http://www.jenmann.com

"Inspired by the circus, illusions, dreams and the innocence and playfulness of childhood, these strange beauties are saturated, eye candy explorations in the odd and the beautiful."

This is the description  of artist Jen Mann's "Strange Beauties" series of paintings, taken from Jen Mann's website. 

The reason that Jen Mann's art interests me is that I am very much a line artist, at the moment.  Line and work with lines come easily for me, and color is a natural achilles heel for me.  With this in mind, I am constantly looking for examples of good color usage to improve my own technique.  Jen Mann uses color very subtly and very well in this series.  Though I'm sure a painter with her experience uses the entire wheel of color in her paintings, she appears to only use a small number of these colors.  Despite this handicap, Jen Mann manages to depict clear value and shadow and even echoes of movement in all of these pieces ("Blue Beard" on top left, "Bubblegum"on top right, "Movement" in middle of arrangement, "Shadow" on bottom). She does not rely on line- this characteristic of her art I notice most of all. She uses color exclusively.  She is definitely an artist to learn from.