Hailey Herrera is a water media artist who works in watercolor, watercolor batik, ink, and acrylic. Her watercolors are vibrant, bright, and rich with wonderful depth and tonal ranges.
For her watercolor batik paintings, she uses a variety of Oriental papers: Korean Hanji, Japanese wash, and Thai Unryu, etc. She incorporates optical color mixing in her paintings so images are perceived as intended from a distance but results look colorful and playful upon closer examination. Vibrant colors laid over a soft wet-in-wet wash gives a taste of watercolor, while the colors and shapes created by many alternated layers of watercolor wash and wax give a look of impressionism with a wonderful depth. Her subject matter is drawn mainly from nature and landscape, but she pursues a variety of other subjects as well.
She has earned signature memberships in the top watercolor organizations in Texas. She is one of a selected group of 30 Texas artists for the Art of Texas Park project and received official acknowledgment as “Centennial Painters” by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.
