The first image is the completed version, done during my live painting with Wayward Theater’sMental Health Mixed Tape event. The hilariously clever storyteller shared his experiences with working through social anxiety attending all-night horror movie festivals in LA.
Fear of heights • 18in x 24in • Acrylic on canvas • Carly Swenson • 2019
Fear of heights (detail images) • 18in x 24in • Acrylic on canvas • Carly Swenson • 2019
Carly Swenson is an intuitive painter originally from northern Montana. She spent more than a decade working primarily as a mixed media artist before shifting to acrylics. Swenson received a BFA in Visual Arts with an Art History Minor from Bemidji State University. During and after university, she traveled and lived abroad, this included studying in China, traveling throughout Europe and living both in England and the Azores.Swenson’s work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions throughout the US and internationally. Her freelance writing and mixed media journals have been published in nationally distributed art magazines. She has facilitated art workshops for various age groups. Swenson’s work is also included in the permanent art collections of Angra do Heroismo Museum and Bemidji State University (Bemidji, MN). Currently, she lives in St. Paul, MN with a smart little dog and a weird little cat. They’re nice.
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This is going to sound ‘unartistic’ but what I really love about all painting is the places on the canvas where the paint is thin, and shows the underlying canvas ‘bumps’ … it says something about process and also contrasts with other parts of the canvas where paint has been applied thickly. Usually the paint rests on one side of the ‘bumps’ adding a sort of shadow to the composition. I think your painting shows this particularly well.
That’s not unartistic at all. I think it’s appreciating an often overlooked subtlety that has its own beauty. Thanks for taking the time to share that. I get what you mean, it’s something that I think adds a nice contrast to the places with very thick paint. It gives work an authentic feeling.
Carly Swenson • Intuitive Artist 
This is going to sound ‘unartistic’ but what I really love about all painting is the places on the canvas where the paint is thin, and shows the underlying canvas ‘bumps’ … it says something about process and also contrasts with other parts of the canvas where paint has been applied thickly. Usually the paint rests on one side of the ‘bumps’ adding a sort of shadow to the composition. I think your painting shows this particularly well.
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That’s not unartistic at all. I think it’s appreciating an often overlooked subtlety that has its own beauty. Thanks for taking the time to share that. I get what you mean, it’s something that I think adds a nice contrast to the places with very thick paint. It gives work an authentic feeling.
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