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Colour Pencil Sketches Biography

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  Born and raised in Ottawa Ontario,expressing my creative side has always been a way of life for me.  Like many budding artist, I started out by exploring different mediums and subjects, all in an attempt to find my bearings.  It was during this inquisitive time that I stumbled onto the 'wonderful world' of colored pencils.  I couldn't believe it! How could colored pencils, so basic be so expressive and look so real? I was amazed! So taken by this medium, I knew at that moment that I wanted to be a colored pencil artist.
And so my journey to becoming a colored pencil artist began.  With zero knowledge of "how to" or "what to do" I embraced the the skill and taught myself as I went along.  Although there were moments of self doubt and complete fustration, I would have to say that I had a very natural ability to use colored pencils effectively.  It took me five years to develop the technique and to feel entirely comfortable with the medium.
Like any artist, I became very passionate about sharing my work with the world, which then flourished my art career.  I currently show my colored pencil art in several galleries in the Ottawa area, as well as actively participating in art shows throughout the year.  The feedback is always astounding! The same way I felt about seeing colored pencil art for the first time was what people were seeing in my work.  The feedback and support I recieve for my work has certainly landed my mark in the art world.

Today I work exclusively in colored pencil creating collections based on my personal experiences.  I am not a artist that is defined by a singular subject, but rather a scope of many things.  My work consists of both portraiture and still life, including topics such as cars, statues and radios.
The goal of my work is too keep re-inventing colored pencils, always daring to push the medium to greater limits.

Although I continue to build my body of colored pencil drawings, I have also dedicated myself to increasing the visibility of this great medium.  It has been quite clear to me, as a colored pencil artist, that not enough people know about colored pencil art.  And so, I have made it my personal mission to increase it's visibility through the community and the use of social media, to expand the knowledge and power colored pencils have to offer.

Born in Sweden and raised between Norway and Canada, Solveig has been drawing all her life. Since 1970 she has been intimately connected to Japan, living there for more than 15 years and raising her son there for 12 years as a single mother. Fluent in English, Norwegian and Japanese, she uses her art and her cross-cultural connections to build bridges and encourage environmental awareness and communication.

Japan's aesthetic influence is prominent in her work, both in composition and fine detail. This has always had great appeal to the Japanese, enabling her to have 6 sell-out solo exhibits in that country.

Upon retiring in 2010 she declared herself a full-time professional artist. The Gulf of Mexico BP oil disaster in 2010 prompted her to dedicate her work to the protection and preservation of her beloved ocean.

Her chosen home is in Hilo on the Big Island of Hawaii, where for the past several months she has been drawing from the sunlight zone - the reef-dwellers and bejeweled shallow-water dancers. With her latest Underwater Fireflies however, she has drifted down the water column into the twilight zone where bioluminescence reigns supreme.

"I research each species I draw and include its names and a brief bit of info," she says. "I love melding art and science, a perfect full circle back to marine biology, my first intended career. What I am learning about the ocean and its inhabitants is almost as much fun as drawing them. New technology has made it possible to add vast amounts of previously unknown data and stunning images from the deep; seeing how little we know about this realm is humbling to say the least!"



Support for Conservation:
Solveig's commitment is to the conservation and protection of the ocean, to help fund clean-up operations, buy supplies and equipment, and support research and education.

Hawaii's marine ecosystem is facing threats from several directions. As a small cluster of islands in the middle of the Pacific, its environment, both sea and land, is fragile and embattled. The beautiful yellow tang for example is being rapidly depleted due to harvesting for the aquarium trade, a fate they share with other reef dwellers. Unregulated and lucrative, this trade alone has wrought much damage, yet it is only one of many challenges facing the islands.

The cornerstone of her work is this: far too much has been lost, but there is still so much left to save. "The more I can share my art, the beauty and the data, the more I can use my international background and my languages to spread the word, the happier I'll be!"

Special Achievements:
2012 - Artists For Conservation Annual Exhibit
http://www.natureartists.com
Double Dragon, a whimsical mirrored rendition in metallic colour pencils of the leafy sea-dragon, selected to be part of AFC's annual exhibit to be held on Grouse Mountain in Vancouver in October 2012. It was the first to sell...most grateful!

2009 - Award for Excellence
http://www.cpsa
One of a pair of colour pencil drawings of the Japanese crane (Grus japonensis), this image was selected to be part of the 15th Annual Color Pencil Society of America's International Exhibition in Bethesda, Maryland.

Collections:
2012 - Mr. Yu Ehara
Yu would come to my apartment in Victoria, BC for tutoring. I lived by the water and this was the view he had when we studied. When he returned to Canada he commissioned this drawing, saying this view was one of the best memories he had of Victoria. I called it therefore "Yu's View".

