roseart

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City: Pine Bluff
Country: United States

Joined: May 2009

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I am a self taught 61 year old artist. Growing up in Southern California, I was fortunate to having some wonderful art teachers during my school years. I put my art aside during my early adult years to pursue married life and a career. Finally in my early 30’s I was able to discontinue working and picked my art back up. I’ve always loved drawing and painting animals. I began doing pastel portraits of my dogs. I thought, “Hey, these aren’t too bad!” I took these pastel portraits to my local Veterinarian’s office and asked if I could hang them for advertisement purposes. They were thrilled to have some art work to hang on their walls. I began receiving commissions immediately. Clients asked if I could do people.

Well….I really wasn’t sure but I thought if I could do animals why couldn’t I do people? So to my astonishment, my first commissioned people portrait turned out quite nice. This began my career of portraiture paintings.

I work in Pastels and Oils. My pastels are done on Canson Mi-Teintes paper.

And my Oil paintings are done on stretched canvas.

I am an active member of my local Art League.