Husband encourages Beeson to pick up her brush
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May 14, 2023
Marione Martin
Cassie Beeson likes to find ideas, mix them and make them her own. Her colorful work is on display this month at Graceful Arts Gallery in Alva.
Encouragement from her husband caused Cassie Beeson to resume painting. Placings in the county and then the state fairs gave her more confidence. Beeson is from Meeker, Oklahoma. Her paintings of people in the outdoors are displayed this month at Graceful Arts Gallery in Alva.
"I've always had a love for art," said Beeson. "I would always kind of doodle here and there. When I was in high school, I would doodle on my homework. I had a very sweet teacher that showed it to the art teacher when then became very interested in my work just off my doodles."
Beeson was put in the advanced drawing and painting class in high school, the only real training she's had. "I'm pretty much self-taught after high school. When I want to learn new techniques, I watch YouTube videos. I get a lot of ideas off of Pinterest. I get a picture here and there that I like and kind of mix them. That way it makes it mine, and it's not a complete copy."
When she met her husband, she had not painted for a couple of years. "He saw some of my paintings and said, 'Oh, I like that. Did you do that?' He got me back into painting, and I've been painting ever since."
Her husband encouraged her to enter her paintings in the county fair, and she placed well there. "So then I got enough nerve to enter into the Oklahoma City State Fair, and I've won several ribbons. I've won best of show three times."
Beeson said she gets a lot of inspiration just from her love of art and seeing what others have done. That prompts her to try new techniques.
"I don't have any particular style I like to paint. I like to try new things," she said. "Every year I like to do a Go Big or Go Home type of piece – something that breaks me out of my comfort zone. I feel like that's the only way I'm going to grow as an artist."
To learn more about Beeson, check out her Facebook page at Chiari Passions. She's established at the Community Art Gallery at the Shawnee Mall. "This is the first time that I've ever been invited or done something this big," Beeson said of her display at Graceful Arts Gallery.
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