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The Way You Look Tonight 20" x 24" acrylic on gallery wrap canvas. I really had fun pushing the acrylic colors on this hosta, a gardener's favorite. I couldn't resist adding texture to reveal the structural growth patterns of the leaves. I think it resembles more of a floral bouquet than a perennial shrub. The blue-green background reminds me of evening and the "way you look tonight" says it all.

Sandi developed a "do-it-yourself" attitude during her teens when she couldn't afford luxuries. She fabricated her wardrobe and then her home decor after she married. Mesmerized by PBS TV art demo shows, Sandi painted some of her hand-fashioned garments. When the couple purchased new furniture, wall art was not in their budget. Recalling the PBS art shows and her fabric painting, Sandi passionately plunged into oil painting, learning by trial and error. Sandi's self-guided art experiments blossomed with four years of instruction from a talented community college art instructor, Bonnie Hill, of Roseburg, OR. After Bonnie left that position, she persuaded Sandi to instruct the class. Sandi instructed art at Umpqua College from 1997 to...