YWePkQ5zMkCl4Ed9EU/w396-h400/La%20Montagne%20Sainte%20Victoire%20bleu%20lilas.jpg" width="396" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">La Montagne Sainte Victoire bleu lilas<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/sarah-maccario/la-montagne-sainte-victoire-bleu-lilas/960565">(click to view)<br /></a><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Enter to win by clicking on the link at the top of the DPW home page announcing interview</span></td></tr></tbody></table></p><p><b style="font-family: inherit;">What did you want to be growing up? </b></p><div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">I didn’t think too much about it. I was interested in many things, nature, wildlife, existential questions, all sorts. I liked to be outside and experience things, the weather, places. I liked art, making things, colour, pattern and writing. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>When did your artistic journey begin? </b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">When I was very young, I liked colouring, making mud sculptures and miniature gardens. I remember enjoying basket weaving, natural dyeing and embroidery using neon colours! At school in the 1960s and 70s, I discovered how much I enjoyed painting, drawing and modelling clay. Applying paint, evoking a feeling, a place, being transported and totally immersed, losing sense of time for a while. I particularly remember a book cover project, I painted Gondolas in Venice. I dreamt of painting giant cheese plant leaves on my bedroom walls. I also wanted to fill my bedroom to the brim with gossamer or coloured silks or ferns.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">I went to art school in my late teens and again twenty years later, which in fact is twenty years ago now! I loved doing the Foundation course and it was then I began to consider myself as an ‘Artist’ and really lived and breathed art for 4 life changing years at Winchester School of Art, part of the University of Southampton. I was so happy to finally get my Bachelors of Art Degree in Fine Art, Painting.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDor075wvDogkomV5QLxrYWMF5JCVWRvfLZPZboxxNkjYRA_V7SMMoxYs-q5j146BW22-1Q430ESqAxIDoQVGTFpCl4cyF-c3S4fHJMOSprWWBoFEhLHyU_BorUCbT9vBrsCwbjAKXnTSc1oQo3DQ9BNxDSnAXTpQDAHt3Zpts1VbuUHMjgpUfCLSl/s1000/Songe.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="777" data-original-width="1000" height="311" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDor075wvDogkomV5QLxrYWMF5JCVWRvfLZPZboxxNkjYRA_V7SMMoxYs-q5j146BW22-1Q430ESqAxIDoQVGTFpCl4cyF-c3S4fHJMOSprWWBoFEhLHyU_BorUCbT9vBrsCwbjAKXnTSc1oQo3DQ9BNxDSnAXTpQDAHt3Zpts1VbuUHMjgpUfCLSl/w400-h311/Songe.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Songe<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/sarah-maccario/songe/981227">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Did you have any long periods without creative expression? How did you get back on the horse?</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">I’ve always found creative outlets. I have painted intermittently throughout my life but there are many forms of art and ways to be creative. I have enjoyed gardening and making clothes at different times, photography and frequently, just doodling on the back of an envelope. I love travel and exploring so I’m never short of inspiration. Actually, Daily Paintworks has been a real motivation to paint frequently again and I’m enjoying seeing my painting develop.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Which mediums and genres do you gravitate toward? Which ones don’t appeal?</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">When we lived in Southampton, UK, I belonged to an art collective and had a large studio space for a few years alongside 15 or 20 artists. At that time, I made big works on wood panels or canvas using acrylic paints. I also made a lot of sculptures from found objects. When I was at art school, (for the second time around in 2002-6) I made lots of 3D work from plastic debris collected on the beach. Quite unusual at the time but our impact on the planet became concerning to me. Some of my sculptures were included in exhibitions in the South of England. I enjoy conceptual art too, sometimes you can get a big idea across without making an enormous artwork but then I like enormous artworks too! Currently I’m trying to find what appeals to others and aligns with my own ideas for Daily Paintworks. I’ve been quite experimental, using oils and trying different techniques but I’ve also started using acrylics again as I feel at home with them. I really would like to use eco-friendly paints. A few years ago, I made a collection of artworks on my iPhone, just using a basic painting app, for an exhibition about my home town, Southampton. It was fun drawing on my phone ‘en plein air’. I sometimes use watercolours or biros or markers or whatever’s around. Sand or pebbles on the beach. Fallen twigs in the park. An arrangement of wildflowers from a walk. Not all art lasts forever or even a day.</span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLa0EO5KNgIsr_LVS3EWEkFZXNgz-CTZsWTFbfL9k8FYZE_f8fytlftE1L6koJD_OskEkTc3dWd0kl66qw3QlIXmAHTOK9ikGeJF9yFYHBoO-kAk0dw8dbWRB1LswMfJwY9ptP_Fby75o5ZzNguluJM74JbxvYU_I8magh1I3ynI2gLEm75AnidtUR/s999/Les%20Trois%20Sages.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="999" data-original-width="766" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLa0EO5KNgIsr_LVS3EWEkFZXNgz-CTZsWTFbfL9k8FYZE_f8fytlftE1L6koJD_OskEkTc3dWd0kl66qw3QlIXmAHTOK9ikGeJF9yFYHBoO-kAk0dw8dbWRB1LswMfJwY9ptP_Fby75o5ZzNguluJM74JbxvYU_I8magh1I3ynI2gLEm75AnidtUR/w306-h400/Les%20Trois%20Sages.jpg" width="306" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Les Trois Sages<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/sarah-maccario/les-trois-sages/985702">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>What was the process like of pinpointing your personal style or finding your voice? </b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">I don’t think about it too much. It’s probably embedded anyway. I don’t really want to be defined as ‘the person who paints such and such….’ I like the freedom that art gives you if you take it. It’s interesting that famous artists are often known for a particular thing but actually they have a whole repertoire if you look deeper. Usually, I prefer to paint semi-abstract but for Daily Paintworks I was teaching myself to paint in oils again after using acrylics for so long so I tried a range of subject matter and style. I’ve always been quite experimental with techniques and approaches. Sometimes the work is just about an idea. I would be interested to know if viewers can see a connection in my Daily Paintworks paintings. Please do let me know.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">Now that we are living in the south of France again and near the majestic mountain St Victoire, Cezanne’s muse, I feel compelled to go out and sketch and paint some of the beautiful scenery. My artwork is a kind of visual diary, sharing some of my thoughts, favourite places and things around me in my daily paintings. Daily Paintworks is like Instagram or Twitter for Painters! Love seeing what others are up to.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Name an artist (or artists), well-known or not, who you admire. Why? </b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">There are so many artists I admire and I find new ones every week but broadly it's more 19th and 20th century painters British and French painters including John Singer Sargent, Gwen John, Toulouse Lautrec, French Impressionists, Matisse and Les Fauves, The Nabis, St Ives Artists, Prunella Clough and of course all the American Abstract Expressionists … I like them for different reasons, the brush strokes, the portrayal of light, the semi abstract forms, the outrageous or subdued use of colour or just the feeling I get looking at their work. I love very contemporary art too in all its forms and go to as many exhibitions as I can. At Art School we visited Paris and New York. I’ve been to the Venice Biennale twice and it’s awesome! So much art in all genres, film, installations, sculpture, drawing, performance. I loved Phyllida Barlow’s ‘Folly’ at the British Pavilion. Always good to champion women artists and there are plenty to choose from! There are many good artists on Daily Paintworks and I enjoy seeing the progression of another artist. I do buy artworks from other artists as do many of my artist friends. It’s important to support each other and also a privilege to have their work on my wall!</span></div><div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0sj6LFDrZpmhEgXwQZg5pdDkpyuMpfnznu6huc1oeJ0yJyC1QNIQnTIi5sXrvNOPpwGAoXBfmGGarKIVtmpmcxTss_bP0_O-Q15yc2Hgu-bksYNrEqmWNZwcfnP6-EZwUlCGDMGHZKwrJcU6AXj-B0jhWQWEsB0rh6ELUeqDP8d0DgHvYTDlgiUTe/s999/Jaune%20de%20Cadmium.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="999" data-original-width="993" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0sj6LFDrZpmhEgXwQZg5pdDkpyuMpfnznu6huc1oeJ0yJyC1QNIQnTIi5sXrvNOPpwGAoXBfmGGarKIVtmpmcxTss_bP0_O-Q15yc2Hgu-bksYNrEqmWNZwcfnP6-EZwUlCGDMGHZKwrJcU6AXj-B0jhWQWEsB0rh6ELUeqDP8d0DgHvYTDlgiUTe/w398-h400/Jaune%20de%20Cadmium.jpg" width="398" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jaune de Cadmium<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/sarah-maccario/jaune-de-cadmium/961721">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>If you could offer one piece of advice to your younger, creative self — what would that be?</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">‘Do an apprenticeship to get qualified in a creative profession so that you can fall back on that when you need to earn money!’ I’ve had endless, not very well-paid, part-time jobs to support my artistic career and haven’t been able to always offer myself the studio space or the amount of time needed to make my art. Mind you, I have had some interesting part time jobs, Grape Picker, CBS Records Receptionist, English as a Foreign Language Teacher, Railway Station Staff at Monaco, Librarian, Contemporary Art Gallery Assistant, Seamstress, to name a few. I’ve met some amazing people along the way. Sometimes I wish I was a qualified gardener/architect/clothes designer/graphic designer.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Do you utilize any habits or tricks for winning the distraction and procrastination battle? </b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">Try to get started early in the day on the creative mission. Don’t get distracted by the admin until later in the day! But here I am typing at 9am! Being a full-time artist involves about 10 different roles to support your art. It feels like you are doing 10 jobs simultaneously. Record keeping, photographer, social media, supplies coordinator, packaging and mailroom assistant, secretary… and that’s before you’ve picked up a paintbrush! It’s very difficult to stick to a strict routine making artwork.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinRxjsFJ81CrKozhvSyQt-YNVQ_tnq10uyNxwTeQFnyBacas1D4x6_t5kmz5bG8HulcPR5sjX8AvEM-WwcxXibzVVB27yExa1jwFUFGxeUBGxV2s1bYdqMZrvlM-k_9POIWE68DAfMtJJpi4DkaEha5qT4U_OvNlYmPB6dTjE93zIzxSO_8ASgML4-/s1000/Belle%20vue%20m%C3%A9diterran%C3%A9e.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="995" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinRxjsFJ81CrKozhvSyQt-YNVQ_tnq10uyNxwTeQFnyBacas1D4x6_t5kmz5bG8HulcPR5sjX8AvEM-WwcxXibzVVB27yExa1jwFUFGxeUBGxV2s1bYdqMZrvlM-k_9POIWE68DAfMtJJpi4DkaEha5qT4U_OvNlYmPB6dTjE93zIzxSO_8ASgML4-/w398-h400/Belle%20vue%20m%C3%A9diterran%C3%A9e.jpg" width="398" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Belle vue méditerranée<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/sarah-maccario/belle-vue-m%c3%a9diterran%c3%a9e/966778">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>In moments of self-doubt or adversity, how do you push forward? </b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">Either take a break or just keep going!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>What are some of your long and short term goals for yourself or your art? </b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">So it feels like I’ve been what they call an ‘emerging artist’ for years and I’m ready to become ‘established’ but realistically, I need a studio space again to do that. As my (French) husband and I moved back to France two years ago, I have had to start making new friends and finding my feet again in the French art world. I have artwork in a Gallery in Aix-en-Provence and I belong to two local art groups. I just participated in an exhibition (which generated sales) in our village, part of several related events on the theme of Water. Integrating into French life and becoming established as an artist are my main goals. There is a fair amount of paperwork involved too!</span></div><div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh95emHA58B2GoWOvNUbMpXirFL3AR8agJdA9n3jgne5SqZV2LRBzoTXwXa6DMmhgAF8V3ynK_UXZkJK9G_ST-W3NfHH6l-NucTSoQaFlwx1qy-sh7dHBr59YDCCbUNGPemzeRCZ0jriif6kxS1kLla3agSCIzxWeTR8hdwiCieprYJSHyEpFRzW7sC/s999/Figues%20de%20Barberie.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="999" data-original-width="988" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh95emHA58B2GoWOvNUbMpXirFL3AR8agJdA9n3jgne5SqZV2LRBzoTXwXa6DMmhgAF8V3ynK_UXZkJK9G_ST-W3NfHH6l-NucTSoQaFlwx1qy-sh7dHBr59YDCCbUNGPemzeRCZ0jriif6kxS1kLla3agSCIzxWeTR8hdwiCieprYJSHyEpFRzW7sC/w395-h400/Figues%20de%20Barberie.jpg" width="395" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Figues de Barberie<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/sarah-maccario/figues-de-barberie/964641">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>What does success mean to you personally? </b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">I have a love/hate relationship with the artworld. I worked in a gallery where artworks by Gerhard Richter were individually worth more than my house. Special paintings. I had to make sure people didn’t touch them! That feels like a different world of celebrity and excessive wealth. I’m not in that league and not particularly keen to be. I consider myself lucky to be an Artist and spend time making art. I suppose then that I would like to be totally self-supporting in my artistic endeavours and that my art is considered ‘valuable’ but I would prefer that it is because it offers a particular and original view of the world.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>What is one of your proudest moments in your creative life?</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">A few years ago, my home city, Southampton in the UK, was starting the process of submitting a bid for UK City of Culture 2025. I was invited, as a local Artist, to participate and create an artwork in response. I wanted to inspire people to get on board with the idea and I created an interactive map with supporting artworks to encourage people to reflect on all the creativity at grass roots level already extant in the city and to build on that. I am proud of my initial contribution to this ongoing, city-wide project and happy to say that Southampton has been longlisted to final 8! Although I live in France now, I really hope Southampton achieves City of Culture 2025 and I hope to participate in building and being a part of a creative community locally here in France. Art, especially at grass roots level and in this difficult time, is a panacea and more vital than ever, for everyone.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">Happy painting! Sarah x</span></div></div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWOMvc8OH808xz5HHygC_FJoGux88NZzqSpj8ZOeKFBXA_TW4UriBgoGTxyTOxKhjkjcuvafG-k0f_EZz_0CNF-myQjWwnMXxa6D7VUeOCFT5ccxv3kTs3X8YS07f7P6xyObQBOt3ThS0OPqlv_XkL6CAcdPZN2vucc0fojifkEas_nE9iRAuyhcXY/s999/Fleurs.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="999" data-original-width="979" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWOMvc8OH808xz5HHygC_FJoGux88NZzqSpj8ZOeKFBXA_TW4UriBgoGTxyTOxKhjkjcuvafG-k0f_EZz_0CNF-myQjWwnMXxa6D7VUeOCFT5ccxv3kTs3X8YS07f7P6xyObQBOt3ThS0OPqlv_XkL6CAcdPZN2vucc0fojifkEas_nE9iRAuyhcXY/w393-h400/Fleurs.jpg" width="393" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fleurs<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/sarah-maccario/fleurs/974367">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Thanks, Sarah!