Emotion and soft Beauty
The Art of Carrie Ballantine
Carrie is an amazing realist artist. She started out as a strictly graphite artist working in pencil. Her pencils were more like paintings rather than drawings evoking true emotion and evident love of her subjects.
She moved on to colored pencils as her medium of choice and worked with those for 15 years.
She later took a two year sabbatical to learn how to work in oils.
A two week oil paiinting workshop with the wonderful realist painter and teacher Anthony Ryder was beneficial.
Her favorite subjects are horses and the people and landscapes of the west.
Pick up the latest copy of Art of the West magazine to read more in depth about this fabulous artist.
The video below is an excerpt from a workshop Carrie taught.
She is giving critiques to an artist who has done a beautiful bronze sculpture of two children at a hospital involved in pet therapy.
The other critique is of a beautiful drawing of a young girl.
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