Laurie Israel received B.A. and M.A. degrees in music in her early life. While keeping music in her life, she has been a practicing lawyer for over 35 years. Always wanting to do art (but thinking that it would have to wait until retirement), she stumbled upon a live drawing course on a vacation 21 years ago. That put Laurie on a path of studying and doing art.
Laurie works in a number of mediums – oil (her favorite), watercolor, digital (i-Pad), charcoal, pen and ink. Her work ranges from figurative to abstract. Most of what she does is somewhere in between the two.
This quality of risk-taking and exploration is manifested in Laurie’s art. She tends to work quickly. Visual corrections are part of her style. She does the underdrawing with brushes rather than with graphite or charcoal. She often paints on an old painting, the new painting being informed and more complex because of the history underneath, a palimpsest of sorts.
To see more of Laurie’s work, visit her website, www.laurieisrael.net