After a hugely successful career as a painter specializing in the medium of pastels (she was often called the number one pastel artist in the country), Barrie Barnett has decided to apply her skills learned in pastels to the medium of oils. The soft luminescence she perfected in pastels give her oil portraits a unique resonance with the viewer- her clients are thrilled with the results. She is excited to have returned to a favorite medium and is enjoying her work with renewed enthusiasm. Barrie is able to get the same type of realism as before, but with an increased sensitivity to subtle expressions of form and shading that comes from her mastery of pastels. She declares herself to be a lifelong learner, one who admires the Old Masters of the 19th Century, but is able now to make a more recognizably 21st Century painting.
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