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    My interest in art, specifically drawing, was with me throughout my childhood and picked up pace during my high school years. Most of my general influences during that time were fairytales, fantasy video games, and any kind of fantastical stories.  Over the last few years, I took these stories and creatures into my work with influences from Art Nouveau. Fairies, mermaids, and realms were the subjects of several series of paintings. Through the exploration of these motifs, I was led to my current series of work involving masks.
     The precursor to this body of work was my father’s cancer diagnosis in May of 2011. It was one simple statement that set the gears in my head turning for a completely different series of work. While my father was hospitalized, my siblings and I would sit with him in shifts. While leaving the hospital one day on the way to pick up my brother for his “shift”, my mother said in ex

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this initially began as a pattern test for my watercolor class and while I don't think it's completely successful, it does have a lot of charm and I like it :D
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~dusty-umbrella Mar 9, 2013
This is really neat!!
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=Xadrea Mar 10, 2013  Professional Traditional Artist
:meow: thank you!
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~candy-inkdrop Mar 7, 2013  Student Traditional Artist
the detail in this is incredible...like seriously this is just mesmerizing!
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=Xadrea Mar 10, 2013  Professional Traditional Artist
:la: thank you! i might repeat this again, but make the upper part more cohesive :D
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~candy-inkdrop May 13, 2013  Student Traditional Artist
I would love to see that version!
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