Cindy The Suburban Artist
It was a breezy fall day. The sun ducked in and out between the clouds. The leaves scratched and crunched on the steps of the quaint green lake house. A small white dog barked through the thin window that lined the door, calling alert to her owner, an older woman in bright blue opens the door with a smile on her face.
She walked through her home, down the dark green hallway. She stops and turns into her home studio. turning on the lights she quickly tidies her supplies. A mixture of paint and time fills the nostrils of anyone to come. The brightly painted walls sit behind full shelves and hanging works of art.
Cindy Morse has be in love with art for as long as she can remember.
“When I was very small probably 8… 9… 10. I like to draw trees. I drew trees all the time. Thats how I knew. I just fell in love with. And I still do a lot of work with birch trees.”
She thumbs through the pages of her favorite book, explaining her process.
“This book [The Artists Guide to Selecting Colors] tells about the colors, whats the pigments, what they’re made of. The transparency or being opaque. however the colors are formed, and I use that often to find out what colors would go good with another color… what I like to do is go through and take notes on — about whats in the book before I apply what I’ve learned from the book… I also take and make my swatches of color of all the paints that I have and the name and the people that produced it… so that when I go to pick out colors for a project I have that information infront of me.”
She showcases some her artwork, her favorite thing to paint is trees, specifically birch.
“I still do a lot of work with birch trees. I love the white against the colors behind it… and I also have just painted abstract paintings using the birch trees as the center.”
Her love of art is no secret, in fact it is one of the reasons her husband fell in love with her.
“Her passion for the things she love to do is one of the many, many reasons I live her,” Jerry Morse said. “I’ve always supported her love of art. In my office at work I have them [paintings] hung up.”
Cindy believes that, “you have to follow what feels good to you in art and you will be a success. Anybody can do art, they just have to love what they’re doing.”
From the writer.
Hello, my name is Alex Panipinto. I am a VCD major at Nazareth College. This is an interview I conducted for my communications class.