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Starr Ramsey Helms moved from Laguna Beach, California to Athens, Georgia with her husband Bill in 2014. Throughout a successful career with International Business Machines she "moonlighted" as an artist; since retirement from IBM she has been able to focus more attention on painting.
In the early 1990's Starr's interest evolved from painting in watercolor to painting in oil. She studied the classical chiaroscuro style, which involves a lengthy process of underpainting, glazing and layering of paint. Recently she has become more interested in the challenge of direct, or "Alla Prima" painting; as with watercolor, it does not lend itself to correction! She paints entirely from life or from her own photographs using traditional oil paint.
Starr Ramsey Helms moved from Laguna Beach, California to Athens, Georgia with her husband Bill in 2014. Throughout a successful career with International Business Machines she "moonlighted" as an artist; since retirement from IBM she has been able to focus more attention on painting.
In the early 1990's Starr's interest evolved from painting in watercolor to painting in oil. She studied the classical chiaroscuro style, which involves a lengthy process of underpainting, glazing and layering of paint. Recently she has become more interested in the challenge of direct, or "Alla Prima" painting; as with watercolor, it does not lend itself to correction! She paints entirely from life or from her own photographs using traditional oil paint.