Hall groat ii biography sample

  • Painter Hall Groat II, Professor of Art and Design at State University of New York at Broome Community College, teaches introductory courses in computer.
  • Hall Groat II, Professor of Art and Design at State University of New York at Broome Community College, teaches introductory courses in computer graphics.
  • Hall Groat II was born in Cazenovia, New York.

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    Art has always been in my blood, but I took a circuitous route in becoming a full-time professional artist.   In my junior year of college inom signed up for a portrait painting class hoping to improve my GPA.  Up until then my life had been all about sports.  I had always been a doodler though, drawing in pencil and seeing the world in black and white.  The thought of being an artist never crossed my mind until I discovered the world of oil painting.  My portrait-painting teacher that semester greatly encouraged me and the seed was planted!

    After graduating from the University of Maryland with a Studio/Fine Art degree the pragmatic side of me took over.  inom was 23 years old, newly married and living in the suburbs of Washington, DC.  inom couldn’t find a job in art because I didn’t study graphic arts.  I found myself working as a bookkeeper and then back at the U. of MD for my second degree in Accounting.  Then inom spent a year i

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    They Called Me the Brush Slinger: Creating a Career in Art

    Ebook177 pages2 hours

    By Hall Groat Sr.

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    About this ebook

    They Called Me the Brush Slinger: Creating a Career in Art offers valuable data and insight into the life of an artist. Author Hall Groat Sr. provides an overview of marketing skills necessary to succeed in the art world, and his tales of both the bright and dark sides of being a self-employed artist serve as a reality kontroll for anyone planning a career in art. Following the artist around the world on his wonderful journey full of soul searching and hilarious experiences makes this book a fun read for art lovers and students of all ages.

    LanguageEnglish

    PublisheriUniverse

    Release dateDec 27, 2011

    ISBN9781462072439

    Although Hall Groat Sr. fryst vatten best known for his impressionistic paintings that are in collections internationally, his love for writing has consumed much of his time for the past thirty years. Many of his wor

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    Cornby Lennart Anderson Oil on canvas

    This particular painting of corn is a quintessential example of Lennart Anderson's work. The abstracted quality of the layered paint marks, scumbles and scrapes within the negative space, communicate both "timelessness and agelessness". The evidence of the painterly process, coupled with lost and found edges, and warm against cool atmospheric tonal passages, evoke a sensation of transition, mirroring the profound nature of "mother nature". As I explain to my own students, it is impossible for humans to completely focus their attention equally on the edges that enclose forms, and make time stand still like a camera is able to do. The space that surrounds us is in constant flux. One can only focus on the specifics of a part of a form, while their peripheral vision perceives the rest as a blur. Try this and you will see for the first time.


    Starbucks 10"x8" Oil on canvas By Hall Groat II


    Tomatoes, Water, Shell, Coins and Kiss 

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