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I have recently returned to showing my work after 10 years. I painted in oils for 30 years, but life changes brought me to try acrylics. It was not easy to get that lovely look of oils, but I embraced it as safer, and, a fun medium. In time, I needed some technical information on this fast drying, and frustrating paint, searched YouTube until found Nicolas Wilton’s art2life videos. That led me to take his three month class, The Creative Visionary Program. It was fun, loose, and messy. It was a perfect for my approach to painting, which I describe as The Rorschach Method or the Pareidolia method. I put down paint, and ,then look for what what is hiding in the paint. I see things everywhere, which is a problem when trying to do on the board. Usually an animal or person appears, and I let that be the subject of my painting. Nick’s class was perfect for this, we paint lots of layers, allowing for many happy accidents. The program is full of great technical information as well as creative ideas. He teaches you to kill your darlings, and just paint right over something you like, so your paintings don't become too precious.

My range is from realism to doodle art. I still love painting from life, from my Plein Air days, so I paint flowers when I have special ones in my yard. I have two approaches to Doodle art. I do a small doodle and then if I like it, it becomes a full size painting. (See Holy Women, Sowings Seeds of Chang, Pals on Skates…etc) They are fun, like a coloring book, just fill in the lines. The second approach, I draw a bunch of lines with water soluble markers on a Gesso board, and when I see something, I develop that and wash off the other lines. Examples of this approach can be seen in my series of strange little beasts, www.instagram.com/lesannecoffin/ . Also checkout Lesanne Coffin on Facebook.