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Sharrel Allen
Watercolor
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In the 2nd grade I had an art teacher who told me that my drawings were very well done. I was so excited about my new found gift that from then on I would sit and draw for hours. In High school I was in an advanced art class and just before graduation I received an Art scholarship. Only being able to attend one semester of college classes I consider myself self taught. I have worked for two greeting card companies, Hallmark and Buzza Carddoza in California. Teaching art is my passion and I have taught classes off and on for over 20 years. My favorite mediums are Watercolor and Pastels.
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Jennifer Behymer
Mural, Watercolor
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Jennifer is the owner of Mural Magic, LLC. Mural Magic provides custom murals for both residential and business clients as well as fine art commissions. Jennifer is interested in children's book publishing and is a member of Juvenile Writers of Kansas City. Cabinet des Fees, an online fairytale journal, has accepted two of her illustrations for use on their website:
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Trish Bellington
Watercolor
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The creative urge has been a driving force in Trish's life for as long as she can remember. To express it or not has never been an option. She has enjoyed exploring a variety of media and styles through the years and currently watercolor, calligraphy and collage are satisfying creative outlets for her. The beauty, complexity and infinite variety of color and form found in nature are unending sources of inspiration for her art.
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Michelle Bergin
Mixed Media
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Michelle Bergin was born and was raised in Olathe, Kansas. After graduating from high school, Michelle attended Kansas State University where she received a degree in elementary education and is currently in her sixth year teaching fourth grade at Louisburg Elementary School. In early 2005, Michelle began taking art classes through the Kansas City Art Institute's continuing education classes. She developed a talent for creating collages. Each piece represents different emotions to each viewer. Michelle plans to continue creating and selling her art as well as teaching and working on her masters in Educational Leadership.
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Pat Pummill Betteridge
Acrylic, Pastel, Oil
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Pat has been drawing and loving art since early childhood. After receiving a BFA in Painting/Drawing from the Kansas City Art Institute and Masters Degree from UMKC she taught Art, Photography and Humanities in High School for twenty-five years. At the same time she taught night adult art classes. Later she facilitated Life Drawing classes at Friendship Art Gallery.
She has won many awards on her acrylic, oil, watercolors, and pastel paintings. These include exhibits in National Juried shows, numerous one-person shows, and many Best of Show and First Place awards. She particularly loves to include people in her paintings, and does still life and landscapes as well as portraits.
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Judy Beyer
Oil
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Judy has a degree in Business Administration and taught Special Education for several years. After taking her first oil painting class seven years ago she knew that she wanted to continue painting in that medium. She loves the process of taking an initial idea to the finished project. She paints portraits of children, landscapes, buildings and a variety of other subjects.
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Lisa Britz
Photography
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I have a deep passion for photographing our important pollinators as well as other insects. To witness the complete butterfly metamorphosis through photographs allows me to extend this magical opportunity to others. These insects not only have a important purpose they also have very unique personalities. Capturing pollinators in action in photographs shows just how much pollen bees carry and how our crops and plants are pollinated. I am a life long Lee's Summit resident. All of my photographs are taken in my personal gardens that are certified with five Organizations. My love for gardening has attracted some of natures most heart warming visitors to share.
Every day in the gardens is a learning day to be shared through photographs!
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Jackie Chamberlain
Acrylic, Photography
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I began acrylic painting in Junior High and continue to paint in that medium. My style is realism at a fairly detailed level. I paint a variety of subjects, however I have a special affinity for big cats, especially tigers.
I originally took photographs as a means to capture scenes to paint.Several years ago I began to see photography as an additional creative outlet.I have since attended a few workshops and lectures with well known photographers to increase my skill level. Recently one of my photographs was published in "KC Voices".
I paint and take photos of things that inspire me. Thus, my art is mostly of animals, nature and Greek/Roman or Victorian inspired architecture. I photograph in color because I find the many different colors and hues in nature to be an integral part of the beauty.
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Hannah Chou
Oil
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"Hannah has had a passion for art ever since elementary school. Growing up, she received many awards and compliments from her school teachers. Instead of going to school for art, she decided to get her BSN degree and took up nursing for her career.
For the past years of her life, she has been raising three boys of her own while working. But through her determination for art, she found time to attend art classes and continues her artwork. She enjoys experimenting with different mediums, challenging herself. She started with water color, and then moved to figure drawing/charcoal, oil painting, and ceramic/sculpture. She believes that all forms of art are precious and a gift."
