ABOUT THE BLONDE:

I am Christin McMurray, a third year here at UGA. I am from Snellville, Georgia, where I graduated from South Gwinnett High School. I briefly attended Kennesaw State Unversity for two years before I transferred to UGA. At KSU, I majored in Art, with an emphasis in sculpture and art education. I am currently a Fashion Merchandising major who wants to become a Furnishings and Interiors major! I am also currently the Public Relations Director for Watchdawgs, Inc. Watchdawgs is a non-profit, student run organization the gives free safe rides home during the Spring and Summer semesters on the weekends.

WHAT THE BLONDE LOVES AND DOES:

I have three things I LOVE or LOVE to do!

ALL ABOUT THE ART I LOVE!!

I have loved art since elementary school. I had the most FABULOUS art teacher ever, who gave me the interest in art. Since then, my favorite artist has been Claude Monet. Monet was an Impressionist painter in France in the late 1800s, during the Impressionist movement. He lived in Giverny in the house that is most famous for the garden and bridge, which appeared in many of his paintings. The official theory that the color should be dropped pure on the canvas instead of getting mixed on the palette was only respected by a few of them and only for a couple of years. In fact, the Impressionism is a lot more about a state of the mind than a technique; thus artists other than painters have also been qualified of impressionists. Monet is considered one of the "founder's" of Impressionism. One of his famous paintings, "Impression: soleil levant", actually gave name to the movement of Impressionism.

"The subject is of secondary importance to me ; what I want to reproduce is that which is in between the subject and me." -Claude Monet

"The subject of my painting is not light and shade, painting placed in light and shade." -Claude Monet