"The start of a new day always brings new hope and expectations. A chance to start fresh from the early rising of the sun. The painting depicts the sun breaking through the starry darkness in small slices. I cannot wait until the morning, as sleep is difficult for me. Seeing the lightness start to emerge is energizing and optimistic as I look forward to what I can accomplish. The sun slices were masked out and the background was poured with diluted alcohol inks and blown around and dried with a hair dryer. The masks were removed and cleaned and the sunny colors were applied with a brush before isopropyl alcohol was poured to disperse the inks. The white dots were applied with a white Posca pen and with Q-tips to remove the ink with calculated taps."
- Alene Sirott-Cope
Prints are produced on demand on stretched canvas, acrylic plexi, or giclee fine art paper in a variety of sizes here in the United States.
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Hobe Sound, Florida
“The vivid, colorful and bright hues of my medium inspire me and others to appreciate the value of the natural spectrum of color and how it can affect one’s mood and outlook. It has become a whole and creative healing process for me.”
Alene Sirott-Cope (she/her/hers) has had Type 1 Diabetes since college and has dealt with significant health implications, including open-heart surgery and limited walking capabilities.
Alene’s creative style combines her graphic design experience with technology and a dash of mixed media. She is an experimenter who seeks new techniques, always willing to venture into the unknown. The alcohol ink technique she employs allows her to relax while producing immense beauty in a short amount of time.
Alene has been a professional graphic designer, potter, art director, art educator, and fine artist. Her work has been featured in The Boston Globe, The Crafts Report, Art Calendar, The Nashua Telegraph, The Lowell Sun, Funeria Art, Polymer Cafe Magazine, 1000 Dog Portraits, The NH Chronicle, a book titled “Pigments of Your Imagination," and HGTV’s “That’s Clever.”
She writes, “Art is a great healing process for me, and I need to have some kind of creative process in order to keep me physically and mentally active. With the aid of ArtLifting, I know that the validation of any kind of compensation makes this endeavor even more rewarding.”
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