2011 - Mr. & Mrs. A. Inoue
Male Leafy Sea-Dragon carrying eggs, usually a camouflaged drifter among the kelp around Southern Australia, now at rest on a globe of water.
Medium: Colour Pencil Size: 24 cm diameter

2011 - Christina De Greef
This was Christina's commission: a drawing of favourite hen, now departed. Not well acquainted with live chickens I was afraid it would end up looking like her least favourite one...fortunately, mom and her chicks are happy in their new home.
Medium: Watercolour & Colour Pencil Size: 10"x10"

2009 - Mr. & Mrs. A. Inoue
Giant Plumose Sea Anemone (see my gallery), from memory of a scuba dive near Squamish, BC. Now holds a place of honour in the entrance-way of their new home in Kanagawa near Tokyo.
Medium: Colour Pencil Size: 50cm diameter

2007 - Edith & Peter De Greef
View from above their home in Victoria, guarded by a Great Blue Heron. The border's flowers move from winter at the bottom, easing into spring on the left, to summer on top, then autumn and back to winter and holly. They were all drawn from the garden. The view is from the roof of my apartment there. I loved it very much. Still do.
Medium: Watercolour Size: 20" x 30"

2006 - Mr. Y. Kishimoto
A pair of Japanese cranes in a Hokkaido winter. The one on the right won an Award for Excellence at the Color Pencil Society of America's 15th Annual Exhibition in Bethesda, Maryland.
Medium: Colour Pencil on gold paper Size: 45cmx60cm each

Born in New Mexico in the early 1950’s to an engineer and homemaker, Andrew Purdy is a self-taught artist living and working in Southern California.  Andrew comes from a family where everyone was exposed to some form of art at an early age.  His maternal grandfather was very influential growing up instilling a love for drawing and sketching as soon as Andrew could hold a pencil.  Andrew’s mother had studied art in college before settling down and raising a family. She carried on with her father’s influence by continuing to foster the love of art in her children by way of her oil paintings.

Andrew began his professional career in architecture in the early 1970’s as a draftsman. In those days plans were drawn with pencils and ink on mylar and linen.  His skill with graphite pencil continued to expand as he was commissioned to complete architectural conceptual renderings.

In the 1970’s, Andrew also began to build furniture.  He built cradles for his children, their toys and then large pieces of furniture for their rooms.  He built many of the pieces of furniture that adorn his home today.  In recent years, Andrew has also designed and constructed architectural embellishments to his home.

In his most recent pieces of furniture, he added hand-carved elements, which gave Andrew the confidence to try a new direction in woodworking.  He began to carve wildlife and fell in love with the process.  Since then, he has carved birds, fish and other wildlife. Nearly all of his woodcarvings have earned one or more awards in carving exhibitions and competitions.  

Andrew went to work for the city of Los Angeles in the early 1980’s where he remained until he retired in 2012. His personal art endeavors always took a backseat to his demanding career responsibilities until several years before his retirement when he began to focus more attention towards his art.  One day as he was at home bored and recuperating from surgery he decided to sketch his dog, Bosco.  Andrew had a tin of colored pencils in his studio, so he decided to complete his dog portrait with color instead of graphite.  He has never looked back.

Colored pencils offer a safer means to achieve beautifully colored images without the hazards that exist with oil paints and their solvents.  Colored pencils do not have the drying challenges that acrylics or watercolors present.  And the level of detail that Andrew loves to apply in all of his work  was not possible with any other medium as with colored pencils.

Andrew has received a number of requests to complete pet portraits, which he has developed into a sub-niche of his colored pencil work.  As a dog lover himself, he takes great pride in capturing the personality of his pet subjects by using many photographic references as he develops each likeness.


Artist's Statement
“I have been told that I have a natural talent or that I was born with a gift.  That very well may be true, but I believe that the artist in me is due mainly to the encouragement I received from family as a young boy.  I have taken that support and added my love for exacting detail and transformed it into a style of my own.  Both my colored pencil and woodcarving works are of a realistic style.

My colored pencil paintings 'pop' with color saturation, which is not often seen with colored pencils, but not impossible for me to obtain.  My woodcarvings are so detailed that several life-sized works have been mistaken as taxidermy pieces rather than wood sculptures."


Awards and Honors
Colored Pencil
2013, Accepted, Juried CPSA 21st Annual International Exhibition, City of Brea Art Gallery,
Brea, CA

2013, First Place, Pencil Paintings Exhibition, CPSA Chapter 214, Cypress Community Gallery, Cypress, CA

2013, Honorable Mention, Pencil Paintings Exhibition, CPSA Chapter 214, Cypress Community Gallery, Cypress, CA

2011, Accepted, Thousand Oaks Art Association Open Juried Show, Thousand Oaks, CA

2011, Third Place, Drawing Fine Arts, Realistic Fish, Ventura County Fair, Ventura, CA

2011, Second Place, Drawing Fine Arts, Realistic Mammals, Ventura County Fair, Ventura, CA

