Realistic Pastel Portraits of Wildlife by Holly Cannon I Artsy Shark

Pastel artist Holly Cannon captures the essence of her wildlife subjects in in-depth, practical portraits. Check out her site to see additional of her portfolio.

 

 

I have normally loved to attract and paint.  Artwork class was my most loved course and all of my notebooks have been covered in drawings. I attained a communications diploma with a slight in art from Florida Worldwide College as an avenue to use my enthusiasm and not be a “starving artist”.

 

 

I’m fortunate to have a fantastic spouse and 5 grownup children and a pet. We also owned and ran a horse breeding farm alongside the way, so I didn’t have a lot time for my art, but my heart constantly longed to paint once again.

 

 

A number of yrs in the past, just after a long hiatus, I at the time far more identified my paintbrush while recuperating from hip surgical treatment. I instantaneously identified my content place yet again. I attended a workshop with my friend and mentor, Lesley Harrison, and was introduced to the medium of pastels and totally enjoy them!

 

 

I was amazed at the depth and realism I could obtain with pastels and identified a great community trainer who assists me get unstuck from all of my paintings when necessary.

 

 

I am a wildlife photographer as effectively and try out to reach a photorealistic glimpse in each and every of my paintings. My greatest compliments are when people today notify me they just can’t tell the difference concerning my art and a photograph.

 

 

I typically start with the eyes in most of my paintings. They information and view about me whilst I’m developing my operates. I truly believe eyes are the home windows to animals’ souls. With each individual portray, I am striving to seize the soul of the animal on paper.

 

 

My really like for animals and character will come from my deep faith. I believe that God has provided us a lovely world, total of awesome creatures for us to get pleasure from and treatment for. I really like sharing my paintings of them with the environment.

 

 

My passion is and has often been painting, but my correct like is my religion and family—my spouse and our 5 young ones, their spouses and my grandson. In them I come across my biggest pleasure.

 

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