This is my summer project. I could not resist this composition of Gondolas. The deep velvet blue tarps. The black boat shells bobbing on the surface of the bay’s early morning sun. Peace and tranquility is over. Now it’s back to driving a school bus.

These are flowers from my grandmother’s flower garden.

I am an acrylic and watercolor artist. I paint in many styles from Abstract to Impasto Impressionism and realism. I choose to work unhindered by one style of art.

Here are some sample pages from What Follows Is True: Crescent Hotel, a fully painted graphic nonfiction that explores the stories surrounding the Crescent Hotel’s strange and tragic two years as The Baker Hospital, a Depression Era cancer hospital. This 240 page fully-painted, graphic narrative blends oral histories, newspaper articles and Norman Baker’s own vanity biography to examine this historical happening and the complicated determinations of yesteryear’s monsters.

Contemporary, minimalist art with an emphasis on three dimensional textures, abstract shapes, and neutral monochromatic tones.

I like painting flowers and fruits, clouds and sunshine, balloons, plants, candles and such. I don’t always plan to paint these things but they always find themselves in my work. As an artist whose subjects are mainly instinctual, unraveling the reasons they occur can be tricky. But at the end of the day when the dust has settled and the paint has dried, I attribute my marks to childhood. Simpler times in general. Times when all I cared about was getting off the bus to watch my favorite cartoons and how much Captain Crunch was left. The subjects I paint are symbols of simplicity. Not only in shape but what…

Stacy Spangler is a mixed media artist and instructor from Goshen,Arkansas. She has a love for creating whimsical, colorful art with lots of texture and layers. She uses her hands, brushes and a palette knife to build up multiple layers of paint, papers and acrylic medium, resulting in a heavy distressed texture. Her playful style has been greatly influenced by over a decade of teaching art to children. As a self-taught artist, she has a passion for encouraging others to grow in their artistic ability, embrace their own style, and use their creative talents to bring more joy into the world. She now teaches adults, both in-person workshops and online,…