Poinsettia

Poinsettia

6"x 6" oil on Raymar panel SOLD.

Artist Note

This was a demo done during the workshop

last week. 

My last workshop from my own studio. 

I had a great group of talented artists

who did some wonderful

fracturing work.

It is not easy to break up 

a perfectly nice piece of work and 

I know that, but, with some 

encouragement, it was very rewarding to see

them beam with pleasure when they finally

got it!

They all traveled many miles to attend

and I am grateful and honored

they chose to learn from me.

A personal chat.

I have mixed feelings about not hosting

any more workshops because

I really enjoy teaching and have met some 

amazing artists from Hawaii, Canada, 

South America, Mexico and all areas of the US,

but I selfishly want to have more time for 

my own development. 

When I started fracturing 9 years ago,

very few oil painters were into 

any form of the 

"create, destroy, rebuild"

school and it took time for me to find 

my own way of doing it.

 It took me even longer to 

show the public, and that was 8 years ago,

but, it became noticed

and I was asked to make a video 

for Daily Paintworks!!

I still am gobsmacked at how successful

it has been.

Fast forward to the present time.

I see many, many more 

"messy" paintings 

- as my husband calls them - 

and I am excited to be mainstream

where people are not asking me 

why my lines are not smooth!!

I want to push myself further

and see what develops.