My Style
Everyone has their own “style” of painting. It becomes extremely apparent the more one paints. As an instructor, I can observe this in my students relatively quickly. I am painter of photo realism. Photo realism is taking a landscape, still-life , portrait or whatever it is one is observing and painting it as close to exact as possible. In my opinion, this is extremely challenging. Many critics of this style feel that if you want an exact painting just take a picture with a camera. I feel that trying to capture the exactness is much more difficult that splashing on some paint that somewhat resembles the photo or leaves the viewer thinking that maybe that is what it was supposed to be. In my portraiture, I think the ultimate challenge is to totally capture the personality of the person, be it the twinkle in the eye of a mischievous child, the sadness of waving goodbye to someone or just trying to maintain the appropriate age of the person. This means, for example, painting a young person and not making them look much older than they are. Although there are many who choose a different spectrum of painting, in my mind that is the beauty of creating; everyone can have their own style, and we should have an appreciation of them all. I never try to change a student’s creative style. Because of that, my studio at times has many beautiful variations of paintings!
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