S M Watson

Sharen started painting when her first born son arrived and now he's 46 years old. Boy time goes by fast. She still has her first painting which happens to be a landscape and in oil, not a medium she now uses. Over the years she has been an exhibiting artist, an art judge, business woman and a freelance newspaper writer. She always thought once she hit 70 (years of age that is) she would start writing a book, and yes, that time has arrived. It turns out it's not the crime novel she had always intended but a book on acrylic painting that had occupied most of her adult life. The writing was easy, just knowledge accumulated over the years, the self publishing a little harder, but it got done. It wasn't until she was selecting images to go into the manuscript that Sharen realised 90% of her art fell into the category of Abstract, Expressionism or Contemporary Art. So the techniques revealed in How to Paint Abstract, Expressionism and Contemporary Art, first released as an e book in 2021 have already been time tested, so to speak.