Every artist knows that light is what gives life to artwork, but Tucson painter and muralist Angela Pittenger’s work captures light itself.
Pittenger paints primarily with oil paint and watercolor to create her soft, almost dreamy works of art. Many of her pieces are impressionistic landscapes or depict animals and sentimental slices of everyday life. Her main subject, though, is light — golden-hour sunsets, sunlight sparkling off streams and oceans, or city lights on wet pavement.
“I like a lot of moody skies, I like golden lights, and I’ve recently started doing lightning,” she said.
Her style is influenced by her love of expressionism and painters like Monet and Van Gogh, as well as John William Waterhouse’s romanticism…