Janice Ecinja McCaskill was born and raised in sunny Tampa, Florida where the skies are bluer and the trees are greener and the characters in her paintings are more colorful. Since Florida is the closest to the equator, Ecinja attributes the vibrant colors in her work to the environment in which she grew up.She favors acrylic paint because of its versatility and ability to be both transparent or opaque at the same time. Acrylic paints allows her to manipulate the paints while she creates her own color spectrum. Ecinja grew up in a family of storytellers and so, each painting conveys a...more