</b></div><div><br /></div><div>© 2022 Maddie Marine</div><div><br /></div>Maddiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12080891613292159584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8984607510148246137.post-11319236950903971042022-03-10T22:59:00.000-08:002022-03-10T22:59:00.212-08:00DPW Spotlight Interview: Tait Preis<p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Each week we will spotlight a different DPW artist who will give away one of their best paintings. To enter to win Tait's painting "Sun Bouquet" go to Daily Paintworks and click on the link at the top of the page announcing their interview.</i></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi9me9sLdrCqVtcXvzjW09h7fiJfXoFjlU6--n_H-MsZy68jtsTGUlOcS5HiOhZvlACS3GG2fVRNWsVovwXyB_4EtVf2v46T4PbqvKm7pIj-mLwgwHpogK8oFupHmuNiYhT2pvLIiI6owOIQbhFpZ52bcC_V9x6UpHhq0HH6q5I4rqaohmyI1k_qfDk=s400" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="266" height="175" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi9me9sLdrCqVtcXvzjW09h7fiJfXoFjlU6--n_H-MsZy68jtsTGUlOcS5HiOhZvlACS3GG2fVRNWsVovwXyB_4EtVf2v46T4PbqvKm7pIj-mLwgwHpogK8oFupHmuNiYhT2pvLIiI6owOIQbhFpZ52bcC_V9x6UpHhq0HH6q5I4rqaohmyI1k_qfDk=w116-h175" width="116" /></a></div><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">From Tait's DPW Gallery Page:</b> <p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hello There! I am so happy you are here. My name is Tait, pronounced Tyt, and I am an unschooled oil painter. My whole life I thought you had to be born with the gift of artistic ability. I am challenging that idea by making art every single day! I enjoy painting things in my everyday life, turning the mundane into magic.<br /><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In addition to my artistic pursuit, I am am wife to Mike and momma to Keira, Kylie and Ezra. I enjoying traveling with and without my kids, backpacking, hiking and reading.</span></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgAYh-J7hWfbb5acb6CfvtOj_YnxXZDeF8-a4mWwv2pn9DnF1bL_KN5X6vbUE6EeKOVLXJlF50bTOBMELAjf-_thT-qiQgRcI13uWW5lN6D7CH9KlZz5CxNYuKUVCna3--KjrsgK4VmW3v7aLAnL10GC6ebfl13ztikSn16g-2dsg1rh420Y6CzxU-S=s1000" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgAYh-J7hWfbb5acb6CfvtOj_YnxXZDeF8-a4mWwv2pn9DnF1bL_KN5X6vbUE6EeKOVLXJlF50bTOBMELAjf-_thT-qiQgRcI13uWW5lN6D7CH9KlZz5CxNYuKUVCna3--KjrsgK4VmW3v7aLAnL10GC6ebfl13ztikSn16g-2dsg1rh420Y6CzxU-S=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sun Bouquet<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/tait-preis/sun-bouquet/949510">(click to view)<br /></a><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Enter to win by clicking on the link at the top of the DPW home page announcing interview<br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span id="docs-internal-guid-75af85e9-7fff-f3f7-cff7-f381a140abe5"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">What did you </span></b></span><b style="color: #222222; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">ant to be growing up? </span></b></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I wasn’t the kind of kid that dreamed of what I wanted to be when I grew up. But I have done a few things. I was an elementary school teacher, then started having kids and was fortunate to stay at home with them. Once they started going to school, I went back to school to become a Registered Nurse. I worked for about 7 years but was finding it hard to find a work life balance and was missing out on a lot of my kids activities. I also found that I was not that passionate about it. At the end of 2019 I decided to step back and stay home to figure out what was next for me. Then the world shut down with the pandemic and I knew home is where I belong. I love being a mom.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"> When did your artistic journey begin? </span></b></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Towards the end of 2019, when I left the workforce, I spent a lot of time thinking about what I enjoy doing outside of being a mom. I was devouring books and listening to a ton of podcasts about finding your passion. I came across a talk with Elizabeth Gilbert, the author of Eat Pray Love and Big Magic. She said not everyone is born with a passion and that you should follow your curiosities instead. Until I heard this I literally thought I was the only person in the world without a passion. So instead of searching for a passion, I set out to follow my curiosities instead. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I embarked on a ton of creative projects. I decided I was going to remodel our guest bathroom and started a blog about that. I took a number of art classes, one on digital art, a photography class and did a 30 days 30 faces drawing challenge. I started to recognize that I really enjoyed being creative. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">During that time, I came across the artist Erika Lee Sears, an artist and a mom, who made a commitment to a daily art practice. She had an online course called Oil Painting Daily Challenge. The course was short daily painting lessons. I bought the supplies and completed the class in a week. I started reading her blog and saw her improvement over time and I thought maybe this is something I could do. She talks about oil paint and art in a way that makes it feel so accessible. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I was also discovering all these self taught artists who believed in this idea that art is not a talent but rather a learned skill. It was an aha moment for me. I always believed that you were born with the talent for art and that I didn’t get that gene. That’s when I came across Carol Marine’s Daily Painting book and discovered there was a whole movement of daily painters. That’s when I thought maybe this is something I could do. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">On May 1, 2020, with a small mixed media sketchbook and some primary color oil paints I decided to start painting daily. At the time I didn’t think I would last a week, but I took it one day at a time, as I still do today. I decided to hold myself accountable and started a blog and a dedicated Instagram, @pronouncedtyt, to document my progress. </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgHxKYpKBCSrlQO__hujNcp3Ld5Dl4xZwdoKhagxjegV3tFMc46tz5iaMgV2TqlE5K4J5Rx0Nht6SxEkVVJp7VzWUhd4-I7mI8W35wNetrgPGj4WQYsNoavBeSUL4I43FAr5b4axAonaBBGtI-QoUB4b_As3tdVk63djTe_S1SnCN_h390VulOsWvhB=s999" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="999" data-original-width="999" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgHxKYpKBCSrlQO__hujNcp3Ld5Dl4xZwdoKhagxjegV3tFMc46tz5iaMgV2TqlE5K4J5Rx0Nht6SxEkVVJp7VzWUhd4-I7mI8W35wNetrgPGj4WQYsNoavBeSUL4I43FAr5b4axAonaBBGtI-QoUB4b_As3tdVk63djTe_S1SnCN_h390VulOsWvhB=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Single Lemon<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/tait-preis/single-lemon/978282">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Did you have any long periods without creative expression? How did you get back on the horse?</b></span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">With my commitment to daily painting I currently do not experience long periods without creative expression because I create daily. But a long period in my creative world amounts to hours in the day. I often try to get my painting done early in the day to avoid life’s obstacles from derailing my daily painting goal. Honestly, there are times that I just don’t want to do it. When these times come I ask myself, is today really the day you want to stop the streak? So far the answer has always been no. I remind myself that daily painting is not about painting a masterpiece every single day and sit down and paint something.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Which mediums and genres do you gravitate toward? Which ones don’t appeal?</b></span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Right now I am gravitating towards oil paints. Oil paint feels so luxurious. But I have also explored gouache, acrylic and even house paints. I have mostly stuck to the still life genre. As a relative beginner everything appeals to me, I want to try it all! </span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I have recently been interested in plein air painting and might start following that curiosity. I also have a love for digital painting on my iPad with my Apple Pencil using Procreate and the Art Rage apps. Adding digital painting to my practice has allowed me to have a no excuses approach to daily painting. I am a mom of three teenagers that all participate in competitive sports. Many of my afternoons and weekends are spent at a sports field for practice and games. I love that digital art allows me to have my “studio” with me anywhere and I can paint during warmups and practices.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgyL50vqZhS3oQeNZyc5LCCkXlxsQX_0nlvZBcGUCk66kVq__hmHAedY1cytm_Nxfe8YDPl7G_st2ZLMt-ga_6ocDqngXa9XILDEm0s7BTBKboP07_Xhq0WitpUZ8Dc3S05KUEhYWhMsLX6lbelx3OSl1k2l-zLOFTPAtMHNLtVT4Febg-kqiIt_Dc8=s999" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="999" data-original-width="999" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgyL50vqZhS3oQeNZyc5LCCkXlxsQX_0nlvZBcGUCk66kVq__hmHAedY1cytm_Nxfe8YDPl7G_st2ZLMt-ga_6ocDqngXa9XILDEm0s7BTBKboP07_Xhq0WitpUZ8Dc3S05KUEhYWhMsLX6lbelx3OSl1k2l-zLOFTPAtMHNLtVT4Febg-kqiIt_Dc8=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Choke<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/tait-preis/-choke/938204">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>What was the process like of pinpointing your personal style or finding your voice? </b></span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I am still in the process of pinpointing my personal style and finding my voice. I am just trying to stay curious. When I look at my own art it is hard for me to recognize if I even have a style. What I am realizing is that I am my own worst critic. If I hadn’t committed to daily painting and sharing it online, I would be embarrassed to share anything. It takes me a while to like my own work. It’s something I am constantly bumping up against and working through. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">What I can say about personal style is, I don’t know if you have control over it. I am essentially copying styles I like and they never come out looking exactly alike so maybe that’s my style. Somewhere in between what I like and what I am capable of creating. My thoughts on this are constantly evolving as I gain more experience. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Name an artist (or artists), well-known or not, who you admire. Why? </b></span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I am aware of the well known artists such as Kahlo, Van Gogh, Picasso, which I do admire. Right now though I admire current working female artists. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">One of my favorite artists I discovered on Daily Paintworks is Teddi Parker. I love her style and her approach to art. This might sound silly, but in my head she is my imaginary mentor. I always think what would Teddi do? How would she approach this still life set up? I don’t know her at all but she seems very carefree and confident. I can feel that in her art. Her art feels like play and It’s just so happy. I admire that she is a mom, puts her family first, but makes a commitment to art most days. She is just so talented!</span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I also admire the artist Heather Ihn Martin. She paints in oil and gouache. I had the opportunity to take a gouache workshop with her. She is the first artist I have met in real life, I was starstruck! She is so humble. Her work captures the everyday and she is so prolific. Watching her paint was like watching magic. She is so fast!</span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lastly, but certainly not least, Carol Marine. Her work looks so effortless and I admire her thoughts and approach to a daily practice. Her book, Daily Painting, sits on my desk and is like my painting bible. I have read it several times and every time I reread it I learn something new. I wish she still taught workshops. Even though she doesn't, I am so happy that she created all these Art Bytes about her process. One thing I have learned from Carol, that I carry with me, is when painting to think about it in terms of painting the poem not the dissertation. Every time I get caught up in the details I hear her mantra in my head. I am a huge fan!</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiQotz2ZNigG9NXsDBxoDX363HdrCpWVrBm4ICcSwfR6C6ij0A_F-JvFAEAKyfR5TyMUSHEO_uXSh3qOgCZ8-HFy_VHevj3P0-NMfjt1Ep2jaXW8Q0SL0XUU4jH_KkGwXPeo5os18M5sLWC7qr3UpzMa4ZlOJB3Ir97ROJHiMQC6kaNjWYf9UlpOYCi=s1000" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiQotz2ZNigG9NXsDBxoDX363HdrCpWVrBm4ICcSwfR6C6ij0A_F-JvFAEAKyfR5TyMUSHEO_uXSh3qOgCZ8-HFy_VHevj3P0-NMfjt1Ep2jaXW8Q0SL0XUU4jH_KkGwXPeo5os18M5sLWC7qr3UpzMa4ZlOJB3Ir97ROJHiMQC6kaNjWYf9UlpOYCi=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cracking Up<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/tait-preis/cracking-up/943902">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>If you could offer one piece of advice to your younger, creative self — what would that be? </b></span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The one piece of advice I would offer to my younger creative self is follow your curiosities.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Do you utilize any habits or tricks for winning the distraction and procrastination battle? </b></span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The one piece of advice I can give to combat distraction and procrastination is to lean into it. It’s trying to tell you something. It’s information. Maybe you need a break or maybe you’re just being lazy and that’s okay. But think about the why and feel the feelings, whatever they are. Then just start somewhere. This could mean looking at some art for inspiration, priming a panel, cleaning up your studio space. This often gets you back in the mindset to get to work. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A great piece of advice I read from James Clear, the author of Atomic Habits says, “Every action you take is the vote for the person you want to become.” The idea is that one bad day is not going to ruin everything but the days you vote for who you aspire to be add up and the goal is to have more of those votes. When I procrastinate I always think of this quote. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Another idea I can offer is to make creating as easy as possible. I learned this from the artist Lisa Daria Kennedy, a daily painter who has been painting for 4600+ days in a row. She has paired down her set up to have absolutely no nonsense. She uses a limited palette, paints only flowers, uses one brush that sits in water so as to never have to wash it and even picks paint tubes that are easy to open. While you don’t have to be that extreme, think about how you can set things up to make it as easy as possible to show up and do the work. Removing obstacles tends to remove the excuses as well.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi5eBShhpd83d_8mOkjjXDpyGOP6_276C1e_1UkjtTd9CqZvPymlCxXMc5M69Hc-sxYmCRx6yMwmbnWYRLI_HRLBbHAzuNoN_LEDIUPoD6EIh0XCEUWq3r2Xw6vF7lfhFSiWj-UMTZmogXvUYoEjyw6m6FhUh8bABmrvOw0t6eqwCQQDeM18nmFHn2I=s999" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="999" data-original-width="999" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi5eBShhpd83d_8mOkjjXDpyGOP6_276C1e_1UkjtTd9CqZvPymlCxXMc5M69Hc-sxYmCRx6yMwmbnWYRLI_HRLBbHAzuNoN_LEDIUPoD6EIh0XCEUWq3r2Xw6vF7lfhFSiWj-UMTZmogXvUYoEjyw6m6FhUh8bABmrvOw0t6eqwCQQDeM18nmFHn2I=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Spark Bird<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/tait-preis/spark-bird/957691">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>In moments of self-doubt or adversity, how do you push forward?</b></span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Self doubt is always lurking in the background for me. The secret is that battling this is brilliantly built into the daily painting practice itself. I show up daily, do the work, despite all the self doubt and/or adversity. Every piece is not a masterpiece but I promise you will learn something from that painting. You will soon realize that It becomes about the process rather than the outcome. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>What are some of your long and short term goals for yourself or your art?</b></span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">My short term goal for my art is to paint daily, enjoy the process and continue to share my progress online.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">My long term goal would be to continue to grow as an artist. I dream that I could make a living from my art, have a solo show one day, have my art in a museum and teach others that art is a skill that anyone can learn. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiJC3xK5smYO6VyOf7j1DmYC-LrTQmW9gY5ZLqOvaLVAju7s_D8xeTbO64VWxpvWpkBwjuUknIvRN40s-rwmJ6NvahcTODd3imtDwVINg9qiYAlcL3wBBgCDbvIP4e1rI4iE7F3OGgZg8pJfVqf6gqDeZbz_jiiBrPxYZD_iKCyXaoIqG2KcXOt2OFc=s999" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="999" data-original-width="999" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiJC3xK5smYO6VyOf7j1DmYC-LrTQmW9gY5ZLqOvaLVAju7s_D8xeTbO64VWxpvWpkBwjuUknIvRN40s-rwmJ6NvahcTODd3imtDwVINg9qiYAlcL3wBBgCDbvIP4e1rI4iE7F3OGgZg8pJfVqf6gqDeZbz_jiiBrPxYZD_iKCyXaoIqG2KcXOt2OFc=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Skulls<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/tait-preis/skulls/933350">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>What does success mean to you personally? </b></span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Success means to me that I get to do the things I enjoy most everyday. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>What is one of your proudest moments in your creative life?</b></span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The proudest moment in my creative life was selling my first painting on Daily Paintworks. When I started this journey I never thought anyone would be interested In purchasing my art. It’s a first I will never forget, it felt like possibility. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj4AdejQGXzNAilQCS8kpAG21yZ499_LevX8Zr5YlTEyuz3sky3SzOS9P_vRnSnJOZEqpoCbRyp8f0z-bwtpEUGPDUwHvlPNwG6YrSW5x5r8d7iNzpgdnEJ_vD455ky879MIv0HMBdRIYyWoVcDGsig3n_V_tXgRI7LEFrBdXNRt9_JYFGGD0V7Myxi=s999" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="999" data-original-width="999" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj4AdejQGXzNAilQCS8kpAG21yZ499_LevX8Zr5YlTEyuz3sky3SzOS9P_vRnSnJOZEqpoCbRyp8f0z-bwtpEUGPDUwHvlPNwG6YrSW5x5r8d7iNzpgdnEJ_vD455ky879MIv0HMBdRIYyWoVcDGsig3n_V_tXgRI7LEFrBdXNRt9_JYFGGD0V7Myxi=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bloom<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/tait-preis/bloom/940321">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table></span><div><span><br /></span></div><div><div><b>Thanks, Tait!</b></div><div><br /></div><div>© 2022 Maddie Marine</div></div>Maddiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12080891613292159584noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8984607510148246137.post-86470578636641739512022-03-03T21:59:00.001-08:002022-03-03T21:59:00.201-08:00DPW Spotlight Interview: Scott Roebuck<div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-4828203890804752133" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;"><p><i><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Each week we will spotlight a different DPW artist who will give away one of their best paintings. To enter to win Scott's painting "Boulder Buildings" go to Daily Paintworks and click on the link at the top of the page announcing their interview.</span></span></i></p></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjvSJVExrFl_MDrIO7rcyAI3b0sK-jOnfyrP-VX7jKiwBrOVypEFlJby8UuM3J2vo3PynwDlv6l7bEntnM0o5eb91tp4xOR2kZ8IVy5ul9KCchfif4a4m8L8RUOSUKJo0uzLHPx1W2t4lXV7QvIfWJu8G1Z6nF5K6359ntwt0gjJwxQGi9CsrrfKl96=s400" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="219" height="137" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjvSJVExrFl_MDrIO7rcyAI3b0sK-jOnfyrP-VX7jKiwBrOVypEFlJby8UuM3J2vo3PynwDlv6l7bEntnM0o5eb91tp4xOR2kZ8IVy5ul9KCchfif4a4m8L8RUOSUKJo0uzLHPx1W2t4lXV7QvIfWJu8G1Z6nF5K6359ntwt0gjJwxQGi9CsrrfKl96=w75-h137" width="75" /></a></div><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">From Scott's DPW Gallery Page:</b> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><b> <br /></b></span><p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> I am an artist currently residing in the beautiful Boulder, Colorado. I love painting with oils and gouache, playing around with abstract shapes and brushwork. I get a lot of my inspiration from plein air sketches and photographs taken on family holidays in the States and Europe. If you have any questions or would like a commission then please feel free to message me.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhkxRVOlOM1hSpvEm-Ue856TOOLzFINb16epKvo_UEVsiIDxEt5FN2BFAFPJJRamDhnEu2Ano5yL14K-IOtqNjqHabX9a25dEQIyrg4n5gJhz5UCbHQi8FXqYFr8inka7ekxe6zntVtt43-u6S57OoWbEjMfZiiLCk4x40CsnCy7Pf6AVblK6Giwsc2=s999" style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="748" data-original-width="999" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhkxRVOlOM1hSpvEm-Ue856TOOLzFINb16epKvo_UEVsiIDxEt5FN2BFAFPJJRamDhnEu2Ano5yL14K-IOtqNjqHabX9a25dEQIyrg4n5gJhz5UCbHQi8FXqYFr8inka7ekxe6zntVtt43-u6S57OoWbEjMfZiiLCk4x40CsnCy7Pf6AVblK6Giwsc2=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Boulder Buildings<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/scott-roebuck/boulder-buildings/942416">(click to view)<br /></a><br />Enter to win by clicking on the link at the top of the DPW home page announcing interview<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">What did you want to be growing up? </span></b></span></p><p>First<span style="font-family: inherit;">, like many kids probably, I wanted to be a scientist that studied dinosaurs or sharks. Then as a teenager I wanted to be a professional tennis player. I wasn’t far off, my first career w</span>as a tennis pro (teaching tennis) then a high school chemistry teacher.</p><span class="im" style="background-color: white; color: #500050;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>When did your artistic journey begin? </b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222;">My grandfather was an artist, he loved cartooning but also painting so that was influential. Growing up I was mostly a doodler, mostly abstract patterns. In college I started to take drawing seriously and read many books about how to draw more realistically.</span></p></span></span><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi2XJZZhKvlNHEfmxhMvEnuzFZ3UoZ8cq1IGbM7FjEWhhzUdI7uTgBws1OUSkh8NokMC4PYoZDUMC1a-MIGxswN2tsjUwCt1SZ1jYeDbkaCsGT2Ws5jo66W_zhdnSH0S5WJypCm4dzI-XRSKhACk-xhXIRXtm6LRQiw_N_sH4hlVlUvAv6GBM35POvI=s1000" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="746" data-original-width="1000" height="299" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi2XJZZhKvlNHEfmxhMvEnuzFZ3UoZ8cq1IGbM7FjEWhhzUdI7uTgBws1OUSkh8NokMC4PYoZDUMC1a-MIGxswN2tsjUwCt1SZ1jYeDbkaCsGT2Ws5jo66W_zhdnSH0S5WJypCm4dzI-XRSKhACk-xhXIRXtm6LRQiw_N_sH4hlVlUvAv6GBM35POvI=w400-h299" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Winter Green<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/scott-roebuck/winter-green/921345">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Did you have any long periods without creative expression? How did you get back on the horse? </b></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">As a tennis pro, I had the day to focus on my art, but when I became a chemistry teacher, I was too tired day to day to devote time to my art. So during the school year I would go on stretches without working on my art. That being said I was being creative in developing my chemistry lessons plans and figuring out how to get students to understand chemistry.</span></p><span class="im" style="background-color: white; color: #500050;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Which mediums and genres do you gravitate toward? Which ones don’t appeal?</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222;">I love the thickness and the malleability of Oil paint. I always seem to come back to scenes with people, not necessarily portraits but street scenes or landscapes. Digital doesn’t really appeal, at least not right now, probably because it is not a tactile medium. I can’t physically push it around with a brush, palette knife or my fingers.</span></p></span></span><span class="im" style="background-color: white; color: #500050;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhHEFTi4j7TQs0J-sRx5gaZvV_8qY8OiVl8yyOYkythIsULq3giMQTE5E7gitR0xA1Trgf8LuVYq3MlXHLf-q7EvAnNRmikiQ3GGKN7iCZi655VP2Ej7RJ_ambjw0XdE_WJHmPWwol0cm4gAHrNiSYfvFD96q7wM2qotfcTskEiirmrO71NC2f0KiRF=s999" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="747" data-original-width="999" height="299" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhHEFTi4j7TQs0J-sRx5gaZvV_8qY8OiVl8yyOYkythIsULq3giMQTE5E7gitR0xA1Trgf8LuVYq3MlXHLf-q7EvAnNRmikiQ3GGKN7iCZi655VP2Ej7RJ_ambjw0XdE_WJHmPWwol0cm4gAHrNiSYfvFD96q7wM2qotfcTskEiirmrO71NC2f0KiRF=w400-h299" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Walking the Magnificent Mile<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/scott-roebuck/walking-the-magnificent-mile/864045">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>What was the process like of pinpointing your personal style or finding your voice? </b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">A lot of observation and experimentation. It was like having a vague idea of what I wanted but not exactly knowing what it is or how to get there. It is still a process but I feel like I am getting closer with every painting.</span></p></span></span><span class="im" style="background-color: white; color: #500050;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Name an artist (or artists), well-known or not, who you admire. Why? </b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222;">Nicolai Fechin, I like the roughness, brushwork, skill, abstract qualities and paint qualities. I admire a lot of painters, and there are not a lot of styles I don’t like, abstract to hyperrealism, but It always comes back to Fechin.</span></p></span></span><span class="im" style="background-color: white; color: #500050;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgMQV1QrgqRbqivhmxVMMXfUsBMehWMNSj9x3mI9nAZzVD1HudlAIvET9CtlpXx-MFsTbgtdlvcHcmx8M30s1CXy0PTWiMuwBtO3K4hhKEugwkClc-7X2f5lfeF6fM2fYs2ylLNrIN1A6VRMzgKxGt-V4PlKowXQdTl7Nq7fJbzdFu7rtNX0nrV8jQO=s1000" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="709" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgMQV1QrgqRbqivhmxVMMXfUsBMehWMNSj9x3mI9nAZzVD1HudlAIvET9CtlpXx-MFsTbgtdlvcHcmx8M30s1CXy0PTWiMuwBtO3K4hhKEugwkClc-7X2f5lfeF6fM2fYs2ylLNrIN1A6VRMzgKxGt-V4PlKowXQdTl7Nq7fJbzdFu7rtNX0nrV8jQO=w284-h400" width="284" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">selfie<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/scott-roebuck/selfie/865102">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><b><br /></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>If you could offer one piece of advice to your younger, creative self — what would that be? </b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">Just believe in yourself. It is very hard to create and be creative when you are in your head and filled with doubt. It is about enjoying the process.</span></p></span></span><span class="im" style="background-color: white; color: #500050;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Do you utilize any habits or tricks for winning the distraction and procrastination battle? </b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222;">Just start, it is all about momentum or inertia. It can seem very hard to start something, but once you start, it will just flow. The other thing is to make it a habit, I paint everyday Monday through Friday starting at 9am. The less I paint then the less likely I am to paint, but the inverse is true as well, to a point.</span></p></span></span><span class="im"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #500050; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiv_0U7_W5_NWPI_o5zhJlgZgWEKg4bq-5sryGqP5VUH4fIdNjJblH05f-DmN4nIMHnpJ_EpAQtMFQLUt8iDikVxqrA0Jm3guoBTR87UnYJKpFKZz5AHrj23yLsyS_5WirdSUcUkQ0CIZr4jYAj0DhU_uMw0n_edEroNy_tULcJNozcrdAjUVEIlcWB=s1000" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="1000" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiv_0U7_W5_NWPI_o5zhJlgZgWEKg4bq-5sryGqP5VUH4fIdNjJblH05f-DmN4nIMHnpJ_EpAQtMFQLUt8iDikVxqrA0Jm3guoBTR87UnYJKpFKZz5AHrj23yLsyS_5WirdSUcUkQ0CIZr4jYAj0DhU_uMw0n_edEroNy_tULcJNozcrdAjUVEIlcWB=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Marble Resting<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/scott-roebuck/marble-resting/895183">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>In moments of self-doubt or adversity, how do you push forward?</b></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #500050; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #500050; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222;">Experiment, reflect and brainstorm ways to improve or express myself. If I focus on what I don’t like or my doubts I won’t be able to paint. So experimenting gets me out of that head space and gives me something to focus on.</span></p></span><span class="im" style="background-color: white; color: #500050;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>What are some of your long and short term goals for yourself or your art?</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222;">My long term goal would just be to get my artwork out there and develop my audience. I am not really a short term goal person, it is just everyday being better and improving.</span></p></span></span><span class="im" style="background-color: white; color: #500050;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg6EROzL-UD2AarEFESHyadll555nvgaOgkPrHCAJHztCmcmMjvVqHQbrHQhpP9c5PDkK5D3_27feMzd82SbCz3g8zkHi6sBDHVEllmmbWUUUDKI0sxJEvLONJu2n5hJYy-Me5tmmAY-8HfyPv8KdytAhF8GTRRwC96tGa2TX8NTlKqD5xfeAm1e-Rm=s999" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="999" data-original-width="754" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg6EROzL-UD2AarEFESHyadll555nvgaOgkPrHCAJHztCmcmMjvVqHQbrHQhpP9c5PDkK5D3_27feMzd82SbCz3g8zkHi6sBDHVEllmmbWUUUDKI0sxJEvLONJu2n5hJYy-Me5tmmAY-8HfyPv8KdytAhF8GTRRwC96tGa2TX8NTlKqD5xfeAm1e-Rm=w303-h400" width="303" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sunbathing Trees<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/scott-roebuck/sunbathing-trees/867073">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>What does success mean to you personally? </b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222;">Honestly I don’t know right now, maybe just the courage to push myself and not settle for the status quo.</span></p></span></span><span class="im"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #500050; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #500050; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>What is one of your proudest moments in your creative life?</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #500050; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #500050; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222;">This last year (2021) I won Best of Show at the Louisville (CO) Art Association National Fine Art Show. I feel like we all need external validation to know our journey is not in vain and it was great to know others appreciated my work to that extent.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: medium none; display: inline-block; height: 1px; overflow: hidden; width: 1px;"><img class="CToWUd" height="1" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Ub32i6qv7kSt0R2lz-raTlkg3m_o95SPkGv7zB66J8yERlIV3-lTgWJT8WO8oV0ro5fSBNG2Uc1coTMdwln-OmsuBysCJEhCAXvKb3aDf0SoAL98Bi2rmR0nx-HGGjT77g10BIvb" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="1" /></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #500050; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: medium none; display: inline-block; height: 1px; overflow: hidden; width: 1px;"><br /></span></span></span></p></span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiRMjTGl_f5I6PJ362ckCBWa-41I8_of1zJSEe2HyF3EoXLlEU4feKM_gDP_Zh1KJGXYyfsFPfyv9_SP1wsKzG5pLTmf_hagMXqO4Lv_0SZd8YEm7Oazk-Jz5YRHPtZLWORTIwyxIVxVJIryrRW1IXsZBJz_iK-pDg78x1gJa7_QXZS3pMbMVVpjYTM=s1000" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiRMjTGl_f5I6PJ362ckCBWa-41I8_of1zJSEe2HyF3EoXLlEU4feKM_gDP_Zh1KJGXYyfsFPfyv9_SP1wsKzG5pLTmf_hagMXqO4Lv_0SZd8YEm7Oazk-Jz5YRHPtZLWORTIwyxIVxVJIryrRW1IXsZBJz_iK-pDg78x1gJa7_QXZS3pMbMVVpjYTM=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Birds of a Feather<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/scott-roebuck/birds-of-a-feather/953772">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><b>Thanks, Scott!