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Brian Compton
Photography
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Over the years I have enjoyed traveling and photography gives me the opportunity to share those experiences. A photograph can tell a story and stimulate the imagination. I love to capture images in nature, such as flower, insects and birds. Wedding, forensic, weather and technical photography are also areas of interest.
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Patricia Deeter
Oil, Watercolor, Pastel
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Pat's paintings express her love of vibrant color. Actually painting outdoors broadened her vision of the world around her, which she now shares with the world. Her philosophy is "enjoy and paint what you see". Seeing painting possibilities in everything and everyone, she analyzes the concept and color in her mind before committing to a painting.
See more of Pat's work at
www.art-exchange.com or www.artbyaco.com |
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Tammie Dickerson
Graphite Portrait Artist |
I strive to capture the emotional moments of life in my art.
From Kansas City, my earliest memory of coloring a picture of my mother's vase of flowers a age 4 was the beginning of a lifelong love of art. My first mediums were drawing pencils and charcoals, followed by oils, acrylics, pastels and watercolor. I have lived and painted in the historic childhood home of President Harry S. Truman since 1988. This home has been in my family for over 60 years and is an inspiration for my art. In 2004, I returned to my first love of graphic drawing where I find portraits so rewarding.
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Emory Dillon
Graphite |
"I could best describe myself as an old-fashioned country boy who loves being outdoors. I love everything antique." Emory grew up on a farm near Odessa, Missouri, but his parents are orginally from Wyoming ranch country. This may explain his passion for cowboy art, country scenes, and antique-related subject matter. Emory specializes in character studies and portraits of children. His favorite media is pencil drawing but he is also accomplished in pastels and acrylics. He received his art training in high school and Central Missouri State University.
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Erlene Flowers
Acrylic, Watercolor, Sculpture
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I hold Bachelors, Masters and Specialist degrees. After graduation from a technical high school, trained as professional fashion illustrator, I was a working artist doing graphic work in Michigan. My interest in art started very early in life, and I have been involved in art creating, designing, organizing exhibits and teaching ever since, often working the administrative and organizational part of shows, fairs and festivals. I moved to Lee's Summit, Missouri in 2004, where, I exhibit locally with and belong to Raytown Art Association, Independence Art Association, Kansas City Artist Coalition, Missouri Watercolor Society, Summit Art , Greater Kansas City Art Association and Connoisseurs Collection, Inc., a gallery in Chicago, Illinois.
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Joe Fournier
Pastels
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Since I was very young I have taken an interest in art and first picked up pastel in 1992. It has since been my favorite medium, but I also like pencil, charcoal, pen and ink. I began teaching in 2006 and have taught drawing and pastel painting over the last year.
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Carolyn Fox
Photography
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I have a Bachelors and Masters Degree in Business Administration and worked in the business world for almost 20 years. I'm now concentrating on my real passion, my photography. Studying with well-known photographers, such as David Allen Harvey, Dave Black, Jack Dykinga and the late Galen Rowell inspired me to create work that creates emotion in the viewer. My philosophy is that to be a good photographer you need to slow down and let your subjects speak to you. Only then can you capture the true beauty of what you're photographing. Too often we pick up our cameras and "take a picture". We need to slow down, look at the light, listen to what the subject is trying to tell us and then "make a photograph". Although my primary focus is nature and wildlife photography, I also do abstracts, food, still-life and event photography.
www.foxdenimages.com
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Jennylynne Gragg
Pastels
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Jennylynne paints in both oils and pastels. For her, the emotion of the moment is what she strives for, whether painting portraits, landscapes or still lifes. She has studied with several nationally known artists:Albert Handell, Maggie Price, Anita Louise West, Donna Aldridge, and Phil Starke.
She paints from life whenever possible and enjoys plein aire painting in Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Colorado and Arizona. She also does commission work for clients based on their specific needs and requests.
www.jennylynnegragg.com
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Carole Gray
Pencil Drawings/ Portraits
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Carole has earned a BA in studio art from UMKC and AA in Veterinary Technology. She has been drawing since she was in grade school and studied oil painting in college, but has recently been concentrating only on portrait drawing.
cjegray@gmail.com
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Linda Hanley
Photography
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I love to travel & share my experiences through photographs. Nature & wildlife are favorite subjects as well as people & their cultures. I do event & wedding photography as I love to capture these happy occations. From the top of the world to the bottom of the oceans I find this planet to be an amazing place!
