Friday, August 24, 2012

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!

**Would you like to be a PPF Featured Artist? Click here for details!**
Now, here is our check-in for this week's party:

As always, please make sure to use your post URL address NOT your blog home page URL address as there are many late visitors who get confused as to which post is for PPF when they arrive (after Friday) at your website. If you are unfamiliar with Mr. Linky, an explanation of how this tool works can be found on Week 1 and Week 2 Check-Ins.

Have a great week everyone!

44 comments:

  1. great interview!!! always love reading about featured members!!! Thank you for hosting again!!!

    Happy PPF!!!

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  2. Great interview. I like Catherine's work and all her girl's faces. The guitar came out great! Happy PPF everyone. Enjoy the weekend and thanks Eva and Kristin.

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  3. Wonderful interview with Catherine!
    Love her paintings -- full of layers and textures and bright colors!

    Thank you, Kristin and Eva, for hosting Paint Party Friday!!
    Best,
    Mary

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  4. That guitar is THE coolest thing ever! Well done, Catherine!

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  5. Great interview. Fun paintings. I want to know who the band was.. How fun to see your work on morning news. Happy PPF.

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    1. Cris, they're a local band called Beacon Drive. They cover 70's and 80's rock music.

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  6. what fun!
    http://wwwpeggysamusement.blogspot.com/2012/08/paintpartyfridaydecoupage.html

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  7. Thank you for featuring me today! PPF is such a warm and welcoming community; I love being a part of it!
    Catherine Denton

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  8. Happy PPF averyone! Great interview!!

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  9. Catherine's work is so whimsical and fun - the guitar is fabulous and it must've been such a buzz to see it on the local news!

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  10. Fun and happy painting from Catherine! Have a great PPF, Valerie

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  11. I love Catherine's work, its always so full of joy, whimsy and energy. So pleased the guitar featured in the morning news and hope she gets order for more. Annette x

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  12. Beautiful work Catherine! So bright and cheerful and how excited to have your work appear on the morning news! Yay!

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  13. So great to be back here amongst all these wonderful artists!

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  14. Hey everyone! Glad to be back with my PPF folks! Happy PPF and have a creative weekend!

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  15. Love the photograph with Catherine holding the painting in front of herself...what fun.

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  16. love Catherine's work!!!! and I sell those glasses!!!
    Can't wait to get home tonight and read the interview!!!
    cheers and happy PPF.
    dana

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  17. Lovely to read Catherine's interview!

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  18. Uff... I always put the wrong link....

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  19. Catherine's style is lovely - I do like the guitar. I really enjoyed joining Paint Party Friday last week so have joined in again today. Will do a blog hop to see what you have all been doing over the weekend. Betty

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  20. This is my first Paint Party, and it was so fun to see Catherine here.
    Catherine, your story is inspiring. "I realized that doing things perfect wasn't really an option." So true. Thank God for metamorphoses.

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  21. Whoops! Put my link on last weeks list by mistake. So happy to be back among this awesome group of artists! Love, peace and all things groovy to all of you!

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  22. Love the whimsy of Catherine's paintings and the inspiration of her story. Thank you!

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  23. Haha... great spot light! I love bubble wrap too...
    Renee
    xoxo
    Happy painting everyone!!!
    www.fussitup.blogspot.com

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  24. Oh it's so good be be part of the party again! I can't wait to see the magic you've all been making. :)

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  25. I love Catherine and her sweet art! Her girls look as nice as she is. :) So nice to learn a little more about her! Didn't know she was a twin.

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  26. Love the guitar, the twins are cute

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  27. What cute art!! Nice to meet another lovely artist! Happy PPF!

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  28. Gorgeous art and such energy and vibrancy..wonderful works! Fabulous interview..shine on!!
    Victoria

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  29. What a wonderful inspiration! So fun to see....thanks for sharing. I especially like the live extravagantly painting!

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  30. Great interview - Catherine's faces are so much fun. I'm linking up with PPF this week - even though I'm very less than happy with this painting. Gotta go and check out all the beautiful work.

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  31. Thanks for hosting and another excellent interview ~ love the art work ~ wonderful! ~ (A Creative Harbor)

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  32. These images are great! I especially like the one that says "Love Extravagantly," I think love isn't something we should hold out on...

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  33. That guitar is fabulous. I know some kids that would love customised guitars so great idea. Thanks for the Paint Party Friday idea too. I've only just found this blog so I have lots to explore.

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  34. Thank you for this interview. I love this twin project you talk about, no twins around me so I never think about twins. Sure you are going to have fun working on that.

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  35. Hi!

    My first time here :)

    I enjoyed the interview.... and

    I especially loved the guitar

    Karenx

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  36. so much to be excited about here. First of all congrats on your featured artist spot. I enjoyed learning so much more about you and your art journey. I too love the guitar! I bet the owner loves it too. What fun. I was suprised it was a guy...a guy with good taste in fun art! Happy PPF on Sunday, been a busy week for me.

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  37. I have been having so many computer troubles, but have changed from yahoo to firefox, so here's hoping. At last I can leave my comments. I love the interview -all that you do- keep on having fun. Happy PPF to you all friends.

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  38. I meant from Internet Explorer to Firefox. Grrrr.

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  39. My first time here....and soo excited to continue with this linkup. I have just made a new blog and so excited to find fellow art journeyers...:) love this site

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  40. Oh, I missed last week and Catherine's interview! I'm so happy to catch up with it now. She is so sweet and inspiring--one of my very favorite people--and I love seeing her work develop!

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