Christy Ross
Acrylic Paint
Christy Ross is a San Diego based artist and credentialed art educator who lives with PTSD. An incident in college caused her condition and making art and getting to teach art has helped her heal. She approaches art with whimsy and freedom. Christy earned her BA in Design from UCLA and her CA Art Education credential from CSULA. Always, she endeavors to bring a smile to the observer. She especially loves to paint landscapes and seascapes, places to which people seek to escape, in her signature vivid colors.
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Christy teaches Paint & Sips all over San Diego County as well as painting classes at Lemon Grove library. She has found that adults who have never painted can explore their own creativity in a supportive class where they create their own masterpieces.
Christy also teaches art to children in San Diego schools and provides private instruction as well. She admires children’s lack of inhibitions and their ability to master self-expression by connecting art to their own lives, all of which she finds endlessly inspiring. Children ask questions to do their best work, and don’t feel the need to fit into a category, making them authentically themselves. She loves their approach of not worrying about whether they’re doing it right.
Proudly, she worked at Legend Films for 10 years as a color designer. Ever wonder how former black and white movies get colorized? Christy may have worked on a movie you’ve seen. One of the enjoyable and tough projects Christy led was “Jim Nantz Remembers Augusta,” which was nominated for a Sports Emmy (R) in the George Wensel Technical Achievement Award.