</b></div><div><br /></div><div>© 2022 Maddie Marine</div><br />Maddiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12080891613292159584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8984607510148246137.post-73526555953084038992022-02-24T21:59:00.002-08:002022-02-24T21:59:00.195-08:00DPW Spotlight Interview: Vitali Komarov<div style="text-align: left;"><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-4828203890804752133" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;"><p><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Each week we will spotlight a different DPW artist who will give away one of their best paintings. To enter to win Vitali's painting "Daisy Flowers" go to Daily Paintworks and click on the link at the top of the page announcing their interview.</span></span></i></p></div><div><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">From Vitali's DPW Gallery Page:</b> </div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhVssuA70xx6gbVy-s5_7d4rzA0mcJuZt9X3PthY8_KZcKw6-jdFqBLU90teHuMhIrlnG7aN3M-Q2VafdQD43bFXMWkR4c9EAAKC5EBgXuwJTyjgZk1pAAfJ9Mui4s6KQgmOLEh5UyziyYZZjddVJGt4FiZETik7c_m0oTRcAqcOXlSHKy6kTL_tvJ_=s399" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="399" data-original-width="299" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhVssuA70xx6gbVy-s5_7d4rzA0mcJuZt9X3PthY8_KZcKw6-jdFqBLU90teHuMhIrlnG7aN3M-Q2VafdQD43bFXMWkR4c9EAAKC5EBgXuwJTyjgZk1pAAfJ9Mui4s6KQgmOLEh5UyziyYZZjddVJGt4FiZETik7c_m0oTRcAqcOXlSHKy6kTL_tvJ_=w150-h200" width="150" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">Working in a variety of media throughout his career, including painting, printmaking, and drawing, artist Vitali Komarov’s art is characterized by a focus on colors, shapes, a masterful use of light and shadow, and attentiveness to nature and his details. His vision of the world is full of hope, his paintings uplift the spirit and promise new beginnings.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">Vitali Komarov is born in 1968 in Russia, now he lives and works in Lednice, Czech republic. He loves nature and walking and enjoyed painting directly from nature. Embedded in the European tradition, he has been influenced by artists of different nationalities, who taught him never to stop learning and to always enjoy life. Artist’s works are full of life, in which every season offers so many wonderful subjects. His vision of the world is full of hope; his colours are bright, yet sensitive. His works uplift the spirit and promise new beginnings. What really matters to him is to be truthful and simple in conveying his vision to his audience.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">Vitali has been inspired by the works of Vincent Van Gogh and adopted his bright optimistic palette and bold line. Continuing forward, Komarov developed his own style of impressionism with a modern twist. Living in the Czech Republic, Vitaly has been inspired by Andy Warhol, whose parents emigrated from that country in 1914 to the U.S. Vitaly loves Warhol’s originality of composition and the courage seen in his art. As a result artist started producing screen prints in his studio in Lednice. French post-Impressionist Paul Cézanne has played a big role in inspiring Komarov’s artistic creativity including the shape of objects, the liveliness of straight lines and presence of amazingly colored light in his art.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">Although primarily self-taught, Vitaly studied at the Art School (1983) and the Restoration School (1987) in Saint Petersburg, both in Russia. Artist regularly exhibits at overseas art fair venues. Vitaly lives in the Czech republic but has traveled widely to find inspiration for his work.</span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgLa-zK5sfKowwPKvrCfdT0IY8O077Tktdo9BiNAHHMqa1-UEiAFKac7nRcukGRAalLQcTLk9QYpnNqTMVdG0YTQgAJRoFsZYldCcaOhqZrNkXb1NRwwNQMoKoaVKWloiG7kt38eEBoxJSrmfVdRNc_tj07ybw0I1zLMkX4SjLGDHaTTCYbT_KcPEEH=s1000" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="666" height="447" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgLa-zK5sfKowwPKvrCfdT0IY8O077Tktdo9BiNAHHMqa1-UEiAFKac7nRcukGRAalLQcTLk9QYpnNqTMVdG0YTQgAJRoFsZYldCcaOhqZrNkXb1NRwwNQMoKoaVKWloiG7kt38eEBoxJSrmfVdRNc_tj07ybw0I1zLMkX4SjLGDHaTTCYbT_KcPEEH=w297-h447" width="297" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Daisy Flowers<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/vitali-komarov/daisy-flowers/980671">(click to view)<br /></a><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Enter to win by clicking on the link at the top of the DPW home page announcing interview<br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>What did you want to be growing up?<br /></b><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">As a child, I didn't want to be anyone. I have always felt like an outside observer of life, of people. <br /> <br /><b>When did your artistic journey begin? <br /></b><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Around the age of 20-23, I really wanted to express myself. I realized that I was ripe like an apple on a tree. Before that, I went to school and did what the adults said. But even when we express ourselves, we always repeat someone else's experience. There is no such thing as 100% original.<br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjWJClkORsdjaqAiRAS4X6Mf1i6pTeqjZJnt9EoXicYqePY9iNyPVKqZBrBAsOo8Liqnj6CcmgADMYIO7tprgrkwPSBvZsE0TJBppb08toF0gADFaQPEhiOxLGgwdqV4M3bGAxf3p4jC9Yh79_64tMA44x_buZpZQ6EciNEwhGZrjYsys7oSQz9QW-n=s1000" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="666" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjWJClkORsdjaqAiRAS4X6Mf1i6pTeqjZJnt9EoXicYqePY9iNyPVKqZBrBAsOo8Liqnj6CcmgADMYIO7tprgrkwPSBvZsE0TJBppb08toF0gADFaQPEhiOxLGgwdqV4M3bGAxf3p4jC9Yh79_64tMA44x_buZpZQ6EciNEwhGZrjYsys7oSQz9QW-n=w266-h400" width="266" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Open window view landscape<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/vitali-komarov/open-window-view-landscape/963037">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><b>Did you have any long periods without creative expression? How did you get back on the horse?<br /></b><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I have never had a period without creative expression. I got upset by the disregard of others for my work. It slowed my creativity.<br /><br /><b>Which mediums and genres do you gravitate toward? Which ones don’t appeal?</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;">I can enjoy all mediums and genres. The only thing I don't like is vulgarity. I also take abstraction hard.<br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjoL9qFyB7Nj5dGH7bY7b19qK-Ec0H3nQ2LS0WHP_9Ex__c1IPOFLMgKpZoIw15JAoO4xMHDXrmnwxZ9r-lAsacmr8nU-_IO3ESQ5E6HvS9FNhy6Hd5k3dtvdu-4Ll2EOKGpNt6DWyZkjus9sfp6YlhRTXtRF0nVE448V306UdY7igqM8WG0r0styac=s1000" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="775" data-original-width="1000" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjoL9qFyB7Nj5dGH7bY7b19qK-Ec0H3nQ2LS0WHP_9Ex__c1IPOFLMgKpZoIw15JAoO4xMHDXrmnwxZ9r-lAsacmr8nU-_IO3ESQ5E6HvS9FNhy6Hd5k3dtvdu-4Ll2EOKGpNt6DWyZkjus9sfp6YlhRTXtRF0nVE448V306UdY7igqM8WG0r0styac=w400-h310" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Banana Still Life<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/vitali-komarov/banana-still-life/972429">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>What was the process like of pinpointing your personal style or finding your voice?<br /></b></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">You need to take your favorite style or your favorite artist and try to copy his technique and worldview as accurately as possible, with great love and attention. You will be surprised by how much knowledge you will gain. At this stage, you must withstand the accusation of plagiarism. If you are persistent, then you will fall from that foundation into your personal style. But it's a long-distance ride. However, without copying, the path is harder and more mistakes will be made.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh5X1-QQGj_A0dTme9cvMqU5N74li-f22OhlwkuoWKxOIE3DOgsC6vExp5tedX028rvMgzXR-cniSQpXx4fWBoJEu0Ukveg6KWsEmxkzZemOuXwQTKt__G-EKJ73az434_lPpOaAiYQT0OCoIj8vt_NY6vZO0n219skVJOG2k93su6kCOKGhfy9ChML=s1000" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh5X1-QQGj_A0dTme9cvMqU5N74li-f22OhlwkuoWKxOIE3DOgsC6vExp5tedX028rvMgzXR-cniSQpXx4fWBoJEu0Ukveg6KWsEmxkzZemOuXwQTKt__G-EKJ73az434_lPpOaAiYQT0OCoIj8vt_NY6vZO0n219skVJOG2k93su6kCOKGhfy9ChML=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Red poppy field<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/vitali-komarov/red-poppy-field/980649">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><b>Name an artist (or artists), well-known or not, who you admire. Why? <br /></b><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I admire Vincent van Gogh for his love of simple, not showy things, for his amazing rhythm and color. I admire Paul Cezanne for his form, depiction of the air, surroundings, ambiance, airiness. I admire Andy Warhol for decorativeness, courage, frivolity, and subtle humor. I admire the artists of the Renaissance, because jewelers have grown into independent artists.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi0xLNkX1tUla7QrqCQf8Fm33WfemomvTGpvbyIDbq32pCVizqkYJq1n_NgbcnsmufN69mXTGxadBhBmOxVAtwZlekbXo7AQRYwsnODkXFl6wB2CtG3lygX44tPcK4hWWZoyythXYmiA_pperwa7DkjESFYTp9huoYaVWmmwlZzyFmSyp6YHTMoGWSz=s1000" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="910" data-original-width="1000" height="364" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi0xLNkX1tUla7QrqCQf8Fm33WfemomvTGpvbyIDbq32pCVizqkYJq1n_NgbcnsmufN69mXTGxadBhBmOxVAtwZlekbXo7AQRYwsnODkXFl6wB2CtG3lygX44tPcK4hWWZoyythXYmiA_pperwa7DkjESFYTp9huoYaVWmmwlZzyFmSyp6YHTMoGWSz=w400-h364" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Iris flower bed<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/vitali-komarov/iris-flower-bed/980666">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><b>If you could offer one piece of advice to your younger, creative self — what would that be?<br /></b><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">My advice is to find like-minded persons because the youth is very fragile and needs support as the young tree needs staking.<br /> <br /><b>Do you utilize any habits or tricks for winning the distraction and procrastination battle?<br /></b><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ideas die fast within 3 months, and there are not many good ideas, ideas are valuable commodities. You need to force yourself to implement the idea, even if it begins to die. And then it is not your business to judge the result. There are connoisseurs even for the worst art.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgrWS3qTnwRV-e1OeIEdE2h4sHywsWXUn3EO-vZK2pxDBuNXDEm8c4GSp1m3-Q35x52XpvZ0vac3UGFqcjYQggbykth4ugnHc7bl4LWDBtk2WbdsksXvm44bwvPkubuyrjdKw_vnFP5GBjTGyNi-4t1V6rMmIa3HJW_74gu6dGJS0vOg_d7dJm8E7cU=s1000" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="715" data-original-width="1000" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgrWS3qTnwRV-e1OeIEdE2h4sHywsWXUn3EO-vZK2pxDBuNXDEm8c4GSp1m3-Q35x52XpvZ0vac3UGFqcjYQggbykth4ugnHc7bl4LWDBtk2WbdsksXvm44bwvPkubuyrjdKw_vnFP5GBjTGyNi-4t1V6rMmIa3HJW_74gu6dGJS0vOg_d7dJm8E7cU=w400-h286" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Waste<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/vitali-komarov/waste/980670">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><b>In moments of self-doubt or adversity, how do you push forward?<br /></b><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I push forward to visit art museums many times. Museums are expensive and I spent a lot of money. I envy that British museums are free to visit. You need to visit museums literally for the sake of several great paintings. You need to study museum artworks very carefully. Unfortunately, the Internet cannot compensate for live art.<br /><br /><b>What are some of your long and short term goals for yourself or your art?</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;">My goal is to make sure that my wife does not lose interest in my artwork.<br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhN0Dp29vBdKIDigp8qUBKE-0NGFQmBTRUqWnFpSNfH_ZRcztiknLSM4pHKD035m9ePuU_oGD_eAtyEOo4ItL0aHdAS1QgCzeHI_lGiD2s22trkSeOl2Y8j3bxv-Lng7mQehj7mdei62_fSXCI5sfQCtc03nLNoJhoiTlP9lWJirkq5lUWxk-maW-eV=s1000" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhN0Dp29vBdKIDigp8qUBKE-0NGFQmBTRUqWnFpSNfH_ZRcztiknLSM4pHKD035m9ePuU_oGD_eAtyEOo4ItL0aHdAS1QgCzeHI_lGiD2s22trkSeOl2Y8j3bxv-Lng7mQehj7mdei62_fSXCI5sfQCtc03nLNoJhoiTlP9lWJirkq5lUWxk-maW-eV=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Old willow tree<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/vitali-komarov/old-willow-tree/980654">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><b>What does success mean to you personally?<br /></b></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I don't know the answer to this actual question. I try to drive away thoughts of success. Maybe success is people's memory of you or money? Or success is to do what you want. Waste of life on nonsense is easier than it looks.<br /> <br /><b>What is one of your proudest moments in your creative life?<br /></b><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">My proudest moments are to live inside of European culture; touch, see and learn Western art culture directly in person.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgDGb8lFgrINAOxZohyqR72mGv1WgOK7MDAbtyoTRFivGLaiA6mA7TLz-Hm2Ci0jr4XVrQO3RWzswtFrmlxZVmnoaYNJZjh0xzv-duc2yLMW2GlHHRl4CdKJF0bgUNFZmG_DFydGClwPeAzG8epZbOu9yZ92RysmJekcfO4xfZGQRGsbdjDdU-jO-lt=s1000" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgDGb8lFgrINAOxZohyqR72mGv1WgOK7MDAbtyoTRFivGLaiA6mA7TLz-Hm2Ci0jr4XVrQO3RWzswtFrmlxZVmnoaYNJZjh0xzv-duc2yLMW2GlHHRl4CdKJF0bgUNFZmG_DFydGClwPeAzG8epZbOu9yZ92RysmJekcfO4xfZGQRGsbdjDdU-jO-lt=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Old house in Venice<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/vitali-komarov/old-house-in-venice/980651">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><div><b>Thanks, Vitali!</b></div><div><br /></div><div>© 2022 Maddie Marine</div></div>Maddiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12080891613292159584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8984607510148246137.post-27764581354908335152022-02-17T21:59:00.002-08:002022-02-17T21:59:00.200-08:00DPW Spotlight Interview: Karen Reynolds<div style="text-align: left;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-cd90e283-7fff-3016-3783-8ea1dd832c36"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Each week we will spotlight a different DPW artist who will give away one of their best paintings. To enter to win Karen's painting "Hot Lips" go to Daily Paintworks and click on the link at the top of the page announcing their interview.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">From Karen's DPW Gallery Page:</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjAaxwv1coomUkXdyxIC_n_Mt8lME3N1b05OyPO5z3vI-DaqC27-HcdCPq8LEdxZEc5L2ySRVpy84gMGoF5jWb5v41tC2HBzPSzTX7vDQo4e7cTX6KKjq3ZICCyX6ZioU4m-XZywgDv0j-3XCSP7P-L2gGLK8BfJt-lAESSr_WNpNn03hdP0Wc3fSwo=s399" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="399" data-original-width="320" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjAaxwv1coomUkXdyxIC_n_Mt8lME3N1b05OyPO5z3vI-DaqC27-HcdCPq8LEdxZEc5L2ySRVpy84gMGoF5jWb5v41tC2HBzPSzTX7vDQo4e7cTX6KKjq3ZICCyX6ZioU4m-XZywgDv0j-3XCSP7P-L2gGLK8BfJt-lAESSr_WNpNn03hdP0Wc3fSwo=w161-h200" width="161" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;">I have always had an eye for beautiful things. Even as a small child I wanted to create and use color. I remember being very excited to open a big, brand new box of crayons or paint. Everything about them from the way they looked to the way they smelled made me happy. Over the years my creativity has taken many forms from sewing curtains and Halloween costumes to painting furniture and walls to decorating and staging homes as well as designing and caring for plants and gardens. It is who I am and what I love to do. I am a self taught painter with a commercial art degree living in beautiful Charleston, South Carolina with my husband and family. This is a wonderful place for an artist to live due to it's rich history and natural beauty but I also travel whenever I get the chance because there is nothing more enlightening than exploring other places, people and cultures. I paint what I see whether it is in my own backyard or a wonderful unexpected place I visit nearby or halfway around the world. Since I love color and the amazing things that happen to a place or object in light or shadow I strive to capture that in my subject matter. I work mostly in acrylics on canvas and it brings me much joy to know that my artwork is proudly displayed in many homes around the country and cherished by those who see it daily. My goal is to bring happiness with my art so I hope you love what you see.