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�e great American poet Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, "�e Earth laughs in flowers...." Texas artist Nancy Medina, CAE, has found a way to express that statement through her art. She is an award-winning artist whose oil paintings are in homes and private collections around the world. Nancy is known for her bold, impressionistic backyard flowers and large container gardens that are immediately eye-catching. Described by American Art Collector as "...one of today's best floral and botanical artists," Nancy is one of the most collected artists in the US.

Nancy's love of art and gardening originated on her childhood farm in Scurry, Texas, where her parents were organic gardeners. Her earliest memories are of standing barefoot beneath10 foot sunflower stalks in her family's garden. Nancy studied art history and illustration at the University of London and oil painting and color theory at Texas A&M University. Today she resides with her husband and their 3 pugs in Flower Mound, Texas, where she paintsdaily from Flower Mound Art Studio.

Nancy has worked professionally in design and publishing for over 20 years. Her original oil paintings have been featured in print and Web publications and on the covers of magazines. Nancy is a member of the prestigious Daily Painters Gallery, the original international gallery of 150 artists who produce new daily works of art for collectors across the globe. Her work is represented by galleries in Texas and California. She is a featured artist and art instructor for the Dallas Arboretum, which has used her paintings on the covers of their promotions and awarded her in their annual juried Garden Gallery competitions. When she is not in the art studio, Nancy is a volunteer for Dallas Fort Worth Pug Rescue, the largest pug rescue charityin the nation.

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Wonderful FacesApril 3, 2012 Dear Artists, Last Friday I saw the Norman Rockwell exhibition at the Winnipeg Art Gallery. Having seen it twice before in other cities, this time I concentrated on the stylistic changes throughout the artist's lifetime. Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) was the best known illustrator of what is often called America's Golden Age. The butt of jokes by many critics, his popularity continues to rise. Unlike a great deal of art in public galleries these days, Rockwell's work is still connecting. The gallery was jammed with a cross-section of age andethnicity. Apart from popularity, Rockwell may be one of the more interesting and valuable studies for artists. From his �rst Saturday Evening Post cover (May 1, 1916--a rich kid pushing his baby sister in a buggy while bully-boys jeer) when he was 23 years old, to his last (Dec 14, 1963--a portrait of the recently assassinated JFK), Rockwell painted 332 Post covers. Following these in chronological order is an education in the growth of capability, the progress of style, and the transformation of the artist. In the earliest covers we see the eagerness of a young, growing mind--often wooden gestures and over-worked, theoretical faces. By his twenties and into his thirties we begin to see the well-de�ned personalities of his subjects. We also gain a new understanding of the power of symmetry, silhouette, vignette and deviceslike legs and arms as vehicles of expression. Sophisticated colour and �ne, painterly surfaces begin to appear. Strokes become caresses of painterly love. Finally, in later life, we see Rockwell tightening up, become more photo-dependent, less stylish, less sensitive to colour and less con�dent of his craft. More than anything, we see an artist taking a lifetime to �nd out what he does well (faces in pro�le, expression of human nature and character, for example), and what he doesn't do so well (wide-angle scenes, crowds and overly complex busyness). Some of the middle-period magazine illustrations such as Checkers, (1928) and a Colgate toothpaste ad (1924) rival the masters in characterization and gesture. We've illustrated these and others at the top of the current clickback.

Best regards, Robert PS: "I paint life as I would like it to be." (Norman Rockwell) Sign up for Robert’s letters on his site. Read this letter online and share your thoughts on talking about your work. Live comments are welcome. Direct, illustratable comments can be made at [email protected] The Workshop Calendar: Here is a selection of workshops and seminars laid out in chronological order that will stimulate, teach, mentor, take you to foreign lands or just down the street. Many of these workshops are recommended by Robert and friends. Incidentally, if you are planning a workshop and have photos of happypeople working, feel free to send them to us and we'll include a selection in the workshops feature at no extra charge.

