Welcome to GiGi’s Atelier – Original Watercolor paintings by me, Dorothy Guy, using my family nickname “GiGi” for my online Gallery. Thank you for taking the time to share my love of watercolor, and for viewing my rendered pieces of art!
My paintings have been viewed, offered, enjoyed and purchased by a national and international audience. I have been accepted into juried art competitions and have had solo art presentations at events to the public. My work has been featured on an international artists website. Some of my work has been accepted for publication consideration in the near future. And I always enjoy the process and challenge of the individually commissioned pieces I have created. I am also an Associate member of “Women in Watercolor”.
Since I started painting, watercolor has been my one and only preferred medium. I love its versatility. Watercolor can be distinct, detailed and precise, displaying bright, deep and vibrant hues. Or, it can be positively diaphanous, loose, delicate and translucent. It also possess the ability to flow and blend like no other medium and can create effects that are unexpectedly surprising, unique and beautiful, all of its own accord as it travels along and into the paper surface. It truly has a life and energy all its own. To learn to work with, manipulate and co-create with that energy is like no other painting experience. You are truly working alongside another pulsing, living entity. It can be calming, relaxing, zen-like and stress relieving, or vibrant, energetic, challenging and victorious.
For me it is akin to a dance between the paint pigments and my hand/mind connection. Learning to move gracefully or stomp aggressively through the choreography of the painting is a rewarding pas-de-deux for myself and a passionate gift from my heart that I can offer to others.
I unabashedly embrace the process of making small, detailed marks and strokes on the paper. I find this kind of slow, complex painting to be both calming and invigorating. I suppose I would express my style as an interpretive realism, as I find I enjoy recreating realistic aspects of a subject with unexpected or deliberate personal interpretations and flows. The result being my own personal form of telling my own story of the subject I am depicting in a dual-style manner.
I am thrilled that my purchased paintings have brought beauty and joy to others, and it is my goal to continue to bring that into as many lives as possible including my own.