Artists
After experimenting with several different mediums, Becky discovered an unusual technique using magazine paper, scissors, and glue. She sketches the image, and instead of dripping a paint brush in paint, she finds the color she needs, cuts it out of magazines, and glues it onto a "Masonite Canvas" to form this unique piece of art. She's been using this technique for about 17 years.
Her original art work has been displayed at regional art exhibits, museums, and even foreign destinations. Becky's art work is similar to an impressionistic painting, but with greater visual impact because of the depth of the collage. Creating images with paper is a tedious task that requires imagination and tremendous attention to detail.
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Chad Foreman was born and raised in Dothan, Alabama and moved to San Diego when he was 24 years old to help start a skateboard company with close friend Jamie Thomas. His love for photography has been present ever since he was a kid but began to really take over after a skateboarding injury that sidelined him for almost two years back in 2000.
His passion for art, photography, nature and motivation to capture all things around his is one you don't see very often. He can usually be found traveling all over the U.S. camping by himself and searching for the perfect light, subject and emotion to capture with his camera. His subjects include everything from skateboarding to landscaped and everything in-between.
Chad's awards include "Landscape Photographer of the year" for 2003, "Sunset Photographer of the Year" for 2004 and 2006, and he placed 2nd in the "Cityscapes" category in 2008, all from the International Photography Awards. His photos have appeared in almost all of the major skateboarding magazines including Transworld Skateboarding (America and Japan), Thrasher Magazine, Slap Magazine and Skateboarder. He's been published in Jpg Magazine and also shot the cover photo for the "2006 San Diego Business Journal." He's had his work shown in galleries all across California and New York, and continues to grow and blossom in the art world.
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Blue skies and calm waters will find Fred fishing either at beautiful Lake Talquin, or on the flats and coastal waters surrounding Dog Island, Florida.
His interest in Gyotaku art began with his love of fishing and the desire to create a collection of his catches. Gyotaku is the ancient Oriental art of fish imprinting dating as far back as 1862.
Fred's goal is to give the fish beauty by using vivid, life-like color. He gives special attention to the exquisite anatomy of the different species and pays attention to the details that make each fish unique.
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Keith's interest in creating art and painting began as a teen and became a profession in 1995. He was influenced early on by the art of Andrew Wyeth. Keith is a self-taught artist and what he has learned is by trial and error. Keith's medium is watercolor and most recently acrylics. He works in layers with watercolor. He may have as many as 40 layers of washes on one painting.
Growing up in Virginia and other places in the south gave him the basics for the rural scenes he often paints showing the common lives of working and rural people. Keith emphasizes seeing the beauty and relevance in everyday things that people take for granted.
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My painting medium is watercolor, an art form that shows glowing, translucent colors that are exciting to see. The reality of painting is that it is paint, not a copy of nature or anything else. It should look like paint, which is called a "painterly" effect. I love that drippy, runny, splattered effect that only watercolor can produce well. I also love color and try to have the color to do something in the painting such as, vibrate, glow, contrast, harmonize, or create a mood.
I paint many subjects: Animals, flowers, landscapes, fish, birds, still life, but most popular are the Koi. This subject shows the color, movement, and pattern that is so exciting. Although watercolor is my primary medium, I also paint with acrylic on canvas.
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