ABOUT MYSELF

When I was a little girl, my favorite thing to do was to dig up clay in my back yard and make pots and pans, and a lot of other things like: horses, dolls, snakes, alligators, and what have you. But I would get very frustrated with them because no matter how much I left them to dry, they still would brake very easily in comparison with the ones my mother would buy for me.

I was thirteen years old when I decided to use my parrot for a model for my drawing. I colored him with my crayons. At fourteen I started taking oil painting lessons. Painting was to me better than ice cream. I was studying in a boarding academy in São Paulo, Brazil, and the next year in Petrópolis, State of Rio de Janeiro. The school was caged in between a series of huge mountains. Every Sunday and holidays, I would go to the mountains with my canvas, brushes, and paints, and practically died to the world. When I was up there painting, I felt as if the whole world had stopped, and I was the only one living. I would even miss all the meals. Because of my concentration on painting was so intense I would not hear the bells ringing for the meals, and I would miss all of them. 

On those days my paintings were all very realistic, and I was very happy with them. But let me tell about myself today.

I like to think of myself as an Expressionist, or Impressionist, but actually I am not either one or the other. I love to mix my feelings, and express the best way I know how. For example, if I am painting an island, and the island is very beautiful, I leave all proportions aside and make it as big as I like.

I draw the way I want, and that is it. If my colors are realistic, that is only because they looked good on what I did, but I may make a pink mountain, or a green one. All depends on my liking.

I love colors, and I love mixing them. I don’t have a favorite color; to me, colors are like my children, I love them all, and it is not fare to like one more than the other. I do use more blues and greens then any other color, but that too, is just as it happens, and it is not premeditated.

I don’t believe for one minute that what I do, is on my own knowledge, but is only what God gives me. For without God I could do nothing. As I said before, “Let all glory be to God.”

 If any one has a question about my work or how I feel about them, feel free to write to me at Bcleliabrito@aol.com