Going to be held in conjunction with a museum's animal friends exhibit is a program where six local artists will demonstrate their individual approaches to animal painting. Every artist is required to create an animal theme painting in the museum galleries and then share information with the visitors pertaining to the style and techniques they used to capture the image and spirit of the animals in the paintings. In terms of people from different cultures and backgrounds, they have special meanings for animals as mentioned by a museum's executive director.
For many the buffalo is a spiritual symbol or the dove as a sign of peace. What dogs symbolize are cherished friends while a red tailed hawk can be a good omen. From petroglyphs to cave murals to oil paintings to jewelry, animals have been the subjects of artistic endeavor since the beginning and remain favorites across the globe.
This female artist considers herself to be an avid explorer of ideas, styles, and techniques. Her methods have been developed over a long career of teaching, consulting and in workshop presentations and publications. Apart from being a founding member of a local society of watercolorists she is also in the west's who's who.
It was southern California where a female artist came from and she took up art and watercolor before moving to her hometown in 1983. People and animal portraits are some of the themes she works with together with landscapes and floral studies. Considering her style, the director attributes this to her aggressive use of pigment and also her ability to push the watercolor medium into works of unusual size without sacrificing the brilliance of transparent watercolor.
For the other artist, he studied at the art center of college of design in Los Angeles and another famous college. He was a graphic designer when he was in Chicago who has experience in national exhibits including the national watercolor exhibition in environment. In Springfield, Illinois and other local and regional venues is where each of the artists will be creating presentations and publications.
After graduating with high honors from New York's school of art, the fourth artist studied for some time at the University of California in Los Angeles. It was at Washington school of art's 12th annual competition where she won the best of show. Able to give a precious glimpse of human drama is how her work was described by a reviewer considering how it is full of psychological poignancy as parts of a famous director's film.
At the Kansas university school of fine arts was where the fifth artist earned her painting degree. When she works, she paints in her own interpretive style of realism and this gives the viewer a feeling of the subject's mood as well as the atmosphere. Apart from participating in the Kansas landscape which is a traveling exhibition shown at the Smithsonian institution in Washington, DC, she has also held a number of one person shows and has participated in juried exhibitions too.
For the sixth artist, she studied Chinese brush painting with a noted Chinese painter for eight years and this allowed her to culminate her study of art and refinement of painting skills. What she did was adapt this style of painting, lifted or erased during creation, to the northern New Mexican environment. It was the director of the museum who said that they are honored to welcome these distinguished artists from the society of watercolorists to the museum and reiterated was their commitment to artists and designers working showing up.
For the delight of audiences both young and old is the current animal friends exhibition which has been specially selected. Visitors will surely find this workshop pleasing as artists create portraits of their own special animal friends. 1992 was when the society of watercolorists was founded which has a mission to encourage the local and national production not to mention appreciation of professional quality watercolors.
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