Let me introduce myself.
My artist's name is Linda Anne Misja.
My business is called L.A.M. Fine Art Studios. Mostly everyone just calls me Lin.
I have been a professional fine artist for many years. I have been painting in the traditional and time-honored Renaissance and Dutch Master methods since the first day I picked up a brush. They say your style is inside you. I do believe that.
I dreamed of learning how to paint like the Masters when I was just a young girl of 17. I could not believe how beautiful the paintings were of the 1500's in Italy. The Dutch Masters rocked that young girl's world. I lived in New Jersey at the time and something inside me said, "move to NYC, move to NYC...........". I wanted to learn to paint well but I was not sure it was possible to find anyone who taught in this manner, "not today," I thought, "in this 20th century?" Yet, something told me if it were possible at all to paint like a master I would find that person in NYC. After moving to the city, I eventually stumbled on the Art Student's League of New York. There, indeed did I find such a person. Amazing. I was so excited. I started intense study then-it felt so fufilling after one year fumbling around trying to find out how to paint at various schools, under various instructors. I was glued to the instruction of David A. Leffel for the next 6 years. One day, it seemed to me a day like any other, he raised his voice and said to me from across the room, "Linda, that's beautiful", in front of all the others students. David was reserved in his compliments, so his saying this to me in this manner carried a lot of weight.
I blushed and I began to wonder if I was ready to try for galleries.
Here is an example of my work. I will be adding many pieces for your interest and I will continue the story another day.
My artist's name is Linda Anne Misja.
My business is called L.A.M. Fine Art Studios. Mostly everyone just calls me Lin.
I have been a professional fine artist for many years. I have been painting in the traditional and time-honored Renaissance and Dutch Master methods since the first day I picked up a brush. They say your style is inside you. I do believe that.
I dreamed of learning how to paint like the Masters when I was just a young girl of 17. I could not believe how beautiful the paintings were of the 1500's in Italy. The Dutch Masters rocked that young girl's world. I lived in New Jersey at the time and something inside me said, "move to NYC, move to NYC...........". I wanted to learn to paint well but I was not sure it was possible to find anyone who taught in this manner, "not today," I thought, "in this 20th century?" Yet, something told me if it were possible at all to paint like a master I would find that person in NYC. After moving to the city, I eventually stumbled on the Art Student's League of New York. There, indeed did I find such a person. Amazing. I was so excited. I started intense study then-it felt so fufilling after one year fumbling around trying to find out how to paint at various schools, under various instructors. I was glued to the instruction of David A. Leffel for the next 6 years. One day, it seemed to me a day like any other, he raised his voice and said to me from across the room, "Linda, that's beautiful", in front of all the others students. David was reserved in his compliments, so his saying this to me in this manner carried a lot of weight.
I blushed and I began to wonder if I was ready to try for galleries.
Here is an example of my work. I will be adding many pieces for your interest and I will continue the story another day.
Copper and Crysanthemums oil on board 16" x 20"
I love the vibrancy of the orange and purple. Sometimes paintings just paint themselves. This was one of those. That doesn't always happen. Painters struggle, sometimes a painting takes a year of hard work, and sometimes it is finished in a session or two and the artist stands there, blinking, and wondering, "Did I just paint that?"
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