Tracy Wisehart-Plaisance
A self-taught artist born in Quincy, Il, September 3rd 1970.
I am married, have four children, four jack russels, a resident of Cut Off, La for 24 years. Raised on the Mississippi River in rural La Grange Mo. Growing up without much money, my grandmother had Big Chief paper pads & pencils available at all times, and encouraged me to draw everything in sight. I am always expressing my love for life through the end of a paintbrush, using techniques similar to what Claude Monet used. Plein-air is my passion, although over the past 25 years I have learned how to make a living as an artist using all mediums. I have been blessed with an outgoing personality, which most say my happy spirit shows in my paintings and workshops. My high school art teacher Mrs. Jane Barton Greene, the first black teacher in Lewis County school system, was a huge part of instilling basic drawing and painting skills. She was 6 feet tall and terrifying at times, but her love of art softened her. Jo Ann Williams Walker of Panama City Fla, changed my life forever in a three day workshop of one on one color mixing and composition. I was in desperate need for a change at that time, little did I know what was actually happening to me. Stuck in a rutt no more, my true love of impressionism was born and I started studying and practicing as much as I possibly could. Enter my current friend, teacher, mentor, Guido Frick of Constance Germany. Jo Ann told me I must study with him,she also uses Sergei Bongarts techniques. Guido was a student of Sergei’s, something only a select few people can say. His paintings tell a story, make you smile, watching him in plein air is mesmerizing. A person forgets the time easily in Guido’s Demos and classes. Last October he stayed with us for a week, to eat, see South Louisiana, and paint in plein air together. What a treat that was, and his biggest advise to me was to paint the local scenes every day. He also came to my first public painting demo at the French Food Festival in Larose. I must say that was an honor but a bit intimidating! |
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