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                            Brush Strokes






                            Guenevere Schwien
















                                                         Vibrant oil colors and my endless curiosity have

                               Guenevere Schwien         kept me painting almost daily for over a dozen
                               is an award-winning       years. I find a unique pleasure in visual stimuli and
                               photorealism artist. In   feel compelled to capture it. All I have ever wanted

                               this article, she shares   to do is make paintings for a living, and I intend
                               her journey as an artist   to crack the code of just how to accomplish that.
                               and as a Toastmaster.          In second grade, a water color artist visited my
                                                         class, giving us a demonstration and the opportunity
                                                         to try them. One thing the artist said, that I will
                                                         never forget, is, “I get to make pictures for a living.”

                                                         Ever since that day, this is what I have wanted to do,
                                                         make pictures for a living. I attended the Academy
                                                         of Art University in San Francisco, California, which
                                                         trained me in the tradition of painting from life in

                                                         a quick, loose, gestural style called, alla prima. The
                                                         school focused on the academic progression from
                                                         drawing to painting, and it wasn’t until my senior
                                                         year that we started to paint from photographs. I

                                                         fell in love with it. Being able to manipulate the
                                                         subject, edit the color, and adjust cropping, before
                                                         grabbing my brush, streamlined the process for












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