| Amy Brown October Faery |
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| About Me |
As a child I was always making stuff; drawing, coloring, cutting, pasting, sculpting with my play dough. I was always making something out of nothing, If I wanted something I would just make it. In elementary school My favorite subjects were recess, music and art and of course in elementary you only have art once a month if your lucky. Sometimes in class we would submit poems, stories or small drawings for our small school newspaper. I was asked to be on the art team for the paper, I still have a couple of them in my keepsake box! I also had a painting - that my mother still has - that the school art teacher submitted to a contest unbeknownst to me and it won an award and hung in a library for a while and that award entered in another contest and it actually hung in the Kennedy Center for some time. We didn't even know it until it was brought back to us we thought someone had thrown it away. |
| As I got older I took to drawing and painting a bit more and when going into intermediate school and having to pick elective classes, of course it was art & chorus. High school was more art, four absolutely fun years thanks to Mr. Guiles. I was always receiving praise for my art from family and friends and that's who I painted and drew for mostly. "You really need to do something with your talent" and I was always attracted to what people consider "Fantasy Art"... Witches, faeries, mermaids, dragons, mythical creatures I loved it all and it was real to me (and still is) I drew a lot with pencil and colored pencil and painted some, and when it came time for career days and picking colleges all those tests came up with things that I didn't want to do ... but what else was there, starving artist? So, stuck about what I wanted to do with my life - you can't pick a college with out a major, I didn't bother. So that's it - that's all the "training" I have had, 6 years of public school art. No degree of distinction. Had I known then what I know now... I probably still wouldn't have gone to college. I feel like life offers better and truer lessons from its trials and tribulations than a classroom from one professors point of view any day of the week... BUT... I wouldn't have spent all those years, dare I say, wasting time thinking of my art as a hobby and not realizing that when you do what you love you never work a day in your life. The biggest temptation is to settle for too little. - Thomas Merton |
| I am an east coast girl, I was born in Washington DC, our nations capitol for better or worse, and raised in the Delmarva area (see you gotta be from around here to know what that means). Brought up on bushels of blue crabs, playing lets pretend and riding bikes. I am so very happily married to my soul mate who happens to be a west coast boy and I promise him everyday he will someday soon return with me in tow (really I swear!) as well as two wonderful, bright kids. Although one is really no longer a kid but a young adult whose plans are to go to college for a career in forensic anthropology (I am so proud and excited that she knows what she wants to do with her life!) and the other one loves to draw and create like mom & dad... Oh boy we're in trouble. |
| Well I guess if you have to label me you could say that I am a multimedia artist... I create. |
| Some influences, Boris Vallejo ... my first - he will always be an absolute favorite. I do very much like the faerie art of Amy Brown and Nene Thomas of course. I do have a bit of a darker side (don't we all) and we love Heavy Metal in our house a great deal and of course the many artists featured in it are truly inspirational but my absolute favorite anywhere right now is Victoria Frances. |
| the kids |
| Practicing in pencil |
| Unfinished copy of a Boris |
| an original color sketch |
| an original sketch |
