Artists Describing Their Art:
Diana Millerpierce - I am attracted to scenes involving strong clear light, that will cast strong shadows for subject matter. I look for a composition of strong dark and light patterns to create a dynamic tension and energy in a painting. My work is drawn from realism of nature, but the overall pattern creates a great deal of abstraction. Color is planned to enhance the tensions and drama in my overall compositions. I hope my paintings help the viewer arrive at a different perspective of the world and its beauty....
A. Joseph Dumont - I think we are all artists! Since the first person to put charcoal to a stone, to the young child with a pencil and paper. All who create with a view to share that expresion with someone else is an artist. Until we can cast away what others think and what others say of this work, can we truely be free to grasp for horizons that have not been shared. A. Joseph Dumont...
Igor Moshkin - Artist Moshkin Igor I wish to participate in the competition For this I represent the Arctic territory, sea territory in my authors paintings in watercolor technique. In my paintings you can see birds and animals in the Arctic zone, forests, mountains. You can see the streets and houses of small Russian cities. I invite you to watch...
John Hopper - Although my medium of choice is watercolor, I do oils and acrylics. I find watercolor more exciting, more FUN, and I tend to experiment with technique in watercolor, where I tend to vary my subject matter in other medium. I am a photographer also, however, I see photography as capturing a moment in time with everything static, where in painting, even representational, you put your experiences, history, your entire person into the painting. You bring together your sense of what youve painted aEUR" and hope that the viewer can feel some of that aEUR" along with, and more important, their sense of their own experiences mirrored in the painting. I love what I paint and have FUN expressing that love....
Andre Mehu - Hi, my name is Andre MEHU, I'm French an live in Lorient city which set in Brittany. I'm a self-taught artist in watercolor. First it would be advisable to specify that the artwork on these pages are protected by copywright law. It is illegal to copy or reproduce any image without permission of the artist. Thanks. Copyright France.com K6AJ18B. 1989-2003 : For fourteen years I painted watercolor as a hobby, then I stopped for five years. August 2008: I took again brushes and colors and since this time I've been painting intensively. November 2008: I created my transparent watercolor web site www.andremehu-aquarelles.com May 2009: French Red Cross chose five Watercolors of mine to edit them in postal cards August 2009: The trigger: Workshop with spanish artist Dolores Bolanos . She studied fine art with great spanish painter Josep Martinez Lozano (1923-2006) from Llanca. He created the Fondation Martinez Lozano the first watercolor museum in Europe. This workshop with Dolores was a revelation. She introduced me to the particularity of watercolor. She said us watercolor is to "play with water and pigments". With her I have released my imagination, my creativity, and ...