ARTIST OF THE MONTH
FRANK COLETTA
ARTIST STATEMENT:
Traveling as an artist fascinates me because each area you travel to has specific geographical characteristics. Each area presents characteristics all their own. The areas I've chosen to draw from are amazingly different from each other. Each area presents challenges and has a visual language all of its own. The rock formations of Arizona are radically different from my back yard pine trees or from the farm on the Battenkill River in Vermont.
I love drawing out in the wild with the sun beating down on me. This set of landscapes pleases me because it depicts some of my travels where my wife and I shared the same experiences in the beauty of God's natural world.
I am trying more and more to allow my drawings to express more of the emotional impact a particular scene had on me. I am beginning to leave out a lot of tems in my drawings and even changing and adding things that aren't there . I am now more interested in what I am saying visually then in hat I see in front of me. I m even more excite about a recent series of drawings that I've just completed that goes several steps beyond. I can't wait to show them to everyone. Hope you like these drawings as much as I did in creating them.
Some of Frank's paintings are for sale. If you are interested please contact him at:
f51643@hotmail.com
Traveling as an artist fascinates me because each area you travel to has specific geographical characteristics. Each area presents characteristics all their own. The areas I've chosen to draw from are amazingly different from each other. Each area presents challenges and has a visual language all of its own. The rock formations of Arizona are radically different from my back yard pine trees or from the farm on the Battenkill River in Vermont.
I love drawing out in the wild with the sun beating down on me. This set of landscapes pleases me because it depicts some of my travels where my wife and I shared the same experiences in the beauty of God's natural world.
I am trying more and more to allow my drawings to express more of the emotional impact a particular scene had on me. I am beginning to leave out a lot of tems in my drawings and even changing and adding things that aren't there . I am now more interested in what I am saying visually then in hat I see in front of me. I m even more excite about a recent series of drawings that I've just completed that goes several steps beyond. I can't wait to show them to everyone. Hope you like these drawings as much as I did in creating them.
Some of Frank's paintings are for sale. If you are interested please contact him at:
f51643@hotmail.com
