Sheila Elsea is a resident of Ft. Myers Beach, Florida, United States. She works as an interior decorator and in her spare time, she is an artist. Sheila Elsea works along side top designers and private clients to create artful and distinguished interiors. Her team of artists achieves faux finishes, murals; plaster treatments and trompe l'oeil per flawlessly. Sheila Elsea is an extremely diverse artist.
Sheila Elsea does not have a formal education in painting. She is largely self-taught. The South Florida residence of Sheila Elsea provides an excellent backdrop for her paintings and also serves as a source of inspiration. Sheila Elsea has developed her painting skills in oil and pastel. The resultant effect is to provide her with a great deal of flexibility in achieving different looks and styles. The paintings of Sheila Elsea project devotion towards capturing realism, fantasy and romanticism. The works of Sheila Elsea have a smooth pastel finish.
The use of soft colors provides a dreamy element to the paintings. Sheila Elsea uses bold strokes to emphasize her subjects. The colors are blended in such a way that where one color ends another begins. In spite of this each color holds its own vibrancy. The art works of Sheila Elsea incorporate lines and shapes and are reminiscent of old world charm with old master style. They bring back memories of days passed long ago. The surrealism and romance in the paintings transport the viewer to another time and place altogether. The flowing movement of the brushwork makes the viewer's eyes flow around the subjects of the paintings by Sheila Elsea.
The major influence on the art of Sheila Elsea was in her late twenties when she traveled to Italy and Sicily for five weeks. Sheila Elsea gives a lot of credit of her appreciation to her mother who is also an artist and has recently been selected into the National Woman's Museum of Art in Washington D.C. Well-known paintings by Sheila Elsea are Classico, Arabian Dream, Turkish Landing and Romance .
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