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Portraits! What a great way to make a
living!
What other job exists where you can gently mix creativity, emotion,
color and hard work and pour it all into a comfortable living? Or
take the same ingredients, shake them up a bit and pour them into an
experience? What other job affords such a diverse array of
experiences in the form of people, places, movement, sounds and
above all, a visual cornucopia of treasures?
 Sure,
awards and recognition are pretty exciting at first, but after awhile,
well, it's the clients who matter most! Maybe you've seen
my artwork in “Veranda”, “Carolina Country” or
“Our State?” Or maybe you've seen my
illustrations in Breakthrough Publications, McGraw Hill or
Houghton-Mifflin publications? I have over a thousand portraits
displayed in homes and businesses around the globe. Now that's
exciting! It is hard to put a price on the gratification
and emotional value of portraits and artwork that delight my
clients!
My university art experience did not exactly match my artistic hopes.
The reality of the education was actually a
disappointment. But what I did discover was that life experiences
strengthen the artistic mind and open the doors to the colors and
dynamics all around us! I like to think that pieces of an artist's life
experiences lodge somewhere on shelves in the mind just waiting to be
pulled out and dusted off when the visual need arises! And
so when I create a painting for a client, a little piece of me goes
onto the canvas.
We're here to help you! Just ask us!
 The tall guy with the easel, that's Steve! He has a
great
following among his collectors for his plein air oils. His unique red
canvas backgrounds enhance his landscape techniques and delight his
collectors! His stye is his own and people love to wach him at work at
the shows, in a field, on the beach or at any location where the viewer
can pause and see his surroundings through Steve's eyes.
HIs loose, painterly style is a long ways from the preciseness of
gilding and gold leaf application and restoration that has been his
craft for many years. He studied under some of Philadelphia's finest
and his talents in that area are a dying art! His gold leaf work
is in demand up and down the East Coast. GoldLeafMan But it is the
jewel like colors of the oil paints that are his love. He provides
the same
touch with beautiful transluscent watercolors and his clients love
their portraits in that medium!
Steve brings his skills to his workshops and stays busy traveling to
the shows meeting his friends and collectors!
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