firstglance
Profile
I am a self taught artist influenced by natures beauty and color. I’ve studied the light patterns and blends of color that captured the actual environment of the scenes reflected in my paintings. I like to call my work “Artistic Realism”. The places I paint are not actual places but, place I feel within, if I have swept you off to serenity making you feel like you are actually there, then you have been inspired by my painting as I have in natures beauty. Someone once said “Sometimes it is just better to paint what you feel rather than what you see”.thats what I tell my student where I teach an oil painting class !!and a merber at SouthLake art league. so I invite you to feel the beauty, as I have in my painting. Thank You for shairing my passion. 
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Groups
firstglance is a member of All Things Orange Artwork Gallery, "Mornings & Evenings -- Sunbeams & Storms" 1 photo per 24 hrs; 3 drawings or paintings per 24 hrs, 12 Great Features - Challenge Themes ONLY, Abstract Art, All Countries ~ Wetlands, Ponds, Lakes and Rivers, Beach Art, Challenge Café, Decorative and Traditional Art, Dimensions, Fine Art approaches to Figure and Face, First Things, Florida the Sunshine State, Forests, Hawai'i ~ Aloha Na'au, Horizons, Human and Nature, Impressionist Art, Key West and the Florida Keys, Landscape Painting, Latin-Caribbean Art, Lightning and Storms, Live, Love, Dream: , Living Christianity, Masterpiece: Art, Mother Nature's Finest, Nautical, Oil Painting, Out of the Blue (75%+ Blue), Painters In Modern Times, Purple Passion Gallery. 2 per day , Remodernist Painters' Group, SEA, Seachanges, Seasonal 'Scapes, Shadows & Reflections, Skyscapes, Spiritual Art, Surfing, The Greatest View in the World, The Red Barn, Trees - 2 images per day with trees as the focal point, United States, Vibrant and Vivid Color, Water Media (Paintings by hand only) and Waves.
