Hooked on the Feeling

If she hadn’t been diagnosed with Type I diabetes during her first year of college, Carol Strock Wasson today would be a chemical engineer rather than an artist, who is thrilling collectors with her beautifully rendered landscape paintings. In order to deal with that diagnosis and the required twice daily insulin injections, she returned home to Union City, Indiana, where she currently resides, and began to paint.

“It’s the reason I’m an artist today,” Strock Wasson says. “I had painted in high school, and my mother was an artist, so I turned to art.

Carol Strock Wasson (Indiana)

Yellow Bucket
Pastel
14″x24″

“I painted this in the studio, using numerous plein air sketches and photos. When artists are out in the field painting, the light changes so fast that sometimes compositions are not always the best. Painting in the studio offers a chance to compose and create, while using the knowledge gained from plein air. In this painting, I consistently repeated the shape of the cow head, using repeat with variation, in the shape of the bucket, the puddles, and the side of the barn.”