Annual Valentine’s Love Series

Annual Valentine's Art
Written By Christine O'Brien

To celebrate Valentine’s Day each year, I create a small series of artwork outside my norm (not oil on canvas). This annual process has been both challenging and personally cathartic, from watercolor and pastel mixed media to linoleum prints and wax art (encaustic). There is comfort in doing what we know, but stepping out of the box is also a fantastic way to open one’s mind to new artistic skills and techniques; plus, this series allows clients to collect beautiful, affordable original works.

I look forward to creating these unique pieces each year in the name of love!
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Christine O'Brien

Christine’s proclivity to draw began at age five after helping her artistic mother render portraits of her siblings. She received a scholarship to study fine art at Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri, where she completed a rigorous program of classical instruction. During her junior year, Christine was selected as the sole recipient for an independent study in advanced experimental drawing and painting with Gardiner McCauley, head of the art college. Her final project, a five-foot square mixed media portrait was installed in the college reception area and published in the curriculum catalog. After graduating, Christine worked in her hometown of Chicago as a graphic designer and illustrator. Recruited to a large photography turnkey operation as a creative director and sales representative, she thrived in a career of both art and marketing. Christine moved west in the early 90’s, where she studied acrylic and oil painting at UCLA. Her affinity to paint the figure blossomed into a career as a portraiture artist. In recent years, she has drawn from both her imagination and surroundings to create imagery that combines her traditional training with a modern edge. These works include lone figures amid simplified landscapes, and enlarged depictions of secondhand collectables. She describes her work as scenes that capture a mood of beauty and contemplation. Christine lives and works in the Denver area and is collected throughout the US and abroad.

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