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Lisa Binion has a Bachelor’s of Science degree in
Recreation Therapy and 15 years of professional experience in creative
endeavors including writing, acting, and visual arts. In addition to creativity coaching she works
as a portrait artist and performs regularly with an improvisational theater
troupe. Lisa has studied dozens
of publications dealing with theories
and practices of creativity and is pursuing a Master’s degree in Fine Art. |
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TRADITION MEETS INNOVATION FINE ART PORTRAITURE IN THE MODERN MEDIUM OF COLORED
PENCIL |
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As a child Lisa was blessed to have a mother who once a
year bought her a box of crayons—the 64 color
box. She colored outside of the
lines on purpose and made the grass blue and the sky green and laughed as
people to her that was “wrong.”
Whenever she had pencil and paper she would sketch and erase (mostly erase) and she
became pretty good at drawing just about anything — except people. When Lisa became too old for crayons she
turned to a more realistic style but soon she stopped drawing to pursue a
degree and a “real job.” Many years
(she won’t admit how many) passed then in 1999 Lisa discovered a book at her
local public library, “Colored Pencil Portraits” by Ann Kullberg. It was an inspiration—she could not believe
the artwork in that book. She searched
out every book she could find about colored pencils and went to the art
supply store. She was wonderfully
blessed with a husband who bought her a box of colored pencils — the 120
color box. Practice, experimenting, practice, and practice before
long she drew a picture of something that looked human. And then a specific human. And then other people wanted to pay her to
draw pictures for them. Now Lisa has
gone back to her first love—art and discovered that art in fact can be a REAL
JOB. And she loves it. |
