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Taylor Mill
United States, Kentucky

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JOB: Works on paper
GENDER: Female
% OF INCOME FROM ART?: 25% or less
$ YOU SPEND ON ART SUPPLIES EACH YEAR: $100-999
MEMBER SINCE: 11/08/2007
LAST LOGIN: 03/26/2008 10:53:05
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Steve Earle, Emmylou Harris, Josh Ritter, The Be Good Tanyas, Uncle Earl, Richard Thompson, Pentangle, Dead Can Dance, Counting Crows, John Lennon, The Duhks, Solas, Loreena McKennitt, John Hiatt

"To Kill a Mockingbird", everything by Barbara Kingsolver, "Cold Mountain", anything by Alice Hoffman, Bill Bryson's "A Short History of Nearly Everything", "Skinny Legs and All" by Tom Robbins, "Woman on the Edge of Time" by Marge Piercy, Ursula K. LeGuinn, Phillip K. Dick, Pullman's "His Dark Materials", "Art and Fear", just to name a few...(I read A LOT)

"In the Valley of Elah", "Little Big Man", "In America", "American Beauty", "Vanilla Sky", "A Fish Called Wanda", "Dances With Wolves", "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy, "The War", "Crash", "Cold Mountain", "Nell", "What the Bleep Do We Know", "Fargo", the "Planet Earth" series


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I think I was born to be an artist; I have clear memories of drawing since the age of two. After earning my BFA in Studio Art and BA in Art Ed. from Northern Kentucky University in 1993, I had some success exhibiting and selling my work for several years. I also completed half a Master's degree at the prestigious Art Academy of Cincinnati.
However, I wasn't able to get a full-time position teaching art, so I had to switch majors in order to support myself and my children, and had little time to make art. This 'break' in my work was strictly due to financial necessity, among other unpleasant circumstances. It was all worth it, though, because both of my children turned out to be awesome and successful human beings. I consider raising them to be my finest accomplishment.
I finally finished my Master's in Special Ed., and work full time as a teacher. Now attempting to re-enter the art "business" after an absence of about five years or so, I'm very excited but also kind of scared; things have changed considerably in the art world. More than anything, though, I'm happy to be once again doing what I was meant to do.

Lately I'm learning to do lots of things on the computer which I never imagined I would do, but it seems to be a necessity now. Surprisingly, some of it is actually fun!
Please check out my painting-a-day blog:
sharmond.blogspot.com/

In no particular order: making art, looking at work by other artists, my family, my dogs, nature in all its forms, good music, books, storms, Kinneyconnick Creek, sustainability, honesty, a fire in the fireplace on a cold night

war, litter, mountaintop-removal coal mining, people who refuse to think for themselves, the WalMart-ization of America, greed, lies, aggressive drivers, learned helplessness

gardening, reading, log house construction, photography, hiking, playing with my dogs, looking at the sky, ecology, rocks and fossils


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From: rodeo15
01/31/2008 23:45:57
Hi Sharmon, My work is done on gold,silver&copper leaf with collage and acrylic.  I use alot of other things to like different textures and media's.  Your work is great very interesting and great color story.  Pat


From: maribel
01/30/2008 17:48:53
Hello again Sharmon!! Mi piece on Magueyes that you liked is just aclylic on canvas. I am delighted painting plants!!! it makes me feel alive!!!!! See you soon.


From: Rippert
01/30/2008 14:13:06

Hi Sharmon,


Your work is just lovely.  What a wonderful dreamlike quality they have.  Your use of color, texture, and layering just gives sucha fluid movement, almost as if under water.  If you haven't read them already, I would suggest that you get Jack White's art books.  He gives you a real road map of how to become successful as an artist.  I am all too familiar with meeting "financial neccessities" and art taking a backseat to it all.  I have been in the restaurant business for 17 years and did a few small things here and there during that time.  I heard about Jack's books about 6 months ago, and have been on a path towards success.  Go to www.senkarik.com and click on books.  Start with the 1st one The Mystery of Making It.  I found myself moved to tears many times in his books, as they really give the true information I didn't realize I was thirsting for for so long.  Best Wishes.


Heather Rippert



01/29/2008 17:55:20
Love your work. The colors are gorgeous.--queenofhearts


From: lesrinchen
01/27/2008 04:29:14

Sharmon,

I absolutely love your work. So moving -- rich in color and evocative of all kinds of sensations and memories. Thank you for creating it. I plan to spend more time browsing through your galleries in the coming days.

Leslie 



From: mujahid
01/23/2008 08:05:19
Hello,
I am just getting your kind words about my work. Please forgive me for not sending you my think you before now. The site did not let me know about your commit until today. Also, I really did not know how to cantact you, so I hope this will do.

My name is Mujahid, and you spoke about my trees and the photo, "Waiting to be Found"

Please take care,
Mujahid


01/22/2008 06:18:18
Hi!  Thanks for visiting my site!  Im glad that you like my work, and yep all of my manipulations are done in photoshop.  I use a few techniques that allow me to play with only the colors that I most enjoy in each image.  Hopefully making my images a little different than other things that you may have seen before.  But enough about me!  I really enjoy your work!  I couldnt believe that they were paintings, to me (and online) they look like printmaking, I was even more intruiged to learn that they were not prints.  You are wonderfully talented and have beautiful work!


01/21/2008 16:49:21
Hi taylor,  I love all the texture you get in your paintings. Do you paint in acrylic. The painting "Transformation 10 " is a beautiful example. Very nice!  I paint in acrylic and love just playing with texture from time to time, I use it mostly as background as my work is quite flat. Keep them comming and good luck


01/20/2008 09:55:28

I learned relief using Sintra, so I haven't done much with lino or wood.  We get it from a plastics place in Fargo.  I have found a website for Sintra online before, so maybe they could direct you to a supply near you.


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From: Jendria
01/12/2008 14:05:32

Every time I wander through the gallery and get drawn to certain pieces, yours is always one of them!  This time "Tree Of Life" pulled me right in.  It is wonderful!  You really know how to use color and how to pull a viewer right into a piece!  I am a huge fan of your stuff!

 

Keep on creating,

 

-Jendria 

 





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