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Carolyn Hull
Printmaking
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Carolyn A. Hull's inspiration for art comes from American life. She enjoys making prints of old machinery, whether it's cars, planes or tractors. She is interested in the memories people share after viewing her prints. In college she discovered printmaking, and particularly enjoyed carving wood blocks for relief prints. Recently Carolyn left her job to be a full time artist.
Carolyn is a recipient of numerous awards and honors, including several Best of Show awards. She was born in 1984 and grew up in the Kansas City area. She received a B.A. in Art from William Jewell College in Liberty, Missouri.
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Teddy Jackson
Acrylic, Watercolor, Oil
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During the 1970s, Teddy taught Decorative Painting locally and regionally. She recently retired to reenter the art world. She is basically self taught. Teddy describes her style as realism with a touch of impressionism. She sees potential paintings at every turn in the road and hopes viewers will experience some of the same emotion she feels in creating each one. Visit Teddy's studio online:
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Keith Kratz
Photography
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Since my first trip to the mountains as a teenager I have enjoyed hiking and discovering the remote areas of nature and the beauty that unfolds up and beyond the next ridge or mountain peak. Desiring to share this in my photography I strive to reflect this beauty in my work and capture these moments in time and my love for being in these places.
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Dave Luebbert
Mixed Media
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After learning drawing and art at an early age, my digital electronics skills learned in the USAF prepared me for digital art. I like painting in acrylics, drawing, photography, digital modeling and rendering. I use a composite of any or all of those mediums for mixed media creations.
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Mike Lewis
Photography
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The first job in my career was as a news photographer, shooting film for daily newscasts. The challenge then was to tell as much of the story as you could with your pictures, but still find a single shot that personified the mood of the entire event.
News still pays the bills, but by taking up photography in my personal life I have the luxury of finding that one emotive shot in scenes of my own choosing, and letting the viewer fill in the blanks with whatever feelings or memories the image evokes for them.
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Ramon Magee
Photography
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I favor black and white fine art imagery because of the essential use of tone, shape and texture to express the detail and emotion of an image. Some images in my body of work, are color. These are limited to images in which tint or color provides emphasis to the message.
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Tom Mallot
Photography, Polaroid Emulsion Transfers
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Black and white photography done in the traditional method of film and silver prints is my first love. I also create Polaroid Emulsion
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Joseph McGlon
Pastel
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I currently work as a clinical social worker for the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Kansas City, Missouri. In that capacity, I evaluate veterans for posttraumatic stress disorder. I recently started painting and my medium is pastels. I love the rapid, responsiveness, and the unique quality of pastels. What caught my attention is the versatility in knowing that pastels can be used as both a drawing and a painting medium that can evoke meaning and emotions.
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Will Mattingly
Photography
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Will was born in Oklahoma as a direct descendent of the Cherokees. He is the son of an artist along with other family members with creative talents. Will enjoys every minute taking photographs and producing artwork that others can also enjoy.
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Barbara Neth
Watercolor
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Vibrant color and the play of light and shadow are exciting to me. I enjoy the splash, drip and spatter of watercolor and the amazing things that develop when I put color on the paper. I am a signature member of the Missouri Watercolor Society. My awards include Artist of the Year for the Greater Kansas City Artist Association, Missouri Top 50, Best of Show at Prairie Village Art Fair, Harrisonville Fine Art Show, and Warrensburg Gallery Walk I recently received 3rd Place in the Missouri Watercolor Society Members Invitational Show in Columbia, Missouri. My work can also be seen at Images Gallery, 1520 Walnut, Kansas City, MO and Kamp's Flowers in Raytown.
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Elizabeth Oden
Watercolor
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Painting from a very young age, watercolor has always been my medium of choice. I use a limited palette, sometimes just the three basic primaries and mix all my own colors. Self taught and still learning, I photograph my subject matter in action and lean toward all things nature.
www.elizabethoden.com
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Inez Pennington
Equine Art, Watercolor, Photography
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Pennington's eye for color, composition and unusual lighting, her experimentation with different angles/positions and techniques combined with her own personal knowledge of the sport - all help to form this quintessential expression of the athletic partnership between horse & rider, their symbiotic drive to excel, and the essence of the sport horse in the highest strata of competition.
