Welden Designs

Weldendesigns.com Erin Welden is best known for her custom impasto paintings and is a full time professional artist living in Austin, Texas. She studied art at Ball State University and glass at Talisman Glass and Chicago Hot Glass Studio . The artist states that she has always had a fascination with tactile materials. Studying mosaic art under Sonia King at the Institute of Mosaic Art in Berkeley inspired her to branch out of blown glass and create multi medium mosaic projects using stone, marble, ceramic, stained glass and other organic materials. Her first love and specialty is large scale custom impasto paintings. She has shown and been featured in galleries and exhibitions, including RAW Austin presents CUSP. Impasto is a technique used in painting, where paint is laid on an area of the surface very thickly, usually thick enough that the painting-knife strokes are visible. This gives the painting a texture and depth that adds life to each piece. This technique combines her love of tactile materials and painting. Each stoke laid is like a building block in creating a unique piece of art. She rarely uses paint brushes when creating her impasto paintings, they are mainly done using pallet knives. WeldenDesigns is on Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/pages/WeldenDesigns/309943799160256 Follow Erin on Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/ecwelden/