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Santa Fe nature artist Geninne D Zlatkis is well-known on Instagram and Pinterest for her charming paintings and collages of birds. In Geninnes Art: Birds in Watercolor, Collage, and Ink, for the first time, she offers her fans a field guide to her art process. A skilled nature photographer as well as artist, Geninne begins her work in the field by observing and photographing birds and flowering plants. Then takes her observations back to the studio, where she turns them into works on paper.

Readers will discover, step-by-step, how Geninne selects her materials and then creates her personal imagery. What makes Geninnes work so successful is her imaginative and colorful interpretation of the birds she has observed so closely. Her work is approachable, and her fans will love to see how she does it, so that they can try it too.

To get them started, the book will include a selection of collage papers that can be removed from the book. Geninne brings a wide and ready...

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INTRODUCTION Holawel - photo 1
INTRODUCTION Holawelcome to my high desert studio I call sunny New Mexico - photo 2
INTRODUCTION Holawelcome to my high desert studio I call sunny New Mexico - photo 3
INTRODUCTION Holawelcome to my high desert studio I call sunny New Mexico - photo 4
INTRODUCTION

Holawelcome to my high desert studio!

I call sunny New Mexico home, but I havent always lived here. I was born in New York, I spent most of my childhood in Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina, and my teenage years in Chile. I went back to Mexico in my early twenties to go to college, and I met my wonderful husband, Manolo, there. We now live in an adobe house in the land of enchantment with our two sons and our adorable dog, Zorro.

The desolation and isolation of the high desert are infinite sources of inspiration, and being able to experience these is something that really moves me as an artist. I love the barrenness of the desert. Especially here in Santa Fe, where we are so high in altitude, the atmosphere is very different and the light is quite special.

All the places Ive called home have left their mark on my creative life. I am always inspired by the culture, the colors, and the diverse flora and fauna of the different regions that Ive been blessed to experience. My environment is definitely a big influence in my work.

Both of my highly creative parents always encouraged and nurtured my love of all arts and crafts. I knew early on that this is what I would do in life. Art and crafts were always my favorite subjects in school. I cannot think back to a time when I wasnt drawing or absolutely enthralled with art materials. My mom says I could be entertained for hours with a coloring book and a big box of crayons, spending a lot of time studying all the different names of the colors. As I got older, my interest in doing anything creative with my hands grew.

When I sit down to draw, paint, start a collage, carve a rubber block for a block print, or make pottery, its as though all those little bits of each of the places Ive called home, tucked away and carried with me wherever Ive gonebits of who I am and where Ive beenare clustered around me on my worktable, influencing what I put down on paper.

My inspiration mainly comes from nature. Thats what inspires me the most: being in nature, being able to closely observe all the life forms, especially plants and birds. I focus a lot on birds because they represent freedom to me. Butterflies and moths look like flying flowers to me, and I really enjoy incorporating them into my work, also. I guess I have a thing for winged creatures and the concept of flying.

Paper feathers I made for a collage - photo 5
Paper feathers I made for a collage - photo 6
Paper feathers I made for a collage - photo 7

Paper feathers I made for a collage

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My dad was an avid amateur photographer and gave me my - photo 9
My dad was an avid amateur photographer and gave me my first real camera when I - photo 10
My dad was an avid amateur photographer and gave me my first real camera when I - photo 11
My dad was an avid amateur photographer and gave me my first real camera when I - photo 12

My dad was an avid amateur photographer and gave me my first real camera when I was fourteen. It quickly became another medium, another way of expressing myself and focusing on the way I saw things. Taking pictures helped me to hone in on something beautiful and capture it in time. Photography is every bit as important to me as painting, and, in fact, it preceded painting as a love in my life.

Nature photography reminds me to look, and look closer, and then even closer. The more I do that, the more the birds and flowers I love can live on their own in my imagination and become part of my visual vocabulary. I like to think Im collecting images when I take photos.

My paintings are my interpretations of nature. Ive never tried to do photographically accurate paintings. Nonetheless, the things Ive looked at through my lens all my life are on my worktable, right along with my colorful memories of places and travels when I set out to paint.

New Mexico has so much of what I love. My favorite color is blue in all its shades. Turquoise is prominent everywhere hereon doors, painted furniture, the natural turquoise stones found in the nearby mines of Cerrillos and Madrid, and bright mountain bluebirds flying all around and contrasting with the bright red of the chile ristras that are used to decorate the outsides of houses and buildings.

So this is my field guide to the way that I work, and to the birds and flowers that appear in my work and are my inspiration. I invite you to join me on my travels outdoors in nature, and then back indoors to my studio, and wherever imagination leads us from there.

Come play with me,

BIRDS AND ME People ask me all the time how I got started drawing birds I - photo 13
BIRDS AND ME People ask me all the time how I got started drawing birds I - photo 14
BIRDS AND ME People ask me all the time how I got started drawing birds I - photo 15
BIRDS AND ME

People ask me all the time how I got started drawing birds. I think it was about the same time that I discovered watercolors. I was twenty-five and had finished art school, and I took a few months to live by the beach in Mexico. Thats when I started painting in watercolor, and thats when I started noticingreally noticingbirds. And then they took over! When youre not going to school or working full-time, you can spend more time appreciating nature, and I did just that.

Mexico has wonderful birds: brilliant red flycatchers, blue Stellers jays, little songbirds that look like they rolled around in a pan of watercolors, parrots, lots of different hummingbirds and owls. Its easy to become obsessed with watching their activities and nest building and listening to them singing and talking. The little ones particularly. I love sparrows. Theyre so small but theyre out there being who they are in the world.

At the same time, when I started drawing and painting birds, I discovered that it wasnt so easy. Bird forms seem simple, but I really had to work hard at figuring out how to get all the parts to be harmonioushow to position the legs to look natural when they stood, or perched, or took off, and how to pose their heads in familiar positions. And dont get me started on the wings! It took a lot of practice before I understood wings and feathers enough to be comfortable drawing them and finally to return them to simple forms on a piece of paper.

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