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| Me My name is Lynn. I have been interested and involved in art most of my life in some form or another. Now, I have this opportunity to share my work with you. I hope you enjoy browsing through my art gallery. |
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My Art Background The love of art arrived in my life very early. In grade school, I won competitions for my drawings. As a teenager I began working in oils, primarily landscapes, and entered fine art shows, where I was surprised that others liked my work enough to pay me for it. In my twenties, I started my own unique stationary business, through the use of craftart. I had this very flourishing business until I was in my thirties. I continued my oil painting from time to time throughout my life. In the 1970's I began painting many abstract oils and then transitioned those abstracts into subliminal suggestion paintings. Getting on with my life, I laid down my brushes, oils and canvases for many years; but I never gave up art entirely. I had many productive years in the world of craftart, mostly as hobbies. I think I have tried so many popular craftart forms that have come along throughout the years. In the early 1980's I taught many types of needlecrafts; however, my joy in needlecraft art is most lovingly expressed through crocheting, where I learned to design my own sweater patterns and other patterns; and this still remains a hobby I enjoy very much. My love of artistic creation evolved into a gift basket business where I owned and ran a gift shop and designed custom gift baskets professionally for four years. I've tried my hand at dollmaking, both cloth and porcelain dolls. I always had the desire to sculpt, so I have one and only one sculpture that I made. One of my current forms of art expression is jewelry designing. I developed my jewelry design firm, LAUGHING GIRL JEWELRY DESIGNS, and currently handcraft fine artisan jewelry in silver and gold using gems and beads. As of late, I have gone back to my oil paintings, and have expanded my mediums. The most favorite and most unique type of work to date is featherpainting--Yes, I paint on real feathers!! I am learning soft pastels, have done some watercolor work and enjoy finding canvases from nature, like the feathers and leaves and rocks and gourds! I would be amiss if I didn't mention that another current love is that of my dogs. I breed and raise Yorkshire Terriers, and through my love and devotion of these tiny dogs, I have found new uses for my art. I have an online store, PLANET YORKIE and PLANET YORKIE 2 where I offer original yorkie art in the form of fine art portraits to crafty items. I have no formal art studio, but am currently looking for an outbuilding to put on my property to use as a studio. For now, my easel or sketchbook follows me to various rooms in my home or outside to enjoy nature. I am striving to work hard to become a better wildlife artist, and you will see some of my earlier wildlife work in watercolors shown here, along with new wildlife art. My Education Mostly a self-taught artist, I took an art course at Rhode Island College while studying Psychology in the late 1970's. When I moved to California in the early 1980's, I took gallery oil classes twice through Mize Art Gallery and Bakersfield College. I was also instructed in various needlecraft arts, where I excelled in teaching and selling needlecraft kits for a company out of Gardenia, CA. I learned gift basket designing by reading books and trial and error. I could see a vast improvement in my design concepts from the beginning of my work, and how I progressed into building more eye appealing baskets as I continued. I am currently still taking classes to make porcelain dolls; however, I do no kiln work--only the painting and assembling of the dolls I choose. However, the cloth dolls are my own design, and I used only my imagination to make them. All my jewelry designing is self-taught, and comes from my love of gemstones and finished jewelry. My lessons come from life and my love of art. I now self study when I want to try a new art medium, and I have quickly learned whether I will continue using a particular medium or go on to try some other form that is new to me. Artist retains all rights to original artwork for use in prints. Email Me! Links to My Other Sites |
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