Discipline
and hard work. These are two essential ingredients to being self-supporting
artist. Just ask Anne Belov.
Anne
tries to be in her studio by 9 AM every morning to paint. In her 35 years as an
artist, Anne has painted landscapes, still life, and interior imagery. Her bold
and direct brushwork results in captivating imagery that expresses the bond she
feels with her subject. Anne says, “My paintings are
about my life…where I live, work in the garden, sit in a comfortable chair to
read. I refuse to be limited to one subject matter or even one medium. I have
worked in watercolor, oils, printmaking (etching, lithography, and monoprint),
egg tempera, and drawing.”
Hard work and discipline has kept Anne
busy even with the recent slow-down in our economy. With slower sales, Anne
decided to use her free time to push the boundaries of her creativity into new
directions. Using Kickstarter, Anne ran a successful campaign to raise almost
$7,000 in funds to self-publish a wordless children’s picture book,
Pandamorphosis. The book was fueled by her obsession with pandas and her panda
cartoons which she has been drawing for the past five years. She started a
blog, Your Brain on Pandas, in 2009 to showcase these panda cartoons because she
says, “My friends got tired of me chasing
them down the street with a stack of cartoons clenched in my fist yelling,
‘Tell me they're funny! Please! Hey! Wait, you didn't read the one
about the panda kindergarten yet!’”
Anne will be teaching a class on Egg
Tempera for Whidbey Island Fine Art Studio in April 2013. Anne primarily works
in oil on linen glued to hardboard. She uses traditional recipes for egg-oil
emulsion rabbit skin glue gesso to create a more absorbent ground than acrylic
or oil based gessoes. Subsequent layers of paint create
the depth and luminosity that characterize her evocative paintings.
