b"This issues cover portrait of Jeckyll and Clyde was created by What I Know.Dunedin artist, Kathleen W. Araujo. She is a member of the A N I NTERVIEW WITH O UR C OVER A RTISTDunedin Fine Art Center and belongs to the Colored Pencil Kathleen W. AraujoSociety of America and the Pastel Society of Tampa Bay.Pastels and oil are my most get them out from under the bedfrequent mediums, but my and onto someone's walls so-to-favorite is colored pencil. When speak. Finally, with the support ofI first started using them, colored family and close friends, I overcamepencils were just starting to be my insecurities and got myself outrecognized as a fine art medium. there. It has just been in the lastI love how they can produce a year or so that Ive tried to promoterange of exquisite detail for ultra my work. realism to soft blending, obtaining Kathy and Blue, a friends Irish Setter.a painterly effect.I grew up in a family of sixsiblings and a GermanAs a kid, I loved drawing, but Shepherd named Trudy. My MomIve really grown as an artist due made sure Trudy was always thereto The Dunedin Fine Art Center. to keep an eye on us. Escorting usI signed up for an Open Painting home when we fell andskinnedclass in 1990. My instructor very our knees and rounding us uptactfully suggested that I take Basic when it was time to go home forDrawing Skills, which laid the lunch or dinner. She had the rungroundwork for painting in of the neighborhood and when sheAcrylics, pen and ink, pastel came home and wanted to be letand water color pencil.inside, she would jump up and ringthe doorbell.Like a lot of artists I was filledwith self-doubt, wondering if The colors Im drawn to areanyone would really like my work. deep, rich purples or blues. OrI wanted to show my drawingsblack and gray. www.TheNewBarker.com Winter 2016 THE NEW BARKER 49"