{"id":9298,"date":"2018-02-27T23:05:21","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T23:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.wescover.com\/?p=554"},"modified":"2023-04-09T13:36:09","modified_gmt":"2023-04-09T13:36:09","slug":"letty-samonte-quotable-creator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wescover.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/27\/letty-samonte-quotable-creator\/","title":{"rendered":"Letty Samonte: Quotable Creator"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"9298\" class=\"elementor elementor-9298\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-2962ddf6 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"2962ddf6\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-485ce81f\" data-id=\"485ce81f\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-54b97469 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"54b97469\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.19.0 - 29-01-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wescover.com\/creator\/letty-samonte?utm_source=blog\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-post-9298 wp-image-555 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.wescover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Letty-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/h1><h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Letty Samonte<\/strong><\/h1><p style=\"text-align: center;\">Creator in San Francisco, CA, United States<\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;It&#8217;s really satisfying for me when a person wants to touch something I&#8217;ve painted&#8211;unless it&#8217;s still wet! I know you aren&#8217;t supposed to touch paintings&#8211;but whenever I see a painted surface that I really love, whether in a museum, a store, or a restaurant, my instinct is to touch it. I can&#8217;t help myself! But I don&#8217;t do that in museums I promise.&#8221;<\/p><figure id=\"attachment_11608\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11608\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-post-9298 wp-image-11608\" src=\"https:\/\/rs.wescover.com\/images\/w_1024,h_683,c_scale\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1681047264\/blog-content\/vcq2daejchtpqrb7wfxs\/vcq2daejchtpqrb7wfxs.jpg?_i=AA\" alt=\"\" data-public-id=\"blog-content\/vcq2daejchtpqrb7wfxs\/vcq2daejchtpqrb7wfxs.jpg\" data-format=\"jpg\" data-transformations=\"f_auto,q_auto\" data-version=\"1681047264\" data-seo=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11608\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fish Mural by Letty Samonte. As seen on Wescover.<\/figcaption><\/figure><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wescover.com\/creator\/letty-samonte\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-post-9298 wp-image-558 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/blog-prod.wescover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/fish-mural-1024x393.png\" alt=\"Fish Mural by Letty Samonte. As seen on Wescover.\" width=\"960\" height=\"368\" \/><\/a><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;I think that what makes a place special is the creative energy that goes into designing it. There is always more than one person involved in giving a space its character and it&#8217;s that combination that makes it unique.&#8221;<\/p><figure id=\"attachment_560\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-560\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wescover.com\/p\/murals-by-letty-samonte-at-aveo-table-bar--PByH8xbvpD7Z\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-post-9298 wp-image-560 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blog-prod.wescover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Letty-Seaside.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-560\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seaside Mural by Letty Samonte. As seen on Wescover.<\/figcaption><\/figure><p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;Oh my goodness, so many things inspire me! I love vintage packaging and food labels. Platinum-palladium prints. Old cameras&#8211;I take my Yashica-Mat 124G everywhere. I love organizing my workspace. Just about anything handmade. All Impressionists painters. Anything woven or made on a loom. Old wallpaper patterns and graphics. Giant art books. Any and all paint swatch books especially Farrow &amp; Ball. Block printing. Any landscape where I can be left alone to paint plein air.&#8221;<\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wescover.com\/creator\/letty-samonte\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-post-9298 wp-image-557 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/blog-prod.wescover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/letty-magic-818x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Letty Samonte. Featured on Wescover.\" width=\"818\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;I love paint. I am first a painter&#8211;but I also love black and white photography and alternative print processes, collage, and textiles. I can relate almost anything to the process of painting. It never ceases to amaze me how paint can transform a space, a wall, or a canvas. There are so many different kinds of materials that you can use alongside it also, like shellac. I have way too much fun playing with shellac.&#8221;<\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wescover.com\/creator\/letty-samonte?utm_source=blog\">See more of Letty&#8217;s Paintings &gt;<\/a><\/strong><\/p><hr \/><p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em style=\"font-size: 1rem; color: #808080;\">Dear Letty,<\/em><\/p><p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><i>We&#8217;d go canvas touching with you anytime!\u00a0Thank you\u00a0for sharing your work with us and so many sources of inspiration. We can&#8217;t wait to learn more about your experiences getting out of the studio\u00a0and into nature for\u00a0 &#8220;plein air painting.&#8221;\u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em style=\"color: #808080; font-size: 1rem;\">\u2014 Allison, Noel, &amp; the whole Wescover Team<\/em><\/p><hr \/><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">See more of her work\u00a0<a style=\"color: #808080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wescover.com\/creator\/letty-samonte?utm_source=blog\">Wescover<\/a>.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #808080;\">What do you love about her paintings?\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Send us a note and we&#8217;ll tell Letty!<\/span><\/strong><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">social@wescover.com<\/span><\/p><hr \/><p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Letty Samonte Creator in San Francisco, CA, United States &#8220;It&#8217;s really satisfying for me when a person wants to touch something I&#8217;ve painted&#8211;unless it&#8217;s still wet! 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