After months away healing from breast cancer, I’m returning to teaching in May—reconnecting through art, refreshed perspective, and renewed creativity. This experience has deeply changed my approach, highlighting patience, compassion, and the gentle resilience of creativity. I’m excited to support and guide you again in our shared artistic journey.
Bethany encourages her students to explore new color palettes by drawing inspiration from diverse sources like floral arrangements, fashion, and design. She emphasizes using reference photos as a guide rather than copying them, fostering creativity by experimenting with color values. Bethany advises starting with familiar scenes to focus on color, paralleling Van Gogh’s inspirational approach.
Welcome to the new bethanyfields.com ! This has been in the works for quite some time and though I’m on a teaching sabbatical while I’m in treatment, that doesn’t mean there is nothing going on behind the scenes. This is my new home base here on the world wide web and I’m thrilled to have […]
Ah the artist’s statement. Everyone’s favorite thing to write! hahaha. Not really! In fact, this scene from My Fair Lady about sums up how most artist’s feel about writing their statement. Words, words, words!! I’m so sick of words! I have pulled my hair out so many times trying to come up with a good […]
