 Birthday celebration with my kiddos at one of my favorite breweries, "Lazarus" in east Austin.
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edited by vmm Chris Green-Martinez The artist flanked by her Conch and Egret Landing Chris Green-Martinez comes to Imagine Art by way of Manchester, England. She discovered art in kindergarten. The teacher noticed her talent and would send Chris around to the first graders. “Every time I did a painting, the teacher would have me run to the first-grade classes to show them.” She moved to the states and studied art education at the University of Texas at Austin. Chris does a variety of medium, expressing herself through watercolors, acrylics, and occasionally oil. One method she practices is Plein Air, which is to paint on site, outdoors, in natural surroundings. Her latest endeavors have been a combination of abstract geometrics and realistic subject matter.  On her easel, Chris taking advantage of northern light. “I was looking online for galleries to show my work. I applied to a few places and Imagine Art responded, just in time for the Eastside Studio Tour."
Finally, she has found a place to display and sell her work, where people can experience her art. She finds inspiration in the Renaissance artists, painters Michelangelo and DaVinci, as well as the Impressionists Renoir, Van Gogh and Matisse. Her goals for the future are to keep painting while discovering new ways to communicate.  Complete!  Almost finished.
 It's been six days since the last post. As you can see, I am mixing two different styles of painting: hard-edge and painterly. Hard-edge is painting in which abrupt transitions are found between color areas and is commonly related to geometric abstraction. Painterly is defined by qualities of color, brush stroke, and texture.  An aside: Living in my apartment complex, there are many distractions. Footsteps resonate. Laughter carries. But those are short lived. The most annoying distractions are loudmouth conversations which can go on and on. How do artists maintain a peaceful coexistence and still bring it to the neighbor's attention?  |
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