Anna grew up in Idaho surrounded by an artistic lifestyle. She largely attributes her eye for design to spontaneous lessons from her father, Robert Moore. Robert’s example taught Anna to stop and visually ingest beauty in the world. She became similarly enraptured by any painting that could boldly translate the beauty.
Anna works with oil in a painterly and impressionistic style, focusing on natural settings for inspiration. She loves to paint trees. “I can put exciting shapes and colors between the branches and leaves. I feel a lot of freedom there. It’s fun.”
Anna graduated from Utah State University with a BFA in Art, graphic design emphasis. Her studies included a trip to Germany where she viewed museums and painted in watercolor. She was honored to be selected by USU’s Caine College of the Arts as a Caine Scholar, the college’s most distinguished scholarship. She currently resides in Missoula, Montana where she loves to hike.
ARTIST STATEMENT
I paint nature, especially trees, in a painterly and impressionistic style.
To me, trees are analogous to human life. We begin small and grow. Hopefully we each end up strong, beautiful, and able to contribute to others’ good, whether that is because of or in spite of the environment in which we started. Trees are inspirational and uplifting.
I want my paintings to evoke an inspirational or uplifting feeling from any distance, as nature does. I love to look at my paintings up close and see the juxtaposition of even unexpected colors next to each other. I work layer on layer to produce these many small moments of color and texture.
1. Clay – Chavant Le Beau Touche. Get the regular clay, not HM (high melt).
2. Clay warming devices, a metal bucket with a clamp on heat lamp or 100 W bulb works great.
3. Tie wire.
4. Aluminum foil.
5. Scissors.
6. Favorite sculpture tools.
7. Plank of wood (pine) approximately 8″ x 8″ x 2″.
Bring as many planks as you wish…the wood is used as the base for your sculpture.
8. Plumber’s pipe, 1/2″ threaded: Bring several different lengths…up to 10″…not PVC pipe.
Plumber’s pipe T joint.
Plumber’s pipe couplers.
Plumber’s pipe flange.
9. Screws and screwdriver to secure the flange to wood…this may be done before you arrive. (Place flange in the center of plank)
10. Wire cutters
11. Needle nose pliers
12. Rubber mallet.
13. Spatula
14. Measuring devices such as rulers, measuring tape, dividers, and calipers.
15. Because we concentrate on BIRDS IN FLIGHT, live models in the classroom are more distracting than useful. I will demonstrate the technique of constructing a cantilevered bird armature that can be used for many different bird species and will show you how to assemble shapes to capture the “gist” of the specific bird.
16. Bird field guides such as Peterson, Stokes, Golden, or Sibley. Sibley’s Guide to Birds (not Sibley’s Guide to Bird Life and Behavior) is best if bringing only one field guide. This popular book can usually be purchased at any bookstore.
17. Bring your laptop to the class if possible.
18. Bring your sketchbook.
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