Hello! Welcome to my blog! Let me tell you a little bit about myself.
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Most of my life I have enjoyed painting, but there was a particular moment when my three year old son and I were painting together and I realized how much I love painting and I made a promise to myself to try to paint every day and I have been painting most every day since. I am awed by how much painting has changed my life, because it is what I had always wanted to do, but never allowed time for before. I am amazed at how the more I paint, the easier and more intuitive it becomes.
The way I like to paint is to cover the canvas in a dark color, usually blue & red mixed together which makes magenta and dark indigo. Then I mix primary colors with white and let the colors blend together on the canvas. This way the paint does what it wants and it's a surprise to me. It also gives my paintings their dark outlines.
I've spent most of my time here in Fort Collins, Colorado, and have fallen in love with the dynamic clouds and sky, the blues and greens of rolling mountains and trees, the contrast of orange sunlit rocks against brilliant-dark blue sky. I love to paint scenes that have a special meaning to me in some way. I strive to bring the feeling of nature into my paintings with brilliance and color, and my hope is for viewers to be uplifted by what they see.
Enjoy!
~Beth
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