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JUNE 2020 PROFILE

POSTMODERN
PAINTING. Stella
alternately paints in
oil and watercolor

STELLA YOUNG:

LIFE OF A PAINTER Take a peek into a day
in the life of budding
artist Stella Young,
and how she improves
by Samantha McArthur
Photos by John Adams her craft

Painting, according to Wikipedia, is the other materials including sand, clay, paper,
practice of applying paint, pigment, or plaster, gold leaf as well as objects.
other medium to a surface.
Painting is a mode of creative expression,
The medium is commonly applied to the and the forms are numerous. Drawing, “What did I
base with a brush but other implements, gesture, composition, narration, or
such as knives, sponges, and airbrushes, abstraction, among other aesthetic modes, come here to
can be used. may serve to manifest the expressive and
conceptual intention of the practitioner. do? I, as an
Painting describes both the act and the
result of the action. Paintings may have for Paintings can be naturalistic and artist, am
their support surfaces as walls, paper, representational, photographic, abstract, be here to live
canvas, wood, glass, lacquer, clay, leaf, loaded with narrative content, symbolistic ,
copper or concrete, and may incorporate emotive, or be political in nature. out loud.”

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