Jeni Bate Careers in Salton City, CA

I paint the skies with peace and passsion, because that's the way they paint me." I am a painter specializing in skyscapes. I work in many different mediums - watercolor, oil, acrylic and refractured watercolors - or watercolor collage and mixtures of the above. The refractured watercolor medium is all transparent watercolor on watercolor paper. I paint each sky or water reflection sometimes up to five times, depending on the size I am working to. Each variant is in slightly different colors and because it is wet in wet it is always a little different each time. Then I cut them and collage back together. Some are framed under glass, but I mount some on panel and protect with layers of clear acrylic coating, so it doesn’t need to be framed. I don't know that anyone else currently works in this way. Each kind of paint offers different possibilities and has different strengths and restrictions. I also love working on different surfaces such as wood, metal or fiberglass, and as a muralis