Topic: Art Styles
Hello Fellow Artists,
Although I've been immersed in photography for the last eight years, my first love was painting, beginning in the 1970s. Not having formal training in art, I painted and studied to fill in the spaces.
Training comes in many ways. I was surprised how much being a massage therapist (1972 - 1987) increased my skills as an artist, bringing a heightened sense of the physical and emotional worlds. As an academic librarian (1992 - 2004) I was immersed in computers and learned to focus my mind based on the demands of this technology, particularly useful in digital photography. And so my right brain (massage) and left brain (computers) were trained. Does this make me a balanced person? I like to think so. Both photography and painting are very demanding: each can take a lifetime to learn. But I've not been able to let go of one or the other (must be my Gemini rising!). If I get too deeply into photography, a tug from the painter side of me makes itself heard, and vice versa. So now I'm combining the two. Here is a collage (acrylic and photography) completed recently. The original is about 4' x 4'.
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Updated: Wednesday, February 6, 2008 10:37 PM EST
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