ILC April2012 - I Love Creston Marketing Ltd.

Sheri Marean discovered her
passion at an early age.
“I have always loved horses and dogs
and have always drawn them,” she
says.
As we speak, I discover she is selftaught,
making pencil sketches of
animals, copying from pictures.
“I almost failed art in high school,”
she says with a smile. “I didn’t like
having to draw apples and bananas.
I wanted to draw horses. The teacher
assigned a project where we had to
draw something on a grid and I just
couldn’t get it. I got 53 per cent on
the project.
“That same year I entered an art
contest at the Calgary public library.
I won second prize. My art teacher
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the arts
Self-taught painter thrives
despite art class horror
Story by: Trish Bartlett asked me what it was all about and I
told her. She didn’t say anything, just
made a face.”
She shows me her winning drawing;
it is of horses.
Having survived high school Marean
travelled, always drawing, before
returning to Calgary where she
became the resident artist for the
Alberta Bowhunters Association.
“Whenever a hunter achieved a
certain number of kills he was made
a master hunter and presented with
a drawing,” she says, showing me
examples of drawings she had made,
the hunter portrayed in the middle
with images of bears, moose, elk and
deer surrounding him.
“People are hard to draw. The
animals were much more fun.”
Other work came her way as she
attended various horse and dog
shows.
“People gave a photo of their animal
and asked me to draw a picture,”
says Marean, who received a lot
of commission work that way and
through word of mouth.
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