Art Chowder September | October Issue No. 29 | Page 13

M.J.: That was quite a leap.
Brandy: Well, I didn’t know if it was going to work or if my art was
good enough. I didn’t know if I was going to be able to succeed but I
needed to make sure this worked. I knew I could go back to anything
else and wait till the kids were older, but no. That was my only option.
The drive was all I had to focus on.
M.J.: Has your work changed since you took it up again?
Brandy: When I first went shopping for all my supplies and decided
this is what I’m going to do I picked up some oils and acrylics. I
thought I’d paint animals and realistic stuff, but I didn’t feel I could
put in the work and get the return back that I needed. So I started
doing pours. They were something I didn’t have to stress out as
much about (this was in San Diego) but when I moved up north,
there were already people doing that and I didn’t want to step on
their toes, so to speak. Plus, I had to get accustomed to the weather.
It was affecting my pours in ways I hadn’t counted on. A lot of my
mixtures were cracking once they started to dry. I was already doing
the ink and watercolors too but it was the ink I loved. So that’s
where you’ll see a shift from acrylic pours to abstracts with ink.
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