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Viveca Mays is the owner of ‘The Sparkling Artist.’ She specializes in Realism and Impressionistic art, and her painting techniques involve using oils and acrylics. For the past 40 years, Viveca has committed herself to painting while occasionally selling her artwork. Additionally, she organizes virtual and private paint parties and offers painting kits for sale.
Through her course that welcomes both beginners and experienced professionals, called “A Spark of Life Art”, her aim is to ignite a passion for art in the hearts and lives of her students, by instructing them in the techniques of painting using acrylics, palette knives, and brushes.
According to Viveca, painting has always been her go-to thing to do when she was bored, didn’t know what to do, or had a hard time making decisions in life. This hobby of hers has brought her immense happiness and satisfaction over the years. Not just that, painting has also helped her through the tough phases of life. She believes that painting helps one to stay in the present, let go of the past, and allows them to look forward to the future.
Through her “A Spark of Life Art” painting courses, Viveca wants her students to feel the same joy and pleasure she feels while painting and creating masterpieces. Her painting course is well-suited for beginners and professionals alike. Furthermore, Viveca emphasizes that this course is for everyone who is looking for an inexpensive way to have fun and be creative!
According to Viveca, her inspiration comes from moments that represent the very essence of life. Moments of both considerable strength and great weakness are the elements that serve as the content of all good stories and thus serve as the content of her artistic style. Viveca learned the basic art of painting while living in California, and her experiences grew while traveling the United States and abroad. These experiences subtly influenced all of her creative decisions. Viveca tries to put all the things, such as cultural and social diversity, racial unity and discord, environmental contrasts, privilege and poverty, and love and fear, on her canvas as a way to memorialize them. Moreover, her paintings also reflect the triumphantly haunting Cajun and Creole cultures of New Orleans, the melting pots of New York, the mansions of Los Angeles and the tent cities of the metropolitan outskirts, the beauty, the despair, and everything in between. Viveca tries to share the stories of all these places through her art.
As an extension of their love for the arts, Viveca homeschooled and encouraged her children to study dramatic arts, ultimately leading to bright careers in show business, starting with modeling and commercials to Broadway and primetime television. All of her family has a natural desire to entertain and have, on more than one occasion, worked together as a team to put on productions. As a family, they always encourage each other to rediscover and expand the limits of their creative ability. They do their best to support one another in various artistic endeavors and hope others will be inspired to do the same. The arts have always served as an important creative outlet for the family, allowing them to share their individual life perspectives in different ways or even sometimes step outside of their selves entirely, if just for a moment.
