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- This is how it begins…
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- Painting is about dark and light
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- Teachers can be students
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- Technique can be taught, passion cannot
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- The slightest of changes happens with each stroke
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- What is it that you see?
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- “The differences in paint are like butter and margarine”
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- Tools of the trade
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- This can be the hardest part
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- Inspiration in all forms
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- Careful concentration is required
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- The necessary tools are never far away
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- A creative process, but still a process
An artist is a person who interprets the world around them. The sorrows, the joys, the pain, the beauty are all seen in a particular way to be explained and relayed in some way. It can be argued that we are all artists. But those that are compelled to deliver this interpretation of the world as they see it are quite different. There is an inner drive in them; almost an audible voice for their ears only, that requires them to create. It pushes them. It fulfills them. It comforts and nurtures them. In a small studio in Greenwich Village an accomplished author and professor, beloved wife and mother, obeys that inner voice and delivers what she sees through oil paints. While she painstakingly teaches her students to find their place in the world she is simultaneously creating hers and where here art will take her. Here is the anatomy of an artist…
