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Meet Kathy Busillo
Toscana Americana Workshops
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Painting the Figure
en Plein Air  
Cortona, Italy            May 3-10, 2008
June 27-July 4 2009
Meet Kathy Busillo

Kathy Busillo graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, Illustration, from the University of the Arts (Philadelphia College of Art).  She was a freelance artist in advertising for several years before moving to central Pennsylvania.  After taking time off to start her family, Kathy returned to art a few years ago with Plein Air painting.  Kathy has been teaching impressionist painting, basic oil painting and acrylic classes and takes commissions for landscape and portraits.  She has won a number of awards and has participated in numerous shows throughout Pennsylvania and with the American Impressionist Society.  She is currently represented by The Village Artisans Gallery, Boiling Springs, Pennsylvania.  Kathy is also represented in the Philadelphia area by The Chestnut Hill Gallery on Germantown Avenue.

 "I am inspired to paint by light and shadow.  In searching for a location or collection of objects to paint, I look to find a   patterned combination of light and dark shadows with enough mid-range tones to be able to create a scene that one feels   they could walk through.  I then look for colors that play off of each other to add to the visual sense of depth on a two-dimensional surface.

I prefer to work in oils, although I also work in pastels, watercolor and colored pencils.  I feel that proficiency in various mediums teaches me more about color, color mixing, textures and depth.  Changing mediums forces me to think differently using each and opens possibilities of use when I move on to another painting tool.

What I love most about painting is preserving a small piece of time.  I often find myself admiring the colors in an evening or stormy sky, the assorted pinks, blues, purples and yellows of white in snow on a sunny day, or the glittering of leaves against a blue sky.  These moments change with the wind, a cloud or the turn of a head yet I find myself compelled to record them.  As I look at a painting I’ve completed, I can recall the details of each painting session, the season, the temperature, and my interactions with other people.  When I paint, it is my visual diary of my world."

 

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