Passions on display at Viva El Arte

Jamie Stewart, The Shafter Press

Another of the artists featured was Jose Silva. He said that he has always been interested in art and uses photographs, memory and other things for his inspiration for his pieces.

Silva paints in a unique way with some of his pieces.

In a portrait he did of a young native woman, Silva used a pallet knife, instead of brush strokes. It gave the piece more texture than with a brush. "This one I used the brush just a small percentage of the time. I wanted to give the work a lot of texture and it stands out so much better," he explained.

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