Style and Contact
Sheila L. Nasser
Contact
Sheila L Nasser: Cell # 520-451-1182
M-F 10am to 6pm
Style
The subject matter of my commission paintings is eclectic, that is, whatever will assist the underlying prose/story to
reach my client’s mind, heart, and soul. The client is always my overriding concern. The “Two Beacons in a Turbulent
Sky” painting is totally symbolic unfortunately the story is too private to share. If you remember the “Minds Journey
of Tomorrow” the painting is purposely dark, eerie, and foreboding to convey the angst of immigrating to America and
the figure on the rock is purposely non-defined as it could be a man or a woman. I actually first wrote the whole story
and then had to somehow paint it.
My actual method of painting causes my paintings from a distance to look like a photo. Some might term it “photo
realism”, which it is not. The truth of the matter is I prefer acrylics (will do oils) and I do not like brush marks nor do I
use them to create motion or depth, hence the photo look from a distance. Also, when called for I can be very precise.
In “Memories” the client gave me a photo and asked me to paint it, but for a very personal reason, not for me to get
“creative”. The pine tree in the painting was somehow on the Mediterranean Sea? I spent eight straight hours with a
six-bristle hair brush individually painting each leaf/needle and three days on ibuprofen. I insist I am not OCD. I like
to refer to my painting style as orientalism as typified by the French artist Aime Morot and his landmark painting “Le
Bon Samaritain”, The Good Samaritan. I am certainly not in his league… but I keep learning and trying.
I have been told that I have a special sense that enables me to connect with my client’s inner self. Not ESP, but more
like a high degree of empathy. I am Lebanese Melkite (Eastern Catholic) and come from a family and culture of hugs,
kisses, and caring for the other person first. Or, it could just be in my DNA?