Background
Azarian, Mary was born on December 8, 1940 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Daughter of L. G. and Eleanor Schneider.
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Azarian, Mary was born on December 8, 1940 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Daughter of L. G. and Eleanor Schneider.
Azarian continued to lino cuts until she later attended, where she studied printmaking and painting. with one of the great 20th century printmakers, Leonard Baskin.
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Her grandfathers farm had thousands of chicken along with geese that that would bother the customers that came to buy his eggs.
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When she was young, she would spend her time exploring the woods and fields with her pony named Pasty. She began drawing and painting at an early age.
In 4th grade, she did her first relief print of woodcuts and enjoyed it very much.
This piece of art was a 3" x 4" lino block of an angel with the name NOEL at the bottom. She ran into a problem and learned a valuable lesson from this project Words must be reversed when doing a woodcut.
Her finished product read LEON.
Azarian continued to lino cuts until she later attended Smith College, where she studied printmaking and painting. with one of the great 20th century printmakers, Leonard Baskin.
After she graduated from Smith College, she moved to farm in Vermont. Before beginning her career as a full-time artist, Azarian taught in a one-room schoolhouse for three years.
After she finished her three years of teaching, she decided she wanted to make a living selling woodcut prints. She began producing her prints by hand and in black and white.
Eventually, she began adding color to her prints by hand.
Finally, she found an old Vandercook proof press and began using it to produce the prints. Beginning in the 1970s, Azarian begun illustrating children's books Azarian is most interested in working with simple shapes.
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Married Tomas Azarian, July 24, 1962. 3 children.