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March Winner Best of Show �e Art Challenge “Nourishment”

Nancy Standlee

Nancy Johnson Standlee, a native Texan from Arlington, loves working in a variety of water media and collage, both torn paper and hand painted paper, and mixed media. She uses some watercolor in her illustrated journals. She has a background of working with textiles and batik. Nancy is a founding member of the Texas collaborative painting 8 member group, Canvas by Canvas.

She says: “Painting has been a faithful companion on this creative journey and a tool for an introduction to an amazing group of people who travel beside me.”

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When did you realize you loved art and wanted to be ‘an artist’? When I was a kid, I drew a lot and even did a few pastels in middle school. I also loved drawing the dresses for my barbie dolls with flowing skirts and lacey things. Actually 'playing' with the dolls never interested me but drawing their dresses and clothes was the most fun! When I got to high school I joined the choir which took up most of my time. I actually wanted to become a singer but then college, marriage, kids, etc came along and I got a real job as a sales representative. I always admired artists and by the time we moved to Houston, I had dabbled in a few oils but only to the extent that I could do when I wasn't busy with job and family. After our move though, my company did not have an opening for me. I began to take a few lessons from well known Houston artist Lindy Daly. I credit Lindy for giving me inspiration and my love and passion from painting was born. So, I started later in life. I did not 'feel' like an artist until I started getting some recognition for what I was doing by family friend and entering a few local art competitions. Now, I feel it would be hard to do anything else.

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Exuberant Art for the Eternally Optimistic

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Painter Hall Groat II, professor of fine and media arts at Broome Community College, teaches foundation courses in painting, drawing, color theory, and computer graphics. Groat earned a master of fine arts degree in painting and drawing from City University of New York at Brooklyn, a bachelor of arts in art history, minoring in studio art at Binghamton University, and attended graduate and certificate programs at Buffalo State College, Syracuse University, and Savannah College of Art and Design. He also attended summer sessions at Chautauqua School of Art, Chautauqua, NY, and Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, Vt.

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Utah-based artist, Diane Whitehead, gives new meaning to the expression “proli�c painter”. Whitehead states “Animals are my muse”, however her adventuresome paintings explore diverse themes, ranging from boldly painted and vivid colored �oral and landscapes to heartfelt interpretations of wildlife and the human �gure. Her depictions of animals within their natural environments are poignant and perhaps socially relevant based on increasing threats to wildlife due to natural disasters such as forest �res and drought. The sense of empathy expressed in her work is also quite refreshing based on how frequently Mother Nature is exploited these days. In a 24 by 24 inch piece entitled Running Whitetail, Diane portrays two deer dynamically leaping into and across the picture-plane before a row of dark forest trees. The deer are completely enveloped by the landscape through the same visceral and �uid paint handling that visually uni�es the forms. Running Whitetail is handled in a manner that is conceptually quite similar to the Hermit that was painted by American artist, John Singer Sargent in 1908. Sargent’s piece, included in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, depicts two deer and a hermit totally immersed within a rocky forest. Both wildlife and the natural are represented ambiguously as one.

The lush, saturated colors that Diane uses lend themselves to a dramatic sense of light—both directional and resonate. Within her poetic landscape called String Lake Landscape, the bright sun is depicted streaming through a row of trees forming rhythmic cast shadows within the irregular forest terrain, while illuminating the tall yellow-green grass along the water. The warm juxtaposed against the cool spots entice the viewer through color vibration. Then there are other pieces such as her still life of cantaloupe called Fancy Fruit that possess more of a resonate light quality whereby the light emanates from all areas as if there exists an internal glow within all forms. Common to all of her work is this uncanny sense of light that interweaves and expresses metaphorically the profound resilience of nature. This is the content of Diane’s work.

Diane Whitehead is indeed a proli�c painter to investigate during your travels out west. You won’t be disappointed!


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Barbara Churchley is an award winning artist who captures the moods of the landscape onecanvas at a time in an expressive style all her own.

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Pouring Color into your life.Kimberly Conrad

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