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It is always fun to shake things up and use a medium that is opposite of how one usually works. Using a white pencil to draw the highlights instead of a graphite pencil to draw shadows is a great exercise at training one's eye. White pencil on black paper is a dramatic way to do this.
I purchased this plaque at a yard sale and have enjoyed having her elegant face grace a wall in my house. She is much more elegant here. To continue the black and white theme, I have her framed with a larger than normal white mat and a narrow black frame.

Picasso said that “Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.” For Karen, this is true. What you are seeing is a partial glimpse of her life’s journey. Karen Faire is an author and an award winning artist living in Fairhope, Alabama with Shane, her husband of 33 years. Before their marriage, she worked in the custom automotive industry painting airbrush murals on vans, cars, boats, motorcycles, and “anything that moved.” She fell in love with color and had an epiphany: “I thought that the only way to improve the color that I was working with would be to have light coming through it.” She knew immediately what her next medium would be: glass! She apprenticed in a company that made reproductions of Tiffany lamps. She...