Rosalie Booth Krastek
Rosalie's artistic vision is seeing the world in a slightly different way than most people do. She makes connections between colors and shapes, conveying the excitement without recording every detail.
The idea for a painting usually originates from something that moves her, whether it is the stance of an animal, the beauty of nature, or a luminous color harmony.
She believes the mixing of color-its desired shade or nuance-is the real thrill of the painting process. Rosalie tries to bring an awareness to others of the often overlooked aspects of nature and considers painting "food for the soul".
Rosalie enjoyed a career as a fashion illustrator, a technical artist, graphic designer and now paints full time. She has shown her watercolors, acrylics and oil paintings in both juried and invitational exhibits. Rosalie is a native of northeastern Pennsylvania, the daughter of Ann and Joseph Booth. She is married to Ronald Krastek and resides at Newton Lake where she maintains an art studio.
Rosalie Booth Krastek studied fashion and design at the
Traphagen School of Fashion in New York City. She later studied portrait,
anatomy of the human form, and still life. For a dozen years, Rosalie
became an Art Director for a major department store as well as a busy
free-lance fashion illustrator.
During the last 24 years, she worked as an artist with Gentex Corporation. But throughout her "commercial" art career, Rosalie has pursued her "personal" art career, painting and developing her special subjective approach to her subject matter, which translates for the viewer, into unique pictures with a rich emotional content. She feels that work of art is the trace of a mighty struggle.
Rosalie put things in a way that conveys the excitement without recording every detail-omitting the superfluous, grasping the essentials, and arranging them into a powerful and significant whole. Rosalie believes the mixing of color –its desired shade or nuance- is the real thrill of painting- whether the image is created on the canvas or on the computer screen.
Rosalie has shown her watercolors, acrylics, and oil paintings in both juried and international exhibits.