ABOUT
Michelle Carter is a professional portrait painter and digital artist with a degree in fine art from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has passionately enjoyed a creative career that spans over 30 years, including completing projects for individual clients, advertising and marketing agencies, and lovers of art.
Michelle’s mission is to celebrate, through the art of portrait painting, what is unique and special about individuals; she inspires the desire in others to understand, love, and celebrate personal expression. This stems from her life-long belief that every person has a unique contribution to enrich the world.
Michelle’s fascination with portraiture began as a child, watching her grandmother paint colorful portraits and her father photograph poetic images of her family growing up. Portraits have long since captivated her, marveling at the complexity, subtlety, mystery, and emotive power of human expression.
Every portrait she paints is intended to give the viewer a unique peek into the subject’s world, a glimpse of them as they see themselves and as they experience their world.
Her work is based on foundational brush-on-canvas oil painting and figurative drawing techniques to digitally hand-paint modern works that are reminiscent of both traditional and modern painting.
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