She is a figurative painter. She blurs the lines between abstract and realism. When she paints she paint figures behind steam covered glass and water. This painter is Alyssa Monks When she was little she started painting with oils at 8 years of age maybe younger. She loved to paint from the beginning taking art and oil painting classes when she was in kindergarten. By the time she was 13 she knew this is what she wanted and it was her path. Her family tried to convince her that it’s not something she should do but, by 17 she was completely committed and fighting hard to be an artist ( “ Interview with Alyssa Monks”). Alyssa Monks changes pictures with an array of filters to visually distort and perrish the body. “In this shallow painted
