There are only two times I feel complete. When I paint, and when I'm playing violin. In that order. An emptiness fills me, consumes me, tears me apart. This is only put to ease with either a paint brush, or a violin in my hand. It is during these times I am closest to God and most content.

I work in several mediums. Primarily Oil, Acrylic, Colored Pencil, Graphite, and Charcoal. Acrylic is my first love. Most of my acrylics are painted with brushwork. I normally use the airbrush only for certain effects. I love the fast drying time of this water based paint. It allows me to move from layer to layer quickly. I despise the drybrush technique used so often in acrylic. In my mind, if you can look at one of my acrylic paintings and know it is acrylic based on brush strokes, I have failed.

I often do an acrylic underpainting for my oils. This allows me several benefits. I am able to not be so critical of every last brush stroke of the acrylic knowing I will be going over it in oil, yet I can take advantage of that fast drying time allowing me to move through the work in less time. It's not that I rush my work, I just don't enjoy sitting for a day waiting for paint to dry if I don't have to. This is important to me being that I use SO many transparent layers to create more depth. Essentially this means I paint the piece twice, once in acrylic, and again in oil on top of the acrylic. Each painting easily has 20-60 layers.

Although in my mind I am never good enough, I still know any talent I have is a gift from God. I pray now that as time goes on I will continue to grow and improve in my skill as I grow closer to Him. In Him I can do all things, without Him I am nothing.
-Lisa-

Lisa is a self taught Artist from Claremont, California. Growing up near the ocean, she was always interested in painting marine life. Becoming a professional artist had never occurred to her until her "I can do that better" attitude got the best of her when at the beach one day. She saw another marine artist's work and was shocked that someone doing work at that level was selling paintings for the price she had displayed. Now 19 years old, Lisa was determined that she could make this new career choice work.

Within two years, Lisa's work was being displayed in local animal hospitals, coffee shops, and in Angels Galleria in the Pomona Arts colony. In 1999, Lisa began teaching painting at Michael's Arts and Crafts stores in Southern California. By 2001, she had become a full time artist selling her work at art festivals and online in addition to teaching her growing painting classes. In September of 2001 she won the Almeda Heims award of excellence at the annual Catalina Island Arts Festival for her painting, "The Return to Avalon".

Lisa has sold original works and prints to buyers around the world. Her work has been used for the cover of "Awake with angels EP" By Christian Ross, for the cover of the self titled CD "Giant of the Mountain", for the website art and the cover of the upcoming CD cover for the Dallas band Stereo Child, and the cover of the book "God's riches at Christ's Expense" by Ronnie Daniels. Her works are displayed in several businesses including two of her paintings at Baylor Hospital in North Texas.

Not limited to Fine Art, Lisa also is the violinist for Stereo Child. Her time is split between music, her own paintings, and teaching Fine Art out of Hobby Lobby in Frisco TX, and both instructing classes and designing several of the paintings painted by students at Lets Art Party in Plano, TX.