Sheila Sobol Brachfeld is a lifelong Denver resident. She graduated from CU Boulder with a BA in Fine Arts and the University of Denver with a Masters in Fine Arts. She has taught art classes both locally and in Canada.
Sheila primarily paints landscapes, still life, and other nature scenes.
Sheila Brachfeld works with multiple media at one time. Her style, can be defined by experiments with new media and new combinations of media, but also by her use of warm and cool colors. Notice how, in
On the Roan, how Sheila captures the relationship of the mountains to the plains, and the contrasting warm colors of the plain versus the cool colors of the mountains. She similarly contrasts the mountains and plains using oil paints in
the Front Range. In
Three Sunflowers, Sheila contrasts the warm sunflowers with the cool green one to provide depth to the picture: the cool colors, whether used in the mountains or in a sunflower, demonstrate to the viewer both an emotional and spatial a distance. This is because, in the world that Sheila attempts to capture, the oxygen in the air lends a blue (cool) tint to objects far away-the more air the object's light must pass through, the bluer it is. The viewer is all too ready to assume that objects that are cooler are further.
The cooler the color, the more distant-spatially... and emotionally!
These and other pieces of Sheila's can be seen and purchased at:
www.clindoeilcards.com/SheilaBrachfeld.