</span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgDT16HUB92k5AyTuneHXJyiFZCnQe0aVqjwGpl9YiuLgMl_hREs0hqJ-TjZ609fzjUM5Aks8nqtmb1Myw_PW97Tlp8il-GIN-r3YudTthYQ7PVOudRD6e95QFK7L49qC1WbDhdir8lPoZ4I6bOLTQbBkHgqPbF9HCjJ1NNKMFjNzN_25QeXEZD8VWO=s684" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="684" data-original-width="684" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgDT16HUB92k5AyTuneHXJyiFZCnQe0aVqjwGpl9YiuLgMl_hREs0hqJ-TjZ609fzjUM5Aks8nqtmb1Myw_PW97Tlp8il-GIN-r3YudTthYQ7PVOudRD6e95QFK7L49qC1WbDhdir8lPoZ4I6bOLTQbBkHgqPbF9HCjJ1NNKMFjNzN_25QeXEZD8VWO=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hot Lips<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/karen-reynolds/hot-lips/973617">(click to view)<br /></a><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Enter to win by clicking on the link at the top of the DPW home page announcing interview</span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">What did you want to be growing up? </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Growing up, I only ever wanted to do something creative. I didn’t have much in the way of artistic influence around me so I wasn’t sure what careers were available for artists enough to pinpoint anything specific. I just always knew that making things look a certain way was important to me.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">When did your artistic journey begin?</span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Even as a small child I saw everything as an opportunity to explore color and shape. When I was in school I only ever wanted to be in the Art Studio where it smelled like clay and paint and I could get lost in my artistic process. I didn’t care nearly as much about any of my other classes. I have always been happiest when creating and spending time with other creative people.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhtvnlVxUHK4nPdm_F852zzAyVDocaM533rBjV7hiBWAN7UPjlva9lgvqKmJS5-LNnq-Hw5Th_OIgUvViDncnehsFDyc1yRtpcDTtVRmC2XUcx5sPc3Y3mQ1bMZTjkyUF-bNGBWbH0N4eU_dL-XDtFWWIcqrU-CUM-iMlFclUws3lkOF0cwLc9_1xah=s828" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="828" data-original-width="828" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhtvnlVxUHK4nPdm_F852zzAyVDocaM533rBjV7hiBWAN7UPjlva9lgvqKmJS5-LNnq-Hw5Th_OIgUvViDncnehsFDyc1yRtpcDTtVRmC2XUcx5sPc3Y3mQ1bMZTjkyUF-bNGBWbH0N4eU_dL-XDtFWWIcqrU-CUM-iMlFclUws3lkOF0cwLc9_1xah=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Orange you glad?<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/karen-reynolds/orange-you-glad/973570">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Did you have any long periods without creative expression? How did you get back on the horse? </span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I honestly can’t remember a time when I haven’t done something creative. I see opportunities everywhere to make things around me more beautiful. I craft, sew, paint furniture, decorate, re-organize, dress, style, photograph, and garden all with a artists mindset. If it’s creative I do it. My issue is more that I have jumped around a lot and haven’t been very focused. Lately, because of having to spend more time at home due to the pandemic I have really honed in on painting. I have made myself paint things that have always intimidated me which makes it easier to jump in and try the next thing and the next and the next...</span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Which mediums and genres do you gravitate toward? Which ones don’t appeal?</span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I have certainly tried a lot of mediums over the years and I love things about all of them. I love the luminous quality of oil paint, for instance, but I don’t love the clean up and the toxic substances required for that. I have painted many watercolors, but I find I’m too perfectionistic for the looseness of that medium and I tend to get frustrated. I gravitate towards acrylics because they dry fast and can be layered so quickly. I am also very interested in pastels but I haven’t broken out my supply of those in a long time. I’m sure the day is coming when I will open a fresh box of oil pastels and love everything about them and what magic they can do.</span></span></p><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjtVc2DzcBEyR6u6SebD6hD1AHifz6iIwIpz68GYv9VNOKXnaHUdHM3yaTalw7EpVNIYI53pmxTB4HbFVTsVg5tF_XI_FE-9I7EtGEDoRPosS015i4ZJxfYmTjcXkZq13ZwIFHK9bUOD_JmGjU6hqR-lhuJmHkP2jxOGSL5e1lLAUql41c1Dyyq062h=s823" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="643" data-original-width="823" height="313" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjtVc2DzcBEyR6u6SebD6hD1AHifz6iIwIpz68GYv9VNOKXnaHUdHM3yaTalw7EpVNIYI53pmxTB4HbFVTsVg5tF_XI_FE-9I7EtGEDoRPosS015i4ZJxfYmTjcXkZq13ZwIFHK9bUOD_JmGjU6hqR-lhuJmHkP2jxOGSL5e1lLAUql41c1Dyyq062h=w400-h313" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Angel Oak<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/karen-reynolds/angel-oak/973558">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">What was the process like of pinpointing your personal style or finding your voice?</span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I think you can only find your personal style by doing art all the time. It’s all about practice, practice, practice and gaining confidence. It’s my goal to continue to evolve so I’m not sure I’m done finding my own personal style and I think that’s a good thing.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Name an artist (or artists), well-known or not, who you admire. Why?</span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I love the impressionists way of hinting at their subject matter and using limited brushstrokes and subtle color variations to convey a scene. In my travels I have had opportunities to see many great works like this up close. Renoir, Degas, Cassatt, Van Gogh and others all move me. I once had the pleasure of wandering through Monet’s garden enjoying the place of much inspiration for him in his lifetime. He painted his own immediate surroundings over and over with results that stand the test of time. But my favorite is probably John Singer Sargent who’s paintings take my breath away. I couldn’t believe my luck when I was once in Venice and happened upon a collection of his Venetian paintings. I was absolutely captivated and had to be made to leave the exhibit by my patient husband after hours of wandering and looking. Apparently he wanted me to know that there were other things to explore while in fabulous Venice. I truly love and appreciate so much art for different reasons, but if I have to name just one favorite, the way John Singer Sargent used color and light and shadow is the winner for me. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgZ1zQP3Xeh9DOhnBa7hQjcJqzK42LinaxG-2na8vWSQ6O0-ElCUI5YxckkCTDCuR848uaCbNxXSIX4EFmdaQPBFAVKea9YCc7FkCRV3EzRAGTSDdZ2k8hapBc67e7yzdcLNtF12nqX--BstjoOx8UBDTxpD3_qY_WtYPkMBR1OE8em9SP8Z56zX0si=s999" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="999" data-original-width="779" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgZ1zQP3Xeh9DOhnBa7hQjcJqzK42LinaxG-2na8vWSQ6O0-ElCUI5YxckkCTDCuR848uaCbNxXSIX4EFmdaQPBFAVKea9YCc7FkCRV3EzRAGTSDdZ2k8hapBc67e7yzdcLNtF12nqX--BstjoOx8UBDTxpD3_qY_WtYPkMBR1OE8em9SP8Z56zX0si=w313-h400" width="313" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Boats at Blue Hour<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/karen-reynolds/boats-at-blue-hour/979815">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">If you could offer one piece of advice to your younger, creative self — what would that be?</span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Not to sound like a Nike commercial, but just do it. I have wasted a lot of time dancing around the fact that I was given this gift to use it. I have let the idea that I didn’t know where it fits in stop me from fully doing it. I have let my lack of confidence stop me from trying...I would tell my younger self to stop letting the negative voices win and just go for it.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Do you utilize any habits or tricks for winning the distraction and procrastination battle?</span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">My issue now isn’t procrastination, it’s making myself step away from the easel so I’m not neglecting every other aspect of life.</span><span style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"> I find that all I want to do now is paint so I struggle more with putting it down and making time for other things. I have to remind myself that good art isn’t created in a vacuum.</span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhK05KDREv8Lhd_pLHm_2t4mE2zUBhHhF_SDhVT8UgiNIjFv7NEpUVrrGf8Q0PTfTUun4kuZptVtJpPY7VatG_EVtzXKYTg2lrjgAASARvPUbzNMN84jUKrUPc3kEOELN7IPjJw7PdIqbMeDK94Fzp_8UCvcKwTuW34wiFYxbeQVen5fWdVlMeJ2Tws=s1000" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="738" data-original-width="1000" height="295" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhK05KDREv8Lhd_pLHm_2t4mE2zUBhHhF_SDhVT8UgiNIjFv7NEpUVrrGf8Q0PTfTUun4kuZptVtJpPY7VatG_EVtzXKYTg2lrjgAASARvPUbzNMN84jUKrUPc3kEOELN7IPjJw7PdIqbMeDK94Fzp_8UCvcKwTuW34wiFYxbeQVen5fWdVlMeJ2Tws=w400-h295" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Barred Owl<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/karen-reynolds/barred-owl/979904">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In moments of self-doubt or adversity, how do you push forward?</span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I sometimes need to just go do something else and get out of my own head. Fresh air, time with loved ones, sleep, mindless household tasks, etc all help me to come back with more focus and energy.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">What are some of your long and short term goals for yourself or your art?</span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In the short term I am busy setting myself up for success by painting consistently and putting my art out there and actively trying to sell it. In the long term I want to continue to learn and improve my technique. I’d really like to get looser and faster as I paint more and more. Connecting more with other artists is also on my to do list.</span></span></p><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhmoa1c8iRZZN7S1DsN9qOV3d2X7_-yo25HqV2THYAkqKvxESVNDgVvSD5vVN8MUEDy0GZsDNL9g5wjoJcM_5EXeX4G_wIZCV1QZKOa_vXtJb7QIXlKfQL91_FXknzw8LffmQfycw-YxviFdwwxYwNeoVYpAR3a_bbQLpl6vWFhCsMqNO52p1Mqjz2k=s999" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="999" data-original-width="742" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhmoa1c8iRZZN7S1DsN9qOV3d2X7_-yo25HqV2THYAkqKvxESVNDgVvSD5vVN8MUEDy0GZsDNL9g5wjoJcM_5EXeX4G_wIZCV1QZKOa_vXtJb7QIXlKfQL91_FXknzw8LffmQfycw-YxviFdwwxYwNeoVYpAR3a_bbQLpl6vWFhCsMqNO52p1Mqjz2k=w298-h400" width="298" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wild Orchid<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/karen-reynolds/wild-orchid/979858">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">What does success mean to you personally?</span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Success is when something you create makes someone else feel good. When someone loves what you do enough to spend money on it, hang it in their home, and look at it every day, that is success to me.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">What is one of your proudest moments in your creative life?</span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I’ve had many proud moments. It makes me so happy every time I make a connection with someone else through my art and bring happiness that otherwise wouldn’t be there. An extreme example of that came recently when I painted the likeness of a baby who spent his whole short life in a hospital hooked up to all manner of medical equipment. His sweet family didn’t have a single picture of him without all the tubes and tape so I edited all of that out when I painted a portrait of him to give to them. Their appreciation and joy at having his beautiful and unencumbered smiling face forever captured made me feel so grateful for the gift of art I have been given. There just really isn’t anything better than using your talent to bring joy to others.</span></span></p><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjTKQx56_E58ryR0Mq-UcqbirCvBejb33tPcCmE3meiPYhpYc0jWCUS29ic_PMvnbFq-iNn0B7DkIsa6RB5FM2ikXDlKCuRbExI1pi3CdkFgPXQl1LqcYKedf768IhJww2xBXJ0Y2Qi2ePBcDKEjX4DgtiNuP9FSVZ-Wf-4TBmEiYBSq9D9VYupzZVW=s944" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="944" data-original-width="699" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjTKQx56_E58ryR0Mq-UcqbirCvBejb33tPcCmE3meiPYhpYc0jWCUS29ic_PMvnbFq-iNn0B7DkIsa6RB5FM2ikXDlKCuRbExI1pi3CdkFgPXQl1LqcYKedf768IhJww2xBXJ0Y2Qi2ePBcDKEjX4DgtiNuP9FSVZ-Wf-4TBmEiYBSq9D9VYupzZVW=w296-h400" width="296" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Samuel<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/karen-reynolds/samuel/980129">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Thanks, Karen!</b></div><div><br /></div><div>© 2022 Maddie Marine</div>Maddiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12080891613292159584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8984607510148246137.post-69526346501383842842022-02-10T21:59:00.001-08:002022-02-10T21:59:00.236-08:00DPW Spotlight Interview: Robert Lafond<div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-4828203890804752133" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;"><p><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Each week we will spotlight a different DPW artist who will give away one of their best paintings. To enter to win Roberts's painting "A Bend In The Road" go to Daily Paintworks and click on the link at the top of the page announcing their interview.</span></span></i></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhOgS-dE2AwxRdlwi2yBoWUBwE6a6umz_lsTHYbH45biZX5oBecyZLrunsrMyWU5JrPKEK9HWhFdo7dZ3DH2rYYTifPyTAypzRUvZbdn2jpTTCHLAIy5eSX-kGwh4DI1MKk-bShiOOwEqPwfcoLKDe956tSGtmS0pIA6FtYitgTs081IMCdd9AnEhOA=s640" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="441" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhOgS-dE2AwxRdlwi2yBoWUBwE6a6umz_lsTHYbH45biZX5oBecyZLrunsrMyWU5JrPKEK9HWhFdo7dZ3DH2rYYTifPyTAypzRUvZbdn2jpTTCHLAIy5eSX-kGwh4DI1MKk-bShiOOwEqPwfcoLKDe956tSGtmS0pIA6FtYitgTs081IMCdd9AnEhOA=w138-h200" width="138" /></a></div><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">From Robert's DPW Gallery Page:</b> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">For me, painting the world that I live in is a way to re-create it and possess it in a loving, sympathetic way. My approach to painting is to build up marks and brushstrokes that become an image which cannot avoid reflecting my emotional response to what I see. And hopefully this aggregation of paint positively affects the viewer as well, while it also resembles what I am looking at. My middle initial H is for “Henri”. So, amusingly, I’ve always been conscious of being Robert Henri Lafond. The painter Robert Henri wrote, "Your painting is the marking of your progression into nature, a sensation of something you see way beyond two pretty colors over there. Don't stop to paint the material, but push on to give the spirit." <br /><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I attended the Boston Museum School, and have an undergraduate degree in Art History (summa cum laude) from Princeton University where I studied under the abstract painter Esteban Vicente. I paint predominantly landscapes and cityscapes in oils and pastels, both in the studio and plein air, concentrating on the Berkshires and Brooklyn. Learn more and see more at my art blog: markandremark.blogspot.com.