![]() ![]() She became an auctioneer, appraiser, and realtor owning a combination salon, auction gallery and antique mall where she performed all of those jobs together under the same roof. She pursued both the hair and photography, but abandoned her drawing skills completely for over thirty five years.Īs life took over she continued working in different fields to make a living. After a few years in the cosmetology field, she started taking photography classes and loved developing film in the darkroom and styling the photo shoots. One day she met a hairdresser that traded a haircut for a pastel portrait drawing and convinced her to go to beauty school to get a "real" job. With virtually no formal art training, she was able to survive by selling her portraits and traveled around the country doing that for a few years. She left school and hitchhiked out to San Francisco to draw portraits in charcoal and pastel on the streets. She attended college for less than two years, discouraged that the core classes for her major had nothing to do with art. Louis, as a fashion design and medical illustration major. Her love of art continued through high school, and she entered college at Washington University in St. She drew faces that resembled Margaret Keane's sad eye kids from the sixties, ballet dancers and horses. Hilarie started to draw at the age of two. Self portrait alla prima looking in mirror while drawinghcouturepastel (2) by Hilarie Couture won Outstanding Pastel in the September 2017 BoldBrush Painting Competition. ![]()
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