Shano Camano Island WA I love to live vicariously through my divas. They are daring, impudent, vivacious women with scintillating lives in alluring locations. Always they are powerful, sexy, demanding, and audacious. They adjure many good friends whether it be a girlfriend, horse, cat or dog, and they always invoke emotion by the viewer. The most cherished aspect of developing my paintings is that it becomes a mindís vacation. These images literally come from nowhere and take on their own personality. When these divas arrive, it is as though I am welcoming a trusted confidant into my world. I start procuring my art on a red canvas. I then loosely sketch the figures in a light blue acrylic paint. Never in pencil- I have found that the art becomes to contrived and tight if sketching in graphite beforehand. My favorite tools to create with are my inexpensive brushes, which I abuse to perfection when formulating the multi-layered background. It is the pristine and well cared for shading brushes that allow the divas to coruscate onto the canvas. I am gleeful when these prismatic characters instill themselves into my paintings like long-lost friends. I always know a piece is done when colors have saturated and the divasí vivid personalities come forth and materialize. Godiva 18 x 27 ($400) Acrylic
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