Meet Myra Patin!
Myra is one of PPWS’ Featured Artists for September 2024!
Myra has been a member of PPWS since 2004 and is a Signature Member, along with being our Librarian for the past 15 years!
Myra’s Bio:
Myra is a native of south Louisiana, proud of her Cajun heritage, and has lived in Colorado Springs since 1990. She is a signature member in the Pikes Peak Watercolor Society, Wyoming Watercolor Society, and Southern Colorado Watercolor Society and was also a member of the Colorado Springs Art Guild. She has served as Vice President of Pikes Peak Watercolor Society and has been their Librarian for the past 15 years and has created one the best instructional society libraries anywhere in the United States.
Her work is mainly watercolor batik and abstract mixed media collage, but also enjoys working in traditional watercolor, alcohol ink, acrylic, colored pencil, oil, pastel, photography, and stained glass. She has done commissioned stained glass pieces in Colorado, Minnesota, and Louisiana. She has a home-based studio, gallery and framing business, Pikeview Framing and Studio, and has done lots of framing for many of our society’s members. She is also one of the artists on the Studio Tours in the Pikes Peak region. She was the gallery coordinator for 7 years at Boulder Street Gallery and Framing until the business closed in 2019 where many of our our society’s members exhibited their artwork.
Besides painting and framing, she enjoys piano performance, singing, sailing, scuba diving, woodworking, quilting, and gardening. She is a retired legal assistant having worked with her husband, Sidney, an attorney in Colorado Springs for the last 25 years. She was also the organist and choir accompanist at churches in Colorado Springs for over 25 years, and she continues to play and sing for weddings, memorial services, art openings, and private parties and sings in her church choir.
Myra’s artwork can be seen online on Social Media, (find links at end of post) and by appointment at her home studio gallery, and other locations around Colorado Springs.
Myra’s favorite things to paint:
I paint a variety of subjects, but friends say I must love flowers as I do paint lots of flowers. My newest experiments have been with abstract mixed media collage.
Myra enjoys working in watercolor batik, traditional watercolor, abstract mixed media, alcohol ink, acrylic, colored pencil, oil, pastel, photography, stained glass, and quilting. (Can you tell I just love to try new things?)
Myra’s favorite or most admired artists:
Susan McCreevy in Scotland, Laly Mille in France, Jane Monteith in Canada, and Catherine Rains in Tennessee.
Myra’s goals for the next year:
Use all those cool art supplies I’ve ordered and make a lot more time to paint, experiment and just have fun! And start quilting again, too.
Myra’s Watercolor Tip or Trick:
• Make a list of what standard size frames are available and then paint to fit so you don’t have to have everything custom framed.
• Have one or two paintings finished and ready to enter into shows, but don’t frame them until you’ve been accepted and know the requirements for framing them. Otherwise, you’ll end up having to reframe them at extra cost.
• Store markers and pens flat instead of upright. This should help keep them from drying out and/or leaking.
FAVORITE ARTSY QUOTE
“You just need more miles on your brush.”
– by my favorite watercolor instructor, Lorraine Danzo
