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Watercolor Artist
New exhibition September,2009, Art
First Gallery: 824 Caroline St. , Fredericksburg, Va.
TO BE ADDED TO THE MAILING LIST, PLEASE CONTACT ART FIRST
GALLERY, OR EMAIL ME AT:
ALLEN_pa@comcast.net
As a watercolor artist and an art teacher, I find myself frequently telling people about
the passion I have for the job I do. They often ask why would someone do this,
it doesn’t pay much, and people can often be critical about what they see and
don’t understand. For me, the answer is simple; passion
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Summer Lovin' 2008 |
Clown Parade 2007 |
For me,
passion is about how I feel about the subject, how I’m going to use my
materials, and how I am going to get the viewer to understand that my life
revolves around thinking both in, and outside the box. For these reasons I do
not limit myself to just watercolor, but I push the limits of what I have to
show people what influences me, and how I want to display my approach. My
emotional connection to my art will sometimes reveal itself in realistic subject matter
with a twist on color, an angle on an architectural piece that makes me feel
awed, or an abstract that reveals my non-conformist thinking. I am always drawn
to the organic shapes found in nature, as well as the symmetry in a man made
world. These concepts will carried out with a bold use of color, and an attempt
to show myself getting lost in the piece, so my soul becomes evident.
Red Splendor 2006 |
Sea Turtles 2005 |
Quiet Escape 2007 |
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It is for these reasons I
generally start a piece of work with a mood I want to create, sometimes using
photos for a more controlled subject such as architecture, or I will throw paint
onto a piece of paper, create a background, and the piece will tell me what it
wants to become. I love to work on 20x30 pieces of paper to have room to move,
and would work larger if space permitted! The process in my work shows the many
sides to my personality, from painstaking colored pencil work, to mixed media
explosions, my world continues to evolve, and I learn more about myself with
each new piece. Please see my gallery for further art.
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