What started out as simple pencil drawings in school, making sketches of friends, or capturing expressions from people in magazines, evolved into Diana Creasy-Funk’s stunning style of portraiture.
“Her work still has graphite areas showing, where she initially sketches her subject, but a watered-down painting technique fleshes out the work a little bit further, carefully bringing them to an ethereal place,” says Sopa Fine Arts, which represents Creasy-Funk.
Her occasional comments attached to her works are worth a read. For example, about Billy Goat below (acrylic on canvas, 48 x 48 in) she notes : “Definitely wanted a kind of private school/ACDC Malcolm Young vibe. I Love ACDC. Really wanted the attitude to show here.”
Given that Creasy-Funk “adores the distressed look of weather worn surfaces like concrete, stucco, bricks, paint, etc,” the melding of the background in Jujube, below, makes sense.
There is also a considerable focus on high fashion in her work.
Below: Inside the studio of Diana Creasy-Funk where she collages and combines her artworks with pieces of fashion magazines.
Diana Creasy-Funk at Sopa Fine Arts, here.
At Conrad West Gallery, Las Vegas, here.
The artist lives in the Lake Country of British Columbia. She has a Fine Arts Diploma with Distinction, from Okanagan University College.
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I absolutely LOVE her artwork. Fantastic.
It’s so well done, agree. Glad you found her.
This is a fantastic post. I love that technique of toning it down. I really like this work many times it’s not your technique or how you paint but you’re chosen subject matter.
I am so with you on this technique, which is unusually well done, agree. Thanks for weighing in on it.