Speaking With Maria Schlomman
Maria Schlomann first started painting on shoes when she was a teenager. At the thought, she is 2% sheepish, the rest matter-of-fact. “I used to paint on jeans, too. I had fun with that.” Her shoe art is sensitive and detailed, but wearable material is not Maria’s primary medium. She tends to draw in black […]
Speaking with Ruby Pearl
Ruby Pearl entered her first art competition at the age of four. “Come to find out, I won first prize. The thing is, they didn’t know I was a little girl.” It was not, Ruby hastens to say, a children’s art competition. The winning piece was not a stick figure. It was a painting – […]