| Meet Leah Energetic and determined, Leah loves to create and paint. When not actively engaged in her pursuit of art, she is involved with her church and scouting groups, attends tumbling classes, and likes to spend time with her friends and cousins. As time permits, she spends time enjoying the great outdoors, where she likes to fish (if the fish are biting) and to camp (if the weather is good). Leah's love of nature and the outdoors is expressed in her colorful paintings. She has specific thoughts and creative ideas. Her determination and energy are expressed through her art. Scroll down and view just a few of the many paintings she has created. |
| Leah displays one of her original painting designs |
| Leah carefully mixes paint to duplicate her teacher's painting. Even great masters learned from others, then went on to create their own masterpieces. Learning the correct techniques first allows for less frustration when creating original works of art. |
| Leah's beautiful works of art are an inspiration for others to explore their creativity |
Leah's Art and Gallery
Carefully layering and applying mixed paint while copying the painting helps the brain learn new skills like value, color variation, and the ability to combine several colors to easily create the perfect tone |
| From Leah: I've learned that mixing two opposite colors will make brown--but much prettier brown than from the tubes or bottles. Also, mixing all the colors on the palette will make a gray--but sometimes a very pretty gray. To mix browns, use blue and orange or red and green or yellow and violet |
My tiny painting below started as an experiment and I layered and mixed several colors to get the background affect. I then added the dragonfly, but with brighter unmixed colors. |
| Featuring Leah's Painting Techniques and Ideas |
Dragonfly by Leah, 2" by 4" copyrighted by Leah's Art and Gallery, and Windale Studios
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Zebra Stripes, 11" by 14" Design copyrighted by Leah's Art and Gallery, and Windale Studios
Path of the Ladybug, 3" by 5" copyrighted by Leah's Art and Gallery, and Windale Studios
Frog and Fly, 5" by 7" copyrighted by Leah's Art and Gallery, and Windale Studios
Butterfly on Green, 3" by 5" copyrighted by Leah's Art and Gallery, and Windale Studios
Tropical Paradise, 5" by 7" copyrighted by Leah's Art and Gallery
and Windale Studios
and Windale Studios
Leah's Swan, 9" by 12" copyrighted by Leah's Art and Gallery and Windale Studios
| The Zebra was for my friend's room. She likes zebras and her room is pink and green. I contrasted and repeated the stripes of the zebra with her room colors. |
| For this miniature, I first layered several colors, then splattered with colors from opposite sides of the color wheel. For example, the dark blue is kind of opposite the orange red. I use toothbrushes, fan, or bristle brushes to splatter paint designs. I outlined the pathway and ladybug with bright gold for contrast. |
| I started with a white canvas, then spattered it with different contrasting colors. I then decided to put in the frog jumping to catch the fly. The colors and splatters have lots of movement to go with the painting |
The opposite colors and cool tones of the background help make the butterfly seem to be flying out of the picture. Again, I used the splattering effect to give my painting variety and movement. |
Other students liked this scene I painted so much they copied it by painting their own tropical sunsets. |
My teacher made me do this painting to practice oil painting techniques. With oil painting, turpentine and oil medium are used to move the paints. With acrylic and watercolor, water is used to move the paints. |