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Virginia Haines, an artist and Minnesota native, is now an active artist living in Mountain Home, Arkansas. She has her studio and gallery in her home and also displays paintings at the Hill Country Art Gallery east of Mountain Home. Her favorite subjects are landscapes of local scenes and surrounding area with Ozark Mountain scenery. She also enjoys painting portraits and animals in oils, watercolors, casein, or pastels. She accepts and paints many special commissions. Haines is mainly a self-taught artist, has an AA Degree in Art, and also traveled throughout the United States with opportunities to study at the Springfield Massachusetts Museum of Art, the Dayton (Ohio) Institute of Arts, Shreveport Art Center in Louisiana, and many workshops with well-known artists such as Frank Webb, Judy Betts, and latest workshops in Arkansas were advanced watercolor studies with Tony Couch, Ken Hosmer, Richard Stephens, and additional studies in oil painting techniques under master artist, John Pototschnik. Inspiration and motivation to draw and paint has held a constant thought process and need to create since very young. Haines continues to create, sketch, and produce paintings from subject matter that sparks her interest and imagination. She refers to painting as her "release without boundaries"...a challenging time outdoor experience or quiet time within her studio where she spends many hours working out some magical imagery to produce a new, exciting 'happy experience'. Natural surroundings provide groundwork for capturing a group of shapes or fleeting light effects that inspire ideas and impact for successful results. Haines joins watercolor societies to benefit from the sharing of ideas and inspiration from other artists. Each year, she submits digital images to be juried into art competitions within these groups. She is a member of the Mid-Southern Watercolor Society (MSW); a signature member with the Artists of Northwest Arkansas (ANWA); the Transparent Watercolor Society of America; and the NorthEast Watercolor Society (NEWS). Her latest accomplishments include acceptance of three paintings at the lst Annual Area Art Exposition, Batesville, Arkansas. She was awarded with First Place $300 Award and also was honored with the $500 Puchase Award from the Citizens Bank of Batesville. Virginia instructs watercolor workshops and private classes at her home studio and gallery and the Hill Country Art Gallery-Mountain Home to students interested in beginning, intermediate, or advanced courses. Inquire by email: vhaines@vhaines-artist.com or contact the Hill Country Art Gallery at: (870) 492-4000. |
VIRGINIA'S GALLERY of WATERCOLOR PAINTINGS
"ABOUT WATERCOLOR WET-IN-WET TECHNIQUES"
Watercolor painting is an exciting medium full of suprising creative happenings!
I love the wet-in-wet technique for this very reason. Clean, clear colors flow
into neighboring similar colors or their complements, bringing shapes of colors
that blend into a vivid rainbow of interesting movements within the borders of
white paper which, in turn, becomes a surface of many background pastel hues of
color and sparkles of light surrounding an interesting point of interest.
