After a few years of spending my summer weekends doing local juried art shows, I started branching out a bit and did the Midwest Fly Fishing Show in Warren, near Detroit, Michigan. I started to understand that my main clients were in the fly fishing world. The next big show was the retailer show in Denver, Colorado and I decided to put every penny into getting there and making it happen. Even though my booth was the most rag tag one there, the show was a complete success!
I had people coming in and out of my booth all day long for the three days of the show. Magazine publishers, owners of famous fly fishing companies, and other top level executives. People seemed genuinely interested in my unique way of portraying fish and fly fishing. I walked away from that show feeling more confident than I ever had.
He studies his subject matter and gets inspired when he is in nature. Then he comes back to the studio and tries to capture it all on canvas.
View our latest DeYoung Studio catalog. No products in the cart. In The Beginning Ever since I can remember, my connection to the world and the people around me has been through my artwork.
Growing As An Artist Strange how you can become what you do, but that seems to be the case here. God bless them, they gave me a lot of encouragement. By age six I was telling everyone I was going to someday be a famous artist. We fished constantly. Being a good fisherman in our family was pretty important. It was my first painting series that really put my art on the map, and it continues to be quite popular.
Regardless of how I portray fish, I like bringing a new spin to things. We set up in the basement one evening and to get the paint out of the tubes we had to cut the bottoms with scissors, because the caps were dried on over the last 15 years of disuse.
I love how rich oil colors are, and how they stay workable for an hour or so after I apply them to the canvas. To get people excited about art, and fly-fishing, is my reward. I recently visited a 5th grade river conservation club in Livingston, Montana to speak to the kids. By the blank looks on their faces I kindof thought I bombed, but as I was getting ready to leave I felt a tug on the back of my shirt.
I turned to find a tiny blond haired girl standing there. DeYoung, my Dad just loves your work, could I have your autograph? These aspects of painting can be difficult, and really take a lifetime to master. An artist must practice. Only with this level of dedication will you be able to create something worthwhile. Commit yourself to art in this way, and you will find more happiness in it than you ever thought possible. My wife Janell, who I met in art school, has been there every step of the way.
At the end of a long work week, she would get up early on Saturday and Sunday, to help me set up at my art fairs. My Dad and Mom gave me the support and love to help me believe in myself, which was extremely important during those lean years of building my art career.
My father in-law John, had a painting on order one after another, to help keep us going during our first year out of art school. Our great family friend Rick took us under his wing, and taught us the right way to run a business.
To this day he is the guy we go to when we have a tough business question. All these people many more are my support system, and have done so much to allow me to follow my dream to be an artist. I owe them a giant Thank You! This would be as difficult to answer as the chicken or the egg question. A strong desire to both fish, and create art seemed to have been inside me before I can even remember.
My drawing of my dads trophy walleye mount, eating minnows took no ribbon home and I was devastated. Nz Artist Quotes. Monica Rizzoli Artist.
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Over the years his art has veered from the classical fishing art, placing more importance on using a unique style and palette. I was the youngest child in a family of three boys, and art quickly became what I was known for.
In the 5th grade I entered a youth wild life art competition, with a painting of a large mouth bass with a frog hanging out of his mouth.
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