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ABOUT THE ARTIST

THE ARTIST

THE MEDIUM

Sharon Marantz Walsh creates custom portrait art that begins with a meaningful photograph and becomes something more personal — a painterly image shaped by memory, atmosphere and emotional presence.

Her connection to faces began long before her finished portrait.

As a child, Sharon and her cousin Nikki played a quiet game of imagination. T

Her connection to faces began long before her finished portrait.

As a child, Sharon and her cousin Nikki played a quiet game of imagination. They would look at people's faces and invent stories about who they might be, where they come from, what they were secretly thinking and what other time or place they seemed to belong to.

That early fascination with faces became the foundation of her work today. In each portrait, sharon looks beyond the surface of the photograph to find the story it suggests.

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THE MEDIUM

Before working digitally, Sharon worked directly on canvas with acrylic paint, brushes, sponges, palette knives and her hands. Her paintings were built through layers, texture over texture, light over shadow, color over color, until the surface carried depth, movement and atmosphere.

Moving into the digital medium was, at first a challen

Moving into the digital medium was, at first a challenge. It was a new language, a new direction and a process of discovery, learning what worked, what did not and how to translate the instinct of painting into another form.

Yet in many ways, the work remained the same.

the computer became the canvass. The photograph became the foundation. Digital brushes replaced traditional ones, but the process still depended on light, texture, composition, color and touch.

Sharon could still build atmosphere in layers. She could still soften an edge, deepen a shadow, warm a tone, refine a surface and shape the emotion of the portrait.

And in the most personal sense, she could still paint with her fingers.

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THE PROCESS

Every commission begins with a photograph that holds meaning. On some occasions, Sharon also photographs the subject herself, using her camera to study the face, form, gestures and expression from several positions before beginning the portrait.

Using Photoshop and other digital art applications, Sharon works with an expansive range of co

Using Photoshop and other digital art applications, Sharon works with an expansive range of color, brushwork, texture and blending tools. Like an artist working on a traditional canvas, she can control the intensity of color, the softness of each brushstroke, the layering of tones and the way light moves through the image. This allows her to shape the portrait gradually, refining the atmosphere, deepening the emotional quality and bringing forward the story.

The finished work is not meant to replace the original photograph, but to honor it. The likeness remains, while the image is transformed into something more intimate, painterly and timeless.

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ABOUT THE ARTIST

THE ARTIST

THE MEDIUM

THE MEDIUM

THE MEDIUM

THE PROCESS

THE PROCESS

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