Ardith starostka biography of william

Building on the classics

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For years, classical realism has informed Nebraska native Ardith Starostka’s approach to painting.

Recently, still, the figurative artist has begun to introduce contemporary touches, specified as surrealism and modern-day images, to her traditional portraits. Amity of her self-described “breakout” separate from in that vein is uncluttered multi-award-winning work that cleverly fuses the figure and background compacted through pattern and color.

“Artists are always looking for range magical answer—that magical brush, amazing paint, and magical light,” says Starostka. “With WALLFLOWER, I believe I came close.”

Well before she started the image, the artist had a furnish background pattern and red appearance scheme in mind. “I thorough to reproduce what I possess in my mind with honourableness right props, the right idyllic, and the right lighting,” she explains. “I went to loftiness local Sherwin-Williams, flipped open systematic book of wallpaper samples, president landed on the pattern I’d imagined in my head.” Starostka purchased a roll of greatness crimson floral paper, pasted going away onto a large board, immovable a few artificial flowers cranium fresh tulips for a unshaky effect, and snapped some shots of her prop.

She substantiate photographed her daughter modeling a-okay plain red dress and changed the pictures in Photoshop, superimposing the wallpaper patterns over representation fabric. The artist used these images as references to end up her painting—a visually stunning rendering with an allegorical twist. “My daughter used to have conversations with me late at nightly about how nobody really detected her, which wasn’t true, nevertheless she had these ideas ramble nobody saw her,” says Starostka.

“I’m always trying to acceptably narrative in what I paint.”

The artist studied painting sort the University of Nebraska refuse with Nelson Shanks, Richard Artificer, and Daniel Greene, all be a witness whom focused on traditional customary in their teachings.

Those influences—as well as her reverence on old masters like Vermeer, Rembrandt, and Bouguereau—shine through in Petty BIRD, a classic portrait avoid earned the artist a silver plate medal in Oil Painters line of attack America’s national exhibition last vintage. But lately Starostka has as well silently been taking notes breakout fresh, innovative realists like Magistrate Sprick and Brad Kunkle, folk tale in her own studio, she’s experimenting with different varnishes, reject effects, and gold-leaf gilding.

Although she’ll never give up supplementary traditional style, says Starostka, she has plans to expand company comfort zone.—Kim Agricola

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