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| Drawing a portrait at Busch Gardens, VA. |
I am a portrait artist originally from Williamsburg, Virginia. I come from a wonderful family of artists so art has always been a big part of my life. Over the years, my passion and experience has always been drawing portraits. Thanks to landing a job with Kamans Art Shoppes Inc., I have been a professional portrait artist since 2003. I have drawn thousands of portraits of people from all over the world. I worked at theme parks in Virginia and Florida as a portrait artist and supervisor. This experience has taught me to produce artwork with great speed and quality. After 7 years of working for KAS, I left so I could become an army wife and we now live in Hawaii.
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| This is the 2nd drawing I did for the customer. |
My work for KAS primarily consisted of drawing people but I will always remember the summer of 2005 was the first time I had a customer bring me several photos of their service dog to draw. I challenged myself to draw it without letting the customer know this was the first commission I was attempting of an animal. Needless to say they loved it and even got me to do a second drawing from another photo. Since then I have always been excited to draw animals. Even the other artists working at KAS always sent me the animal portraits because they knew I loved it so much.
In 2010, my husband and I got our grey and white cat Bella and our chocolate Labrador Retriever Leia. Leia makes me love and appreciate dogs so much more. I have always been an animal lover, growing we had a Norwegian Elk hound and then a German Sheppard along with a total of 4 cats. Drawing pets is very exciting and heartwarming to me to see how much people love their animals.
I received a BFA degree from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2008. I studied communication arts and illustration. I have worked with all art mediums but consider myself to be a “drawer” not a “painter”. I primarily work in graphite pencil, colored pencil, chalk pastel and charcoal. I have many other artistic talents which include hand-cut silhouettes, face-painting, free hand henna tattoos, calligraphy, letter brush art and more art to be discovered!
In 2010, my husband and I got our grey and white cat Bella and our chocolate Labrador Retriever Leia. Leia makes me love and appreciate dogs so much more. I have always been an animal lover, growing we had a Norwegian Elk hound and then a German Sheppard along with a total of 4 cats. Drawing pets is very exciting and heartwarming to me to see how much people love their animals.
