How To Create Better Paintings: Using Foundational Concepts
Becky Joy has been a professional artist since 1993. During that time she has studied with many nationally known artists. Eventually, she startedteaching some of the concepts that she learned over the years and now teaches across the US and abroad. Today, Becky's work has been in many galleries across the country as well as several national exhibitions, Oil Painters of America, American Impressionist Society and American Women Artists of which she is a signature member. She has attained signature status in several plein air organizations and has received numerous awards for her work. Painting in a realistic manner. but influenced by the impressionists, Becky paints in a direct alla prima approach in response to her impressions of a scene creating paintings with a controlled spontaneity to them. As an artist, knowing how to use values, color, brushwork and composition, she has been able to move beyond recording what she sees to create an emotion, a mood in a painting to convey to the viewer a sense of place, time and an emotional connection through beauty. Expressing herself through her unique brushwork is an important component of Becky's paintings  with each painting different in texture and detail depending on my mood and the scene. Becky Joy's goal is to create art that inspires and instills joy through the beauty of nature.