Artist Judith Schutzman
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Biography
While I've always been drawn to art - and drew - I didn't sign the contract until I'd retired from teaching English. Turning first to watercolor, I was soon in Sumi-e, pastel, and Asian brush classes. Then life started to open for me, and I realized why I'd always had to fight a shadow of depression. Depression means I need to get out of myself, pick up the brush, and create. So I picked up the pen as well and signed the contract for my future: I am an artist, and I vow to go as far as I can in the time I get.
I make art every day. I take my sketchbook and wee watercolor set on long walks near my home in beautiful Harvard. I practice Sink or Swim, enrolling in workshops with master artists for whom I am not yet ready. While I learn a lot about drawing, painting, and print making, I am humbled, made uncomfortable, challenged, pushed, and seduced into growing. I either adore or can't stand my teachers. But I know we are all explorers, pilgrims on a mountainous path with many blind turns, and we will never arrive at our destination.
I decided early on to develop skills in a spectrum of mediums and styles. While others had the depth of a Masters of Fine Arts, I chose my teachers carefully and moved from medium to medium, style to style. Now I can look at a landscape or figure and decide what technique might be best. I enjoy the shift in thinking and tools in the switch from one medium to another. During the pandemic I discovered acrylic gouache, its sumptuous colors and opacity as pleasing as the simplicity and transparency of water color, and I dove into collage. There are no limits except [...]
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