Artist’s palette

■ Permalba white, cadmium yellow, French ultramarine blue ■ Grumbacher red, raw umber, yellow ochre, burnt umber and burnt sienna

Carolou Kristofik
Larger than Life

Though she’s tried just about every genre— abstraction, florals, figures and portraits—Kristofik always comes back to inanimate still life. “I think it’s mostly a gut reaction,” says the artist, who started creating art in the third grade and has forged a successful fine art career that spans 40 years. “I probably choose still life because I like to work alone inside my studio where I have fewer distractions and more control—and where

 

www.artistsmagazine.com ■ November 2008