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiWSXQq_xNPXn3a1V7lbZuL6gu5dezLjrVFIi0PAAlFg3oqP4Aq3A1eMgHuueCLY8rqrvIBUzjv2nEnLXh8ZjEUdALjRtbMu1c-rqH4JI9EeDygCPWfC0F22Rf8OK3h-n4T-Wtunfh7Wk1IrUIu0BuK6KxXaQvuU4K0xKrc9G0XCLLuqsH7xsWF12tm=s1000" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="755" data-original-width="1000" height="303" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiWSXQq_xNPXn3a1V7lbZuL6gu5dezLjrVFIi0PAAlFg3oqP4Aq3A1eMgHuueCLY8rqrvIBUzjv2nEnLXh8ZjEUdALjRtbMu1c-rqH4JI9EeDygCPWfC0F22Rf8OK3h-n4T-Wtunfh7Wk1IrUIu0BuK6KxXaQvuU4K0xKrc9G0XCLLuqsH7xsWF12tm=w400-h303" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A Bend In The Road<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/robert-lafond/a-bend-in-the-road/817282">(click to view)</a><br /><br />Enter to win by clicking on the link at the top of the DPW home page announcing interview<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p style="text-align: left;"><b>What did you want to be growing up?</b></p><p>When I was ten or eleven, I remember dreaming of becoming an architect. My grandfather was an architect. I loved the work of Frank Lloyd Wright. Then in high school, I decided that I wanted to become a painter. My mother always encouraged my artistic bent. A painting of hers depicting Saint Cecilia hung over the piano. We had a book with reproductions of the Ashcan School around the house. I was aware from a young age that my middle name Henri, after my other grandfather, made me Robert Henri Lafond. I drew all the time and could catch likenesses easily, so everyone in my family thought I was going to be an artist.</p><p><b>When did your artistic journey begin?</b></p><p>I did a lot of drawing and painting in high school, and thought of going to the Boston Museum School. I grew up in New Hampshire. However, I got into Princeton University on a full scholarship, and went there for my freshman year. I dropped out during my second year. I ended up in Boston where I did attend the Museum School for a couple years. I was also involved in a Catholic Worker soup kitchen where I drew portraits of the men from the streets. Able to return to Princeton after almost three years away, I entered the Art History Program, graduating summa cum laude two years later. At this point I was painting abstractions. My senior thesis was a group of paintings. After graduation I started working full time at the Princeton University Art Museum as Registrar. I continued to paint abstractions. Because of my job, I visited galleries and museums in New York frequently during the heydays of the 70s and 80s, and also traveled to museums in Europe.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjcNhIfaIqKuWSt5-R2eswVgMsjEgPUFwPjCLvIE5Bfl_Oa07NKoU94lgk6KydQ5CEK3Q7S3FJDFeHTRC3fwmMAnKpwFNLE95N2hKQpWHJhYwXrod943jhktLkIHF-FW5FPg1tU7XCJBv0ISh3Fs9S8DEZx-8ujxK4g45ItpP_IRQy3cxu35RuAgGsB=s999" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="746" data-original-width="999" height="299" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjcNhIfaIqKuWSt5-R2eswVgMsjEgPUFwPjCLvIE5Bfl_Oa07NKoU94lgk6KydQ5CEK3Q7S3FJDFeHTRC3fwmMAnKpwFNLE95N2hKQpWHJhYwXrod943jhktLkIHF-FW5FPg1tU7XCJBv0ISh3Fs9S8DEZx-8ujxK4g45ItpP_IRQy3cxu35RuAgGsB=w400-h299" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Surreality<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/robert-lafond/surreality/746205">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><p><b>Did you have any long periods without creative expression? How did you get back on the horse?</b></p><p>My free time outside of work was devoted to painting color abstractions based upon placements and displacements of torn and cut paper. I showed in a variety of local exhibitions, and through a contact, had some paintings briefly in a New York gallery. Then I stopped painting for a long while. I focused upon other interests and changed careers, moving to Information Technology, after taking evening classes for a Masters degree in Information Systems. However, I kept drawing during this time. My drawings were representational, mainly landscapes and buildings.</p><p>I’ve never done anything half-hearted. So when I started painting again in earnest, I did it everyday. Why did I start again? Somehow I realized that I have only one life to live, and that painting had to be at the center of it. I’ve painted almost every day now for the last fourteen years. I recently saw a short film of an artist who has stopped working late in life. He regretted that he no longer had the passion to work at it every day. Where does the passion come from? I don’t know. But the passion for painting is necessary.</p><p><b>Which mediums and genres do you gravitate toward? Which ones don’t appeal?</b></p><p>When I started painting every day, I worked with pastels since they are a natural extension of drawing. I slowly started to work again in oils, but this time it was different since I wanted to paint outside as well as in the studio. Then and now I paint mostly landscapes. I like to paint portraits and figures also, but there are fewer opportunities to do so. I’ve always been motivated by my surroundings. I also started to do cityscapes in oil and pastels. Recently, I’ve started to do gouache paintings because I’m always looking for ways to paint quickly outside and on my travels.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjhoWKNs23XaKgupkdlEmw26CXDVgACEZycvdU7V1u7cUd02YfxXkE1eK7Lzksi50wS56AVF9eObQ5RgRgagbaeg9GaHkFpmsi-se0_RCeUzF8IVS9XjyurfjE1JkoYxzTfL2E3yamEr7NxmvAVAs1dKz2-VsUYAFdz3MQkx1grqXiBZpoY-EN3NXVP=s999" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="999" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjhoWKNs23XaKgupkdlEmw26CXDVgACEZycvdU7V1u7cUd02YfxXkE1eK7Lzksi50wS56AVF9eObQ5RgRgagbaeg9GaHkFpmsi-se0_RCeUzF8IVS9XjyurfjE1JkoYxzTfL2E3yamEr7NxmvAVAs1dKz2-VsUYAFdz3MQkx1grqXiBZpoY-EN3NXVP=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A Little Rainbow<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/robert-lafond/a-little-rainbow/970776">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><p><b>What was the process like of pinpointing your personal style or finding your voice?</b></p><p>Since the time I started to paint every day, I’ve never thought about a style. I just work. It was when I was younger that I worried about a style. I think good painting is dependent upon one’s maturity and experience. My early paintings reflected the artists I admired at the time. I wanted to do my own work then, but I didn’t know what that was.</p><p><b>Name an artist (or artists), well-known or not, who you admire. Why?</b></p><p>When I was younger, I admired Richard Diebenkorn, Jasper Johns, and Willem de Kooning. I tried to paint like them. Today I admire a different group of artists. My favorites include painters like Charles Movalli, Bernard Dustin, Ken Howard, Edouard Vuillard, Albert Marquet, Isaac Levitan, Lois Dodd, Neil Welliver, people who are representational painters with a bend slightly towards abstraction. Another influential painter who perfectly combines painting and the Internet has been Julian Merrow Smith. A mainstay painter has always been Paul Cezanne. There are a lot of wonderful painters today from Russia and England who post their work frequently. I’ve maintained a blog since 2008 and utilize Facebook and Instagram to promote my work. I also sell my work on Etsy and Daily Paintworks. Through the Internet, I’ve met and know of many contemporary artists.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjX8nvs3iY4fdy7WJUmM0LldmTJIx2nYhyVLLFath1x4UPuJ_q4BvoHlheeVF_S68yl-afU552kiyhD2kFn7J91qBuxv5Wi_soxL6P1Y4Aig1O4kl70_7OOSpLchSa-0BImiKtY77xIIUVRLPFaHodSIvxUW7Lthr_1mT43oe-Bg62ZkyWfohc_oIVV=s1000" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="756" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjX8nvs3iY4fdy7WJUmM0LldmTJIx2nYhyVLLFath1x4UPuJ_q4BvoHlheeVF_S68yl-afU552kiyhD2kFn7J91qBuxv5Wi_soxL6P1Y4Aig1O4kl70_7OOSpLchSa-0BImiKtY77xIIUVRLPFaHodSIvxUW7Lthr_1mT43oe-Bg62ZkyWfohc_oIVV=w303-h400" width="303" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Flowers on the Dining Room Table<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/robert-lafond/flowers-on-the-dining-room-table/796933">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><p><b>If you could offer one piece of advice to your younger, creative self — what would that be?</b></p><p>I’ve often thought that you can’t be where you are now without having gone through what you have gone through. I probably wouldn’t have listened to me back then anyway. I did have to make a living, so there are limits to what one can do if you want to be an artist. My advice to other artists, who might ask me for advice, is to draw. Without being able to draw, you don’t learn to see or paint as well as you could.</p><p><b>Do you utilize any habits or tricks for winning the distraction and procrastination battle?</b></p><p>If I come to a moment when I don’t know what to do next, I draw. It always leads to something. I may go walking with a sketchpad in hand. Or I start a painting I didn’t want to do despite thinking about it for a while.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEitWYMldeThulwgj7G-9aQkid1ucVP9BkGRwjIi6QAXJ3QWPtxw0U6NjPrVWNquZr2VIItTI8v70mYz0YOcfLm7xjce9Y6fLCuVrcJ5EXYJk8fhXE-KYz17Svf1eHa3irhy74Y24jkS5xnDoskBPv02LSM75QscRCqAyumdhfjrNttPNUeYQXNkqY-M=s999" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="999" data-original-width="753" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEitWYMldeThulwgj7G-9aQkid1ucVP9BkGRwjIi6QAXJ3QWPtxw0U6NjPrVWNquZr2VIItTI8v70mYz0YOcfLm7xjce9Y6fLCuVrcJ5EXYJk8fhXE-KYz17Svf1eHa3irhy74Y24jkS5xnDoskBPv02LSM75QscRCqAyumdhfjrNttPNUeYQXNkqY-M=w301-h400" width="301" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">An Interior<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/robert-lafond/an-interior/938144">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><p><b>In moments of self-doubt or adversity, how do you push forward?</b></p><p>The moments of doubt do appear. The answer is always to keep working. I’m not really doing it for riches and glory. I can’t control anything except the work I’m doing now. There will always be disappointments. You just have to let them go.</p><p><b>What are some of your long and short term goals for yourself or your art?</b></p><p>A short term goal has always been selling enough art to pay for my expenses to keep making more art. My problem is that I make more than I sell. It reminds me of a definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over, expecting a different outcome.</p><p>A long term goal is reaching a point where I can work freely. I can’t say effortlessly, because making good things demands hard work. I like to paint in series. Right now I have a series of small gouache paintings going, and a series of larger oil paintings of mountains. They seem to lead one to another easily.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjVXxAUG9LunNLpsnEm65jmE02qszhHCut_p5WUQbR7P6cTPZ1TDoO5D6HpFNRnke1dN5dPLojq2OrIxtiec4s8MynwKpr2y4CtRL2kaRAikpOc2yX4vEqF9oU2vhAXO1DyVRbYN77uKFWzko2qsIWmKBWC8llKzZdakE9GPQrW7PSpWpWbDH4T4mXR=s999" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="744" data-original-width="999" height="297" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjVXxAUG9LunNLpsnEm65jmE02qszhHCut_p5WUQbR7P6cTPZ1TDoO5D6HpFNRnke1dN5dPLojq2OrIxtiec4s8MynwKpr2y4CtRL2kaRAikpOc2yX4vEqF9oU2vhAXO1DyVRbYN77uKFWzko2qsIWmKBWC8llKzZdakE9GPQrW7PSpWpWbDH4T4mXR=w400-h297" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Late Afternoon, Washington Avenue, Brooklyn<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/robert-lafond/late-afternoon-washington-avenue-brooklyn/740894">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><p><b>What does success mean to you personally?</b></p><p>Success is building a consistent body of work. How much will survive? Who knows? Of course, I am very prolific. I have hundreds of paintings in my studio. For anything to survive, you have to get it into the hands of other people.</p><p>Success also means receiving the occasional praise of other artists. And also giving praise.</p><p><b>What is one of your proudest moments in your creative life?</b></p><p>A time that I will never forget was the opportunity to stay in Aix-en-Provence for a month in 2017. I literally followed the footsteps of Paul Cezanne all over town. I painted several times at the Jas de Bouffan. I walked in the Le Tholonet region outside of Aix, and spent a day painting there at the foot of Mont Sainte-Victoire. You can’t appreciate Cezanne fully if you have not been to Aix and its surroundings. Cezanne was a local painter after all, which reminds me that we are all local painters, painting what we know best if we are to have any success as artists.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjJwWGisSbx9IKJonelWDKoP13CO7GgSzEW5pd4E1AM3imc3gyM3W-HUmwVI3KTxUy_otOrCFeYkukeomVgJZRznXB2EIDgitl_7sYKie1TDqCOTrcw-26V7iEI7IeAz2rmu0-jumBZlaVEuWhIc56KuaT86X8GHb3PapxrZHxgLc6SvUJrmPWZaG6s=s999" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="999" data-original-width="988" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjJwWGisSbx9IKJonelWDKoP13CO7GgSzEW5pd4E1AM3imc3gyM3W-HUmwVI3KTxUy_otOrCFeYkukeomVgJZRznXB2EIDgitl_7sYKie1TDqCOTrcw-26V7iEI7IeAz2rmu0-jumBZlaVEuWhIc56KuaT86X8GHb3PapxrZHxgLc6SvUJrmPWZaG6s=w395-h400" width="395" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A Bit Eerie<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/robert-lafond/a-bit-eerie/859960">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Thanks, Robert!</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />© 2022 Maddie Marine</div>Maddiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12080891613292159584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8984607510148246137.post-19608077123132306932022-02-03T21:59:00.002-08:002022-02-03T21:59:00.206-08:00DPW Spotlight Interview: Thomas O'Brien<div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-4828203890804752133" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;"><p><i>Each week we will spotlight a different DPW artist who will give away one of their best paintings. To enter to win Thomas's painting "Oranges in Sunlight" go to Daily Paintworks and click on the link at the top of the page announcing their interview.</i></p></div><div><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">From Thomas's DPW Gallery Page:</span> </b></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiNquwE3VpiviKq1qGFxROvTXmGArKEsTNfKUJHgFCraZgzv44oiDd9pLm8SqC1FLw4buxtElzWI_RUVneH1dTQp0wajvYEotzAdkWHxVdvNYGrrE9kVLjD_13rOaM_2LXkLT5ioJF8XLZku_3RGowm2foODI_qPYO3wScBCIUrLzvzWba6xC_eoTWn=s2722" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2722" data-original-width="2613" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiNquwE3VpiviKq1qGFxROvTXmGArKEsTNfKUJHgFCraZgzv44oiDd9pLm8SqC1FLw4buxtElzWI_RUVneH1dTQp0wajvYEotzAdkWHxVdvNYGrrE9kVLjD_13rOaM_2LXkLT5ioJF8XLZku_3RGowm2foODI_qPYO3wScBCIUrLzvzWba6xC_eoTWn=w192-h200" width="192" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;">Thomas O’Brien is a professional artist that paints seascapes and landscapes characterized by strong use of saturated color and deliberate mark making techniques. His artistic direction is heavily influenced by the impressionist and modernist painters/writers of the 19th and 20th century, particularly Cézanne, Picasso, Faulkner and O’Connor. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">Thomas O’Brien went to the University of New Mexico where he graduated in 2011 with a bachelor’s degree in Technical Writing and minor in Art Studio. Having been an artist his entire life, his early pieces were entirely illustrative, using graphite, charcoal, pen and ink. His attempts at oil painting began in the autumn of 2008, where simultaneously his love of depicting landscapes began. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Thomas O’Brien is also an Active Duty Marine Corps Officer, and has done several art projects for his military community, including: an Alaska Barrier mural in Kuwait City, a conference room historical project, and has designed multiple unit shirts, coins and other relatable content. He is currently painting and teaching at Grapes and Gallery/Columbia Library of Columbia SC, and is professionally represented by CityArt, Columbia’s premier Fine Art Gallery. He also is the host and creator of Columbia Art Group Meet-Up, which has close to 800 members now. </span><br /><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhmoL1cz0-RI_QRduHChsNM48sg7cLBjvTcG-8qq2djuBz4Xy0PvKJUUYE8aiiPfLJ3VSP4nrvIdQrT21FdgjsB8B8UCo-iAhwpvPa3sIwXb_JNYpmsap2O7l6us3A-DmPM8kwO5hwXUHSWo_d5uk6z6UHNnjODl9kqed7Rz6sqLow6DClC_Y5Jlcr-=s5000" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5000" data-original-width="4961" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhmoL1cz0-RI_QRduHChsNM48sg7cLBjvTcG-8qq2djuBz4Xy0PvKJUUYE8aiiPfLJ3VSP4nrvIdQrT21FdgjsB8B8UCo-iAhwpvPa3sIwXb_JNYpmsap2O7l6us3A-DmPM8kwO5hwXUHSWo_d5uk6z6UHNnjODl9kqed7Rz6sqLow6DClC_Y5Jlcr-=w398-h400" width="398" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Oranges in Sunlight<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/thomas-obrien/oranges-in-sunlight/972125">(click to view)<br /></a><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Enter to win by clicking on the link at the top of the DPW home page announcing Thomas's interview</span></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>What did you want to be growing up?</b> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">I wanted to be like my father or grandfather. Huge </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">influences on my life while growing up.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div><div><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">When did your artistic journey begin?</span></b></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">I started drawing at a very early age. As I got older, I kept </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">going with drawing. It was a way to escape to another world, the world I was creating on a page. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Continuous drawing eventually led to basic instruction in high school, which in turn led to college </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">courses in the studio art realm. My touchpoint with painting began in college, which was </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">back in 2006/07 ish. A lot of that instruction was very structured. When I joined the Marine </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Corps back in 2010, there were huge portions of time where I wasn’t painting.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEivTjGUmpuUjvwciUhWfSpkokdOGEN2oNQ-JX4-VZ8BvzD_SFU3J1fD5vMd8xagOUc0x6kJ-0ApxRRTkjTKmSTyIqa7Dyn7Fx3vsYaGGvEbSEkr7zwthDTBgLRSFPy7GbeF514dK93PF_XsQMdmdWb3y8sYWg2Ab66R8Zrfnz-FgrAK1K-lt0Ptv1uh=s999" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="999" data-original-width="670" height="479" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEivTjGUmpuUjvwciUhWfSpkokdOGEN2oNQ-JX4-VZ8BvzD_SFU3J1fD5vMd8xagOUc0x6kJ-0ApxRRTkjTKmSTyIqa7Dyn7Fx3vsYaGGvEbSEkr7zwthDTBgLRSFPy7GbeF514dK93PF_XsQMdmdWb3y8sYWg2Ab66R8Zrfnz-FgrAK1K-lt0Ptv1uh=w322-h479" width="322" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rose Color Study 3<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/thomas-obrien/rose-color-study-3-/851081">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></span></div><div><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Did you have any long periods without creative expression? How did you get back on the</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">horse? </span></b></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">My largest period of silence on the art front was from 2010 to 2014. Painting was not </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">practical due to Marine Corps training, and the stress, and the long hours. I think after I got into </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">a rhythm I could count on, my mind eventually gravitated to making art again. The hours never </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">shortened, I just got more effective at time management.</span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Which mediums and genres do you gravitate toward? Which ones don’t appeal?</span></b></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">I am primarily </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">an oil painter, but I also do work in gouache. For genres, I stay with landscape, still-life, abstract, </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">sometimes portraiture and figure. Landscape remains my most engaged in subject. I don’t care </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">for traditional watercolor, and acrylic I’m not as familiar with.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiwi1dGsW7CTeC9qyZie8LNJOxBLitFydD_uyZDOwB7FnJMTG9paogs4tsi8Abclc7qzD-xDJgI6-kW291qv1zTKNHxpvXuk4EfhA0TvBL1qyz6vLc9uN1oICCx01BWHP_BX2Q4LVfXqZ9gszGsLQR7ny_YqWyw8tkvgII7QFmXySC786Lae_OWWEOe=s964" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="964" data-original-width="828" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiwi1dGsW7CTeC9qyZie8LNJOxBLitFydD_uyZDOwB7FnJMTG9paogs4tsi8Abclc7qzD-xDJgI6-kW291qv1zTKNHxpvXuk4EfhA0TvBL1qyz6vLc9uN1oICCx01BWHP_BX2Q4LVfXqZ9gszGsLQR7ny_YqWyw8tkvgII7QFmXySC786Lae_OWWEOe=w344-h400" width="344" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Akuna Beach<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/thomas-obrien/akuna-beach-/896416">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">What was the process like of pinpointing your personal style or finding your voice? </span></b></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">The process </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">has been a rocky one. There isn’t a good way to find that kind of path, other than putting in the </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">brush mileage. You just start to use certain techniques, certain brushes, certain mediums, and </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">subjects often enough, that your “style” just becomes you. It’s like learning a language, </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">eventually how you talk will be unique to you, but you have to put in the time learning and </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">practicing.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Name an artist (or artists), well-known or not, who you admire. Why?</span></b></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">First and foremost: John </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Singer Sargent. Without question my favorite artist, ever. I have seen his work many times in </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">person, and every time I am blown away. The more I study him, the more I realize how little I </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">know. For me, his economy of strokes, accuracy, looseness, and overall mastery of the basics </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">(values, color, composition, etc.) just impresses the hell out of me. Other notables: I love a good </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Turner piece, most artists out of the Hudson River School scene, and some of the impressionists: </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Monet, Matisse, etc. As far as contemporary artists go, Richard Schmid jumps right out at me, </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">your SF scene (Mann, Kustusch, Sexton, Dhein, etc.) Australia’s Colley Whisson & Ken Knight, </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">and landscape virtuoso Scott Christensen.</span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgci9NKHlmCGGukSKzflrdHPtPJ-ls1NmOd_3P-3xjbRsd4Um-B1JtlcXFlDgGMJS0kvtikH5vZ9hzbbgQ-7HMX3my9r22CszwN0E9-AUuyh6v9zoYV8DDoPA1fcALwWm3NHedbOKFsztXjXxqzk6yI_x9CcUkQtVzkMK1Mv3-w_UcjdDC1NUvzG1x5=s1000" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="800" height="413" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgci9NKHlmCGGukSKzflrdHPtPJ-ls1NmOd_3P-3xjbRsd4Um-B1JtlcXFlDgGMJS0kvtikH5vZ9hzbbgQ-7HMX3my9r22CszwN0E9-AUuyh6v9zoYV8DDoPA1fcALwWm3NHedbOKFsztXjXxqzk6yI_x9CcUkQtVzkMK1Mv3-w_UcjdDC1NUvzG1x5=w330-h413" width="330" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lion Color Study III <br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/thomas-obrien/lion-color-study-iii/831454">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">If you could offer one piece of advice to your younger, creative self — what would that be?</span></b></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">Get your head into the books, and save your money!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div><div><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Do you utilize any habits or tricks for winning the distraction and procrastination battle? </span></b></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">The only trick that works for me is education. Sometimes, I have to be honest with myself and </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">acknowledge when my education isn’t getting me further along. I have to constantly be </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">edifying myself to evolve. Zorn, Sargent, Schmid, et.al. were total consumers of history. Knew </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">where the game came from, and where to take it. I take best practices like that from the top tier </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">guys and try to incorporate that into my own practice.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEid5RJriznhSpTwCZMADNu_C-w2sTI6RuJBMqiyz4KI9WTiI2PvKEAKrFQeu7SoJqXLe_hvz4BohYwPknJ94MKm7yozobVost76Iml5GIzbx1Er1thnnNu3XHSVa7fktzJfFyVA3JPa7KoackSvk5GxX_89UhBcwC_m2WSzVbe8u0jH8e6UdUn1y9Dt=s1000" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="998" data-original-width="1000" height="399" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEid5RJriznhSpTwCZMADNu_C-w2sTI6RuJBMqiyz4KI9WTiI2PvKEAKrFQeu7SoJqXLe_hvz4BohYwPknJ94MKm7yozobVost76Iml5GIzbx1Er1thnnNu3XHSVa7fktzJfFyVA3JPa7KoackSvk5GxX_89UhBcwC_m2WSzVbe8u0jH8e6UdUn1y9Dt=w400-h399" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Buddha in Jade <br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/thomas-obrien/buddha-in-jade-/972026">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></span></div><div><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">In moments of self-doubt or adversity, how do you push forward? </span></b></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">I approach this systematically, I am disciplined and I find that discipline tends to keep adversity at bay. The more discipline you </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">exhibit, the more freedom you have/earn. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>What are some of your long and short term goals for yourself or your art? </b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">Short term for me is </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">defined as 1-5 years and within 5 years I want to be represented by galleries on either coast of </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">the United States and do more shows. Long term goal would to be able to subsist off art as a </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">profession, own a gallery, and get into instruction.</span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEig9-ih4A51FoqIfz1PnFuuNwyG8tz9XMldFuD1U3Y-NttU-62bo0vibcFOB1XbP2VmWuMqrtUUSKZWW7-CO3VEbGeadzmzkuNl46lbfo8ruoPiLo65uxsctUHy-XbVMdYEPsYtGdMqelJQlhduTUnzLzb4R5-O44msgTZ3qGVmjiTEsfTrQmQaoVL6=s1000" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="800" height="445" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEig9-ih4A51FoqIfz1PnFuuNwyG8tz9XMldFuD1U3Y-NttU-62bo0vibcFOB1XbP2VmWuMqrtUUSKZWW7-CO3VEbGeadzmzkuNl46lbfo8ruoPiLo65uxsctUHy-XbVMdYEPsYtGdMqelJQlhduTUnzLzb4R5-O44msgTZ3qGVmjiTEsfTrQmQaoVL6=w356-h445" width="356" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Taken by the Tide<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/thomas-obrien/taken-by-the-tide/732425">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">What does success mean to you personally? </span></b></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">Mastery of the process (process defined as the </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">execution of painting, the market aspect, the administrative aspects, etc), and peer respect.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div><div><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">What is one of your proudest moments in your creative life?</span></b></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">Being accepted as a Marine Corps </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Combat Artist for the Marine Corps Museum in Washington DC.</span></div></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhQPjEosfOmiea4Lz1h4bWv7D3YoEGsR2u-eJ-f3E6w3GRhnZC2AYQdeEAdrzvhvn5rORxnNuyMJZUNTVAwP7BiBSLNBtyf8dTugmmQXvthGjv8yfTjxmnjCv648DsMrWTo0pjUCv2Cz72rAjXyXlC94XeOVnPt0XyeBU76Klh_wTm8p6PzIOBbDRyW=s1000" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="526" data-original-width="1000" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhQPjEosfOmiea4Lz1h4bWv7D3YoEGsR2u-eJ-f3E6w3GRhnZC2AYQdeEAdrzvhvn5rORxnNuyMJZUNTVAwP7BiBSLNBtyf8dTugmmQXvthGjv8yfTjxmnjCv648DsMrWTo0pjUCv2Cz72rAjXyXlC94XeOVnPt0XyeBU76Klh_wTm8p6PzIOBbDRyW=w487-h256" width="487" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Plum Color Study<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/thomas-obrien/plum-color-study-/851693">(click to view)</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><div><div><b>Thanks, Thomas!</b></div><div><br /></div><div>© 2022 Maddie Marine</div></div><div><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /></div></div>Maddiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12080891613292159584noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8984607510148246137.post-30791064799802921852022-01-27T21:59:00.002-08:002022-01-27T21:59:00.196-08:00DPW Spotlight Interview: Kate Battle<div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-4828203890804752133" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;"><p><i>Each week we will spotlight a different DPW artist who will give away one of their best paintings. To enter to win Kate's painting "Midsummer Garden" go to Daily Paintworks and click on the link at the top of the page announcing their interview.</i></p></div><p></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">From Kate's DPW Gallery Page:</b> </span><p></p><p><span style="color: #500050; font-family: inherit;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #500050; font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh6dSGGTbatOGnE5xu6AOZnzi5g7XZNv8h6H6s3VMXpYY2GVtJLSPX8FKEM-7BfB6tCKjgxnfz4uCeLHum0Ss087X1gBlNSWUCJFXlpl4lHX_AzWttK4QzMWd_GMu4RVw2Ai0ZtjsmI2nxZqul6EbPVHU8mo0VENi8nyxXHzT7n9Hf4CPyh6fLXYNcY=s399" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="399" data-original-width="399" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh6dSGGTbatOGnE5xu6AOZnzi5g7XZNv8h6H6s3VMXpYY2GVtJLSPX8FKEM-7BfB6tCKjgxnfz4uCeLHum0Ss087X1gBlNSWUCJFXlpl4lHX_AzWttK4QzMWd_GMu4RVw2Ai0ZtjsmI2nxZqul6EbPVHU8mo0VENi8nyxXHzT7n9Hf4CPyh6fLXYNcY=w200-h200" width="200" /></a></span></div><span style="color: #500050; font-family: inherit;">Kate Battle is a painter working in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Her vibrant acrylic paintings depict people, animals and scenes that blend realism with subtle abstraction. </span><p></p><p><span style="color: #500050;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">An artist since childhood, Kate completed her Bachelor of Fine Art Degree with a concentration in Graphic Design and a minor in Art History from Youngstown State University in 2005. She worked as a Graphic Designer for 11 years before stepping back to focus on raising her daughter. During a crayon 'scribble session' with her then 18-month-old daughter, Kate realized that she had always wanted to be a painter and picked up her paint brush again.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #500050;">From her studio, Kate </span>works everyday to capture the beauty she sees in the natural world and its inhabitants on canvas. In her portraits and figurative work, she uses color to heighten the underlying feeling and personality of the subject. Kate uses her paintings to explore ideas related to identity, childhood and family both past and present.