2010, First Place, Drawing Fine Arts, Realistic Mammals, Ventura County Fair, Ventura, CA

2010, First Place, Nominated for Best of Show, Drawing Fine Arts, Still Life, Ventura County Fair, Ventura, CA

2010, First Place, Nominated for Best of Show Drawing Fine Arts, Structures, Ventura County Fair, Ventura, CA

2009, First Place, Nominated for Best of Show, Drawing Fine Arts, Realistic Birds, Ventura County Fair, Ventura, CA

2009, First Place, Drawing Fine Arts, Realistic Animal, Ventura County Fair, Ventura, CA


Woodcarvings
2013, First Place, Best of Show, Painted Realistic Bird, CA Carvers Guild Carving Show, Woodcraft of Ventura, Ventura, CA

2013, First Place, Painted Realistic Fish, CA Carvers Guild Carving Show, Woodcraft of Ventura, Ventura, CA

2013, Third Place, Painted Realistic Animal, CA Carvers Guild Carving Show, Woodcraft of Ventura, Ventura, CA

2008, First Place, Woodcarving, Realistic Painted Bird, Ventura County Fair, Fine Arts, Ventura, CA

2007, First Place, Nominated for Best of Show, Realistic Painted Fish, Channel Islands Carvers Show, Oxnard, CA

2007, First Place, Realistic Painted Animal, Channel Islands Carvers Show, Oxnard, CA

2007, First Place, Best of Show, Realistic Painted Bird, Channel Islands Carvers Show, Oxnard, CA

2007, First Place, Woodcarving, Realistic Mammal, Fine Arts, Ventura County Fair, Ventura, CA

2007, First Place, Woodcarving, Realistic Bird, Fine Arts, Ventura County Fair, Ventura, CA

2006, First Place, Best of Show, Woodcarving, Fine Arts, Ventura County Fair, Ventura, CA

Colour Pencil Sketches Of  Nature Of  Sceneries Landscapes Of  Flowers Of  Girls Of  People Tumblr Of Roses Of  Eyes Of  Love  

Colour Pencil Sketches Of  Nature Of  Sceneries Landscapes Of  Flowers Of  Girls Of  People Tumblr Of Roses Of  Eyes Of  Love  

Colour Pencil Sketches Of  Nature Of  Sceneries Landscapes Of  Flowers Of  Girls Of  People Tumblr Of Roses Of  Eyes Of  Love  

Colour Pencil Sketches Of  Nature Of  Sceneries Landscapes Of  Flowers Of  Girls Of  People Tumblr Of Roses Of  Eyes Of  Love  

Colour Pencil Sketches Of  Nature Of  Sceneries Landscapes Of  Flowers Of  Girls Of  People Tumblr Of Roses Of  Eyes Of  Love  

Colour Pencil Sketches Of  Nature Of  Sceneries Landscapes Of  Flowers Of  Girls Of  People Tumblr Of Roses Of  Eyes Of  Love  

Colour Pencil Sketches Of  Nature Of  Sceneries Landscapes Of  Flowers Of  Girls Of  People Tumblr Of Roses Of  Eyes Of  Love  

Colour Pencil Sketches Of  Nature Of  Sceneries Landscapes Of  Flowers Of  Girls Of  People Tumblr Of Roses Of  Eyes Of  Love  

Colour Pencil Sketches Of  Nature Of  Sceneries Landscapes Of  Flowers Of  Girls Of  People Tumblr Of Roses Of  Eyes Of  Love  

Colour Pencil Sketches Of  Nature Of  Sceneries Landscapes Of  Flowers Of  Girls Of  People Tumblr Of Roses Of  Eyes Of  Love  

Colour Pencil Sketches Of  Nature Of  Sceneries Landscapes Of  Flowers Of  Girls Of  People Tumblr Of Roses Of  Eyes Of  Love  

Colour Pencil Sketches Of  Nature Of  Sceneries Landscapes Of  Flowers Of  Girls Of  People Tumblr Of Roses Of  Eyes Of  Love  

Colour Pencil Sketches Of  Nature Of  Sceneries Landscapes Of  Flowers Of  Girls Of  People Tumblr Of Roses Of  Eyes Of  Love  

Colour Pencil Sketches Of  Nature Of  Sceneries Landscapes Of  Flowers Of  Girls Of  People Tumblr Of Roses Of  Eyes Of  Love  

Colour Pencil Sketches Of  Nature Of  Sceneries Landscapes Of  Flowers Of  Girls Of  People Tumblr Of Roses Of  Eyes Of  Love  

Colour Pencil Sketches Of  Nature Of  Sceneries Landscapes Of  Flowers Of  Girls Of  People Tumblr Of Roses Of  Eyes Of  Love  

Colour Pencil Sketches Of  Nature Of  Sceneries Landscapes Of  Flowers Of  Girls Of  People Tumblr Of Roses Of  Eyes Of  Love