How do you tell your boss that he looks like Santa Claus, and that you want to paint his portrait? In the end, my compulsion to create the painting was greater than my fear of offending him.
Closed Eye – Continuous Line and Opposite Hand Techniques
My classes are not about painting a specific thing or outcome. The focus of my workshops is how we create – that is what is important. The techniques can be applied to any style of creation as well as living life..
A Nod to the Newfoundlander’s Sense of Humour
The inspiration for my work is rooted deeply within Newfoundland’s sublime landscape. I begin my work with the ideas of movement, light and texture with strong lines and vibrant colors as vital elements within the piece.
A Painting For All Seasons
Anne’s paintings bring the everyday, the familiar into sharp focus for the viewer to experience in new way. Everyday items, a vista, a flower, become an opportunity to slow the senses and appreciate their beauty and simplicity.
Logic of Light
The process of painting, for me, is a continual search for balance between all opposite elements; not too bright – not too dark, not too colourful – not too gray, not too cluttered – not too barren, not too strong – not too weak, not too controlled – not too free.
An Obsession with Art Shoes – Real or Fantasy?
Each shoe represents a fantasy, and exotic place, and ancient time, a modern dream interpreted in bronze details that suggest fine beading, twisted horns, curling feathers, ribbons and bows, wings, sea creatures, the fur bootie of an Icelandic princess …
Soul Searching, Gratefulness, Nature and Prayer
Paintings that reflect individual soul searching, gratefulness, connecting to one another through nature and prayer. Although no religion is reflected in the paintings, viewers share a spiritual oneness. There is always a consistent flow of Aboriginal touches that reflect off each image.
Green Bun
Carollynne Yardley, fun & magical visual artist, has scampered out of the tech world into the art world along with Green Bun, Romance and Steam Punk Squirrel.
Lotus Flower
Mary Claire combines her childhood innocence with dramatic lines and colors to help support charities and the local art scene.
Baja Sexto
Images of cowboys, Mariachi Singers, flags of our country, state and Hispanic neighbors, reminded her of her childhood growing up in once upon a time rural Santa Clara Valley.