Painting Archives - Book Nook by Rocky Heights https://localbooknook.com/product-tag/painting/ Self-Published Author Services Tue, 16 Apr 2024 22:57:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://localbooknook.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-favicon-32x32-1-1-32x32.png Painting Archives - Book Nook by Rocky Heights https://localbooknook.com/product-tag/painting/ 32 32 Koi Meets World https://localbooknook.com/product/koi-meets-world/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=koi-meets-world https://localbooknook.com/product/koi-meets-world/#respond Mon, 11 Mar 2024 21:05:11 +0000 https://localbooknook.com/?post_type=product&p=7152 This book is dedicated to all those who could, would, and should find their voices. Included within this book is the 2017 experimental painting that became the catalyst for this book. The lines on the pages of poetry are there for you to write or draw your own thoughts and ideas.

The paintings in this book are a form of acrylic pour painting. A relatively thin background of black paint was first applied to a square canvas. Next, small puddles of the three contrasting colors are layered along the perimeter of the canvas. Now the fun begins! The canvas is affixed to a turntable device and then given a spin. Yes, paint goes flying off the edges!

When the spinning stopped, I was struck with the notion that my abstract art experiment looked like the koi fish in ponds at a botanical garden. Once the paint had settled and dried a bit, I dropped in eyes and then brush and toothpick painted a point of interest in the center of my koi ponds.

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Written by Victoria Snider

Victoria Snider is a longtime nurse who began to experiment with painting and poetry in 2017. Growing up with a painter/poet father, a talented seamstress mother and a younger sister who excelled as a miniaturist and at technical drawing was a bit intimidating. Thus, a wonderful and ongoing career as a nurse ensued.

Sensing a growing need for a creative outlet, she began her mostly self-taught personal quest to discover and nurture her own artistic spark late in life. It has brought much fulfillment.

As author and illustrator of her first self published book, Koi Meets World, she has decided to share part of this journey with you.

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