FASO Featured Artists: Artist Suzy Hart
by Carrie Turner on 5/22/2013 7:11:28 AM | Comment on this |
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Artist Suzy Hart notes that the human gaze is the most compelling force in her life as an artist. This influence drives her work. Suzy states that she seeks to elicit an empathetic response in the viewer by capturing the emotion of her subjects. [...]
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FASO Featured Artists: Artist John Feiser
by Carrie Turner on 5/17/2013 7:44:07 AM | Comment on this |
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Artist John Feiser is a fine art photographer. John's approach to fine art photography concentrates primarily on natural scenes. His photographs often involve unique perspectives of situations found within the natural world. In a sense, his work reminds us not to take the beauty of nature for granted. [...]
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FASO Featured Artists: Artist Daggi Wallace
by Carrie Turner on 5/15/2013 7:25:42 AM | 3 Comments |
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Artist Daggi Wallace is a pastel painter known for creating emotionally charged artwork. It has been said that Daggi captures the soul of her subjects and the essence of the moment in her masterful pastels. Concerning her style, Daggi states, "While my style is representational I give it a contemporary touch by adding texture to the painting surface, using bold colors and contrast and leaving some areas of the painting less defined.". [...]
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FASO Featured Artists: Artist Lisa Kovvuri
by Carrie Turner on 5/1/2013 11:42:47 AM | Comment on this |
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Artist Lisa Kovvuri focuses primarily on oil portraits and still life paintings. Lisa has garnered recognition due to her highly detailed portrait commissions. Her portrait paintings have received praise due to her level of skill as a painter ? and her ability to capture the personality of her subjects. [...]
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FASO Featured Artists: Artist Charles Cox
by Carrie Turner on 4/29/2013 5:33:25 AM | Comment on this |
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Artist Charles Cox is known creating painterly cityscapes and landscapes. Charles notes that his art practice focuses on accurate drawing and tones. Furthermore, he focuses on what he describes as "enjoyable details" and "entertaining brushwork". Needless to say, we at FineArtViews find his paintings to be both enjoyable and entertaining. [...]
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FASO Featured Artists: Artist Nancy Alter
by Carrie Turner on 4/26/2013 6:33:18 AM | Comment on this |
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Artist Nancy Alter is known for combining dry point etching, collagraph techniques, digital imaging and manipulation of the image in order to create a number of artworks. Nancy's artwork often appears to focus on organic, flowing forms. The details of these shapes capture the attention of viewers. [...]
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FASO Featured Artists: Artist David Savellano
by Carrie Turner on 4/24/2013 6:25:00 AM | Comment on this |
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Artist David Savellano notes that he works primarily en plein air (outdoors). David utilizes watercolor painting to capture random moments that he observes on the streets or in nature. Additionally, David creates plein air ink drawing and watercolor sketches in order to capture the essence and feel of a scene. He states that he strives to be "present in the moment". [...]
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FASO Featured Artists: Artist Karen Stewart
by Carrie Turner on 4/19/2013 9:44:22 AM | Comment on this |
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Artist Karen Stewart has a background in working with pastels, oils, acrylics, and watercolor. Karen's artwork is inspired by her travels ? having lived in numerous locations throughout the United States. Her paintings ? which often involve rural scenes ? are strengthened by her strong use of color and unusual compositions. [...]
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High Tech is an Artist's Friend
by Lynne Hurd Bryant on 4/18/2013 7:23:06 AM | 34 Comments |
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I'm sure most of us complete a piece of artwork, make sure we have natural light and take digital photos, then load them to a computer, do some kind of cropping for clean edges, save the photo, go to FASO, to our Facebook fan page, our Facebook wall and upload the photos, write all the descriptions and move along to the next piece of artwork. For me, this process could take more than hour especially if the digital camera and I were not getting along and if the photos were blurred, I'd have to repeat part of this process at least once. The app ended a lot of this work. [...]
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FASO Featured Artists: Artist Petrea Noyes
by Carrie Turner on 3/22/2013 7:01:00 AM | Comment on this |
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Artist Petrea Noyes explores a number of directions with her artistic process. Petrea utilizes aspects of photography, painting, drawing, collage and digital manipulation. She describes her main body of artwork as part photography, part painting and drawing, part digital manipulation. Petrea embraces technology as part of her artistic process ? while still holding to the traditions of the past. [...]
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FASO Featured Artists: Artist Phil Couture
by Carrie Turner on 3/20/2013 9:18:11 PM | 1 Comment |
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Artist Phil Couture is known for exploring various cultures with his artwork. Philippe works with a variety of mediums -- including charcoal and oil -- in order to capture the essence of what he discovers during his world travels... [...]
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