Art

Amanda Read Sheik is a self-taught artist who developed her skills primarily through nature journaling.

Beth & Jenny, acrylic on canvas board…

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: “The Model Maid,” acrylic on 16″ x 20″ stretched canvas. 2011. Based on a photograph of my sister Rachel; done for a college art assignment.

: “Still Life” (albeit painted from imagination, not reality, little sense though that makes), acrylic on stretched canvas. 2003.

: Movie poster-style collage of character sketches for an amateur film concept, “The Called and The Chosen” (Watercolor and ink, 2009).

: Internet outage one February day called for dabbling in puppy portraiture. I’ll be like ‪‎Leonardo Da Vinci‬ and consider everything unfinished.

: “What is a ‪best friend‬? Well, you’re my best friend and you live farthest away from me, so I guess your best friend is the friend that lives farthest away from you!”~Jenny~ Seven years ago, we did a photo shoot with my little sister Beth and her redheaded best friend, Jenny. I then painted a portrait based on one of the photos, using for the background the same paint as was used on my bedroom wall in the photo, ‪‎Silver Sage‬ from ‪‎Restoration Hardware‬. Depending on the lighting, some days it looks more blue, and some days it looks more green.