Visual Language Magazine Contemporary Fine Art Vol 2 No 6 June 2013
Visual Language Magazine is a contemporary fine art magazine with pages filled with dynamic fine art, brilliant color and stimulating composition. Visual Language is the common connection around the world for art expressed through every media and process. The artists connect through their creativity to the viewers by both their process as well as their final piece. No interpreters are necessary because Visual Language crosses all cultures around the world.
Visual Language Magazine is a contemporary fine art magazine with pages filled with dynamic fine art, brilliant color and stimulating composition. Visual Language is the common connection around the world for art expressed through every media and process. The artists connect through their creativity to the viewers by both their process as well as their final piece. No interpreters are necessary because Visual Language crosses all cultures around the world.
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Carol Engles<br />
http://www.cfai.co/carolengles<br />
http://www.cfai.co/colors-on-my-palette/carol-engles<br />
When did you realize you loved art and wanted to be ‘an artist’<br />
I enjoyed art as a kid. When others wanted to play board games or cards, I always wanted to draw. Growing<br />
up in the <strong>No</strong>rthwest and spending time with my Grandparents and relatives in Montana, I drew ranches complete<br />
with corrals, barns and ranch houses. Loving horses, I hoped to have a ranch like those that I envisioned<br />
and drew some day! I also drew horses, but not as often as the ranches. I also, enjoyed drawing and painting<br />
mountains, volcanoes and anything geological! HA!<br />
As I grew older I became interested in design. I was my high school’s yearbook editor and I credit that<br />
experience with my interest in attending The University of Oregon’s School of Journalism. My emphasis was<br />
in advertising. It was a good fit for me because I enjoyed both writing and advertising design and art. While<br />
in college and after, I took a variety of art classes - including watercolor, oil painting, printmaking, weaving,<br />
design, drawing and life drawing. Ironically, I never took any classes in pastel which is what I enjoy now.<br />
Who has been the greatest influence from your past to mentor you to this career<br />
My mom. She encouraged me to enjoy art and especially encouraged me to enjoy and appreciate abstract art.<br />
She had a Picasso print in the kitchen which she just loved! My dad liked Rembrandt, he wasn’t very fond of the<br />
Picasso over the breakfast table. My parents took us to Europe to see relatives in Sweden. We spent six weeks<br />
in Europe and went to The Louvre and other wonderful galleries. I was 11 years old and the impressions of that<br />
trip influence me today.<br />
Who is your mentor today, or another artist you admire and<br />
why<br />
My mom is still my mentor because she always enjoys art,<br />
flowers and gardening. They bring her joy. I admire a lot of<br />
artists including my fellow artists on the Daily Painters Abstract<br />
blog, CFAI, <strong>Art</strong>span and other sites because I know how<br />
hard they work and how much of themselves they put into<br />
their beautiful art - how can you not admire that! Some of my<br />
favorite past artists include Van Gogh, Monet, Sisley, Bonnard,<br />
Kandinsky, Vuillard, Dufy, Toulouse-Lautrec, Chagall, Degas,<br />
Picasso, Cezanne, and Hofmann.<br />
Colors On My Palette<br />
Read more at http://www.cfai.co/colors-on-my-palette/carol-engles<br />
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