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Realistic art for impact

 The individual mountain peaks (if they are featured) are portraits of specific mountains and mountain ranges, mostly in the Rocky Mountain West.  Landscape painting has always been my passion, and the aspen and evergreen trees, the meadows and lush wildflowers, are inspired by the hundreds of  photographs and drawings that I've made over my 30 years of exploring the West. The final paintings, realistic though they seem, are not simply traditional landscape paintings...they are imaginary creations, combinations of dozens of bits and pieces of photographs and drawings that I have taken in my travels over the years.

 Combined with the foregrounds that are either home interiors or close up details of various aspects of the natural landscape, the illusion is one of great depth, and is created to  invite  the viewer into the finished landscape painting.  One of the reasons I love realistic art so much is because I can use it so effectively to create these illusions.  Also, I believe that realistic art is the finest technique that can be employed to capture light. The delicate highlights that I can create on surfaces of trees, meadows and man made objects conveys the warmth I intend to use to help draw the viewer into my seascape and landscape paintings.

While the landscapes and mountain ranges in the distance of my finished work are virtual portraits of specific peaks, everything else in my paintings is created from imagination, enhanced by dozens of images of old homes, weathered furnishings and antiques, and photos I've taken of places I've been which fascinated me for the unique textures and the play of light on wonderful surfaces. The goal, again, is to invite you into my art.  Anything I can create which enhances and accomplishes that end is desirable. Anything which gives you, the observer, a sense of "being  there" accomplishes my goal.