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Brushed
By Color
Dyan Newton
by Cheryl Goforth
bernathy artist, Dyan
Newton, has made quite
Aa name for herself with
her colorful, red roof architectural
structures and floral paintings. From
the moment she opened the door Monterey High School,
to invite me into her studio, I was having taken not a single
awed by the beauty of her work. Her art class. Becoming an artist
creations are truly eye candy for the was not on her radar.
soul.
It was the joy of crafting
Born in Wichita Falls, her family that would eventually be
lived in Dallas for a short time before the hook to draw her into
moving to Houston. Then in 1965, picking up a brush for
her father, a salesman for a spray gun the first time. Dyan was a
equipment company, was transferred married working mom in
to Lubbock. Dyan attended Evans her 30s when a friend down
Junior High and graduated from the street introduced her
to tole painting. “Oh, my
gosh,” she exclaimed. “It “I’ve taken
looked like fun, so I decided to take from a lot of
the class from Mrs. B’s.” Dyan was well-known
extremely nervous to put down that artists. But
first brush stroke, but when she did, I always
she was hooked.
came back to
Even before that class was watercolors,”
completed, Dyan had her eye on an she remarked.
oil painting class being taught across Then a friend
the hall. One thing led to another, from Amarillo
and before she knew it, she was introduced
taking classes in oils, then pastels, her to acrylics. “I never liked acrylics
and finally watercolors. because they looked so stiff, but I got
into that and created my own style. I
don’t use any water in them, except
to create a base coat.”
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