User:Linda Carr Fine Art Artist

'Bold text ===Linda Carr-American Woman Fine Art Artist

'Fine Art Painter Linda Carr' was born and raised in East Peoria, two and a half hour drive south of Chicago, Illinois. Linda Carr’s love of art is reflected in her work. Her finely-detailed, life-like oil paintings more closely resemble something created with a camera rather than with brush strokes on canvas. Her interest in art started at age six when she became enthralled with her grandmother’s charcoal wildlife sketches. Her first remembrance of an art gallery was spending summers at her grandmother’s country home, viewing charcoal sketches of a canoe dock on a shoreline with a moonlit stream and smoke coming out of an American Indian Tee-Pee. Her early experimentation with pencil sketches and watercolors encouraged her interest in art. Her elementary and high school teachers in the Peoria area provided further encouragement that pushed her into attaining her graphic arts degree at Illinois Central College. While at I.C.C., she received the Award of Excellence for Outstanding Technical Communication" at Bradley University sponsored by Caterpillar.   She also received  First Place in the National ‘Employ-the-Handicapped’ Poster Contestsponsored by the Department of Illinois Disabled American Veterans.   She used her  degree as a graphic artist for national trade magazines and local newspapers. She is skilled in printing, line illustrations, layout, logo, advertising, black & white photography, and is certified in adobe photoshop.   Linda shared her love for art with children in the Putnam County School District where she taught basic drawing technique to elementary students. She also donated one of her paintings, “Sunday Afternoon”, to the Putnam County Educational Foundation as a fund-raiser for their Fine Arts Program.   Linda was a volunteer art-teacher assistant at the “Sun Foundation” and assisted renowned sculptor Erik Blome', whose works include bronze portraits of  professional basketball player Michael Jordon’s father, James; and a nine-foot tall statue of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. A member of 'Portrait Society of America, Chicago Art Institute, her paintings have been exhibited at the Peoria Civic Center, Peoria Art Guild, Heart of Illinois Art Fair, and Lake View Museum'. Linda placed in the “Top 10” at the Art and Automotive Classic Junction City, Peoria, IL and accepted into “Greenhouse Gallery Salon International”'' in San Antonio, TX.More on Artist Linda Carr Fine Art Studio Online She studied with Plein’ air artist Tracey Frugoli at the Peoria Art Guild and furthered her portrait training with the country's leading artists including Juddith Carducci, Rose Frantzen, Watercolorist Mary Whyte, Susan Lyon, Sherrie McGraw and Daniel Greene in Washington, D.C. at the Portrait Society of America International artist annual Conference.' Her artwork has been popular with collectors of her works from Peoria, Chicago, Colorado, Florida, New York, California, and as far-a-way as Japan. --"Linda Carr Fine Art Artist" 18:34, 22 October 2012 (UTC)Linda Carr