Paint Party Friday: Week 24, Year 2 Check In Featured Artist: Catherine Denton

image courtesy of Catherine Denton

Welcome to Week 24 of Paint Party Friday (Year 2) and to the next edition of our Featured Artist Series! (Would you like to be a PPF Featured Artist? Please click here for details!) This week's featured artist  paints playfully pretty girls and charms us with her creations weekly. Please welcome Catherine Denton!

1. Please tell us a bit about your personal history with painting. (When did you start painting? How has your painting evolved since you first started?)  I've always been a bit of a perfectionist with projects and if I didn't think I could do it right, I wouldn't try it. About three years ago I went through a metamorphosis of life and realized doing things perfect isn't really an option. I decided to ease myself into doing things I'd dreamed of by simply playing. I bought paint, paper and canvas and just started painting like a preschooler. The colors, the feel of paint, and the ways it could change from one moment to the next caught my heart. I was hooked!

image courtesy of Catherine Denton

 2. What are your favorite techniques, media, and tools to use in creating your paintings? Bubble wrap, drawer liners, old wallpaper, masking tape and acrylic paints. I love to layer!

 3. What is your favorite thing to paint? Why? Girls. It feels like I'm telling my story, so I suppose my protagonist has to be a girl like me.

image courtesy of Catherine Denton

4. What is your proudest painting moment and/or greatest painting achievement so far? I recently painted a guitar for a friend. It was challenging and took me much longer than I'd anticipated. But I loved his expression when he saw it, so happy. Then his band went on the morning news and he played the guitar. The camera man shot a beautiful close up that had me beaming.

image courtesy of Catherine Denton

5. What's next in your painting future? I've been working on a series of twins that I'm super excited about. Having a twin sister, it's been fun to see my own childhood seep into the paintings.

Please feel free to come visit my blog (www.wingedwriter.blogspot.com),

chat on twitter (@CatherineDenton),
or browse my shop (www.artworkbycatherine.etsy.com).

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Thank you Catherine for sharing your story and your paintings of joyful girls (with those amazing eyelashes) with us.

NOW IT'S YOUR TURN...
WE WANT YOU TO SUBMIT YOUR STORY!

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Have a great week everyone!