Artist Sunshine McWayne

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Artist - Fashion Designer - Jewelry Designer - Writer

Sunshine McWayne

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Seattle Washington USA

Business Contact Phone: 206- 524 - 2296 or sunshine_mcwane@yahoo.com

Illustrations from the Book IBS

by Sunshine McWayne

Dying Flower

Veggies

Gas

Glasses on Head

Icon

Knife and Fork

Seafood

Dairy

Leafy Plant

Little Spastic

Spastic Colon

Lunch Boxes

Artist Sunshine McWayne

"Self Portrait, Drawing"

"When you think of Fresh, Hip or Young the Sunshine McWayne style of Art comes to mine. Things you might see in a trendy boutique or a Hot Topic store".

Sunshine is still in Art School but her Ideas are already right on and perfect for the Market Place.

I have a really bad gastrointestinal disease. A lot of people have IBS yet they are always shocked to learn how severe mine is. My disease is normally worse then most other peoples’ Irritable Bowel Syndrome. I have not been able to eat fruits or vegetables in at least 3 years. I have not been able to eat cinnamon in 2 years. I have not been able to eat sesame seeds in about a year and a half. I have not been able to eat dairy or soy in over a year. Most seasoning bothers me, but I love hot and spicy food. So far I’m able to eat it. My list of non-edible foods keeps growing. The only thing the doctors can find after all the tests they have done on me multiple times is that my intestines are contracting out of control like crazy. The food goes through my system so fast I don’t have time to digest it all. That’s where the gas and diarrhea comes from. Sorry to talk about yucky stuff but you want to know the nature of Irritable Bowel Syndrome.

A limit that I have as a result of my disease is fear of traveling to another country because I don’t know how the IBS would feel about a new environment with different food and water. I avoid a lot of social situations with meals because people can think I’m rude since I can’t eat most people’s food. I avoid restaurants. On some occasions I’ve avoided dating. Even though I get a lot of complements on my looks, who would want someone with a gastrointestinal disease that is so bad the person has really yucky gas. I try to plan my meals ahead and try to pack a lunch if I’m going to be gone all day so I know I won’t have to stop somewhere and accidentally eat a trigger food. I have to take medication everyday. One thing that’s almost amusing now is that my nightmares consist mostly of freaking out because I’m dreaming I can’t find my medicine. For me this really is a scary nightmare. I guess this could be a limit, limit to my peaceful sleep.

Goals I have as an artist/designer, are too many. I’d like to finish my four year degree in art, minor in Spanish, possibly double major in Sociology. I one day want to have my own art show, like Bob Ross. Mine will be better, because I will have more variety. I won’t teach only landscape painting like Ross did. I’d love to lecture on painting, drawing, ceramics, and much more. If I can not do this then I will teach. I would love to teach a class like Hispanic art history since I’m minoring in Spanish.

Support I need would be any support for college. It’s so expensive; it’s mission impossible. A friend of my grandma’s church is very nice and has no kids and so tries to help me in college. I do get a Pell grant so that’s help. Some support I might need is knowing where to get some of the materials I need for some art projects.

I make and design whatever idea comes to me. Lately I’ve been making jewelry. I paint sometimes. I make lots of t-shirts. Lots of ideas come to me that way. My art projects can consist of photographs if an idea comes to me that way. I get a lot of clothes ideas, would like to make them, and have a sewing machine. My sewing machine is broken, however, so a lot of those ideas are going to the back burner right now.

Materials I use, again whatever ideas come to me, I figure out what material and do it. My earrings were made of old credit cards, bus passes, phone cards, painted puzzle pieces, very small kid’s toys. I paint in mostly acrylics, yet occasionally gouache. Store bought/natural resources depends on the idea and how it comes to me.

I’ve been drawing and wanting to do art since I was 3 years old. I’ve never sold my artwork. Well one time when I was a little kid, my grandma bought a painting I did for a quarter. That was cute. I think I was always too busy in school and college. I guess I was too busy creating to think about selling. In middle school and high school I always had artwork shown in my hometown’s local county fair and in the county art contest in the mall annually. One painting was in my hometown’s board of education building. I always had artwork in my college art galleries and college literary art magazines

I don’t time it too good. I just work on it until it gets done. Especially with some jewelry where I needed to put several coats and then wait for it to dry to put more coats on. No one really helps me unless it’s some kind of a photography idea. Then I need to drag someone along in my creative endeavors. For jewelry, I could make as many as I guess I could sell. If I got successful enough, I would quit my current job and do it. For my paintings maybe just a one time thing, because it takes so long to do just one.