Posted on 07/30/2005 9:12:45 AM PDT by DaveLoneRanger
This brilliant young arist was recently featured in The Old Schoolhouse Magazine which my family receives, but since they do not make articles available on the web, I went searching about her. The only articles I could find were from 2004 (see Akiane Kramarik: Dream Child), so I thought I'd just redirect you to her website.
Her biography is already fascinating.
Born underwater at home, on July 9, 1994, in Mount Morris, Illinois, to the atheistic stay-at-home Lithuanian homemaker mother, and an American father, culinary arts instructor, chef and dietary manager.
• Lived in Illinois, Missouri, Colorado and Idaho, experiencing poverty and affluence.
• Having attended both public and private schools, now is home-schooled with her three brothers, Delfini 14, Jean Lu 12 and Ilia 3 years old.
• Began drawing at 4, and painting at 6, teaching herself and learning mostly from her own keen observation and study.
• Speaks four languages: Lithuanian, Russian, English and Sign Language
• Heritage: Lithuanian, Jewish, Polish, Hungarian, Slovakian, Russian, Bohemian, Chinese, French, Danish and German
• At 4, had a life-changing spiritual transformation, converting the family to Christianity.
• At age 7 began writing poetry and aphorisms.
• Her poems often arrive fully conceived.
• The inspiration for her art and literature comes from her visions, dreams, observations of people, nature and God.
• Paints from imagination, reference materials and models.
• Favorite size canvases: 48 x 60 inches.
• Considers her style: Akianism - a universal blend of realism and imaginism
• Wants people to find hope in her paintings.
• Has the same goal with each painting: to be inspiration for others and to be the gift to God.
• Favorite medium: acrylics for full figures, and oil paints for large portraits.
• Rises at 5 a.m. five-six days a week to get ready to paint in the studio and write; works for about three hours a day.
• Often works over a hundred hours on a painting, producing 8 to 10 paintings a year.
• Usually makes many sketches before painting.
• Works on one painting at a time.
• Favorite subject: people and spiritual subjects.
• Has "start-to-finish" demonstration videos of her painting.
• Favorite activities and hobbies: art, poetry, chess, trampoline, piano, dancing, reading and helping people.
• When she grows up wants to be wife, mother, song writer, artist, poet, chef, lecturer, movie director, doctor, photographer and dancer.
• Likes about herself: "sensitivity to people".
• Does not like about herself: "impatience".
• Assesses her own character: "daring heart and cautious mind".
• Her biggest wish: "that everyone would love God and one another".
• Her life goal: to share her love for God and people around the world.
And her art is beautiful!
Praise God! Thank You Jeuus!
Remarkable.
You can just see the intelligence, compassion, sweetness and joy in her face. I pray she keeps that joy and continues to share it.
She's the Derek Trucks of painting!
A walking celebration of individual multicultural diversity.
WOW!!! What an amazing person is Miss Akiane Kramarik. What great talent, and what a pecious heart. May the Lord continue to bless her.
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