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Charles Pierce
Charcoal, Pastel, Oil
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My objective is to create a portrait of art, a statement of emotional feeling, space, and movement. Working in the mediums of charcoal, pastel, and oil; to create and feel the softness of the edge, working the composition from dark to light, thin to thick, staying true to the subject and colors.
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Venita Routh
Charcoal, Pastel, Acrylic
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A Kansas City, Missouri native, Venita left the area after getting married in 1983, and lived in Kansas, Florida, and Ohio, before returning home. Although she took art in school and drew for pleasure, Venita is relatively new to the art world. She has, however, ventured into other creative areas - flower arranging, food art (fruit and vegetable arrangements), and chocolate shape molding to name a few, but it was only recently, after taking some lessons, that her renewed interest in fine art became a passion. To her delight, Venita has three daughters who are also artistically inclined in various disciplines, and attributes her own love of art to her mother who trained as a fashion designer, but enjoyed sketching and other mediums till the end of her life.
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JB Rydl
Oil, Watercolor |
My paintings are done in watercolor and in oil. I like to change from one medium to the other as it helps to keep it refreshing for me. I try to have a wide variety of subjects; from scenery to flowers, bodies of water to mountains, and from in the city to out in the country, etc. My work is displayed in art shows in various states in the Midwest. Also, some of my art is on display at the St Luke's Hospital in Lee's Summit, MO.
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Gloria Shanahan
Pencil
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I am a pencil artist. My drawings capture realism from still life or photographs. My medium includes graphite and charcoal. I use hard lead to draw the basic lines and shapes of my image, soft lead to emphasize tone and depth, stumps to blend the graphite, and charcoal for a difference in texture.
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Nancy Sullivan
Watercolor
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Viewers of my art will find that I paint with very strong color. I try to create movement within the subject being painted. When I interpret the subject being painted my goal is to stir emotion or memory within the observer whether positive or negative. I love watercolor because of the transparency and the spontaneity of the pigment and water moving across the paper. It's so exciting to watch!
I enjoy painting abstractly because it is stimulating and challenging, which helps me move outside of my comfort zone. I have received several awards for my watercolors in the Blue Springs and Raytown Art Shows, the Community Association for the Arts and the Independence Art Association.
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Hank Teri
Oil/Acrylic
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After retiring from a career in engineering I was able to resume my long neglected hobby of oil and acrylic painting. My specialty is painting from photographs, mostly from my personal travels. The subjects vary widely. I also do paintings on a commission basis from someone else's personal photos. I sketch the photos on paper to the desired scale and then transfer the sketch to the canvas where I begin painting. I try to capture a bit of the art created by mother nature. My paintings are in homes throughout the U.S. from California to Massachusetts. One painting is in a home in Sicily. This gives me the satisfaction of knowing that others are enjoying the art that I have created for them. Since early 2003 I have displayed my paintings at several local area venues including The Kansas City Artists Coalition, The Apex Gallery in the Crossroads District, The Country Club Plaza and Lee's Summit.
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Pat Thomson
Watercolor, Pastel
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My objective as an artist is to create an emotional appreciation. Over just the past few years, I find myself more influenced by abstract color, form and value. The paintings still have recognizable objects such as trees, buildings, and flowers, but the work is less in representing true reality, and expressed in my own personal terms.
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Darlene Town
Digital Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic, Pastel
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Attended Central Missouri State University and received a B.F.A and M.A. She does fine art as well as commercial art utilizing many media including oils, acrylic, watercolor, ink, and computer/digital.
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Mike Tuziw
Photography
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As a photographer, my quest is to capture not only the beauty of nature, but to awaken the spirit of those who view my images, to inspire them to discover for themselves the wonder and joy that I felt as I was creating the photograph.
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John Ulett
Painting
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John enjoys doing all types of art from varied subjects. He uses several different mediums such as oil, acrylic, pastel, charcoal, and pencil. Spontaniety and color with good command of the medium to him are some of the hallmarks of exciting art and something he is still striving for. That's why he so appreciates the colorist, the impressionist and post impressionist painters. Being retired has given him plenty of time to pursue and enjoy his favorite hobby, art
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Carol Wilson
Watercolor, Acrylic
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Ten years ago I took my first-ever art class - in watercolor. My goal was to be able to sketch and paint during my travels. Now, the more I paint, the more I see the world in terms of "that would make and interesting painting". My art is a reflection of me in the variety of subjects I paint, using watercolor and/or acrylic. I look forward to studying and growing in this craft.
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