Artist Monique Thode Profile on BoundlessGallery.com

Member since:
Apr-29-08
Registered in:
United States

I was born in 1963 in Manchester, New Hampshire. I lived there all of my life until 2005 when my husband and I moved to Florida. I am a self-taught artist. My specialty is pen and ink, pencil and colored pencil drawings but I have been experimenting in other mediums. I try to challenge myself with every piece I do. I don't have any meaning behind my work, I just do it because I love it and it helps me to relieve stress. I love looking through art books and travel books. I can find some nice photos from places I probably will [see more]

I was born in 1963 in Manchester, New Hampshire. I lived there all of my life until 2005 when my husband and I moved to Florida. I am a self-taught artist. My specialty is pen and ink, pencil and colored pencil drawings but I have been experimenting in other mediums.

I try to challenge myself with every piece I do. I don't have any meaning behind my work, I just do it because I love it and it helps me to relieve stress.

I love looking through art books and travel books. I can find some nice photos from places I probably will never see. Well, never is a long time. I do all of my work from photos, some are ones I have taken, some are not.

I also started doing greeting cards a couple of years ago. I only have Christmas cards right now but hope to expand to others soon. I do a combination of different mediums, watercolor, pen and ink, colored pencil and acrylics.

You may notice, the dates on my pieces are from 2005 - 2006. I stopped drawing from 2000-2005 for personal reasons and when my husband and I decided to make our move to Florida, I sold all of my work and donated what I could not sell. When we moved here I started from scratch. I really missed drawing and felt it was time to get back into it again. In 2007 I started a "Small Business Owner" course in which I just completed. I am back to drawing and selling my work and I hope one day I will have a small business of my own, something art related.

I am very happy to be part of the Boundlessgallery family, and I look forward to doing more pieces to sell and I look forward to doing some custom work as well. [hide]