Camille Przewodek shares her quick tips for staying creative during the seclusion.
Something about the paintings of Camille Przewodek stops you, then brings a smile to your face. Maybe it is the vitality of the colors, or the feeling of intrigue one gets from the houses; windows and doorways beckon us to enter, while retaining dark secrets about what is inside.
Przewodek doesn’t quibble about the paintings being happy. She won’t even set up her easel unless there is something about the scene that grabs her heart and gnaws at her aesthetic adoration of light on color. “If I don’t care, I don’t paint,” she says bluntly.
Perhaps the paintings are a way of reliving a brighter childhood than she had growing up in a working-class neighborhood of Detroit. “I remember my family home as nil when it came to aesthetics,” she recalls. “My life was flat until I started drawing and painting with my brother, who was very creative.”
Przewodek’s style is distinctive for its rich saturated color and luscious oil paint.
She believes that just about any scene is beautiful, if you are willing to seek out the beauty in it. “I paint light, that’s what I do. When people say they like a painting that has bright colors in it, they obviously like sunny days. For others the appeal is found in the cooler colors of gray days . The abstract relationships of the big structures and the masses of color are where I begin. How does the sky relate to a hill and to the foreground? I see the relationships and proportions of color in my mind, and then I go for it!”
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