Ethereal Landscape and Floral Watercolors by Karen Keough I Artsy Shark

Artist Karen Keough uses the unpredictability of watercolor to seize ethereal impressions of florals and landscapes. See additional of her perform by visiting her internet site.

 

 

My adore of watercolors began in 1957 on a snowy, stormy Saturday morning in January. My mom informed me we were likely to Wingaersheek Seashore in Gloucester, Massachusetts. She packed the automobile with watercolor supplies and two stools.

 

 

Currently being 9 several years outdated, I complained, but there was no altering her intellect. She desired me to expertise watercolors “en plein air” in the middle of a New England snowstorm.

 

 

We went. The snowflakes built their have masterpiece on our watercolor paper. I realized the lesson she preferred me to learn—to expect the unanticipated. On our way property she mentioned, “Someday, you’ll be so happy we did this alongside one another.” That day was the “someday” it all commenced for me.

 

 

My mother definitely was the catalyst for my passion for all points art. She launched me to drawing, sketching, painting and ceramics. She gave me a foundation to examine.

 

 

As the decades have gone by, my art has formulated, all from the notion to anticipate the sudden. I test to embody that lesson in my get the job done. I stick to the place the painting leads me.

 

 

My adoration of watercolors stems precisely from the unexpected aspect that no other medium can replicate. Watercolor calls for a huge amount of money of have confidence in.

 

 

My painting method usually includes a loose method identified as wet on moist, wherever I permit space for the portray to establish. The system achieves a comfortable, spontaneous effect that I like.

 

 

I seize an perception, or essence of a scene, as an alternative of a literal photorealistic depiction. Just about every portray is an exercise in trusting the unpredictability of the medium. There is a natural beauty in accepting the painting as it progresses. Watercolor supplies me a car or truck to take a look at, motivate and accept what I really feel. It is its possess variety of mindfulness.

 

 

I have taught artwork courses considering that my retirement from The Boston Globe in 2003. At the moment I instruct watercolor courses from my studio in Ipswich, Massachusetts, as properly as seasonally at Northeast Metropolitan Regional Vocational Faculty. I also run en plein air watercolor programs for older people in Naples, Florida, in the course of the wintertime months. We paint Florida’s lush tropical botanicals and seascapes.

 

 

As I move ahead in my journey as an artist, I would like to license my artwork for use on home decor, athleisure don, beachwear and way of life add-ons. It has usually been a aspiration to see my artwork on objects that people today love each working day.

 

Artist Karen Keough invitations you to follow her on Instagram and Etsy.

 

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