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I enjoy creating stories and pictures that encourage joyful well-being, heartfulness, positive imagination, and mindful movement. Inspired by all that's beautiful and uplifting, I hope to bring you a sense of joy, connection, playfulness, and possibility through my art. Intimate with the creative process, I also love promoting creativity, which I share through sketches and musings on my Inspiration For Creativity blog.

Some of my favorite subjects to paint are animals, bridges, pathways, doors, lighthouses, the ocean, and natural settings. I'm inspired by anything that suggests expansiveness, growth, and lightness of being or that invites openings and connection to all of nature and to one's self– body, mind, and spirit.

Working as an art product development chemist for 25+ years, I learned to draw and paint while testing thousands of exploratory formulas. Of my many children's art material inventions, I once concocted drawing markers that erased off paper with a rubber eraser; crayons that could bounce; and modeling dough that could stretch all the way across a room (sadly, these three were never sold, but many of my other inventions are still available). While creating mostly in the lab and holding seven patents, some of my proudest accomplishments were having my artwork used on select Crayola and Big Yellow Box packages.

A mostly self-taught artist, I've studied drawing with Sean Delonas; watercolor with Ann Lindsay, Dana Van Horn, and Jan Guarino; and illustration with Chuck Vlasics and Sean Delonas. I am grateful for all my teachers and the strong creative spirit that flows through me to create daily.

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Teaching and practicing yoga and mindfulness are what nourish my creative spirit and also inspire my art and writing. I also love spending time with family, friends, the beach, nature, and playing the sax and guitar. 

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All pictures and text © 2024 by Andree Santini.

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