Carol Buck

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My life experience began as a native Texan, which did at times include cowgirl hats and horses. As my travels led away from Texas, I was fortunate to experience the professions of nursing, aviation/flight and art, and eventually assuming roles as an instructor in each. Art has unquestionably been the common sustaining thread beginning in grammar school and lasting to the present. While rearing my son and daughter, I earned my Bachelor of Arts Degree, Fine Art, Drawing and Painting, from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. My professional interests and pursuits have evolved through art and community to include schools, museums, adult education and enrichment programs. My interests and abilities involve drawing, oil painting, gilding, mixed media sculpture and silverpoint drawing. My oil paintings come alive on canvas or wood panel. Gold or silver metal leaf is used as a base color for the painting adding a rich, illuminating tone to the hues that follow and always peeking through the coming layers of paint. Gold leaf gilding is an ancient art technique that is especially appealing to me because of the complicated process, labor, illumination and end result.