Skye Dolan

Artist Statement

I primarily work with acrylic paint because I find the fast-drying time and easy clean up essential. I also enjoy drawing portraits with pencil and colored pencil, wire wrapping and making jewelry, hand embroidery and intricate bead mosaics. My work is detail oriented with a simple background. Lately, I have been working on a popular series of pet portraits with a highly detailed foreground of the pet with a bold outline and a solid color or color gradient background with a bold geometric design incorporated. I have also started to produce paintings of other wild animals with this same unique style and have made them available for purchase.

Biography

Skye Dolan is an artist born and raised in Florida and currently works out of the Tampa Bay area. Her journey into painting and drawing began at a very young age when she was taught by her grandmother, Doris. They would spend entire weekends together painting and crafting things. She was later taken under the wing of her very talented high school art teacher and mentor, Clayton Verge who instilled a great understanding of her attention to detail until his passing in 2016. Besides this, she is self-taught gaining experience through paid commissions and hours and hours of practice.
Her favorite mediums are acrylics, pencil and colored pencil. She also does wire wrapping, makes jewelry, hand embroidery and bead mosaics.
She has been an animal lover her entire life. So naturally, her favorite subject is animals, in particular dogs, cats, sea life and insects.

Exhibition History (CV)