Florida landscape, seascape, beach, nautical, sailboat, palm tree oil and acrylic paintings
Monday, August 31, 2009
While We're on the Subject of the Beach
3"x4"Color Sketch Guard House at Carlin Park 3"x4"B&W Sketch Guard House at Carlin ParkThumbnail Pencil Sketch Guard House at Carlin ParkReal Live Actual Sketchbook Page
Kelly Tracht was trained as an architect winning a merit based scholarship to earn her Masters of Architecture at Miami University. She was asked to create a cover for an architectural look at Palm Beach, the Junior League of the Palm Beaches cookbook: Worth Tasting, and was recently invited to be one of two artists to exhibit work at the Artrageous Bloomingdales event. She was invited to study with famed Florida artist Christopher Still and has been collected by individuals as well as corporations. Her mural work was recently featured in an article about Barbara Nicklaus in Jupiter Magazine. Her artistic pursuits also include portraiture. Examples of her portraiture can be seen at http://www.kellyportraits.blogspot.com/ Examples of her mural work can be seen at www.palmbeachmurals.blogspot.com She lives and works in Jupiter, FL.
3"x4"Color Sketch 
3"x4"B&W Sketch
Thumbnail Pencil Sketch
Real Live Actual Sketchbook Page
The finish is just as fresh as the color study - is it hard to keep that first impression alive? And I enjoyed seeing your process involved.
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ReplyDeleteThanks for the kind words! That means a lot to me, keeping it fresh is the trick right? It's nice to know that is coming across. Back to the easel!