Story of An Artist

The need to create is a strong and driving force in the life of an artist. In the past few years that need has drawn Karin Sanders to revisit her roots as an oil painter. She started oil painting as an eleven year old child at Tracy Cain Studio in Huntington Beach. Once she stopped having weekly lessons there she stopped oil painting altogether for a long while. That does not mean that she stopped creating art. It just took on different forms and used different mediums.

Karin went on to earn an Associate of Arts degree from Fullerton College in Fashion Design. This enabled her to more easily use fabric as her medium for creating things. Whether it was clothing, home décor, costumes, soft sculpture, or quilts as art, as well as for warmth, she created as much as her time would allow her to devote to it. She has won many awards for her quilts, and sewing as well as knitting at the Orange County Fair in the past years.

After she and her husband Jim had raised a family, her desire was to go back to college and become an art major. Because of her husband’s gracious willingness to support her emotionally and financially in this endeavor, she was able to pursue this education. Since then she has been a part time student at her alma mater Fullerton College and loving every minute of it.

Karin has rediscovered her love for oil painting, and has learned that she also loves drawing with pastels and colored pencils. Her newest pursuit is watercolor painting. Learning watercolor has been a goal of hers as her aunt is a brilliant watercolor artist and she would like to follow in her footsteps in
that medium.

Karin has a passion for realism in her artwork. Meticulous craftsmanship and technique characterize her work. Her subject matter reflects simple pleasures and happy moments.
Karin knows that God is the ultimate Creator, and is the one who has given her the gift of creating art. She is thankful every day to be able to use the gifts that God has given to her, and to give Him the glory for it all.