PAINTINGS OF PEOPLE: THE ARTIST'S STUDIO

Monday, May 25, 2009

THE ARTIST'S STUDIO

Acrylic on wood panel - 7x5" - (C)BruceDocker,2008
$100.00

2 comments:

Marie Fox said...: Great colors and sense of abstraction while capturing a personality and a mood. I admire your work, Bruce, which makes me all the more honored that you like my Siren painting. Your comment and your art inspire me. Many thanks!; July 27, 2010 at 7:52 AM
Bruce Docker said...: You are more than kind Marie. Thank you.; July 27, 2010 at 3:06 PM

HOW I AM - THE WAY I AM

I come from a long line of artists. My father drew the original series of cigarette smoking woodpeckers used in all traditional tattoo shops today. My maternal grandmother was a professional artist who could paint the highlights of a vase with the devastation of a paper cut to the eye. And of course my grandfather was the infamous paint-by-numbers artist and rumrunner of Kansas City in the 1940’s. I have tried to combine all I learned from them into a cohesively rambling style.

My formal training includes years of study with the Canadian art God, John Nagy, developer of the audacious Learn to Draw Kit. We met every Tuesday afternoon at 3:30.

Believing in total respect for my materials I once used an entire box of Crayola 64’s without breaking a single crayon, I covered my driveway in Scotch tape to protect my sidewalk chalk drawings from the rain, and the linen of my canvas is made only from the wool of free range sheep.