Monica Brooke Taney has made a lifetime of studying Old Master techniques (6.5 years at the Art Students' League, NY), Taney has studied under Masters of the New York School - a certain technique and use of light, color, including William Draper, Frank Mason, Sidney, Edwin Dickinson and famous NY muralist Ed Laning. Taney also studied architecture, interior design at the NY School of Interior Design, and fashion design, textile design at the Fashion Institute of Technology in NY. Taney has traveled and studied in Europe and Mexico, having lived and painted in an artists'' colony, in Puerto D'Aindraitch, Majorca, Spain
