In These Fields

Image © Lee Ann Zirbes About the Artist A kindergarten teacher once told Lee Ann Zirbes’ mother that Lee Ann was drawing and coloring flowers on people’s hats and buttons on their coats during art class. That observation hinted at her promising future as an artist. Throughout her childhood, Lee Ann spent countless hours drawing, coloring with markers, crayons, pen and ink, or cutting shapes out of construction paper to create new things. Painting on Canvas with the oil painting set her parents gave her for Christmas was always a source of joy. Over the years, Lee Ann experimented with various mediums, including oil paint, watercolors, watercolor pencils, chalk, crayons, markers, pen and ink, gouache, modeling paste, gel medium, oil pastels, and a wide array of acrylics. In high school, she took seven art courses, including interior design, and during college, she was tutored in oil painting by a friend who attended an art college. Most recently, she graduated from the online Nicholas