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Hello everyone!

I'm a quiet artist who likes to paint, especially portraits and landscapes (or faces and places).

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"Urban Alley Detail" acrylic on acrylic paper 12x12

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"Urban Alley Detail" process

Sometimes I make abstract-leaning pieces when I want art therapy, or if I'm trying a new technique or material because it's fun to create without worrying about chasing perfection.

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Untitled, acrylic on canvas 10x8

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Untitled process

Some details about me: I'm a 30-something American woman who's been making art since very early childhood. Aside from high school, I haven't spent too much time with other artists (mostly keep to myself). I graduated college with a degree in computer information systems, which is admittedly not very "artsy". Almost all of my art education has been self-guided, I've learned mostly from books and experimenting. At present, I work full-time at a mechanical services company as well.

Over the years I have experimented with a range of materials- watercolor, colored pencil, crayon, acrylic, marker, ink, among others. And there are so many more materials and techniques I want to use, at least once. Digital painting is the most recent thing for me to learn. Currently I use IbisPaint for that, and I'm looking forward to upgrading to a more robust app once I outgrow it. I see benefits of both digital and material forms of art and it's liberating to have options!

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"Loving Glance" digital drawing 2048x1536

Artistically, I'm inspired by Nature's dynamic beauty (especially skies and the plant world), the crispness of graphic design, and the charisma of classical & ancient art. As for my style, I typically like to emphasize color and strongly defined forms to give my compositions a fresh, clean energy.

As artists, we should be willing to push boundaries and express ourselves in ways that are genuine to ourselves and our experience, and I respect artists who create from their own inner voice. Hive is a fantastic place to share & develop ideas about improving the world. By using art as a tool for positive change, I want to be involved in making some of those improvements.

I want to share that I started blogging on ssteam - it in 2016 (yes, I switched to Hive when Hive formed). That blog was all over the place on content since I wasn't clear yet about my focus. So it's phoenix mode with @emanate-artworx.