Angelica is not only an artist with CreateAbility, but a part of the CreateAbility Advisory Board.
Angelica became interested in Art when she visited a gallery in Jackson in her early twenties. She was drawn to a painting of flowers. The price of the piece was more than she could afford and so she decided to paint her own.
Angelica attended Glossel School of the Arts in Houston where she was living at the time. After studying there she studied under other artists who were also painters. She works with both oils and acrylics as her mediums, but her favorite medium is oils. She likes these oils as they take longer to dry and this allows more time to work with your subject matter.
Her favorite subject matter is flowers because they reflect life and fragility and “life is fragile”. She also likes flowers because they offer “soft edges” versus hard lines in work.
Her favorite style of painting is loose brush strokes, similar to the style of Van Gogh. She also likes this style as it allows the artist to put “energy” into the work.
Her favorite artist is an American artist named Sargent who was influenced by Monet. She likes his work as he paints in a realistic sense and has a good sense of color and he also draws well. Angelica feels that to be a good painter that good drawing skills are essential as well. Her other favorite artist is the French artists Pierre, also a painter. She like his work because he works with a canvas taped to the wall, rather than a stretched canvas that is the common method. He stretches his canvas after he completes the work and uses his fingers and rags as his primary tools to paint with.
Angelica starts her own works by finding something in a picture or still life that draws her interest…usually flowers and more recently faces. She starts with a loose sketch, then fills in a more complete drawing then paints. She also considers the different angles of her subject by viewing it from different angles.
She likes to get out of her comfort zone by painting people or portraits. She is also drawn to hands as they offer a variety of subject matter and are a close up, more intimate subject matter, versus landscapes, which are distant.