Zook, Award Winning Acrylic Painter

Fine Art Acrylic Paintings by Rebecca Zook

Today's post features the art of Rebecca Zook. Zook knew, as a child, she was going to be an artist and has never strayed very far from that path. Her earliest memories are of spending hours at a time sitting at a table with paper and crayons drawing every animal imaginable. Zook was fortunate to attend a high school that offered Commercial Art as an elective and took drawing and sculpture classes all through school. Doing so altered her path from Fine Art to Graphic Design.

Zook received a full, academic scholarship to Southern Methodist University in Dallas where she majored in Advertising Art, gaining her BFA degree. She minored in Fine Art - taking Photography, Painting, Printmaking and Ceramics courses. Additionally, she took Computer Programming as an elective, unaware of how much this was going to help her years down the road when the World Wide Web came into the mainstream.

Rebecca Zook has been working as a Graphic Artist, Illustrator and Web Designer for the last 20 years. She turned her attention back to Fine Art in 2003, though still works a full-time day job. Rebecca has created art in many media, however painting in acrylics is her love and primary focus. She has found her design background to be a major asset in her Fine Art paintings, lending strength to her work though its principles.

Visit Rebecca Zook's gallery on DiscoveredArtists.com. Among my favorites of Zook's works are

• 'Musical Interlude'
• 'Egret'
• 'Against the Stream'
• 'Hands by Candlelight'
• 'Sea Oats'
• "Lemons'
• and 'Silver and Brass'

The following video features some of Zook's work and the accompanying music is beautiful and complimentary. I think the choice of music is appropriate because it 'matches' the feel/presence of the art; it's not overpowering, nor distracting. I say the music compliments the art because it does not compete with the art for my attention, therefore I enjoy the visual art and the 'audio art'/music, simultaneously! This stands out for me so much because I view visual art on video often and many times the music/'audio art', although beautiful, overwhelms the visual art. Therefore, I really appreciate the videos in which the visual and audio art are complimentary. Enjoy!