Amy Brown
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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