You may be surprised that this artist worked as an accountant for many years before officially taking the leap into the painting world. I stumbled across her work while browsing Etsy a couple of months ago and I couldn’t stop looking at her paintings! What a talented woman!
Cari Humphry’s paintings are so much fun! I have no idea how she brings these animals to life. It amazes me. I have so many favorites I’m not sure which one I love the most. I’m probably leaning towards “Run Chicken Run.” I enjoy the attitude the chicken seems to have as it’s running from something.
“I try to paint a couple of hours every day during the kids’ naptime. Using acrylics forces me to let go of control and be more loose and simple in my strokes – something being a stay-at-home-mom has helped me with as I rarely know what will happen beyond the next 15 minutes!”
Doing most of her paintings in acrylics, she focuses on capturing movement and light with less details. She starts with a canvas primed in a color, other than white, and outlines the composition with a watered-down base color. “Because acrylics dry so quickly, I can be more intentional and bold in my strokes and color. I just lay the paint on the canvas and have no worries of losing the strokes or the colors as I would when I work in oils.”
You can find her paintings at www.CariHumphry.com, www.peacockgarden.etsy.com as well as on facebook under “Peacock Garden Art.”