Jennifer Bowman

I believe everyone is an artist in some way, whether it is the presentation of a fine meal or the construction of a beautiful home, the wording of a contract or the way a mother raises a child. Each of us has the ability to make art. Mine just happens to be in paint.?

After spending nearly two years aboard a sailboat and cruising the West Coast, I really came to appreciate the quality of light and how different latitudes could affect the way I would see a subject. My favorite experience evolves around capturing warm reflected light on bougainvillea-draped buildings in Mexico. That same investigation of how light plays off of an item is what galvanizes me into painting a subject. It doesn?t matter if it is a ferryboat or a bouquet of flowers.
When teaching, I try to get my students to 'SEE' the different ways that the color gray is present in our images. Everything shy of a pure color pigment is a mixture of primary colors that give us a whole world of beautiful grays. My grays have a whole lot of purple to them. The interaction of warm light and cool shadows is what excites me about painting. I am third generation artist and am a winner of the coveted Skagit Valley Tulip, Edmonds Arts and the Anacortes Arts Festival posters. I have designed Washington State's new Heritage Birth Certificate and have worked with Eddie Bauer on a Catalog cover. My work can be found in both private and corporate collections locally and internationally, including France and the Netherlands. My art is being added to The Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Tulip Museum project in the Emirgan Woods, Turkey in the Fall of 2013.

I teach 12 workshops a year, some near my hometown of Anacortes, Washington, gateway to the San Juan Islands and some in Alaska and Mexico. I divide my time between that, painting for the local art festival circuit, keeping up with my fifteen-year-old son and occasionally going sailing with my husband. You can watch an instructional video of me at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuPZ51dt8qE
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Marcia Baldwin

My name is Marcia Baldwin and I am a full time professional artist specializing in Oil Paintings.
I love large formats and brilliant color. My true passion is color theory and design and how compositions can play an emotional role in the viewer. Art has always been a passion of mine. I knew from a very early age that art was going to be a strong influence in my life and that I wanted to know as much about art as I could possibly learn. I still strive to learn something new every day.
It takes practice and patience to be a full time artist and I am finally able to devote one hundred percent of my professional life to my studio work.  After many years working in and around art, making a living as an advertising designer, art teacher, art consultant, photographic artisan and many other niches,
I finally opened my art studio to the dedication of purely fine art. I am a trained artist, receiving a BFA and a MFA in the seventies and eighties, respectively. I loved the years I put forth to formal art training.
It is invigorating to be around people with that same passion to learning and exploring the creative and problem solving side of your personality. The people who share this passion greatly influence your though patterns about your art work. It is really great to see the different outcomes from the various people when working on a creative project. We are all looking at the same thing, painting or sculpting or drawing, but each individual will see it a little different and the creation of beautiful works, each individually unique. It is truly amazing.
 For myself, I love oil painting. I love animals and flowers and nature itself. I believe that I was given a talent by God to share His beauty about the world through the use of paint and canvas. I try to relate the love of nature and His Blessings through my art. I hope that the collectors of my work can be touched in some way to Stop and Smell the Roses for a moment and reflect on the joy and beauty that has been given to us each day.
I live in a very beautiful state, working and living on the shores of a lake surrounded by huge tall pine trees and stately southern live oaks. Nature is bountiful. Foxes play and romp across my front lawn. Squirrels and birds hop from one feeder to the next. Wildflowers and flowering trees such as redbuds and dogwood are a blanket of beauty through undergrowth among the trees. It is truly a blessing that I have been given this time to work in my art studio and be surrounded with this serenity.
http://www.marciabaldwin.artspan.com/large-multi-view/FLOWERS/17721-189-36/FLOWERS.html#.U3tskjkiNMs

Reflation:  I have find Marcia Baldwin powerful it’s because the way he create or paint the flowers it look amazing  and most of his flowers paint close and it give beautiful view. I really like how he paint light colours very well. I may try his skill in my paintings, using light colours and style of the flowers. 

Simon Phan

Simon Phan (b. 1990) studied Graphic Design at the University of the Arts London (UAL). He moved back to Vietnam after five years of studying and working as a freelancer in the UK. His main interest surrounds the practice of digital art and sketching, where his inspirations from ordinary objects, daily activities and people’s conversations can be visualized. His artworks have been featured in the Future Map Exhibition – where the most talented graduates of UAL were chosen, as well as the MTV Young At Art exhibition in London. He constantly explores different styles of art in his illustrations, but is most interested in contemporary art.

Refection: I have find Simon artwork useful as idea how to use figure in the painting. He use women face for few of  his artwork and draw lots of flowers on the top women head and it looks interest how the face look little with flowers design. 

Marney Ward 

Marney has been interested in perception, consciousness and creativity for most of her life. In the seventies, she earned a PhD from the University of British Columbia on the art and poetry of William Blake. Her Blake-inspired interest in consciousness led her to study with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in Europe, and then to devote a decade to teaching Transcendental Meditation. In the early nineties, with her youngest child in school, she decided to revisit her first passion, art. From classes in Chinese Brush Painting she learned practical techniques of brushwork and how to take advantage of the peculiar challenges and magical properties of water. From her lifelong mentor Emily Carr, she was inspired to express the living spirit within everything she paints.

Marney studied with watercolour artists Caren Heine, Ann Hunter, Sheena Lott,  Brent Heighton, Kiff Holland, Allan Bruce, Elizabeth Kincaid, and many others. She learned from each but went on to develop her own unique style: large, vibrant, often back-lit close-ups that reveal not only the minute particulars of each flower but also her own emotional and spiritual connection to that flower. Marney has taught watercolour classes for over 15 years, previously through Camosun College and Artworld, and currently through her own home teaching studio.

In 2000, Marney was granted Associate Signature Status, AFCA, with the Federation of Canadian Artists (FCA). In 2011, she was granted Senior Signature Status, SFCA, the highest ranking possible with the Federation of Canadian Artists. Marney is a Past President of the Victoria Chapter of the FCA and has served as juror for several shows on Vancouver Island. She has won 18 awards in various juried exhibitions in Victoria and Vancouver, most recently in the FCA-sponsored Annual International Representational Show 2012 (AIRS) in Vancouver. Marney has twice been featured in International Artist (April/May 2009 and October/November 2011) and her paintings have graced the front cover of Focus (July 2008) and Art Avenue (May/June 2011) magazines. She is featured in three books published in 2011: Artists of British Columbia Volume III, Coastal Moments, and The Island Illustrators Society. Marney is represented by Winchester Galleries in Victoria, BC, Canada, where she has had two major solo exhibitions, in 2008 and 2010 (See video below). She also shows at The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, the world-renowned Butchart Gardens, and Federation Gallery in Vancouver, BC.

Refection:  Artwork of Marney looks interest, she use lots of light colours and work from photography. I have find her painting interest because the way she used light in her flowers painting and the most important part that is she use watercolours and creating her painting beautifully. Some of Marney painting are closer and it looks great because we can see the line on the flowers.

I have find this images very interest for my study because I'm look for this kind of word to use in my painting board. This writing represent God Name in my language. what I really like about this work the it designed or written.