Crystal Orlando

Crystal Orlando – Orlando is a full-time artist specializing in charcoal and graphite drawings. She is mostly self-taught through experimentation and studying the works of other masters. Although her subjects have a wide range, she is most well known for her drawings of horses and North American wildlife. She has had gallery representation since 2012 and her work has been featured in several publications to include Art Galleries and Artists of the South, Emerging Artist of the Year 2013. Orlando has exhibited across North America in galleries and museums and was the feature artist for The University of Texas Wildflower Center in Austin, Texas. In 2018, she was invited to participate in an art auction at Kensington Palace in London. Crystal and her young daughter live in Central Texas with their two wolfdogs and medicine hat paint horse.

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