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  • Artists
    • The Artists >
      • Connie Athman
      • Michael Berkley
      • Jami Berry
      • Kolieha Bush
      • Nina Bradford
      • Julie Cooper
      • Joe Cotter, in memory
      • Sue Dumolt
      • Lynn Flores
      • Oscar Flores
      • Phyllis Flury
      • Am Griswold
      • Karl Haugen
      • Boyd Holloway
      • Deirdre Johnson
      • Tacy Jones
      • Luke Lawrence
      • Phil Lingelbach
      • Earlean Marsh
      • Rory Mutton
      • Elizabeth Oakes
      • Brenda Scott
      • Peggy Skycraft
      • Louise Stivers
      • Gary Warkentin
  • Events
    • Events Calendar
    • Student Art Show
    • First Friday
    • First Friday - September 2018
    • December All Member Holiday Show
    • November Brenda Scott
    • October Group Show
    • September Annette Reisbick
    • August Earlean Marsh
    • July - Guest Artist Reeva Wortel
    • June First Friday
    • May First Friday Kolieha Bush
    • March 2017 Alexa Davis
    • April 2017 Lynn and Oscar Flores
    • February 2017 Group Show - RED
    • January 2017 - Student Show
    • Festivals
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      • Upcoming VineArt Classes
      • Past Vine Art Classes
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Earlean Marsh            Watercolor, Calligraphy, Pen & Ink

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The challenge of preserving in watercolor the fragile beauty of flowers has been my main goal the last five years.  It’s also a way of prolonging summer beauty and personal memories from flowers given by friends.  I tend to keep things and this is a way of saving something concrete from a very specific moment in time. There’s so much beauty around, especially if you narrow your focus and get close.  Sometimes the beauty is in water or the way the light is striking objects.

I like the unpredictability of mixing colors wet in wet as well as more controlled linear details on dry paper.  Vivid colors and dramatic details increase my enjoyment.  Oils, pastels, even china paint are too predictable to currently hold my interest.
 
As a former high school art and drama teacher, I’ve taught lots of different classes from drawing to designs.  Now that I’m retired I have the leisure of painting three or four days a week and taking workshops and classes during the day.  I like to achieve balance by taking classes from instructors that are completely opposite in styles and methods.

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