Goldfish Wood Print

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This vivid goldfish started out as just a test of new oil pastels, but I just kept working on it and loving the results until it seemed the painting took on a life of its own. I no longer keep an aquarium, but still think back on the beauty of a fancy-finned fish swimming gracefully and leisurely under the aquarium light.

I often joke that I learned to draw and paint because it is easier and quicker for me than getting a good photograph. I do still make the attempt to use my camera more effectively from time to time, but I have more natural aptitude to using a pencil or paint. Often what few photographs I am satisfied with become reference for my artwork. I work with charcoal, soft pastels, oil pastels, watercolor, acrylic, and am learning oil painting. I tend towards more realistic, although I have dabbled in impressionism when the fancy strikes. I live at the dead end of a dirt road in rural Florida with my husband and a yardful of critters, while the local deer and wild turkeys eat my annual efforts at gardening.