Visual Language Magazine Contemporary Fine Art Vol 3 no 9
Vol 3 No 9 Visual Language Magazine Contemporary Fine Art featuring Wildlife, Equine Art and more. Cover Artists is Texas Artist James Loveless. Featured are the VL top artists to collect Isabelle Gautier, Lelija Roy, Linda McCoy, Bob Coonts, and Alejandro Castanon; CFAI Colors on My Palette, Patricia A. Griffin; Visual Language studio visit with Marcia Baldwin, James Loveless, Milton Wagoner and J. W. Burke; Barry W. Scharf shares American Artist Today; Artspan Spotlight with Jan Sasser; CFAI.co Art Showdown; VL Photographer Fran J Scott. Visual Language Magazine published through Graphics One Design. Visual Language is the common connection around the world for art expressed through every media and process. The artists connect through their creativity to the viewers by both their process as well as their final piece. No interpreters are necessary because Visual Language Magazine crosses all boundaries.
Vol 3 No 9 Visual Language Magazine Contemporary Fine Art featuring Wildlife, Equine Art and more. Cover Artists is Texas Artist James Loveless. Featured are the VL top artists to collect Isabelle Gautier, Lelija Roy, Linda McCoy, Bob Coonts, and Alejandro Castanon; CFAI Colors on My Palette, Patricia A. Griffin; Visual Language studio visit with Marcia Baldwin, James Loveless, Milton Wagoner and J. W. Burke; Barry W. Scharf shares American Artist Today; Artspan Spotlight with Jan Sasser; CFAI.co Art Showdown; VL Photographer Fran J Scott. Visual Language Magazine published through Graphics One Design. Visual Language is the common connection around the world for art expressed through every media and process. The artists connect through their creativity to the viewers by both their process as well as their final piece. No interpreters are necessary because Visual Language Magazine crosses all boundaries.
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VL<br />
Studio Visit Marcia Baldwin<br />
My first memory of being captured by art was in my<br />
grandmothers home in Texas. She was very artistic<br />
with quilting and sewing, but at times would take<br />
classes in art using mediums such as charcoal and<br />
pastel. I remember standing and staring at a charcoal<br />
drawing she had done and was framed in her<br />
dining room. It captivated me, even as a small child.<br />
When we would enjoy a sweet after<strong>no</strong>on or morning<br />
out on her huge porch, sitting in her double glider,<br />
she would sketch small things and give the paper<br />
and pencil over to me to try. My favorite subject,<br />
even then, was horses. She would encourage me<br />
and we would giggle at the funny subjects we came<br />
up with.<br />
My mom was the one who first started me painting.<br />
She enrolled me in a summer workshop with a<br />
<strong>no</strong>ted artist, Louise Sicard, at our Louisiana state<br />
museum. Every morning, I would enjoy setting up<br />
my small easel and laying out my paints on my<br />
palette in anticipation of the famous artist to begin<br />
his demonstration and how we would first start on<br />
our paintings. It was information of color and brush<br />
stroke that I still retrieve in my mind even to this<br />
day, even after 50 years. We used oil paints for this<br />
workshop, and I am still in love with the smell of<br />
turps and oil paints, as much as all those wonderful<br />
days during that first workshop.<br />
Mom would take me to our local park next to our<br />
lake, full of swamp things, huge pine trees, and gorgeous<br />
bald cypress trees with Spanish moss on almost<br />
every limb. She would draw and paint in water<br />
color the most beautiful scenes and I would try my<br />
best to do what she was doing. But the most important<br />
thing I learned from these times, was to look<br />
and see and try to capture real nature on paper.<br />
I received my Bachelors of <strong>Fine</strong> <strong>Art</strong> from Louisiana<br />
Tech University in Ruston, La. in 1974. My most influential<br />
instructor was a fine artist/illustrator, Albi<strong>no</strong><br />
Hinahosa. His focus on good design, composition,<br />
figurative subject matter, and attention to detail<br />
were taught in a loose illustrative style. I incorporate<br />
the elements of design, learned in these years with<br />
him. Color theory classes infatuated me also and<br />
I reflect back on projects using and understanding<br />
color, how it affects the viewers eye, the emotions,<br />
the movements in a composition and in general<br />
how it creates excitement. I was very pleased to<br />
receive the 1974 Illustrator of the Year Award from<br />
Louisiana Tech University.<br />
Many years prior to attending college, my first most<br />
influential teacher was actually my elementary<br />
school principal, Mr. Middleton. He always had special<br />
projects going in the arts and I would be right<br />
there waiting to be included. One I remember so<br />
vividly was huge mosaic murals about the history<br />
of Louisiana and those murals still hang prominently<br />
in the cafeteria and auditorium of this elementary<br />
school. His encouragement to paint and draw<br />
garnered my very first award for a regional contest<br />
depicting thoughts on beautifying our city. I won<br />
a cash award and a spot on a local tv program. I<br />
was hooked. I loved being an artist and I was only 9<br />
years old ! <strong>Art</strong> is so important in our early years and<br />
needs to be in our school<br />
programs.<br />
I believe working as an advertising designer had the<br />
most influence on my work today. It was challenging<br />
every day being creative on the spur of the moment.<br />
It was fast paced and you had to pay attention to client<br />
needs, detail, and incorporate all the elements<br />
and principles of design to be successful in this<br />
field. I use those skills today in my oil paintings, and<br />
paint with bold, fast, strong color and brush strokes.<br />
It is on an intuitive level, letting a painting come together<br />
through my minds eye.<br />
www.mbaldwinfineart.com<br />
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