Tracy MeolaTRACY MEOLA is a professional artist who specializes in still-life acrylic paintings. As a child, Tracy loved crayons and coloring books and eventually graduated to sketchpads and pencils. She majored in Advertising and Illustration at The Art Institte of Fort Lauderdale, but she still considers herself self-taught because, lacking confidence, she left college and entered the business world, leaving art behind. Ten years passed before she picked up a paintbrush, but her love of painting was instantly restored. Life experience gave her the confidence she previously lacked, and in 1991, she began painting and teaching professionally. Tracy paints with acrylics using her own adapted technique of lightly applying multiple layers of paint with the use of water, which provides the soft blended look in her artwork. Tracy chooses elements for her still-life paintings that have texture and light, which is why many of her paintings are of glass or candles. She wants her artwork to give others a sense of home, peace, joy, and nostalgia. Read More Read Less