</span></p><p></p><p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjwKiBQr4prUP_FWwafbdehC3GHQEp_SzHtOHXlWKFyCvGwVkQfVtw0zE5NG099XCPPPJAs1nQYfLOWKCHWdxba2MzqGCoPqYdaR6Bz4YesEMJrAd6XNA0QA34PzQNUERa6EKw4qU1MBUCWu5j59GtyTEL3JM6ULIeSYqOlOH3PgZxDRXN8fQ23zVUM=s999" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="999" data-original-width="983" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjwKiBQr4prUP_FWwafbdehC3GHQEp_SzHtOHXlWKFyCvGwVkQfVtw0zE5NG099XCPPPJAs1nQYfLOWKCHWdxba2MzqGCoPqYdaR6Bz4YesEMJrAd6XNA0QA34PzQNUERa6EKw4qU1MBUCWu5j59GtyTEL3JM6ULIeSYqOlOH3PgZxDRXN8fQ23zVUM=w394-h400" width="394" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Midsummer Garden<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/kate-battle/midsummer-garden/967181"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">(</span><span style="text-align: left;">click to view</span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 10.56px;">)<br /></span></a><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Enter to win by clicking on the link at the top of the DPW home page announcing Kate's interview</span></td></tr></tbody></table></p><b style="background-color: white; color: #500050;"><span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">What did you want to be growing up? </span></span></b><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">As a child, I was torn between being an Artist or a Scientist (specifically studying sharks). When I r</span><span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">eached High School and realized I didn’t like to dissect animals in biology, I decided to pursue a degree in art.</span><span class="im" style="color: #500050;"><br /><span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> </span><br /><b><span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">When did your artistic journey begin? </span></b><span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">I have always loved to draw, paint and make things out of whatever I could find (cardboard/mud/pipe cleaners, etc.). I come from a family of creative individuals so my artistic pursuits were encouraged. I started selling my designs on greeting cards (that I hand colored) at the age of 6, along side my Mom’s work at local craft shows. As soon as I was old enough, I joined the artists’ guil</span><span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">d in my hometown so I was constantly around creative people. After I graduated High School, I went to Youngstown State University in Youngstown, Ohio where I earned a Bachelors of Fine Art with a concentration in Graphic Design and a minor in Art History.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjnXiOCRIkPoRYCWy19K9oRGq-ET-B1ej38x_OfTW0fSxtawrArT59ApGFZnyMtN2l4_-IBbjSCoHNLRM4dlryJEp2hn1XNK3Kxgsao4BcbfVyLkz6h2aoG83U59HVoZUeBEPhRq0J0tTx-Z2Uw61hD2naaoO6CbFmozRJXYw3zeZfPbUlvbCFs2MfO=s1000" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="980" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjnXiOCRIkPoRYCWy19K9oRGq-ET-B1ej38x_OfTW0fSxtawrArT59ApGFZnyMtN2l4_-IBbjSCoHNLRM4dlryJEp2hn1XNK3Kxgsao4BcbfVyLkz6h2aoG83U59HVoZUeBEPhRq0J0tTx-Z2Uw61hD2naaoO6CbFmozRJXYw3zeZfPbUlvbCFs2MfO=w393-h400" width="393" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Testing the Water<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/kate-battle/testing-the-water/867444"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 10.56px;">(</span><span style="text-align: left;">click to view</span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 10.56px;">)</span></a></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><span class="im" style="background-color: white; color: #500050;"><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><b><span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Did you have any long periods without creative expression? How did you get back on the horse?</span></b><br /><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I wouldn’t say that I had any long periods without any kind of creative expression, just that the ‘mediums’ I chose to use varied widely. From art supplies to building materials, I realized I was happiest when I was making things. While I was working as a Graphic Designer after college, I purchased my first home – a tiny 1890s fixer upper – and learned how to renovate it. I got the same creative fulfillment from remodeling a kitchen or building my own bathroom vanity as I did from painting on canvas. I also spent several years blogging about my home improvement projects in my second home (a 1962 ranch) and then worked as a blogger for <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://retrorenovation.com&source=gmail&ust=1643430954752000&usg=AOvVaw3AodQ8Rw7yzExp8J4kotqo" href="http://retrorenovation.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">retrorenovation.com</a> (a blog about restoring homes from the 1950s-1970s) for several years. When my daughter was born, I went through what would be my only real creative dry spell during her first year and a half of life, but it was also my daughter who led me back to my creative pursuits. At 18 months old she became obsessed with using crayons, watercolor paint and sidewalk chalk for hours everyday. Drawing with crayons during the day helped me go through the motions enough to pick up a paintbrush myself after she had gone to bed for the evening. I realized how important being creative was for my overall wellbeing and that out of everything I had done in my life, I had always really wanted to be a painter.<span class="im" style="color: #500050;"><br /></span><span class="im" style="color: #500050;"><b><span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><br /></span></b></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="im" style="color: #500050;"><b><span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Which mediums and genres do you gravitate toward? Which ones don’t appeal?</span></b></span></span></div></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I have tried many different mediums during my creative journey and always find myself coming back to paint. Oil paint was my medium of choice in college, but when I started painting again after my daughter was born, a low odor/quick drying medium (so little hands wouldn’t find the wet paint) was a concern so I switched to acrylics. At first I was frustrated because they dried too quickly, but then I discovered ‘open’ acrylics that stay wet longer for workability and have actually come to love using acrylic paint because of its drying speed and vivid color. I am mostly drawn to portraits, figurative work and animals – because I love trying to capture the spirit and emotion of living beings on canvas.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEipXaYpI-0I-y5x-f-UgH-IWw9bC9O6lmKPA6xV08x24ipGN-ZGsReEXbHGVbTqnuuoj2fjzJwqDG5t8dnnDvNAcz_UiiVl0KiS0EEDxKRzkLDyQ3lHsFb8rpj1krUqfZVkTq31Fpf5bNVCxbclzEOxJQKwhlve2URqgw1t7dd6ufljaM7jWAC6gaXE=s1000" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="995" data-original-width="1000" height="398" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEipXaYpI-0I-y5x-f-UgH-IWw9bC9O6lmKPA6xV08x24ipGN-ZGsReEXbHGVbTqnuuoj2fjzJwqDG5t8dnnDvNAcz_UiiVl0KiS0EEDxKRzkLDyQ3lHsFb8rpj1krUqfZVkTq31Fpf5bNVCxbclzEOxJQKwhlve2URqgw1t7dd6ufljaM7jWAC6gaXE=w400-h398" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Portrait of the Artist after using a Snowblower</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10.56px;"><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/kate-battle/portrait-of-the-artist-after-using-a-snowblower/872356">(</a></span></span><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/kate-battle/portrait-of-the-artist-after-using-a-snowblower/872356"><span style="text-align: left;">click to view</span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 10.56px;">)</span></a></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><br /></span></b><b><span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">What was the process like of pinpointing your personal style or finding your voice? </span></b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b>I think finding a voice/style is a lifelong pursuit. As we age and gain new skills and life experiences our artwork reflects that. I find that continuing to challenge myself helps me to grow as an artist and continue my journey.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><b><span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Name an artist (or artists), well-known or not, who you admire. Why?</span></b><span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> </span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><br /></span><span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">The portraits of Paul Cezanne and Vincent Van Gogh are hugely inspiring to me. A few years ago, I saw one of Cezanne’s self-portraits in person at the Milwaukee Art Museum and became obsessed with it. The way he used brush strokes and subtle variations of color was intoxicating. Physically standing in front of any one of Van Gogh’s portraits gives me a similar feeling that you just can’t get from a book. When it comes to contemporary artists, I’m a huge fan of Alpay Efe. His ability to combine realism and subtle abstraction to create fresh, modern work is impressive. I’m also hooked on his YouTube channel, which provides artistic inspiration and a peek behind the scenes when he creates art. I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention Carol Marine (we all know who that is!) Her loose, painterly style is what initially drew me to her work, but when I discovered her book “Daily Painting,” I felt that she had given me permission to paint small and often. In that respect, she has inspired me twofold – with her art and through generously sharing her knowledge to benefit other artists.</span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh7qmY59IYeWyCQHL_S7ABDXp584lq12XjoqQfDcdc7gV3pH3QCrHdIWSq5nqaguHXf2l0AIuwpx2vaQ0l0D0D_zW01duLn8URIfaCeFw1c6xxzjNxmGCYcWiTmkWscXYItZJzWluBfkyyhfqO_1ZcOl_GFKElTbJC3AVrRfA0yr50xLYgx-ZA1iDEg=s1000" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="992" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh7qmY59IYeWyCQHL_S7ABDXp584lq12XjoqQfDcdc7gV3pH3QCrHdIWSq5nqaguHXf2l0AIuwpx2vaQ0l0D0D_zW01duLn8URIfaCeFw1c6xxzjNxmGCYcWiTmkWscXYItZJzWluBfkyyhfqO_1ZcOl_GFKElTbJC3AVrRfA0yr50xLYgx-ZA1iDEg=w396-h400" width="396" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lucy<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/kate-battle/lucy/969045"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 10.56px;">(</span><span style="text-align: left;">click to view</span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 10.56px;">)</span></a></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><b><span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">If you could offer one piece of advice to your younger, creative self — what would that be? </span></b></span><div><b><br /></b><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Believe in yourself and work hard and you can do anything you put your mind to.</span><br /><span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> </span><br /><b><span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Do you utilize any habits or tricks for winning the distraction and procrastination battle? </span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">I just try to show up. Deep down, I know I want to paint every day, but there are some days when the couch seems way more appealing. Sometimes, I let myself hit the couch and take a break, but if it happens for a few days in a row, I drag myself into my studio, put on some music, get out my paints and stand in front of my easel until I just start painting. Usually, after about 5 minutes of painting, I’m over the procrastination. If the problem is artist’s block, then I try to get out in nature, or go to a museum and that usually helps me become inspired again.</span></span></p><span class="im" style="background-color: white; color: #500050;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> </span></b><b><br /><span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">In moments of self-doubt or adversity, how do you push forward?</span></b></span></p></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">I try to remember that no one has everything all figured out and anything worth doing requires hard work and determination. Take a deep breath, try again.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjKn0tRwJec0JYzFHr9d_innnpI2bf9V1SAPggN1ZJndKldHJOeU-VHyc76vvnoF4X3lW7tOIqTJzOFTCzbOP1q7Pkuwv6EmGzCfrtv1Am9w-3vUWzBN1izjE833zKwf5KUdef3RDG6sVtm8ajZ1kHNNhCh8qfZDUiZoAMoXfLNiA0ou31TRtPrPcpc=s1000" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="991" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjKn0tRwJec0JYzFHr9d_innnpI2bf9V1SAPggN1ZJndKldHJOeU-VHyc76vvnoF4X3lW7tOIqTJzOFTCzbOP1q7Pkuwv6EmGzCfrtv1Am9w-3vUWzBN1izjE833zKwf5KUdef3RDG6sVtm8ajZ1kHNNhCh8qfZDUiZoAMoXfLNiA0ou31TRtPrPcpc=s320" width="317" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Filling the Pool<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/kate-battle/filling-the-pool/853873"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 10.56px;">(</span><span style="text-align: left;">click to view</span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 10.56px;">)</span></a></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">What are some of your long and short term goals for yourself or your art?</span></b><span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> </span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">My short term goals are to continue to develop my personal style and grow as an artist by painting as frequently as possible. At the beginning of January, I started the 100 heads challenge, where I will be painting 100 portraits. Long term goals include developing a body of work that I could exhibit in a local art gallery or show, and to connect with other local artists in southeastern Wisconsin.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">What does success mean to you personally? </span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">To me, being a successful artist means two things: If I am creating art regularly, I am taking care of my creative self, since the act of creation is an essential part of my wellbeing. Secondly, when other people find happiness in my art, I feel successful.</span><b><br /><span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> </span><br /><span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">What is one of your proudest moments in your creative life? </span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I don’t know if I’ve had one ‘proudest moment’ in my creative life, there have been many ups and downs. A few that stick out are the day of my graduating senior art show in college, the day I decided to pick up my paintbrush after many years of not painting, and when I finished the painting of my nephew, Noah, (Noah, Age 14) and gave it to his Mom. I think that portrait of Noah was the moment when I really believed in myself as a painter.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEioEsnh1JhMX8tdBZU_LNXMehptxs74D1KcPHXbBLxjp8q7bQ6u69IgaqnYS7-0QoZrfauB1q8g8bj1GqeMCLVhDmtlSrUSJFVy96jjskHieQa7_hKDcjQInZLX2oM-E_darpFtRY3ndDiGxf68kYfrjbsSulCgF4mjFU6lnujPMFQbyX--P3xbPcOl=s999" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="999" data-original-width="739" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEioEsnh1JhMX8tdBZU_LNXMehptxs74D1KcPHXbBLxjp8q7bQ6u69IgaqnYS7-0QoZrfauB1q8g8bj1GqeMCLVhDmtlSrUSJFVy96jjskHieQa7_hKDcjQInZLX2oM-E_darpFtRY3ndDiGxf68kYfrjbsSulCgF4mjFU6lnujPMFQbyX--P3xbPcOl=w296-h400" width="296" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Noah, Age 14<br /><a href="https://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/kate-battle/noah-age-14/854065"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 10.56px;">(</span><span style="text-align: left;">click to view</span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 10.56px;">)</span></a></td></tr></tbody></table><div><div><b>Thanks, Kate!</b></div><div><br /></div><div>© 2022 Maddie Marine</div></div><div><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></div><p></p></div>Maddiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12080891613292159584noreply@blogger.com4