Paint My Words

Artist: Jessica Doyle

Website: http://jessicadoyle.com/

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I set up a Google reader account about a year and a half ago.  For some of you, this is late in the game.  For others, I am ahead of the curve. I discovered Jessica Doyle while using Google image search to find artists work I liked.  I signed up for her RSS feed available at her blog and have been receiving regular blog updates for the last year. A paramount goal for any blogger is to provide regular updates with desirable content. Jessica Doyle has always provide regular and juicy content. Her personality shines through the written word on her blog.  Jessica Doyle is an artist who sells prints, original paintings, cards, and functional objects through etsy and other online venues. She is also heavily active in the online blogging world and has a number of side projects which she willingly details on her website. These include her vintage article blog, her home remodeling projects and personal details regarding her life.  I admire her forthcoming personal disclosures.  For an artist, selling art work can be as much about the impression of oneself as an artist that prospective buyers see as it is about the actual artwork itself. When a buyer purchases art, they are not only purchasing the art itself, they are purchasing a persona, an image, and perhaps a perceived artistic legacy.

Jessica Doyle has done well to create a web persona as an artist. Those who purchase her work can rest assured that her artistic images will endure, and hence the value of her work will increase as it ages.  Jessica draws/paints primarily figurative and representational forms.  The images are normally composed of muted color and the compositions are well balanced.  Most images convey a sense of negative and positive space created by the intertwining of whimsical forms.  Trees, flowers and animals are prominent in her work.