Elizabeth Sullivan Fine Art

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Once upon a time an artist who liked to work with big oil paintings and sculpture moved into a tiny room where there was no space for these big projects. Making lemonade out of lemons, Elizabeth Sullivan took up watercolor. That was 10 years ago and she found that she liked watercolor better than any other medium.

She found out that she liked watercolors best, and although the tiny home in a studio apartment has been replaced with a house and studio in Elgin, Texas, she still excels at watercolors. Art prints of her paintings are published in Sweden and distributed internationally, and her work has been used by other companies to adorn coasters, cards, area rugs and more. She is best known for her southwestern watercolors of horses and wildlife, but her recent paintings of dogs and cats have become wildly popular.

Sullivan acknowledges that one of her inspirations is cave paintings and pictographs and the vibrant hues of the southwest. She uses an interesting technique to achieve the yellows, reds, oranges, browns and turquoise, which used a characteristic of watercolor, but is not an ordinary watercolor technique. Watercolors are transparent – so by layering one color on top of another in several stages, brilliant color pops off the page.

She remarks on another characteristic of the medium that she uses to advantage – the tendency of water to flow. “Letting the paint flow is an important aspect of watercolor,” she says. But it takes some practice to get the paint to flow where you want it to flow.

“I used to paint a lot more realistically,” Sullivan remarks, “but what I really wanted to express was the graceful and powerful motion of the animals, so as time passes my paintings become more and more ethereal in that expression.” The horses and the buffalo in Ms. Sullivan’s work flow across the paper, running for the joy of running.

She catches other animal motion, too. The armadillo mama with her four babies waddles along searching for someone’s garden to root around in. The horned lizards circle each other, deciding their next moves.

In order to paint the essence of the animals in this manner, one must have familiarity and kinship for the subjects. Ms. Sullivan says she has always been around horses, even worked on an Arabian Horse Ranch for a while. She has studied the various subjects she paints – not just by being near them, but researching their habits and habitats. For example, she could tell you that armadillos always have four babies, and all four are the same sex. Hardly anyone need to know that, but if you do a painting of one baby armadillo with a mother, it would be strange.

With her four cats sleeping at her feet or walking across a fresh painting, Elizabeth Sullivan loves spending time in her studio or on a ladder working on a new mural. You may also find her at a gallery or art show.

Her work is on view for everyone at her website www.ecsullivanart.com, or contact her via email at ecsullivanart@aol.com.

View the Fine Art by Elizabeth Sullivan at Wild Spirit Artworks

Posted by Penny Logan   @   27 November 2009
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