ALYSSA MONKS
I love her painting technique because of her attention to details. Her
extremely detailed working in painting water drops, water bubbles, reflection
of light, foggy glass, transparency of water etc. is wonderful.
Biography:
Born
1977 in Ridgewood, New Jersey, Alyssa Monks began oil painting as a child. She
studied at The New School in New York and Montclair State University and earned
her B.A. from Boston College in 1999. During this time she studied painting at
Lorenzo de’Medici in Florence. She went on to earn her M.F.A from the New York
Academy of Art, Graduate School of Figurative Art in 2001. She completed an
artist in residency at Fullerton College in 2006 and has lectured at
universities and institution nation wide. She has taught Flesh Painting at the
New York Academy of Art, as well as Montclair State University and the Lyme Academy
College of Fine Arts.
Below you can see some of her paintings
Her Gallery and all of her masterpieces are in her website http://alyssamonks.com/