

It affected my style mainly through the study of layout and design structures/theory, discipline in brush control, font design-basically the full scope of visual communication.

How has your background in sign painting affected your style? The rest of my influential dream team includes Johannes Vermeer, Albrecht Durer, Gustav Klimt and John William Waterhouse.Ĥ. I love Van Gogh for his passion to create in light of his torments and seemingly unattainable success. Irving stone wrote a book about Michelangelo years ago called “The Agony and the Ecstasy,” which I have always related to in my own personal ways. Patrick Guyton’s art at Park West Gallery

This is a style that came to full development in an oil application with the Flemish painters in Northern Europe around the 16th century. Second would be the combination of transparent and semi-transparent glazing techniques. Most of my main themes and inspiration come from four main sources:įirst is the ancient dynasty style application of leafing and gilding, which I like to push the boundaries on, particularly in terms of using contemporary application methods and chemical treatments. During those four hours, I thought, “Art school has to be better than this.” When I finally made it home about six hours later, I called my mom and dad and told them I would be moving back to Pennsylvania in hopes of attending The Art Institute of Pittsburgh, which I ended up starting in 1984. On one of those trips, my truck broke down, and was stranded for four hours waiting for a repair vehicle. driving a furniture truck, picking up loads from North Carolina and returning them to D.C. Let me explain-after high school, I took a job in D.C.
