Marzena Oberc-Habzda VL Studio Visit October 2014 Vol 3 No 10

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October 2014 Volume 3 No. 10

VISUAL LANGUAGE contemporary fine art

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Paeonia

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I was born in Poland, where I lived in historic city of Krakow. My favorite activity as a child were drawing, painting and creating figures from clay. I always could be found at my desk consumed by my latest art project. I participated in various art competitions, winning various awards.

My grammar school teacher encouraged me to focus on art as a future career. During high school at Liceum Plastyczne , I studied drawing, painting, sculpture and restoration of historic wall frescoes.

Toward the end of high school, I moved with my family to the U.S. After graduation, I attended the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts, for Continuing Education. I also attended Pair Collage of Art in Hamden, Connecticut. There I studied Graphic Design.

I am captivated, inspired and challenged by various subjects in nature. My main focus is on nature’s delicate yet powerful beauty, remarkable design and perfect color harmony. I am driven by a need to explore and capture a certain sense of light to evoke desired emotion and inner feeling not easily captured and expressed in words.

I am fascinated with perfect unity, relationship of shapes and harmony of color that nature delivers with such ease and perfection. This creates constant excitement, drive and spontaneous approach to the subject. Inspiration for every painting comes from seeing and experiencing something beautiful, something so captivating that it takes my breath away.

I love painting with acrylics! For health reasons, a while ago, I had to switch from oils to acrylics.

Once I discovered Golden Open Acrylics I never looked back. They offer slower drying time, therefore an ability to be manipulated with ease in order to create oil like appearance.

My painting technique does not require blending of colors, therefore transition from oils was rather quick and easy. I paint with small tiles for color gradually banding them to a desired value, warm or cool tem-

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perature, manipulating edges and texture to create a desired effect with ease. Because of their quick drying time, acrylics offer instant visual gratification and result.

I am representational artist, therefore my painting style requires a specific canvas texture in order to maintain certain control and manipulate the paint to accomplish the desired effect. My favorite painting surface is the Cleassens #13, oil primed , fine weave linen panel by Source Tek. Love the gliding ability of Golden Open Acrylics on panel surface. Acrylics allow me to paint faster with very satisfying results. Colors are brilliant, pure and easy to mix and manipulate . The felling I am trying to convey is accomplished in a quick and satisfying manner. I tend to favor cool colors; i.e; blues, purples.

My very favorite color now is Naples Yellow.

There are many incredible artists that I admire as most of us do. However there are two artists of the past that made a very strong impression on me when I was still a young child. First one is wonderful Russian painter of late 1800 Ivan Shishkin and the other Franz A. Bischoff. There are so many wonderful artists today that I love and greatly admire, like Richard Schmid, David A. Leffel, Morgan Waistling, Huihan Liu, Dan Gerhartz, Quang Ho, Sherrie Mc Graw, Karthryn Stats, Jeffery Watts and Scott Tallman Powers just to name a few.

I am very gratefull to all of them for there willing to share their knowledge and experiences with the rest of us, therefore helping us become better artists and bystep some of the common mistakes and learning errors.

Floral Symphony

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On the Rocks

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In the Spotlight

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Elder Plant

Tiger Lillies

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Spring Colors Spectrum

Blue Heaven Orchids

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