Art is the Beauty of Life
Artists Drawing and Inspiration|Issue 36
Draw, paint, pastel and sculpt. This artist has found her love of art to be the one constant in her life.
Cilinda Atkins
Art is the Beauty of Life

My earliest memory of gaining great satisfaction from art was at the age of five when I won my first drawing competition with a drawing of a tulip flower in the local newspaper. I was born in Victoria but now live in beautiful Hervey Bay, Queensland. As a teenager I spent most of my spare time escaping into a drawing. At age 15 I applied for and was accepted into a commercial art course, but as with many budding artists, I was discouraged from pursuing a career in art. At the age of 40 my love for art was renewed when I decided to experiment with painting and discovered I could not stop. Within weeks I was commissioned to produce some large works for a display centre and received lots of positive feedback. This led me to study a Diploma of Visual Art and attend several workshops.

I find my freehand drawing ability is the basis for most of my art, especially my representational work. The freehand drawing workshop by Brett A Jones really helped to hone my drawing skills and provided me with techniques to achieve greater results in both my drawings and pastel works. I love to work with a variety of media and subject matter as I tend to get bored with just one. So I draw, paint, pastel and sculpt. Each media has its own challenges as does each new subject and more often than not the subject determines which medium is appropriate. I have only been working with pastels for a couple of years but have won awards for some of my work. I believe this is because of the drawing skills that come into play with using this media. I never grid any of my work and believe the highest skill any artist can have is the ability to draw freehand.

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