Debra Hurd Evaluation

Debra Hurd Evaluation

Debra Hurd is a well known artist in America, as she studied at both Southern University in Chattanooga, and Ringling school of Art and Design in Sarasota, Florida. Also, Hurd was a graphic designer in Austin, Texas, and Florida over the course of fifteen years.

Debra playing piano

Hurd talks about Art and Music being her passions, but she is move passionate about art, Debra Hurd is a full trained pianist, as she has been studying music since her early childhood. Debra often plays live shows, and even records some of her lively, bouncy music. 

Hurd's taste in music has inspired many different pieces, as she is well known for creating vibrant oil paintings of musicians, and nightlife, and occasionally animals. Hurd likes to use a knife to paint her pictures, as it gives the painting more vibrancy, texture, and colour.

"A very ordinary scene can be perceived differently when painted with a bit of exaggerated colour and awareness of light. The ordinary then becomes the extraordinary. Colour is critical. When I'm asked which colour is my favourite, I tend to think in terms of which two or three colours I like in combination."

-Debra Hurd

Hendrix by Debra Hurd

Hendrix has a mixture of warm and cool tones. Hurd produced this image by using oil paints and a knife as she does with many of her other paintings. In this painting Hendrix is wearing a lime green, jacket which has been shaded using sky blue and olive tones, the cool tones of the jacket contrasts with then skin which is made up of orange, browns, yellows, whites and a small amount of a plum colour. Debra Hurd has also used yellow and white to capture any metallic features . Hendrix is the focal point of this picture, as there is no specific background its only a dark purple colour.

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