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Mary Beth McKenzie

Mary Beth McKenzie, N.A. (born 1946) is an American painter of contemporary figures in the realism style. She was born in Cleveland, Ohio and currently resides in New York City where she teaches art at National Academy of Design and the Art Students League of New York.

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Most beginners are too anxious for results. Real progress takes place over a long period of time.

Anxiety, Anxious, Long, Period, Place, Real

You have to evolve as an artist, and this is really a lifelong process.

Artist, Evolution, Evolve, Lifelong, Process

Artists make things so much easier for themselves when they learn to trust their eyes.

Artist, Easier, Eye, Learn, Make, Trust

Everything in painting is about relationship, so I judge each area by its relationship to the surrounding areas.

Areas, Judge, Judging, Painting, Surrounding

Cats sleep in a state of total abandon, and I find that state very interesting in people as well.

Abandon, Cat, Interesting, People, Sleep, Total

Leaving some areas less finished in a painting, or more out of focus than others, allows the imagination to finish them and gives more importance to the detailed parts.

Areas, Finished, Focus, Giving, Imagination

I usually start by doing one or more color studies of the subject on a piece of canvas taped to cardboard.

Canvas, Cardboard, Color, Pieces, Study, Taped

I always work directly from life, partly because I really enjoy having an interaction with the person in front of me but also because I love having a direct response to shape and color.

Color, Person, Portraiture, Shapes, Work

Nothing is more beautiful than a line that brings out a form.

Beautiful, Brings, Form, Lines, Nothing

Sometimes working on one painting will help solve a problem in another painting.

Helping, Painting, Problem, Working

A painting has its own existence and reality, and I make changes freely to meet the painting's needs. This sometimes takes me in another direction.

Change, Needs, Reality, Takes