Paula Maloney
A love for both fine art and graphic design
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Paula was born and raised in the Ottawa area and is currently living in Barrhaven with her two pups, Coco and Daisy. She’s been drawing from an early age but decided to study Commercial Art at Algonquin college in 1979 shortly before personal computers were common in the home. Everything was done freehand. She currently works in the federal government as a graphic designer.
She started painting with acrylics in 1999 when her sister asked her to illustrate a children’s book she was writing called “Icicles to Miracles”, based on the ice storm of 1998 which hit hard in Ontario and Quebec. She’s been painting off and on ever since. Paula also works with pen and ink, pencil and coloured pencil.
Because she has a love for both fine art and graphic design, she mixes the two by scanning some of her art into the computer, digitally adjusts it, creating note cards, which she prints and sells. Paula is a lefty but when she is doing digital work she uses her right hand thereby mastering the use of both hands to create her art. Her main focus is on realism using pencil, folk art with acrylic and abstract doing stippling with pen and ink.