CityView Magazine - Fayetteville, NC
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animals and regional-related paintings. While “Welcome Home” was created in his studio, Rodgers said he relishes living the scene by painting on location. “When you work on location, you get kind of an atmosphere. The colors are more vibrant; the colors are more true. When you work in different types of weather, you get the feel of the actual. It produces better work. My work is much freer. It seems like the picture has more depth; it has more feeling than otherwise,” he said. Brandi Neighbors, 32, said her second place-winning oil on linen, also called “Welcome Home,” evokes the feeling she experiences when she arrives at her house and sees her front door. The interesting angle, she said, draws the viewer past the shadowed birdhouse and to the entryway. Neighbors hasn’t always felt comfortable with her artistic endeavors. She grew No place like home | Brandi Neighbors’ oil painting Welcome Home up in Fayetteville and began an animation program at the North Carolina School of Commercial Art in Raleigh, but left to go to work full time, eventually returning to school to earn a Bachelor of Science degree in commercial art. Neighbors currently teaches at the college level and is working on her masters degree in fine arts, which she expects to have by the end of the year. “I feel like even this past semester I’ve grown so much and I’m excited to see where I am in 2012,” she said. Edwina Clark, 69, painted the third place-winning “Beauty in Bermuda” in watercolors on clayboard, a surface with which she had been experimenting. On a trip to Bermuda about five years ago, she became fascinated with the multi- colored houses and how the white rooftops peeked out above lush foliage. The roofs have grooves for the rainwater to wash down and the houses are pastels in pink, blue or yellow. Clark took photographs and later painted the view of the tops of the houses behind the tropical greenery. This year, she took the painting off her hallway wall and entered it in the contest along with two others. “I didn’t think it would win because it wasn’t a local house,” she said. Born in Charlotte, Clark wasn’t interested in art as a child and doesn’t remember Tropical paradise | Edwina Clark’s watercolor Beauty in Bermuda took third place her first experience with it, but she’s been painting for about 30 years. She recalls taking acrylic painting classes and having a knack for it, but her favorite types of art are watercolors and framed batiks. As a military wife Clark moved around quite a bit, frequently having to leave behind friends and jobs in order to support her husband’s career. She said art became the constant in her life, providing her with a reliable outlet each time she was uprooted.CV Contact me for more information on how custom aligners can gradually move your teeth into a beautiful smile! Bring Your Best Smile 26 | November • 2010 Forward H. Zack Smith, DDS, MS, PA www.bracesbyzack.com 573 Executive Place Fayetteville, NC 28305 910.323.5821