Skyline #39
Cornelia MacFadyen
Website: https://www.corneliamacfadyen.com/
This image is available for the following products: Framed Prints, Giclee Fine Art Prints
As far back as I can remember I have painted pictures. If it were possible to have come out of the womb with a brush in the hand…then that would have been me. The first fourteen years of my life, I studied art with my grandfather, a medical illustrator, Dr Frank H Netter. Not a day went by that I was not painting. At the end of each day, my grandfather would stop work and we would critique each other’s work; what was good, what was bad, and where we needed concentrate. Sometimes he would teach what I needed to learn at that moment. As I grew older, I expanded my horizons, my grandfather suggested The Art Students League. Spent my weekends and summer there. Those years gave me exposure to new techniques, providing me with a traditional foundation of drawing and painting. I discovered the medium of oils and the richness of color and how to draw the human figure. The next logical decision was to become a commercial artist….and off I went to Pratt Institute. Here I studied to become an art director/graphic designer. Little did I realize that advertising and graphic design did not really lend itself to that? I was becoming successful, in my chosen field…but not happy. I needed more challenges and to pay the rent. During the pandemic I began exploring the city taking photos and began to see a vision of a new world occurring in my photos. I realized that photography provides a new form of expression, that was not present in my paintings.
Cornelia MacFadyen
Website: https://www.corneliamacfadyen.com/
This image is available for the following products: Framed Prints, Giclee Fine Art Prints
As far back as I can remember I have painted pictures. If it were possible to have come out of the womb with a brush in the hand…then that would have been me. The first fourteen years of my life, I studied art with my grandfather, a medical illustrator, Dr Frank H Netter. Not a day went by that I was not painting. At the end of each day, my grandfather would stop work and we would critique each other’s work; what was good, what was bad, and where we needed concentrate. Sometimes he would teach what I needed to learn at that moment. As I grew older, I expanded my horizons, my grandfather suggested The Art Students League. Spent my weekends and summer there. Those years gave me exposure to new techniques, providing me with a traditional foundation of drawing and painting. I discovered the medium of oils and the richness of color and how to draw the human figure. The next logical decision was to become a commercial artist….and off I went to Pratt Institute. Here I studied to become an art director/graphic designer. Little did I realize that advertising and graphic design did not really lend itself to that? I was becoming successful, in my chosen field…but not happy. I needed more challenges and to pay the rent. During the pandemic I began exploring the city taking photos and began to see a vision of a new world occurring in my photos. I realized that photography provides a new form of expression, that was not present in my paintings.
Cornelia MacFadyen
Website: https://www.corneliamacfadyen.com/
This image is available for the following products: Framed Prints, Giclee Fine Art Prints
As far back as I can remember I have painted pictures. If it were possible to have come out of the womb with a brush in the hand…then that would have been me. The first fourteen years of my life, I studied art with my grandfather, a medical illustrator, Dr Frank H Netter. Not a day went by that I was not painting. At the end of each day, my grandfather would stop work and we would critique each other’s work; what was good, what was bad, and where we needed concentrate. Sometimes he would teach what I needed to learn at that moment. As I grew older, I expanded my horizons, my grandfather suggested The Art Students League. Spent my weekends and summer there. Those years gave me exposure to new techniques, providing me with a traditional foundation of drawing and painting. I discovered the medium of oils and the richness of color and how to draw the human figure. The next logical decision was to become a commercial artist….and off I went to Pratt Institute. Here I studied to become an art director/graphic designer. Little did I realize that advertising and graphic design did not really lend itself to that? I was becoming successful, in my chosen field…but not happy. I needed more challenges and to pay the rent. During the pandemic I began exploring the city taking photos and began to see a vision of a new world occurring in my photos. I realized that photography provides a new form of expression, that was not present in my paintings.