Fragile Glory Impressions is Mary’s Art Studio
Mary
Mary Langewisch has been painting and drawing since she was 4 years old. Born and raised in Colorado, she is inspired by the light, colors, and textures in nature. To her, art is meant to be beautiful and leave an impression in your mind, much like nature does. Her mission as an artist is to create that beauty and also to inspire others with it.
Mary is a now married and has 2 little boys, and lives in Littleton Colorado. She paints, teaches, and records art content out of her her backyard art studio.
Mary’s Process
She works mostly in watercolor and acrylic. She is inspired by dramatic skies, clouds, and light. Usually working on wrapped canvas, Mary starts with a textured ground of modeling or fiber paste and starting with a bright underpainting she works her painting in reverse from foreground to background. She uses thick paint layers with a rough bristle brush and the occational palette knife scratch to bring the textures to life. The sky color is the last to be painted leaving the underpainting sparkling through the edges of each layer.
Started in 2004
At Age 4 Mary had told her parents that she wanted to be a teacher. Being the oldest of 4, she loved playing school with her siblings. She was often found creating curriculum for a future class, even with no prospective students in sight. By Age 10, after taking classes at a local art studio, a dream had developed: she wanted to own a studio of her own like that someday. Mary was 11 when she started making her artwork into note cards and selling them at craft fairs around Denver. Two years later she started teaching her first drawing class to some kids in the neighborhood. By high school she was teaching up to 65 students each semester all around the Denver metro area, along with the selling of her new card styles. In 2013 Mary found a small space to call her studio in which to create art and teach. The dream was becoming more of a reality. Mary has expended her students to nation and worldwide with her online art studio and her Youtube channel. She's creating new art products every year, including commissioned paintings and getting her artwork on display in the Colorado area.
What is FGI?
Fragile Glory Impressions is an art studio & gallery that has been in business since 2004. Mary is the founder, owner, artist, and teacher.
Mary paints, sellers her work, and makes art products for sale. She also teaches local Colorado classes and workshops, creates art content on her YouTube channel, and has a growing library of online art courses.
Where does the name come from? Well, the original name of the business was My Art Card Company, back when Mary was only selling her artwork as note cards (she was 12 years old at the time). One of Mary's most well known paintings of a Columbine is titled “Fragile Glory,”. The beauty of a flower, for example, has just that. . . fragile glory. Art is an imitation of something and can leave a very vivid impression in the mind. Mary, in particular, loves painting nature. And there you have it, Fragile Glory Impressions (FGI for short)!
Mission
Fragile Glory Impressions's mission has always been to replicate God’s amazing beauty displayed in nature, to empower artists to chase their dreams of reaching their artistic potential, and inspiring people to create and live to the full no matter what stage of life you are in!
