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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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