Archives for Colored Pencil

Beautiful Moments, Dramatic Light

  If you ever find yourself looking at a colored pencil painting by Eileen Nistler and want to climb inside it, you’re feeling exactly how the artist felt when she created it. “When I look at something from history, I feel like I want to crawl into it and have a look around,” she says. Nistler’s beautifully composed—and created—still life paintings are artistic jewels. In fact, many of those paintings include jewelry that she has inherited from family and been gifted by friends. Nistler is best known for her still life paintings, but her subjects also include figures and ranch
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A Testimony to Her Art and Her Story

Kathryn Merrill has a lot going on right now, in both her life and her art. The accomplished Oklahoma artist, who brings ranch scenes to vivid life with colored pencils and oil paints, is in a particularly vivid period of her own existence. During the past year, she married Sid, who works in the oil and gas industry, and became a stepmother to his two children. “I’ve had a huge life change,” she says. “We have four children between us. We probably moved pretty fast [on marriage] because we just felt like we had to have things in place to
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